Map Display Templates

Studio Mapper includes a wide range of display formatting options to give you full control over how your map feature data appears.

These controls are accessible throughout your project session and can also be formed into a template that can be applied to multiple objects, potentially within multiple projects. Display templates are a really useful way to standardize display formatting within your map data, making it easy to differentiate geological structures and attributes.

Setting up a template involves manually creating the display format you want then exporting it to Datamine's proprietary display template format (.3dtpl).

See Setting up and exporting a 3D display template.

Once a 3D display template has been exported and stored within the active Studio Mapper database's "Templates" folder, you can associate the template with any geological feature object in your project using your system configuration file.

Configuration File Template Setup

Any template in any .3Dtpl template file can be assigned to a 3D object that supports 3D formatting (such as a map feature, for example). Your database can contain one or multiple template files; all will be loaded when a project connected to that database is opened. This makes is easy to share standard formatting throughout your organization.

Providing physical template files are stored in the active databases "Templates" folder, any template name in any file can be referenced within a system configuration file, e.g.:

<Name>Geology</Name>

<Template>GeologyTemplate</Template>

...Other attribute tags are added here...

</ObjectType>

</Features>

In the example above, a template called "GeologyTemplate" is stored within a .3dtpl file in the current database. Note that it isn't necessary to reference the file name, only the name of a visual template stored within any available file.

Once assigned, open the project and subsequent digitizing of features will automatically apply the visual formatting associated with the feature object.

For example, if a LITH attribute is configured for the "Geology" feature object, and the associated visual display template contains a legend with intervals that match valid LITH attribute values, you can rapidly create identifiable map features that match accepted visual formatting standards.