Survex for scuba dive surveys

Mon Apr 13 12:45:42 BST 2015

Hi Philip,

Thanks again!  This info is super useful for beginners like me, it gives me
something simple to work from, and build Survex knowledge from that.

Henrik
PS. I copied survex at survex.com to my replies, hope that's OK.

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Philip Maynard <Philip.Maynard at uts.edu.au>
wrote:

> Hi Henrik,
>
> 1) "*data default" returns you to normal cave data format.  If you don't
> do that after diving or passage data, the program will read the next bit of
> data as diving or passage data.
>
>
> "*end ice" is the command to close that section of the data, which I
> called "ice"  I didn't copy over the start of the section, which had the
> command "*begin ice".  The begin and end statements are important to
> survex.  You can have multiple begin and end statements to separate
> different surveys in the cave, or separate surface and underground surveys
> or different caves for example, but you'll need to understand the ways to
> tie different surveys together (which needs either *equate commands and/or
> *fix commands to control the relative position of the different surveys).
>
> case is not important to Survex.  I put those commands in uppercase to see
> them easily in a long line of data.
>
> Cheers, Phil
>
>
> On 13/04/2015, at 8:55 PM, Henrik Brautaset Aronsen wrote:
>
> > Hi Philip!
> >
> > Thanks, this was extremely useful.  So for my example the .svx would be:
> >
> >
> > * data diving FROM TO LENGTH BEARING FROMDEPTH TODEPTH
> > A B 25 160 12 16
> > B C 12 120 16 20
> >
> > * data passage station left right up down
> > A 1 2 3 4
> > B 2 3 4 5
> > C 3 4 5 6
> >
> >
> > So, more questions!
> >
> > - What does the "*data default" and "*end ice" signify?  Are they
> required?
> >
> > - Is uppercase/lowercase important? (Since "FROM TO ..." is uppercase
> and "station left right.." is lowercase)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Henrik
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Philip Maynard <
> Philip.Maynard at uts.edu.au> wrote:
> > Hello Henrik,
> >
> > Here's an extract from a mixed cave - dive data plus normal data - that
> we surveyed.  The first bit is normal cave data.
> >
> > Cheers, Phil
> >
> >
> > On 13/04/2015, at 4:33 AM, Henrik Brautaset Aronsen wrote:
> >
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > I'm new to Survex, and have a tiny question just to get me started:
> > >
> > > Say I have three stations, with depth for each station (e.g.
> 12m,16m,20m),
> > > and the compass heading (e.g. 160°,120°) and length of the line between
> > > each station (e.g. 25m,12m).  What would my .svx file look like?
> > >
> > > And what if I in addition have the distance to the left wall/right
> > > wall/roof/floor on each station?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Henrik
> > > --
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> >
> > ; Surveyed: 5/12/2003
> > ; Ian Cooper
> > ; Simon Goddard
> > ; Rod O'Brien
> >
> > IPL100 IPL101  4.14    143     -42.5 ; 100 0.5m Mite
> > IPL101 IPL102  4.65    139       0.5 ;
> > IPL102 IPL103  7.37    169     -12   ;
> > IPL103 IPL104 11.49    170     -14   ; 103 10cm Stal over 2c.
> > IPL104 IPL105  6.00    173.5   -10.5 ; 104 Marked wall pt on left.
