I spent a month away from RM and now I'm trying to do what I was doing so easily two months ago, and nothing seems to be working.

I don't have time to learn a program from scratch every time there is a software upgrade.

What happened to the awesome tutorials?

None of my old Isobath files work correctly either when creating At5 charts.

John,
ReefMaster looks a little different after the upgrade, but its mostly cosmetic - there's very little change in how anything is done, barring the moving of the "Edit" pane. There isn't any difference with maps and the exported isobaths. Can you elaborate a little on what "isn't working"? Are you talking about existing Shapefiles?
The most significant change in 1.7 was the sonar viewer and DB performance improvements and I can't think of anything that could have given rise to the sorts of issues you are seeing.
Matt

Matt,

I want to be able to open a database, add some new areas and spit out a chart that looks exactly the same as the chart I've been using, just with the added areas.

That is not the case, I have spent the entire day trying to do this simple task and I am still nowhere near what I set out to achieve at 08h00 this morning.

I have not worked with DrDepth for at least a year now, and today I opened it, added my new logs and created a chart - 15 minutes tops.

It is now 19h32 and I've decided to delete all my logs and other RM data and start from scratch - Good Bye weekend.

Very disappointing.

Humminbird's AutoChart Live is looking like the future to me.

I'd like to help, John, but without a little bit more information it is difficult. There should be no reason why you can't simply add an extra track to an existing project. What problems have you encountered?
Matt

Hi John,

If we can be of any help, please let us know. Reefmaster mapping is just too good to give up in the short term.

DrDepth was good, but Reefmaster has been catching up in the past months and has a lot more functionality now than Drdepth ever had.

In my opninion it is worth investigating more time into Reefmaster and with the help of Matt and the Reefmaster community, you will succeed very fast in what your are doing. Give it another chance ...

Hi John

I'm a new user and I followed this tutorial to get started: reefmaster.com.au/reference/index.htm?contextid=10

I can now add a new track and produce a new map in a couple of minutes.

Most Problems from novice users i have seen are only small things,
like forgot to mark something or forgot one little step in a process.

Until now, those little Problems are all very fast solved by the Community,
so i can say there is no Novice which cant produce or enlarge a map.

I believe your problem would be also only a little Thing which goes wrong.
Tell us your Working Steps, surely we can help you.

For example for the First Steps:

Open your existing Workspace with your old data.
Import the new tracks with the Import Function.
Did you see the new Tracks in the Track list ?

If so, add the imported tracks to the Project, which you have created in the past with your old data.
Then open the Project.

After you have added them into the Project, you see the new tracks in the Project ?
..you should..
If not, can you and did you pressed the Regenerate Button ?
Or was it greyed, then try to adjust the Interpolation and ....
and so on....
Without concrete information we can only tell fortunes,
we need to know what you are doing then we can help you.

If you communicate with us, we can help surely. :-)

As i said, I have not found any novice user who cant enlarge his Map.
If they had Problems, were these only little things.

DannyGeysen wrote:
Hello John,
I agree 100 % with Danny ...
Sometimes I also have not seen 'the little button', but what happened with us old DrDepth users, I do not want to witness again. In my opinion, Johnson wants to eliminate the old owners of a license in a shabby way.

How many of you are using your charts on an Elite V4.0 or HDS V3.0? All my charts were working fine until I started using the latest software. NAVICO said there is a problem with the old IMC and the new software and I should recreate my charts using the latest IMC.

The process in RM seems to be the same from what I can remember, pretty simple, but it doesn't look or work like it used to. The raster that was causing the Elite to re-boot seems to be sorted out now, but the vector ... not so much. :(

I have been creating maps for 10 years, so it's definitely not a 'novice' issue as previously suggested.

Make sure you are using similar charts:
1.Sediment (topo) chart with satellite shoreline imagery for raster
2.Major contours = 5ft, minor contours = 1ft
3.Isobaths with colour changes every 5ft with transparency of around 55% (150)
4.The dam has a 64km shoreline and is entirely mapped except for the the vey deep centre where nobody fishes.

Matt has been incredibly helpful in attempting to get me back on track, and I am very grateful for the time he has taken in doing so.

The combination of new RM, IMC and HDS/Elite software, and my very complex charts (and size) all came together at the same time and inevitably had to collide at some point.

Things are still not quite right, but the culprit is not RM, but rather a software issue particularly on the Elite.

Thanks for being so patient Matt.

There are issues with maps from old IMC on the latest SW for Elite and HDS. The colourshading is off on HDS, and you have to zoom way in on Elite or the map is just background-green, but with contours. I have not tried the new IMC yet , but hopefully it will solve the issues.