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MaxSea Operator Manual version 12.6

• All folders inside "My documents" folder.

• All first level folders inside the Hard Drives or CD drive.

•The Mapmedia CD300/01 (worldwide planning charts) is automatically installed in "My Documents" folder.

•The first time you open the software you will be shown the “Open Chart” window, from which you can choose under a list the chart you wish to open.

•All of the charts you have installed will be shown to you. To simultaneously open several charts. To do so, press the Ctrl key while selecting each chart you want to open.

2 - Launch again the automatic opening

•To open a specific chart region (or series of chart regions) go to [File] on the menu bar, and then click on [Open Chart]. To stop the automatic "Chart search" click the ESC key.

•The "Open chart" window appears and shows all the charts that the software has found.

•Select a chart or several charts (to do so, press the Ctrl key while selecting the charts and click OK.

•The dialog box with the warning about the use of digitized documents appears. Click I AGREE to agree.

3 - Manual Opening

•However, you can also open a chart by selecting [Open] from the [File] menu, like you used to do with previous versions of software, or, for example, if you want to open charts you have already installed on your hard drive.

•The Open file window appears and allows you to specify the location where you want to locate the chart.

•Then pull down the pop-up menu File of type and select the type of the chart that you wish to open ( vector or rasterized). For example, if you wish to open a Mapmedia CD-ROM, select Mapmedia from the File of type pop-up menu.

•Insert the Mapmedia CD-ROM that you wish to open. After a short while, the contents of the CDROM are displayed as a list in the dialog box.

•Select the chart stored on the CD-ROM by clicking its name in the list; then click Open (or double click the chart name in the list).

•The dialog box with the warning about the use of digitized documents appears. Click Accept if you agree.

After it has been loaded, the Mapmedia chart is displayed in the chart window.

If you forget to enter your personal codes before starting up the software, it shows automatically the "Mapmedia user permit" dialogue box.

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4 - the chart is opened and displayed in the chart window

All charts which are either Raster or Vector, are displayed in the same seamless window.

The boundaries, or outlines, of the charts you have installed are displayed on the chart to help you to find them quickly. This feature is activated by default. If you want to disable this option, select the [option: Display...] from the [Display] menu and check or un check "Chart outlines display" box .

The chart outline display represents a chart that is currently being used at that scale.

Note:

(1)- The software will remember which charts were open and will display the same charts the next time the program is started.

(2)- opening certain types of charts causes the previously used chart to close automatically.

(3)- if you need to enter unlock codes for using Mapmedia charts go to the [File] menu and select

[Mapmedia User Permits...]

(4)- at any time you can access to the managing vector charts useful functions to update the data or to order. go to the [File] menu and select [Manage 3D Database] (Related topic:Vector charts installation process)

Opening several chart windows

allows you to work at the same time on several opened chart windows.

Using the "Chart Desktop" tool in the toolbar to open several window chart at same time.

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1 Chart

1 Chart, 1 Profile

1 Chart, 1 Profile

2 Charts

2 Charts, 1 Profile

3 Charts

3 Charts, 1 profile

4 Charts

Then you can choose the mode of the opened windows three modes of window display are proposed :

1.Tile vertical

2.Tile horizontal

3.Cascade

Note: Only four Chart windows can be opened at the same time.

Using chart zone information

The chart zone information is the chart engine for each opened chart window. It allows you to choose which chart you want to display and to customize its display appearance when it is possible (see Vector chart). There are two categories chart zone information depending on opened chart if it is vector or raster.

Chart information on the Chart toolbar lets you control :

1.Click Chart Information button either Raster or vector, to show or hide Chart layers data in the Chart window.

2.Only one category of Chart Information button selected at the same time.

3.Chart Information arrow to open the drop-down menu list . When several Raster or Vector charts are opened together in the same window chart to choose which one you want to show or to hide.

4.When Vector charts are opened in the chart window to change the information display. The "Chart Config" item on zone information menu list will be simultaneously updated according to selected vector chart .

5.To change the chart "Density" depending on chart displayed in the Chart window.

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IMPORTANT - Each opened chart window has its own menu chart display and it depends to the type of the chart.

Changing the display density

The Density function allows displaying a chart, for a given scale, more or less " under zoomed " which is a more general scale, and thus more or less rich in cartographic information.

