All, Doug Cook correctly pointed out to me that my comment below needs slight modification:
1. "Grid and Mapping Utilities->Create Master Grid". Set origin, point spacing, and rotation. 2. "Grid and Mapping Utilities->Grid Utilities->Save Grid to XYZ File" to save the grid to an XYZ file. 3. "Database->Import->Geosoft XYZ..." to import the XYZ file into a database. 4. "Database tools->Window Data->Window X,Y to Polygon mask" to mask to your polygon. Thanks Doug! Cheers, Rob From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Ellis Sent: April-12-13 5:16 PM To: Geosoft Oasis montaj and Target Subject: RE: [geonet] Mapping question Doug, In Oasis montaj you can generate a grid of points with any spacing and orientation using: 1. "Grid and Mapping Utilities->Create Master Grid". Set origin, point spacing, and rotation. 2. "Grid and Mapping Utilities->Grid Utilities->Save Grid to Database" to save the grid to a database. 3. "Database tools->Window Data->Window X,Y to Polygon mask" to mask to your polygon. Not sure if this will solve your problem, but I have used this method many times to quickly create survey grids. If you need the grid points on a DEM for example, simply sample the DEM grid to the database. Cheers, Rob From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marc Pelletier Sent: April-12-13 2:22 PM To: Geosoft Oasis montaj and Target Subject: Re: [geonet] Mapping question Doug, If you don't want to spend any money on this you can do it with a little effort in geosoft. Since your desired line direction is EW its fairly simple, angled lines would require a little more effort. 1. Create a new line with an x and y channel. Make the y's equal to some rounded minimum value and the x's such that they span the entire polygon. 2. Copy the line however many times you need to and apply the offsets to the y coordinate. This is the painful part, if there a bunch of lines you could just define an offset channel and use y=y+offset*200, or similar, to create the new y's. 3. Make a distance channel. Its under channel tools. 4. Refid your database (Database tools|Database Utilities|Re-fid to distance reference). The reference channel is your distance channel, and your fiducial increment is the station spacing. 5. Window the gdb to your polygon. (Database tools|Window Data|Window X,Y to Polygon mask. There's lots of variations on this theme. For more than a couple of lines I would replace step 1 & 2 with Excelliness. cheers, Marc Marc Pelletier, P. Geo. Nutana Geophysics Saskatoon, SK tel: (306) 931-6853 cell: (306) 260-6022 On 12/04/2013 2:34 PM, Doug Cook wrote: but these are exactly the answers I wanted. Thanks Kit. It would take their programmers 5 minutes to develop such capability, but they seem to be ignorant of what the typical exploration geologist fills his/her day in with. Using trigonometry to calculate points in Excel is not efficient use of time. Doug ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [geonet] Mapping question Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:26:58 -0700 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> hi -- the Encom Technology (now Pitney Bowes) 'Discover' product (which is an add-on to Mapinfo) has a utility for creating grids of points and lines with set station/line spacings, etc., which can be easily/readily used for laying out ground survey grids. Also, the DataViz 'FP' for flight plan will do it well for airborne surveys, and the Encom PA product includes a flight simulator which will do the same thing, with the addition of specific aircraft climb/descend characteristics. I realize these are not the answers you want, but ... Kit. On 12-Apr-2013, at 12:55 PM, Doug Cook wrote: Doug, As far as I know, there is no means of automatically generating grid points or lines within a polygon. I've been banging on about this for years but no functionality has been added to generate grid points. We do a lot of soil geochemical sampling and the ability to automatically generate variable patterns, spacing and orientations of grid points (lines) within a polygon would be very helpful. Regards, Doug ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [geonet] Mapping question Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:58:14 +0000 Hi If I have a ply file and I want to create lines and stations at a specific spacing within that .ply what is the best way to do that? Is there a Map Editing tool for that? Thanks, Doug ************************************************************ Confidentiality Warning. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and subject to certain laws pertaining to the protection of proprietary information. It is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message in not the intended recipient, or the authorized agent thereof, the reader is hereby notified that retention or any dissemination, distribution or copying of this transmission is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail or by telephone, and delete all copies of the original message. Thank you. ************************************************************ --- Forum archives can be accessed here: http://lyris.geosoft.com/read/?fourm=geonet You are currently subscribed to geonet as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To subscribe or unsubscribe from any of our forums, select the User Forum selection on the Geosoft Community page:http://www.geosoft.com/support/community --- Forum archives can be accessed here: http://lyris.geosoft.com/read/?fourm=geonet You are currently subscribed to geonet as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To subscribe or unsubscribe from any of our forums, select the User Forum selection on the Geosoft Community page:http://www.geosoft.com/support/community --- Forum archives can be accessed here: http://lyris.geosoft.com/read/?fourm=geonet You are currently subscribed to geonet as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To subscribe or unsubscribe from any of our forums, select the User Forum selection on the Geosoft Community page: http://www.geosoft.com/support/community --- Forum archives can be accessed here: http://lyris.geosoft.com/read/?fourm=geonet You are currently subscribed to geonet as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To subscribe or unsubscribe from any of our forums, select the User Forum selection on the Geosoft Community page: http://www.geosoft.com/support/community --- Forum archives can be accessed here: http://lyris.geosoft.com/read/?fourm=geonet You are currently subscribed to geonet as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To subscribe or unsubscribe from any of our forums, select the User Forum selection on the Geosoft Community page: http://www.geosoft.com/support/community --- Forum archives can be accessed here: http://lyris.geosoft.com/read/?fourm=geonet You are currently subscribed to geonet as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To subscribe or unsubscribe from any of our forums, select the User Forum selection on the Geosoft Community page: http://www.geosoft.com/support/community --- Forum archives can be accessed here: http://lyris.geosoft.com/read/?fourm=geonet You are currently subscribed to geonet as: [email protected]. To subscribe or unsubscribe from any of our forums, select the User Forum selection on the Geosoft Community page: http://www.geosoft.com/support/community
