User manual

  • This guide will allow you to get all the information you need to use your Leica X-PAD Survey quickly and efficiently in all situations.

  • This manual contains information about Leica X-PAD Survey running onboard robotic total station.


  • Software setup and license management: learn how to install, activate, update, and maintain the software, as well as manage licenses, transfers, and activation-related operations.

  • Workspace: understand the layout of the software workspace, including toolbars, panels, menus.

  • Sites and jobs management: learn how to organize survey projects by creating, opening, editing, and managing sites and jobs.

  • Settings: understand the available software settings and learn how to configure the application to match your workflow and project requirements.

  • Topographic points: understand how survey points are stored, managed, and used within a project.

  • Field book of measures: understand how field measurements are stored, managed, and used within a project.

  • Survey codes: understand how create and manage survey codes and codes libraries.

  • Coordinate system: learn how to select and configure coordinate systems and apply ground to grid scale factor.

  • CAD: learn how to create, edit, and manage graphical objects using the integrated CAD tools.

  • Controlling the total stations: learn how to operate total stations for surveying and stakeout applications.

  • Station setup: learn how to perform a total station setup.

  • Survey points: explore the general survey commands and workflows used to measure and store topographic points.

  • Survey: learn how to perform point survey of points and other features.

  • Stakeout: learn how to perform stakeout operations using total stations of points and other features.

  • COGO: learn how to use coordinate geometry tools for calculations, point creation, intersections, distances, and other operations.

  • Surfaces and volumes: learn how to create and manage surface models, perform volume calculations and other operations.

  • Road: learn how to manage road alignments, profiles, cross-sections, and road stakeout operations.

  • External references: learn how to attach and manage external files, drawings, and reference data within a project.

  • Import data: learn how to import points, measurements, drawings, coordinate files, and other supported data formats.

  • Export and share: learn how to export project data in various formats and share information with other software and users.


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