General Minescape Plotting

1 Plotting – Using Plot Slot

1.1 Plot Slot

Plotslot format:
 Data
 Title box
 Scale bar
 Logo
 North arrow
 Border

1.2 Steps to define Plotslot

1. Cerate a Plot slot Template

Menu: Page – Plot – Plotslot setup

Main - tab

Input the Main – tab as example bellow:

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Input
 Plotslot. Name of plotslot spec.
 Siteplot. Name of base map spec. This field can be left blank

Save As Panel
 Plotslot. Name of plotslot spec. to be save

Plot Info Panel

 Project. Name of the project.
 Scale. Drawing scale.
 Title. Plot Title up 32 characters max.
 Author.
 Company.

Destination
 Plotter. Sent output direct to plot.
 GDS – sent otput to GDS file.
 File – sent output to a file.

 No of copies.
 Configure plotter. Pilihan ini hanya aktif jika destinationnya berupa plotter atau
File.
 File name. Plot file name
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Plotslot Toolbar Button

Buton Name Function

Redraw Slots Redraw all slots.

Pick Slot Memberikan nama slot yang dipilih secara graphics.

New Slot Create a new slot.

Move slot Graphically move a slot.

Centre Slot Locate a slot relatively in the middle of selected slot.

Offset Slot Offset a slot relative relative to a selected slot.

Resize slot Graphically resise slot.

Delete slot Delete a slot.

Previous Entry Go to previous entered slot name in list.

Next Entry Go to next entered slot name in list.

New/Edit Border Create a new Border or Edit existing Border.

Settings – Tab

Input Setting tab as example bellow.

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Text Sizes
Text size for annotation and display definition control.

Global Limit Parameter

Plot limits control

Default

Base grid
 X Line spacing
 Y line spacing.

2. Create a Border

Prior to define drawing slots, features and ancillaries, border slot must be created.

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Select New/Edit Border

Slot name
 Slot name. Border slot name, e.g Border.
 Paper size. Define paper size A0, A1 etc.
Orientation
Landscape or Potrait.

Select Ok to create the border slot.

3. Create a Slot

Slot can be defined as absolute by input number or relative to another slot. Minescape
provide a set of MXL to define relative value:

1. To define relative value to data in a slot:

 DATAXMIN
 DATAXMAX
 DATAYMIN
 DATAYMAX

2. To define relative value to another slot.

 SLOTXMIN
 SLOTXMAX
 SLOTYMIN
 SLOTYMAX

Each function has own argument which is slot name, for example.
SLOTXMAX (‘TITLE’)

Define the value of the slot name TITLE.

Examples of Slots

The example bellow can help you define an absolute or relative value of the slot
posision. If you made slots called SLOT-A and DATA, then a new slot SLOT-B can be

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defined 40 cm from SLOT-A and 15 cm to the right from SLOT_DATA. Height of SLOT-
B 12 cm and length is 80 cm.

Bellow is the steps to define SLOT-B:

 Left side of SLOT-B would be define 15 cm from right side of slot DATA.
SLOTXMAX (‘DATA’) + 15
 Right side of SLOT-B would be define 80 cm from the left side of SLOT-B.
 SLOTXMAX(‘DATA’)+95 or
 80 for absolute
 Bottom side of SLOT-B:
 SLOTYMAX(‘SLOT-A’) +40
 Top side SLOT-B :
 SLOTYMIN(‘SLOT-B’)+12 or
 12

Drawing Slot - tab

Input the Drawing Slot as bellow example:

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Select Save, then select Redraw Slot button.

Create another slot, for example EDGE with the following position input:

X Minimum: SLOTXMIN (‘BORDER’) + 0.5

X Length: 83
Y Minimum: SLOTYMIN (‘BORDER’) + 0.5
Y length: 58

Feature Slots - tab

Create feature slots such as location, scalebar dan northarrow. Inputi tab feature as
example bellow:

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Select Save, then select Redraw Slot button.

