3 Getting Started
48 Nikon N Series/K Series Total Station Instruction Manual
Jobs
To record data on the instrument, you must create or open a job.
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Tip – Before you use the instrument for the first time, check the job settings.
Creating a new job
1. Press [MENU] to open the MENU screen.
2. Press
[1] to open the Job Manager.
3. Press the
Creat softkey to open the Create Job
screen.
4. Enter the job name.
5. Press the
Sett softkey to check the job settings.
You cannot change a job’s settings once you
have created the job.
6. Press
[ENT] in the last field of the Job Sett screen
to create the new job.
Creating a control job
A control job, or common file, stores coordinate data that is used by several field jobs.
You can create a control job in the office.
1. Press
[MENU] to open the MENU screen.
2. Press
[1] or select Job to open the Job Manager.
3. Move the cursor to the job that you want to use
as the control job.
The numerator and denominator that you enter are automatically converted to the closest value from the
following list: 0, 1/8, 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 5/8, 3/4, 7/8, 1/16, 3/16, 5/16, 7/16, 9/16, 11/16, 13/16, 15/16.
If the denominator is 16, it is not shown on the screen.
If either of the messages MAX 50JOBs or Data Full appears, delete at least one existing job to free space. You
cannot free space by deleting records in an existing job.