Tutorials – Page 15 – Navigation Mac & Co

Connect a Furuno GP32 to your Mac

Posted on19 February 20103 th 2024

To connect a GP32 (31 or 30) with a Mac or PC, you must first strip the free end of the connector cable to 6 pin contains the data wires, in addition to positive and negative power wires. The diagram below shows you the principles of wiring.

Print charts with GPSNavX / MacENC

Posted on8 February 201023 May 2011

These two applications offer direct printing of screen content. It is very convenient to print a chart, regardless of the scale used on the screen. Indeed, Print this concerns only the chart content visible on screen, excluding pop-up windows. As a general rule, you should first choose a landscape print format, and then use the menu File > Print.

Direct printing with GPSNavX

Install the GPS BU-353 with GPSNavX/MacENC

Posted on29 November 20093 th 2024

The BU-353 GPS connected to the MacBook via USB

You have to follow the steps below, in order :

1) Quit GPSNavX or MacENC before proceed.

2) Install the Prolific PL2303 driver.

http://www.francis-fustier.fr/media/Telecharge/PL2303_1.2.1.sit

3) Connect the BU-353 USB GPS antenna to a USB port on your Mac.

4) Launch GPSNavX or MacENC, select the menu "GPS > Connect ". Open the "Settings" drawer, then select :

– Type : "SiRF USB"

– Port : "usbserial"

– Rate : " 4800 ”

Get a route from a drawing in MacENC

Posted on20 November 200915 August 2024

MacENC 7.30 brings a very interesting function allowing you to create a route, composed of a succession of waypoints, from a plot made with the mouse on the map using the “Annotation” mode of the toolbar.

How to go about it ?

1 – Select menu Routes > Open.

2 – Create a new route or choose an existing route.

ENC User Permit, what is ?

Posted on9 November 200920 th 2011

The "user permit" of ENC charts is a unique identifying number attached to a device, or to an application, able to read encrypted ENC chart data (format S-63). This “User Permit” is required to register a system (chartplotter, MFD, software) and thus make it possible to generate, for charts purchased, a single authentication code to use these charts to the referenced system. User Permit (User Permit) consists of a chain of 28 digits hexadecimal code.

Let's take the example of a purchase on the site Chartworld. Read more …