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- drctdby - March 22, 2011
It would be a great help to those of us who use MacENC and have RayMarine electronics on board to have a way to convert ".gpx" to "archive.fsh" in one step.
I moved over to Mac last year but still have my Vaio computer on which I can install Ray Tech Planner. After I do that I can import a .gpx file from MacENC (using GPSBabel to convert ".gpx" into ".rwf" which is what the Ray Tech Planner needs) and then the Ray Tech Planner program will export it as an "archive.fsh" (onto a CF card) which is what is needed to import into the RayMarine E-Series.
Needless to say, these multiple steps can become tiring!
- Jade - March 23, 2011
Not that it is much better but there is another conversion path:-
RayMarine has a PC Utility (.exe) that will convert an Excel document into archive.fsh. You could run this utility in BootCamp, VM!, etc. on the Mac.
As far as I can tell, archive.fsh is RayMarine's proprietary binary format which locks it up.
- drctdby - March 23, 2011
Thank you. It would be nice if RayMarine would allow MacENC to do the conversion in the MacENC program. Perhaps they'll, eventually, see the benefit of that!
- GPSNavX - March 23, 2011
What would be better is if these chart plotter manufacturers would come on board with directly supporting the open standard GPX and KML formats.
- Jim Innes - March 24, 2011
Hi Jade,
Could you post the Raymarine Ultility here... it's not part of Raytech version 6.1 and .2
Thanks,
Jim
- Jade - March 24, 2011
Hi Jim,
It is dated (retired). But it reportedly works with the E series. I have no further information than the following from the Raymarine site:
PCWaypoint Utility.zip Download
PCWaypoint Utility Manual (pdf)
- drctdby - March 24, 2011
You can download RayTech RNS v6.2 here:
http://www.raymarine.com/ProductDetail.aspx?SITE=1&SECTION=2&PAGE=1890&PRODUCT=4263
The following is from their website concerning the download of the program:
"Contains the complete RayTech RNS 6.2 and RayTech Planner Applications. A valid license key is required to unlock RayTech RNS 6.2 features, otherwise functionality is limited to RayTech Planner only."
This means that the conversion to "archive.fsh" can be done in that program and it's free.
You'l still have to convert a ".gpx" file to ".rwf" (using GPSBabel) to get your routes and waypoints into the RayTech RNS 6.2
- Jim Innes - March 24, 2011
Thanks Jade.
Jim
- jackson401 - March 8, 2012
Is anyone actually using the process described on this thread to put MacENC-generated waypoints and routes into a RayMarine E or C series chart plotter? I want to implement it but would like to know if it's practical and not just possible.
Thanks,
Jackson
- drctdby - March 8, 2012
What I described in my 3-24-2011 post does work. The only problem is the amount of work you have to put in to get there. I'd still love it if the conversion process could be done inside MacENC