Recreating plots and replotting holes in Target

Recreate plot

Often you'll find it is necessary to recreate a plan map, section map or strip log with only a few changes to the parameters that were used to create the map.  This can be difficult to do from the menu options if the settings in the multi-tabbed dialogs have been changed while creating other maps.  However, the original settings used to create a map can be accessed and used to recreate the map, or create a new updated map.  Here’s how:

1. Select the collar database as the active table to ensure the map is linked to the drillhole project.
2. Make your map of interest the active window.
3. Select the Holes group in the View/Group Manager Tool.
4. Right-click on the map > select Recreate Plan (or Section, Strip Log).
   The Plan Map Parameters dialog will open with the parameters that were used to create that map.
5. You can adjust any of the parameters.
   If you do not want to overwrite the existing map, make sure you add a "Map Name Tag" on the Page Layout tab.
6. Click OK to recreate the map.

Replot holes

For Plan and Section maps, you can use the "Replot Holes" function from the DH-Plot menu to update the map.  This is similar to the above tip but the replot dialog has fewer parameters that can be changed for the active map because it only updates the groups and does not create a new map.

For example, this function could be used to plot proposed holes that were added to the project or to change the data being plotted along the trace.  

Comments

[Natalie Green]

Hi Meg,
Recreating the section will replot the image defined in the Plan View tab, but this plots in the Plan View above the section. If you have plotted the image in the base view or the section view after creating the section, then Recreate Section will overwrite the map and this addition will not be applied. You can use Replot Hole on Existing Plan or Section instead, and your jpg image will not be lost. I have another suggestion about this and I am working on a new post for next week (~ 8 Feb 2012) which will describe it in some detail. Stay tuned...

[Meg]

I'm plotting some drillhole sections, and have unregistered jpgs of some early interps of geophys lines we ran. I've imported the jpgs, resized and aligned them within the section in the base map - I can't seem to use warps on the vertical section (though I can on the plan view). That's fine - but when I replot holes on existing plan or section everything replots, except the carefully manually resized and positioned jpg. According to the help files any imported images SHOULD automatically replot. Any idea what I'm doing wrong, or if it's a glitch?