| Contents |
| Project Manager Window |
 | Tool Bar |
| Status Bar |
| Project Manager Overview |
| Getting Started |
| Organizing Cave Data |
| Terminology and Conventions |
| Step-By-Step Instructions |
| Step-By-Step, Create Single Data File |
| Creating New Projects With The Project Wizard |
| Step-By-Step, Edit/View Single Data File |
| Step-By-Step, Edit/View Project |
| Using COMPASS With Windows |
| Building Surveys and Projects |
| Choosing Filenames |
| Surveys |
| Data Files |
| Working With A Single Data File |
| Compass Folders |
| Using Windows Folders/Directories |
| Creating Survey Files |
| Running Programs Manually |
| Processing And Displaying Data |
| Project Files |
| Creating Project Files |
| Linking Survey Files |
| Working With Survey Projects |
| Project Settings |
| Node Icons |
| Selecting A Node |
| Expanding And Collapsing The Tree |
| Showing Surveys |
| Inserting New Nodes |
| Renaming Files |
| Editing Nodes |
| Deleting Nodes |
| Drag And Drop |
| Finding An Item In The Tree |
| Modified Flag |
| Opening An Existing Project |
| Creating A New Project |
| Saving A Project |
| Save Project As |
| Creating An Empty Project |
| File Properties Editor |
| Selecting A File |
| Entering Node Comments |
| Using The Path |
| Importing Files |
| Convergence - File-Level |
| Tying Files To Each Other and the World |
| Editing/Entering Links and Fixed Stations |
| Zone Crossing |
| Step-by-step Instructions |
| Geographic Fixed Stations |
| Fixed Stations As Loop |
| Viewing Geo-referenced Coordinates |
| Entering Links |
| What Are Links? |
| Carrying Links Across Files |
| Mixed Linked And Unlinked Files |
| Entering Links Into The Grid |
| Closing Loops Across Separate Data Files |
| Other Uses For Links |
| Manual Linking Multi-File Surveys |
| Deleting Non-Essential Files |
| Backup Files |
| Closed Data Files |
| Sub-Plot Files |
| The Main Plot File |
| Inserting A New File |
| Creating A New Data File |
| Manipulating Surveys And Files |
| Opening Files |
| Moving Surveys Inside A File |
| Copying Surveys Between Files |
| Renaming Surveys |
| Deleting Surveys |
| Searching For Surveys |
| Viewing Surveys |
| Sorting By Date |
| Saving Surveys |
| Clearing A List |
| Copying or Moving Surveys From Several Files |
| Creating New Files |
| Undoing Changes To Files |
| Merging Files |
| Copying Projects |
| Manipulating Windows File and Folders |
| Node Icons |
| Creating New Surveys |
| Deleting Non-Essential Files |
| Backup Files |
| Sub-Plot Files |
| The Main Plot File |
| Editing Surveys |
| Processing And Viewing Cave Data |
| Processing Options |
| Project Status |
| Data Files (".DAT") and Plot Files (".PLT") |
| Cave Statistics |
| Exporting Statistics |
| Searching Statistics |
| The Data Summary |
| Closure Errors |
| Loop Stations |
| Duplicate Shots |
| Station Coordinates |
| Excluded Stations |
| Suspended Stations |
| Survey Information |
| Yearly Statistics |
| Sorted Surveys |
| Station Sequences |
| Custom Export |
| Closure Summary |
| Shot Information |
| Closure Information |
| Back-Sight Agreement |
| Processing Without Viewing |
| Declination Statistic |
| Survey Tesm Analysis |
| Surveyor Grid |
| Surveyor Details |
| Survey Graph |
| Surveyor Report |
| Understanding Survey Errors |
| Random Errors |
| Systematic Errors |
| Blunders |
| The Accumulation Of Survey Errors |
| Locating Bad Loops |
| Blunder Signatures |
| Locating Individual Blunders |
| Locating Blunders and Gross Errors |
| Page-1: Find Blundered Loops |
| Overall Survey Quality |
| The Loop List |
| Searching For Loops |
| Page-2: Find Blundered Shots |
| Page-3: Multi-Loop Intersects |
| Page-4: Bad Tie-ins |
| Details of Finding Blunders |
| Hints For Locating Blunders |
| Difficult Blunder Cases |
| Printing and Saving Blunder Information |
| Testing The Blunder Features |
| Errors |
| Shots With No Tie-In |
| Disk Errors |
| Memory Errors |
| Abort Errors |
| Zero Length Loop |
| Uncloseable Loop |
| Unable To Open Error |
| Windows Errors |
| Program Bugs |
| Link Errors |
| Trouble Shooting |
| Settings |
| Settings Overview |
| General Options |
| Compiling With Flags |
| Using Instrument Correction Factors |
| Back Sight Averaging |
| Units |
| Uncertainty Settings |
| Declination Settings |
| Compile Options |
| Purging The Suspend Buffer |
| Using CLP Files With MAK |
| Using UTM Convergence |
| Breaking Survey Loops |
| Post Processing Options |
| Shot Flag Overrides |
| Overriding LRUD Flags |
| Settings Summary |
| Close Options |
| Loop Closing Options |
| Close Shot Flag Overrides |
| Profile Options |
| Directory Setup |
| Saving Setings |
| The Compiler |
| Compiler Overview |
| Origin Shots |
| Normal Shots |
| Backsights |
| Hanging Shots |
| Loops |
| Using The Cave Survey Compiler |
| Compiler Progress |
| Loop Closer |
| Using The Loop Closer |
| Close Progress Display |
| Loops With Fixed Stations |
| Loop Closing Theory |
| How The Loop Closer Work |
| Loop Closing Myths |
| Measuring Loop Quality |
| Importing And Exporting Projects |
| Importing An SEF File |
| SEF Import Options |
| The SEF Import Window |
| SEF Import Errors And Warning Messages |
| Dealing With Imported Files |
| SEF Import Issues |
| Exporting An SEF File |
| SEF ExporT Issues |
| Importing CMAP Files |
| Importing Pocket Topo Files |
| Spreadsheet Export |
| Spreadsheet Import |
| SMAPS RSD Import |
| COMPASS Programs And Files |
| Survey Editor |
| The Viewer |
| Accessory Programs |
| Large Files and Windows Memory |
| Technical Details |
| Windows Configuration |
| Version Numbers |
| Project File Format |
| Project Format - File List |
| Project Format - Folder |
| Project Format - Fixed Station |
| Project Format - Linking |
| Parameters |
| Base Location |
| Differences From The DOS Version |
| Combing Files |
| Geographic Reference Systems |
| Local Reference Systems |
| Geographic Measurements |
| Geographic Editor/Calculator |
| Geographic Calculator Overivew |
| Magnetic Declination |
| Page-1 - UTM/Longitude/Latitude |
| Page-1 - Declination |
| Page-2 - Map |
| Declination and Convergence |
| Declination |
| Convergence |
| Declination/Convergence - Compass Settings |
| DirectoryFolder |
| PathDef |