> > IPL105 IPL106  4.00    229       0   ; 105 Sump wall at water level.
> >  ; 106 Sump wall at water level.
> > IPL105 IPL107  7.40    090       0   ; 107 Tip of lower big rock below
> mud climb.
> >
> > IPL002 IPL110  3.29    268.5    13.5 ; 102 Pencilled corner on left.
> > IPL110 IPL111  4.70    228     -26   ;
> > IPL111 IPL112  1.43    261     -20   ;
> > IPL112 IPL113  8.00    245     -18   ;
> > IPL113 IPL114  1.93    218     -64   ; 113 Marked wall point.
> >  ; 114 Mite.
> > IPL113 IPL115  4.93    182     -25   ; 115 Marked wall point.
> > IPL115 IPL116  7.11    288     -33   ; 116 Marked wall knob.
> >
> > * data passage station left right up down
> > IPL100 2 2 2 0.4
> > IPL101 1 0.6 0.8 0.3
> > IPL102 2 2.2 5 0.6
> > IPL103 0.6 0.5 0 2.3
> > IPL104 0.5 5 2 1.3
> > IPL105 1.5 2 4 0
> > IPL106 0.2 0.2 0.3 0
> >
> > * data passage station left right up down
> > IPL105 3 0 4 0.1
> > IPL107 0.3 2.1 4 0.1
> >
> > * data passage station left right up down
> > IPL002 4 3 3 2
> > IPL110 0.4 0.4 0 1
> > IPL111 0 0.4 1.8 1.8
> > IPL112 0 0.4 4 1.5
> > IPL113 1.2 0 5 0.6
> > IPL114 1.1 0.5 8 0.5
> >
> > * data passage station left right up down
> > IPL113 1.6 0 8 0.5
> > IPL115 0 1 1 1.5
> > IPL116 0 0.5 0.5 0.6
> >
> > * data default
> >
> >
> > ; Ice Pick Lake dive surveys
> > ; Surveyed: 11/1/2014
> > ; Phil Maynard
> > ; Alex Boulton
> >
> > * data diving FROM TO LENGTH BEARING FROMDEPTH TODEPTH
> > IPL104 IPL200 1.0 270 1.3 1.0
> > IPL200 IPL201 9.4 175 1.0 -4.4
> > IPL201 IPL202 4.7 170 -4.4 -7.4
> > IPL202 IPL203 6.7 165 -7.4 -7.0
> > IPL203 IPL204 9.9 140 -7.0 -8.0
> >
> > ; Surveyed: 12/4/2014
> > ; Phil Maynard
> > ; Alex Boulton
> >
> > * data diving FROM TO LENGTH BEARING FROMDEPTH TODEPTH
> > IPL204 IPL205 5.1 190 -8.0 -11.3
> > IPL205 IPL206 4.2 225 -11.3 -12.6
> > IPL206 IPL207 8.4 260 -12.6 -15.2
> > IPL207 IPL208 3.2 210 -15.2 -16.4
> > IPL208 IPL209 1.8 180 -16.4 -15.9
> > IPL209 IPL210 4.7 210 -15.9 -16.2
> > IPL210 IPL211 1.5 080 -16.2 -15.8
> >
> > ; Surveyed: 13/4/2014
> > ; Phil Maynard
> > ; Alex Boulton
> >
> > * data diving FROM TO LENGTH BEARING FROMDEPTH TODEPTH
> > IPL211 IPL212 9.7 140 -15.8 -12.9
> > IPL212 IPL213 2.0 125 -12.9 -13.2
> > IPL213 IPL214 2.4 105 -13.2 -11.2
> > IPL214 IPL215 5.9 175 -11.2 -11.5
> > IPL215 IPL216 7.5 180 -11.5 -9.6
> >
> > ; Surveyed: 10/5/2014
> > ; Deborah Johnston
> > ; Alex Boulton
> > ; Rod Obrien
> >
> > * data diving FROM TO LENGTH BEARING FROMDEPTH TODEPTH
> > IPL216 IPL217 4.1 159 -9.6 -8.9
> > IPL217 IPL218 8.2 122 -8.9 -8.1
> > IPL218 IPL219 7.4 319 -8.1 -3.6
> > IPL219 IPL220 5.0 121 -3.6 0
> > IPL220 IPL221 2.5 128 0 0
> >
> > * data passage station left right up down
> > IPL200 1.0 0 2 1.3
> > IPL201 0 0.7 4 1
> > IPL202 0.3 0.7 2 2
> > IPL203 0 1 1 0
> > IPL204 0.8 0 0.6 2
> > IPL205 1 0.3 1 2
> > IPL206 0.6 0 1 2
> > IPL207 0 0.8 2 2
> > IPL208 1 0 0 1
> > IPL209 0 1 1 3
> > IPL210 0 0.7 2 2
> > IPL211 1 0 2 1
> > IPL212 0 0.7 0.5 1
> > IPL213 0 0.6 0.3 1.8
> > IPL214 1 0 0.6 2
> > IPL215 0.7 0 0.5 2
> > IPL216 1.2 0 1 6
> > IPL217 0.8 0 2 2.1
> > IPL218 0.5 0 2 3
> > IPL219  0.5 0.2 0.2 6
> > IPL220 0 0.5 2 8
> > IPL221 1 0.4 2 8
> >
> > * data default
> >
> > * end ice
>
>
>
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