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PLOTSX - plot an oblique section through drillholes with annotation & barcharts

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Introduction
Files, Fields and Parameters
Notes
Example
Errors

Introduction

Enhanced plotting of drill hole sections and level plans. Used in conjunction with PLOTFX, PLOTSX will produce high quality section plots.

How to use

Features include the following:

annotation of any field on either side of trace,
variable location/size and orientation of bore hole ID,
one or two histograms with or without bar annotation,
annotation of downhole distance and/or distance from the section plane,
line plots for multiple variables parallel to the trace,
end of hole mark and annotation with distance,
directional indicators at each end of the trace (entering section or leaving section),
an optional plan window showing section line, projection distance and hole trace,
parameters are provided to control size, location and color of various annotations, the trace and ticks,
several levels of filling and smoothing for plotting the hole trace.

Samples are selected for projection onto the section if they lie partially or totally within the three dimensional rectangular box defining the projection limits. If a sample crosses the box it is clipped at the boundary. The section may be any vertical or horizontal plane and is specified using the end points of the section line @X1, @X2, @Y1, @Y2 in the case of a section and also the @BLEVEL parameter for level plans. For the latter case @X1 and @X2 should be the range of the X axis variable and @Y1 = @Y2 = the midpoint value along the Y axis. The RL of the plan is specified by @BLEVEL.

As with any section plotting, care must be taken when specifying XMIN, XMAX, YMIN, YMAX. For sections and RL plans set @XMIN = 0 and @XMAX = section length. For sections @YMIN and @YMAX will equal the lower and upper RL(Z) limits. Remember to increase @YMAX to allow for the plan window + 10mm if this is being used. In the case of RL plans @YMIN and @YMAX should be - and + half the range of the Y axis variable.

Complex plots with several annotations may be produced by using multiple PLOTSX commands. In all but the initial command plotting of the ticks, trace, end of hole and BHID annotation should be disabled using @TRACE = 0, @TIKTYP = 0 and @BHSIZE = 0.

Offsets and plotted values are at right angles to the sample. The offsets are relative to the side as chosen by the @SIDE parameter or the top of the bar in the case of histograms.

In order to use the trace smoothing or gap filling it is necessary to specify a collar and a survey file (@OPTMSE = 1, 2 or 3). These options will improve the quality of the hole trace where long samples in curved holes cause problems.

Files, Fields and Parameters

Input Files

Name	Description	I/O Status	Required	Type
IN1	Input drillhole file, in standard sample format. If there is a field in this file, then the given colour number will be applied to each sample trace or barplot.	Input	Yes	Drillhole
PROTO	Plot prototype file. Must contain the fields X, Y, S1, S2 and CODE (numeric, explicit) and XMIN, XMAX, YMIN, YMAX, XSCALE, YSCALE (numeric, implicit). If these last 6 values set in PROTO , then corresponding parameters need not be set.	Input	Yes	Plot Prototype
IN2	Optional input collar file, in standard collar format.	Input	No	Undefined
IN3	Optional input survey file, in standard survey format.	Input	No	Undefined
ANNFILE	Optional annotation input file for specifying annotations as an alternative to the interactive input. If specified then PLTYPE , XOFFSET , YOFFSET are ignored. Compulsory fields: FIELD A8- Field to annotate. TYPE N - Annotation type; 1 = annotate relative to trace; 2 = bar plot; 3 = annotate relative to previous bar plot; 4 = line plot; SIDE N - Side of trace 1=RHS,2=LHS. Optional fields: CHARSIZE N - Annotate character size. N - Annotate/bar/line colour. XOFFSET N - Offset perpendicular to trace. YOFFSET N - Offset along trace. NDP N - Number of decimal places. For bars: CUTVAL N - Value of field for maximum bar. CUTMM N - Optional height of maximum bar, default is 10mm. Optional fields if FIELD is numeric: LOWER N - Lower bound non-inclusive. UPPER N - Upper bound inclusive. LOWER and UPPER define the range on FIELD for which the particular annotation will plotted. Special values - and + may be used. For TYPE = 2 and 4 offsets apply to base of bar or line axis.	Input	No	Undefined

Output Files

Name	I/O Status	Required	Type	Description
PLOT	Output	Yes	Plot	Output plot file.

