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The Seafloor Main Menu is a collection of commands and project properties in a Geocap Seafloor project. The most frequently used commands are accessible through this menu, which will make it easier for new users to operate the Seafloor user interface. However, these and more commands are also available from the project interface.
The Seafloor Main Menu.
How to open the Seafloor Main Menu
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For all actions in this menu it is required to load a project. If no project is loaded, the message "No project is currently loaded into Geocap!" will appear. Then a description on how to load a project follows.
The Content of the Seafloor Main Menu
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- The menu bar has three options: File, Edit, Help
- The Current project part contains information about which project is active, and what coordinate system the project is using.
- The Working with Survey Data part is the interface to useful commands for processing survey data through the Geocap Seafloor package.
- The Working with Charts part is the interface to useful commands for processing chart data through the Geocap Seafloor package.
Menu bar options (File, Edit, Help)
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- Recent Projects will give a list of recently opened Geocap projects.
Edit:
- Geodetic settings will open the dialog for setting geodetic properties for the project.
- Vessel Configuration Manager will open the dialog for setting vessel properties for all open projects. This entry will have a meaning only when Multibeam Sonar data are loaded.
- Point Cloud (Multibeam) Editor will open the 3D editing tool for point cloud data (multibeam data) (Multibeam Editor). This entry will work both when Point Cloud data and Multibeam Sonar data are loaded.
Help:
- Seafloor Main Menu will show the help dialog.
- Seafloor User Guide will open the Seafloor User Guide documentation as a pdf file.
- Refresh Report Menu will open the reports dialog containing the last processing results, if it is closed or hidden.
The Current Project part
The Current Project part shows the active project in the Seafloor Main Menu. In Geocap the user can load several projects at the time.
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The text No geodetic settings is defined indicates that the project doe not have any coordinate system.
The Working with Survey Data part
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- The XYZ data tab
- The Multibeam Sonar tab
- The Single Beam tab
The available tabs will be dependent on the features in the license file. For Geocap Shelf users the tab menu will only have the XYZ data part.
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Create XYZ data (soundings) Folder: This command will create a new folder of the type Soundings as a subfolder under a folder of type Survey.
The Multibeam Sonar tab
The commands in the Multibeam Sonar tab are shortcuts to the commands on a folder of type Multibeam. Many of the commands are Item Commands, which means that the settings in the menu is remembered for each folder.
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Create Single Beam Folder: This command will create a new folder of the type Single Beam as a subfolder under a folder of type Survey.
The Working with Charts part
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Remove Chart Data: With this commands it is possible to remove specific data objects from folders of type Chart. The command can be specified to Remove entire chart folder and data, Remove specified chart folder item(s), or Remove empty chart.
The Utilities tab
This part contains buttons with commands to show properties, display and export data in a Seafloor project.
All commands work on folders on type Charts and on folders of type Chart.
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