5 Chart Editing
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(3) How to draw areas -- Area (Polygon) / (Warning Area)
How to draw the Polygon and Warning Area is the same and the drawing method is similar to that
for line. So, for detailed operation, refer to (2) “How to draw lines” mentioned earlier.
Drawing area (Polygon) / (Warning Area):
1) Select Polygon or Warning Area on the area selection panel.
•Be sure that the “cursor” column is displayed “Make Map”.
2) Move the cursor and left-click at the position you want to draw the area.
Each time you left-click the cursor, the line (side) is extended on the chart.
3) Left-click twice quickly to stop to extend the line and area is created.
4) To abort, right-click the trackball and select [Abort] from the pop-up menu. Then, the “cursor”
column is displayed nothing.
(Draw sides) (Left-click twice quickly)
Getting information and edit area (line):
1) Left-click the [Property] button.
2) Left-click the inside of the area to select it.
Then, the “Location/Attributes” panel opens.
- You can edit the latitude and longitude of each side of the area by entering position latitude and
longitude.
- You can set Min Scale and Max Scale that limit the display of this object.
- You can change the attributes, line color (8 colors), line width (5 widths) and line style (3
styles).
- You can change the color to be filled in the area (8 colors) and the transparency of the color
(0%, 25%, 50%, 75%).
- You can enter a comment.
3) Left-click the [OK] button to close the panel.
Then, the location/attributes set with the panel apply to the selected area.
(Same color but transparency differs.)