Garmin GPS 12CX Owner's Manual

Also see for GPS 12CX: Specifications

34Creating a RouteActivating a RouteInverting a RouteCreating and Navigating RoutesTo create a route from the route definition page:1. Highlight the route number field, and pressENTER.2. Enter a route number, and pressENTER. (Select anempty route—without any waypoints listed—when cre-ating a new route.)3. Enter the first waypoint of your route, and pressENTER. As you continue entering the rest of yourwaypoints, the list will automatically scroll down.4. To change the route comment (automatically assignedto the route based upon the starting and final destina-tion waypoints), highlight the route comment field andpressENTER. Enter the new comment and pressENTER.Whenever you activate a route, it will automaticallyselect the route leg closest to your position as the activeleg. As you pass each waypoint in the route, the receiverwill automatically sequence and select the next waypointas the ‘active to’ waypoint.Activating and Inverting RoutesAfter a route has been entered, it can be either acti-vated in sequence or inverted from the route definitionpage. The process of activating or inverting a stored routetakes a storage route (routes 1-19) and copies it into theactive route (route 0) for navigation. The storage route isno longer needed and will be retained in its original for-mat under its existing route number.This system allows you to have an active route thatyou may edit during navigation and save as an entirelynew route from the original. You will have to copy theactive route to an unused storage route to save it, sincenew route or TracBack activation overwrites route 0.To activate a route:1. From the route definition page, highlight the routenumber field and pressENTER.2. Enter the route number to be activated, and pressENTER.3. Highlight ‘ACT?’, and pressENTER.To activate a route in inverted order:1. Follow the steps above, but select ‘INV?’, and pressENTER.REFERENCECreating& NavigatingRoutes