surpac plotting

Introduction In Surpac you can create plots using: • Autoplot • File-based plotting Autoplot is essentially What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) plotting from the Surpac graphics environment. It is simple and easy to use. File-based plotting allows you to perform more complex plotting functions

Plotting in Surpac 6.0

May 2007

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Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Setting the Work Directory 2

Autoplot 3

Workflow 3

Plan View Plotting 5

Three Dimensional Plotting 9

Section Plotting 11

File-based plotting 34

Creating Plan View Maps 37

Importing/Exporting Maps and Entities 60

Plan View Map of Drillhole Traces 63

Section View Map of Drillhole Data 66

Creating Multi-Viewport Maps 72

Title Block Definitions 92

Appendix 1: Plot Priorities 99

Prior to proceeding with this tutorial, you should ensure you have the following items:

A copy of the software for installation This is usually installed from a CD, but the

software can be downloaded from the www.surpac.com website

Objectives

The objective of this document is to enable you to plot from Surpac

Setting the Work Directory

A work directory is the default directory for saving Surpac files Files used in this tutorial are

stored in the folder:

<installation directory>\demo_data\tutorials\plotting

where <installation directory> is the directory in which Surpac was installed

Task: Setting the Work Directory

1 In the Surpac Navigator, right-click the plotting folder

2 From the popup menu, select Set as work directory

The name of the work directory is displayed in the title bar of the Surpac window

There are two mandatory steps to create a plot file with Autoplot:

3 Display the data to be plotted

String files DTM files Database Block models Plug-ins

Display data in graphics

Display data in

graphics

String styles, colour, marker styles and text are all plotted as they are displayed in graphics

4 Run Autoplot and specify parameters such as sheet size, scale, etc

Enter Presentation Parameters

Enter title block text

Enter grid parameters

Run Autoplot

Run Autoplot

Plan View Plotting

Task: Use Autoplot to Plot Data

1 Open the file soil1.str by dragging it into graphics

2 From the Display menu, select Hide strings, then By selection

Click the strings that you do not want in the final plot For example, string 1000 represents the soil sample locations and should not be plotted as a line

3 Click ESC to exit the Hide strings function

You should have an image on screen like the following:

4 From the Display menu, select Point, then Markers

5 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply

6 From the Display menu, select Point, then Attributes

7 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply

The display is updated with the soil sample locations and grades displayed

8 From the Plotting menu, select Autoplot

9 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply

10 Click and drag to select a small area of the screen to plot

The scale is calculated to fit the A3 paper size

11 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply

12 Enter an interval of 100 for X and Y Grid Lines, select full lines for your Grid Type, then

click Apply

At this point the plot will be processed and the Navigator will be updated In this

case, the layer name is soil1.str so the resultant plot file will be soil1_str.dwf

Surpac starts the Plot Preview window with the file displayed as shown

Three Dimensional Plotting

You can create a plot of any data, including solids, block models, etc in any three-dimensional orientation with Autoplot

Task: Create a Three Dimensional Plot

1 Open three_dimensional_view.swa

2 Click the Autoplot icon

3 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply

The plot is displayed in the Plot Preview window

4 From the File menu, select Close to exit the Plot Preview window

5 Click Reset graphics

If you have difficulty with these steps, run _01a_autoplot_3d.tcl, and click Apply on each

form that is displayed

4 From the Database menu, select Display, then Drillholes

5 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply

6 From the Database menu, select Sections, then Define

7 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply

8 From the Database menu, select Display, then Drillholes

9 Enter the information as shown on the Geology patterns tab

Enter the information as shown on the Labels tab, and then click Apply

Note: Right click in the empty space below the first row and select Add to add a second row

to the table

The data is displayed as shown

Notice that the section number is displayed in the Status bar at the bottom of the window

10 From the Database menu, select Sections, then Next

Notice that the Next section icon is displayed on the toolbar

11 Click the Next section icon until the 7320 section is displayed, as shown

Note: If you have difficulty with these steps, click the Reset graphics icon , then open

section_7320_north.swa

12 Click the Autoplot icon

13 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply

14 Press the F1 key

15 Left click and drag in graphics to move the box as shown

16 Press the F2 key

17 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply

The file section.dwf is created and displayed in the Plot Preview window as shown

18 From the File menu, select Close to close the Plot Preview window

19 Click Reset graphics

If you have difficulty with these steps, run _01b_autoplot_section.tcl, and click Apply on

each form that is displayed

Task: Create a Section Plot with a Plan Strip

1 Drag and drop section_7320_north.swa to display the data as in the previous task

2 Click the Autoplot icon

3 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply

4 Press the F1 key

5 Left click and drag in graphics to move the box

6 Press the F2 key

7 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply

The file section_with_plan.dwf is created and displayed in the Plot Preview window, as

shown

8 From the File menu, select Close to close the Plot Preview window

9 Click Reset graphics

If you have difficulty with these steps, run _01c_autoplot_section_plan_strip.tcl, and click

Apply on each form that is displayed

Task: Create Multiple Section Plots

1 Drag and drop section_7320_north.swa to display the data in section view

2 Click the Autoplot icon

3 Enter the information as shown

4 Click the Batch sections tab

5 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply

6 Press the F1 key

7 Click and drag to move the box as shown:

8 Press the F2 key

9 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply

The following files will be created:

10 Drag and drop multi_section.dwf to display the plot

11 Drag and drop multi_section_01.dwf to display the plot

12 Drag and drop multi_section_02.dwf to display the plot

13 Drag and drop multi_section_03.dwf to display the plot

14 From the File menu, select Close to close the Plot Preview Window

If you have difficulty with these steps, run _01d_autoplot_multiple_sections.tcl, and click

