La Serena, Chile.

TRIMBLE Total Station Quick Step Manual

M3.

Name: Carlos Sebastián Barrera Quinzacara

Career: Surveying
Subject: Topographic Methods 2
Section: E30-C1
Teacher: Carlos Esteban Álvarez Balbontín
Date: 04/11/2022
Index:
Front
page
2)
Index
3) Introduction
4) Goals
5) Development of the
topic
16) Conclusion
17) Bibliographies and
sources
18) Annexes
 Introduction

• The Trimble M3 total station is simple to use. The software for the series
Trimble M3 has been designed to make it easy for you to learn how to operate one
model of instrument and apply the knowledge to the other models
with very little additional training, offering easy operation.
Allows measurements to be made at points that isms, what
cannot be accessed by the prism. This quick-step a
manual introduces the unique capabilities and features available on the
Trimble M3 total station.

• The M3 instrument has a built-in standard Bluetooth wireless connection. Through this
connection, users can control the instrument using powerful Trimble Access field software
on an external controller. This allows the M3 to be used on-site seamlessly with other
Trimble systems.
Goals:

Understand the basic assembly procedure of the total station.

Know the characteristics of use of the instrument itself.
Build a step-by-step manual for the trimble M3 total station.

Basic characteristics:

• Compact, lightweight and robust, Reliable and reliable mechanical technology, Trimble
Access field software and optional on-board Roads module, Bright and colorful QVGA
touch screen, Renowned Nikon optics.
• Import road definitions from third-party resources
Key in a complete road definition that includes horizontal and vertical alignments, templates
and superevelation and widening records
Guides you through quick offsets, slope staking, real-time design, and real-time quality
control.
Development of the
topic:

1) Installing the instrument tripod

• Once a PR has been chosen on the floor, the wooden tripod is installed in the center of it,
and then the instrument is installed.
• Before installing the tripod, it is observed whether the equipment is defective or not to return
it to the person in charge of the instrument.
• The workplace is displayed if there is a good observation to carry out the survey work.
• The legs of the instrument must be fixed and in a horizontal position.
 2) Placement of instruments on the base d wooden tripod

• The installation of the total station is very similar to the installation of the tachymeter, that is, on
a tripod, a PR, an arbitrary north, plumb line, tubular level, circular.
 3) Turning on the equipment
and use

• Look for the section that says plumb line and level
• Once the equipment is turned on, a menu will appear with 7 different options, one of these is to
go to the section that says general topography in the upper left part of the screen.

TO ACCESS THE SOFTWARE FOR HANDLING THE EQUIPMENT, ENTER THE TRIMBLE ACCESS ICON BY DOUBLE CLICKING
ON THE ICON.

WHEN LOADING THE SOFTWARE, THE MAIN MENU WILL APPEAR IN WHICH WE WILL CHOOSE GENERAL
TOPOGRAPHY

CLICK ON TOPOGRAPHY
 WHEN ENTERING GENERAL SURVEY WE WILL SELECT THE WORK OPTION TO CREATE OUR FIRST PROJECT.

CLICK

THEN WE ENTER A NAME OF THE JOB OR PROJECT TO BE DONE

This option allows you to make previous This option allows you to configure a UTM or GTM
configurations for _______________ be able to ■ TrimbleC65351B coordinate system
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•]. ..new bass: TEST Allows access to another existing project to use its
Setting Units for Measurement points
Job name: PROOF
Allows you to load a background map for the Template:_______
Last used job
project (DXF format) Properties Allows you to load the code containing folder
Syst. coordinate:

Meters

Linked files: None

None

Active Character Library: None

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 STATION SETUP (PARKING)
Once the job is created, we go to the team orientation or Parking part. For this we select the MEASURE option then STATION
CONFIGURATION

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We enter correction parameters and press ACCEPT

• Then we enter the requested parameters (THESE IS THE DATA WHERE

THE STATION IS LOCATED), example:

POINT NAME: E0
CODE: BM
INSTRUMENT HEIGHT: 1.6
NORTH: 1000
EAST: 1000
ELEVATION: 100
 There are two basic ways to orient the team. The first is by orienting to a Magnetic or Arbitrary North. Where we define the
azimuth or angle at which we will orient ourselves.