Create other, for SCALEBAR dan NORTHARROW with same procedure:

Scalebar
X Centre: SLOTXCEN(‘BORDER’)
X Length: 8
Y Minimum: SLOTYMIN(‘EDGE’) + 2
Y Length: 1
Northarrow
X Center: SLOTXCEN(‘SCALEBAR’)
X Length: 2
Y Minimum: SLOTYMAX(‘SCALEBAR’) + 0.5
Y Length: 2.5

Ancillary Slots - tab

Create ancillaries slot such as Title, Drawn, Approved, Drawing and Date. Input
the Ancillary tab as example below:

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Select Save, then select Redraw Slot button

Create other ancilaries slots for Drawn, Approved, Date and Drawing with sam
procedure:

Drawn
X Maximum: SLOTXMIN(‘TITLE’) + 4
X Length: 2.5
Y Maximum: SLOTYMAX (‘TITLE’) – 4.95
Y Length: 0.5

Approved
X Maximum: SLOTXMAX (‘TITLE’) - 1
X Length: 2.5
Y Minimum: SLOTYMAX (‘TITLE’) – 4.95
Y Length: 0.5

Date
X Maximum: SLOTXMAX (‘TITLE’) - 1
X Length: 2.5
Y Minimum: SLOTYMIN (‘TITLE’) –
Y Length: 0.5

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Drawing
X Maximum: SLOTXMIN(‘TITLE’) + 4
X Length: 2.5
Y Minimum: SLOTYMIN (‘TITLE’)
Y Length: 0.5

Drawings - tab

Input Drawing tab as example bellow:

Slot Allocation
 Slot. Slot name to include in plot.
 Design File. Name of design file input.
 Layer. Name of layer to include in plot.
 Fit status.
 Nonfit. Drawing is not fit to the slot or its fit to Scale. Drawing will extend from
slot limit to fit the scale.
 CLIP. Drawing fit to scale, but will be clip in slot limit.
 XFIT. Drawing is fit in X direction.
 YFIT. Drwaing is fit in Y direction.
 XYFIT. Fit gambar dalam arah X dsan Y.
 FIT. Fit the drawing to slot limit at X and Y direction.
 Scale. Scale that use for plotting.
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 X Justify. The Choice is Left, Right and Centre.

 Y Justify. The Choice is Top, Centre dan Bottom.
View. Drawing view posisition.
 Z exaggeration.
 Limits. Drawing limits control.
 Legends. Slots name for legend and control.

Feature Slot - tab

Input the Feature tab as example bellow:

Features
 Slot. Name of features slot to be plot.
 Feature. Feature type:

Type Description
BOX Box or border surrounding a slot
GRID Base grid
HBARSCL Horizontal scale bar
HORSCL Horizontal scale bar and scale annotation
NORTHARROW Simple north arrow
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SECTION Section grid orientation

VBARSCL Vertical scale bar
VERSCL Vertical scale bar with scale annotation

 Data slot. Name of data slot.

 Display definition. Display definition for feature.

Expression - tab

Expression is a set of text that located in a slot. Expression can be a set of coplex texts
or plotslot variable as follow:

Variable description
USER Input user name defined in Main tab.
COMPANY Input company name defined in Main tab
PROJECT Input project name defined in Main tab
TITLE Input title name defined in Main tab
SCALE Input scale

Special function:

Function Description
DATE(0) DD-Mth-YY
DATE(1) DD’th Month YYYY
DATE(2) DDMMYY
DATE(3) DD/MM/YY
DATE(4) Day, Mth DD YYYY
DATE(5) YYDDD, (ddd adalah hari)
DATE (256) DD-Mth-YYYY
DATE(258) DDMMYYYY
DATE(259) DD/MM/YYYY
TIME()R Current time HH:MM:SS

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 Slot. Name of slot where text expression will be located, normally is ancillary slot.
 Expression. Input MXl expression.
 X justification. Text, X justification left, right or centre.
 Y Justification. Text, Y justification top, bottom or centre.
 Display def. Display definition for text or expression.

Description - tab

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If input is completed for all tabs, then select Build.

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