HYPACK SHELL HYPACK 2016

Shell Features: Multiple maps, views and floating tool bars

HYPACK ® Shell Menu Selection Icons Geodesy Info Data Files Project Files Map View Screen Controls Map & Cursor Info

Screen Tools Zoom Extents Zoom In/Out Zoom Window Pan Screen Query Sounding or S-57 Selection Tool Ruler Snap to North Up Previous Screen Zoom Sounding Style and Color Add a Target Return to Editor Digitizing

Query Tool Used to get more information about: Edited ALL Format Soundings S-57 Object Attributes S-57 TIF and TXT Info Target Info Planned Line Info All Format Data S-57 Features and Attributes S-57 TIF & TXT Attachments

Sounding Style and Color Icon Saves you a little time from having to go to the Settings window…

Prevent Sounding Overwrites  An option in the Settings menu, Soundings tab.  Prevents soundings from writing on top of each other in the HYPACK SHELL.  Only for visualization. It does not effect any processing or final product programs.  Does not work with vector style soundings! AVI

Project View Tab  Data Files Raw Data Files (from SURVEY) Edited Data Files (from SBMAX and MBMAX) Sorted Data Files (from Sounding Selection)  Project Data Files Advanced Channel Design (CHN) Background Files (DXF, S-57, TIF…) Border Files (BRD) Channel Plan Files (PLN) Golden Soundings (XYZ & DXF) Kinematic Tidal Datum Files (KTD) Matrix Files Planned Line Files (LNW) Plotting Sheet Files (PLT) Sound Velocity Files (VEL) Target Files (TGT) Template Files (TPL) Tide Files (TID) Bucket Files (BKT)

Data and Project File Status  Display files by clicking in the box.  Enable/Disable:  Individual Files  Entire Groups  Missing files can be removed from the listing by clicking the ‘Draw – Remove Missing Files’ menu item.

Vector Style Soundings

Settings Window  Control the Display of: Soundings Track Lines Charts Targets Lat-Long Grid Projection Grid Planned Lines  You can now control the sounding style and color from the screen icons in the HYPACK SHELL. AVI

Rounding Rules

Automatic Searching  Automatic Searching adds new files to the Data Files and Project Files listings after returning from other programs.  You can now enable or disable the Automatic Search for Data Files and/or Project Files  We disable it when working with big files.  ‘Scan Project When Opened’ can cause delays when loading a big project at the start of the day.

Catalog Files  A Catalog File (*.LOG) is a listing of data files.  Programs can process individual files or all files listed in a Catalog file.  You can edit existing *.LOG files or create new ones!

Export to Google Earth™  Right-click on the Project Files listing to save selected files to *.KMZ  Supports: XYZ DXF Contour TIF Targets Matrix

Export to Google Earth™: Example

Google Earth

Archiving Files HYPACK 2016

Archiving  Removes files from Project listing.  Adds them to *.ZIP file and removes the files from the Project listing.  User can create single or multiple archives.  Archiving files saves space and speeds up re-draw times.  You can restore individual files or all files by right-clicking on the archived file.

Archive Folder  An ‘Archive’ sub-folder is created under the Project folder.  The routine creates*.ZIP files that are standard compressed files.

USER IDs HYPACK 2016

User IDs  Each HYPACK ® installation can support multiple users.  An “Administrator” can: Add new users. Change passwords. Restrict access of users to specific areas.

Passwords  Each user has an optional Password.  The Administrator can create a new User ID and assign their initial password.  A User can change their own password.  Don’t want a Password?  Leave the field blank.

Security Settings  Access from Settings - Control Panel – Security Settings You can quickly access the Settings window by hitting the ‘F9’ key.

Security Administration Window  Administrator: Add New Users Change Passwords Restrict Access of Users  General Users Change Password Cannot Change Access Only the Administrator can add or remove a new user.

Sample Settings View Only Survey Operator Survey Operator Power User Power User

Access Restrictions  If you try to run a program that you have not been given permission to run….. You get the message box shown above.

Project Log  Created in each project folder.  Automatically tracks actions of each user.

Eliminating Passwords  If the ‘Administrator’ is the only user and does not have a password, it will go directly into HYPACK ® without displaying this window.