RockPlot2D | File | Import | AGL
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RockWorks | Graphics | 2D Tools | Import | AGL
AGL files are text files that you can create, which contain special "ASCII Graphics Language" commands, primarily used in earlier versions of RockWorks but recently updated for some of the newer graphic commands. These commands can be used to plot labels, symbols, lines, and polygons on the current screen display. They can also be used to establish the line style for lines and polygons, and the color for all AGL entities.
Because of the drawing tools in RockPlot2D, as well as the ReportWorks page layout program, the use of AGL commands to annotate images is not recommended unless you intend to generate graphics using RockWorks Command Scripts.
Menu Options
Step-by-Step Summary
- AGL File Name: Click here to browse for the name of the existing AGL file to be read and compiled into a plottable map. See the Reference Section for information about the required structure of the AGL files and commands.
- Type of Operation: Choose one of the operations by clicking in the appropriate radio button. (This prompt is shown only in the RockPlot2D menu option.)
- Create New Diagram: Choose this option if you want to compile the AGL commands into a new, blank RockPlot2D window.
- Append to Current Diagram: Choose this option to first make a copy of the current image in the RockPlot2D window and display it in a new, untitled window. The program will then compile the AGL commands and plot them on top of the image in the new window.
- Output Options (Graphics | 2D Tools | Import menu only)
- Save Output File: Check this to assign a name for the diagram in advance, rather than displaying it as Untitled.
- Automatic: Choose this option to have RockWorks assign the name automatically. It will use the name of the current program plus a numeric suffix, plus the ".Rw2D" file name extension.
- Manual: Choose this option to type in a name of your own for this file.
- Display Output: Check this option to have the resulting diagram displayed in RockPlot2D once it is created.
- If you want to append the AGL commands to an existing 2D graphic, be sure you access RockPlot2D and open the file to which the AGL items are to be appended. Be sure, also, that the existing graphic and the AGL items are defined in the same coordinate system.
- Select the Import command from the RockPlot2D File menu, or from the main Utilities | Graphics | 2D Tools menu, and select the AGL option. The program will display the AGL Compiler window.
- Enter the requested menu items, discussed above.
- Click OK or Process to proceed.
The program will read the contents of the AGL file whose name you specified, compile the commands into plottable items, and display the items in a new RockPlot2D window or on top of an existing graphic, as declared above.
- At this time, you can manipulate the AGL graphic just like any other RockPlot2D map or diagram
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