StarNet v6 manual - Engineering Surveyor

Chapter 4 OPTIONS
4.1 Overview
STAR*NET maintains a list of settings for each job called “Project Options.” Most of
these options are settings and values that control how STAR*NET processes an
adjustment, and they are set by the user in dialogs discussed on the following pages.
Other stored settings relate to the contents of plotting diagrams and DXF exports.
STAR*NET stores the options for a project by creating a file named “PROJECT.PRJ,”
where “PROJECT” is the name of the project, for example, SouthPark.prj. All project
specific options are saved in this file. If you open an existing project at a later date, those
options automatically load and will remain in effect until you change them.
A special “default options” file named STAR6.DEF is located in the same directory you
installed STAR*NET. It is referred to as the Company options file. Initially, the
Company options file contains no default values and if you create a new project, the
program simply assigns built-in generic defaults as your project options. Therefore you
should set the Company options to settings typical of your projects as soon as possible
after installing the software. These option settings are then automatically applied to any
new project saving you the time of manually setting them yourself. Setting Company
options are discussed later in this chapter.
When you have a single project that requires several different weighting schemes
(different instruments used, or combining an old survey with a new survey), you can
store several sets of instrument standard error values in a special “Instrument Library”.
This information may be saved in the Company options file for use in any project, or in
the project’s own “PRJ” file for use only by that project. Using special “inline” codes,
these settings can be referenced anywhere in the data files to change the weighting
scheme of subsequent observations. Using the Instrument Library is discussed in detail
later in this chapter.
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