Fields

Name	Description	Source	Required	Type	Default
SAMPCOLR	Sample colour field, used preferentially for plotting of trace, assays, ticks and barplots. ().	IN1	No	Numeric	Undefined

Parameters

Name	Description	Required	Default	Range	Values
X1	X co-ordinate of section line start.	Yes	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined
Y1	Y co-ordinate of section line start.	Yes	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined
X2	X co-ordinate of section line end.	Yes	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined
Y2	Y co-ordinate of section line end.	Yes	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined
NDP	Number of decimal places for grade values.	Yes	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined
DISTANCE	Maximum projection distance to section. Must be specifed unless DPLUS and DMINUS are both specified.	No	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined
DMINUS	Negative distance from section plane. If not specified then DISTANCE will be used.	No	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined
DPLUS	Positive distance from section plane. If not specified then DISTANCE will be used.	No	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined
OPTMSE	Level of hole trace filling and smoothing: 0=none; 1=join gaps; 2=split long samples 3=automatic splitting; (0)	No	0	0,3	0,1,2,3
PLTYPE	Type of plot: 0=plot trace only; 1=annotate sample values; 2=single side barplot; 3=double side barplot; 4=line plot; (1)	No	1	0,4	0,1,2,3,4
BARANN	Annotation outside bars on barplot type plots: 0=no; 1=yes; (0)	No	0	0,1	0,1
PLVIEW	Plot orientation: 0=standard section plot; 1=section with plan window; 2=plan plot; (0)	No	0	0,2	0,1,2
PLDIST	Plan window distance for PLVIEW=1 only. default = 2 DISTANCE	No	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined
BLEVEL	Bench level for use with PLVIEW=2 only. [R.L. of plan plot]	No	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined
TRACE	0 = no hole trace or EOH tick; 1 = plot trace; 2 = plot trace with symbol marking intersection with the plane; 3 = as 1 above with thick line code 1002; 4 = as 2 above with thick line code 1002;	No	1	0,4	0,1,2,3,4
TIKLEN	Tick length each side of hole; (1)	No	1	Undefined	Undefined
TIKTYP	Tick positioning; 0=no ticks; 1=both sides; 2=RHS; 3=LHS; (1)	No	1	0,3	0,1,2,3
SIDE	Side of hole to use in annotation or barplots. 1=RHS; 2=LHS; (1)	No	1	1,2	1,2
DHD	Plot downhole distance or distance to section 0=none; 1=plot downhole distance; 2=plot distance of sample from section; 3=both; (0)	No	0	0,3	0,1,2,3
DHDIST	Plot DHD parameter[s] at given interval [integer] (0).	No	0	Undefined	Undefined
DHDOFF	DHD parameter[s] offset in millimetres from hole trace at the right angles to sample. Value > 0 right h. side, <0 left h. side. (0).	No	0	Undefined	Undefined
EOH	End of hole annotation: 0=nothing; 1='EOH'; 2=downhole distance; 3=both 1	No	0	0,3	0,1,2,3
XOFFSET	Offset in millimetres from sample centre of annotation at rt. angles to sample (0).	No	0	Undefined	Undefined
YOFFSET	Offset in millimetres from sample centre of annotation along sample (0).	No	0	Undefined	Undefined
BHSIZE	Borehole id annotation size: 0=suppress; default= CHARSIZE value;	No	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined
BHCOL	Borehole id annotation colour: default= value;	No	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined
BHANG	Angle for drillhole id, 0=horizontal, -90=vertically upwards, -= in line with hole trace; += at 90 degrees to hole trace.	No	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined
BHPOS	Borehole id position: 1=top of hole; 2=bottom of hole; (1)	No	1	1,2	1,2
TRCOL	Colour of trace: -1=same as default parameter; 0=use colour field if present; >=1 any other colour. (-1)	No	-1	-1,64	Undefined
TIKCOL	Colour of ticks: -1=same as default parameter; 0=use colour field if present; >=1 any other colour. (-1)	No	-1	-1,64	Undefined
ANNCOL	Colour of assay [or other] annotation down the side of the hole: -1=same as default parameter; 0=use colour field if present; >=1 any other colour. (-1)	No	-1	-1,64	Undefined
BARCOL	Colour of bars: -1=same as default parameter; 0=use colour field if present; >=1 any other colour. (-1)	No	-1	-1,64	Undefined
FILGAP	Controls filling of gaps and splitting of long samples/gaps in straight [1 survey pt] holes: 0=gaps not filled; 1=gaps filled; 2=enables splitting according to GAPLEN even if hole is straight. (0)	No	0	0,1,2	0,1,2
GAPLEN	Length to split long samples or gaps to for more accurate plotting for OPTMSE=2. (1)	No	1	Undefined	Undefined
FILL	Line density in mm for pseudo colour fill of sample barplot. Zero for no fill (0).	No	0	Undefined	Undefined
CHARSIZE	Character size in millimetres (4).	No	4	Undefined	Undefined
CHARSMIN	Minimum annotation character size. If space available for annotation is less than CHARSMIN the annotation is not plotted at all. Otherwise the characters are shrunk to fit in available space.	No	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined
ASPRATIO	Aspect ratio, width / ht. for chars (0.9).	No	0.9	Undefined	Undefined
APPEND	Plot append flag. If set to 1 then the new plot will be appended to the PLOT file, assuming it exists and is a proper plot file. (0)	No	0	0,1	0,1
	Colour [as 'pen' number] for plot (1).	No	1	Undefined	Undefined
XMIN	Minimum value of X for plot [Suggest 0]. None of XMIN, XMAX, YMIN, YMAX, XSCALE, YSCALE need be set if this information is already in the prototype.	No	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined
XMAX	Maximum value of X for plot [Suggest section length as defined by X1 , Y1 , X2 , Y2].	No	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined
YMIN	Minimum value of Y for plot [Lowest Z value].	No	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined
YMAX	Maximum value of Y for plot [Highest Z value].	No	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined
XSCALE	X scale in user data units per millimetre.	No	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined
YSCALE	Y scale in user data units per millimetre.	No	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined

