Grphics module

The GRAPHICS module provides easy to use graphical edit and design tools which allow you to perform many tasks, such as:

• view any string or triobject (DTM) data in a variety of styles
• edit and subsequently save to the same or new file any string or triobject (DTM) data
• design pits and spoil dumps using interactive graphical editing tools
• design layouts of surface and underground excavations
• enter new data from a digitising tablet
• merge multiple files together to create a new file of composite data
• display and work with drillholes from a geology database
• display and work with survey stations from a survey database
• produce hardcopy output by using the autoplot module

Data may be displayed in many different styles some of which are:

• simple lines for each of the strings
• coloured polygons for closed coplanar strings
• coloured triangular faces for triobjects (DTMs)

In addition, the GRAPHICS module has the ability to use multiple light sources and hidden line removal (if required) when polygons (colour filled strings) and triobjects (DTMs) are displayed.

Note:The GRAPHICS module is a collection of editing and design tools which work with string and triobject (DTM) data. It is not a CAD system and the presentation of data when using GRAPHICS is not necessarily the presentation available on hardcopy plots produced by the PLOTTING module. However, hardcopy screen images can be saved.

When a file has been loaded into GRAPHICS you are working on a ``copy'' of that file. Any changes you make to the data displayed on the screen do not become permanent until you explicitly save the data to a disk file. A disk file may be the original file or it may be a new file.