Here is a brief troubleshooting checklist:

• Before you install the software switch off any AV you may have running, and make sure you are online.
• Make sure all your installers are fresh, and haven't been sitting in your download folder for several months or years, and install the core app first (CC3+) by right clicking the installer and picking Run as administrator.
• Close CC3+ and then run the installers for any add ons you have, and finally install the latest update.
• Never install any part of the software with the app still open, but allow the app to open itself at the end of each installation as it is set to do by default, then close it even if you mean to use it straight away. Reopen it for use.
• Don't forget to turn your AV back on at the end of the process.

If you have done everything this way and you are still having trouble you might have a corrupted installer, which can happen sometimes over slow connections. So it might be worth re-downloading the installers and running them again in repair mode.

Those are all the things I can think that might have gone wrong, so if you are still in trouble it would be time to contact Tech Support through your account page.

I agree! Beautiful first map :)

Hi everyone :)

In this week's Live Mapping Session Ralf will be taking a detailed look at selection methods in CC3+ and how to edit various entities.

You are all very welcome to come along and join in, or if you miss it you can watch later.

Ok. How am I doing?

@Fersus The whole point of an annual is to have a wide variety of styles and tools available in each one - something new and different each month. What you are talking about is more akin to a Symbol Set, which might have all three scales in a similar style, or a very much larger collection of symbols and fills for just one. However, a Symbol Set is not something an artist just decides to make. It is something that PF may from time to time decide to invite an artist to create, because it takes a whole lot more time and money and the investment is a much greater risk. For this reason they are normally done by artists who have already proven themselves to be immensely popular, like Mike Schley. Meanwhile, whichever artist gets the job of doing a Symbol Set probably won't have much time left to do anything else - such as another 3-4 issues of this year's Cartographer's Annual - as I am already booked to do.

@Quenten I am glad you like Spectrum so much. Unfortunately there is not enough left over to make it worth another annual issue for a part 3.

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Here's another compass alternative, though I'm being told they aren't good enough (not gory enough) over on the FB Group page.