Leica Geosystems SKI-Pro - Manual (Page 67)

Quick Tour III - Format Manager 67 Getting Started with SKI-Pro-2.5en
The display should now look as follows:
Note, that the lower window changes and shows an
example of how your string will look like using dummy
values.
At the moment the variables with real numbers contain 10
digits after the decimal point. This formatting can be
changed for every variable.
In the upper window double-click on each variable
name and change the formatting properties. For this
example set the Precision to 3 for Easting, Northing and
Elevation, and to 2 for the 3D Coordinate Quality.
For more information on the variable formatting refer to
the Format Manager online help and the Getting started
with Format Manager manual.
Finally from the File menu select Save and enter a
name for the format file. The extension (*.FRT) will be
added automatically.
Congratulations !
You have learnt how to create a simple customized format
mask. Now you can use this format file as an export
template either directly on board the sensor or from within
SKI-Pro using the Custom ASCII Export.
For the Custom ASCII Export of SKI-Pro please refer to
the Quick Tour I - Real Time of this book.
If you want to use the format mask file on the System 500
sensors, proceed with Lesson Two - Uploading a Format
Template File to the Sensor.
Lesson One - Creating a Format Template File, continued