Location on Surface

Location on Surface is a very basic method of staking a corridor. You can walk over the corridor surface and have the display showing station, offset, and cut/fill to this corridor surface or navigate to a certain station and offset of this corridor.

From the Map screen, tap Home / Stake.
Select a corridor using the list at the top right of the screen and then select an alignment in the Corridor tab. Alternatively, select the corridor alignment directly from the map. If there is more than one object available in this area, a list of different objects will appear where you can specify the selection.
Select Location as the stake method from the dropdown menu and tap ACCEPT.
Enter a station and offset into the boxes or select one by tapping a location on the screen. You can also overwrite the design elevation at this station by selecting Custom Elevation by tapping the down arrow in the upper left side of the screen.
The map view then guides you to the point. To help you find the point, the guide arrow needs to point up the screen to show that you are traveling directly toward the point. You can turn the guide arrow off and on in the Design tab of the Map Options screen. The information bars at the top of the screen can be customized using the Configure Info Bars option in Settings / Info Bar/ Panel. The display below shows the design elevation for the point, the amount of cut or fill required to get to that elevation, and how far and in what direction you need to travel to get to the point. The default map view has the direction north pointing up. You can change this so that the direction you are walking is pointing up by changing the map rotation in map options. A cut/fill light bar can be turned on in the top or bottom panels on the left to graphically show the cut and fill.
When you are close to the selected line, the software switches into the Fine Stake mode. Additional guidance arrows appear on the top right corner of the map to indicate the remaining distance in each direction. The screen is oriented to the last moving direction before the Fine Stake mode was activated if map rotation in travel direction was selected.
- When staking with a GNSS, the fine navigation arrows are displayed in a north "up" orientation.
- For staking performed with a total station, the fine navigation arrows are oriented depending on the connection method to the total station.
- For Bluetooth and cable connections, the directions are as if you were standing behind the total station looking towards the point or prism.
- For radio connections, the directions are as if you were standing at the prism pole looking towards the total station.
After tapping the Measure icon, a stakeout report appears. The software creates a Stake Marker report. A graphical diagram indicates how to put an elevation mark on the stake. The software does all the calculations for you. The way the software calculates the elevation mark and cut/fill depends on the stakeout settings in the Home menu. The software remembers which tab of the stakeout report was last viewed and opens the same tab after staking the next point.

Instead of staking a certain station, you can stake a line at random stations using these buttons on the bottom right of the status bar:

Tap…	to…
	stake at fixed intervals starting at a certain station.
	stake at random intervals somewhere along the line.

To toggle between Feature, Location, and Catch point staking, tap the icon in the bottom of the status bar on the right side of the main panel:

Icon	Description
	Feature
	Location on Corridor Surface
	Catch point