Chart collection status
In Chart Handling dialog click the button
Print collection status
to get the current chart
collection status
The two files are displayed in Notepad:
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The file
ARCS_status.txt
contains the state of the chart collection. The first part contains
license details, hardware ID, User Permit and PIN code. The second part contains all
installed charts description: chart number, chart title, permit diagnostic, chart original
scale, source CD, update CD date, permit expiry date, permit and chart encryption
number. The third part contains the all installed permits descriptions: expiry date and
encryption number
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The file
ARCS_Hndl.log
records all chart handling operations: operation type, date and
time of the operation, the CD identification for chart installation and updating, the chart
list with successful result, the chart list with failure result.
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Note:
Both the above files are saved in the folder..\ECDIS_UserData\Chart_log. If a
problem occurs with chart handling, send these files to the Technical Support team.
ARCS seamless mode
When ARCS seamless mode is active, ECDIS displays the current active chart together with
adjacent charts (where possible) as detailed below:
Only ONE chart active at a time, the surrounding charts are shown in the same datum and at
the same scale as active one but are shadowed.
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Note:
Whilst the surrounding charts are displayed at the same scale, this may not be
their natural scale. The surrounding charts shown could be built from several different
scale charts zoomed to the scale of the chart in use. In some cases the charts will not
merge exactly. It should be understood that the surrounding shadowed charts are
displayed for information only and should not be used for navigation.
When ECDIS needs to fill in a part of the screen with another chart, the search starts with
charts of the same scale and then if no chart with the same scale is available the search is
extended to charts with higher and lower scale.
The system stops searching if there is no chart available at a scale between 1/4 and 4 times
the active chart scale.
The user should click on a shadowed chart to get all information about the chart and double
click on a shadowed chart to activate it.
To switch on the seamless mode tick the
with ARCS
check box in the Seamless Chart display
group. The default state is
Simple scale
. To get the best scaled ARCS displaying for the chart
area, tick on the
Full scale
.
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