Week of February 5

• Today’s agenda:

— Announcements & reminders

— Submit Assignment #2

— Graphic layout

— Printing

— Scripts

Announcements & Reminders

• Printers - problems last week with the printer buffer required that

the GIS lab be closed last Friday for an upgrade

• Assignment #3 is due next week

Assignment #2 is due today

• If you have the assignment ready, please submit it now

Layouts

• Some more detail on preparing your layouts

Graphic layout in MFworks

A Scale Bar

MFworks tools for preparing layouts

Printing your layouts

• Check the layout size (go to layout menu -> output size)

• Your layouts should be one 8.5x11 page (like this here)

• When you are ready to print press the layout window "Print"

button

• No need to change the default printer or any of the printer

options

Scripting

The Script window

Building Scripts

• Use the operations menu to help construct script operation statements

• ‘fly-out’ menus from the operations menu contain the modifiers for

operation statements

• Use the Map/File Names menu to insert map names into your

script statements

• List of available maps in this project

Example script building

You can check the syntax of the entire script

or individual selections

Include comments in the scripts you build to

help explain the logic

A note about writing your

script statements

• Examples in lectures and help files are meant to provide a template of the

structure of an MFwork operation statement

• You may substitute your map names for the names provided in italics

• Optional modifiers are specified in square brackets [ ]

• For example:

That’s all for the lecture portion of the show

• Remainder of today is for working on Assignment #3

• Don’t forget to submit Assignment #2

• Any questions?