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Defining the automatic centering zone
The ship centering zone corresponds to the part of the screen that the ship
icon will not quit in Auto mode (centered ship). The chart is therefore moved under the ship icon.
This zone can be defined by the user at any point and of any area on the
screen, which means a portion of the visible screen which is larger in front of the
ship than behind it can be shown.
It is even possible to specify a very small zone (even a point). In this case
the ship icon remains fixed on the screen and the chart will move below it.
Caution! When the specified centering zone is very small (and in particular if the
ship is moving rapidly in relation to the scale of the chart chosen), the software
must continually redraw the chart, which takes a certain time, and only leaves
a limited amount of time to the user. You are therefore advised to only use
such a configuration if you wish to view the chart without the using the software.
The proposed centering zone by default corresponds to approximately a centered
half-screen.
Standard zones
Select Update Ship Centering Zone from the Utilities menu (take care that no zone is selected on the chart).
Choose the zone that you wish by clicking the corresponding button.
Personal zone
Using the Arrow tool
select the region of the screen that you wish to use as a centering zone
(click the upper left-hand corner of the zone that you wish to plot, then drag the
cursor to the lower right-hand corner of the screen and release the mouse
button).
Select Update Ship Centering Zone from the Utilities menu.
The selected zone is now specified as the centering zone for Auto mode.