Notes

Interaction depends on the value of PLTYPE selected:

PLTYPE = 0:	trace only. no interaction
PLTYPE = 1:	Annotate sample values. Sections to be annotated with data values Please enter field for annotation << FIELD 1>
PLTYPE = 2:	Single side barplot. Bar plot to be generated along boreholes Please enter numeric field for barplot, and corresponding field value for 10mm barchart separated with a comma - no spaces please FIELD 1>
PLTYPE = 3:	Double side barplot. Bar plots to be generated along boreholes Please enter 2 numeric fields for barplot (one per line) and field values for 10mm barchart separated with a comma - no spaces please FIELD 1> FIELD 2>
PLTYPE = 4:	Line plot Line plots to be generated alongside boreholes Please enter up to 3 numeric fields (one per line) and field values for 10mm lineplot, plus optional color, all separated by commas FIELD 1> FIELD 2> FIELD 3>

Examples

Example 1

R.L. level plan using PLOTFX for frame, title block and legend. Data range is (8000-8200) East and (1000-1160) North and the plan is for a mid-bench R.L. of 105 and a bench height of 10 meters (100RL-110RL).

!PLOTFX	&PLOT(PLAN),@XINC=20,@YINC=20,@IBASE=1,@TBLOCK=1, @LBLOCK=1,
	@XGID='E',@YGID='N',@XMIN=8000,@XMAX=8200,@YMIN=1080,@YMAX=1080,
	@XSCALE=0.2,@YSCALE=0.2
OUTBACK MINING COMPANY
BIG ROCK MINE
PLAN RL =105
INFLUENCE 5 Metres
T1 * Grade Colour range * 1
T2 * -1.0g/tAu * 1
T2 * 1.0-3.0g/tAu * 4
T2 * 3.0-5.0g/tAu * 3
T2 * 5.0- g/tAu * 2

!PLOTSX	&IN1(SAMPLE),&PROTO(PLAN),&PLOT(PLAN),@X1=8000,@X2=8200,@Y1=1080,@Y2=1080,
	@DISTANCE=5,@NDP=2,@PLTYPE=1,@PLVIEW=2,@BLEVEL=105,@ANNCOL=0,@APPEND=1.0,
	@XMIN=0,@XMAX=200,@YMIN=-80,@YMAX=80
AU

The above command annotates the samples with color coded Au grade values, where the color is determined by the field in SAMPLE file.

