CARIS HPD : Paper Chart Composer : Paper Chart Composer : Workflow
 

Workflow

This is the general workflow required to create a chart from a vector file then export the finished chart to another format.

Open Existing Chart

Open an existing chart product

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Open an existing Paper Chart Composer product file.

Open File

Create New Chart

Create a new chart and panel from an open external file.

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Open an external file to define the extent and data for a new panel.

Open File

Create a new chart and sheet

New Chart

Create a new panel and define the panel extent from the external file,

New Panel

Populate panel area with data from the external file.

Create Panel Data from External File

Add or Modify Geographic Features

Add new geographic features or modify existing features

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Digitize a new area feature.

Create Area Feature

Digitize a new line feature.

Create Line Feature

Digitize a new point feature.

Create Point Feature

Digitize a new sounding feature

Create Sounding Feature

Copy feature class or geometry.

Copy Feature Class

Copy Feature Geometry

Import features from an external dataset.

Import Selected Objects

Import as Update

Import data from database or text file.

Object Import Utility

Change an object type or attribute

Change Selection

Modify line features

Edit Mode

Modify area features

Modify edges

Change Edge Type

Delete features

Delete Features

Add or Modify Cartographic Features

Add new cartographic features or modify existing features.

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Create a new area or line feature

Create Area Feature

Create Line Feature

Create a new point feature

Create Point Feature

Copy feature class or geometry

Copy Feature Class

Copy Feature Geometry

Create panel border

Create Border

Insert legend

Create Legend

Insert scale bar

Create Scale Bar

Create subsidiary graduation

Create Subsidiary Graduations

Insert marginalia

Create Marginalia

Insert text

Create Text Feature

Add annotations

Create Annotations

Add contour labels

Create Contour Labels

Insert images

Create Image from File

Insert light sectors

Create Light Sectors

Create and modify borders, legends and scale bars

Template Editor

Edit text

Edit Text Features

Mask features

Mask Lines Automatically

Mask Lines Manually

Validation

Check quality of data (duplicated features, missing or invalid attributes, errors with geometry) so that there is no missing or conflicting information in the chart.

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Check data quality of features in a Paper Chart Composer file.

Validation

Compare features in an external file against a Paper Chart Composer file.

Report Difference Layers

Generate a list of features on a panel along with associated attributes.

Generate Statistics

Show all actions taken on a single feature or a group of features.

Generate Statistics

Export

Export sheet and panel to another format.

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Select an area of a chart for export to TIFF or postscript.

Set Export Area

Export information about selected features in a panel features to an ASCII file.

Export Selection to ASCII

Export information about selected features in a panel to a Geographic Markup Language (GML) file.

Export to GML/KML/Formatted ASCII

Export the contents of a panel to a Shapefile format.

Export Selection to Shapefile

Export a panel to a Portable Document Format (PDF) file.

Export Panel to PDF

Export a panel to AutoCAD formExport Panel to DXFat (DXF) file,

Export Panel to DXF

Export a panel to a Hydrographic Object Binary (HOB) file.

Export to HOB

Export a sheet to a postscript file.

Export Sheet to PostScript

Export a sheet to postscript or TIFF spot separates,

Export Sheet to Spot Separated PostScript

Export Sheet to Spot Separated TIFF

Export a sheet to CMYK TIFF.

Export to TIFF

Export a sheet to PDF.

Export Sheet to PDF

Export a sheet to DXF.

Export Sheet to DXF

Export a chart to TIFF

Export to TIFF