The tacheometer was made in 1997. This is the first model of electronic tacheometer to be widely used in the study of geodesy at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering. From 1999 to 2019, eight identical instruments were used to guarantee high-quality practical classes in classic surveying courses. In 2019, the Faculty donated four of these tacheometers to the Department of Geodesy at the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Sarajevo.

The tacheometer provides a precision of 1.5 mgon (5’’) for direction measurements and 3 mm; 3 ppm for distance measurements. After 20 years of student use, the instruments are still working perfectly. Obsolete, of course, are the user interface and the software that controls the instrument’s operation, the measurement process and processing, and the possibilities to use the measurement values. The instrument is in the same condition as when it was originally taken out of service.