Greg
You are so right. The contour mode recording does not retain its image when imported into autochart. it stays in the normal (raw). It would be so much more useful as an autochart layer if it could be in contour mode. In fact, i would almost think that this is a bug(fault) of autochart. as the use of the SI information as a layer in the program really does not want the down image portion of the recording other than the pure bottom information. for example, this morning i ran over an old bridge base in our lake and took some snapshots and recordings.
below is a snapshot of the bridge base in normal SI mode
next i took a run over the same area using contour mode
I then recorded the same information in contour mode and imported into autochart
the autochart program played the recording back in normal (raw) mode.
it would have been so much more useful, if i had not lost the 100 or so feet of bottom not shown. It would have provided a seamless image for this layer of the map. I would think that this would have been what the developers were trying to achieve.
Perhaps a change request to the developers could incorporate the algorythm used to create the contour mode image into the autochart program.
thanks for your response
mmikos
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