Look I have been fighting this thing for a week now. There have been several guys give some suggestions but no one has been beating down the door to help me. If my post offend you don't read them. I would love real help from anyone. I followed the directions you gave me in this post and there is no green box. What now? Calling hummingbird is out because they told me not to record to a SD card. If I did I had to change the settings for it to work. Yes, I am very frustrated with this thing.


Quote Originally Posted by CamoHunter View Post
DUDE! Enough with your profanities! I read your customer service post as well. Seriously, it's okay to be frustrated, but let's grow up a little shall we? You have several guys here willing to take time out of their day to try to help you. But I'm done if that's the kind of attitude I'm going to get to experience with trying to help you out.

Now, can we move on??

Part of me suspects that the size of the box you're using is small, and you're only updating a very small portion of your lakemaster map, and thus not able to see it when you put your sd card into your unit.

Here's what I want you to try.

1. Open up the program.
2. First, go to Tools --> Settings --> General --> Now, under Map Generation, adjust the Internal Map size to 7000 x 7000 m, and click "OK".
3. You'll get a pop up that says "You must restart AutoChart for a change in map size to have effect." Click on "OK".
4. Close the program.

1. Open AutoChart again.
2. Click on File --> New.
3. On the map, is there a green box enclosing the area where you made your sonar recording? If there is, right-click on that box, and click "Map Here".
4. It should now display a red box, and a number of data points inside that red box where you made your sonar recording.
5. Your next step, is to click on the icon at the top of the program that says "Create Map".
6. Your map should now display depth contour lines with an area of colors displayed between the contours. (Mine are Yellow to Red in color)
7. Now, click on the "Lakemaster Update" icon. You'll see a popup that says "adding new content to your custom LakeMaster map".
8. Then you'll see another popup that says "Your LakeMaster SD card was successfully updated with new chart data. Would you like to change background map display to the custom LakeMaster Map?"
9. Click on "OK".
10. Now, before moving or panning around the map anywhere, adjust the transparency slider bar at the left side of the screen. As you adjust the transparency, you should be able to see the Red/Yellow depth map go away, and see the underlying lakemaster contours that were created. If you don't see those, something happened and your lakemaster sd card was not updated properly.

Depending on the size of your sonar recording, that may cover all of it, or it may have just updated a small portion of it. Lets just worry about these steps so far, and proceed further if we can get that part figured out.