Raymarine Live: Advanced Chart Features on Axiom

hey boaters it's jim at raymarine it's thursday night and it's raymarine live thanks for coming out to join us tonight we have some axiom information for you this evening it's kind of a continuation of what we started last week we're going to take a deeper dive into some axiom features we're going to look at things like offsets and heading modes and overlays and depths and contours so we really appreciate you coming out giving us your thursday night and tuning in to see what we've got for you here like in weekbook or youtube you do have your comment box available to you so feel free to drop in questions and comments along the way we'll pause a couple of different times in the broadcast to answer some questions i'll also do my best to follow up with everybody afterwards as well so if there's a question that we don't get to in the live stream don't worry we will try to get an answer to you we'll get started here in just a second i see the room starting to fill up we got quite a few people on the line already so thank you for that uh there were a couple of early commenters in there as well uh there was a gentleman i think he said he had his axiom all set up in front of his tv ready to go thank you for that i'm glad you are excited to be here and i'm going to do my best to get you some great information tonight we're actually going to start with a review point so one of the things i love every time we do one of these broadcasts is reading through the comments uh seeing your questions seeing your feedback and i noticed a bunch of people last week asked about um editing the data bars adding overlays to the screen a lot of them were around waypoint eta i had shown that because there were definitely a lot of questions about it so i think we'll start with that and then we'll go into the new material so like before we do have a live axiom system here in the studio it is running in simulation mode so you'll see the little flags blinking on the top of it simulation mode over and over again but that allows us to give you a realistic gps picture we've got some charts loaded on the system there's actually both a c map and a navionics map in there tonight and i'll show you some things on both of those uh but first off let's get started with the uh data boxes so my very astute producer has already brought up the axiom cam and this is an axiom plus 12 inch display but this works on all the different axioms in our lineup so the first thing i want to show you is the data sidebar so we're looking at a pretty clean map display right now and this could be chart it could be radar it could be fish finder it could be any application on the system if you swipe in from the left side of the screen swiping left to right it'll actually pull out this data bar all of the fields that we see on this data bar are set at the factory but you can change them to be any attitude and longitude off the gps your course over ground your speed over ground bearing to waypoint distance to waypoint and the local clock time and keep in mind this is simulated which is why the time is a little out of whack but that would be your local uh your local clock time uh so a few things about this data bar anytime you want to pull it out or hide it it's very easy to do to hide it just hit the x kind of similar to like a windows system and we can swipe and pull it back out again you'll notice there's a little menu button here too there's actually more than one data bar and you can customize both data bar 1 and data bar 2. this one is pre-programmed with a lot of waypoint tracking information uh bearing range eta that sort of thing um there is also in here a an audio sidebar so if you're running a compatible stereo system on board your boat something from fusion uh rockford fosgate jl audio those have nema 2000 enemy a2000 connectivity you can actually control some of your audio functions off of here there's also something called a search bar this is one of our first responder features this is for search patterns if you lost somebody overboard or trying to recover them you can generate an automatic pattern that works with the tides and currents to help locate them that's what this one is about i'm going to go back to data bar number one though and i want to show you how to change a field on here so let's say for example i want to know what i am going to get to the end of a route on the system i can go to any of these fields and just long press and you'll see i get this edit flag that pops up so i'm going to say edit and what this here is is the data library these are all the different categories of data that are available to display and you can scroll up or down this list and see there's quite a few of them there's everything in here from depth and speed and wind information water temperature inside the boat temperature heading lots of different gps navigation pieces as well so you can just simply open one of these categories and see what's inside so here's the navigation data and a lot of you asked about route eta so this is the date and time you're going to arrive at the last waypoint in whatever route you are running so that is the data bar so there is another way that we can display information on an axiom display and it is also customizable i'm going to turn off the data bar just to get it out of the way you'll notice down here in the corner i have this little depth display it's very very tiny but i can have up to four of these floating data boxes on screen if i want to create one of these i actually will go into the menu for whatever page it is i'm on here so i'm going to open the menu go down here to the gears and these data items belong to this particular page on the system so i go to page settings edit overlays and notice it's kind of graded out so it knows that we're editing something on here and we're going to add a new overlay and now we're back to that same data library we were at before and let's say for example i wanted to put up my compass heading i can just select heading it adds the data box for me and now i can put it wherever i want just by dragging it so maybe i want it in the top right hand corner if i want to change it up i can make it larger or smaller so with a long press it brings up this next menu i can move it i can resize it so maybe i want to make it really large or i could resize it and make it very small and again you can just float it wherever you like i can put up to four of these items on the screen i can put them anywhere i want and those four items are unique to this page on axiom so i could flip over to my radar page and have four completely different data items if i wanted maybe over over there maybe it's something related to the radar or maybe something related to i don't know the speed of the boat is more relevant so i can have a dedicated data items on that page the swipe out data bar is universal i'm going to say done so i'm done editing these the slide out data bar is universal so anytime you pull this out it always has whatever items you programmed it to have on any page where these ones here are unique in this case to this particular chart page so they're very very easy to do i suggest practice it once or twice and once you kind of see the process it's pretty simple to create these um usually the hardest part actually is just looking into all the categories of items and figuring out what it is that you want to show and where it's located i'm going to show you one more way that we display data on here as well i'm going back up to the home screen and i'm