Stake Elevation

This routine allows you to stake to a specific elevation (called the Design elevation). The routine will report the cut and fill values from the selected (Design) elevation to your current rod elevation. The horizontal position is not the focus of this routine.

Why would I want to use this? Maybe you may want to use this function if you have to stake a building pad before concrete is poured and you know what the height of the pad should be. You enter this value in the Elevation field and walk around your pad. This routine will inform you of how far your rod is above or below the design elevation.

The first step is to define your constant elevation. You can either type in a design elevation manually into the Elevation field, or you can use the Get elevation from point... button to select a point from your points database, and use its elevation.

Continue

Press this button to continue to the Map view. You will now see the map screen displaying the Staking toolbar. The Display toolbar displays the design elevation (the intended or desired elevation), the actual measured elevation (displayed in the Elev field), and the cut/fill amount required to get to the design elevation from the measured elevation.

Design = Elev+ Fill amount or

Design = Elev - Cut amount

Get elevation from point...

Press this button to acquire an elevation from a selected point's elevation. The point database dialog will open and you can select a point to use its elevation.

The Elev and Cut/Fill text fields will display values that are within your staking tolerance in the colour green. Measurements made outside of your staking tolerance are displayed in the colour red.