Seaclear help needed.

Norman_E

Norman_E

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I am trying Seaclear 2 with charts from Yachtua. I can use the charts individually by opening them via the "File" "Chart" "Not Listed" route, but cannot work out how to actually install the charts into the program. The Manual gives pages of stuff that might as well be in Sanskrit on installing charts via MapCal, but the instructions on installing WCI charts say "Start MapCal and make sure all WCI files are correctly calibrated and in the chart path." Now as far as I know they are correctly calibrated, but nowhere can I find anything that says what or where the "chart path" is or how to put files into it. Does anyone here know?
 
This is by far the most common complaint with Seaclear (so you're not alone):

Solution is:

Open: MapCal
Select: Tools/ Set Directories
click on Browse and navigate to where your charts are located
click OK
Select: Tools/ Scan for New Charts
Seaclear Calibration Utility will confirm OK
Close MapCal

Open: SeaClear
Select: File/ Charts/ List All

All available charts will now be listed.
Done

Ready to Rock 'n Roll ...
 
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Electrosys. Thank you. I now have them in the program, now all I have to do is work out how to make them scroll from from one to another rather than just load individually. I have made them into a group.
 
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Norman_E said:
Electrosys. Thank you. I now have them in the program, now all I have to do is work out how to make them scroll from from one to another rather than just load individually. I have made them into a group.
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If you move your mouse pointer to the edge of the chart, it changes into a cross. You can then double-click to load the adjacent chart. Also, while looking at a chart you can press CTRL-S to a higher scale chart of the same area.

Dave.
 
Deej said:
If you move your mouse pointer to the edge of the chart, it changes into a cross. You can then double-click to load the adjacent chart.
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That's the part that doesn't work for me. I move to the edge of the chart, the pointer changes to a cross OK, but if I double click then I just get thrown out into the base map of South Europe.

Any pointers welcome.
 
PatrickB02 said:
That's the part that doesn't work for me. I move to the edge of the chart, the pointer changes to a cross OK, but if I double click then I just get thrown out into the base map of South Europe.

Any pointers welcome.
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Just had a play with my SeaClear installation. I can get it to do the same thing by double-clicking at the edge of a chart which has no adjacent chart e.g. if I double-click the eastern edge of an east-coast chart, I see the base-map of the North Sea.

Is it possible that you are going off the end of your area of your detailed chart coverage? Or could there be some gaps e.g. you have two charts that are supposed to be adjacent but they are mis-calibrated so that there is a 'gap' between them?

Dave.
 
Deej said:
Is it possible that you are going off the end of your area of your detailed chart coverage? Or could there be some gaps e.g. you have two charts that are supposed to be adjacent but they are mis-calibrated so that there is a 'gap' between them?
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I didn't think so, but I'll check again.

Many thanks
 
I dug the Laptop out for another go. I had e-mailed Valery who runs Yachtua because one chart had not downloaded and mentioned that in addition to Seaclear I would try Open CPN and he kindly sent me links to the .kap versions of the charts that I bought as well as to the Seaclear versions. I won't be able to try either Seaclear or Open CPN with a GPS attached until I get to the boat on Sunday, but Open CPN appears to be much easier. I just put the .kap files into a new folder in my documents folder and put the new folder into Open CPN during installation, and it works perfectly, scrolling seamlessly between charts. I think Open CPN is likely to be the one I will use.
 
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It is a shame that you are discounting Seaclear,which after setup works beautifully.
To answer your original post: the charts you have or any that you create by scanning and calibration in Mapcal must be saved, or placed manually by dragging or copying, into the 'Charts' subfolder of the 'Seaclear' folder which is by default in the 'Program Files' folder on the 'C' drive of a Windows machine.If they are in this sub folder then Mapcal will see and register them for use.They will then appear in 'List All' in Seaclear.The normal cursor in Seaclear is a cross.When you are near the edge of a chart the cursor gains small 'arrow heads' at which point a double click will take you to the adjacent chart.
I found that using groups was an unnecessary complication during the learning progress.
Please persevere.
 
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