'fix' vertical?

Andrew Atkinson andrew at wotcc.org.uk
Tue Nov 1 15:54:42 GMT 2022


Instead of using 0 for clino you can use LEVEL, equivalent to up/down for plumps search for "Deal with Plumbs or Legs Across Static Water" in 

https://survex.com/docs/manual/svxhowto.htm

You'll still need to do the SD part.
Andrew
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On 1 November 2022 15:45:07 GMT, Wookey <wookey at wookware.org> wrote:
>On 2022-11-01 11:32 -0400, Richard Knapp wrote:
>> In our survey, we have noticed our sumps and siphons are not aligning vertically (but pretty good on horizontal positioning). Is there a way I can ‘adjust’ the elevation of a station to have the water levels align better?
>
>So you have a survey to either end of the sump but not through the
>sump? So you would like to constrain the vertical heights of two
>stations relative to each other?
>
>You could add a leg between them with a zero clino and approximate
>length/angle (get the numbers from aven). Then set a very high SD on
>the angle and length values so they do not really affect the location,
>but keep the SD on the clino low so that it does.
>
>You could use depth data style rather than 'normal' style but the
>principle is the same. It might be easier to work out a suitable
>height constraint in depth terms than angle of clino over however long
>the sump is.
>
>There may be a better way (I think this question has come up before),
>but I can't think of one off the top of my head.
>
>Wookey



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