I have a need to open an OCAD (11CS) course planning file in Purple Pen. Does anyone know of a sneaky way of doing this? I've tried exporting the OCAD file to xml but PP won't open this and neither will it open the xml file saved as csv. And, of course, it won't open the OCAD file directly either.
Just in case anyone's wondering why, it's to use PP's superior facility to measure optimal Sprint course lengths, all the planning being done in OCAD.
Geeky OCAD/Purple Pen question
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Re: Geeky OCAD/Purple Pen question
This may defeat your objective of accurate measurement, but PP will open .pdf map files, if you install Ghostscript, which it automatically offered to me the first time I tried to use a pdf map file. You could 'print' the map to pdf using something like cutepdf.
Alternatively, will OCAD 11CS allow you to "save as" an earlier version which PP can open ?
Alternatively, will OCAD 11CS allow you to "save as" an earlier version which PP can open ?
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Re: Geeky OCAD/Purple Pen question
Ah - it's not the map file I'm interested in, it's the course setting file, i.e. then one with all the control position data and allocation of controls to courses too.
I've come to the conclusion that PP cannot open course setting files in general unless they are .ppen files. For example it cannot even open it's own files when they have been saved as .xml, something I experimented with when trying to open OCAD's XML export.
I've now transferred some 70+ controls manually from OCAD to PP, and rebuilt 19 courses manually too to achieve what I want. But it did take a looong time ...
I've come to the conclusion that PP cannot open course setting files in general unless they are .ppen files. For example it cannot even open it's own files when they have been saved as .xml, something I experimented with when trying to open OCAD's XML export.
I've now transferred some 70+ controls manually from OCAD to PP, and rebuilt 19 courses manually too to achieve what I want. But it did take a looong time ...
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Re: Geeky OCAD/Purple Pen question
Why not use Condes for planning - much more user friendly than OCAD and measuring different routes is pretty quick and easy.
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Re: Geeky OCAD/Purple Pen question
Big Jon wrote:Why not use Condes for planning - much more user friendly than OCAD and measuring different routes is pretty quick and easy.
I'll second that. I always use Condes in the planning stage.
Also, for Sprint events (also MTB and SkiO) you can use the new "planner's route" capability to store your estimate at the shortest route between controls and hence generate the shortest actual running distance.
Although using 2Drerun also does a good job of this:
http://news.worldofo.com/2015/02/26/int ... ng-module/
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Re: Geeky OCAD/Purple Pen question
Iits a shame you can't open it in something like Notepad++ then save the format
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