Dumb newbie question

[Bigmean]

I am going to set this up at my parents for thanksgiving and keep it there until I move. I am going to play a course this afternoon. My question is how do you set it up or set it up so that "striaght" is defined?

does that make sense? Like if you just throw it on the ground how does it know what striaght is? I recall being at an Edwin watts and I moved it and it still worked seemingly normal, but I can't comprehend how it would know an intended starting line.

Thanks

[aeroburner]

you need to laser it straight you can use alignment sticks if you don't own a laser to do this is pretty simple i have a laser permanently attached to the wall as this is my TDC reference point for my whole set up from my skytrak to the Gc2 to the protee but this really might not be needed as this was a golfsmith GC2 and the calibrations are almost i would say 90% chance off so you can eye ball its alignment as measurements might not be true anyway.

[Bigmean]

When you say align, are we talking the front of the unit is parallel to the target line? Or to be more clear, the unit is 90* to what would be considered "straight" line shot? Or is there some kind of marking on the machine that you use? I am in construction and have lasers but am more than confident for a little turkey dinner fun with tape measures and straight edges if this is the case. The unit being dead parallel to the stirght target line makes sense. I think that is what you were saying?

Agree on GS units likely needing to be recalibrate or whatever, but they were using them to fit clubs etc so they can't be that bad. My plan is to play with this as is at random and not much than maybe once a week or so at my parents and then when I move I am going to send it off to be gone through and calibrated. Based on the test shot I hit, it was pretty accurate. I play to a single cap IRL and I am a blades/feel player so while I have a lot of issues, I do have a decent sense of what flights I expect based on how the swing and contact felt, and I felt like I tugged it a hair and it showed a small pull and falling left, which matched exactly what my guess would have been based on the feel of the swing and at that I was happy with that specific unit and didn't want to even try the other one.

Thanks!

[aeroburner]

I set my laser and unit how i thought it was straight to the screen and tried to set ball on left side corner of the digital screen and did this to the right side, and then i measured with a tape off the alignment stick that i put tight to the machine with distances between laser and stick that should be pretty good.
These machines are used on a commercial basis and are dropped, moved, hit with balls, kicked and whatever else customers do that don't care, I am also a single handicapper but whats that got to do with the performance of a machine that calculates a ton of data and is off kilter, I want a machine that is as precise as I can get it, it looks right does not mean that it is. but what you do with your machine is your business, but i have 4 at foresight right now being gone through. this is why i was asking about the year on the bootloader screen

[Mozza]

I just hit a couple of balls down the range until I'm happy with the alignment

[mthunt]

I go on the flat putting green to fine tune alignment.

[aeroburner]

I go on the flat putting green to fine tune alignment.

thats a good idea