Drillhole Text Formatter

This routine allows for flexible labeling of any data contained in the drillholes- also known as "posting drillholes." After selecting which drillholes to label, the program prompts whether to process beds. This option will composite the strata by bed name which groups the strata into seams such as bed_top, bed_key, bed_parting and bed_bottom. These composited values are then available for labeling. Without process beds, the strata are reported individually. The Drillhole Text Format Options dialog is similar to the Drillhole Import routine and other commands in Carlson, where the available options are listed on the left and the used options are added to the right window. All the available strata are listed in the first list box and all the attributes for currently selected strata are listed in the second list box. When the selected available option is added, the next dialog appears for setting the format and location options. The settings can be saved to and recalled from a drillhole text format file.

• Text Offset: Sets the distance from the center of the drillhole to the text
  
• Label thickness for missing strata as Zero: If the seam is not present in a hole, this option will label it as "0.0", otherwise there is no label
  
• Prefix layers with drillhole type name: This adds the Drillhole Type name to the layer as a prefix
  
• Skip empty rows: If a value is not existing in a hole, this option will skip it and go to the next one
  
• Overlap labels with same row: This option, if selected, will start the text at the same location if on the same row
• Color By Grade Parameter File: This option prompts for a GPF file to use to set the color of the labels based on the grade of each strata.
  
• Draw text at elevation: This will draw the text up at elevation of the hole
  
• Draw as MTEXT: Selecting this will group the text as MText (multiline text), otherwise it is separate standard text for each text item.

• Layer: Sets the layer for each text line
  
• Style: Sets the text style
  
• Color: Places the text in this color
• Label Header: Sets the column header label when labeling several rows of data
  
• Label Prefix: Add a prefix to the text, such as BTU: or Thickness:
  
• Label Suffix: Add a suffix such as ft or m
• Text Size: Controls the size of text drawn
• Decimals: Controls the decimals of the values
  
• Angle: Allows to rotate the text, such as straight up, straight down, or 45 degrees etc.
  
• Row Position: Controls the row position counting both up or down from the symbol, based on whether it is set to above or below the symbol
  
• Label Position: Set for above or below the drillhole symbol for the text
  
• Label Alignment: Once the position is set, then choose the alignment for justification around the symbol
  

Prompts

Select the Drillholes to label.
Select objects: pick the drillholes
Process beds [<Yes>/No]? Press Enter for yes.
Drillhole Text Format Options dialog

Drop-Down Menu Location: Drillhole
Keyboard Command: chtext2