Using the Route Panel
The route panel uses the data collected from EDSM by EDDiscovery and allows you to plot a route throughout the whole galaxy.
You select either a system or galaxy object name (in the From and To Boxes) or enter a X/Y/Z co-ordinate in either if you want to go to an unexplored place.
You can autopopulate the To and From boxes with either the currently selected [history grid](Using the History Grid) entry or the target system or object.
Select the maximum jump distance. At the start it will show the current jump distance with the cargo indicated calculated from your current ship.
You can change cargo value to an indicated cargo load, and the max jump value will be recomputed.
Or you can enter any value in the max jump box. This is useful for long galactic journeys, where you would use say 900 ly as the range and then use the frontier in game router to jump between each waypoint given here.
The Spansh/EDD configuration button allows you to select if lookups of stars is allowed from EDSM, Spansh, Both or Spansh then EDSM if Spansh can't find the star.
This is a fast direct line router. You can select the metric to use to find the route, indicate if boosts are allowed, and if you have the Spansh DB loaded, indicate if to visit permit systems.
Click Find Route to compute. The router will warn you if your selecting a very large number of jumps.
The Spansh/EDD configuration button affects the route finder. If a waypoint can't be found in the system DB, it will use the web services to try and find a star. We recommend using Spansh for this as EDSM throttles queries.
You can use the Spansh routers to find stars. Various different searches are listed. Each one will open a dialog allowing you to configure details of the search.
The icons allow you to export the route to:
- 3D MAP
- Excel
- To the expedition panel
- Save direct as an expedition.