Qinsy 8.18.1 Release

Release Date

20 April 2018 8.18.1.1

03 April 2018 8.18.1

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Introduction

This is a Maintenance release with bug fixes and small improvements.

Check out the new features in the QINSy 8.18.0 Release Notes.

Documentation

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A new document has been added to the Knowledge Base: How-to Create a Geoid or Vertical Offset Model (v8.18.2 - 8.18.x)

And one document has been revised extensively: How-to Side Scan Sonar

Bug Fixes

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Below is a list of the important issues that have been resolved in this release. This list is not exhaustive.

List of issues

8.18.1.1

The following 4 issues have been solved in QINSy 8.18.1.1

Version numbers in About box updated
Displays - Navigation display - Option Vessel shape filled (note that default is on)
PM.NET - CAD - QGF with design model cannot be converted to QGFDES
PM.NET - Linedata - Apply KP's based on the spheroid instead of grid

8.18.1

The following has been solved in QINSy 8.18.1

Drivers

Drivers - Autopilot - Lines keep going left/right. Improvement is that lines will be alternating between left and right
Drivers - Output - Autopilot - Turn line was not smooth
Drivers - AIS - Related system - "Other vessel's message" is always set to 'Ship's Own Message'
Drivers - INS- Halliburton SAS - Change output trigger to time/computation based
Drivers - Output - Simrad output to DP: made sure that the right number of waypoints is send
Drivers - MBES - Kongsberg - EM300x - Transducer Setup - Does not correctly indicate the used mode
Drivers - Singlebeam - Odom - EchoTrac - Record raw sample data together with annotations
Drivers - Output - OPC - Tags Change from String to Float
Drivers - Output - Generic ASCII data logger is added automatically
Drivers - Kongsberg EM Controller - Settings for selection between RS-232 and RS-422
Drivers - Kongsberg EM Controller - Create a logfile by default enabled
Drivers - 2 related systems of DrvPositionNMEAUDP.exe are shown with same name
Drivers - Varying update rate and 'hanging' with Sonardyne LNAV driver
Drivers - New driver for VODAS Waypoint Control (Dredge Flag)

Display

Displays - Profile - In a specific case an Object would not be shown
Displays - Profile - Not able to switch off connected lines
Displays - Profile - TSS440 beam selection error
Displays - Profile - Double echosounder profile ONLY in EquiAngular mode
Displays - Profile - tip of the "zoom" mouse does not correspond with the Y value in status bar
Displays - Profile - View - Front / Aft - Drawing order in incorrect
Displays - Profile - Disabling pipe will also disable more nodes
Displays - Profile - Safety Line <Design> and Sounding Grid <Design>appear as <Design>
Displays - Navigation - Hanging after a while and stops responding
Displays - Navigation - Combination Layer Grid to QGFDes not displayed online
Displays - Navigation - MBE coverage not correct anymore, very erratic
Displays - Navigation - A Support and maintenance notification will be shown shortly before and after this is expired
Displays - Generic - Special fonts are not possible anymore
Displays - Alert - dialogs have no Help functions
Displays - Alert - Crashes
Displays - Alert - SV compare does not take survey units into account
Displays - Alert - Does not follow unit philosophy as the other displays & controller
Displays - Alert - RMS value is meters but US Survey Feet text is displayed next to value
Displays - Alert - R2Sonic Nadir Beam displays US Survey Ft but data is actually metres
Displays - Helmsman - QINSy controller and display crash when creating Helmsman display
Displays - 3D Point Cloud - Side pane cannot be hidden and pinned anymore
Displays - 3D Point - White flash on resized windows
Displays - 3D Point - Camera settings are not correctly restored
Displays - 3D Point Cloud display - Defaults - 'Show flagged points' disabled
Displays - 3D Point Cloud - Option to clear the data in the display

