Training Course and Workshop Calendar and Bookings

Requirements

This is a course for users who have attended the LSS Introduction Course and have some knowledge of processing total station surveys.

What will I learn?

• Session 1 – Copying the LSS code list onto a datalogger; configuring LSS for survey dataloggers, downloading and processing total station survey data.
• Session 2 – LSS coding and the reserved codes; Creating a new survey for GPS transformed data; processing a building elevation survey.
• Session 3 – Survey Query and Report commands; Control commands for station observations; traverse adjustment and amending observations.  
• Session 4 – Tidying crossing links – Terrain and Non-terrain Overlays, amending observations and CAD-Pro part 2; survey transformation. 

Requirements

This is a course for users who have attended the LSS Introduction Course. 

What will I learn?

• Session 1 – Creating new surveys and converting XYZ and DXF data files; introducing CADxchnage. 
• Session 2 – Tidying the survey; removing and amending features; sorting Overlays; CAD-Pro part 3; designing circles and arcs.
• Session 3 – Simple design procedures; parallel and variable offsets; digitising; copying data between DTMs; computing areas and volumes.
• Session 4 – Generating sections and viewing; plotting plans and sections, sending sections to load file and looking at 3-D View.

Requirements

This is a course for users who have attended the LSS Intermediate and ideally have some experience in using LSS.

What will I learn?

• Session 1 – Configuring LSS for dataloggers; downloading / converting survey data for processing; resection and multiple target examples.
• Session 2 – Converting third party data – XYZ, LandXML and 2-D DXF; converting 2-D DXF data to 3-D LSS load format. 
• Session 3 – Changing the 2-D observations to the 3-D levels; changing levels to required values; finding the balance cut / fill level; adding surface depths.
• Session 4 – Computing Areas and Volumes without and with depths; designing the Formation Model; exporting for setting out and Machien Control. 

Requirements

This is a course for users who have attended the LSS Introduction Course, or have LSS experience and need to work from Point Cloud data. 

What will I learn?

• Session 1 – Navigating in LSS 3D Vision and the layout and tool commands; importing point cloud data in e57 format.
• Session 2 – Making use of the filter box, searchphere and blend options; connecting LSS 3D Vision with LSS and digitising.
• Session 3 – Adjusting digitised and adding new observations with LSS CAD-Pro; using the slice and section commands. 
• Session 4 – Using the LSS multi-feature and terrain extraction methods; the LSS 3D Vision slice mode for floor plans and elevations.

Requirements

This is a course for users who have ttended the LSS Intermediate and have some experience in using LSS.

What will I learn?

• Session 1 – Designing simple and benched slopes; adding surfaces by slopes and reporting volumes; advanced volumes options.
• Session 2 – Merging design models into surrounding terrain, designing a longitudinal gradient and access ramp using LSS templates. 
• Session 3 – Designing simple slopes up / down; isopachyte analysis; designing pre and post-restoration contours; adjusting for required volume.
• Session 4 – Designing a platform at balanced cut / fill; side slopes and gradients by template files; finding the cut / fill boundary; computing volumes with depths.

Requirements

This is a course for users who have attended the LSS Introduction Course.

What will I learn?

• Session 1 – Reviewing the LSS legend for heighted features; adding textures to features and setting widths; the background image in 3D View. 
• Session 2 – Creating a new survey and converting gridded XYZ data; viewing the survey model in virtual reality and settings; integrating digital photography. 
• Session 3 – Adding heighted features into a DTM, adding surfaces; using the CAD-Pro commands; creating a mixed woodland from multiple observations.
• Session 4 – Inserting one survey into another, more advanced options for modelling; creating a photo-montage and flight-path; exporting to 3-D Vantage.

Requirements

This is a course for users who have attended the LSS Introduction and LSS Visualisation Courses.

What will I learn?

• Session 1 – Reviewing the LSS legend for heighted features; Creating a new survey and converting Esri Ascii grid data; adding a background map. 
• Session 2 – Converting a 2-D DXF file; Visability by Query commands; creating a visibility map by radiating lines. 
• Session 3 – Creating a visual impact maps for numbers of features, heights of features. 
• Session 4 – Transforming a design to National Grid and adding to DTM; creating a horizontal ZTV map without and with mitigating features. 

