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pockettopotherion [2019/01/25 08:14] – Delete PocketTopo and TopoRobot Station numbering description brucemuttonpockettopotherion [2025/12/27 04:06] (current) – [Data Transfer from PocketTopo to Therion] Remove obsolete cross section comment brucemutton
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-8 December 2018: \\ +
-Much of the PocketTopo information below on station numbering and survey legs seems to be needlessly complicated, or just wrong, so it will probably get deleted in due course. Changes will probably be made sporadically.  If you have any changes you'd like to see, let me know via the forum.  \\ +
-Bruce Mutton+
  
 +=====PocketTopo and Therion=====
 +Refer to this wiki's [[contrib:complimentarycaveapps#pockettopo|PocketTopo page]] for summary details and reasons why you might choose PocketTopo to collect cave survey data and sketches.
 ====PDA Booking==== ====PDA Booking====
 ==ALWAYS when stop sketching switch PocketTopo to cave map view mode (middle icon) to avoid unwanted creating of accidental lines near borders of sketching area!== ==ALWAYS when stop sketching switch PocketTopo to cave map view mode (middle icon) to avoid unwanted creating of accidental lines near borders of sketching area!==
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   *Remember to tidy up any data table comments and drawings before transferring data from the pda (Older PocketTopo versions only allow drawing modifications when used on a touch-screen device).   *Remember to tidy up any data table comments and drawings before transferring data from the pda (Older PocketTopo versions only allow drawing modifications when used on a touch-screen device).
-     *Cross sections: Stations and splay legs visible in PocketTopo sections are not transferred to Therion (Older PocketTopo versions only), so I work around this by sketching over them and clearly labelling them, so that they will be visible in the Xtherion drawing editor. 
   *Open PocketTopo & Export filenames as follows;   *Open PocketTopo & Export filenames as follows;
      *//PocketTopo.File.Save//: //<Prefix>-<PassageName>.top// (native pocketTopo file)      *//PocketTopo.File.Save//: //<Prefix>-<PassageName>.top// (native pocketTopo file)
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-  * If you have used an alpha survey prefix, add it to each survey centerline with   //station-names <prefix> []//  in the //*.th// file (not needed if you adopt the pockettopo series number as the prefix).   +  * If you have used an alpha survey prefix, add it to each survey centerline with   //station-names <prefix> []//  in the //*.th// file (not needed if you adopt the pockettopo survey number as the prefix).   
     This saves a lot of typing. See [[drawingchecklist#scrap|Drawing Checklist > Scrap]] eg     This saves a lot of typing. See [[drawingchecklist#scrap|Drawing Checklist > Scrap]] eg
       station-names AA[]       station-names AA[]
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