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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
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InSite and PCBC are trademarks of Gemcom Software International Inc or its wholly-owned subsidiaries Contributors Rowdy Bristol Phil Jackson Kiran Kumar Product Gemcom Surpac 6.0 i Table of Contents Introduction Setting the Work Directory Autoplot Workflow Plan View Plotting Three Dimensional Plotting 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 ii 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 Requirements 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: \demo_data\tutorials\plotting where is the directory in which Surpac was installed Task: Setting the Work Directory In the Surpac Navigator, right-click the plotting folder 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 Autoplot Overview You can create plan, section, or three-dimensional plots of data with Autoplot Workflow The Autoplot process is outlined below: There are two mandatory steps to create a plot file with Autoplot: Display the data to be plotted Display data in graphics String files DTM files Database Block models Plug-ins Display data in graphics String styles, colour, marker styles and text are all plotted as they are displayed in graphics Run Autoplot and specify parameters such as sheet size, scale, etc Run Autoplot Enter Presentation Parameters Run Autoplot Enter title block text Enter grid parameters Plan View Plotting Task: Use Autoplot to Plot Data Open the file soil1.str by dragging it into graphics From the Display menu, select Hide strings, then By selection Click the strings that you not want in the final plot For example, string 1000 represents the soil sample locations and should not be plotted as a line Click ESC to exit the Hide strings function You should have an image on screen like the following: From the Display menu, select Point, then Markers Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply From the Display menu, select Point, then Attributes Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply The display is updated with the soil sample locations and grades displayed From the Plotting menu, select Autoplot 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 12 From the Drawing areas menu, select Save, to save the drawing areas Now display all three drawing areas together on the screen 13 From the Drawing areas menu, choose Select and enter the information as shown The drawing areas appear as shown: 85 14 From the Plotting menu, select Process, then Map 15 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply on all forms 86 87 16 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply Note: Make sure that you change the drawing area to PLAN (a drawing area for the top of an A1 sheet) and the Title block is set to a "blank" for No title block 88 89 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply After the map has finished processing, it will appear in the Plot preview window 90 You will see the map as shown, with drawing areas PLAN, SECTION, and LEGN 91 Title Block Definitions Overview In this section you will learn how to create a new title block, as shown: Task: Create a New Title Block From the Plotting menu, select Plotting sheet setup window From the Title Blocks menu, select Copy Note: You will make a copy of an existing title block as it will save setting up new lines, prompt items etc In most cases this will be the easiest way to create a new title block as all items can be altered using the property command 92 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply Note: The only items you will need to type in are the new title ID and title description Click Apply and the new title block will appear From the Title block menu, select Snap grid, then Properties You will use this to help align items on the title block Fill in the form as shown, then click Apply to create a snapping grid on 0.2cm spacings 93 From the Title Blocks menu, select Edit, then Delete item Click on the text “Surpac Minex Group”, and it will disappear From the Title Blocks menu, select Create, then Text 10 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply Next, you will add the company logo, stored in bluesky_logo.png, to the left of the text 11 From the Title Blocks menu, select Create, then Image 12 Click and drag a roughly square-shaped area to the left of the text “BLUE SKY MINING” 94 13 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply 14 From the Title Blocks menu, select Snap grid then Hide 15 From the Title Blocks menu, select Save 16 From the File menu, select Close to close the Plotting sheet setup window 17 From the Plotting menu, select Map, then New 18 Enter the map name BLUESKY_TEST, and then click Apply 95 19 Enter the following information, and then click Apply 20 From the Plotting menu, select Process, then Map 96 21 Enter the information as shown, and then click Apply on each form 97 The plot and title block are displayed in the Plot Preview window 98 Appendix 1: Plot Priorities When defining an entity, you are asked to nominate a priority for the entity This is common to all entity definitions and is a way of controlling overwriting on plots Overwriting is controlled in two ways: • lines can be made to 'break' around text and symbols on a plot • where text or symbols may overwrite on a plot, some may be clashed off All lines, symbols and text in entity definitions are assigned priorities in the range to 125 Different rules apply for priorities less than or equal to 100 and for those over 100 A line will break around a symbol if: • its priority is less than the symbol • its priority is equal to the symbol and the priority is less than or equal to 100 A line will overwrite a symbol if: • its priority is greater than the symbol • its priority is equal to the symbol and the priority is greater than 100 A line will never clash a symbol off the plot and all lines of any priority cross without effect A symbol will clash another symbol off the plot if: • it has higher priority or, • it has the same priority, less than or equal to 100 and is the first symbol processed in preparing the map Two symbols with the same priority greater than 100 will overwrite 99