center dot in control circles

When I export the course to OCAD or EPS there appears an undesired dot in the center of the control circle. How can I avoid this ?

Hej Asger,

The dot is shown for all ski-O courses. Are you sure that you haven't accidentally defined your course as a Ski-O course?

Best regards,
Finn

Thanks. It was the case. But it happens easily when you open the course dialog window and use the mouse scrollwheel because that field has focus.

Admitted, this is not ideal.

Note that my interpretation of the rules is that the centre dot should be used for clarification for Ski-O controls where it is required, not necessarily for the whole course.

The newer 2010 MTB rules makes this very clear by having 2 different symbols, the dotted circle for where it is needed and the empty one for other places (702 and 840).

I am a bit puzzled why the Ski-O one is 810 - maybe there is a different range of circle dimensions for the two. There is a slight variation in size of centre dot I suppose. The other difference is nasty - when layering colours the Purple circle should be below the Green colour used for the Ski-O tracks, but the centre-dot has to be ABOVE the Green so it can be seen ... I don't know about MTB-O w.r.t this.

I guess ideally I'd like to see all courses have a default circle of no-dot with the option to change on a per-control basis (an additional per-course default might also be appropriate). I include Foot-O in this only since for some types of lower-key micro-sprints I have used centre-dot in the past so I didn't need to provide control descriptions.

Apart from the centre-dot are there any other differences between Ski-O and Foot-O in CONDES? Availability of equipment change for instance?

Cheers

JK

Hi John

Your insightful thoughts are noted as input to a future version. Thanks!

Best regards,
Finn

I too would like to see the centre dot as optional for each control - in our case for a score event (rogaine). These maps are often about 1:30,000 and th edot helps when placing controls on some features.

This functionality is planned for Condes 9. Thanks for providing valuable feedback.

Finn