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Adding a country

To add a new country definition, click the "Add" button. When adding a new definition, it is required to specify a name for this country. Specifying a symbol or flag for this country is optional, when no image has been specified a globe is displayed in the grid list. If you want to add your own symbol, convert this symbol to a 16x16 PNG Image file and copy this file to the "Flags" folder in the program directory. You can select a flag or symbol by clicking the "Browse" button. The software ships with flags for most countries around. Click the "Save" button to store the newly created datum, by clicking cancel the input is ignored and you will return to the list.

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Projects

Hydromagic Projects

In Hydromagic, a set of background maps, raw data files, soundings, map overlays and dredging logs are organized as projects.

Each project has its own projection settings, surveyor name and project description associated with it, and is stored in a separate folder on the disk.

The settings of the project are saved into a "Hydromagic Project File" with ".hpf" extension.

These files are stored as XML and can be altered using any text editor application.

Some folders, like "Draft", "Maps", "Reports", "Tides" and "Velocity" are provided to keep the project organized.

The folders "Logs", "Matrices", "Modified", "RawData" and "Soundings" are required to run the software and should not be removed or renamed !

Hydromagic projects can be shared by Hydromagic Survey and Hydromagic Dredging.

Folder

Maps

Matrices

Raw Data

Modified

Soundings

Logs

Draft

Tides

Reports

Velocity

Description

Folder to store imported and dow nloaded maps

Folder used to store matrices generated from soundings or dredging matrices

Folder w here raw data files are recorded during hydrographic surveys

Folder w here modifications to raw data files are stored

Folder w here soundings generated from raw data files are stored

Folder w here dredging logs are w ritten by the Hydromagic Dredging softw are

Folder to store draft files generated by the draft file editor

Folder to store tide files generated by the tide file editor

Folder to store PDF reports generated by one of the volume calculation tools

Folder to store sound velocity files

Required

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

No

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Creating a new project

The first thing to do when start working with the software, is creating a project. That is, of course, when there is no project available to load.

To create a new project, select "New Project..." from the "File" menu in either the Hydromagic Survey or

Hydromagic Dredging application.

When a project is currently loaded, it will ask you whether you want to save changes and unload it.

The following dialog is displayed. Just fill the required fields and click the "Create" button to create an empty project.

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Project Name

Enter a name for the project. This name is also used as the folder name for the project on the disk.

Please note that this name can't contain one of the following characters: / | \ * : ? " < >.

Project Location

You can select the location where the project is stored here. By default the "Hydromagic" folder under

"My Documents" will be selected.

However, it is safe to change this location and use your own instead.

Map Projection

Select the map projection which is going to be used in this project by clicking the "Select..." button.

Please note that you cannot change the map projection once the project has been created.

Project Description

You can enter a description for the project here. The use of this field is optional.

The value of this field can be selected as part of the map footer text.

Surveyor

You can enter the name(s) of the surveyor(s) here. The use of this field is optional.

The value of this field can be selected as part of the map footer text.

Import Hydromagic version 5.x projects

You can use Hydromagic version 5 projects in version 6 or 7. Please note that in version 5 all data was recorded directly to the sounding files, so you won't be able to filter the sounding data using the

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Sounding Wizard.

To import a version 5 project, select "Import" => "Import Project (5.x)..." from the file menu.

In the dialog that appears you only have to select the old project file as well as the location and name of the new project.

Finally click "OK" to start the conversion project.

Project Explorer

Your project and it contents can be viewed and modified using the "Project Explorer". It can be used to download maps, import maps or data, remove items and many more.

For more options, just right-click with your mouse on an item to get a popup menu.

Backing up projects

Using the "Project Explorer" it is possible to backup or archive your entire project with just a couple of mouse clicks.

To do so, right click the project root in the "Project Explorer" and select the "Archive project..." option.

A file dialog will appear allowing you to set the name and location of the output file.

The backup can be written as ZIP, TAR or ISO file. Click "OK" to generate the file.

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Open project folder

To open a Windows Explorer window containing the contents of the project, right click the root of the project in the "Project Explorer" and select the "Show containing folder...".

This might come in handy when, for instance, you want to manually copy or backup files from or to your project.

Alter project properties

This function can be used to alter some project properties like the Surveyors name and the project description.

It is not possible to change the projection, units and project name once a project has been created.

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To show or modify these properties, right click the root of the project in the "Project Explorer" and select the "Show project properties...".

When done editing, just click the "OK" button to store the modifications.

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