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Electronic Charts

•Other in standard S52.

•S52 other text

•To activate the anti-grounding function

C-Map CM 93 v3 display settings

To add a personal configuration,

You should choose " Add " in the dialogue that appears, a new configuration is created with the name " New Config " by default, he can modify this name in the frame " Config Name ". The user is then free to choose the elements that he wishes to be a part of this configuration, among the 9 available groupings in the frame " Layers ".

To erase a display configuration,

It is enough to select it in left window and to click " Remove ".

To validate modification made in this dialog box,

it is necessary to click on "OK". The configuration selected during the release of the dialog box will be used that for the posting.

To obtain information about the chart:

As with all charts in MaxSea the user can have chart information by double clicking the hand tool

To obtain information about the present object around a point of the chart :

•Either by double left-clicking an object with the Selected object ( finger) tool.

•Or RIGHT CLICKING without switching tool an object to call up the context menu and choose the "Chart object properties" item.

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The information dialog box about the chosen point appears:

•The Left-hand dialog box window brings together all the objects around the place chosen by the user.

•The Right-hand dialog box window gives description about each of the object selected with the mouse (one click) in the above window.

Your own display configuration

You can also create your own display configurations by using the dialog Box " Change Config " by the menu " Change Config " of the pop - up zoom.

Objects displayed by default:

Bridge, Cable, overhead, Canal, Coastline, Conveyor, Dam, Deep water route centerline, Deep water route part, Depth area, Depth contour, Dock area, Dredged area, Floating dock, Gate, Hulk, Ice area, Incineration area, Inshore traffic zone, Land area, Lock basin, Log pond, Mooring/Warping facility, Obstruction, Offshore platform, Oil barrier, Pile, Pipeline, overhead, Pontoon, Precautionary area, Pylon/bridge support, Radio calling-in point, Recommended route centerline, Recommended traffic lane part, Shoreline construction, Underwater/awash rock, Unsurveyed area, Wreck, Accuracy of data, Compilation scale of data, Coverage, Horizontal datum of data, Horizontal datum shift parameters, Nautical publication information, Navigational system of marks, Production information, Quality of data, Sounding datum, Survey reliability, Units of measurement of data, Vertical datum of data, Vertical datum of data, Vertical datum of data.

RIGHT CLICK any where on the chart window, select "Chart Config..." to call up the dialog box which allows you to change the configuration.

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The "Change Config" window allows you to destroy or create your own config by choosing options under a table as it is described below:

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Activating Antigrounding Alarm

The Antigrounding alarm warns you when your boat crosses a potential danger as grounding boundaries, buoys and depth lines which are defined on the chart. (Related topic : List of objects which can be taken as a potential danger )

The AntiGrounding function will be activated when the boat head will crosse objects as :

(1) - Buoys

(2) - Line width sounder

(3) - Ground boundary

By default the Antigrounding Master GPS is un checked.

When the "Antigounding Master GPS" is selected, both actions are done together, the alarm is activated and the Antigrounding Dialog is displayed.

The Antigrounding alarm depends to the Cone base width of the Security circle.

You can specify the boundary alarm settings by changing the circle distance size.

Go to the [Utilities menu], choose [Option: GPS/Track] to call up the dialog box which allows you to modify the parameters.

1.Click on the "Misc" tab.

2.Check the "display" box to show the security circle on the chart.

3.Enter a value of the radius to define the alarm limit (By default the radius circle is equal to 1Nm and the width of the cone base is equal to 30° ).

All activated Alarms are recorded and displayed in a table which is called "AntiGrounding Dialog"

Note: the Security circle and the cone base (Alarm zone) are displayed on the chart by default.

