How to create a Long Section Puncture Plot in SURPAC Part 2

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Blog Part 2 of 4 | SURPAC – Plotting  using an entity and creating a legend,

In this second part post we continue on with the plotting of the Puncture Plot, but we will use entities to display the drillhole ID, grade and true width and how to display a legend.

 

Creating a plot with the hole ID, Thickness and Grade for each puncture point.

 

Step 1:

Plotting > Entity > Copy. Call it “True Thickness”

 

 

 

Step 2:

Plotting > Entity > Edit.

Enter in the name of the entity you have just created.

Fill in the forms as follows. This will display the thickness at the bottom of the symbol.

 

 

 

 

Step 3:

Open up the breccia thickness classified.str string (that you created earlier in part 1 of the blog).

 

Step 4:

Customise > Display Properties > strings and points.

The styles file that is used for the breccia thickness will be displayed

 

Step 5:

Assign the entity we have created to each of the strings and save the grade styles file. An entity has a higher priority over the plotting styles than the display type.

 

 

Step 6:

Repeat step 1 and create an entity called Grade and Hole ID

 

Step 7:

Plotting>Entity>Edit. Enter in the name of the entity you have just created.

Fill in the forms as follows.

This will display the grade on the left hand side of the symbol and the hole ID on the right hand side.

 

 

 

 

 

Step 8:

Open up the breccia grade classified.str string that you created in Part 1 of the blog.

 

Step 9:

Customise > Display Properties > strings and points.

The styles file that is used for the breccia grade will be displayed

 

Step 10:

Assign the entity we have created to each of the strings and save the grade styles file. An entity has a higher priority over the plotting styles than the display type.

 

 

 

Step 11:

Open up the strings and the rest of the data you want to plot.

 

Step 12:

Once you are happy with the distances of the entity and how it looks we can now set up the legend.

 

Step 13:

There are 2 ways to set up the legend. Either through Autoplot or by inserting an image. In this exercise we will insert an image into the plot.

 

Step 14:

While the string file is open, take a screen grab of the 2 styles files from the legend tab and save.

 

 

Step 15:

Open up the plot, create > image.. and drag the size of the legend box.

Select the image file and apply.

Using the create tools in the plotting window, create a legend for the symbol.

 

 

 

 

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Links to all posts in this 4 part BLOG Series

Don’t forget to check out the rest of this blog series on Creating Long Section Puncture Plots in Surpac.

 

Part 1: Click here | In the first post we show how to create a Long Section Puncture Plot of the Mine Ore Zone displaying Hole ID, grade and true thickness.

Part 2: Click here | In the 2nd post, we look at creating an entity to display the hole ID, thickness and grade and to create a legend.

Part 3: Click here | In the 3rd post, we go through the process of creating a gram-meters plot and contouring the data.

Part 4: Click here | In the 4th post, we describe how to outline the Ore Body with greatest value with a contoured gram meter plot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Kim Ferguson-Thomas

Kim Ferguson-Thomas

Technical Customer Support Consultant, GEOVIA at Dassault Systèmes
Kim Ferguson-Thomas has more than 20 years’ experience as a geologist in the mining industry, working in exploration, underground and open-cut mines within Australia.