going to go into the dashboard app and the dashboard is all about displaying data it is really just designed for either graphical or numerical data in this case we the first thing we got was an engine display but there are different pages in here as well this little arrow on the corner lets me flip the page here's a navigation related screen that we have pre-built another navigation one the rolling road a lot of people like to use this when they're operating their gps um just fuel tank levels and things like that but let's say for example i wanted to change one of these pages or even create a brand new page it really works the same way as any other data item on the system here's a great one here i have these two giant speed and depth maybe i don't really care too much about speed i can long press on this i can say edit and here we are back to that data library again and i could pick whatever it is i want to see i want to see the boat's heading i'll take that one and there we go now i have heading and depth and maybe i want to change the depth to something else again same thing just long press edit and then pick whatever it is that you want to see out of the library i have heading and water temperature so on any dashboard page it's the same thing you know here's one with a clock long press edit pick whatever it is you want to see so hopefully that is helpful to you and that works on these engine pages as well too um you can actually log press on any of these again edit there's the library pick whatever it is that you want to see we'll cancel out of there so the the data display is pretty powerful it's got a lot of capability and you can really customize it to see exactly what you want where you want so tonight for new information we're going to be back in the chart plotter portion of axiom and i am looking at a navionics chart here and obviously we're in full screen display um the first thing i want to talk to you about is something called heading mode on charts um there are actually three heading modes available uh they are north up course up and um uh north up course up and head up uh so right now this chart display is in a north up presentation and there's two ways that i can tell and one of them hey mr producer man can you turn the on-screen graphics off for a second maybe right under here just below where it says axiom cam it actually says n up which is north up i'll try to move it around in a little bit so you can see that so what northup does is it orients the map so north is up here at the top of the screen north up presentation is great if you are looking particularly at a very wide map display maybe you're running up or down the coast and you're familiar with the lay of the land so it's a very intuitive way for example to zoom out and see the coastline as you might understand it to appear from a paper chart or a map or something you have seen before we're looking at eastern massachusetts here in cape cod in a north up presentation so up here we've got new hampshire and it's gloucester cape cod down here so anytime you need that reference to where north is or if you're working your chart plotter in conjunction with a chart book or a guide or a paper map north up is a very convenient way to go so the next thing i want to show you is how to change the heading mode so out of the box normally by default all of the map windows are in north up unless you change them otherwise if we're going to change them we're going to go in here to the menu down at the bottom we're going to go to the gears for our settings and everything we're going to look at is in this view and motion menu so right now we are in a north up presentation let me slide that out just a little bit because i want to give you some prominent landmarks that you can see so again this is cape cod this is north new hampshire maine is all up here in new england rhode island connecticut down here we are in north up i am going to go to head up mode now what head up mode does you'll see in the little preview window here it took the bow of the boat and made it the top of the screen so now whichever way your boat is headed or pointed is the top of the map display what's really awesome about a head up presentation and let's look at it a little bit bigger here on our chart the head up presentation on the map display gives you the through the windshield view so as you're looking out over the bow of your boat underway with a head-up presentation on your map things that are to the left of the boat icon are going to be off your port side things to the right of the boat icon are going to be off your starboard side and obviously anything behind you is going to be a stern of your boat so this is kind of the bird's eye view everything is in its position as you see it if the boat changes course when the system is in head up mode the map will automatically rotate so that the uh the heading that the bow is pointed at will always be at the top of the display now just a couple of notes about head up mode if your boat has an autopilot system then the heading it uses to stabilize this picture is the output of your autopilot compass uh if you have any other kind of a digital compass plugged into your network then the heading signal from there is what is actually driving this head-up orientation if your boat does not have an electronic compass tied into your axiom you also can still use head-up mode one of the things that gps does when you start moving it generates something called course over ground and it can substitute course over ground for heading heading comes from compass course over ground comes from gps so it can substitute course over ground for heading but only when the boat is moving but head up mode is probably the most comfortable presentation for most people because it gives that real world perspective and it makes it very very easy to look at you know a buoy out on the horizon just off your starboard bow and then come to the chart and say oh yeah there it is right there the third mode is a little bit more difficult to understand but it's not too bad and that is called course up and to demonstrate course up what i am actually going to do is i'm going to move our simulated boat back here into the harbor so here's our simulated boat and i have a route already plotted if you were with us last thursday this is the route that we auto-generated in navionics but we're going to follow this route outside so you'll notice right now i'm still in head up mode i haven't changed anything and as the boat has rotated to start following my route my heading is now at the top of the screen and you'll notice that as the boat kind of adjusts its heading a little bit left or right the map will rotate automatically let's let it hit this first waypoint just so you can see what happens as it uh advances on to the next waypoint we're just about there just about there any moment now there we go so the waypoint advances you can see the map automatically rotates and we are in head up mode um i am going to take it into course up mode so i'm going to go back in here to view in motion i'm going to change my chart orientation to course up now you're going to look at this presentation and say jim course up looks the same as head up and in when we're running a route it does look very similar to head up what course up does is it takes your navigational destination and puts it at the top of the screen so whatever your next waypoint is in your route becomes the top of the display let me just hit the find shift button to lock us in there so you're going to see that every