Drillhole Properties Dialog - General Tab

An explanation of fields and properties.

Drillhole Properties Dialog - General Tab

To access this dialog:

  1. In the Drillholes folder in the Sheets Control Bar, right-click a drillholes file and select Properties.

  2. In the Drillholes Properties dialog, select the General tab.

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The General tab of the DrillholeProperties dialog is used to define the name, sequence column and sequence options for selected drillholes.

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The settings described here apply to the currently active 3D window and all linked external windows. Independent windows will be unaffected.

 

Field details:

Name: displays the current name of the selected data object overlay. You can edit this name and click OK or Apply to change the model file name within the project. Note that editing the name of a 3D object will not affect the description assigned to the underlying (Source) file - see below. You can edit this if you like, which is the same as using the Sheets control bar menu's Rename option.

Source: shows the name of the loaded object from which the current 3D overlay was derived.

Sequence Column: select the column on which a sequence is animated.

Sequence Options: allows you to control how the drillholes object is animated when either a single object animation is played from the Sequence Control dialog, or a multiple object animation is started. After defining a Sequence Column (see above), the following options are available.

    • Forwards: select this option to play the sequencing animation in a forwards direction; that is, from the lowest to the highest value for Sequence Column.

    • Single Frame: select this option to display each frame of the animation individually. A non-zero value must be defined in the Anim. Step box.

    • Reverse: select this option to play the sequencing animation in reverse; that is, from the highest to the lowest value for Sequence Column.

    • Independent Sequence: if selected, allows you to change the animation rate and step values, and specify whether to loop or annotate the animation.

    • Anim. Rate: the speed of the animation measured in sequence units per second. Sequence units are the units associated with the value selected in the Sequence Columndropdown list. For example, if the unit of "weeks" is associated with a selected value, then the animation is played at a rate of weeks per second.

    • Anim. Step: this value determines the step size in the animation. A value of ‘0’ (default) allows the animation to change continuously without fixed steps. Where the values associated with the Sequence Column vary in specific steps, for example in integers, the value specified for Anim Step can enforce the same behavior in the animation; for example, it can be set to ‘1’ to only display integer values.

    • Loop: select this check box to replay the animation from the beginning after the final 'frame' is shown.

    • Annotate: select the column containing values to annotate.

    • Show Annotation: if selected, then values for the column selected in the Annotate dropdown list are shown with the animation.

    • Configure: allows you to configure the font, position and text parameters for the annotation using the Sequence Annotation Overlay dialog.

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