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title: How to use surface logging on Leica iCON MC1 v 7 [Video]
description: "Here is how surface logging works on earthmoving machines using MC1 version 7.  \n\nHow to get started, creating surface logs, setting the triggers for when surface logging shall be active, how the surface logs are shown, how to customize the colors."
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# How to use surface logging on Leica iCON MC1 v 7 \[Video\]

## Here is how surface logging works on earthmoving machines using MC1 version 7. How to get started, creating surface logs, setting the triggers for when surface logging shall be active, how the surface logs are shown, how to customize the colors.

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