Leica Total Station
(TCR1105)

User Interface

Leica Total Station (TCR1105) – User Interface

The key-pad on the Leica Total Station (TCR1105) is a fairly simple input tool that provides user’s the ability to select various items in the display window using a number of different ways to access the instruments wide range of functionalities. The display window is made up of several items stored in menu like configuration.

The header of the window allows the user to know what menu they are choosing options for and a dark cursor bar lets the user know what option they could select if they were using the control keys. Items on the screen above those selections can be chosen by using either the arrow keys or by using the function keys.

Using the function keys (e.g. F1, F2, F3 etc.) located along the bottom of the illuminated screen allows the user to quickly make selections by choosing items from the displayed menus based on number. The escape function allows a user to either cancel a selection that they did not intend to make or to go back to the previous menu.

The upper left key pad is capable of typing letters as well as numbers. Each button is capable of providing one of three different characters. To use the letters on the key pad you must be in a field that supports letters, use the highlighted function key to switch between numbers and letters and you press the button once for the first letter, twice quickly for the second and three times quickly for the third one. (e.g. the 7 key can also be used to provide the letters A, B, & C.

To select an A you would tap the key once, two hits in quick succession would provide the letter B and three hits in quick succession would provide the letter C).