The download button brings up a dialog to download the measures from the DistoX. The date is preset to the date of the file currently opened, or to the current date if no file is open. The date will be used in the export as survey date. The description is a short descriprion of the survey, and is written when the data are saved in TopoLinux file.
The device is the DistoX communication device. This can be set also through the Ooptions dialog. Make sure the DistoX is on and has the bluetooth mode on (the icon is displayed). Make also sure the PC has the bluetooth active, and the device properly configured to communicate with the DistoX.
The checkbox Append shots should be checked if you want to append to the current data in the table, the data downloaded from the DistoX.
Check the box Guess centerline if you want qtoposhot to assign station names to the shots. This means that the program assigns the FROM and the TO stations to groups of two or more consecutive similar shots. The station are numbered increasingly. Single data shots are takena as splay shots. If you check the backward box the FROM station comes after the TO station (eg, 12-11), otherwise the FROM station comes before (eg, 11-12). To the splay shots the program assigns only the FROM station. This can be either the FROM station of the last (the previous) centerline shot (check the box FROM station) or the TO station (check the box TO station).
Note that the DistoX connection must be on for this dialog to work, otherwise, after a while the program displays a message saying that it cannot connect to the DistsoX.
Shot table
Shot edit dialog
Shot insert dialog
Export dialog
DistoX mode dialog
Options dialog
Command buttons