Discussion: Condes question

Does anyone know if it is possible to have different sets of boundary lines or out-of-bounds areas or mandatory crossings or other things like that for a single Condes file? I have a course that is essentially two loops on the same area, and on the first loop I want to add a bunch of things and on the second loop I want to add a different set of things and not show the first set. There will be a map exchange after the first loop and I know how to get the course to show each loop separately, but I wondered if there was a way to also show different extraneous objects (like boxes indicating a set of controls to be taken in random order).

Haven't found a way to do that. I usually use the workaround of exporting the courses to ocad then adding the extras / changes as ocad symbols. But if anyone knows a simpler way I'd love to hear about it.

My workaround was similar: save to two different Condes files and only add the extraneous lines at the very end. But I wanted to see the how the layout looked before finalizing controls and since some controls moved I now have to redo all that.

I suppose I could make two copies of the OCAD map file and put the different lines/extra symbols I want on those and then back in Condes use the two files as two different canvases for the printing of the two different loops.

There are some drawing tools in Condes for out-of-bounds areas and uncrossable boundaries. If you can only those drawing tools, you can have two canvasses with different boundaries, create a "new course" that is a "copy of" the original, and assign it to the other canvas. The canvas will remain intact as you make changes to the courses, but you have to watch the revision control to delete the "old copy" course, and recreate it as necessary. You might have to somehow assign the drawing objects to "this canvas only"---Sometimes it asks, sometimes I'm not sure.

I guess I'm wrong. I can't figure out how to specify course objects like OOB and fences and uncrossable boundaries to be only on one canvas.

Always the gold standard answer is to email Finn.

It looks to me the only possible way is to use exclusively "graphics objects", which means---"new mask area" or some sort of text or image overlay (like a jpg), because
graphics objects can be separated by canvas in the Canvas-Map dialog box.

Have you tried using the same map as two canvases, and in Setup Control Rules for canvas 2 dialog box (Canvas/Controls...) select "Use the same control coordinates for another canvas" option?

Bingo. There was a check box on that screen about using the same OOB symbols etc. Unchecking that makes it work the way I wanted. Thanks!!