Requirements

This is a course for LSS VISTA users who have attended the LSS Introduction and  Intermediate courses who want to look at plotting to Adobe Acrobat and exporting to AutoCAD in more detail. 

The course covers the use and adapting of the LSS Description Files – Plan (.PDF) Section (.SDF) and AutoCAD (.ADF) and includes the plotting of Sections to LSS Load file, which enables sections to be viewed and edited in LSS. 

What will I learn?

• Session 1 – Configuring Reporting and Comparing the LSS Legend; Controlling the Display; Annotating the Survey.
• Session 2 – The LSS Plan Description File and commands; Plotting an LSS DTM Survey to Adobe Acrobat PDF.
• Session 3 – The Overdraw Command and Plot Border Surveys; Creating and displaying a section reference line; Plotting sections to Adobe Acrobat.
• Session 4 – Sending Section Plot into LSS; Exporting Plan data to AutoCAD DXF; Using an adapting an AutoCAD Description File

Price per person £175 plus VAT.

Requirements

This is a course for LSS VISTA users who have attended the LSS Introduction course who want to look at exporting for Machine Control in more detail. 

The course reviews the LSS DTM concepts and covers the converting of third party data from various formats, before adding surfaces with depths, outputting within LSS to create a formation model, and finishing with exporting in the different formats of data for other systems. 

What will I learn?

• Session 1 – LSS and Digital Terrain Models; Navigating, Displaying and Querying the LSS Survey. 
• Session 2 – Configuring the LSS Survey Legend, converting third party data in XYZ and 3-D DXF formats. 
• Session 3 – Converting a LandXML file with alignment; checking and basic editing the DTM; Transform commands and LSS Toolkit. 
• Session 4 – Adding Surface features with construction depths; creating a Formation Model; Export for setting out and Machine Control.

Price per person £175 plus VAT.

Requirements

This training course is for Leica Captivate TPS users who want to configure their own Leica Captivate survey equipment and pc and includes an overview of LSS DTM Surveying; configuring the logger and the code list, LSS Features and Reserved Codes; Configuring LSS for Leica Captivate and processing an example Captivate DBX Job in LSS survey; Annotation and Export to AutoCAD DXF. 

What will I learn?

• Session 1 – LSS and Digital Terrain Models; Interrogating the model; LSS Legend and Export to Captivate Code List. 
• Session 2 – LSS feature coding, Reserved codes and field notes; configuring Leica Captivate for LSS – config sets etc.
• Session 2 – Configuring LSS for Leica Captivate; configuring other settings in LSS; Processing a training DBX job in LSS with QA Checks.  
• Session 4 – Survey annotation, loading and editing; Query and Report Commands; Exporting to AutoCAD DXF and to Captivate. 

Price per person £175 plus VAT.

Pick from any of our standard training courses (Introduction, Intermediate, Advanced, Land Surveyors, Engineering Surveyors, 3D Visualisation, Visual Impact Analysis, Plotting, Machine Control or the specific instrument courses. Please see individual course content against each course.

Requirements

This is a course for users who have attended the LSS Introduction Course. 

What will I learn?

• Session 1 – Creating new surveys and converting XYZ and DXF data files; introduction to 2-D DXF to 3-D conversion.
• Session 2 – Tidying the survey; removing and amending features; sorting Overlays; CAD-Pro part 3; designing arcs and circles.
• Session 3 – Simple design procedures; parallel and variable offsets; copying data between models; computing areas and volumes.
• Session 4 – Generating sections and viewing; plotting plans and sections; looking at 3-D View.

Requirements

This is a course for users who have ttended the LSS Intermediate and have some experience in using LSS.

What will I learn?

• Session 1 – Designing simple and benched slopes; adding surfaces by slopes and reporting volumes; advanced volumes options.
• Session 2 – Merging design models into surrounding terrain, designing a longitudinal gradient and access ramp using LSS templates. 
• Session 3 – Designing simple slopes up / down; isopachyte analysis; designing pre and post-restoration contours; adjusting for required volume.
• Session 4 – Designing a platform at balanced cut / fill; side slopes and gradients by template files; finding the cut / fill boundary; computing volumes with depths.