How To Find Information About S57 Chart Objects; How To Set Visible S57 Chart Features - Furuno FMD-3200 Operator's Manual

5. VECTOR (S57) CHARTS
5.5 How to Find Information About 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.
5.5.1

How to set visible S57 chart features

The request information about S57 chart objects is given only to objects that are cho-
sen for display by the user. See section 4.2 for how choose the chart details to display.
5.5.2 How to find information about a chart object
Do the following to find information about a chart object.
1. Get into the Voyage navigation mode then rIght-click an object to show the con-
text-sensitive menu.
Ship off center
Object INFO
Chart Legend
Manual Update
2. Click [Object INFO] to show the [Select Object] dialog box.
3. Click the object for which you want to know its details then click the [OK] button.
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