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Data Transfer Device

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Warning and Message Error report

Various messages appear reporting all what's happened during transferring data:

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•Left-clicking on "Save" will save the track in the layer.ptf and clicking on "Do not Save" will loose the save of track.

•Left-clicking on "New file" will save the track in a chosen file.

•Left-clicking on "Open file" has two effects open an existing file and save the track in it.

Setting GPS Track

To set the GPS track's display and recording:

1.Open the GPS /Track options dialog by selecting [Option: GPS/Track...] from the [Utilities] menu.

2.From the Mobile list, select the COM port on which the GPS is connected,

3.Click the [Track] tab , then choose the parameters for how you want to save and display the track.

Several options can be checked before activating the Track on function:

•"Enable track recording" is checked, the track is automatically saved into the active layer (by default or in a specific layer when "Single user file for mobile trails" is checked.)

•"Record all input data" is checked any data selected from your wind instruments will be recorded.

•Single user file for mobile trails is checked, the GPS track will be recorded in a single file. Each time you will stop Tracking the track will be recorded in the same chosen file.

•Recording accuracy

oDefine the precision of your track (i.e. the interval between two saved points) in either time or distance.

oWe would advise a frequency of between 120 and 300 seconds (2 to 5 minutes) which is sufficiently adequate for normal navigation requirements.

•Track line options

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There are a series of options with the track. You can have just a basic trail of a fixed color or you can have a trail which varies in color according to the input of specific information from sailing instruments.

oLine width track:Click on the pop-up menu to choose one type of line which stands out on the charts.

ocolor of track: Select the color of your track by clicking on the corresponding pop-up menu, click on the desired color in the box and select, for example, the color red.

oVariable color: You could chose a variable track color in accordance with one of the data sources recognised by the software (e.g. speed of the ship, wind force factor, etc.).

Note: the data sources are dependent upon the electronic equipment installed.

Firstly click on the radio button Variable Color and choose a data under the pop up which then on the pop-up menu of available data to show the list of available data and select the data in accordance to which the color is to be varied (for example, speed).

Using the keyboard select the delimiting speed values by successively selecting text zones (for example, speed of less than 5 knots: blue track; speed exceeding 10 knots: red track; speed between the two: variable color).

(Related topic: Option Mobile and Track)

Several positioning systems connected

Several positioning systems can be connected depending on your own software version of MaxSea.

In this case, it is possible to choose the type of display and tracking options for each one of them.

One of these connected positioning system is considered to be the master positioning system.

Choosing the master positioning system

To choose the master positioning system, select the menu [Option: GPS/Track...] from the [Utilities] menu and select the required positioning system. Then select from the list on the left-hand window the system you want to choose as the master positioning system.

Note: the name assigned to each positioning system is specified in the Data Input/Output Settings management (see in How to easily… Connect equipments to MaxSea).

Setting the display and tracking options for each positioning system

It is possible to choose the type of display and save the track for the master positioning system and also from all the other connected positioning systems.

When you activate the Track button in the Toolbar, all the "positioning systems" for which track saving is active are tracked.

To set the display type and track save options from the different positioning systems, select [Option: GPS/Track..] from the [Utilities] menu to open the dialog box.

1.Select a Positioning system in the "Select a mobile" list zone in the left part of the dialog box

2.Choose the positioning system that you wish to set options for.

3.Click on the Track tab in the right part of the dialog box.

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4.Choose the track saving options, Recording accuracy and the Track line.

5.Click on the Misc tab.

6.Choose the options you wish to display (security circle, directional vectors,....).

Note: repeat this procedure for each one of the connected positioning systems (using the pop-up menu Other system located in the Positioning system in the upper part of the dialog box) in order to set up all of them.

Track Profile

With the MaxSea Professional version, measurements from different sensors (depth, water temperature, etc.) can be recorded for each point of the track .

When a sounder is connected to MaxSea, the measurement from the sounder is recorded for each point of the track.

MaxSea can thus be used to display the bottom profile or the profile of one of the connected sensors (water temperature, etc.).

Toggle the Depth Profile Window On

•Click on the Chart Desktop Mode on the Toolbar

•Choose to display the Depth Profile window in a chosen mode

The Depth Profile window consist in two parts, the toolbar and its graphical view.

You can display either the profile associated to a previously saved old track, or display the profile of the track which is being recorded.

You will also learn in related topics:

1.How to display the current track in the depth Profile window and follow up its profile outline. Check that no track and no object is selected, then go to the related topic to learn more on the "Depth Profile with the MaxSea Mode selected".

2.How to display a previously saved old track in the Depth Profile window.

Edit & Modify the Track

Editing a track

IMPORTANT

This function is not used when the tracking on function is in use.

To modify Edit track parameters

1.Select an old track using the select point tool

2.Go to the [Edit] menu and choose [Edit track]

The Edit track dialog box appears

To modify a characteristic of the track, check box according to what you want to change between:

1.The line width

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2.The line color

3.The line smoothing

Note: you can change one or all of the characteristics.

If the line width option is selected, click on the pop up menu and choose a type of width.

If the line color option is selected, either choose a fixed color or a color according to a data like the depth for example.

If the line smoothing option is selected you can choose between three options (medium, light or important)

IMPORTANT

The smoothing function can modify the track and you may lost the initial saving. It is recommended to make a copy of the file before doing any modification on the track.

to validate all the modify click OK and CANCEL to quit without saving.

Edit Color Range

This function allows you to customize your track color according to selected received data.

To change the color of the track go to the [Utilities] menu and select [Option: GPS/Track]. This brings up a settings dialog box.

1 - Click the track tab in the upper of the window.

2 - In the bottom of the window click in the "According to.." radio button to assign a color to a track according to the parameter that you wish : for example, the track depending on the SOG , you can choose one color for the 0.0 to the 4.0 knots interval, and an other one for the 4.0 to 20.0 knots interval, so that you can see your track at a glance.

Note: the information depends on the electronic equipment connected.

3 - First, for example select the SOG interval on which color will be apply.

4 - Click on the Apply button to confirm.

5 - Then, choose between the 16 colors proposed to you by using the Number of colors pop-up

Note: you can customize the colors by right clicking on a color.

6 - You can also define more precisely the value intervals by right clicking any value slider:

7 - Finally, click on the Apply button.

Recording all data option in the GPS/Track settings dialog box

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•It is possible to save all the input data (speed, course, wind, etc.) associated with any given point of the track.

•To do this activate the check-box Record all input data which is situated in the top right-hand corner of the dialog box.

To change Track into Route

Making a route from a track is a way to re-navigate a previous trip. This function can be used, for example, to transform an old track into a Planning Route and then activating it.

Converting a track into a Route :

1.Surround a complete track on the chart with the Select tool.

2.All points in the track appear selected on the chart as it is shown in pictures below.

3.To change the track into a route, choose [Import selection to Route...] from the [Route] menu.

4.Only extremities points of each straight line are converted to waypoints, the others are not converted because the software can not create more than 100 waypoints at once.

All points in the track are selected on the chart

After converted Track into Route, only waypoints are displayed on the chart. For displaying the route on the chart you may call up the Route Center and select the route named with the"PTF" file name. Then the route appears on screen and it covers up the track. The track is not erased, it is still there, click on the Layers information button to hide it.

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