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Start Geocap on Windows 8.1
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User Documentation
Parts of the user documentation is found under the Help pulldown. There rest is found here: http://www.geocap.no/doc. Read briefly through the documentation to get an understanding of what you can expect to find in the documents.
The user documentations consists of:
- User Guide with detailed descriptions of Geocap usage.
- Reference manual with syntax and details of the commands in the Geocap scripting language.
- Installation Guide with details on installation, dongle drivers etc.
- Release Notes contains incremental updates and bug fix descriptions as well as major releases.
- Articles is a collection of articles on various topics that still is not included in the documentation.
- Tutorials contains thematic tutorials on products. The General tutorials mainly contains topics that are put in a better context within the more specialized product tutorials.
- FAQ is a list of Frequently asked questions, with their corresponding answers.
Initial Setup
Geocap comes with a range of settings which can modified to make it easier to work with. One of these settings is the working directory which is the folder Geocap will open every time you browse for something. We will now set this directory and we will also turn on auto save.
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Set working directory and auto save
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The Atlantis project is built using the UNCLOS project template. This template consists of four main top level folders; Maritime lines, Seabed, Sediment data and Outer limit. The maritime lines folder will hold all the data with that has no reference to depth or is located at the sea surface. The Seabed folder will hold all the data located at the seabed, like bathymetric profiles, foot of slope points and so on. The Sediment data folder will hold all the subsurface data like seismic, interpretations, velocities, sediment profiles etc. The Outer limit folder will hold all datasets which is used to construct the outer limit. We are now going to open the Atlantis project and look closer at this project structure.
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Open the Atlantis project
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Pressing the small triangles (or '+' in older other Windows versions) to the left of a folder will display the folder's contents. Datasets and folders are organized very similarly to a file tree structure. A folder can contain other folders, or datasets.
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Explore the project folder structure
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Display data
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Navigating in the 3D window
Now that we have displayed some of our data we can start navigating around the Atlantis continental shelf. Geocap is best operated using a three-button mouse with a wheel, see picture below. A a two-button mouse or using the Touch-pad is possible but not recommended. Navigating in the 3D graphics window is done by pressing one of the mouse buttons while the cursor is in the graphics window, and moving the mouse while keeping the button pressed.
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Navigate using the mouse
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