Whether you are a Geologist, Engineer or Surveyor, you may need to create a title block in GEOVIA Minex as a way of tagging or labelling mining and geology drawings you have created with your details.
If you’ve ever come across technical drawings of building plans, you may have noticed the details of the building company and the name of the person who produced the drawing, in a box in the left hand corner. This is called a title block and it is a quick and easy way of letting others know the date of the drawing, its scale, dollar value, Mount Name and CGM File, as well as the creator of the drawing. This is particularly useful when working as part of a team or juggling multiple projects where others may need to be involved.
Many of our users struggle with creating or changing a title block, so the below steps may be useful in helping with this essential but often overlooked function in Minex.
1. Close the primary Geometry file that you normally use.
2. Create a new Geometry file, e.g. “TRAINING_TITLE.GM3” and open this file as primary. If you already have a GM3 file that you use for title blocks, then you may open that one.
3. Create a Plan Mount in A3 with size X=42 & Y=29.
Note: If you need to select a different paper size or format, you may do this now under Sheet)
4. Save mount as TitleA3, and Draft on Mount. It is recommended to create a title block for each paper size.
5. Turn the rounding grid on by clicking the grid icon shown below.
6. Select String > Create Title Data
7. Choose a Data Type such as Line, Box etc. Click OK.
10. Create title block lines and boxes as required.
11. Add text and or symbols and company logos. Company logos are available as Symbols in the title data type. Note that Dassault Systèmes and GEOVIA are set as defaults.
12. You can add a text/box text such as $(<variable name>), This is a data variable which you can input when you plot Title Block. You can align the text using the options provided for text as shown below.
13. With the box text alignment can be done by adding the brackets {}. For example for centre aligned use{$(surveyor)}, for right aligned {$(surveyor)} and for left aligned $(surveyor)}. The orientation of the box text depends on the way the box is digitized. If the box is digitized from top left to bottom right corner then the text gets a horizontal alignment. If the box is digitized from bottom left to top right corner it gets a vertical alignment.
14. Once you complete the design of the title block, close the rounding grid. Save the GM3 file and close it.
15. Open your usual GM3 file as primary and open this TRAINING_TITLE.Gm3 that you have just created as secondary. Plot any mount and plot the title block just created. It should look similar to this:
For more lesser known but handy tips in Minex, check out how to Create a Unique Color Palette.
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