Import Datamine Triangulations

Instructions

On the File menu, click Import to display the Import panel.

Click Datamine in the File Format column on the left.

Select Triangulations from the File Type field on the right side of the panel.

Click OK to display the Import Datamine Triangulation panel.

File Selection

Browse for files using the Browse button, or use the interface showing the available grid files in the current working directory.

Click on the name of the file(s) you want to select. Use the icons to go to the last folder visited, go up one level, or change the way details are viewed in the window.

To highlight multiple files that are adjacent to each other in the list, hold down the Shift key and click the first and last file names in that section of the list.

To highlight multiple non-adjacent files, hold down the Ctrl key while you click the file names.

Move the items to the selection list on the right side of the panel.

• Click the button to move the highlighted items to the selection list on the right.
• Click the button to remove the highlighted items from the selection list on the right.
• Click the button to move all items to the selection list on the right.
• Click the button to remove all items from the selection list on the right.

Wildcard

Enter any characters used as wildcards.  Wildcard characters can be an * as well as regular characters.  

If the topo_* were used as a wildcard, the result might be topo_area2_aerial, topo_min, or topo_with_pit.

Files of type

Use this to filter the file types that display in the search list.

Specify point fields

This section lists all of the fields found in Datamine points file. Use this section to determine the field numbers enter default field numbers into the fields based on the information in the Datamine file header.

Specify triangle fields

This section lists all of the fields found in Datamine triangles file. Use this section to determine the field numbers for the (PID1...PID3, Triangle, SID and Colour) on the information in the Datamine file header.

Datamine Triangle Attribute

Select attributes by selecting them from drop-down lists.

Load All button

Use this to load all available attributes at once instead of selecting them one at a time.

Clear All button

Use this to clear all attributes from the list.

Split based upon colour field

Select this check box to split the nominated Datamine triangulation. If this check box is not selected, then the current digitising colour will be used to colour the newly imported triangulation.

Selecting the Split based upon colour field check box will allow you to use the colour field in the Datamine of colours that you want to apply to the resulting triangulations.

Minimum digits in filename

Enter the number of digits (between 0-9) that will be used when naming the resulting triangulations. The specified value will be used to naming the triangulations in the following format:

<Datamine>_<digits><Colour>dm.00t

where

<Datamine>	Refers to the name of the imported Datamine triangulation.
<digits>	The number of zeros used to name the resulting triangulation.
<Colour>	Refers to the Datamine Colour field value.
dm	Indicates that the triangulation was created from a Datamine triangulation.

Datamine triangulation name: TEST
Colour field values: 1, 13, 17 and 20
Minimum number of digits: 3


Split based on attribute

Select this check box to split the nominated Datamine triangulation.

If this check box is not selected, then all attributes will be applied to the newly imported triangulation.

If this check box is selected, then you can select the attribute that you want to apply to the resulting triangulations.

Minimum digits in filename

Enter the number of digits (between 0-9) that will be used when naming the resulting triangulations.

Display after converting

Select this check box if you want the display  the triangulation once it has been imported.

Selecting this check box will also allow you to name the resulting triangulation, as well as nominate the directory in which to store the file. If this check box is not selected, then the resulting triangulation file will inherit the name of the original Datamine file and will be placed in your current working directory.