Output Options and Site Maps Tutorial


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This tutorial is designed for beginning and intermediate level gINT users, and is intended for self-study. It covers the OUTPUT tab in detail, including an in-depth demonstration of the various report applications, the process of exporting reports, and using scripts and filters. It also shows how to use site maps in INPUT as a project GIS, and as something that can be both printed in reports and used to control the set of boreholes output. The tutorial employs some explanations, but mostly has you perform step-by-step instructions in gINT.

This tutorial is designed for beginning and intermediate level gINT users, and is intended for self-study. It covers the OUTPUT tab in detail, including an in-depth demonstration of the various report applications, the process of exporting reports, and using scripts and filters. It also shows how to use site maps in INPUT as a project GIS, and as something that can be both printed in reports and used to control the set of boreholes output. The tutorial employs some explanations, but mostly has you perform step-by-step instructions in gINT.
Note: Some of the steps, e.g. using fences and alignments and using site maps in Output, will require a license for gINT Professional or gINT Professional Plus.
This tutorial covers these subjects:

Exporting to Different File Formats

Filtering Data for Reports

All reports can be filtered to include only specific boreholes using various techniques, alone or in combination:

Scripts

gINT provides the ability to perform batch output of reports using the Scripts facility. This enables you to print multiple reports or export them to a graphic format, with predefined output settings.

In addition to batch output of reports, scripts can also perform batch data import and export operations, utilities such as library merge/copy, and output of symbol library printouts.

Site Maps

A site map can be imported into a project in INPUT and stored with that project. This is generally a DXF or HPGL file created in a CAD application, or can be created in the DRAWINGS application group.

Fence Output Options

You can specify various settings for fence report output. These include setting maximum, minimum and scale for both the horizontal and vertical axes, drawing a baseline to determine how points are projected, and altering horizontal and vertical viewing angles to create a 3-D view.

Using Alignments

Alignment support is provided in gINT version 8.2 and later. If you are doing road design, this feature lets you define, store and output the data for multiple alignments. However, alignments also benefit anyone who uses custom baselines in fence reports, since they enable you to save multiple baselines.

Matching Scale and Origin in Imported Site Maps

When you import a DXF file to use as a site map in your gINT project, you need to make sure both the scale and the origin point of the site map match with borehole locations stored in the gINT project database. Scaling and origin placement problems are easily corrected using the General Drawings application in DRAWINGS.

Outputting a Fence Report of Evenly Spaced, Custom-Ordered Points

For certain applications, you may need to create a fence report that displays a set of borehole points in a left-to-right order of interest to you, with equal spacing between posts (rather than spacing based on how each point’s coordinates map perpendicularly to a baseline). Fortunately, there is a simple way to accomplish this without performing complex manipulations of the data.

 Original Author:Kathleen Holcomb