Condes helps you with your course planning by doing the tedious task of keeping track of controls and courses, and by printing the courses and maps.

When you use Condes, you have the map on the screen, and you place the controls and draw your courses with the mouse.  You can use a map file created with OCAD (.ocd), or you can use a bitmap file.

Condes keeps for each event (in the event file) a list of controls, courses and classes for the event, as well as various other settings related to the event. 

Condes stores data for an event in a "Condes Event File".  This file has the .wcd extension.

The event file also stores information about the map file that is used, but the map file itself is a separate file. Make sure to store a copy of the map file on your hard disk before you start.

Here are just a few of the tasks that Condes does for you:

• Place your controls visually on the map
• Course lengths will be calculated automatically.
• Plan a course by just clicking on the controls that the course will visit.
• Make printouts of the map and the controls/courses on your desktop printer.
• With a color printer you can print map and course in one single operation.
• Export the courses in EPS format, which is the preferred format for most printing houses, when you want to use offset printing.
• Export the map and course in bitmap format for publishing on a web site.

Getting started...

For a quick start with Condes, first create an "Event" and the associated event file to save your work in. 

• Select the "New event file" item in the File menu. 
• A "wizard" will guide you through the process and help you link your event data file to the map file.
• Save the work into a Condes event file by using the Save event file item in the File menu. 

Now you have created the Event and the event file, you can start planning your courses. 

You'll now see the map on the screen.  This is the Course Layout Editor, or CLE among friends. 

The map is much like a tapestry or a background for your courses.   Now you can start drawing your course on top of the map image.

At any time, you can press F1 and get help that is relevant to where you are in the program.

Please now continue to Introduction to on screen course planning