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Surpac tips

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Category	Tip
General	Access any folder quickly in Surpac
	Opening Surpac in a nominated folder
	How to get Dfield information to display when converting string to DXF
	Combining Data into a Layer
	Enabling point of rotation
	Use the move tool
	How to improve Surpac performance by configuring the graphics card
	Point modes
	Orientate text using a styles file
	Exporting Solids from Surpac and displaying in 3D in PDFs for presentations and reports
	Planes
	Copying Planes in GEOVIA Surpac
	Visual cutting planes
	How to display and view data in plan and cross section view in Surpac
Plotting	How to plot oblique sections 🆕
	Creating plot with multiple viewports
	Using autoplot's multiple viewports
	Plotting grid points with grid lines offset
	How to rescale and append A3 plots to A0
	Top ten Surpac plotting (1/2)
	Top ten Surpac plotting (2/2)
	How to create a long section puncture plot (1/4)
	How to create a Long Section Puncture Plot in SURPAC (2/4)
	How to create a Long Section Puncture plot in SURPAC (3/4)
	How to create a Long Section Puncture Plot in SURPAC (4/4)
Geology	Drillhole database
	Coloring a pit by geology
	How to drape and digitise underground wall mapping
	How to perform Dynamic Anisotropy
	Swath tip on Surpac 🆕
	Using drillhole constraints
	Checking linear clearance around existing and planned drillholes
	Structural suite
	Part 1 : structural suite
	Part 2: structural suite
	Part 3: structural suite
	Block Modeling
	Top Cut Analysis in GEOVIA Surpac 6.7.4
	Improve your estimations with variable sub-ceiling
	How to decrease the size of a block model
	Simple reblock and dilution of grade
	Changing the block model coordinate system
Macros	Surpac TCL/SCL Scripts Examples 🆕
	TCL scripting in GEOVIA Surpac with guido tables
	How to use SLC commands to make points in Surpac
	How to use TWAPI in a Surpac macro to read directly from a spreadsheet
	How to use TCLODBC in Surpac to write to a Microsoft Access database
	How to use SCL commands to make points in Surpac
	@AC's Surpac tips series
	Episode 1
	Episode 2
	Episode 3
	Episode 4
Solids/DTMs	Merging DTMs
	Automatic and manual triangulation methods of solid modeling
	Achieving faster solids conditioning
	How to extract and display gradient information from a DTM surface
	How to see the difference between planned and mined solids 🆕
	How to see the distance between drilling and planned underground workings? 🆕
	Converting historical 2D plans into Surpac 3DM solids
	Splitting trisolations in GEOVIA Surpac v6.8
	Contouring
	Contouring soil assay results using grid method
	Contouring soil assay results using DTM method
	Point cloud
	Creating grayscale colour DTM surface model from RGB point cloud
	Working with Point Clouds 🆕
	Meshing cloud points faster
Pit design (Engineering)	Pit design top to bottom
	Designing ramps with varying slope angle and berm width
	Creating dump block models in Surpac to use in MineSched