[Philippa Wilson]

I have just purchased the Disto S910 & am very pleased with it. I haven’t used it for an actual project yet but have had a play around with it. It seems to be very quick & easy to use. The screen is a little difficult to see in bright sunlight (much like a mobile phone screen in sunlight) but its not too bad. I downloaded the measurements in DXF straight into my Vectorworks  program & it produced a 3D drawing showing all the points I had recorded which are all connected by lines. This was extremely quick & accurate & I can see that this is going to save me heaps of time in preparing accurate base plans. The photographs of each point will be useful to – as a reference when I can’t remember what point I measured! I am in the process of figuring how how to use bluetooth to connect the disto to my laptop so that I can record endless points & see them in Vectorworks on-site, so that if I miss something – I will hopefully notice & rectify it before leaving the site, which will save in travel time & frustration! The only thing I can see that will take a bit of figuring out is that all points you measure are connected by a line & those lines can’t cross over each other, so I guess you need to plan your approach before starting to measure. Overall I am very impressed with its capabilities! (Thanks Andrew for all the information you provided about the Disto – I probably wouldn’t have purchased it without a review from someone using it for the same sort of work.) 

[Philippa Wilson]

Thank you so much for your in depth reply. Great to hear how you use the Disto it out in the field.

I was just wondering – are you able to set the elevation to ‘0’ for your first measurement – like you can on a zip level? (For example – make the house floor level ‘0’ & the all the other elevations would relate back to that.)

I use Vectorworks, so I think importing the information from the Disto into the program would be fairly similar to what you do in AutoCAD.

Love the idea of reducing the amount of time it takes to gather the information & create a base plan. Also being able to do it by myself will be a big bonus!

Thanks again for taking the time to answer my questions. Much appreciated!

[Philippa Wilson]

Hi Andrew

I’m considering purchasing the Disto S910 or maybe a total station. So far the Disto seems as if it would be easier to use. I have a couple of questions for you –

Is it easy to position the laser dot accurately outdoors? I have an older laser & have found it really difficult to hold it still & see it in bright sunlight.

Did you get the package with the tripod? I saw somewhere that  the black tripod was difficult to keep steady outdoors???

Thanks

Philippa.

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