Chapter 4 Special Notes On Plotting Functions; Scale Factor; Plotting The Job File - Tripod Data Systems CO-OP 41 User Manual

Chapter 4
Special Notes on Plotting Functions
SCALE FACTOR
When you set up the calculator to do plotting functions
(HI and HP), the CO-OP 41 will prompt for the scale factor.
The scale factor is the size reduction to use when plotting
the job. In our coordinate system, each unit is one foot. A
scale of 100 means 100 feet will be drawn as 1 inch on the
paper. The default scale is 100 (100'=1").
PLOTTING THE JOB FILE
When you enter the points in a job into the CO-OP 41 and
are planning to plot them, special considerations need to
be kept in mind. When the CO-OP 41 goes to find the
lowest north and east of a job, it searches the job file from
the beginning and stops wheneverit encounters an empty
point. It is therefore important that you don't allow any
"holes" in the job file (a "hole" is defined as a point
number that you have skipped over).
Example: If you have traversed from point 1 to 2 to 3, and
then key in the information for point 5 there will be a
hole in your data at point 4 (as far as the plotting functions
are concerned you have only entered points 1 thru 3). It is
important that you keep the points consecutive for
plotting.
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