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Quick Guide
The quick guide is giving you a quick rough overview of the basic work flow operators must know to get a pipe inspection report that contains with the most important inspection data17.06.2020
WinCan Version 2020.8.xdata end users (engineers, local water authorities etc.) are especially interested in.
12.08.2022
WinCan Version 1.2022.13.1
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Introduction
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Once you have rearranged the panels according to your personal needs for the acquisition of main and lateral sections (satellites) or manholes this individual view (profile) can easily be saved for further WinCanVX sessions via the tab Views. The main interface (group of panels) as well as each single panel of course can be maximized to full screen size.
Launching WinCan VX
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Double-click on the WinCanVX desktop icon in order to launch the software. First get your personal license code activated (4) using the tab command Home > Manage License > License settings (1,2,3):
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This information is crucial as all inspections are assigned to a job and not to a project directly. A project on the other hand always contains just one single job (1 Project = 1 Job).
Entering project data
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Switch to the tab Sections to start with the survey. All data (i.e. section, inspection and observation records as well as media data) are saved continuously within the folder structure, which is administered in the background by WinCanVX:
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WinCan VX; Main Interface for Manhole Survey
Hit the tab Nodes to get a list of all manholes and connection points entered inside the current project. WinCanVX automatically creates the corresponding manhole whose name you entered into the section fields Upstream Manhole or Downstream Manhole.
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If you enter the total depth, all inlets and outlets as well as all parts for a specific manhole (1), WinCanVX will be able to draw a 3D view of that manhole (3). The terms used to describe the manhole parts (2) always depend on the currently used standard (e.g. PACP, WRC4, WSA, NZPIM etc. ):
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Entering Section and Inspection Data
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IMPORTANT:
WinCanVX NEVER deletes your data: deleted sections, inspections, laterals or manholes can always be restored via the project manager (Projects > Manage Projects). Deleted photos and video clips are moved directly into the project sub-folder TRASH and can be restored from there.
Recording and Playing Back Video Clips
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Always check the LiveVideo settings prior to start recording video clips with your camera equipment: WinCan VX officially supports two MPEG-encoding devices. After the installation of the software package WinCanVXDriverSetup.exe the corresponding entries appear in the dialogue box as shown below:
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Select the entry Vitec VM4 or MobileCap124 Sensoray 2253 depending upon which one of these MPEG encoding devices you have currently installed:
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Switch on the camera and hit the camera icon 
to show the LiveVideo signal in the video panel. Pushing the recording button then starts recording a video clip:
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Select the command Data Exchange > Media Distribution and follow the steps given by the wizard to have your project copied on a removable disk together with WinCanVX – running in the Viewer mode - or with a LightViewer software.
End customers thus are able to view all project data on their workstations without any licence.
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It is recommended to select the distribution type Normal for projects that contain inclination, scan or map data as the Light Viewer only shows basic data (inspection report, video clips, photos).
When selecting the option Normal the project data should be distributed to a USB-stick or USB-disk instead of burning them on a DVD as data are going to be launched much more quickly from USB-drives.
Project distributed with WinCanVX software (option Normal):
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Project distributed with the LightViewer software (option Light):
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Upload projects to WinCan-WEB
WinCan-WEB is a cloud-based service provided by the company CDLab (WinCan, Switzerland) in collaboration with a professional web hosting company.
This new service allows the CCTV-companies to upload their survey data to a host server, where it can be downloaded from at any time and on any spot on the world by an end customer. So this procedure is able to fully replace the sending of survey data as paper reports or as a batch of DVDs.
However WinCan-WEB is NOT thought to be used as a long term storage medium. Project data thus should only be available for a limited time span.
Create an account
In order to be able to upload and download projects you must create your own account launching your web browser and typing the address http://web.wincan.com. The main screen of WinCan-Web then tells you to either sign in with an existing user account or to register as a new user:
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Registration (1) as a new user requires the following information:
Name of the company (case sensitive)
Personal e-mail address (case sensitive)
Personal password (case sensitive)
Your registration will then be confirmed automatically via e-mail. Registration will give you the right for 45 days to use 25 GByte of server disk space for free.
Upload and view projects with Web viewer
At the beginning your personal account is showing an empty list in WinCan-Web. In order to upload a project, open it in WinCanVX and hit the command Tools > Manage Web Projects > Upload Current project (1):
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The panel that follows shows the status of the process in the progress bar. Besides that it provides you a list of all available projects on the local hard drive (2) and those which have already been uploaded (3).
You can thus manage your personal web space directly in WinCanVX. Use the button Log in/Log out (4) to enter the profil data of your personal web space.
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Once finished you are informed via e-mail the project has been successfully uploaded to your personal web space.
Send project links to end customers
In order to make uploaded projects accessible for end customers, run WinCanVX and hit the command Tools>Manage Web Projects>Manage Web Projects:
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Switch to the tab On Web and VX in the dialogue box that follows (2), select the desired project from the list of recently uploaded projects and hit the paper clip icon (3) in order to create a corresponding link:
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The dialogue that follows asks you to create a link (4), set an expiration date (5) and finally send it to the receiver (i.e. e-mail address of the end customer (6)).
Make sure the option Allow Download is checked so the end customer will be able to download the project from WinCan-Web.
Direct access to projects via guest account
The end customer himself is informed immediately via e-mail that he will be able to access the project data from now using the Web-Viewer:
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When clicking on the corresponding link, he is automatically signed in on the WinCan WEB platform with a GUEST-account, that just allows him to browse through that specific project and to download it to his local computer:
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Handy Shortcuts supported in WinCan VX
Customizing shortcuts for a given set of commands is a completely new feature in WinCanVX. Click on Home > Settings > Keyboard Entry and directly hit the corresponding key on your keyboard in order to define the desired shortcut:
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