The VrOne Configuration can be accessed by either double-clicking on the Vr SOCET Configuration icon, or by using Windows Explorer to navigate to the \vr\bin\ directory and double-clicking on vrcfig_ss.exe.

In the VR Configuration window:

1. Project > Project Parameters
2. Use default directories? No
3. Configuration > XYZ Digitizer
4. XYZ Digitizer
5. BAE SYSTEMS SOCET SET
6. Configuration > Keyport
7. Keyport Type
8. Keyport 252 USB or Serial (if using a Keyport)
9. None (if not using a Keyport)
10. If the user wishes to always start with either the Mouse or XYZ Input: Vr SOCET Config: General > Start input device > select Mouse or XYZ Digitzer and click OK.

But from within VrOne, either input mode can be selected by entering digmou or digxyz in the VrOne key-in window.

If the user wants to use customized data files:

• Vr SOCET Config: Configuration > General > Function Key File > enter or browse to the custom file and click OK.
• Vr SOCET Config: Configuration > General > Keypad Command File > enter or browse to the custom file and click OK.
• Vr SOCET Config: Configuration > General > Macro File | enter or browse to the custom file and click OK.
• Vr SOCET Config: Configuration > Vector Graphics > Symbol File Name > enter or browse to the custom file and click OK.
• Vr SOCET Config: Configuration > Vector Graphics > Pen Table File Name > enter or browse to the custom file and click OK.

The colors used with VrOne can be defined in one of two ways (VrSOCET Config: Configuration > Vector Graphics > Use pen table?).

If this is set to Yes, then VrOne will use the specified pen table (which is one line above the Use pen table? line) and will map out the colors by VrOne layers. If the default VrOne pen table (\vr\data\default.pen) is opened with a text editor, the Layer / Entity Type / Pen Number (color) is shown. Each VrOne layer (1–10001) can have a separate pen number for line entities, splines, symbols and text. This means that the colors will always be fixed based on the entity type for a specific layer. (All lines found in layer 35 would have the same color.) The default is to have one pen number (color) for all of the entities within a layer, but this isn’t a requirement. If desired, one VrOne layer could have different colors for each of the four entity
types.

If the Use pen table? option is set to No, then the user will define colors to be used and won’t be forced to use the same color for all of the elements within a particular Layer-Entity type. This would then allow for the placement of utility valve, water valves, gas valves, etc. into the same VrOne layer, but each could have a different color.

If the Use pen table? option is set to Yes, it’s possible to cycle through the available colors as follows:

1. Insert a line into a VrOne file
2. Pick the line with Change Pen (Pen > Change Pen)
3. Press Button 2 to increment or Button 3 to decrement the pen number (color). The Change to pen number and color is shown in the main VrOne menu window.

Lastly, VrOne doesn’t display all color combinations to the screen, but only goes up to pen number 70. The screen display colors are determined by \vr\data\defaultscreen.ct, and this file also provides a cross-reference of pen number to color name. Please refer to Appendix A – Pen Table Colors for a listing of the default screen display colors.

SOCET SET Configuration

Once SOCET SET is running, VrOne can be loaded by selecting the VrOne SOCET icon from the desktop or by selecting VrOne | VrOne SOCET from the SOCET SET Extraction pulldown.

The current SOCET SET versions should include VrOne SOCET and VrOne Config in the SOCET SET Extraction pulldown menu. If VrOne is not present, it is possible to manually add those items to the menu with the following. Open \usr\geoset\internal_dbs\CONFIG\standard_qt_NT.cnf with a text editor and add the following highlighted VrOne lines to the Extraction section. Please note that tabs must be used to indent the lines: spaces won’t be recognized.

Extraction|0|0|0
Terrain|0|0|0
Automatic Extraction|0|2|0|$(EXEDIR)/ate PREF
Interactive Edit|2|1|0|$(EXEDIR)/ite PREF
Feature|0|0|0
Feature Specification Editor|0|0|0|$(EXEDIR)/spec_ed
Feature Extraction|2|1|0|$(EXEDIR)/fei PREF RT
Feature Database Merge|2|1|0|$(EXEDIR)/fdbm PREF
ClearFlite|2|1|0|$(EXEDIR)/clearflite
Merge|0|2|0|$(EXEDIR)/dtm_ftr PREF RT
Annotation & Counting|2|1|0|$(EXEDIR)/annot PREF
VrOne|0|0|0
VrOne SOCET|0|1|0|$(VRHOME)/bin/vrone_ss
VrOne Config|0|0|0|$(VRHOME)/bin/vrcfig_ss