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Introduction

The following exercises are just suggested for further training topics, and may not be explained in detail.

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Make a movie

Use a workflow or just use a the command Flight Tour to create a movie in avi format.

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Check out "Shared commands"

Import and activate our shared commands and see if there are commands you do like. The shared commands are found here: Shared Commands. Just follow the instructions on the page.

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Hello World!

Type the following line into the shell and press enter:

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qinformation Information "Hello World"

Observe the popup. This is a Geocap GUI (Graphical User Interface). Study the examples in the Reference > QTcl section of the documentation and observe that it is fairly easy to build your own front ends to Geocap. Combined with the internal scripting language and Tcl, this is a very powerful tool.

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Install the script system "Area Generator Mini"

Read about the Area generator, download the scripts and follow the step-by-step procedure here: Area Generator

Chop out a portion of the world and build the project.

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The function command

Try the function command to time-convert your seabed surface.

z = 2000 * z / 1490

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Composed grid

Use two or more grids of different resolution (e.g. Etopo1 and a multibeam grid) and create a composed grid. Do an FOS-analysis across this composed grid. Read more about composed grids in the Article section of the main documentation.

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Combine parts of two bathymetric lines into one single bathymetric profile

Use the Outer Limit Tool to do this.

  • Copy two ore more bathymetric lines into a sub folder of 4. Outer limit. You may prefere to create a new folder.
  • Open the Generate Outer Limit Dialog from the 4. Outer limit folder.
  • Carefully read the In-panel help under the question mark.
  • Use the tool and especially option m to digitize a new bathymetric line.
  • Use this new line for an anayysis.