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Table of Contents

Overview

The Designer tab it’s your main area to view, create, modify, manipulate and analyze reserves and dumps solids, shapes, polygons, and lines.

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The Designer tab consists of four areas, such as Tree Hierarchy, Viewport with toolbar, Information Panel and Right Panel, each of those includes several elements, tabs and fields. All essential commands and tools are described below in this section.

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Tree Hierarchy

Tree Hierarchy it’s a tree structure, listing all levels of Dumps and Reserves in a certain order like Reserve - Mine - Pit - Stage - Bench - Flitch.

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The hierarchy of levels is set in the Phases step. If necessary, go back to this setup task and check the phases order in the list.

By pressing on a level, it will display in the viewport. You may also select the whole reserve/mine/pit/stage/bench to display or selected solids using <CTRL> and <Shift> hotkeys.

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Left-click on any level to display it in the viewport. You can use the arrow keys on your keyboard to quickly view and navigate between the level records.
Expand the tree structure to the desired level (in this tab, to the flitch).. You can use the Expand/Collapse tool to expand selection or all levels.

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Double-click a level to zoom to it in the viewport.

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In the table below all toolbar icons are listed with description and hotkeys available.

Mouse controls

Selection		Left click and drag
Pan		Middle click and drag
Rotate		Right click and drag
Zoom		Scroll wheel
Zoom Extents		Left click on the compass widget
Vertical Exaggeration	-	<CTRL> + Scroll wheel

Measurement and screenshot

Show/Hide grid

Toggle grid

Measure Distances

<Enter> - Toggle Including Mouse-Point in Result

<Backspace> Remove Last Point

Screenshot

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Make a screenshot and choose a resolution required

Design shortcuts

Polygon Draw		<P>
Line Draw		<D>
Point Move		<F>
Point Insert		<A>
Point Delete		<S>
Line Move		<M>
Line Copy		<C>
Line Delete		<N>
Line Join / Poly Close		<J>
Line Break / Poly Open		<B>
Line Rotate		<R>
Line Offset		<O>
Line Trim		<T>
Line Intersect		<I>
Line Quick Extend		<X>
Line Replace		-

Compass

The compass widget sits in the top right of the viewport.

Plan View		Click on the axis cones to snap to orthogonal views
Zoom Extents		Click on the grey cube to zoom to extents
Night Mode		Click on the sun icon to toggle night mode and back

Extended Design tools

Generate Blast Shapes		Choice of Blast shapes generation from dropdown. Production, Trim, Ramp and Contour blasts shapes can be generated for the entire project. Available options depend on an element selected.
Delete designs		Choice of designs to be deleted. Available options depend on an element selected
Bulk Block Rename		Rename Blasts options. More details see here.
Strip Renamer		Strip Namer option to set Horizontal/Vertical Naming, Included Blast Types and Grid Orientation. More details see here.
Automated Dig Line Creation		To create automated dig lines with selected blasts/digs or current/visible flitches. Example of use see here.

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Shows all the properties of selected solid/solids. Click on one block in a viewport to display its properties or box select multiple solids to show and compare their properties.

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Settings	Review and modify main settings of the selected block(s). Note that the settings available differ for Bench and Flitch level blocks.
Force Exclude	Flag to excludes unwanted solids from the Reserves. Hatching is shown in Legend and set in Setup > Settings > Hatch Patterns, see here. Image Added
Too Small	Excludes smaller solids from being displayed. Threshold values are set in Setup > Settings > Discard Thresholds, see here.	Extend Flitch	Image Removed Used to combine the top flitch with the lower one(s), for example, to make a single blast on more than one flitch.. Image Added
Is Locked	Prevents a solid from being edited.
Parent Blast Type	Type of the Blast (Trim / Contour / Ramp / FreeDig / Production), which includes the selected dig solid.
Reserves Source	Block Model/Grade Control.
Temp Ramp Bearing	Image RemovedImage Added Add a numeric value to set an Azimuth. This will cause the block to be split in to two blocks, “upper” and “lower” in the azimuth direction. Changes populated in this field will be displayed in Production Scheduler/Tactical Scheduler Viewports.
Level Names	Image RemovedImage Added Level Names hierarchy: Reserves - Mine - Pit - Stage - Bench - Blast - Flitch - Dig Solid. Dig Solid identifier can be edited, if desired.
Solid Properties	Solid Properties, added and configured by user in the Setup > Blast Properties, more details see here.
Metric	Quantitative characteristics of selected solids, such as volume, surface area, perimeter.

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In the left part you may set a flag to display different types of errors, such as “Duplicate Names”, “Silvers”, “Absolute Minimum Volume“, “Minimum Volume” or “Depleted Solid”. In the right part you see full description of errors: you may double click on the selected error to zoom in to see it in a viewport or toggle an eye icon to hide it from a list.

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Infotip
Error thresholds are specified in Setup > Settings > Error Finders.

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In the right Display panel multiple custom options are available. Their explanation is provided in the table below:

Section	Description
Labels Image RemovedImage Added	Toggle an eye icon to display or hide labels. Select a text to display in the label from the Text dropdown, or configure custom labels through the gear icon. Examples and instructions on how to create Custom Blasts Labels can be found here. Orange labels are custom configured. Blue labels are pre configured by Alastri. Black labels are standard. Optionally, specify preferred text back and fore colors, as well as font and size
Blasts/Digs Image RemovedImage Added	Choose what type of the solid level you wish to display (Blasts or Digs). Note that depending on whether Blast or Dig display type is selected, different properties become available for editing. Toggle an eye icon to display/hide polygons. Optionaly, change their opacity. Toggle an eye icon to display/hide solids. Optionaly, change their opacity. From the Shading dropdown select a standard or pre configured blasts/digs shading. Alternatively, create your own. Examples and instructions on how to create Custom Blasts Shadings can be found here.
Construction Lines	Toggle to display/hide construction Lines and Extrusions.
Block Model	Toggle an eye icon to display or hide Block Model. Optionally, select block’s height and scale. Use Constraints to hide parts of the block model based on some criteria, such as material type or grade threshold. Examples and instructions on how to create Block Model Custom Constraints can be found here. Select Block Model Shading from a preloaded list of automatic shadings. Alternatively, add to this list by configuring custom shading sets. Examples and instructions on how to create Block Model Custom Shading can be found here.
Cash Flows	Toggle to display or hide Cash Flow values. Note that to have this section available option Enable Single Destinations must be flagged in the Settings step. Examples and instructions on how to create use Single Destinations functionality can be found here.
Other Entities	Options to display/hide, or change a color of the following entities: Bench Above/Bench Below, Flitch Above/Flitch Below, Blast Designs, Silhouette, Expanded Silhouette.