Entering Your Traverse Data
In MineSight
©Feb 2009, 2014 revisions 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.
It Will Ask for Permission to
Write Operating Files
The Program Opens and the First
Thing It Shows is the Project Area
Enter Project Area
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 A Bunch of Spreadsheets Where
You Figured the Coordinates of Your
Foresight Points
Major Results
The Coordinates of the Foresight Point
FS1
Are
The Distance to Your Foresight Point
FS1
Is
The Direction to Your Foresight Point
FS1
Is
north
east
elevation
381307.14 2570724 448.337
200 Feet
degrees
minutes
seconds
0
0
0
If you Move Your Instrument to Your Foresight Point and then use your present station as a backsight
The Direction of Your New Backsight Line Will Be
degrees minutes seconds
180
0
0
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 I’m 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
I’m Going To Put in My Traverse
Directions With Polylines
I’ll set my snap
Mode to point
Snap so I can
Lock my polylines
Onto my points
I’ll 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
I’ll 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
I’ll check off to
Put arrow heads
On the plines
I will choose my
Arrow head style
And I will choose
My size
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 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 – I’m 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
I’ll 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
Isn’t It Wonderful to Have a
Drawing Tell You What to
Resurvey?