StarNet v6 manual - Engineering Surveyor

3.5 Setting Project Options
Chapter 3 Using STAR*NET
STAR*NET saves a group of option settings for each project. These options define
characteristics of the survey network adjustment and are remembered for the duration of
the project. Choose Options>Project Options or press the Project Options tool button.
A tabbed dialog with eight categories is shown: Adjustment, General, Instrument,
Listing File, Other Files, Special, GPS and Modeling. Make changes to settings in one
or more of the option pages and press OK to save. The GPS and Modeling option pages
are active only in the Professional edition. (See “PRO” edition supplement.)
See Chapter 4, “Options” for complete details on setting project options.
3.6 Creating Input Data Files
Before you can run an adjustment, STAR*NET needs at least one input data file
containing your field observations. Choose Input>Data Files or press the Input Data
Files tool button. An Input Data File dialog appears and is used to specify what data files
to include in your adjustment. For a new project, a file name with your project name and
the “DAT” extension is automatically provided for your convenience. Data files are
standard text files that consist of lines of data conforming to STAR*NET’s rules. To edit
new survey observation data into this file, highlight its name in the dialog’s Data File
List, and press the Edit button.
Additional text files may be added to the project by pressing the Add button in the dialog
and then selecting an existing file or new file. When an adjustment is performed, each
file is read into memory in the order it appears in this dialog.
See Chapter 5, “Preparing Data” for details on using the Input Data Files dialog and a
complete description of input data formats.
3.7 Running an Adjustment
To run an adjustment for your project, choose Run>Adjustment, or press the Run
Adjustment tool button. STAR*NET loads your data file or files into memory, checks
the information, and then runs the adjustment. A “Processing Summary” window opens
so you can see the progress of the adjustment. When the processing finishes, a short
statistical summary is shown which should be inspected to judge the success of the
adjustment.
Besides the full adjustment, there are several other choices that may be selected from
the Run menu: Data Check Only reads and checks the data but does not perform an
actual adjustment. Blunder Detect helps you detect gross errors in your input data. And
Preanalysis analyzes the survey network configuration and predicts the accuracy of a
proposed survey
See Chapter 6, “Running Adjustments” for complete details on these Run features.
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