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CARLSON SOFTWARE CONFERENCEDANIEL V. SYPERSMA
VICTOR GRAPHICS
START WITH A ANNOTATION TEMPLATEMapanntemplate will open the dialog box on the left.
Click on the New button.
The next dialog box opens, type “Handle” in the available space.
By default the Block Editor will open to a blank screen.
MAPANNTEXT
Type “Mapanntext” and hit ‘Enter’ twice.
In the Tag window type ‘Handle’
To the right of the Tag window is the Value box. This is where we will select the AutoCad Property ‘ehandle’ to use as our ‘Annotation Text’. Select the ‘OK’ button and return to the Annotation Text dialog box. Here is were we can select the Layer, Color, Text Height, Style and Justification for our Annotation. Typically I use a Justification of Middle Center, size of 10’, placing on layer ‘Annotation Handle’
MAPANNTEXT
The next prompt will ask you where you want to place the text. Type “0,0”. Then zoom to extends to see the Annotation if it doesn’t appear on your screen.
TIMING UG
The next step is to complete a typical timing run. With completion, select the Export option. Be sure to add the HANDLE option to the list. I typically place it at the top of the list. This is the link that we will use to connect the production data from Carlson’s timing to either a Excel spreadsheet or a Access data table.
ISOLATE THE TIMING BLOCKS
Next Isolate the timing blocks so the Handle block can be insert into the timing blocks. Typing in the command ‘mapanninsert’ brings up the Insert Annotation dialog box. In the box on the left side select the ‘HANDLE’ under Annotation template. On the right open the Insert properties/Layer and select the layer that you want to place the block. I use Annotate-Handle layer so to keep my annotation blocks in one place.
INSERTING BLOCKS
At the command line prompt select the Carlson timing blocks. Be sure to turn on the Annotate-Handle layer to see the results. Do not use ‘All’, that causes the program to insert a block on all AutoCad enties.
Your screen should like something like this. Inside every timing block should be a hexadecimal number. That number is the link that we will use to connect to the database.
DATABASE CONNECT
Open the Task Panel pullout (Map Only), if the Task Panel in not on the screen, type ‘MAPWSPACE’ to turn it on. This can be docked on the left or right of your screen. Select the Map Explorer tab then the Data Sources file icon. Double click on the Data Sources icon and navigate to the directory that you saved your MS Excel Spreadsheet or MS Access database.
After attaching the database, select the tbl_Production icon. This opens the next menu which you can then create a Linked Template.
DEFINING LINK TEMPLATE
The Link Template defines what is going to be the hook that allows us to link the data to the database.
In the Define Link Template window type: lnk_Production, under the Key Section check the Handle key box. This tells AutoCad to use the Handle in the database and link it to the Handle block that we made earlier.
ISOLATE THE TIMING BLOCKS AND Now isolate the timing blocks and the Annotate_Handle layer so we can complete the last couple of step.
LINKING TO THE DRAWINGRight mouse the lnk_Production icon under the Link Templates. Select the same options on the Generate Data Links dialog box.
First: Enclosed Blocks – the blocks are the Annotation_Handles insert into the drawing
Second: Data Links – selected the Create Database Links
Third: choose the lnk_Production from the Link Template
Forth: Select the ACMAP_ANN_TEMPLATE_HANDLE
Fifth: Select the HANDLE from the Tag 1:
And finally under Database validation select None
At the command prompt take the option to select entities. Window in the Timing Blocks and the Annotation_Handle blocks. If you select All AutoCad will try to link all objects to your database.
PROPERTIES BOX
Select one of the timing poly lines in your drawing. What you should have now is something that is similar to the Properties Box on the right. The property box now will display the data directly from your data source.
Where to go from here?
MAPEXPORTEXPORT THE DATA TO FDO PROVIDERType Mapexport in the command line. The dialog box on the right will open. Under file type select AutoDesk SDF from the Files of type:
The next screen will be the Selection Screen. The allows us to choose just the data that we want to Export. We can collect all the data but since it’s a bit overkill for this exercise lets just choose the timing data only.
This will also allow export to other GIS formats.
DATA SELECTION
Select manually the timing polys, then click on the Layers Icon and highlight just the timing polys. In this case they are the 13_LN… layers. No need to choose the other layer there isn’t any timing data associated with them.
