How to add new points in Delta Watch

Thursday, March 10, 2022 3:59 PM

Attached is a walkthrough on how to add new points to delta watch.

1. Open Point and limit management, sort points by "remark" and set status to "active" for all newly added points
2. Copy the first epoch after the new points were measured to a manual network, you can use the timestamp referenced in the "remark" from step one.
3. In the manual network, open total station data and make sure all new points are checked under "used points", click "Calculate" then "Apply"
4. Go to Coordinates > Approximate coordinates, Click refresh to approximate coordinates for the new points, they should be the only ones without coords initially. click "apply"
5. click on the full timestamp(YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM:ss)
6. make sure the new points are under new points(not datum), then click calculate adjustment, switch to vertical adjustment and click calculate adjustment
7. If adjustment was successful, click coordinates again, now Output coordinates, If there are coords here for your new points, right click on them and "Write coordinates to point definition"
8. Now head back to point and limit management, make sure the point type of all new points is correct.
9. Finally Add the point to the appropriate point group for export.

Now in older versions of DW prior to 3.10 recalculating old data in the automatic network is a little more complicated than it needs to be due to a bug:

First way v3.10 or newer

1. open the epoch tab click reprocess interval

second way, v3.4 or older

1. disable automatic loading from the Automatic Network
2. Go to the D drive > Delta Archives > Geodetic networks > network name, go through each month and day folder to find the GKAs you want to reprocess
3. Copy each GKA back to the delta link folder for that network
4. delete all the epochs from the automatic network in delta watch
5. enable automatic loading from the Automatic Network
6. All the epochs will calculate again as if they were brand new.