List of potential dangerous objects

List of objects which can be taken as a potential danger:

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Anchorage area (a name by default is defined) - Beacon, cardinal - Beacon, isolated danger - Beacon, lateral - Beacon, safe water - Beacon, special purpose/general - Bridge - Buoy, cardinal - Buoy, installation - Buoy, isolated danger - Buoy, lateral - Buoy, safe water - Buoy, special purpose - Cable area - Cable, overhead - Canal - Cargo transhipment area - Causeway - Caution area - Conveyor - Crane - Deep water route part - Depth area ( can take value from x to y meters) - Depth contour (define a value for y meters) - Dredged area (can take value from x to y meters) - Dry dock - Dumping ground - Fairway - Fishing ground - Floating dock -

Ice area - Incineration area - Inshore traffic zone - Land area ( can take value from x to y meters) - Light vessel - Marine farm/culture -Military practice area - Obstruction - Offshore platform - Offshore production area - Oil barrier - Pile - Pipeline area - Pipeline, overhead - Pontoon - Production/storage area - Recommended track - Recommended traffic lane part - Restricted area - Sea-plane landing area - Shoreline construction - Sounding - Submarine transit lane - Traffic separation line - Traffic separation scheme boundary - Traffic separation scheme crossing - Traffic separation scheme lane part - Traffic separation scheme roundabout - Traffic separation zone - Two-way route part - Underwater/awash rock - Wreck

Example :

Depth range from 20 to 50 meters and the Buoy, cardinal are defined with Karek Kreiz, Land Area.

Antigrounding Dialog

The Antigrounding Dialog is your control center where you can follow all recorded alarms and they history.

To bring up the Antigrounding Dialog click on the "Chart zone information" in the chart palette and choose

"AntiGrounding Master GPS".

The table contains all useful information for each present object having crossed the Security circle boundaries :

1.The date when the alarm is activated.

2.The type object category.

3.Details of the object.

4.Its geographical position.

The alarms are displayed in order of their recording. To change the data order display of each column, simple click in each column title.

The width of each column can be modified by left clicking a border and drag to the desired position.

You can specify the display position of the palette as you will do with the others palettes (setting the palette position as a menu bar layout display mode or as a floating layout display mode).

AntiGrounding center display configuration parameters

1.To change the display order in each column of the table, double left-click on its title, a symbol appears located nearest its title and shows the direction.

2.To modify the width of each column click either on its left border or its right border, move the mouse while holding down its button to the desired size and release the mouse button.

3.As done for the other Center tables, you can decide on the location and display mode ( "Floating palette" mode, "toolbar" mode or "Tab" mode).

See also related topic : Advanced configuration

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Advanced configuration

Miscellaneous preferences.

You can also modify some global parameters which will be added to the former configuration.

That for, you have to open the “cmapconfig.ini” file, localized in “C:\WinNT” or “C:\Windows”, depending the system you use; then you can tune the values by clicking.

This file allows you to modify:

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Opening a weather file

It is assumed that you already have the GRIB file save on your hard disk or opened directly from an e-mail

Using weather button

The weather button is used to show or hide the last opened weather file.

If you don't open GRIB file before when you click the weather button

1.A browse window is opened

2.Select the folder where the GRIB file is saved

3.Select the desired weather forecast from the file list and click Open.

Now each time you click on the weather button, this weather data will be displayed or hidden even if the weather file is closed. If you want to change the displayed file you have to open a new weather file.

Different types of information (wind, swell, pressure, etc.) can be contained in this file. The software displays immediately on the chart the forecast for the present date, if the present date is included in the interval covered by the forecasts. If it is not the case, the time is set to the last forecast date. You can also change the display sate : Change display date chapter.

Note:

(1)you can only open one weather forecast file at a time.

(2)by default the wind is displayed in the form of vectors with barbs, the swell in the form of vectors characteristic of direction and height, pressure in the form of isolines and water temperatures in the forms of areas. See Weather data display preferences paragraph to change a display.

How to open a new weather file.

1.Select [Open weather file] from the [Weather] menu .

2.A browse window is opened.

3.Select the folder in which you wish save the GRIB file.

4.Then choose among the file list the required weather forecast file and click Open.

Getting a Weather file from e-mail

You just receive Weather information from an e-mail (using MaxSea chopper,Navimail...).

•Double click directly on attached file which you have received in your e-mail.

A dialog box appears and gives you two choices

1.open the file

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