This job processes the entire list of the measured orthogonal data or its part in a batch.
Some preparation settings must be performed before starting a calculation:
Open the file with the measured orthogonal data.
Open the coordinate list where the points required for the calculation are (points of the point field, etc.).
Ensure that the GROMA program can find the coordinates from this file during the calculation. This can be achieved in two ways:
In the dialog window Settings->Environment, check the option Search in all open files, or
set this coordinate list as active (menu_file_active;).
In the dialog window Settings->Calculations, select the search method by the orientations (all the points of the known coordinates, or only the point with the attribute Orientation. In the same dialog window, or directly in the calculation window for the batch polar method, select using the item Edit orientations, whether you want the program to display and allow editing of the orientation list before the calculation of each station.
Select the input and output file for the calculation (see below).
In this part of the dialog window you have to choose from which open file the measured data shall be read and to which file the calculated coordinates shall be stored. To set the file names:
Point anywhere in the window with the file which you want to choose.
Mouse-drag any arbitrary item (press and hold the left button) in the calculation window in the area titled Files. The file name will be displayed in the dialog window.
The files can be also selected using the three-dot button, located next to the boxes for the file names.
If you don't set the name of the output file, the program will automatically use the active coordinate list. The input file must always be set.
After pressing the button (Calculation), the program will display the instantaneous stage of the calculation in the dialog window:
Line: currently calculated orthogonal line,
Point: currently recognized point,
In this part of the window, the program shows the information on how many lines and detailed points were already calculated and how many not-used items still remain on the measured data list. After finishing the calculation you can see how many measured values could not be used for some reason.
Batch calculation allows the processing the measured data lists in more iterations. This way of processing also allows calculation in case the data in the file is not sorted in a sequence which can be processed in one iteration. This situation occurs, for example, if you measure detailed points from a line which hasn't been recognized yet, or if its end-points are calculated additionally, for example, from the next line. In such case, the program will skip the unrecognized line during the first iteration, calculate the line coordinates from its end points, and during the next iterations will calculate this line. The maximum number of iterations is 5, but the program will terminate the calculation by itself in the case it didn't calculate any point during the last iteration.
A report with all the calculation's details is available after the calculation. If you don't want to store all the calculated detailed points, you can stop their storing in Settings->Calculations.