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Stakeout
Stakeout guides you back to any recorded point — walk toward the target and watch the distance fall to zero. It runs in two places: a full-page plotter in the Web UI and a needle dial right on the RoboDot's touch screen. Both work completely offline: no internet, no map tiles, no app required.
Targets come from the sessions in the active job and from your saved Favorites — anything you have marked can be staked. Design points from the office can be staked too: Import CSV on the Files page loads them into the job.
Stakeout needs the device in Rover mode with a correction source for centimeter results. If the RoboDot is in another mode, the stakeout screen offers Make Rover right there.
Web UI Stakeout page
- Open Stakeout from the Web UI menu.
- Pick a Target — use the File selector to narrow the list to one session, or search all points plus Favorites.
- Walk. The plotter shows the target, your live position, and a direction arrow with the remaining distance broken into north/east components. As you close in, the view magnifies automatically for the final centimeters.
Line mode
Switch Mode from Point to Line and pick two points, Target and To. Instead of guiding you to a single spot, the readout shows your perpendicular offset from the line through the two points and your station (distance along it) — the tool for staking fence lines, curb lines, and property boundaries.
Touch screen Stakeout
No phone in hand? Tap the Home screen background to open the launcher and choose Stakeout:
- Pick a source: All points, Nearest <1km (every point on the card ranked by distance from where you stand), a single session by date, or Faves.
- Choose the target on the roller.
- The needle points at the target — hold the RoboDot with the screen up and the top of the screen facing north — while the big readout counts down the distance with north/east components.
- Inside 0.25 m the dial becomes a bullseye: you are on the point.