time the waypoint advances the next waypoint becomes the top of the screen so we should get in advance in just a moment here as we arrive at this point and you notice the map just flipped just a little bit and that next waypoint is the top of the screen so what makes this different from head up is if i grabbed the wheel and turned the boat 90 degrees the map would not turn because we have not reached that waypoint yet that waypoint is going to continue to be at the top of the screen so course up mode is something you could use maybe with an inexperienced helmsman at the wheel and you could just say keep the boat pointed towards the top of the map uh you may want to give a little more guidance than that but generally that's kind of what it's for so that's the difference between the three different heading modes i think more often than not you're probably going to use head up mode that's what i generally prefer but if i do have a chart book or a guide or something like that and i'm working alongside my chart plotter then i do tend to use north up because i like to have that sort of natural map presentation and just one more time i'm going to put this back into heading head up mode i'm going to go into the menu i'm going to go to settings view and motion and right here i'm going to go back to head up mode you may have seen it refresh just a little bit but now it is actually following the heading and giving me that natural kind of natural presentation so another cool thing that you can do when you're running a route or navigating to a waypoint or even just driving along in your boat in familiar waters you'll notice that my boat icon is in the geometric center of the display i have just as much visibility ahead as i have behind um there are times especially when you're running fast you might be more interested in seeing what's coming up than what you've already passed and we have some provisions in the chart plotter uh to help you with that and give you a little bit more look ahead visibility we call it a chart offset um and it's actually very very easy to do there's two ways that you can offset the chart you can long press on the boat icon right here it says boat position center i'm going to go to a partial offset and i'm going to close that and i'm going to recenter and notice now the boat is pulled back about another third of the way down the dis the length of the screen so i can actually see in this case a full 60 seconds out ahead of the boat but i can't see quite as far behind me but if i'm running along you know at this at this point i'm uh running at 12 knots just about i may not be so concerned about things behind me um and i'm more concerned about what's coming up so this gives me more look ahead visibility i could even take this out a little bit further again long press on the boat icon oops we're sitting right on that waypoint long press on the boat icon long press on the boat icon i need to get us a little bit further away from the waypoint all right long press on the boat icon i'm going to say boat position let's go to a full offset i'm going to say find ship and notice now my boat is pulled all the way back to the bottoms i have almost no visibility behind the boat but i have a considerable distance ahead this is especially nice if you're running fast uh if you're in a narrow waterway say you're in the intracoastal waterway or you're in a river and you're running up or down the river i really like having a one-third or two-thirds offset in a situation like that so that gives me a lot of visibility of what's coming at me so i can see charted objects i can see buoys if i have my ais layers turned on i can see ships that are coming down the river that sort of thing so it's a nice feature to be able to very quickly offset the chart if you want it and then when you're done with it again just a long press on the boat icon i can say boat position back to center and say find ship just to bring it back and there it is back to center center is where it is out of the box so again just a long press here and you can get right to it vote position now there is a second way that you can access it as well you may have noticed it when i was in and out of the prior menus i go to the menu up here i go back into the gears and once again to this one view and motion and right here boat position center partial offset or full offset so you can get it in here or you can get it on the outside it does the same thing either way now that setting is retained in this chart window too so if you exit and go and look at your radar or out to your sounder and then come back in here it should remember where you are while we're in here looking at the chart and the boat icon i'm going to point out a couple of other really useful things that are in here so you may have noticed that i have this blue line turned out that projects in front of my boat this is actually called a vector and this particular one is a cog and sog vector cog being course over ground and sog being speed over ground so these are derived from my gps but what these vectors are telling me is where my boat is going to be in 60 seconds so you'll see that this vector will get longer or shorter as i speed up or slow down but it's always going to show me where i'm going to be 60 seconds from now so in 60 seconds i'll be out here at my way point so it's just a quick kind of measuring tool you can use with your eyeball to know where the boat is going to be in a minute you can also configure it uh to show longer uh durations of time if you long press on the boat right here is the reference period so right now my vectors are all set to one minute maybe i'm out in open ocean maybe i'm you know making a very very long passage and my next waypoint is 100 miles away maybe i'm interested in seeing six minutes out so what it's actually done now is it's showing me six minutes of projected travel based on my current speed of about 11.9 knots so i'm gonna have to zoom the chart out to see where i'm gonna be in six minutes i'm gonna be way out here in the outer harbor so there are some other vectors that can be turned on as well uh what i'm going to do is i'm going to zoom back in here for a second i am going to a little bit past this waypoint so i can hotspot the boat again now we should be in the clear there we go so i could also turn on a heading vector heading comes from my compass let me kind of show you what the difference is here so let's shorten the vectors up and take it from 6 minutes just down to a minute again so i've got two vectors here i have the black one is based on my compass the blue one is based on my gps and the reason you have the ability to show both vectors is there may be times when your boat is setting and drifting usually by the current or wind you can actually see the difference in the direction your boat is pointed versus the direction it is actually traveling so your compass is always going to show you the heading of the boat but the blue one here the gps is going to show its course over ground which is actually its direction of movement so there will be times when you're in really strong current or really strong wind maybe you're off of florida crossing the gulf stream and you know you have to steer several degrees off of your intended track to be able to hold a course this actually can show it to you visually you can actually see the effects of um the current pushing on your boat another vector that's available in here that can similarly do that we actually have a tide vector and we have a wind vector so if you have all the right