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@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ for reference if there is ever a problem.</p>
<p>After typing in all the data in <a href="newsurvex.html">
survex format</a> , run
<a href="">aven</a> (the GUI interface to survex) and print out a centre-line plan.
<a href="https://survex.com/docs/manual/aven.htm">aven</a> (the GUI interface - installed when you installed survex) and print out a centre-line plan.
<p>OK if this is your first time doing this, you need to go through the
<a href="usingsurvex.html">"How to use survex" training procedure</a>.
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ survex format</a> , run
<h3 id="rescan">Transcribing and re-scanning your sketches</h3>
<p><em>to be documented</em> See <a href="drawup.htm">drawing up the sketches</a>.
<p>The files of your scanned and re-scanned sketches should be stored in the same folder
as the scanned notes, i.e. (for wallet #19) you would put them in:
<tt>
@@ -48,7 +47,7 @@ as the scanned notes, i.e. (for wallet #19) you would put them in:
</tt>
<h3 id="therion">Using tunnel or therion for final survey production</h3>
<p><em>to be documented</em>
<ul>
<li><a href="../../documents/tunnel-guide.pdf">How to use Tunnel</a> - PDF - Brendan's guide.
<li><a href="../../documents/tunnel-loefflerCP35-only.pdf">Guide to using Tunnel</a> - PDF - David Loeffler's documentation.
@@ -57,25 +56,37 @@ as the scanned notes, i.e. (for wallet #19) you would put them in:
<p>Tunnel only produces plan surveys, but they are very pretty.
<p>The tunnel (or therion) files should NOT stored in the same folder as the scanned notes. They should
be uploaded to the version control repository <span style="font-family:monospace; size=x-small; background-color: lightgray"><a href="http://expo.survex.com/cgit/drawings/.git/log">drawings</a></span>,
<p>The tunnel (or therion) files should NOT stored in the same folder as the scanned notes. They will eventually
be uploaded to the version control repository
<span style="font-family:monospace; size=x-small; background-color: lightgray">
<a href="http://expo.survex.com/cgit/drawings/.git/log">drawings</a></span>
but for a first attempt store them on the <em>expo laptop</em> in /home/expo/drawings/{cavenumber}.
Look at what is in there already and ask someone whcih directory to put them in. It will probably be a folder like this:
/home/expo/drawings/264-and-258/toimport/ .
<p>Take the printed centre lines and redraw the survey round it, working from
the original sketches as if this was to be the final published survey. You
can "invent" details like boulders in boulder-strewn passage, but otherwise,
draw only what was recorded faithfully in the cave. If this makes your
drawing look bad - record more next time! If things really are unclear,
consider taking a copy of this drawing back into the cave to clarify it.</p>
<h3>Guidebook description</h3>
<h3>Guidebook description and final rigging guide</h3>
<p>This is the last thing to do - typically after all exploration has been finished for the summer.
<p>This is the last thing to do for a new cave.
The rigging guide sections will have been written into the logbook, and the passage descriptions will
have been written into the survex files, with more lyrical descriptions written into the logbook for each trip.
<p><em>to be documented</em>
<p>Write a <b>passage descriptions</b> by copying and extending the descriptions
given in all the component .svx files.
<p>This should be detailed enough to be
followed by someone in the cave who hasn't been there before, and should
include all passage names, lengths of pitches and climbs, compass directions
when this makes left/right/ahead clearer. If your passage is a connection
it is worth while writing descriptions from both directions.
when this makes left/right/ahead clearer. See If your passage is a connection
it is worth while writing descriptions from both directions. You will eventually copy the collected descriptions
into the online system using the<a href="newcave.html">"New Cave" form</a> but for now just ensure that you
have it all collected together.
<p>In
written descriptions, underline passage names the first time they are
@@ -84,31 +95,15 @@ mentioned, or when they are "defined".</p>
<p>
You will type this description, and pass it on to someone more nerdy who
will file it in the right place. This will involve "creating a new cave" using the <a href="../computing/troggle-ish.html">troggle</a> system.
<p><em>to be documented</em>
<p>Complementing the passage description in vertical bits is a <b>Rigging
Guide</b>. This is usually easiest to do as a sketch, but include notes to
ensure that all bolts can be found again and any deviations and natural belays recognised.
Guide</b>. Keep notes on this as it is the next step after drawing up the survey.
<p><em>to be completed</em>
<h3>OLD BIT</h3>
<p>Take the printed centre lines and redraw the survey round it, working from
the original sketches as if this was to be the final published survey. You
can "invent" details like boulders in boulder-strewn passage, but otherwise,
draw only what was recorded faithfully in the cave. If this makes your
drawing look bad - record more next time! If things really are unclear,
consider taking a copy of this drawing back into the cave to clarify it.</p>
<h3>Preparing input into to Tunnel or Therion</h3>
[to be written] - See <a href="newcave.html#therion">
drawing around the centre-line</a>
<p>The actual published cave-survey is produced by software these days.
<p>Make sure the drawing clearly shows the point of connection to previous
surveys (look at the relevant drawing in the old survey book to ensure the
@@ -120,9 +115,13 @@ needed ? If a dig, is it a few loose boulders or a crawl over mud?)</p>
<h3>Archaic: hand-drawing the final survey</h3>
<p>The actual published cave-survey is produced by software these days.
These notes come from a different age but reading them will make your tunneling better
and more polished.
<p>Drawing a cave entirely by hand is not easy but anyone can learn to do it.
Read the brief <a href="XI-2-11.pdf">Cave Mapping - Sketching the Detail"</a>
5-page llustrated guide by Ken Grimes which makes everything clear. For preliminary exploration (Grade 1 surveys) this is still appropriate.
5-page llustrated guide by Ken Grimes which makes everything clear.
For preliminary exploration (Grade 1 surveys) this is still appropriate.
<p>CUCC use a set of symbols pretty close to the standard ones promulgated
@@ -155,7 +154,7 @@ approaching completion. This shows how easy it is for these things to go wrong.
The chief problems were a change of software and the fact that the Expo printer
broke down last summer, so a number of surveys never got drawn up. -->
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<p>Back to the previous page in this sequence <a href="newsurvex.html">Starting a new survex file"</a>.
<p>Back to the previous page in this sequence <a href="newsurvex.html">Starting a new survex file</a>.
<br />Now go the the next page in this sequence <a href="newrig.html">Creating a new rigging guide"</a>.
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