The lines of Guides they are extremely important components for the execution of agricultural operations. They determine the path on which the machine must walk during application, so that the entire area of the field is treated, with minimal overlaps and failures.
Use Guide menu
On the Settings during Navigation, accessed by the button , if there is no active guide on the map, it will be present in the Double List the item Guide Type showing the currently selected type. If any guide is loaded on the map, the same list item will be displayed with the label Guide, and its value is presented with the name of the tab used, in the format Guide N – Type, Where N represents the sequential number of the creation of the guide, and Type is one of the values listed in the topic Guide Type.
Selecting the item and pressing the edit button , the Vertical Menu in Use Guide containing three areas, as shown in the following image.
Open Guide
In the Open Guide area, a File List containing the guides already created for the field that is currently open in navigation. The name of the tab is shown in the left column of the table, as Guide N – Type, Where N represents the sequential number of the creation of the guide, and Type is the type of tab listed in the topic Guide Type. The right column shows the date and time the guide was created. In the file data description area, various information regarding the guide is presented, such as its name, type, coordinates of points A and B, date and time of creation, and the distance between points A and B. The following figure shows an example of the Open Guide screen.
Selecting any of the tabs in the list and pressing the confirm button , the tab will be loaded and used on the navigation screen.
Create New Guide
When choosing the Create New Guide area, the Guide Type for the user to select which guide model he wants to create in the field that is being used in navigation.
1)Create Straight Guide
Selecting Straight and pressing the confirm button , the Create Straight Guide screen is presented, with three options for creating the guide, as shown in the figure below.
a) Mark New Point A and B
When selecting this option and pressing the confirm button , the tab will be reset on the navigation screen. The point A button
will be available, and the user must follow the procedure shown in the topic Marking Line Points.
b) Type Point A and Course
If the user has the coordinate values at hand – Latitude and Longitude – point A, and also the angle value of the Course in relation to the north in the clockwise direction, the option Enter Point A and Bearing should be used, as shown in the following figure. When filling in the fields and pressing the confirm button , the tab will be created and displayed on the navigation screen.
b) Type Points A and B
When the user has the coordinate values – Latitude and Longitude – from point A and also from point B, this option should be used, as shown in the image below. Filling in the fields and pressing the confirm button , the new tab will be created and displayed on the navigation screen.
2)Create Curve Guide
If the item is selected Curve and pressed the confirm button , the tab will be reset on the navigation screen, and the procedure described in Marking Curve Points. must be followed.
3)Create Free Guide
Selecting the guide type Free and pressed the confirm button , the tab will be reset on the navigation screen, and the procedure described in Scoring Free Guide Points must be followed.
4)Open Guide Project
When the user selects the item Project and press the confirm button , the screen for File List containing the guide projects in the format Shapefile available in the monitor’s internal memory GeoNave. The selection of the guide project file is shown in Select Guide Design.