sensors on board your boat this is actually the tide vector here so our system will dynamically calculate which way you are being pushed by the flow of the water in this case we got a little boost from a stern we got six tenths of a knot pushing us out of the harbor on the outgoing tide this one over here it would be off of a wind instrument um and yes sometimes power boats have wind instruments too they are handy when you're docking or you're doing a lot of maneuvering but this is basically showing me that i have the winds coming in on my port beam at 14 knots so it'll actually show me the relative position of the wind long press and i can turn any of those on or off i can change the reference period for the vector lines themselves so some handy features that are built right in there all right so we have talked about heading modes we have talked about offsets let's take a look at some of the questions and while we're looking at questions i am going to stop the following the route so that the waypoint arrival alarm it was quiet for a few minutes and let's see what we've got in the question queue boris would like to know how can you record sonar data and upload to navionics to update sonar charts great question boris so yes that is a feature in navionics cartography called sonar chart live it is supported on all of our element and axia systems so there's kind of two things you have to do number one your navionics charts actually have to be active so when you buy a new chart it comes with a one year subscription to a navionics program called freshest data and that enables you to download updates it allows you to utilize sonar chart live and some other features on the system it also allows you to upload your data to navionics so the other half is on the mfd we actually need to turn on sonar chart live recording so let me show you how to do that let's go back to the axiom cam and to turn on sonar chart live it is actually an uh part of the chart app so we're going to go into the menu down here into the settings and you might suspect it is under depths because it is a depth related feature and these are all depth controls we're going to take a look at some of these in just a second after the question and answer period right here sonar logging we would turn it on turn on sonar chart live this allows us to adjust the visibility of the depth soundings that it records and if we need to we can also add a tide correction to them basically anytime we're recording in a saltwater environment or in a body of water that is affected by tides you'll want to turn that on and that's a signal to navionics when they process the data that this is tied to correctable information so what sonar chart live does uh in the real world and i'm not sure in this simulation if we're gonna be able to really see it do anything but what it will do is it will start using your gps and your sounder to record uh contour lines and as your boat is running it is basically constantly recording your position and the depth your position and the depth your position and the depth and it will stitch those together into a navigation chart it'll even apply some color coding to the depths mainly just to differentiate between shallow areas and deep areas but you can actually use it to build a bottom contour chart in areas where there either aren't very many spot soundings or maybe things have changed up maybe there was a storm that came through and shifted all the sand around you can use sonar chart live to actually do an update and then through that navionics freshest data system you can contribute your data back to navionics they process it combine it with other voters data and then make it available to everyone so it's actually a pretty cool system there is another similar system also on axiom if you scroll down um a little bit more in here when you do not have navionics charts loaded on the system you'll see an option for a feature called real bathy and robathy is another live charting system it is actually chart independent it'll run with anything all you have to have is a memory card with some space to store information and it does essentially the same thing it will use your gps and your sounder record uh where you have been record the depth underneath and stitch it all together into a very nice detailed uh bottom map let's go back out of here what else have we got for questions lamar presley would like to know my display is quite bright at night how do i dim it let me show you how to do that lamart um down on the corner of any axiom display and my finger is down here it's a little bit out of where you can see but this axiom has a swipe power button some of the axiom pros have a push power button but either way what you're going to do is you're going to swipe or push the power button and it pops up this menu right here and here is your backlight control if you don't do don't get to it fast enough it times out after five seconds so here's the display brightness and you can see i can go from very dark to very bright and set it back down a little bit lower so you all can see it otherwise it blows out my camera another feature that has been added to axiom lighthouse 3 systems are color palettes let me zoom this out just a little bit because this can also help considerably if you're doing boating at night so this is a navionics chart we're looking at and i want to show you here if i swipe on that power indicator again i come over here to display mode and i go oops display mode night you'll notice that not only does the axiom user interface go into night mode but the chart does as well so it takes a lot of the big wide open white areas of the chart it colorizes them makes them better for night vision purposes and then of course on top of that you still have the the brightness control too so you can just take the back backlight down very very low you can see my reflection it's so low um but here's another one for you too all right i'm gonna turn the display brightness all the way down and i'm going to let the menu timeout and now you may say to yourself how in the world am i ever going to see anything to bring the backlight back up our engineers are very clever and they actually thought of a means uh by which to bring the backlight back up without having to see anything on the screen and this this happens sometimes you might accidentally dim the screen down during the day here's how you bring it back you go to the power swipe or to the power button and all you have to do is swipe it or touch it repeatedly watch i'm going to swipe to the right to the right to the right to the right to the right every time i swipe i get 10 more brightness so if you ever find yourself in that situation where you accidentally dim the screen down or maybe you had the dimmer turned down really really low the night before and then the next morning when you come to the boat you turn your system on and you can't see it don't panic just give it a couple of swipes to the right and you'll see it come right back up and you can just grab it and turn it all the way up and of course then we can go back into daytime mode so these are navionics charts that we're looking at so they have just a basic daytime and nighttime color palette uh the c-map electronic charts which we are running on here as well also support daytime as well as nighttime color palettes so there's a cmap chart day versus night our system also supports lighthouse charts lighthouse charts are a raymarine chart brand they actually have a few extra party tricks when it comes to color palettes they have actually