Overview
A wide range of tools for analysing your design work are provided in the Analyse menu.
Some of the more basic tools consist of obtaining point and object coordinate information and annotating points and objects. Note that the word label is used throughout Vulcan to describe text that can be displayed, but not plotted. The word annotation is used to describe text that can be displayed and plotted. In some cases labels can be moved to a layer thus making them plottable.
More advanced analysing tools are provided through the Attribute Data, External Data, and Statistics submenus.
Use the Attribute Data submenu to create links between objects and a text file, database, T shell commands, or macros. These links become attributes of the object, that is, they are stored as part of the object. An example for the use of this menu would be to link polygons representing tenement boundaries to a database containing ownership details of tenements, for example expiry date.
The External Data submenu can be used in conjunction with the Attribute Data submenu. Use it to run commands built from an object's attributes, for example open an image (of a drill hole core tray), in an image package, that has a name that corresponds in some way to the selected part of a drill hole. Any sort of command can be build, for example shell script names, Inquisitor queries, or other Vulcan programs.
Use Data Analyser to create and model variograms, create histograms, boxplots, scatterplots, cumulative frequency plots, PP plots and QQ plots, as well as perform general statistics. The data may come from composite databases, general databases, block models, or from a combination of these data sources. Customise and export the charts Analyse_as.png files to use in reports.
The Statistics submenu contains options that you can use to perform a statistical analysis of data values that are produced from in Vulcan or Vulcan. The data may come from composite databases, general databases, mapfiles, block models, grids, Vulcan screen objects, or from a combination of these data sources. You can also use cell declustering to apply weights to a dataset based on the location of the points. That is, highly packed points are assigned a lower weighting than sparsely packed points.
The angular units (either degrees or gradians) used in the Analyse module are specified through the Miscellaneous section of the Tools > Preferences option.
