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Getting Started with Format Manager-1.1.0en
Introduction to this book
Introduction to this book
The aim of this book is to help users in getting started with using the
Format Manager software to create format files (.frt files) that can be
used with Leica GPS System 500.
The best way to learn how to use the Format Manager is to actually
generate format files. There are 3 "Quick Tours" in this book which
are step by step tutorials explaining how to create the following 3
different format files:
Ø Quick Tour I - Report Style format file
Ø Quick Tour II - Leica GSI16 output format file using
thematical coding
Ø Quick Tour III - Leica GSI16 output format file using
free coding
It is recommended that you complete all of these Quick
Tours. What you learn in Quick Tour I you will need to
use in Quick Tours II and III.
After completing these Quick Tours you should be able to appreciate
the flexibility of format files and be able to create a format file for
almost any output type you need.
For example, it is possible to create both common output formats
such as a Geodimeter type format or a Sokkia SDR33 format and an
unlimited number of unique "report" style formats.
Any surveyed data can be used with these format files. However,
sample data is provided on the SKI-Pro CD which can be used with
each of the Quick Tour format files.
A format file is quite simply a "mask" or "filter" which allows
surveyed GPS data to be exported in any format as an ASCII text file.
The format file can be used both in SKI-Pro and on the System 500
sensor.
For example one user may wish to export post processed data from
SKI-Pro in a standard Leica GSI16 format. A second user wishes to
export RTK data from the sensor in a "Report Style" format.
Using the appropriate format file, the export of any data from the
sensor and SKI-Pro into both these formats is possible. It is thus
easily possible to build up a library of many different output formats.
Each format file needs only to be created once and the same format
file can be used on both the sensor and with SKI-Pro.
What is a format file?