Top View

Use the browse button [...] to select an Offset Point as defined for this equipment in the Equipment Editor Part of the VOSS.net software package, in which all parameters, dimensions, layout, arms, heads and interfacing with other equipment can be defined, normally by the surveyor.. See paragraph below: Tracking Point

Use the drop down menu to select how the screen should follow the equipment.
See paragraph below: Mode

This value indicates how close your equipment can come to the edge of the viewing screen before it will be redrawn in the middle.

Option not available for Mode: Relative Motion.

Use the drop down menu to select how the screen should adjust itself around the equipment.

Option available for Mode: Head the tool with which Equipment performs operations, for example: drag head of a Trailer Suction Hopper Dredger, the bucket of an excavtor, a plough, Water Injection Dreger bar, etc. Up. Use the drop down menu to select an Active Arm The part of Equipment between the Equipment Body and its Head. For example, the suction pipe and drag head of a Trailing Suction Hopper Dredger, or the combination of boom, stick and bucket of an excavator. as defined for this equipment in the Equipment Editor.

Option available for Modes: Head Up, Line Up and Custom Heading. How far offline from the Route Routes are aiding lines used in the construction of infrastructure. They usually correspond to the center or a standard offset to the center of that structure. A Centerline can be a Route. A Pipe or Pipeline can also be a Route. would you like to see the selected arm.

Option available for Mode: Head Up. The larger the Margin, the quicker a screen refresh is performed. Option not available for Mode: Relative Motion.

Select which type of drawing file to use: CAD Computer Aided Design - used for the technical representation of the works and also for equipment drawings. Drawing / 3D Model / Outline. Hide is not available for the Equipment Body.
Use Settings (spanner icon) to set how the equipment should be drawn in the screen:

The various settings are identical to the ones used in the 3D View.

Select which type of drawing file to use: CAD Drawing / 3D Model / Line / Outline / Hide.
Use Settings to set how the equipment should be drawn in the screen. The items listed here depend on the arms as activated in VOSS.NET>Equipment Editor>Layout>Active Arms.

Tick to activate. Select a color using the drop down menu.

Add buttons to the view. This way you don't need to open the right-click context menu to carry out certain actions.

The available options depend on your type of equipment and the installed devices.

When you tick the various menu options, they will appear in the toolbar at the location as indicated:

Show information at the location of your mouse, like position and levels.

Wherever you click in the Top View with the left mouse button, this will be made the center of the Top View screen. If 'Follow Vessel' is active, and you click too close to the edge, the vessel will be placed in the middle again automatically.

When you pan with the middle mouse button, 'Follow Vessel' will be automatically switched off when this option is activated.
To jump back to your vessel, use the Center Equipment button.

A large North Arrow will be placed in the top left hand corner of the view window.

Small crosses and chart coordinates will be shown in the view.

Two large buttons will be added to the Top View.

A Scale Bar will be shown in the lower right hand corner of the view.

A contour is a line through points of the same height. The Safety Contour is an aid for safe navigation, indicating the boundaries at a height that is chosen by the Master.
This option is not available for certain equipment, e.g. a horizontal chain dredger which works on land only.

This is the track where the Origin of your equipment has passed.

This option offers the possibility to mark the outline of your vessel during sailing or manoeuvering.

This option is available for a Side Stone Dumping Vessel to generate traces for the active bays.
When on a Hopper Dredger, an imprint of the hopper will be shown at regular intervals.

Dredge Traces are markings to show where dredging has taken place.

The heading arrow is an arrow in the direction of the heading of your Equipment.

This is an arrow in the direction of movement over the ground at a chosen point on your equipment.

When Navigate to (a Target in a Fix Set A shape file that can contain fixes and/or targets. Targets are points (positions defined by an X and an Y co-ordinate) to be used in VOSS RT, for operators to perform certain actions on each target. For example, place a block, drop an anchor, install a vertical drain. In VOSS RT, at the moment of installation, automatic or manually a fix can be logged, that contains the actual co-ordinates, date & time and other parameters.) has been activated, the information box containing the information can be switched on or off here.

Chop Sticks are Ground Course Arrows attached to dredge heads.

For use with a Swath Input device, or cable tracking with an Echoscope, the opening angle of the device can be visualized.

When using a Swath Input device, the track can be shown in the graphical area.

Use the browse button [...] to enter the Swath Settings:

The maximum 'Age' to be shown is 20 seconds.

For crane use only.

