Datamine Discover KB - Profile Curves and Sections

How can I turn off Colour Modulation in Curve Profiles?

Josh Knight — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:48:44 GMT

When a curve profile display is first created the field being displayed is by default colour modulated by the first field in the database. To disable colour modulation:

1. Right mouse click on the Curve branch in the workspace tree and select Properties from the pop-up menu that appears.
2. In the Curve Properties dialog that appears select the Line Style tab.
3. Click on the tick box for Modulate Line Colour to disable this option.
4. Click Apply or OK.

How can I display a Section Grid in Profile Displays?

Josh Knight — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:09:54 GMT

To display a section grid object in a profile display:

1.Ensure that the original dataset that the section grids were created from is loaded into PA.

2.Open a single Curve Profile display using the File>New>Profile>Curve Profile menu option.

3.In the Workspace Tree for the Curve profile display that appears click on the "tick" box for the Curve branch to hide this data object.

4.Add a Section Grid data object to the display using the Insert>Data Object>Section Grid menu option. The Section Grid Properties dialog will appear.

5.In the Data tab for the Section Grid Properties dialog choose the line in the dataset that corresponds to the first section grid that was created.

6.In the Surfaces tab for the Section Grid Properties dialog choose the corresponding section grid name from the drop-down list or else press the Browse button (yellow folder icon) and navigate to the folder where the section grids were saved.

7.If you have more than one section grid you can now use the Line Iterator toolbar buttons to view the lines sequentially in the database and the corresponding sections grid files should automatically be opened in Encom PA and displayed in the section profiles.

To view these section grids in 3D:

Section grids can only be displayed in 3D once they have been converted to an Image Series.To convert these grids following the following steps ...

How can I copy a profile display so that I can see two consecutive lines with same display properties?

Josh Knight — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:19:59 GMT

Once you have created the first profile display and edited the appearance for this, right mouse click on
the Profile 1 branch in the workspace tree and from the pop-up menu select Clone>Graph. A second
profile display will appear under the first profile with the exact same appearance as the first but displays
the data for the next line in the database.