Plotting tutorial

Introduction

Overview

Requirements

Workflow

Setting the work directory

Setting Plot Editor to Surpac

Plotting with Autoplot

Workflow

Plan view plotting

Task: Use Autoplot to plot data

Three dimensional plotting

Task: Create a three dimensional plot

Task: Fix quality of images in Plot Preview window

Section plotting

Task: Create a simple section plot

Task: Create a section plot with a plan strip

Task: Create multiple section plots

Task: Create a title block for multiple section plots

Task: Create multiple section plots

Other plotting tasks

Task: Copy cells from Excel to a plot

File-based plotting

Workflow

Creating plan view maps

Task: Create an ore block plan

Task: View data for plotting

Task: Create a borehole location plan

Importing/exporting maps and entities

Task: Import map and entity definitions

Task: Export map and entity definitions

Task: Create a list of map and entity definitions

Creating plan view maps of drillhole traces

Task: Create a plan view map of drillhole data

Creating section view maps of drillhole data

Task: Create a section view map of drillhole data

Task: Create and plot an oblique section of drillhole data

Creating multi-viewport maps

Task: Create a plot with two drawing areas

Task: Modify an existing drawing area

Task: Add a third drawing area

Creating title blocks

Task: Create a new title block

Creating a table showing a legend from a spreadsheet

Task: Creating a table showing a legend from a spreadsheet

Creating a plot showing an image of a legend

Task: Creating a plot showing an image of a legend

Plotting to DraftSight

Setting up DraftSight

Plotting to DraftSight

Task: Sending a drillhole section plot to DraftSight using Autoplot

Task: Adding a building and text to a plan plot in DraftSight

Task: Sending a grid and title block to DraftSight in separate layers

Task: Creating an arrow symbol in DraftSight