FEATURE CLASS
On the next tab – Feature Class we will now tell AutoCad what data it is that we want to export.
Click the Select Attributes box and select the Properties folder at the top of the list. Choose just the Area box. All of the Properties data on this category cover AutoCad entities not the actually Timing data.
LINK TEMPLATE
Select the lnk_Production under the Line Template folder. This is the data that we want to export out. This is all the data associated with the Carlson scheduling.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST
Finally on the Options tab be sure to select the ‘Treat closed polylines as polygons’.
This will ‘hatch’ all polylines automatically when we connect the data to our next drawing.
Also on this screen you can, if needed, export out to another coordinate system.
BRINGING THE DATA BACK TO THE DRAWINGFrom the Task Pane select the Connect to Data icon at the top of the dialog box.
Under the Data Connection by Provider click on the Add SDF Connection. In the Connection name box type ‘Timing_Model’. Then on the list icon above the Connect box. Navigate to the directory that the SDF file is located.
Then click on ‘Connect’
THIS THE FINAL STEP
Click on the Add to Map button to import the SDF file into you current map. You also have the option to Add to map but with a query to limit the data that you want to place in the drawing
HOW IT LOOKS
This is how your drawing should look. The data is now imported into your drawing. The data isn’t really in the drawing, just displayed with default styles.
So what?
RE-STYLE
Right mouse the list at the top of you task pane ‘ Timing Model’ to bring up the Style menu.
This is fun part. Mid panel click on the New theme so we can start styling…
STYLING
In the property window select the property that you want to theme. In this case I chose the ‘Year’ property to style. Any timing property can be styled. This allows one timing run to cover the Full Monty of mapping needs.
HOW ABOUT SOME LABELS
Let’s back up a step and re-theme the data one more time. This time we’ll add the Month-Year data label to each timing polyline.
At the bottom of the Theme Layer dialog box select the Create Feature labels. Then click on the ellipse button on the right of the Label box.
STYLE & LABEL EDITOR
In the Style & Label Editor choose from the top:
Select content
Then the Function button to the right of Text, which will open the Create/Modify Expression
Now in the Text Function menu, select the Substr option fill the options with ‘Month_Year’ the #1 and #7. This will trim the Month_Year string to just the month & year
YOUR DRAWING SHOULD LOOK LIKE THIS
WHAT ELSE CAN YOU DO?
How about a map of Quality features,
From the Task Pane, Right mouse the styled Timing Model from the Display Manager and copy the Timing Model. Then Right mouse and paste it back to the Display manager. We can now take the data that we have inserted into the drawing and re-theme it one more time. This time we’ll use BTU values.
BTU THEME
Start by deleting the current theme in the theme that we copied over. In the Polygon Style window select Delete All. Then select New Theme…
FULL SEAM BTU
From my list I selected the FS_BTU to theme on this next map.
Be sure to click on the Create feature labels to actually place the BTU value in each timing block. Select the Text function button to bring up the Create/Modify to Expression to use.
FROM HERE WE CAN
Modifie the Theme Rules starting with the first “FS_BTU >=…” the AutoCad selected.
I’ll replace it with FS_BTU< 9000 by clicking on the ellipses icon. And typing in “FS_BTU” < 9000. Also I’ll recolor the Style to RED. Select the ‘Fill’ style and then mid screen, select the Fill option. Click on the RED color box and move the Transparency button to around 25.
Hit Apply and Close
YOU SCREEN SHOULD SOMETHING LIKE THISI’ve typed in the Legend Label data and changed all my colors to highlight the styles for the map.
AND NOW THE MAP LOOKS LIKE THISI’ve created a text label that posted the Production Month with the BTU value expected for that month.
You can see by the color blocks that I have a low BTU month or two that I’ll need to blend out for
the customer base.
OTHER OPTIONS NOT COVERED IN THIS PRESENTATION
• Any value that resides in the database and is exported out to the SDF
format can be evaluated.
• Similar connect and theming can be done with Shape files.
• Styles can be reused with each new mine plan.
• Using the Mapimport the data can be converted back into AutoCad objects
• A particular Themed layer can be saved as a ‘Layer’ same name as a
AutoCad layer but not the same feature.
• Calculations can be run on the data from the SDF file, quantity and quality.
• Data can be ‘cut’ against a property map for Royalties, surface ownership.
• Can be used as a exploration tool – geo analysis. Se next slide.
