Datamine Discover KB - Vectors

How can I modify more than one DXF object style?

kbadmin — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:34:57 GMT

Occurrence

How can I modify more than one DXF object style?

Solution

If you want to modify more than one object style in a DXF file you can using the following options.

Navigate to the Vectors Properties dialog, on the Appearance tab.

On a header such as Colour Right click the mouse to display the Colour palette.

Select a colour and click OK.

The same action can be conducted for:

Fill Colour

Line Colour

Line Style

Only selected objects will be modified, you can individually select objects or select/deselect all object by Left mouse clicking a property column.

How do I display a 3D vector file from another application into a Drillhole Section?

kbadmin — Thu, 21 May 2020 23:37:55 GMT

Solution

You can do this, by selecting all sections you wish to display it on in the section manager (select multiple by CTRL>Left Click).

Then go to the Section Manager>Analytical Tools>Display 3D Model on Section

This allows the easy display of multiple .DXF and Discover 3D .FDB vector models onto the selected cross-sections as attributed polygons and polylines, each in their own TAB file layer. These input models can be polyhedron volumes (e.g. mineralisation isosurface halos or proposed open cut wireframes) or surfaces (such as fault planes or unconformity wireframes/TINS) modelled in either Discover 3D or a 3rd party application.

The tool will display the intesection of the vectors with with 2D section plane.

NOTE It will not project or include all data in the envelope, it will only show data that intersects the section plane. If you wish to see all data within a section envelope, you can do this dynamically with the Discover3D Cursor Plane.

For instance, this functionality allows you to take your 3D models, such as :

And slice / intersect them across multiple 2D sections, with an assigned style per model, producing polygons and polylines stored and managed on a per section basis:

In the Solid Generator dialog, ensure that the solid is enclosed by setting an End Capping Style (right hand side of the dialog). Generally a Flat style is recommended (this will convert the end polygons into solid planes), as this will not interpolate past the feature polygons.

Once an end capping style is set,

Also select to output to a Feature Database -

Then run the Solid Generator.

A Volume (and Surface Area) value will be displayed in the Feature Data pane, and cells can be selected and copied by right clicking, and pasted into another program.

How do you permanently alter the Z/RL values or position of a 3D DXF vector file?

Josh Knight — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:38:42 GMT

Use the Utilities>Transform Vector File tool in the 3D interface. This allows any DXF vector file to have
its Z values permanently exaggerated/rescaled, as well as applying a permanent offset:

1/. Choose the source vector file using the Browse button adjacent to the Input file option in the
Transform Vector File tool .

2/. Enable the Transform coordinates option.

3/. Specify the required Z scale (and/or Z offset). X and Y offsets (and scale and rotation) can also be
specified here, allowing a 3D environment to be populated with DXF objects such as vehicles, ships,
aircraft, etc, to give a sense of scale/proportion. This is particularly useful when creating movies.

4/. Using the Browse button adjacent to the Output file option, specify a new output file name, location
and type. Note that by default this tool automatically creates the output file into the same location as the
input file, with a '_trans' suffix added.

5/. Press the Transform button to run the tool.

6/. Display the new vector file in 3D by dragging and dropping it into the 3D window. Alternatively, add a
3D Vector branch, and browse for the new file through this.