Lowrance MapCreate 6 Installation And Operation Instructions Manual page 66

5. You can move off in any direction and the next waypoint will be
linked in a straight line to waypoint 1. Relocate your mouse pointer
along your intended route and click to create additional route way-
points as needed. Basically, you will set a new waypoint every time you
need to change direction.
6. To close the
Finished route with six waypoints. Notice the straight line-of-sight line
connecting the waypoints that make up the route. The route segment
from one waypoint to another is called a leg; this route has five legs.
Waypoints 3 and 4 are near oil drilling platforms and waypoint 5 is
Tips:
•
Routes can be edited in many ways, but those steps involve several
other commands that we will discuss only in the Help file's Com-
mand Reference section. You can delete an entire route, delete a
waypoint from a route, insert a waypoint into a route or relocate a
waypoint in a route. To read more about it, see these entries in the
Help file's Command Reference: View Route List, View Route Way-
point List, Edit Route, Edit Route Waypoint, Delete Route, Delete
Route Waypoint, Insert Route and Insert Route Waypoints. But, if
you're in a hurry to change your route, read the following two tips.
•
You can completely erase a route by deleting each waypoint, one
after the other. Click the
command, right-click or press
C R
REATE OUTE
near a visible wreck.
button (or
C M
ENTER AP
60
.
Esc
button),
Z A
OOM REA