Process Help PLTLAY - Interactive graphics plot editing and layout.

 

Process Name	Menu Path	Link to Command Table
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• Introduction

• Files, Fields and Parameters

• Notes

• Example

• Errors

Introduction

Interactive graphics plot editing and layout process.

How to use

There are a number of line, box, circle and text generation sub-commands available in PLTLAY in addition to icon storage and retrieval of selected plotted entities. Additional data overlay plotting functions are available in the PLTLAY process. However, in addition to the normal DATAMINE plot file fields the plot file must also contain the implicit fields XCENTRE, YCENTRE, ZCENTRE, SAZI and SDIP. The default values of these fields, together with the default values of XMIN, XMAX, YMINand YMAX fields completely define the position, orientation and size of the viewing plane that will be used in the PLTLAY process. PLTLAY provides the functionality of MINLAY with the parameter NOPOS=1 set. The section definition file is not required for PLTLAY. The plot will be treated as a 2d drawing in plotted millimetres.

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Files, Fields and Parameters

Input Files

Name	Description	I/O Status	Required	Type
PROTO	Plot prototype.	Input	No	Plot Prototype
ICON	Icon file. An icon is a small number of plot file records that describe some feature that is commonly required on mine plans, e.g. mine shafts. This input/output icon file may contain a number of user-defined icons. In addition to the normal DATAMINE plot file fields, the icon file will contain the explicit fields IVALUE, ITEXT, IXSIZE and IYSIZE.	Overwritten	No	Plot

Output Files

Name	I/O Status	Required	Type	Description
PLOT	Output	Yes	Plot	Output plot file. This file will contain all of the plot data that has been generated during the current operation of PLTLAY.

Parameters

Name	Description	Required	Default	Range	Values
ASIZE	Type of A size paper, for initial plot size if no prototype file supplied. (0)	No	0	Undefined	Undefined
XSCALE	Initial X plot scale factor if no prototype file supplied. E.g. enter 1000 for a scale of 1:1000. Note that user data units of metres are assumed; if metres are not the unit, then the scale must be multiplied by factor f, where f=no. of metres in 1 user data unit [e.g. 0.3048 for feet].	No	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined
YSCALE	Initial Y plot scale factor if no prototype file supplied.	No	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined
UNIT	This parameter indicates the type of data that will be brought into the process. The default is metric (0) and a unit value of 1 indicates user units of imperial feet.	No	0	0,1	0,1
APPEND	If an input plot prototype file has been supplied, any plot records in this file may automatically copied to the final output plot file by setting this parameter to 1.(1)	No	1	0,1	0,1