Versions of SNFindPath

[hobknob]

I got it to sort of work, but then the map was so big that my computer crashed trying to zooom in enough to read it. Maybe it is time for a new computer.....

[cestvel]

You can eliminate some systems, if you use the avoid list on the right.

[hobknob]

Well, I do want all of the systems to show up on the map, I just need a better machine to do it. Once I get that figured out there is a plotter waiting to print them out for wall paper.

 

[Octus Imperium]

Well, I do want all of the systems to show up on the map, I just need a better machine to do it.  Once I get that figured out there is a plotter waiting to print them out for wall paper.

 

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Hope you have a big place with lots of walls....

[Lumeria]

Hope you have a big place with lots of walls....

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No kidding, these are 200" x 200"!!!!!!

[hobknob]

This is such a useful tool!!!!

 

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[EEOC]

we get this error!

 

Data saved to file C:\snrote\help.

You can generate a map with one of the following GraphViz commands:

dot -Tpng C:\snrote\help -o map.png

neato -Tpng C:\snrote\help -o map.png

 

 

Get yourself GraphViz. search the board or use this link:

GraphViz

 

You get a GraphViz file as export from SNFindPath.

 

You can use that with any graph drawing software, that understands GraphViz input files.

So you get a nice map out of it.

 

dot and neato are only two routines who generate a graph in a picture file.

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[cestvel]

we get this error!

 

Data saved to file C:\snrote\help.

You can generate a map with one of the following GraphViz commands:

  dot -Tpng C:\snrote\help -o map.png

  neato -Tpng C:\snrote\help -o map.png

 

 

Get yourself GraphViz. search the board or use this link:

GraphViz

 

You get a GraphViz file as export from SNFindPath.

 

You can use that with any graph drawing software, that understands GraphViz input files.

So you get a nice map out of it.

 

dot and neato are only two routines who generate a graph in a picture file.

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And where is the error?

 

You have saved a file to C:\SNROTE\help.

 

Get yourself GraphViz and use either neato or dot on that file.

[Lord Uriel]

Is there an idiot's guide to making this work? The pdf. user manual is in techno-speak which is as understandable to me as Swahali.

 

Thanks,

 

Lord Uriel

[cestvel]

I will try to get GraphViz running on Windows and will try to write a simple step by step guide.

 

You cannot mean SNFindPath, as it has no pdf documentation

[Lord Uriel]

I will try to get GraphViz running on Windows and will try to write a simple step by step guide.

 

You cannot mean SNFindPath, as it has no pdf documentation

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No, the SNFindPath works fine. I can export a file which I can sorta import into Graphviz. I open dot or neato and I know what to do with the input file. It's the rest of it that I don't get, and I'm really don't understand the manual.

 

Sorry, I've made a lot of progress in the past year with spreadsheets, but at the moment, I'm really lost here.

 

Lord Uriel

[ali-t-akua]

we get this error!

 

Data saved to file C:\snrote\help.

You can generate a map with one of the following GraphViz commands:

  dot -Tpng C:\snrote\help -o map.png

  neato -Tpng C:\snrote\help -o map.png

 

 

Get yourself GraphViz. search the board or use this link:

GraphViz

 

You get a GraphViz file as export from SNFindPath.

 

You can use that with any graph drawing software, that understands GraphViz input files.

So you get a nice map out of it.

 

dot and neato are only two routines who generate a graph in a picture file.

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I am getting this error as well. I have a copy of Graphviz and I can get that to work. i also have a copy of SNFindPath and can get that to work but I cannot get both of them to work together.

[cestvel]

There is not much about work together. SNFindPath exports a file.

This file you need to import into GraphViz with Dot or Neato.

 

What can be is, that neato crashes, because teh Graph will be to big.

 

I will look into that on the weekend.

[hobknob]

I have managed to use this with some very big maps, like 9 conected empires and all the associated mdb's and it has not crashed the program, but it has crashed a computer that was not up to the task. Whein I tried it on a better machine then it worked just fine.

 

Good luck

 

[cestvel]

Ok, here it goes:

 

1. Open SNFindPath normally.

2. Select the system you would like on top (e.g. the Homesystem)

3. Click Export to GraphViz and choose a name for the data to save. e.g. test.map

4. Start up the GraphViz Program "dotty" (an empty window appears)

5. press right mous button inside the window and choose "load graph" from the appearing menu

6. navigate to your file, you saved with SNFindPath and load that

7. Now the Graph is drawn in the Window (if you do not find it first, use the "birdseye view" form the RMB menu (be sure to click on an empty space)

 

Same with lneato for circular graphs.

 

You can print out the graph here, too.

 

You can generate PNG-Files this way:

1. open a command line prompt.

2. go to the directory where you installed GraphViz: e.g. C:\Program Files\ATT\GraphViz

3. go to the bin directory there

4. type in the either command line listed in output window of SNFindPath:

e.g. dot -T png C:\TEMP\test.map -o map.png

5. this generates a graphics file in the PNG format as map.png.

6. open the map.png with a graphics program which can open it (all browsers should be able to open it)