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 usingThis directoryFor all yourMapping theRest of theSemester.

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 determinedThese on yourSide 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)

ActivateMineSightCompass

It Tells Us It Could Not Find the Boundary Files Saying Where to Work

Dah – that’s whatWe are doing thisFor – at least weKnow the programIs on the samePage 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 Program’s Questionnaire

Your working inFeet

It’s a 3D project

Give it a 4 letterName (preferablyProfessionalSounding) – IPicked Trav

I picked other forMy mineral typeBut it really doesNot matter

Enter a project

Description – should be professional – it will show up on all your reports

Enter the Anticipated Coordinate Range

My guess isreasonable

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 clickThe weird lookingSave box toSave my work.

The Saved Points Turn Blue

Now I’m Going to Close That Set of Building Corner Points and Put in

Some OthersI left click theGolden box to takeBuilding CornersOut 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

I’m Going To Put in My Traverse Directions With Polylines

I’ll set my snapMode to pointSnap so I canLock my polylinesOnto my points

I’ll Give the Instruction to Create a Polyline

I Digitize my A Team Movement

I will right clickThe mouse toComplete theTraverse lines

I Digitize and Right Click My Mouse to Complete the First Part of My Line

Note after rightClicking once myFirst pline turnsRed indicating itIs complete

Also note that IAm still in polylineCreate mode soI can start onAnother polyline(useful in this caseBecause the BTeam took a shortDead end trip)

(A second rightClick would endThe pline function)

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

I will now rightClick twice –Once to end theAddition of pointsTo the currentPolyline and aSecond time toEnd the polylineCreate function

I’ll then click save

I Want to Do A Little Color differentiation of my teams

I will left click onMy A TeamTraverse

And then rightClick to bring upThe menu

Then I will leftClick on properties

The Object Properties Window Opens

Left click on theColor pallet

I Think I Will Turn the A Team Purple

I Also Think I Will Put Some Direction in the movement

I’ll check off toPut arrow headsOn the plines

I will choose myArrow head style

And I will chooseMy size

Pick the polylinetab

Why I’m So Impressed I’ll Do it For the B team too!

There – But There Is Something I’d Like to Take a Better Look At

I Can Use My Mouse Keys for Zooming Functions

Hold down theLeft mouse keyAnd center buttonOr scroll andMove up or downTo zoom out orin

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

Hold theCenter and rightKeys down toPan

I Knew You Were Going to Ask

What happens ifYou hold down theLeft and right keys

The picture rotates(this is usually notGood for usBecause we wantA plane with northUp)

To Restore Things

Click the northAnd east planeView icon

Check to makeSure the azimuthIs 0 for azimuthTo top of page

And the dip is-90 (meaning youAre lookingStraight downFrom above){No – I’m not trying toMake you think youAre God}

What Is Wrong With This Picture?

Survey Team BWorked theirWay forward toPoint B3

And then did anAbout face andWent the otherWay insteadOf headingAround theBuilding.

Why do I thinkThere is a bust inThe angle turnedAt B3?

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

I will create aGeometry objectTo hold thePlinesRepresenting thewalls

Trace It On Out

I’ll do a coupleRight clicks andA save to finishthis

What is Wrong With This Picture?

We know this sideOf the EngineeringBuilding runs inThe same over-allNorth East toSouth West Direction

That first point looksA little suspect

Isn’t It Wonderful to Have a Drawing Tell You What to

Resurvey?