generate-contours-from-points

• generate-contours-from-points
  • Command Overview
  • Command Automation
    • Parameters Table
    • More Information

See this command in the command table.

To access this command:

• Report ribbon > Contours > Generate Contours .

• Display the Find Command screen, locate generate-contours-from-points and click Run.

• Enter "generate-contours-from-points" into the Command Line.

Command Overview

Generate contours from loaded point data.

Displays the Generate Controls from Points screen.

Command Automation

You can automate by passing this command and parameters into oDmApp.ParseCommand(), using any COM-aware scripting language.

Note: For more information on scripting in Studio NPVS+, please refer to your Scripting Tutorial (Help > Scripting Tutorial).

Example Parameter String (JS):

oDmApp.ParseCommand("generate-contours-from-points 
'PointsInput=PTS;
AttributeColumn=AU;
StringOutput=AU_CONTOURS;
GridOutput=AU_GRID;
SurfaceOutput=AU_SURFACE;
FaultsInput=FAULTS;
ClippingInput=CLIP;
KeepInsideClipping=true;
Azimuth=0;Dip=0;
GriddingAlgorithm=MinimumCurvature;
GriddingEstimation=Slope;
SmoothingMethod=Biharmonic;
SmoothingPasses=1;
AutoExtent=true;
Margin=0;
CustomCellSize=false;
CellsAcrossX=100;CellsAcrossY=100;
UseSearchEllipse=false;
SearchRotation=0;
RotationMajor=1;RotationMinor=1;RotationMinSamples=1;
UseCustomContourExtents=false;
ContourStringMode=Fixed;ContourStringIntervals=10;ContourStringOffset=0;
ContourElevationMode=Attribute;
ContourRefinement=5;
ContourUpToFaults=false;ContourFaultRefinement=5;
UseCustomGridElevation=false;GridFaultRefinement=1;
GridLegendMode=FromContours;GridLegendSchemeName=;
GridLegendDistributionMode=Linear;GridLegendBinCount=100;
SurfaceFaultRefinement=1;SurfaceTolerance=0'";

Where:

• PointsInput=PTS is the PointsInput: Object name. The object must resolve in the current project and is used as the source points data. The command does not run gridding unless this object is found.

• AttributeColumn=AU is the AttributeColumn: Numeric column name from PointsInput. If the value is the Z coordinate column name, the command uses Z coordinates directly.

• FaultsInput=FAULTS is the FaultsInput: Object name. When supplied and found, the object is used as fault input during gridding and output refinement.

• ClippingInput=CLIP;KeepInsideClipping=true is the ClippingInput: Object name. When supplied and found, the object is used as clipping polygon input. KeepInsideClipping controls which side of the clipping polygons is kept.

• Azimuth=0 is the Azimuth: Numeric angle in degrees. It defines the contouring plane rotation about the Z axis.

• Dip=0 is the Dip: Numeric angle in degrees. It defines the contouring plane dip rotation.

• StringOutput=AU_CONTOURS;GridOutput=AU_GRID;SurfaceOutput=AU_SURFACE is the Output target parameters: Select what the command creates. At least one output target must be supplied to create output.

• GriddingAlgorithm=MinimumCurvature;GriddingEstimation=Slope;SmoothingMethod=Biharmonic;SmoothingPasses=1 is the Gridding algorithm parameters: Control how the input values are interpolated, including gridding algorithm, estimation, smoothing method, smoothing passes, and trend polynomial order.

• AutoExtent=true;Margin=0;CustomCellSize=false;CellsAcrossX=100;CellsAcrossY=100 is the Grid extent and resolution parameters: Define the generated grid area and cell size, including automatic extents, margin, custom cell size, and cell counts or widths.

• UseSearchEllipse=false;SearchRotation=0;RotationMajor=1;RotationMinor=1;RotationMinSamples=1 is the Search ellipse parameters: Control optional search ellipse behaviour for non-trend gridding.

• UseCustomContourExtents=false;ContourStringMode=Fixed;ContourStringIntervals=10;ContourStringOffset=0;ContourElevationMode=Attribute;ContourRefinement=5;ContourUpToFaults=false;ContourFaultRefinement=5 is the Contour-string output parameters: Used when StringOutput is supplied. These include contour extents, contour mode, intervals, offsets, elevation mode, fault handling, and refinement settings.

• UseCustomGridElevation=false;GridFaultRefinement=1;GridLegendMode=FromContours;GridLegendSchemeName=;GridLegendDistributionMode=Linear;GridLegendBinCount=100 is the Grid output parameters: Used when GridOutput is supplied. These include custom grid elevation limits, fault refinement, and grid legend settings.

• SurfaceFaultRefinement=1;SurfaceTolerance=0 is the Surface output parameters: Used when SurfaceOutput is supplied. These include surface fault refinement and surface tolerance settings.

Parameters Table

More Information

• The parser only recognizes fields written as exactly one key=value pair separated by semicolons. Unknown keys are ignored.
• Boolean parsing is case-insensitive through lower-casing; true and yes are true, and other values are false.
• The source parser accepts AttributeColumn and KeepInsideClipping; shorter names such as Attribute or KeepInside are not parsed by this command.

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