Click the chart information zone, then select the "Density" option, then select a level from among the five which are proposed:

1.Low

2.Average

3.High

4.Very high

5.Maximal

If the displayed chart type is Raster:

Below is a comparison example of the effect of the density on Raster charts and in particular for the mm2 Mapmedia charts.

•To the left, we have a low density: it is easy to read the probe lines.

•To the right, same scale, we can have a more detailed view around the boat.

Note: this feature favors the mm2 Mapmedia cartography which uses a powerful high density.

If the chart is Vector type

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•To the left, high density

•To the right, low density, with the same scale

Note : this function is only available for Mapmedia .mm2 raster charts and vector charts.

Choosing the chart scale

Generally, the software operates charts under a seamless mode. This is the case for vector charts, as well as

Mapmedia raster charts.

You can change the scale of a chart in several ways:

1 - Using the Magnifying tool to zoom in a chosen zone

At the upper of the Toolbar is the Chart Scale Selection Tool named Magnifying tool . Click on once, then move the tool to the center of the area in which you want the new chart to open. Hold down the mouse button while moving the mouse to the selected area, release the button to zoom in.

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2 - Using the "Zoom in" and "Zoom out" tools

Single Left-click the "Zoom out" tool under the Toolbar zooms out the chart view. This tool is useful when you want to undo the last zoom in.

Single Left-click the "Zoom in" tool under the Toolbar zooms in the current chart view.

3 - Using the Scale pop-up palette which provides easy access to select available chart scales.

at any time with other tool selected right-click any where in the chart window to bring up the Scale pop-up palette, as mentioned below.

under the [Display] menu choose [Select Scale] to bring up the scale pop-up palette as mentioned below.

The available scales are indicated by a drawing symbol next to their numbers. The current activate chart scale in the "Scale Pop Up" is written in Bold character.

Simply choose the desired scale, Left-click the mouse button. The chart is drawn at the scale chosen and centered on the point clicked.

Notes:

(1) - the drawing symbol next to available scale indicates the type of data available at this scale.

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depth data

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(2) - if you have a wheel mouse roll it up or down to zoom in or zoom out in the chart window.

Moving the chart

You can move a chart in its window in several ways.

1 - Hand tool

The Hand tool is what you use for panning and to access the chart data.

Left-click on once and move the cursor over the chart in the center of screen.

•single-click the left mouse button to move the chart anywhere you want it to go.

•double-click the left mouse button to access the chart data screen. Here you will find data on the chart source, its official number, the country of origin, scale, datum, and—most important—the units of depth (feet, meters, or fathoms).

•as with other tools, right-click to bring up the chart scale choices.

Note: when you release the mouse button, the software draws the part of the chart which appears following the move that you have made. Do not attempt to move a chart several times in quick succession. Wait until the software has redrawn the chart after each new move.

2 - With other tools

You can directly use the mouse buttons to move the chart in the active window.

•single-click the wheel mouse button (if your have wheel mouse) to activate the free mode panning and click again on it to release this mode.

•move the mouse near a window border and while the cursor is changed in arrow click on the left button to move the chart anywhere you want it to go.

Upper left-hand corner window chart

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3 - Using arrow keys of the keyboard

Another way to move the chart on the screen is to use the arrow keys on the keyboard. To move the chart, just press the arrow that points in the direction that you want to see. If you want to see more of the chart to the right, press the right arrow key.

Choosing the chart orientation

The chart orientation change mode Allows adapting the display to different situations, in the case of an inland navigation the Head Up display mode allows tracking down more easily shore banks.

Course Up

Fig.1 Chart Orientation Menu on the Chart Toolbar.

This function allows the user to orient the Charts windows in function:

1.Of the geographic North up: Mode the North at the top selected by default ( Orientation of the chart with regard to the cartography)

2.Of its route: Course Up (chart orientation with regard to the active route)

3.Of its heading: Head Up (chart orientation with regard to the logical heading).

You can change the chart orientation simply by selecting one of the options proposed in the Orientation menu situated in the Chart palette.

To choose a chart orientation mode:

1.Click on the button " Orientation Chart " in the Chart Palette to enable the menu.

2.Click again in the drop-down menu a orientation mode.

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To place the North when the modes of orientation "Course Up" or "Head Up" are activated,

A compass appears in the window at the top middle of the screen.

North up mode

The chart is shown always with the North upward. This display mode is defined as default and corresponds to the orientation of the nautical charts.

Example of display mode with North at the top

Head up mode

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