Alastri is pleased to announce the release of v21.1.667.

What’s New in 21.1

Improvements

All Products

• New read-only Viewer

  • Alastri Production Scheduler and Alastri Tactical Scheduler are now available in read-only version allowing users to open projects and run schedules, without requiring additional licences.

  • The Viewer is now available for use from Hub version 2.0.77. This is only available to clients on subscription. If interested, contact support@alastri.com.au.

Run Viewer from Hub

• Setup Notes

  • A new “Notes” panel is now available on each setup task. The panel is allows users to manually add notes for each setup task.

  • When collapsed, a notes icon will appear above the setup tasks panel, which can be clicked on to expand.

“Notes” panel

Notes panel button will appear when the “Notes” panel has been closed/collapsed

• Version number appended to save file name

  • When saving a project, the version number will now be appended to the file name in the Windows “Save As” dialog. This is an optional setting per user, and can be toggled in the toolbar under the “Tools” item.

Append Version to Filename

• Product Version Validation

  • All products will prompt when opening a project, if the project being open is from a previous version.

  • NOTE: This validation already existed in APS and ATS, but has now been added across all products.

Product Version Validation dialog that appears on opening a project from a previous version

• Layers

  • New bulk export settings dialog when bulk exporting layer items.

Bulk export layers

• Reporting - Copy Report Image

  • It is now possible to copy an image of a report table in both Alastri Production Scheduler and Alastri Tactical Scheduler.

Copy Pivot Report image

Copy Chrono Table image

• Tooltips

  • A new Tooltips button has been added to the Calendar (APS) and “Chrono” report (APS and ATS) which displays a list of useful shortcuts.

Usage Hints on Chrono

• Reporting - Copy Chrono Image

  • It is now possible to copy an image from the “Chrono” Charts tab in both Alastri Production Scheduler and Alastri Tactical Scheduler.

Chrono Copy Image

• Reporting - Horizontal Chrono

  • It is now possible to rotate “Chrono” charts in both Alastri Production Scheduler and Alastri Tactical Scheduler so that they show horizontally.

Rotated option in Chrono Charts Setup

Rotated Chrono Chart

• Animation - Export Updated dialog

  • In both Alastri Production Scheduler and Alastri Tactical Scheduler, the settings dialog that appears when selecting “Export Polygons for All Periods” or “Export Period Solids” has been updated.

  • The dialog now gives the users the following options:

    • File Type

    • Export Type - SinglePeriod or Cumulative

    • Method - Separate or Merged

    • Include Period Name

  • The dialog also gives a short explanation of what will be exported based on the users selection combination.

Export Period Solids

Export Period Polygons

• Animation - Save Viewpoints

  • It is now possible to save viewpoints from the Animation in both Alastri Production Scheduler and Alastri Tactical Scheduler.

Save viewpoints to file

• Animation - Batch Save Viewpoint Videos

  • It is now possible to export videos for each viewpoint in batch in both Alastri Production Scheduler and Alastri Tactical Scheduler.

Batch Save Viewpoint Videos

• Animation - Export Stage Plans

  • A new field has been added to allow the user to specify which file type the exported stage plans should be, in both Alastri Production Scheduler and Alastri Tactical Scheduler.

• Period Plots

  • It is now possible to import and export period plot templates in both Alastri Production Scheduler and Alastri Tactical Scheduler.

• General

  • Settings and Most Recently Used projects now persist between versions.

Production Scheduler

• New Truck Dispatch Mode

  • This new mode allows APS to automatically allocate instantaneous trucks in each steady state while not changing the ability to think about trucks in the traditional TUM paradigm.

  • Refer to PS Haulage Calculations for a full explanation of using the new truck dispatch mode.

  • New options are now available on the Final Configuration setup task.

    • Enable Truck Dispatch - Enabling this option means trucks will be assigned based on digger priority

    • Show TUM (Time Usage Model) Graphs - Shows on the “TUM Trucks” graphs on the Gantt

    • Show Instantaneous Graphs - Shows on the “Instantaneous Trucks“ graphs on the Gantt

Truck Calculation options on Final Configuration setup task

• When “Enable Truck Dispatch” is enabled, new fields will appear in the Calendar.

New items in Calendar

• Enabling the graph items will also make the TUM and Instantaneous truck lanes available to be shown on Agents in the Gantt.

Truck lanes showing for Agent on Gantt

• Solvers

  • It is now possible to use a third party solver (such as Gurobi) instead of the integrated solver. This can result in a drastically lower scheduling speed in rare circumstances.

Solver settings on Final Configuration setup task

• Stockpile Mutex Group Names

  • Users can now specify Mutex group names, to be applied in the Stockpiles setup task. Previously, these group names were not configurable.

Adding new Stockpile Mutex Group names in Site Lists setup task

Applying Mutex Group names on Stockpiles setup task

• Gantt - Preferred Destinations

  • Forced destinations has been changed to preferred destinations. When this is applied is applied, the destination will be preferred instead of forced. If the preferred destination is not available for some reason, then the schedule will fall back to the ordinary destination logic.

  • Items in the Gantt for preferred destination will now appear with success or fail outlines.

Preferred Destination Outlines

• Animation

  • A setting has been added to toggle camera shake when blasts are occurring while animation is playing.

