User Guide

Finished route with six waypoints. Notice the straight line-of-sight line

connecting the waypoints that make up the route. The route segment

from one waypoint to another is called a leg; this route has five legs.

Waypoints 3 and 4 are near oil drilling platforms and waypoint 5 is

near a visible wreck.

Tips:

• Routes can be edited in many ways, but those steps involve several

other commands that we will discuss only in the Help file's Com-

mand Reference section. You can delete an entire route, delete a

waypoint from a route, insert a waypoint into a route or relocate a

waypoint in a route. To read more about it, see these entries in the

Help file's Command Reference: View Route List, View Route Way-

point List, Edit Route, Edit Route Waypoint, Delete Route, Delete

Route Waypoint, Insert Route and Insert Route Waypoints. But, if

you're in a hurry to change your route, read the following two tips.

• You can completely erase a route by deleting each waypoint, one

after the other. Click the

CENTER MAP button (or ZOOM AREA button),

move the cross-hair pointer over a route waypoint and right-click.

In the pop-up menu, click the

DELETE WAYPOINT command. MapCreate

erases the waypoint and the magenta line linking the waypoint to

the route. To erase the route legs but leave the waypoints: open the

Route List window (shortcut key

F3), right-click the route name,

and in the pop-up menu click

DELETE ROUTE.

• You can easily reposition a route waypoint with your mouse. Just

move the cross-hair pointer or the zoom area pointer over the way-

point and right-click. In the pop-up menu, click

MOVE WAYPOINT, and

the pointer grabs the route waypoint. Move it to the new position

and click to set it there