Ag Leader SMS Basic and Advanced Manual - Manual (Page 113)

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6. The Guidance Settings dialog will now appear. Enter a swath width to define the distance between your
guidance passes inside of the guidance area selected in the previous step. Click NEXT> button once you
have made your entry.
7. The Headland Settings dialog will now appear. Select the Headland Type and then based on the selected
type set the available options for that pattern. If No Headland is selected then your guidance passes will be
generated to the edge of the guidance region that was selected or drawn. Click the NEXT> button when
done.
8. The Straight Line Settings dialog will now appear. Set the available settings for generating the guidance
passes in the guidance region. Click the FINISH button when you are done to generate your guidance
passes.
9. The steps above can be repeated now if you would like to define additional guidance regions within the
same field and dataset. This might be useful if you have a field with areas that require a different pattern or
headlands to provide the best possible guidance.
10. Once you have created the desired guidance regions, click the Save button and set the management
information for the new guidance dataset. Click Accept when finished.
11. The guidance dataset that you created will now be mappable and even can provide resource tracking
attribute results or be used in the Dataset Playback tool (Advanced only).
Note: Your guidance dataset can be edited, but only the Guidance/Headland/Straight Line Settings can be
edited. The guidance region that was defined can not be edited. If the region needs to be edited you must
recreate it.
How to create navigation points.
Follow these steps to create navigation points in the software:
1. Create a new map or add a layer to a map that you intend to create navigation points off of.
2. Select a map type (Circle, contour, etc.) for the layer(s) that are on the map. Selecting the proper map type
for your layers can help in picking points to place navigation points.
3. From the File Menu, select New then Navigation Layer or click the New Navigation icon on the Map Toolbar.
4. The Navigation Edit window now appears with a copy of the layer(s) that were in the Map window.
5. Use the tools in the toolbar to add, move, and delete points.
6. Click on the Grid tab to view points that have been added and to manually enter point locations or edit the
name for a point.
7. Click Save to enter the new data into the Management Tree or click Export to create a PFN file for use in the
Ag Leader PF3000/PF3000 Pro or an ASCII text file of the navigation points.
8. If Save is selected, select the management information for the new data and then click Accept.
How to edit navigation points.
Follow these steps to edit navigation points in the software:
1. Select a navigation dataset from the Management Tree and create or add to a map.
2. From the Map menu, click Edit Layer… or click on the Edit Layer icon on the Map Toolbar.
3. Use the tools in the toolbar to make any changes or additions.
4. Click Save.
How to create a variable rate prescription.
Follow these steps to create a variable rate prescription dataset:
1. Create a new map or add a layer to a map that you intend to use as a reference for the new prescription
dataset.
2. Set the map type (Circle, contour, etc.) for the layer(s) that are on the map to a type that can be easily used
as a reference for the new prescription date set. For example if a layer is selected and gridded then the
resulting prescription may have holes where there are larger gaps between points than the grid cell size that
is used. But if the layer was set to a contour type, the data would be smoothed over and when it was
converted to a prescription dataset it would more closely resemble the reference layer in terms of the
regions represented by the contours. Point and line layers in their base form can not be used as references
for a prescription, they muct first be gridded or contoured.
3. Once the reference layer to be used for the prescription has been added to the map and the map display
type set, go to the File menu and select New and then Prescription Layer or select the New Prescription icon
from the Map Toolbar.
4. The Prescription Reference Layer Selection dialog should now appear. Now select a reference layer from
the list of layers that were open in the current map. Once a layer is selected it will display in the reference
layer preview window below. If None is selected as the reference layer, then a layer from the current map
will not be used as a reference to automatically generate a prescription dataset. Instead the layers that were
open in the current map will be used as a background for the Prescription Editor and the prescription dataset
must be manually "painted" in using the prescription editing tools.
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