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Stakeout

Stakeout guides you toward a saved point on the web UI or touch screen. Both displays work offline; measurement accuracy still depends on the fix and the target coordinates.

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

  1. Open Stakeout from the Web UI menu.
  2. Choose a source in Points, then pick a Target. Check the source label and any warning about an incomplete list.
  3. 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: