Entering Your Traverse Data In MineSight

Feb 2009 Dr. B. C. Paul Note the following presentation includes screen shots an operating suggestions for the program MineSight developed by Mintec Inc. The program was developed by Mintec.

Start Up MineSight and Set the Directory Where You Want to Work
You will be using This directory For all your Mapping the Rest of the Semester.

Create a Folder for Engineering Building Traverse

Name the Folder and Click Ok

Create a Geometry Object to Hold the Corners of the Engineering Building

You determined These on your Side shots

Put Your New Geometry Object into Edit Mode (so you can put your data points
in it)

You Have the Handy Dandy Excel Spreadsheet that has converted your survey data to point coordinates

We Will Need to Set Up A Work Area (we need to identify the state plane coordinate
area we will be working with)
Activate MineSight Compass

It Tells Us It Could Not Find the Boundary Files Saying Where to Work
Dah thats what We are doing this For at least we Know the program Is on the same Page as us. Click Ok

When Compass Opens Create a New PCF (Project Control File)

You May Have to Tell it to Put the File in the Directory You Are Working In

Fill Out the Programs Questionnaire

Your working in Feet Its a 3D project Give it a 4 letter Name (preferably Professional Sounding) I Picked Trav I picked other for My mineral type But it really does Not matter Enter a project

Enter the Anticipated Coordinate Range

My guess is reasonable

The Initialization Runs

Make Sure We Get A Project File

We Will Tell It Where the Project Control File Is

We Are Done We Will Close Compass and Get On With Data Entry

Under the Utilities Menu Pick the Point Editor

The Point Editor Comes On But is Inactive

Go to Point Create

The Point Editor Turns On and the Operations Line Shows What We Are Doing

Check the Boxes to Indicate That We Will Be Inputting Coordinates

Enter the Coordinates of the First Corner using Data from the Spreadsheet

Click Apply and Our First Point Appears

Type in the Next Point

When I Click Apply the Next Point Appears

After I Enter My First Set of A Team Points I Click Right to Finish the Operation
I will then click The weird looking Save box to Save my work.

The Saved Points Turn Blue

Now Im Going to Close That Set of Building Corner Points and Put in Some Others
I left click the Golden box to take Building Corners Out of edit mode

As You Can See One Click Does the Job

I Will Close My Building Corner Points Because I Want to Put in My Traverse Stations

I Created Geometry Objects for My A and B Teams to Put in instrument Stations

I Create My A Team Stations

Create My B Team Stations

Im Going To Put in My Traverse Directions With Polylines

Ill set my snap Mode to point Snap so I can Lock my polylines Onto my points

Ill Give the Instruction to Create a Polyline

I Digitize my A Team Movement

I will right click The mouse to Complete the Traverse lines

I Digitize and Right Click My Mouse to Complete the First Part of My Line
Note after right Clicking once my First pline turns Red indicating it Is complete Also note that I Am still in polyline Create mode so I can start on Another polyline (useful in this case Because the B Team took a short Dead end trip) (A second right Click would end The pline function)

I Digitize in the rest of the B team travel (to this point)

I will now right Click twice Once to end the Addition of points To the current Polyline and a Second time to End the polyline Create function Ill then click save

I Want to Do A Little Color differentiation of my teams

I will left click on My A Team Traverse And then right Click to bring up The menu Then I will left Click on properties

The Object Properties Window Opens

Left click on the Color pallet

I Think I Will Turn the A Team Purple

I Also Think I Will Put Some Direction in the movement

Pick the polyline tab Ill check off to Put arrow heads On the plines I will choose my Arrow head style

And I will choose My size

Why Im So Impressed Ill Do it For the B team too!

There But There Is Something Id Like to Take a Better Look At

I Can Use My Mouse Keys for Zooming Functions

Hold down the Left mouse key And center button Or scroll and Move up or down To zoom out or in

In This Case Zooming in Took What I Was Interested In Out of the Picture

Hold the Center and right Keys down to Pan

I Knew You Were Going to Ask

What happens if You hold down the Left and right keys

The picture rotates (this is usually not Good for us Because we want A plane with north Up)

To Restore Things
Click the north And east plane View icon Check to make Sure the azimuth Is 0 for azimuth To top of page And the dip is -90 (meaning you Are looking Straight down From above)
{No Im not trying to Make you think you Are God}

What Is Wrong With This Picture?

Survey Team B Worked their Way forward to Point B3 And then did an About face and Went the other Way instead Of heading Around the Building. Why do I think There is a bust in The angle turned At B3?

I Think I Will Trace Out the Corners of the Engineering Building

I will create a Geometry object To hold the Plines Representing the walls

Trace It On Out
Ill do a couple Right clicks and A save to finish this

What is Wrong With This Picture?

We know this side Of the Engineering Building runs in The same over-all North East to South West Direction

That first point looks A little suspect

Isnt It Wonderful to Have a Drawing Tell You What to Resurvey?