STAR*NET V6 - Circe

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A few words should be said about the “H” field definition code used to output horizontal
coordinate values. Using this code rather than the “N” and “E” codes guarantees that the
same output order specified on your Project Options will also be used for exporting
coordinates in the Reformatter utility. For example, if the order set in the Project Options
was “EN” for the last adjustment run, the following definition would output an Easting
for the first “H” and a Northing for the second “H” code.
p10 h14.3 h14.3 z9.1
The double quote character (“) and square brackets characters are particularly useful for
converting to certain third-party COGO formats. Many formats require that the
descriptor begin (or be surrounded by) the double quote character. Simply include the
quote character in your definition exactly where you want it to be in the output. Also
some formats require specific text strings to be included in the file to identify the line.
Say for example that you wanted each converted output coordinate line to begin with the
characters “PNT”, followed by the easting, northing, elevation, point name and the
descriptor in that order. Also you would like every item separated from the next by a
space, and you need the descriptor surrounded by double quotes. The entire format
definition, including the format style title might look like this:
My COGO Format :3D :[PNT] e n z p "d"
A definition, of course, can also be created to export coordinates to a format that can be
directly read by STAR*NET as data. Coordinates for STAR*NET always begins with
the character “C” and descriptors begin with an single or double quote character.
Therefore the two format definitions below will create coordinate files for 2D and 3D
projects that can be read back into STAR*NET as data. In these example definitions the
“H” code has been used to output the northings and eastings in the same order used in the
last run of the adjustment for a project, listed in columns and with a given precision. The
first group defines “free” provisional coordinates, and the second group defines “fixed”
coordinates because of the added “! ! !” fixity code text.
STAR*NET Data :2D :[C] p15 h16.5 h16.5 'd
STAR*NET Data :3D :[C] p15 h16.5 h16.5 z12.3 'd
STAR*NET Fixed Data :2D :[C] p15 h16.5 h16.5 [! !] 'd
STAR*NET Fixed Data :3D :[C] p15 h16.5 h16.5 z12.3 [! ! !] 'd
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