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Driving the Pivot Pattern
No button presses are necessary after the Pivot Reference Circle is marked. Use the same
technique as Snap-To-Swath for parallel swathing, except each swath is part of a circle. As
the operator drives the field, the Smartbar will always give guidance indication to the closest
swath.
Refer to the pivot pattern diagram at the front of this section. The swath order used to cover
this example pivot pattern is #4 (Pivot Reference Circle), #1, #2, #5, and #6. The Pivot
Reference Circle may be any swath number and the swath order can be chosen to best suite
the particular field and equipment.
Offset and angle indicators are much like they are for parallel swathing. When using the pivot
pattern, a new location on the current circular swath is continously calculated. Offset error
indicates distance from the target circumference. Angle error indicates variance from a line
tangent to the circular swath at the current position.
Saving and Returning to a Position
Refer to the section Saving Your Present Position. When Pivot Pattern is in use, Saving and
Returning to a Position is very similar to parallel swathing. Imagine a line tangent to the
circular swath at the time the Save Position is done. When returning to that saved position,
this tangent line is treated as a parallel swathing pattern swath line.
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