Printing routes using HomePort

Is there a way to print routes/waypoints/maps (or parts of) on a regular printer using HomePort?

Thanks.

I'm not sure this is the answer you're looking for, but you can display the route(s) on your screen, press the print screen key on the computer, paste the results into your favorite photo editing software, crop out what you don't want, and end up with something like this:



which you can print.

HomePort has direct support for printing. Just select File->Print Preview or Print.

For example, if you want to print a route, first double-click the route to show it on the chart. Then select File->Print Preview. The first page in your printout will be the route drawn on top of the map. If you click on the Next Page button on the top of the print preview you will see a preview of the route directions that will be printed. When you think everything looks good, click the Print button to start printing.

Thanks!

Neo,
Awesome feature!! Only there is one problem with it, the "directions" page does not contain any info other than a list of waypoints. Can you add to the list of ToDo's for the next version to include some details in the directions page?

It should print the bearings/headings to each waypoint along the way(forward and backward), and the time based on the current vessel selected and speed selected in each routes leg. Lastly a total section would be nice, totalling the distance and time to be traveled.

Right now it just prints a list of waypoints with distance of each leg.

I can see it looking like this:

1. WP1 bearing 90 deg. mag/345 deg mag 2 nm 10 minutes
2 WP2 bearing 180 deg. mag/0 deg mag 4 nm 20 minutes
3. WP3 bearing 10 deg mag/190 deg mag 5 nm 25 minutes
....
....
....
TOTALS: Turns: 3 Distance: 11 nm Time: 0 hours, 55 minutes

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Thanks for posting this suggestion. I'l add this to our wish-list.

HomePort has direct support for printing. Just select File->Print Preview or Print.

For example, if you want to print a route, first double-click the route to show it on the chart. Then select File->Print Preview. The first page in your printout will be the route drawn on top of the map. If you click on the Next Page button on the top of the print preview you will see a preview of the route directions that will be printed. When you think everything looks good, click the Print button to start printing.

I tried this and I get the message "Printing is restricted for the current chart product..................... ".

What am I missing?

Printinting from HomePort is way, way lacking

To hear that Garmin will "consider" adding the print feature to this tool shows they have not thought it out clearly. Printing the route is useful but not critical. The important thing is to be able to print the trip, fuel, time, etc. views. Indeed, the right thing to do is to export those things to Excel. At least if those views are exported (i.e. saved) to a file in txt format, with tabs separating the entries, I can move the text file to a spreadsheet. Garmin has to realize that there is a lot that I want to do with the route information outside of HomePort or a Garmin GPS unit.

I am planning a long trip. I shall have my Garmin GPSMAP521s on the boat but there is so much more I need to do offline before I start. I hope these features are added soon.

To hear that Garmin will "consider" adding the print feature to this tool shows they have not thought it out clearly. Printing the route is useful but not critical. The important thing is to be able to print the trip, fuel, time, etc. views. Indeed, the right thing to do is to export those things to Excel. At least if those views are exported (i.e. saved) to a file in txt format, with tabs separating the entries, I can move the text file to a spreadsheet. Garmin has to realize that there is a lot that I want to do with the route information outside of HomePort or a Garmin GPS unit.

I am planning a long trip. I shall have my Garmin GPSMAP521s on the boat but there is so much more I need to do offline before I start. I hope these features are added soon.

Thank you for your input. We will see what we can do for the next version.

Thanks for posting this suggestion. I'l add this to our wish-list.

I too would like to say that having courses and distances are at the heart of navigation and should be printable. But I suspect that the real problem lies in the fact that all of the courses listed by HomePort are initial courses of a Great Circle route, not the Rhumb Lines we would draw on a Mercator Nautical Chart.

These errors would appear small on short legs of a route, but would become very substantial over large distances. This would be a can of worms to open up. ie:

Step 1 simple calculation of Rhumb Line from A to B

problem is this, is A to B a safe route as a Rhumb Line?


Step 2 allow displaying of your route as Rhumb Lines in HomePort so that you can make sure you are not navigating over that rock you were going to pass by at a distance of 0.1NM

Step 2 is very messy and the GPSr won't let you navigate that Rhumb Line route anyway.