Example 2

This example shows the commands used to produce the examples of annotation shown in Figure 1.

!REM	Create Plot Prototype with scaling.

!PROTOP	&OUT(PROTO)
1
440
490
10
10
410
460
Y
.5
.5
330
-
-100
-
!REM	Plots grid and title block.
!PLOTFX	&PROTO(PROTO),&PLOT(SPLOT),@XINC=50,@YINC=50,@IBASE=9,
	@XGSTART=350,@YGSTART=-50,@TBLOCK=2,@XGID='E',@YGID='RL',
	@SPLAN=1,@PLDIST=45,@PRDIST=15,@PLX1=330,@PLX2=530,
	@PLY1=460,@PLY2=460,@CHARSIZE=4,@APPEND=0
DATAMINE * 4
EXAMPLE * 4
DRILL HOLE *4
SECTION * 4

!REM	Each drillhole is processed separately to illustrate different features.
!REM	Drillhole DH01 annotated with AU.

!PLOTSX	&IN1(SAMPLE),&PROTO(PROTO),&PLOT(SPLOT),&IN2(COLLARS),
	&IN3(SURVEYS),@X1=330,@X2=530,@Y1=460,@Y2=460,
	@DISTANCE=15,@NDP=1,@OPTMSE=1,@PLTYPE=1,@PLVIEW=1,@PLDIST=45,
	@TIKLEN=2,@TIKTYP=3,@SIDE=2,@XOFFSET=3,@BHSIZE=6,
	@BHANG=-,@BHPOS=2,@CHARSIZE=3,@XMIN=0,@XMAX=200,@YMIN=-100,
	@YMAX=130,@APPEND=1,BHID='DH01'
AU

!REM	Drillhole DH01 annotated with lithology code.

!PLOTSX	&IN1(SAMPLE),&PROTO(PROTO),&PLOT(SPLOT),&IN2(COLLARS),
	&IN3(SURVEYS),@X1=330,@X2=530,@Y1=460,@Y2=460,
	@DISTANCE=15,@NDP=0,@OPTMSE=1,@PLTYPE=1,@PLVIEW=1,
	@PLDIST=45,@TICKLEN=2,@TIKTYP=2,@TRACE=0,@XOFFSET=2,
	@BHSIZE=0,@CHARSIZE=3,@APPEND=1,@XMIN=0,@XMAX=200,
	@YMIN=-100,@YMAX=130,BHID='DH01'
LCODE

!REM	Drillhole DH02 annotated with distance from section and line plot.

!PLOTSX	&IN1(SAMPLE),&PROTO(PROTO),&PLOT(SPLOT),@X1=330,
	@Y1=460,@X2=530,@Y2=460,@NDP=1,@DISTANCE=15,
	@PLTYPE=4,@PLVIEW=1,@PLDIST=45,@TIKLEN=2,@SIDE=2,@DHD=2,
	@DHDIST=10,@DHDOFF=3,@EOH=3,@XMIN=0,@XMAX=200,@YMIN=-100,
	@YMAX=130,@BHSIZE=6,@BHANG=-45,@CHARSIZE=4,@APPEND=1,
BHID='DH02'
AU,0.5,1

!REM	Drillhole DH03 annotated with downhole distance and bar plot.

!PLOTSX	&IN1(SAMPLE),&PROTO(PROTO),&PLOT(SPLOT),@X1=330,
	@Y1=460,@X2=530,@Y2=460,@NDP=1,@DISTANCE=15,
	@PLTYPE=2,@BARANN=1,@PLVIEW=1.0,@PLDIST=45,
	@TRACE=1.0,@TIKLEN=2.0,@SIDE=2.0,@DHD=1.0,
	@DHDIST=10.0,@DHDOFF=3.0,@EOH=3.0,@XOFFSET=2.0,
	@YOFFSET=0.0,@XMIN=0,@XMAX=200,@YMIN=-100,@YMAX=130,
	@BHSIZE=6,@BHANG=-90,@BHPOS=1.0,@CHARSIZE=3.0,
	@ASPRATIO=0.9,@APPEND=1.0,BHID='DH03'
AU,5,AU

!end

Error and Warning Messages

Message	Description	Solution