Screenshots

Aven provides a native look-and-feel interface on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix platforms. On Microsoft Windows, Survex is packaged with an installation wizard which automatically sets up file associations. Here is Aven running under Microsoft Windows 2000:

Convenient mouse controls provide a fast, interactive way of navigating the cave system down to small scales. Survey stations can be pinpointed with crosses and labelled.

The side panel permits navigation of the survey tree, quick location of stations via a find facility and coordinate displays. One can quickly measure between survey stations as shown in the image below.

User interface items can be removed if desired: note below how the compass and clinometer displays have been turned off.

Extremely complicated cave systems can be quickly processed and visualised. The survey shown below contains well over 10,000 survey legs:

Survex works seamlessly in different languages - translations are supplied for English, French, German, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Italian, Slovak, and US English. The image below shows viewing options in Aven using the German translations.

Fixed points can be highlighted (here in red), as can exported points (not shown here), and cave entrances (here in green). Note the surface surveys distinguished with dashed lines:

And here are some "teaser" screenshots of stuff under development:

• Lechuguilla with the experimental 3d passages
• Eishöhle with 3d passages on Windows XP
• Passages coloured by survey date
• Rendering tunnels with scanned walls

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