ENC DESIGNER

ENC Designer
PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONENC Designer is the central application of the SevenCs ENC tools production suite. It is a powerfuland very easy to use software tool that has been developed for the production of S-57 Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs). However, chart
production with ENC Designer is not limited to ENCs – Inland ENCs,AML, Port ECDIS and bathymetric products are also supported aswell. ENC Designer is supplied as a package with ENC Manager
and ENC Referencer.

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS
Easy to use and intuitive graphical userinterface

Area Clipping, Feature Copying, MultiFeature Encoding

Powerful filter functions for object
selection and data query

Menu items for direct launch of ENC
Optimizer, ENC Analyzer, and additionalUtilities

Automatic Generation of Group 1
feature objects

Reads ENC Optimizer and ENC Analyzer
log files for interactive data review

ENC Designer Feature Object Editing

ENC Designer in Combi Display Mode

FUNCTIONAL OVERVIEW
S-57 Support

ENC Designer has special S-57 import and export functions
for a quick conversion from S-57 to SevenCs SENC (directENC format) and vice-versa.
Allows import and export of all S-57 data products(incl. data consistency checks)

Easy Data Capturing and Encoding

ENC Designer integrates powerful tools for easy data capturing and feature encoding
Tracer for semi-automatic generation of vector geometry based on raster backdrops
Object Editor for efficient S-57 feature encoding
Configurable Object Box for creation of single point
objects or groups of point features (e.g. buoy withlight)

Feature and Geometry Handling

Feature objects and geometry can be queried, analyzed,and manipulated in many ways.
Pick Report to retrieve click-to-chart object information
Object Manager with enhanced filters for effective
feature queries and simultaneous encoding of multiple features
Object Editor for quick and easy feature attribute
manipulation
Geometry Manager with enhanced filters for queries
on spatial objects
Tool set for interactive geometry manipulation

Data Validation

ENC Designer provides special functions for S-57 data
validation.

Different Display Modes

Chart presentation can be changed according to theneeds of the data producer. Three different modes areavailable.
ECDIS Mode for S-52 compliant presentation
Geometry Mode for display of vector geometry(nodes, edges, vertices)
Combi Mode which is a combination of the otherpresentation modes

Settings and Options

Great flexibility is achieved by the integration of customizable settings and configurable options.
Supports various display settings and integrates ahuge set of display filters
Allows integration of customized object definitions
Supports numerous coordinate reference systems

Additional Tools

ENC Designer comes with a set of little tools that fully
integrate into the graphical user interface.
Automatic Creation of Group 1 objects
Depth area consistency checks

Supported Formats and Products
Vector Formats (R/W): S-57 3.0, 3.1.1, 3.1.2,
SevenCs’ SENC (directENC)
Vector Products (R/W): ENC 2.0, IENC 1.02, 2.0, 2.1,
AML 1.0, 2.1, 3.0, bENC 1.0,
PENC 1.0
Raster Backdrop (R):

GeoTiff, Tiff, BMP, PNG, JPG

Includes dedicated data validation mode (read only)
Smoothly integrates logs from data validation sessions which can be used for interactive review ofvalidation reports

SYSTEM RECOMMENDATIONS:

Microsoft Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7
1 GHz or more CPU

512 MB or more RAM

YOUR ENC DESIGNER DEALER

SevenCs GmbH · Ruhrstraße 90 · D-22761 Hamburg

Phone +49 (0)40 851 72 40 · Fax +49 (0)40 851 72 4 79 · sales@sevencs.com · www.sevencs.com

Product Sheet 1.0 · All features and specifications subject to change without notice.

ENC DESIGNER

ENC Designer