Creating Routes in GBC and Using in BMW NAV V

In my experience, regardless of where you put your vias relative to intersections, the GPS offers the choice of navigating to the beginning of the route. If you say no, as soon as you join the existing route it picks up and goes from there with no big fuss. The setting for recalc in the 660, and I assume the Nav 5 is similar, offers three choices: automatic, prompted, or off altogether. This applies to all routes, whether pre-planned and transferred to the GPS, or while navigating A to B on the GPS with no pre-planned route.

As for recalc in BC, if BC is changing your route after you draw it, something strange is afoot. Can you supply details of what you are doing? What do you mean by "undoing the exact route I have created"?

-dan

EDIT: This is a guess, but do you mean that every time you add a new via BC recalcs the route? It has to. So try this: begin your route planning by entering only the start and finish points. Let BC calc the route. Now drag the route to shape it the way you want it. That way you can see the changes and add vias, or drag a different way, as necessary.

Thanks. I have watched these: http://www8.garmin.com/learningcenter/training/basecamp/#Mac and while they are well-made, they are overviews not fully detailed. I understand now that if I very carefully select the intersection when making a route, using the route tool, it does start without any other way points. However, can you tell me where to shut off recalc in Base Camp? It keeps undoing the exact route I have created. As far as turning off recalc in the Nav V, is that a general setting or can it be specific to each route independently?

As I noted previously, Settings->Navigation->Off Route Recalculation... and yes, these are unit settings not individual Trip (route) settings. As for BC's route recalculation behavior DANHAM gave you good advice.

Hello, everyone.
I would like to ask you something about creating routes.
I used a Navi IV and was very happy with it. Every route I created on Basecamp or Mapsource was pretty much the same when I sent it to the GPS. On Navi V, I do it all the same, but when I send it to the device the route is totally crazy. It increases the distance by itself, creating some odd changes on my created route. Also I don´t understand why it asks me to which destination i want to go. Well, if I don´t want to get totally crazy I have to choose the last one, which is the end of the trip.
Well I appreciate the help.

As I noted previously, Settings->Navigation->Off Route Recalculation... and yes, these are unit settings not individual Trip (route) settings. As for BC's route recalculation behavior DANHAM gave you good advice.

Would ideal behavior of the NAV5 when recalculating on one of these BaseCamp routes be to guide me back to the closest point on the route? Not completely recalculate the entire route? I created a route of several hundred miles, and when starting the NAV5 decided to add about 10 hours of riding just for the heck of it. I wound up just using the GPS to tell me where I was, not route me.

I will try the suggestion of turning off route calculation - I have not tried that yet.

Hello, everyone.
I would like to ask you something about creating routes.
I used a Navi IV and was very happy with it. Every route I created on Basecamp or Mapsource was pretty much the same when I sent it to the GPS. On Navi V, I do it all the same, but when I send it to the device the route is totally crazy. It increases the distance by itself, creating some odd changes on my created route. Also I don´t understand why it asks me to which destination i want to go. Well, if I don´t want to get totally crazy I have to choose the last one, which is the end of the trip.
Well I appreciate the help.

Like all the new devices that use trip planner if you have a route with various viapoints/waypoints you need to select the first point not the last. If you select the last your device will calculate a new route direct to the last point and bypass any intermediate points.