After linking cave network to several entrances (i.e. several ref. points), it is impossible to disable the entrance adjustement affect and keep an eye on how good (or bad) are the data before adjustement. When Adjustement - None is selected, all the ref. points set to link the different parts of the network should be disabled.

and maybe two auto adjustement options should be available: auto adjustement without links to other caves parts/entrances and auto adjustement with links to other caves parts/entrances

Workaround works thanks. I'd rather disable the ref points than clearing the refCave field... less work, more error proof. Still think that this should be par of the Adjustements options.

Link is not functionally.

It is fonctionnal but it can be a tad headscratching to set up...

To keep things easy (in my opinion), I consider a cave network as one entity: meaning it doesn't matter from which entrance I started each part of the surveys, they belong to the same network... so why splitting the data between several data tables/cave entrances ?!? So I decide which entrance is going to be the primary entrance and then I build the entire network from that primary entrance > Master data table. Then I create all the "secondary" entrances (with GPS coordinates, altitude) and add in their data table one lonely data row for each secondary entrance.

This gives me something like this:


Cave #1 This is the primary entrance
1.0.0 > 1.0.0 ; 0m; 000°; 0° This is the reference point of the primary entrance (GPS/alti of entrance #1)
survey shot data
survey shot data
survey shot data
survey shot data
...
that's all the cave network data = Master data table

-----
Cave #2 This is a secondary entrance
2.0.0 > 2.0.0 ; 0m; 000°; 0° This is the reference point of the secondary entrance #2 (GPS/alti of entrance #2)
nothing more

-----
Cave #3 This is another secondary entrance
3.0.0 > 3.0.0 ; 0m; 000°; 0° This is the reference point of the secondary entrance #2 (GPS/alti of entrance #2)
nothing more



When this is done, there a couple of data rows per entrances to add in the Master data table:

1.x.x> 2.0.0; 0m; 000°; 0° (1.x.x is the secondary entrance 2 station number in the master data table)
2.0.0 > 2.0.0 ; 0m; 000°; 0°; (RefCave=) 2

1.y.y> 3.0.0; 0m; 000°; 0° (1.y.y is the secondary entrance 3 station number in the master data table)
3.0.0 > 3.0.0 ; 0m; 000°; 0°;(RefCave=) 3

Hope this help...

Hi Jochen,

Auto-adjustement with load of shots is a long process to run... fair enough. But when auto-adjustment has been run (i.e. calculation), it should make no difference to the software speed, right? However, I find the software very (very) sluggish when auto-adjustement is on, and most loss of performance are not justified/shou in my opinion.
- jumping from one tab to another seems to launch the adjustment calculation again and again (not always though).
- jumping from Plan to Perspective does the same.
- adding a "drawing/layer" takes forever...
- opening a file with auto-adjustment on is so long, that it seems to be crashing...

These are few examples of the things that doesn't seems to work optimaly
I think there is room from improvement here.

I'll drop you a PM with link to my master file so you can have a look for yourself.