Drillhole Labels

Use the Drillhole Labels tab of the Blast Design form to define the appearance and the position of the text that will be used to annotate the holes. Angle values, Colour fields and defaults can be specified for each label.

Show Labels

Select this option to specify the fields and values that will be used to label the holes. You can show up to ten labels for each hole.

Select the Enable check boxes to enable individual labels. The check boxes are selected by default. Use the buttons on the local toolbar to Manage the rows in the list.

Text field

Double-click, or click on the List icon, to select the name of a field that contains the values you want to label. Dynamic field expressions are supported. Click on the Use an expression instead link to open the Expression Editor.

The selection one or more Blast Design variables are supported:

Position 

The position of the annotation. Annotation can be located at one of fifteen positions on or around the coordinate point. Double-click (or press F3) to open the dialog box from where you can select a suitable position. See: Positioning Labels

X and Y offsets

To offset the label text, specify X and Y offset values. Offset units are "Character" widths, not grid units.

Angle

Specify the angle (0° to 360°) at which the annotated text will be drawn. An angle of 0° results in vertical (up) text.

An angle of 90° results in horizontal (to the right) text, however this is the default. Leaving the Angle response blank will also produce horizontal (to the right) text.

Decimals

For Numeric field labels, specify the number of decimal places to display.

Default colour 

Double-click (F3) to select the colour that will be used when a Colour field or a Colour set is not defined - or when a value in the Colour field is either not valid or is not mapped in the Colour set.

Colour field

Specify the name of a field which contains the values that will be used to colour-code the display. If you are mapping Colour field values to a Colour Set, the values in the Colour field must be valid RGB, HTML Hex, Hex, or Integer colour definitions.

Format Example
RGB 89,169,215 RGB ordered
HTML Hex #59A9D7 BGR ordered
Hex 0x59a9d7 BGR ordered
Int 5876183 BGR ordered: RED + (GREEN*256) + (BLUE*65536)

You can choose to select colour values directly from the Colour field without selecting a Colour set. In this case, you can also select a formatted Colour field.

Colour set

To map values in the Colour field to the colour values in a Colour set, double click (F3) to select the set that will be used to control the display colour. Right-click (F4) to create or edit a Colour set.

Text

Double-click on the Text Properties Preview box to select a font and set text properties for the labels.

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