| 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..." |
| 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? |