Show the Range Circle of the current reach of the bucket. It can be configured in the Operation Settings.

For crane use only.

The Minimum and Maximum reach will be drawn as circles on the seabed. They can be configured in the Operation Settings.

When the bucket is used to take fixes, you can show these in your view. Which point on the bucket is used to fix, is set in the Quick Access menu.

Show all items as set in the Operation Settings.

When working with an ROV, show the related items.

Indicate for which part of the Route the information (heading, offset, chainage, etc.) will be calculated.

A Design is the model or fixed level to which fill, excavation or dredging should take place.

Use the drop down menu to select which Design to show:

None - No Design will be shown.

Active Design - Show only the Active Design.

All Designs - Show all Designs available in your project.

Show other vessels in your Top View, based on Automatic Identification System (AIS Automatic Identification System - is comprised of small transponders fitted to shipping vessels worldwide, which use short wave VHF radio signals to broadcast each vessel’s position, unique International Maritime Organisation (IMO) identity number and other useful information. The transmissions can be received by any vessel, land station or satellite in range and fitted with an AIS receiver.).

A box will be drawn around the head, indicating the area it will cover when dredging. The box allows for a clamshell shape A geometric entity or a collection of such entities. Each entity is described by basic geometry such as a point, a line or an arc. Examples of shapes are: Route, Centerline, Waypoints, Fix Set, Dump Boxes, Progress Grid Model, Designs, etc. when open.

The Offset Points are defined in VOSS.NET Equipment Editor when creating this piece of equipment. They can be shown in the viewing area.

Click on the browse button [...] to the right.Select from the list which one(s) to show and fill in various settings for showing it/them in your screen.

Range Markers are measurements between two points which can be visualized as a line and in numerics.

This option is only available for Flexible Fall Pipe Vessels and can be used when using a Box Installation Plan. This Plan can be created in the VOSS.NET - Box Installation tool. The Plan shows how much rock is to be placed per box. The Plan can be selected at Operation Settings - Main Shapes.

• As Planned - This shows the number of seconds that dumping should take place in a box. The Plan itself is not updated.

• Live Update - This shows the number of seconds that dumping should take place in a box. The Plan will be updated with Tons/hour as received from VODAS Van Oord Dredging Automation System - this system is also used to control the output for rockdump vessels (VODAS output control).. Because the location of the ROV or the Tremie pipe is known, the model can be updated through a prediction model (which predicts how rocks fall).
  The model will rise because of this, so a calculation can be done of the remaining seconds. Those seconds are not static, but will count down to 0.

Option available for, e.g., a Swath Input device.

• None - No design will be shown.

• Active Design - Only the Active Design will be shown.

• All Designs - All the designs as available in this project will be shown.

Color Mode: Level / Dredged / Difference /Slope / Lithology / None (and many others) -

When Lithology is selected, only the top of the Voxel In 3D computer graphics, a voxel represents a value on a regular grid in three-dimensional space. Voxels are a surface that can be used to integrate survey and geotechnical data in a single feature. In VOSS RT they are used for construction and dredging vessels, so the crew can see the types of soil present in various layers. Model will be shown in the Top View, as the other layers are underneath it.

When None is selected, no grid model will be shown.

Lists shapes which can be (de-)activated. Remember that this changes nothing in the Operation Settings, it only turns visibility on or off.

Option only available when recording Multibeam data into a Sounding Grid.

Select whether to draw the Sounding Grid or the Progress Grid on top.

When you turn Follow off, you can pan the view away from the equipment.
The choice of the Tracking Point defines how the equipment is centered. See paragraph below: Tracking Point

Select where to navigate to.

This option is only available when 'Navigate to', above, was activated. You can cancel that option here.

Tool to get Easting/Northing and KP/Offset info of the target, as well as distance and bearing to the target (optionally via path).

A support tool for online use, especially useful when discussing/explaining latest updated survey result with crew or identifying safe navigation options around the working area.

A task bar will appear, ready to be used for drawing extra items in your screen.

The outline of your vessel can be saved in the Top View, to mark that location to come back to, for example.

In VOSS.NET, an Equipment Plan can be created before a project starts. This plan can contain Vessel Targets, to indicate where the vessel should position itself so it can carry out its work. When the Equipment Plan has been transferred to VOSS RT, the Targets will be listed when you select this option.

Make sure you have the correct file selected in which they are stored: Menu>Operation Settings>Main Shapes>Equipment Plan.

The outline will remain in the Top View until 'Clear Vessel Target' is selected.