four color modes in them they have day they have super bright they have night and they have dark so they actually have four levels of color palettes in them we'll bring that back to daytime and let's go to the next question from scott axiom seven when i set it to head up the arrow is not straight on the boat but on an angle that is a great point to raise scott and let me explain to you why that happens so let's just take a look at our boat icon here and actually this illustrates it very well because i still have the vectors turned on so scott when your boat is drawn on the screen it is actually placed in position by the gps sensor let me dim this down a little bit sorry i left it up too high you guys probably can't see there we go so your boat is positioned on the chart by the gps but the way that the boat is actually pointed um can be directed by one of two things if you have a compass on board the boat then your compass actually dictates the heading of the icon but the motion of the icon is dictated by the gps and i mentioned a little bit earlier that sometimes you can see a disparity between the way that the gps senses the vote is moving and the way that the compass directs that it's pointed if you are seeing that phenomena on your boat you may need to calibrate your autopilot compass it might just be off a few degrees there's a mode in the autopilot setup where you can do a heading alignment and that should get everything synced back up obviously you want to check that in an area where you know you're in calm water you're not getting pushed around by the wind or the current you can go in and just do that heading alignment and that should bring everything back the way you want it to be all right so we'll take one more question here and then we're going to talk a little bit about depths and shading so christian g wants to know if i set up one screen with the information i want to see on each page will it automatically send the information to multiple screens on my system providing i have each screen tied into the hs5 yes so let me take you out to the home screen over here so all of these pages that i have built on this axiom if i am in a larger networked system and i have two axioms or five axioms or eight axioms on board the boat um the pages are fed to all of the other axioms on board the boat by the master unit so if i make a change here um the layouts and the settings on those layouts impact all the displays on board the boat and that is communicated to them through the raynette high speed ethernet system so if i am down at the main helm and i open this chart window here whatever presentation i have if i go up onto the fly bridge and select the same icon in the same position for chart i'm going to get the same presentation as above and what is kind of neat about that is you can have different variations of um of for example charts already presets uh and available through different icons um i was going to show this at the end but actually your question leads in very well to it so i'm going to jump to this topic and let's talk a little bit about um chart synchronization and actually how we can work with multiple charts so you'll notice in this window that i've been playing with for the most part i just have a single instance of the chart in this case i am looking entirely at a cmap navigation chart or i can go down here and i can say okay give me navionics so now i have a navionics navigation chart and we can support many different types of charts on axiom there might be a time when you actually want to look at more than one copy of the chart at the same time or you want to look at two different types of charts at the same time i'm going to go back out to the home screen and you'll see i set up this window here as two charts side by side and what you'll see as it loads up here and my amphibious vehicle is storming the beach of long island on boston harbor thank you simulator mode i have my cmap chart on the left i have my navionics chart on the right so i'm actually running two different brands of charts simultaneously and i have them in a synchronized presentation too so watch this if i want to look out on the other side of the island and i drag over here with my finger both charts actually follow each other which is pretty cool where this can be actually really powerful too is if you have some of the advanced charts maybe you have like a strike lines or a seymour offshore chart and you're looking at a wreck or something like that and you want to see where it is in comparison to the normal navigation chart you could split this and you could have your super high-res satellite chart on one side and you could have your normal navigation chart on the other and when you move one they move together and it doesn't matter which widow you choose you can see that they are linked together they will zoom together they will pan together and if i change the heading mode the heading mode will change together as well so i can put them both in north up or both in course up or vice versa another thing i can do in a dual chart display like this i can unlink these two windows so what i'm going to do is i'm going to come into this left side i'm going to open the menu i'm going to go into my view in motion and right here this is the control that's making this happen see it says sync view with other charts so any chart window that has that turned on is linked together they're kind of joined together like a train and anything i do to one happens to all of them i'm going to turn that off so what i've done now is i've made these windows independent so this one is no longer in sync so this one is independent of this one so i could have completely different settings different zoom ranges i could even have two instances of the same chart side by side so right now i've got cmap navionics but i could change this window over here and make this one also navionics and now i could do something really cool like have a very close in chart and have a very wide chart so maybe i am running a long passage and i want to have that overall view of where i am on my route i can have that on one side and i can have the very detailed view of what's around my boat the spot soundings and depth contours in the other window i see a question in the queue there and i'm going to actually pick it out right now someone asked about how can i get satellite mode satellite mode is a layer on a chart and let's talk about layers um i am actually going to go back to the home screen and just go to a single chart presentation just to make it a little bit simpler to view there are many different layers of things that can be added to the chart these are all what we call vector charts and vector charts are basically a giant database and there's columns of information one column is for buoys and one column is for spot soundings and one column is for points of interest one is for docs and one is for rocks and one of them is for gas stations and just like a big excel spreadsheet we can turn on or turn off all these different columns of information and they are basically stacked one on top of another as layers so there's a couple of ways that i can adjust the layering but most of it is done right here i'm going to go into the menu again into my settings and right here i have a tab called layers and right here you can see we get a little preview window so the nice thing is you can mess around with all of these different layers without exiting the menu and you can see immediately what happens let's zoom this little preview window in a little bit