Drillhole Import

This command allows you import existing drillhole files. When you select Drillhole Import from the Drillhole menu, a command prompt shows:

"Use separate drillhole and strata files [Yes/<No>]?"  If you have two separate files, one with strata info, and the other file has drillhole locations, select Yes.  If you enter Yes, the dialog box below appears.

This command creates drillholes from the data contained in text files.  Currently there are many company-specific formats.  A Drillhole Data File Formatter that is flexible to handle almost any drillhole text file format is below. The format to use is chosen in the dialog shown here. The import text can have comma delimited, space delimited or fixed width columns of data. All the data for a record should be on one row. For the fixed width format, choose the Fixed Width toggle and then enter the column numbers separated by spaces in the edit box. For example, "8 15 24 32".

The Custom format can import all the drillhole and strata data from one text file or the drillhole data from one file and the strata data from another file. The method to use is set at the Use separate drillhole and strata files prompt.

Use the following commands to prepare a file format that will match the *.imp imported file.

●  Add: Moves the selected entry from Available to Used.

●  Add Attribute:  Allows user input attributes into the Used section.

●  Add Skip:  Adds a "Skip" place holder in the Used List

●  Remove:  Moves a selected item from Used to Available list.

●  Move Up:  Moves the selected item up one place in the list.

●  Move Down:  Moves the selected item down one place in the list.

●  Comma Delimited:  Select this if your *.imp file has commas separating each field.

Single space delimited:  Select this if your *.imp has a space separating each field.

●  Tab delimited:  Select this if your *,imp file has tabs separating each field.

●  Fixed widths:  Select this if your *.imp has a defined width of space separating each field.

●  Auto Fixed widths:  Select this to automatically determine the fixed widths that separate each field in the *.imp file.

●  Header Lines to Skip:  If your *.imp file has header lines, enter the number of header lines here.

●  Load:  Takes you to select/brows for your *.imp file.

●  Save:  This command will save your imported file as a *.imp file.

The dialog box below details the drillhole import options.Drillhole import In addition to the previously listed import commands above, this dialog box also has the following prompts:

●  Avoid Duplicate Strata Names:  Select this to prevent have more than one strata with the same name.

●  Strata on one row:  Select this option if all of your strata info is on one row.

Keyboard Command: tk_chimport
Prerequisite: drillhole files