STAR*NET V6 - Circe

Appendix A STAR*NET Tutorial
7. Finally, review the “Other Files” options dialog. Here you can select additional
output files to be created during an adjustment. For example, you can choose to have
a coordinate points file created. Or when running a “grid” adjustment, you can
choose to have a geodetic positions file created.
The optional “Ground Scale” file is particularly useful when running grid jobs. You
can specify that the adjusted coordinates (grid coordinates in the case of a grid job)
be scaled to ground surface based on a combined scale factor determined during the
adjustment, or a factor given by the user. These newly created ground coordinates
can also be rotated and translated by the program.
The Coordinate Points and Ground Scaled Points files mentioned above can both be
output in various formats using format specifications created by the user. The userdefined
formatting specifications are discussed Chapter 9, “Tools.”
The optional “Station Information Dump” file contains all information about each
adjusted point including point names, coordinates, descriptors, geodetic positions
and ellipse heights (for grid jobs) and ellipse information. The items are in comma
delimited text fields which can be read by external spread sheet and database
programs – useful to users wishing to create custom coordinate reports. This file and
the “Ground Scale” file are described in detail in Chapter 4, “Options.”
8. The “Special” options dialog includes a positional tolerance checking feature to
support certain agency (i.e. ACSM/ALTA committee) tolerance specifications, but is
not discussed in this tutorial. See details in Chapter 4, “Options.”
9. This concludes the overview of the standard Project Options. After you are finished
reviewing it, press “Cancel” to close the options dialog (or “OK” if you have made
changes you wish to keep).
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