Alvina Panggestuty

Proper representation of a surveyed area within a sheet that contains all the necessary information remains of paramount importance for Surveyors. Hence the act of taking the plot of actual data is a significant requirement.

Occasionally, surveyors may need to take the plot of a grid point RL value, of a surveyed area, with X-Y grid lines over grid points to check the profile undulation against RL variation.

Surpac has the capability to take such a plot, containing all the required information, into the sheet through a File-based plotting method.

In this example, I illustrate how to take a plot with the grid line offset using the Surpac file-based plotting method. To achieve this, you first need to create an entity related to which information you would like to display within the plot file.

In the image below, I have two string files with grid points and a separate boundary line separately. I would like to plot the grid points with symbol & RL value with the boundary line.

In today’s post, I’ll be talking about how to use multiple viewports in Autoplot in GEOVIA Surpac to illustrate images of information related to one another. We are using Surpac 6.8 in this example.

This feature is suitable for geologists wanting to view grade on section, and for engineers looking at the mine development plan. The techniques outlined in the video tutorial below can be tailored to suit applications for geologists and engineers in both underground and open-pit environments.

A common question we often receive from users is regarding how to create plots with multiple drawing areas. Today I’ll go through how to create a plot with four drawing areas – one for plane view and three for sections, with the title block in the bottom left corner, using Autoplot functions.