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

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It is the primary 3D work environment for the project, which allows the following:

  • View the entire solid inventory by pit, stage, or bench.

  • Show color-coded block models in the background.

  • Inspect solid properties, reserves, and attributes.

  • Resolve errors in the Error List.

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 or and fields. All essential commands and tools are described below in this section.

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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

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Extended Design tools

Generate Blast Shapes

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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

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Choice of designs to be deleted. Available options depend on an element selected

Bulk Block Rename

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Rename Blasts options

Strip Renamer

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Strip Namer option to set Horizontal/Vertical Naming, Included Blast Types and Grid Orientation

Automated Dig Line Creation

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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

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Force Exclude

Flag to excludes unwanted solids from the Reserves. Hatching is shown in Legend and set in Setup > Settings > Hatch Patterns, see here.

Too Small

Excludes smaller solids from being displayed. Threshold values are set in Setup > Settings > Discard Thresholds, see here.

Extend Flitch

Used to combine the top flitch with the lower one(s), for example, to make a single blast on more than one flitch.

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

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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

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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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Open the Error list tab to review all the errors found for the project and zoom in to see each of them. Check the reserves for trivial volumes and batter shards.

  1. Activate the Error List tab.

  2. Double click on a line to zoom to it.

  3. Either set the block property to Exclude, or redraw the construction lines to remove the block.

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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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Info

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

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Display Panel

Right Display panel on the right consists of three tabs described in details below.

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Section

Description

Labels

  • 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

  • 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.

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  • 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

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  • 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.

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The Layers tab is a common part of all Alastri products. In this panel you may import surfaces and solids triangulations, display and organize them, as well as assign colors, visibility and other properties. More detailed information on the Layers panel tools see in a section here.

History tab

The History tab is located in the bottom right corner of an application. Click through the history list to see different past states and revert to any of them.

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More tools available in the Designer tab see in the children page:

Child pages (Children Display)

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