PLOTTING TIPS 6 to 10.
We continue with the second part of the Blog covering detailing simple GEOVIA Surpac Plotting Tips that incorporate some commonly raised questions and queries and which we think are important to other users as well.
Plotting Tip & Trick #6: PLOT HATCHING
Solution: Create an entity for hatching
Solution:
For Autoplot: Go to Set drawing styles form (SSTR), nominate this entity on the Entity column of the desired strings to be hatched. Plot using Autoplot.
For File-based plotting:
Go to Plotting -> Map -> New, input the name of the map, then nominate the entity, source file, and strings to be hatched.
SAMPLE PLOTS IN SCALE:
Plotting Tip & Trick #7: LEGENDS ★ ★ ★
Having a hard time creating legends and tables on plot files?
MAP LEGEND
Solution:
For Legends:
• Upon plotting using Autoplot, go to Legends tab.
• On the Include row, mark the Legends to be incorporated.
• Click Apply.
For Tables:
• Upon plotting using Autoplot, go to Legends tab.
• On the Include row, mark the Legends to be incorporated.
• Click Apply.
Plotting Tip & Trick #8: SECTION W/ PLAN STRIP
Plotting section maps with plan strip on the same sheet?
• Open Surpac, load the necessary files (e.g. drill hole database, strings, DTMS, etc.)
• Go to Plotting -> Autoplot
• Under Optional Content -> Plan Strip
> Check ‘Include Plan Strip’, then fill necessary details
SAMPLE SECTION PLOT WITH PLAN STRIP:
Plotting Tip & Trick #9: BATCH PLOTTING
Solution:
• Open Surpac, load the necessary files (e.g. drill hole database, strings, DTMS, etc.)
• Go to Plotting -> Autoplot
• Under Optional Content -> Batch sections
> Check ‘Create multiple sections’, then select desired sections to be plotted.
Note you can also have both plan strip and batch section at the same time.
BATCH PLOTTING OUTPUT:
Plotting Tip & Trick #10: SAVE MAPS IN PDF
Having the need to save maps in Portable Document Format or PDF? Here’s the trick.
Solution:
• Make sure the machine has a PDF software.
• Open Surpac, go to Plotting -> Plotting window
• On Plotting window, go to File -> Print plot file, then select the plot file
• Select WINDOWS as Plot device
• Select the ‘PDF software’ as the windows printer driver. Click Apply.
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