looks like we ran over another island the first thing i want to show you is this detail selector so there are times when depending on where you're going and how much information there is on the map and the scale you're looking at it can be really really cluttered there can be so many layers of information that you can't really see what you want to see here is a quick and dirty way to simplify the chart i can go to low detail and you'll notice that a lot of things disappeared i go to medium detail and some things come back i go to high detail and i get a lot more information let's zoom in a little bit so you can actually maybe get a little better impression of what that does for it so here is low notice i've lost a lot of kind of secondary information medium brings most of it back and when i go to high i get everything that the chart offers so that's one way that we can control the density of information and then i have a whole secondary category of things that i can add to the navigation chart i'm going to zoom out just a little bit here ais this is from my automatic identification system so if you have an ais receiver or an ais transceiver on board your boat this brings in the target contacts from other vessels around you so you can turn your ais on or off this is for your radar overlay so if you have a radar scanner on board your boat and you want to see the live radar picture superimposed on the navigation chart there's the control for it uh ariel will bring in satellite photos i don't believe this is a photo enabled chart so we won't see anything but this would bring in your google earth type satellite photos weather radar if you have a sirius xm sr200 weather receiver or similar on your system this is going to bring in the doppler weather radar layer from siriusxm on top of your chart you can bring in range rings so if you like to run your chart plotter kind of like a radar display i'm going to simplify it so you can see them a little better there's range rings that you can turn on or turn off tide information so you can see i got tide heights i get some current stations also title flow that i can turn on or turn off uh fov is a field of view indicator in simulator it doesn't do anything here but what that does is if you have a flir camera on board your boat maybe one of our m300 series or an m232 which is a pan tilt and zoom thermal camera uh it'll actually show you which way the flear is pointed you'll get a little cone projected out off the top of the boat and it'll swivel as the camera swivels and you can see which way your camera's pointed this one here uav i don't think it's going to do too much for us here in simulator mode but if you are running the axiom uav app that's the drone integration when you turn that on it's going to show you on the map where your drone is in the sky so you can keep an eye on it you'll actually get an icon of a drone looks like a little four-bladed you know dji type drone and it'll move across the chart as your drone flies through the sky a couple more things down here we have pads these are predicted areas of danger either for ais contacts or radar contacts so if you're tracking radar targets and you have them displayed on your chart or you have your ais turned on and you need to have the corresponding thing turned on there we go the predicted areas of danger are these pink markers that show you basically where you don't want to be this will be kind of an advanced topic for another thing but just as a quickie this home plate looking red area is actually the danger zone for this ais contact so i don't want to be driving my boat into here because there's a high risk of collision in this red area same thing with this box over here actually corresponds to this guy and you can see every moving target has its danger zone predicted out in front of it so it's a way to kind of help keep you out of trouble a few other things down here community edits that's a navionic specific feature but it is user generated points of interest and then the last one here as a layer it's not so much a layer but it's more of a manipulation let me turn off a few things here you can see this a little better uh this is a naviance feature called easy view and what it does is it boosts the font size of everything on the system so there's easy view off if you look at that depth sounding as a reference the easy view on so it kind of overzooms everything and makes it a little bit easier to see so those are all of your layering controls for your charts in there let's take another couple of questions let's see what we have got sabre wants to know let's see my boat icon disappears on the upper edge of the screen after a while when on head up mode and i have to manually locate again how can i correct this excellent question sabre so let me show you the chart here okay so here's my boat icon and what the first thing i'm going to do is let me point out this button up here this is the find ship button so what this does is this is automatically going to re-center the chart put your boat back into the middle of the display unless you have an offset selected then it's going to put the boat either one third or two thirds of the way down the screen but it brings the boat back into view and that's what you're having to do when your boat runs off the edge of the screen so you're asking yourself probably well why does the boat run off the edge of the screen anyway so right now the the display is essentially locked with the boat in position and notice that the find ship button has disappeared if i do anything on the chart to pull the boat out of the center of the screen notice the find ship button has come back so what we have done is we have actually broken the motion mode of the chart we have broken the lock that keeps the boat held in position and it does that because it assumes that if you moved the chart you're looking for something or you're looking at something so it doesn't move it back automatically until you hit the find ship button but that said there is actually a new feature in axiom it was introduced with version 3.12 i believe that was that would have been the lighthouse dartmouth release let me drag my boat a little bit and here's my find ship button up here where my pen is if you notice on the bottom of my find ship button there's a little timer there that is beginning to time out and that is actually an automatic find ship mode um this is a feature that was actually requested by the new york city fire department their marine unit runs raymarine on all their boats and there are times when they need to you know quickly look ahead on a chart to see what's coming up and they're responding to a call but they don't want the operator to have to remember to go back into find ship mode so the system will do it automatically after a brief time delay so that's automatic find ship if you want to turn that on on your system here's where you do it you come into the menu go into the settings and this one is under advanced and right here auto find ship so by default it is turned off and if you turn it on then basically when you stop touching the chart and it senses that you have stopped touching it the little timer starts to count down and it gives you about 15 or 20 seconds and it will automatically re-center so sabre that should actually cure the problem that you're seeing altogether but again you can always hit the find ship button at any time and that'll bring everything back into sync all right i want to talk to you a little bit about depth contours so i'm going to bring this chart out just