Apply on each form that is displayed

Task: Create a Title Block for Multiple Section Plots

1 From the Plotting menu, select Plotting Sheet setup window

2 From the Title Blocks menu, select Copy

3 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply

4 Click and drag the right and left mouse buttons and/or use the mouse wheel to zoom the title block, as shown

5 From the Title Blocks menu, select Edit, then Delete item

6 Click the text “Plan No.” to delete it

7 From the Title Blocks menu, select Create, then Autoplot section details

8 Click near the previous location of “Plan No.”

9 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply

Note: Insert a space after the last character of the Prefix, and before the first character of

the Suffix For example, the Northing Prefix is “Section<space>:<space>”

The field name [Autoplot section] is displayed in the title block

Task: Create Multiple Section Plots

1 Drag and drop section_7320_north+solid.swa to display a section with a solid model

2 Right click to the right of the menus, move the cursor to Toolbars, and then click Scale

and transparency

3 Drag the transparency slider to set the transparency of triangles to 50%

4 Click the Autoplot icon

5 Enter the information as shown

6 Click the Batch section tab

7 Enter the information as shown

8 Click the Legends tab

9 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply

10 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply

11 Press the F1 key

12 Click and drag to move the box as shown

13 Press the F2 key

14 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply

The following files will be created:

15 Drag and drop multi_solid_section.dwf to display the plot in the Plot Preview window

16 Click and drag the right and left mouse buttons and/or use the mouse wheel to zoom in

on the title block as shown:

17 Click and drag the right and left mouse buttons and/or use the mouse wheel to zoom in

File-based plotting

Workflow for File-based plotting

Overview

File-based plotting allows you to produce more complex plots

For File-based plotting, Surpac needs to know where to find the data, what to plot, and also

how to plot the data

Before you produce a plot in Surpac you must first define a Map The map definition details what is to be plotted

Maps consist of Entities, which refer to the set of instructions that indicates to Surpac how to plot the data

Entity definitions consist of smaller groups of instructions called Attributes

An Attribute provides information such as:

• what is to be plotted (e.g a line, symbol, text, point number etc.)

• which fields of a string file to plot

• where to plot data

• how to plot text (e.g height, angle)

• which pen to use

In this chapter you will learn how to create the following maps:

Example 1

Example 2

These maps contain the three types of entities in Surpac

These are:

• Sheet entities - presentation aspects e.g grid, title block, border

• String entities - physical features stored as strings

• Note entities - tables printed from files containing text data

String and note entities are created and modified within Surpac

Sheet entities are created and modified via the Sheet entities window interface and are stored

Creating Plan View Maps

Task: Create an Ore Block Plan

You will generate a plot of some ore block strings kbb135.str using an existing entity called

ORE BLOCK, within an existing map definition called ORE BLOCKS

The entity is made up of two operations: a line operation which draws a line around the ore block and a string operation which plots a text description field at the centre of the ore block

1 From the Plotting menu, select Entity, then Edit

2 Select ORE BLOCK from the list, then click Apply

3 View the displayed Define a String Entity form which defines the ORE BLOCK entity

4 After reviewing the Define a String Entity form, click Cancel

5 From the Plotting menu, select Map, then Edit

6 Select the ORE BLOCKS map definition, and then click Apply

The form will now display the fields as shown:

7 Click Cancel

8 From the Plotting menu, select Process, then Map

9 Select ORE BLOCKS in the displayed table, and then click Apply

10 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply

Notice that the checkbox Display plot after processing has been ticked This will

11 Enter the information as shown on the next two forms, and then click Apply

A *.dwf file is created based on the name of the map definition

i.e in this case the first processed map will be called oreblocks.dwf with subsequent maps called oreblocks_01.dwf, then oreblocks_02.dwf, oreblocks_03 etc

The map is displayed in the Plot Preview window

12 From the Plot Preview window menu, select Create, then Text

13 Click a point for the text to be displayed in the plot, fill in the form as shown, and then

click Apply

14 Click ESC to terminate the input text mode

15 From the File menu, select Save, then click Apply to save the file

Task: View Data for Plotting

1 Open pit1.str

2 From the Display menu, select Hide everything

Note: The alias for Hide everything is CS ( for Clear Screen) In all following cases where

you wish to hide everything, type CS into the function chooser and then press ENTER

3 From the Display menu, select Strings, then With strings numbers

4 Fill in the form as shown, then click Apply

Notice that string 1 contains the crest and toe strings for the pit

5 Type CS into the function chooser, then press ENTER

6 From the Display menu, select Strings, then With strings numbers

7 Fill in the form as shown, and then click Apply

Notice that string 2 contains the pit boundary

8 Type CS into the function chooser, then press ENTER

9 From the Display menu, select Strings, then With strings numbers

10 Fill in the form as shown, and then click Apply

11 Type PS (for Plot Strings) into the function chooser, then press ENTER

12 Fill in the form as shown, and then click Apply

In this example, string 9999 will not be plotted

15 From the Display menu, select Strings, then With strings numbers

16 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply

Notice that there are three segments for string 1 and a single segment for string 100

19 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply

20 From the View menu, select Window, then In

21 Click and drag a box around the shape to window in

22 Press ESC to terminate the window in function

24 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply

Notice that the d1 attribute is displayed at the centroid of the shape

25 Click Reset graphics

26 Open bor1.str

27 From the Display menu, select Strings, then With strings numbers

28 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply

Notice that the points are all in string 1

29 Type CS into the function chooser, then press ENTER

30 From the Display menu, select Point, then Markers

31 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply