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Create Waypoints Layers

All Waypoints you create are automatically saved on a default layer named "Waypoint". You can create new layers in order to organize and sort your Waypoints. Thus you will be able to sort your Waypoints by category in the Center, and display on the chart only the layer you want.

To create a new Layer :

1.Select [New] then [WP layer...] in the [File] menu.

2.Enter the name of the Layer

3.Click OK to validate

Now, all the Waypoints you will create will be saved on this new layer (known as active layer). To switch layers, just click and hold down the mouse on the Plotting Tool (Pencil). This will show a drop-down menu where you can select the active layer. You can also change the Waypoint layer in the Waypoint Center or in the Waypoint Properties box.

To display on the chart only the layer you want, please refer to Show / Hide Waypoints Layers

Notes:

(1)- When a Layer becomes empty, it is automatically deleted.

(2)- The number of Layer is unlimited

Show/Hide Waypoints Layers

You can sort your Waypoints by Layers (see Create Waypoints Layers). If you click and hold your mouse down on the Routes and Waypoints button (located on the top chart toolbar) a list will appear where you will be able to select which layer you want to display. Only the layers you select (check mark) will be shown on the chart.

My Waypoints

Waypoints

All waypoints

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Routes

If you click (don't hold) on the button, all layers will be hidden (including the route). To turn them back on, click on the button again .

Notes : - All Routes are saved on the same layer called "Routes". You cannot make additional Routes Layers

-The Selected Route (orange) appears even if the layers are turned OFF.

-You can also display the Catalog to quickly show or hide all layers together

Delete Waypoints

There are several ways to delete individual waypoints. To prevent accidental data loss, a dialog will appear that asks you confirm if the waypoint is used in one or several Routes. The command of deleting waypoint is immediate and permanent.

Graphically deleting a waypoint from the chart:

1.Left-click a waypoint with the Delete tool.

2.Right-click on the waypoint and choose the Delete option in the menu list.

3.Select a waypoint by clicking it withe the Select Tool and press the <Del> key on the keyboard.

4.Click the Yes button when prompted to confirm. In this case the waypoint will be deleted in all Routes.

Textually deleting waypoints from the Waypoints Center list

1.Right-click a waypoint line in the Waypoints list and choose the Delete option in the contextual menu list.

2.Select a waypoint line, click the Action button in the center toolbar and choose Delete.

3.Click the Yes button when prompted to confirm. In this case the waypoint will be deleted in all Routes.

Note: A dialog appears on screen and warns you that the selected waypoint is used in one or several routes. The selected waypoint will be deleted from all routes when the deletion is confirmed.

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1.Create a quick Route to follow up.

2.How to display the Steering Data and Display windows.

3.How to Display the Active Route Center.

4.How to cancel the Active Route.

5.How to restart the Active Route

6.How to use the Search and Rescue function.

7.How to connect an Auto-pilot.

See Also Related Topic:

1.How to follow your navigation on the chart ( GPS on the chart)

2.How to follow your navigation in the Active Route Center

Go to a chosen Waypoint (Quick Route)

There are several ways for going to a chosen waypoint, graphically under the display or textually under the Waypoints center.

This function is used when you want to create and follow up a quick route. (related topic : "Active Route")

A quick route is temporally created and it is simultaneously displayed on the chart and in the Routes Center as an active route. This route will be lost when it is cancelled. This waypoint will be also lost if the quick route is created without an existing waypoint.

Using tools from the Toolbar :

1.Click on GoTo Waypoint " tool to select it

2.Click any where on the Chart you want

3.If a route is presently activated, a message appears on screen and asks to cancel the Active Route.

4.Click yes to confirm.

1.Double click a waypoint drawn on the chart with the " Route" tool.

2.If a route is presently activated, a message will appear on screen and ask to cancel the Active Route.

3.Click yes to confirm.

Using the Right-click menu on a selected waypoint :

Any where on the chart

1.Right-click on the chart at a chosen place.

2.Click Goto This Waypoint under the right-click menu list.

3.If a route is presently activated, a message appears on screen and asks to cancel the Active Route.

4.Click yes to confirm.

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Active Route

On a selected waypoint drawn on the chart:

1.Select and Right-click a waypoint drawn on the chart.

2.The drop down contextual menu is displayed.

3.Click Goto This Waypoint under the right-click menu list.

4.If a route is presently activated, a message appears on screen and asks to cancel the Active Route.

5.Click yes to confirm.

Textually from the Waypoints Center list:

1.Display the Waypoints Center dialog by selecting [Centers] and choosing [Waypoints] from the [display] menu.

2.Select a line from the Waypoints Center list depending on your choice.

3.Right-Click or click the "Action" button in the Waypoints Center toolbar

4.A drop down menu will appear on screen.

5.Choose Goto This Waypoint option.

6.Then if you want to display this quick Route centered on the chart, you may click on "Center on" in the Waypoints Center toolbar.

Note that your actual active route is closed and replace by the new quick route.

Steering Data & Steering display windows

As explained in the previous paragraph, when the first Waypoint is plotted, the Steering window is displayed in the lower left-hand corner of the screen.

Steering data palette

1. To move the Steering palette left-click on its title bar, hold the mouse button down, drag to the new position and release the mouse button.

2. Left-clicking on the cross in the upper right hand corner will close the Steering Data palette.

3. To reopen the closed steering data palette go to [Display] on the menu bar and choose [Steering data ].

The Steering data palette indicates and continuously updates information necessary to follow the course correctly:

•Waypoint: name or number to reach.

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•CTS : means Course To Steer and it is the heading to follow to directly reach the next Waypoint from your present position,

•XTE : the "cross track error" indicates how far you are off course from the theoretical heading (initial heading),

•Nominal: the initial heading, the theoretical heading that you should follow from the previous Waypoint,

•Distance: the distance to the next Waypoint,

•TTG : the Time To Go to reach the next Waypoint depending on the present speed of the ship,

•Next CTS: the next heading to follow after passing the Waypoint.

•Route ETA (time) : is the Estimated Time Arrival to reach the waypoint

•Route ETA (date) : indicates the estimated date to reach the waypoint

Steering data layout

•To obtain the Steering data information in a form of "Menu bar" mode just double left-click on its title bar.

•To return in a form of floating palette, just left-click on the "customizing bar" and then drag to new position on the screen.

•To resize the palette horizontally or vertically hold down the left mouse button while moving the mouse in the desired direction.

Steering data settings

right-click on its title bar to pull down display settings menu :

•To change the opacity, select Transparency and click a value from "Not transparent" or 10% or 20% or 30% or 40% or 50% or Text outline, then release the mouse.

•To change the font size, select Font size and click a value from smallest or smaller or medium or bigger and biggest, then release the mouse.

•To call up the Steering Display palette select Show steering.

•To change the nominal course value, select Change course value... , this brings up a dialog box in which you can change directly the initial heading.

Call up the Steering display window

•under the [Display] menu select [Steering display] or from the Steering data palette as it is described above

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•close this graphical zone by clicking the cross.

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Active Route

Note: the software automatically detects the moment when the boat is close enough to the Waypoint. It then automatically passes to the next Waypoint in the list. A course can there fore be followed by the software without manual intervention (if the helmsman follows the instructions supplied by the software).

You can select, in [Options...] from the [Route] menu, the automatic passage distance . On the large scale charts (detailed) you can thus see the distance realized by a circle (of equal radius for the precision chosen) traced all around the waypoint to be reached.

IMPORTANT

Monitoring of the vessel for safety must be continually provided. The user must ensure that the course is perfectly safe.

See related topics for getting more details on:

1.Routes options

2.Waypoint Auto-Scale function

3."Out of limits" positioned

Active Route Center

As explained in the previous chapter "Selected Route Center", you can obtain more information concerning the actual selected Active Route.

To display the Active Route Center Window select [Centers] and [Selected Route] from the [Route] menu.

IMPORTANT - you won't be able to modify any parameters in the Selected Route Center when the route is activated. If you need to modify parameters you may convert your active route into planning route. Choose to cancel the Active Route.

The Selected Route center gives you all information concerning the active route and it contains:

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A Waypoint by line.

The line of the Active waypoint is colored in red.

Not modifiable values are in cells full colored in gray.

Note: when the waypoint has been passed the parameters associated to this waypoint appear in gray lines

The active route window displayed indicates the total distance to cover, the Time To Go ( TTG ), the Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA). These same values are also specified for each waypoint of the course as well as headings and distances for each segment.

Note: the software uses the present speed of the ship and updates automatically the values of the course as speed changes.

For more details see related topic: "Selected Route Center"

Cancelling the Active Route

Each time you need to modify your trip, you will have to cancel the actual Active Route before.

Several ways for cancelling the Active Route :

Right-click an Active Route leg and choose "Cancel Active Route" in the contextual menu list.

Or select [Cancel Active route…] from the [Route] menu, this action will save and close the Active Route.

The software erases the Active Route on the chart and the Active Route Center will be empty .

Restart Active Route

At any time this function enables you to restart or go back to the started point of the Active Route.

Choose the [Restart Active Route] from the [Route] and you will restart again your Active Route.

Activate Search and Rescue Function (SAR)

S.A.R SAR Seach and rescue

First plot a line using the Compas tool. (Be careful: if a planning route is already opened, this function will automatically close it without warning message)

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Active Route

Then choose [New Search and Rescue Route..] from the [Route] menu

MaxSea then displays a dialog box which allows you to choose:

1.direction of parallel lines generation by checking the corresponding box (clockwise or counterclockwise),

2.line number that you wish generate,

3.distance between 2 lines,

4.Click OK and a planning route consisting of parallel lines is displayed on the chart.

This is an example of SAR done with direction = 90° clockwise and lines = 5 in dialog box.

If you wish, you can activate this route by selecting [Activate route] from the [Route] menu.

Automatic pilot connection

In this chapter, you have discovered how the software offers the helmsman all the assistance possible to ensure that he follows the course correctly.

If your computer is connected to an autopilot, you can control this from the software:

If you want the software to control the Autopilot, you first have to configure the Input/Output.

To do so, select [Data Input/Output Settings] from [Utilities] menu.

The dialog box is opened and allows you to configure the autopilot.

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You can select NMEA183 + Autopilot /Repeater, or an Autopilot/Repeater Output communication port.

From now on, Automatic Pilot function is on by default.

IMPORTANT

This function must be installed with full understanding of the responsibility involved. The user must ensure the safety of the chosen course, and must continually monitor the boat's course safety.

Related Topic :

Connecting equipments

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