Best Android App for Setting out with two Reach RS from existing AutoCADdrawing

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Interested in best app for construction stakeout from AutoCAD drawings.

The drawings are using US state plane coordinates and feet and I would like to be able to stake out points directly without manually converting to Lat/Lon or UTM coords and ellipsoidal heights.

I would also like to use an Android device instead of Windows computer or windows tablet. I guess I could buy a Windows tablet - if that is the only way to go.

Apps I have seen are:

Mobile Topographer
Mapit GIS
AutoCAD Mobile App
Carlson SurvPC (Windows computer needed)
Field genius (Windows?)

Thanks for user experience from others using Reach for construction surveying.

Cheers
John

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Mapit
The developer is very responsive if it does not meet your immediate requirements. Even if you pay for bespoke development it is cheaper than many others. And very capable

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Simon:

Thanks. I was hoping to be able to stakeout directly from AutoCad dwg files. Many GIS programs can read dxf and dwg files so I will give it a try and chat with the developer about adding that functionality if it is not already there.

I did read the help about generating mbtiles of a basemap, it seemed a bit complicated and adds busywork.

My other option is to use Carlson SurvPC with a windows tablet. That software is designed to do what I need to do.

I presently use my phone as the data collector but it is not great when I keep getting calls and texts.

Cheers
John

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From the MapIt webpage

At the moment supported formats are:

– Shapefile (zipped), CSV, KML, geojson for Point layers,
– Shapefile (zipped), KML and geojson for Polyline and Polygon layers

There are plenty of dwg or dxf to geojson converters around

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Does anybody here have any experience with QFIELD?
This allows you to open up your actual QGIS projects in an Android application.

I don’t think you can layout points yet with it, but they are open for developers contributions. Just something I’ve had my eye on.

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Connection over TCP also work between SuperSurv and Reach.
That is actually a nice feature. Less battery is consumed

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Hi John, are you a land surveyor and/or familiar with the differences between grid and ground coordinates?

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Hi there,

The last post was pretty long ago :sweat_smile: But we have ReachView 3 now and recently released DXF support. It should be useful while working with AutoCAD. If you have any questions feel free to create a new topic!

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