a little bit we are out off of boston i'm going to turn off the easy view setting for a moment as well i'm going to go back into my layers menu let's turn easy view off and i'm going to go to high detail because i want to see everything there is to see out here all right so you'll see all over the navigation chart we have spot soundings so these are individual depths at these particular positions we also have depth contours so contours are basically depth soundings that have been linked together to show you the topography of the bottom so we've got a little bit of a rise here there's a deeper area on either side there's a rise so one of the things that you can do is you can actually customize the colorization of all these navigation charts um auto fine chip look at that thanks auto fine chip we'll leave it right there that's fine actually we'll just zoom in a little bit okay so here you can see that i have several different colors representing the depths of the water right i have my deep water in white and then as the water gets shallower it goes to light blue dark blue and then we get into the mud area and then ultimately the land is brown um i can change where it tells me the shallow water or the deep water is um most small boats right only draw two feet three feet four feet of water if you got a sailboat maybe some more maybe you got eight feet 10 feet with a big keel wouldn't it be nice to customize your chart so that it kind of works with the draft of your boat so that at a glance you can tell if you're in good water or dangerous water it's actually very easy to do it and here's how go into the menu again down here to the gears and over here in depths and right here on a navionics chart i can set where the deep water starts so deep water is anything that is white and right now anything that is 20 feet or deeper is white maybe i want to back that off a little bit my i i'm very very comfortable in 10 feet of water notice it actually redrew the color of the colorization of the contour lines i'll pop it out to 15 you can see it move now everything 20 feet or deeper is white now only 25 feet or deeper is white 30 feet 35 feet all right so now i can go anywhere in the white and i know it's deeper than 35 feet of water this is just a quick way that you can customize this to work a little bit better for your boat in the waters that you boat in and your style of boating too your comfort level uh here's another thing that you can change in here as well the deep water um by default on a navionics chart is white um you can make it blue and this is another way that you can improve night vision some people don't like using the night color palettes they like to stay in the daytime palette and just dim the screen down but the amount of white in the deep water areas can be overwhelming so you can come in and set it to be a light blue for deep as opposed to white let's look at a couple of other settings that are in here as well um back up in the top of this depths menu there's actually some pretty cool things um the spot soundings can be very thick on the navigation chart in some areas maybe we'll kind of look over here for a second you can actually turn off some of them if you would like that's right so i can turn them all off now i have no spot soundings i can manually select how far out i want to see them so maybe i only care about the spot soundings uh out to 15 uh 10 feet so once i get deeper than 10 feet no spot sounding on the chart so it declutters it a little bit or i can you know go further whatever you're comfortable with spot soundings all the way out to 40 feet or i can just turn them all on and now i have all the spot soundings that are published on the chart i can do the same thing with the contour lines as well so right now i have them all turned on but i could manually select so it's always starting at zero and then i could work my way backwards we should start to see some contour lines disappear on here there we go so watch the lines you can see we lost the 25 foot mark now we're going to lose the 20 foot mark there it goes so again it's just a way that if for whatever reason this information is not important to you if you don't need to see it in the area of the world that you vote in or you know you don't care about depth contour maybe you only care about spot soundings you can turn the contours off so you have that flexibility one more i'm going to show you in here and this is a navionics freshest data enabled feature that means if your charts are not active on a subscription they won't let you use this feature but it's called the shallow area and when i turn it on you can see that it added in this case a red speckle to all areas that are five feet or less so this is a way that you can just sort of um set up the danger zone you know um the shallows are or whatever they are for your boat so anytime the water is less than 15 feet it fills that all in with red speckles so again maybe you have somebody that is a non-boater on board and you can say stay out of the red speckled area and you'll stay out of trouble that way and then one more for you in here that is also a freshest data enabled feature and before we do that let me show you one other thing i'm going to show you something called fishing zone but before we look at the fishing zone let's look at the fishing chart so you may not realize it but on the navionics chart there are actually two full charts on the chip there is the nautical chart and there is the sonar chart and the sonar chart contains bathymetric data so this is for phishing this is for navigating on an axiom system we can actually toggle between them on the fly right here so if i want to access the fishing chart i just touch fishing chart and it brings it up what you'll notice right away about the phishing chart is it's got a lot more contour lines some of those come from high definition surveys done by the government done by navionics done by other boaters a lot of these contour lines come from that sonar chart live community integration so when you're running around recording your soundings and you submit them to navionics and then get them back in an update all that data that you contributed gets added uh here so these uh dothy metric contour lines are great uh for fishermen great for divers they're even great when you're going to anchor your boat it just gives you an idea of really what the bottom contour is like how steep is it how quickly does it change so the feature i wanted to show you in here was the fishing area so what i'm going to do is i'm going to go back into the menu i'm going to go into depths scroll down here to the bottom and the fishing zone so what the fishing zone enables you to do is dictate a range that you are interested in fishing so maybe you know that okay the stripers are always 30 to 50 feet this time of year you can turn on fishing zone and you can set your lower limit and you can set your upper limit and what it has done is it has colorized the chart so that the area you want to be fishing is white everything else is blue so my 30 to 45 foot zones are all these white areas so if i know the fish are running in that depth range that's where i want to be this is another time when that um that extra layer i showed you the the shallow water warning comes in handy because now that we've really changed up the colors on this navigation chart it's nice to have that extra layer turned on to warn you about the shallow water because the colorization kind of changed around it might not be intuitive to somebody that this is deep this is not