


In these days of EDM’s and remote setting out tools the art of setting out using a simple theodolite is becoming a bit of a lost art. I have spent many an hour hunched over a calculator trying to calculate bearings and distances between setting out stations and trying to calculate co-ordinates from bearings and distances, (polar to rectangular and rectangular to polar) I developed an excel spreadsheet which does all this for you and I have listed the instructions below. You can download the setting out spreadsheet
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