PM.NET

PM.NET - CAD - Vertical Offset Model - Workflow improvements
PM.NET - CAD - Vertical Offset Model - Crashes when export VDatum model to QGFvom
PM.NET - CAD - Vertical Offset Model - Add option to Import into Sounding Grid
PM.NET - CAD - Vertical Offset Model - Creating a model from ASCII Lat Long file does not work
PM.NET - CAD - Vertical Offset Model - Import - ASCII ENH does not work
PM.NET - CAD - Vertical Offset Model - Import - not refering to active project import folder
PM.NET - CAD - Line Planning - Cosmetics in the Add Section Dialog
PM.NET - CAD - Line Planning - Move on drag goes wrong when pipeline has curves
PM.NET - CAD - Line Planning - Edit curved pipeline - Apply Operator will change the radius field
PM.NET - CAD - Line Planning - In correct Lat lon in WG84 of coordinates in DD.dddd mode
PM.NET - CAD - Add option to change qgf file type
PM.NET - CAD - It should not be possible to move background data in Processing Manager
PM.NET - CAD - Import - Reference Level River Lines
PM.NET - CAD - Import - GEOBAS column Z is decoded instead of H
PM.NET - CAD - Import - External file - Source file is moved to backup when importing
PM.NET - CAD - Import - No go back/Escape option for no-imports
PM.NET - CAD - Import - Extra CAD/GIS import option when ArcGis Engine is installed
PM.NET - CAD - Add option to Extract qgf objects for correct target qgf
- "Convert file type" has now been replaced by "Extract from file"
PM.NET - CAD - Design - Import - does not show layers of TerraModel Pro
PM.NET - CAD - Design - Import - Quick Profile Generating error
PM.NET - CAD - Design - Models should not be converted to background files
PM.NET - CAD - Design - Isolating a layer does not work
PM.NET - Sounding Grid - Contours and Sounding - Area selection required to get results
PM.NET - Sounding Grid - Combination layer - Cell Info - Difference not shown when using 2 grids
PM.NET - Sounding Grid - Fill Operation - Cell Selection - Interpolated Cells - Fills more than interpolated Cells
PM.NET - Sounding Grid - Export - GeoTiff - doesn't work with attribute date/time (or sd or count)
PM.NET - Sounding Grid - Export - Geotiff - No warning on level 0 when to large
PM.NET - Sounding Grid - Operations - Wrong warning is given when closing layer operations
PM.NET - Sounding Grid - Statistics - Reference layer is not selectable
PM.NET - Sounding Grid - Contours and Soundings - Error when minimum distance is grid cell based
PM.NET - Sounding Grid - Grid layer names not directly updated
PM.NET - SoundingGrid - scan for min max can be long and is inaccurate
PM.NET - File management - CAD - Sessions are not upgraded for new QGF formats / extension
PM.NET - File Management - Show in profile icon not following properties
PM.NET - File Management - Random layers on after every task in processing manager
PM.NET - Plotting - Crash when trying to plot
PM.NET - Crash d/t Automatic Backup when working with a project on the network
PM.NET - Profile - Sync colors with plan view colors
PM.NET - Formats of dates different in different columns
PM.NET - User Interface - When selecting in rectangle in Pan mouse mode, the viewport pans
PM.NET - Validator doesn't open when using a secondary project
PM.NET - Option has been removed to select contour files in volume calculation
PM.NET - QPD - Export - ASCII - Dual head duplicates stbd head
PM.NET - QPD - Export - LAS/LAZ not default to active project Export folder
PM.NET - QPD - Export - User Defined ASCII - Storage of settings file do not adhere to convention
PM.NET - QPD - Export - Export to Fau causes recalculation Geometry

General

Utilities - ENC Administrator - Default QNC not displayed in Navigation display due to a missing setting in ENC administrator
Utilities - Color Map Editor - Files must be saved as .clr
Utilities - I/O Driver Editor - Add button to open the ini drivers folder
Setup - Geodetics - Wasserspiegelmodel should be Höhenreferenzfläche
Setup - Database Setup - Geodetics - Database Setup crash when changing survey units
Setup - Database Setup - ATT Tide Driver - Issue with Ref Level (changing reference level is not saved)
Setup - Database - Geodetics - Unknown Geoid code should be name
Offline - Import ASCII - NMEA - GPGGA is only using 1 of 2 height fields
Offline - Import ASCII - some older ascii formats have been removed from the import options list
Console - QINSy 8.18 unable to start Console on Panel PCs
Console - TideManager name in Console is wrong
Console - Dialog for when no valid license is found

Online

Online - Controller - Storage - QPD - Gap in first part (singlebeam/multibeam)
Online - Controller - Calibrations - Position Fix - Save position fix other line database is still *.qgf
Online - Controller - Computation Setup - Computation drop-down menu does not update the Generic Display
Online - Controller - Rename setting in Controllers View pulldown menu to Suppress recording pop ups
Online - SVP - Connect to Logger - One of the 2 download buttons doesn't work
Online - Crash of Proxy.exe shutdown of QINSy
Online - DrvDbout - Dialog information for critical error warning has been improved. Support information is added
Online - Socket Server - Remote client navigation display not updating
Online - Dredging - Intrusion detection - When QGF is selected it should be locked for editing in PM.NET
Online - Won't start - QINSy Inshore - Does not support Output System for Generic ASCII Data Logger
Online - Computation - RTK Tide - Issue with SVP comparison when tide settings are not synchronized

Known Issues

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For this release the following issues have been reported:

Component	Issue description	Solution
Licensing	If you start a QPS application (QINSy, Qimera or Fledermaus) with a HASP dongle and you also have a softlock license for the same application on the same computer, our applications will always authenticate against the HASP. If you then pull out the HASP dongle, the usual warning will appear and the application will shut down unless the HASP dongle is reinserted in time to prevent this. This is the exact same behavior a user would have encountered prior to introduction of our softlock licensing system in that if you pull out a HASP and do not re-insert, then the application will close. The limitation is that the current licensing system does NOT check for a softlock license after the HASP is removed, this is an improvement that we will consider in the future.	Do not start the application with a HASP if you expect to need to pull out the HASP. Do not pull out the HASP dongle.
Processing Manager/Navigation Display	Memory problem with CAD files which contain many complex Blocks.	Simplify the Blocks in the used source file. In a later release this will be solved.
Processing Manager/ENC	Issue with different usage levels of ENC's of Rijkswaterstaat of the Netherlands. It is not possible to view the Zeeland ENC and Nederland ENC at the same time. Rijkswaterstaat is updating the charts with new usage levels. More information about the Rijkswaterstaat updates can be found at: https://vaarweginformatie.nl/fdd/main/infra/enc	Zeeland ENC does show up with usage level: Use 'Compilation' scale Nederland ENC does show up with usage level: Use 'Custom and Standard'
Processing Manager/Navigation Display	The change in colormaps (see item Color Map reversed above) may cause grids to look different from before. Make sure to set the path to the Color Maps folder in the latest release. Setting the path correctly in the Console's Global Settings, will set it right for use throughout QINSy.
Navigation Display	Display of background files with arcs with a very large radii are drawn inaccurately.	Use the line in the Lineplanning and it will be drawn correcly. Will be solved in the upcoming release.
Navigation Display	Background file that was created by converting this from a design will not show lines when the start and end point of that line is outside the view.	Do not convert design files to background files. Note that this option is now disabled in this version.