METHOD 1 (ORIENTATION TO A NORTH)

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the azimuth or angle to the station, since
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configuration
Reference point name :
90123 ?-x we will take north as a reference, in this
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N_________ The method will always have to be
Code:_____________
Reference height :
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ref •] 0.000m ANGLES ONLY.
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0.000
Azimuth (Keyed):
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Method: only
[Angles Menu position the station in its direction and
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Switch to Pressing measure our azimuth will place it
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The second method is METHOD 2 (ORIENTATION STILL KNOWN POINT) to know the orientation point, entering the coordinate of the known
point into the computer. To enter the coordinate, press the tab in which we will
select to type. We enter the coordinates and the equipment will automatically calculate
the azimuth from point ■ TrimbleC65351 to point.
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The method we will use will be ANGLES AND DISTANCE to be able to make a
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comparison of what was entered versus what was measured.
Reference point name*

Code:

Azimuth (Keyed):

Method:_______________
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North;______ Code:

1 1250,000m
Elevation:
1 1100,000m
Checkpoint: ■ ref
98,000m Azimuth
(Calculated):
Map 21°48‘05
Menu Method:
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Once we have the target point, press the MEASURE option, we verify the values and press STORE. re

POINT MEASUREMENT

Once the team is oriented, all that remains is to collect our data, so we will enter MEASURE and selection we will MEASURE TOPO

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Point name:
the point to take
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Method:

Target height: 1
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1,600m
distance

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We look at the prime and

press the MEASURE key,
then STORAGE.
 DATA DOWNLOAD

To download data from the station, insert the USB memory into the compartment, then select JOBS and
look for the IMPORT/EXPORT option.
NOTE: you must first open the export job since it will export the file being used.

CLICK CLICK

We select the EXPORT WITH FIXED FORMAT option

In the FILE FORMAT option we will select the format in which we want to download the data, including DXF (Autocad), SHP (Gis), DELIMITED BY
COMMAS CSV (Text File or Excel)
 Once the File Format is selected, we will direct the data to the USB, for this we will select the
following options.

A window will open in

We will which we will select
click on the HARD DISK to direct
black folder our data to the USB
to direct Memory

Selecting HARD DISK will show us the export screen in which we will only press ACCEPT and a screen will appear asking for the points
to export, where we will select
ALL POINTS

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K Select points
Enter point name Select from list All
grid points All keyed points

Comma delimited (.CSV, .TXT)

Points within radius_______________
All points Transfer Completed
Points with the same code
Points by name range Job
section Current map selection
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4) Uninstallation of the instrument and type of ei
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A WARNING
Read the manual before use.

• Once the work equipment has been uninstalled along with its installation tripod,
the instrument is stored in its respective box without first seeing that the
instrument screen is completely turned off with its battery outside, to be delivered
to the teacher in charge of the workshop.
Conclusions:
• The TRIMBLE total station instrument
it's a very good
work tool, since it is of great help for one
rethink and play the
topographic surveys according to the
teacher since
requirements from my point of view, notice that
commands THIS
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NORTH, because the tachymeter that was used in the
method used a topographical tachymeter to survey and stake out the terrain, all
its angles had to be calculated through an arbitrary north, the horizontal and
vertical angle using an extensive table in EXCEL in order to obtain the two most
important coordinates written above, it is my first observation that I had close to
the instrument for now, I had only two types of observation and taking
photographs of the instrument and observing the teacher how it was installed,
turned on, configured, and saved data in the station Overall, consequently I am
very curious about how it works, I hope that from now on I will learn even more
deeply the work of this beautiful instrument, the first time I observed that it was
another type of more advanced tachymeter, which was not the case, I saw that
this one worked with a reflector prism, I'm not familiar with yet
The instrument would be a great help to carry out work in mining and
construction.
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Annexes:

• Photographic material complemented in workshop classes days: 04/01/2022

to 04/08/2022