Enable Screen Shake option

• Animation - Point Solid Depletion Bearing

  • A new field has been added to Point Solids setup task, which sets a bearing for which direction a point solid should be filled/emptied.

• Destination Logic - Custom Code Filters

  • It is now possible for scripted custom code filters to be applied in the destination logic, allowing for cut-offs to be applied.

Tactical Scheduler

• Product Specifications

  • A new option “Is Content of Stockpile” has been added for grade/blend targets on stockpiles to consider what's on the stockpile, and not just what's fed in.

Is Content of Stockpile

• Schedule Control enhancements

  • Period number will appear on any conflicting constraints message that appears on the “Schedule Control”.

  • It is now possible to pop out any messages from “Schedule Control” into a separate window that will remain open.

Schedule Control enhancements

• Animation

  • It’s now possible to toggle all nodes on the “Display” panel.

• Reporting

  • “Chrono” report now reports actual capacity instead of infinity, for Calendar value “Waste Dump Capacity”.

• Setup

  • All records of “Record Subset” in “Destination Logic” setup task are now being displayed instead of subset name.

• Calendar

  • Min/Max rows have been added that format the actual based on these for any grade targets.

Spatial Conformetrics

• Setup

  • Improved the way options on the “Generate Stage Plan” drop-down are organised on the “Schedule Sequence” setup task.

Rapid Reserver

• Setup

  • It’s now possible to bulk change the colour of multiple items in the Phases setup task.

• Designer

  • “Auto Dig Line Creation” can now be applied to selected blasts and selected digs.

  • Improved the way mapping is handled when importing dig blocks that do not honour blast boundaries. A new option is now available on the import dialog to skip blast level.

Haul Infinity

• Network

  • Now when importing waypoints they will snap to closest point on the network, within a tolerance.

    • Imported nodes snap to points if they are within 5cm

    • For imported segments from csv/dxf, segment points snap to waypoint/stockpile if they are within 5cm

  • There have been enhancements to the way Joins work in Haul Infinity:

    • Functionality has been added to import and export joins.

    • Any auto generated or manually added joins in the Network tab of Haul Infinity will now be retained when importing blocks from scheduler in Alastri Production Scheduler or Alastri Tactical Scheduler, or when using “Auto Import” in the Final Configuration setup task of APS.

Import/Export Joins

• It is now possible to drape points/nodes onto triangulations.

• Setup

  • New options have been added to the “Limits” setup task for “Cornering Speed Limits” for “Loaded” and “Unloaded” travel.

Bug Fixes

All Products

• Layers

  • Fixed a crash occurring when using bulk export when exporting to a zip file that is open.

  • Fixed an issue where "Create Final Surface" Tool on the layers panel was not working for a specific file.

  • Fixed an issue where dragging an exported period polygon file to the layers panel would take a long time to load.

• Animation

  • Fixed various issues occurring in both Alastri Production Scheduler and Alastri Tactical Scheduler with "Export Period Solids", "Export Polygons for All Periods" and "Export Stage Plan" functionality in Animation. Fixes include:

    • Some exported polygons were not being fully closed

    • Some solid dumps were missing from export

    • Cumulative export was not matching for separate and merged export types

    • Obscure objects were being included in export when using "Precision" setting

    • Issues around types of files that were being exported with respect to blasts and digs

    • Issues with some filenames being out of sequence

    • Dump files being created when they were not expected

• Reporting

  • Fixed an issue where “Find and Replace” was taking too long for “Chrono” reports.

Production Scheduler

• Schedule

  • Fixed a crash that would occur when running the schedule after scheduling “Production” and “Presplit” drilling for the same agent.

  • Fixed various exceptions occurring when running schedule for specific setups.

• Setup

  • Fixed an issue where "Preferred Build Order" settings in the Stockpile Build Settings setup task were not being honoured.

  • Fixed an issue where the “Dependency Type” option would appear when it shouldn't after clearing manual dependencies on a bench in the On Bench setup task.

• Reporting

  • Fixed an issue where “Chrono Setup” would be left in a broken formatted state after using undo and redo for a certain sequence of steps.

• Animation

  • Fixed an issue where “Presplit” animation was not showing correctly in some cases.

  • Fixed an issue where a point solid was showing at the beginning of a schedule when it contained no volume, in certain cases.

  • Fixed an issue where Animation “Display Settings” did not allow mass visibility toggle after reset.

• Period Plots

  • Fixed an issue where user created labels were not immediately appearing in Period Plots.

Tactical Scheduler

• Animation

  • Fixed an issue where “Priority Incentive” dialog was taking too long to appear in some cases.

Spatial Conformetrics

• Setup

  • Fixed a crash that occurred when generating stage plans after deleting blocks from “Schedule Sequence” setup task.

  • Fixed a file format issue that occurred when exporting stage plans from “Schedule Sequence” setup task.

Rapid Reserver

• Designer

  • Fixed an issue where undo/redo was not working as expected at the flitch level in some cases.

  • Fixed an issue where filters on “Reserves” panel on the “Block Model” setup task or the Designer setup task were not being applied on an exported file from that panel.

Haul Infinity

• Network

  • Fixed an issue where “Truck Speed” was incorrectly calculated in certain cases.