smartGlobe Aeronautical Utilities

The utilities are accessible from within the graphical environment. MicroStation (V8 or higher) is used as a graphical engine.

The most important features are:

• Creating and setting up a chart: a three- dimensional area on the globe must be projected onto the two-dimensional design plane
• Mercator, Lambert Conformal Conic and Polar Stereographic projections are supported
• Grid generation: a chart border (neatlines) and grid or graticule can be generated, with tick marks at user-defined intervals
• Performing aeronautical calculations: calculate tracks and distances and convert geographical positions to Cartesian grid positions and vice versa
• Defining and Storing Chart templates under user-defined names.

Configuration tools are included to define every aspect of the graphical appearance grids and graticules.