How To Find Information For S57 Chart Objects - Furuno FMD-3200 Operator's Manual

5. VECTOR (S57) CHARTS
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How to Find Information for S57 Chart Objects

The ability to cursor-pick an object to find additional information about the object is an
important function of the system. However, an unprocessed cursor pick, which does
not discriminate or interpret and merely dumps on the interface panel all the informa-
tion available at that point on the display, will normally result in pages of unsorted and
barely intelligible attribute information.
Do the following to find information about a chart object.
1. Get into the Voyage navigation mode or Voyage planning mode
then right-click an object to show the context-sensitive menu.
(The menu shown to the right appears in the Voyage navigation
mode.)
2. Click [Pick Report] to show the [Select Object] dialog box.
Note: The [Include Danger Objects] check box appears when there is at least one
dangerous object. To show dangerous objects in the [Select Object] dialog box,
check this box (after the box is check it becomes unselectable).
3. Click the object for which you want to know its details then click the [Select] button.
Note: Objects selected from the Select Object dialog box are highlighted in or-
ange color and are shown with a broken box( ).
• [Description] window: Click an attribute to view its description in this box.
• [All INFO]: Check the [All INFO] box to show all information in the [Attributes]
window. (The [All INFO] box becomes unselectable when checked.)
• [Connected Object]: Objects which are connected to the selected object are
shown in the drop-down list. Select an object from the list to show its details.
Note 1: If another window is active, the preview window may be partially obscured by
that window. Move the window to display the entire preview.
Note 2: The [Attributes] window of the [Chart Object] dialog box changes according to
the settings for [Attribute Display] in the [Basic Settings] menu.
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Depending on the item selected, Depending on the item selected,
these indications may be hidden. these indications may be hidden.
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Pick Report
Chart Legend
Manual Update
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