deep what's going on here this is another time too where you could use that side-by-side chart right you could have this bathymetric chart for phishing on one side of your window and then had the navigation chart on the other but it's a pretty cool capability uh in there so i see we're coming up on the hour or a minute past the hour let's take a look at a few more questions and then we'll probably wrap it up for tonight um rick would like to know can i add a water depth offset to the chart to adjust low water datums for the seasonal water level changes on the great lakes let me think about that for a second rick i believe you can but it actually varies depending on what charts you are running on the on your system um on a axiom system with navionics charts i think the answer to that is no but if you are running lighthouse charts i believe the answer to that is yes let me do this for you rick i am going to make a note and i'm going to look that up overnight and i will wade into the comments tomorrow and make sure i get a detailed answer to you and i will post it right here i see you're a youtube watcher so it'll be in the youtube comments and you'll get a notification with an answer let me double check that one what else have we got out here guillerme wants to know why is it not possible to enter a password when starting the equipment i use my axiom for fishing and we all know that fishing spots are confidential that is another feature that is a lot of you have asked for i've seen that a lot actually in the comments and it is something that we are working on it is in our queue of requested features it'll be coming in a future uh software release an update to our lighthouse 3 operating system it's actually going to be in there for multiple reasons uh security of your waypoints is certainly one of them we also know that marine electronics are very expensive and sometimes in the middle of the night unfortunately they grow legs and they walk away so we are adding some security features as well to help prevent theft and resale of stolen gear we know that there has been a lot of a lot of activity in that realm lately and you'll see some updates coming soon that's going to address that would like to know something that isn't intuitive with navionics is that you can only download sonar chart or relief shading if you want to see the fancy bathymetry of the bottom you need to download relief shading you see it on the chart you have to enable aerial and set the opacity to something like 75 yes so um there's several different ways on a navionics chart that we can see death imagery and we are we are looking right now at probably one of the more basic ways where we're actually looking at the the raw contour lines themselves so this is from their fishing phishing chart layer or they call it sonar chart and what we are seeing here are the the outlines of the depth contours at one foot depth intervals there is an extra feature now on many navionics charts where you can download a colorized layer that gets applied on top of this and it applies some shading as well so you get some shadowing to help you visualize the bottom better but that is something that you do have to download and add to your chart it's kind of part of that whole freshest data program so you plug your chip in you can add that layer to it and then there are some settings as well to to enable that i think we got time probably for one more question and again if we didn't get to your question tonight don't worry i will be waiting into all of the questions first thing in the morning and i will make sure that they all get answered and we will take care of everyone who asks a question so frank would like to know how do you adjust weather overlay all right so here in the navigation chart we can actually see weather one of two ways and the weather is coming from our sirius xm receiver our latest model that is the sr200 but you might have an sr150 or an sr6 depending on what system you have and when you installed it and they all work basically the same way so on a basic navigation chart let me zoom this out a little bit we'll see if maybe maybe the simulator will surprise me and have some weather data in here i can actually go into my layers where we were looking earlier and i can bring the doppler weather radar layer in all on its own and actually it did give me some weather down here off of palm beach florida so there's some doppler weather radar but that's really only one basic layer of what the serious system can do but the nice thing about this is it allows it allows you to bring it onto your live navigation chart so you can still see your waypoints you can see your routes your destination you can see your marks and your tracks and anything you're doing while you're out fishing but on top of that you can see the storms coming in if you want to go to the full weather application on an axiom up here in the chart plotter you're going to open the menu and you'll see a mode button here for weather when i touch that this is probably the first time i have done this since i loaded the software i'm going to accept that yes i want to see all the serious xm weather information so you'll notice now that the chart has changed a little bit it's a simplified background chart and it has brought in this case our coastal forecast zones up but now i have the ability to choose what layers of weather information i want to see so if i want to bring you know the city data in if i want to bring the lightning strikes into play sea surface temperature overlay storm cast and all the other different layers of sirius xm weather information it is all available there and like most things on an axiom when you want to access something if you want to see a forecast you can simply do a long press on it and you can get the report from that area oops there we go so i clicked in the area off of miami there is the latest national weather service forecast for that area there are some settings as well that you can adjust in your serious weather so if you come down here into the into the gears into settings then go over here to weather you can choose whether for example the wind symbology whether it uses scaled arrows or if you're more of a traditional meteorological type of person you can get wind barbs you can turn on or turn off the watch box alarm the watchbox alarm is the one that will warn you about pop-up thunderstorms and things like that or the severe weather in your area you can set how far away you want to be notified of things coming in and then you get some basic signal strength information and stuff about your receiver all right i think that is where we're going to wrap it for tonight i really do appreciate you all giving us your thursday night i hope you enjoyed the presentation and again thank you so much for commenting leaving your questions leaving your feedback i want you to know that i do go and read every single comment and you'll see that i do try to get in there and reply to everything sometimes it might take me a day or so to get them all answered but i do try to get answers to everyone very very promptly so i do have a couple of homework assignments for you and if you've been with us for the last couple weeks they are always the same if you like what you see here tonight please be sure to like and subscribe to our channels and our facebook page uh be sure to share this with your friends and family we would love to expand our reach expand our audience and share this information with other raymarine voters 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