Lab summary on fence diagram

I have a custom built lab summary based on defined stratum and would like to include this information in a table on my fence diagram.

The custom built lab summary is in graphic table format. Is there a way to include this "as is" on the fence diagram?

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  • Glad I could be of help. 

    On taking a second look at this with a fresh pair of eyes the following procedure could ALSO be used.  It essentially does the same thing using a different intermediate file format but eliminates the extra step of creating a block from your exported table.

    1.            Output the table you want to incorporate on the fence diagram to a bitmap file (*.bmp) using gINT’s export feature in the output tab.  Make note of the path and file name you save it to.  You will always use the same name and path.

    2.            Edit your fence template by inserting a bitmap symbol.  Menu = Draw, Graphics, Bitmap Symbol.  In the bitmap symbol dialog, insert the full path and file name of the bitmap file you created in step 1 as the Bitmap symbol property.  Set size and position and other options as desired.  See image below.

    3.            Output the fence with the desired borings.  The table will be printed on the fence along with the borings at the specified location and size.

    4.            For the next fence, output a new bitmap file of the table (if necessary) and overwrite the contents of the previous bitmap file.  The next output fence will have the new table contents.

    NOTES:

    You could probably automate steps 1 and 3 above into a gINT script file that outputs the table to the bmp file and then outputs the fence.

    Since this method uses a raster file as the intermediate file, the background will be solid white and will block out anything behind it.  Thus pay close attention to the print order property in the configuration tab of the bitmap symbol entity.

    Again, since this uses a raster file, it’s resolution is only as good as the resolution used to create the file.  It will look jaggy if you blow it up very large and it will not plot as lines and text if exported to dxf. Using a gINT Draw block as described in my previous post preserves the vector content of the original table.

    Both this suggestion and the suggestion in my previous post are essentially equivalent to windows copy and paste; but instead of using the windows clipboard to hold the copied material, you are using an intermediate graphics file (BMP in this case and gdw in the previous post).

    Other graphic file formats could be used but I have not experimented with those.

    This method can also be used for inserting output from other software into logs and fences.  You just have to be able to create the appropriate intermediate file.  For example, you could insert a table produced by excel directly into a fence by printing it to a bmp file (this can be done several different ways that I will not get into here).   For the method described in this post, the software creating the intermediate graphics file is gINT.

    Remember that the fence template is rigidly linked to a specific file path and name for the bitmap file to be inserted. Thus, if you change the file location or name, the template will no longer find the file to be inserted.

     

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  • Glad I could be of help. 

    On taking a second look at this with a fresh pair of eyes the following procedure could ALSO be used.  It essentially does the same thing using a different intermediate file format but eliminates the extra step of creating a block from your exported table.

    1.            Output the table you want to incorporate on the fence diagram to a bitmap file (*.bmp) using gINT’s export feature in the output tab.  Make note of the path and file name you save it to.  You will always use the same name and path.

    2.            Edit your fence template by inserting a bitmap symbol.  Menu = Draw, Graphics, Bitmap Symbol.  In the bitmap symbol dialog, insert the full path and file name of the bitmap file you created in step 1 as the Bitmap symbol property.  Set size and position and other options as desired.  See image below.

    3.            Output the fence with the desired borings.  The table will be printed on the fence along with the borings at the specified location and size.

    4.            For the next fence, output a new bitmap file of the table (if necessary) and overwrite the contents of the previous bitmap file.  The next output fence will have the new table contents.

    NOTES:

    You could probably automate steps 1 and 3 above into a gINT script file that outputs the table to the bmp file and then outputs the fence.

    Since this method uses a raster file as the intermediate file, the background will be solid white and will block out anything behind it.  Thus pay close attention to the print order property in the configuration tab of the bitmap symbol entity.

    Again, since this uses a raster file, it’s resolution is only as good as the resolution used to create the file.  It will look jaggy if you blow it up very large and it will not plot as lines and text if exported to dxf. Using a gINT Draw block as described in my previous post preserves the vector content of the original table.

    Both this suggestion and the suggestion in my previous post are essentially equivalent to windows copy and paste; but instead of using the windows clipboard to hold the copied material, you are using an intermediate graphics file (BMP in this case and gdw in the previous post).

    Other graphic file formats could be used but I have not experimented with those.

    This method can also be used for inserting output from other software into logs and fences.  You just have to be able to create the appropriate intermediate file.  For example, you could insert a table produced by excel directly into a fence by printing it to a bmp file (this can be done several different ways that I will not get into here).   For the method described in this post, the software creating the intermediate graphics file is gINT.

    Remember that the fence template is rigidly linked to a specific file path and name for the bitmap file to be inserted. Thus, if you change the file location or name, the template will no longer find the file to be inserted.

     

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