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Images may be set to a specific color, or draped to a triangulation by importing both the image and associated georeference file.

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Setting an image color

  1. Select a layer in the Layers panel.

  2. Click on the color selection dropdown to the right of the layer name.

  3. Click the Color tab.

  4. Click the color selection button to display the color palette and opacity level.

    1. Select the desired color and adjust its settings to your preference.

    2. View the resulting color in the Sample field.

    3. You can also enter numerical values for color hue (Hue), Saturation (Sat), Brightness (Bright), Transparency (Opacity) or specify a color number in the palette (#).

    4. Use the Make Web-Safe button to assign a web-safe color to the image.

    5. Tick the Use Dynamic Lighting checkbox if you want to use dynamic lighting. But note that this flag will cause the image to be of higher quality, which will slow down the planning process.

    6. Use the Line Width slider to adjust the thickness of the lines.

  5. Press OK to finish.

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Draping an image

  1. Select a layer in the Layers panel.

  2. Click on the color selection dropdown to the right of the layer name.

  3. Switch to the Drape Image tab.

  4. Select Open Image and import the image file.

  5. Select Load Points and import the georeference file.

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6. If required, adjust the image file draping settings over the triangulation in the coordinate table and adjust the opacity with the Opacity slider.

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Info

A downsampled copy of the original image is saved in the working folder as “projectName.drapeImages”. If this file is deleted, then all draped images are removed from the project.

Supported Image File Types

You can import layers and surfaces files in the following formats:

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Info

Supported registration formats include the Vulcan IREG and the Surpac RGF.

Grade Shading & Contour Lines

Grade Shading

New functionality has been added that now makes it possible to shade triangulations by grade. This can be useful for distinguishing areas too steep for production rigs. Four grade cutoffs have been preconfigured, each with a user-defined colour. The colour associated with triangles less than 10% grade will be set to the colour associated with the layer.

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Contour Lines

It is now possible to display contour lines to help visualise surface terrain. The settings for this functionality are outlined below.

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Setting

 

Color

The color of the contor lines to be displayed.

Height Offset

Reference RL for a major interval.

Major Interval

The vertical distance between major interval lines.

Minor Divider

The number of minor interval lines between major intervals.

Line Width

The thickness of displayed contour lines.