CRS+ features and screenshots
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Main Screen - Click and Drag Design You don't need an altimeter, a GPS unit, nor topographical mapping software to quickly create interesting and challenging courses with CRS+. You can manually create courses using our powerful editing tools or start by opening an existing .crs file packaged with CompuTrainer or from the web. You can also create .crs files from .3dc files using CompuTrainer's Export function available in the latest 3D software. The display is both graphically and numerically informative throughout the operations, note the grade indication and waypoint text indications on the graphical display field. By selecting the whole course in the design view, you can use "replicate" to build multi-lap courses. Even mirror a section of a course to create an "out and back" course. You can mirror and set of sections, to simulate shorter out and back stubs like you'd get by climbing mountains with dead-ends. Finally, save the course, and ride your Computrainer 3D by "importing" the .crs file that CyclingPeaks CRS+ created.
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Courses from GPS, Polar, or Topo Software
Import files from your Polar s710/720/725 Altimeter. He could also use data from their Garmin GPS receiver, or any Topographic software packages that support the .GPX file format, or the Garmin Forerunner .XML format. In this case the ride is an out and back. This ride is packaged as a demo with the software. The altitude data is normalized to start at 0 elevation. We show an intermediate screen for clarity of the original data. Note the symmetry, but that the air-pressure had changed over the course of my ride (my journey over the Ottawa river, the low points at start and finish, show different elevation by 10m). In frame (2), the Peak-fit routine creates the sectioned-roadways connecting grade-inversions with no smoothing. Your ride data is interpolated to a fine grid, giving excellent detail capturing for road and mountain bike courses. The peak-fitting algorithm gives a set of roads of varying length, connecting the local low-points to local high-points with a constant grade. Here the "drop lines" are so frequent the display is cramped. This can be resolved using the Zoom-in function, shown in frame (3). To reduce the number of sections (and thus reduce the length of files and complexity), you can "smooth" your original data, and your course is re-computed with a more manageable number of sections shown, as in frame (4). There is also a "Segmented fit" algorithm which uses equal-sized sections of configurable length, and 1km sections are shown in frame(5). You can also use a "Manual fit" procedure if you would like full control over the fitting of roadways to the data (not shown).
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