SC. Surface Lab tab
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Surface Lab tab in Spatial Conformetrics software is used to add operations for working with your mine plan.
Surface Lab consists of four main sections, described in more details below.
Examples on how to use the Solids Lab tab are shown in here.
Operations Set Panel
In this tab you can create a new operation set with a descriptive name indicating what this set is expected to create.
A series of Boolean operations are added in the Operations panel to create a final outcome. Organising the creation of the final files in sets displays a high degree of transparency in what files were used to create the final solid allowing ease of error trapping.
An operation set can be copied with the files swapped out for a different outcome.
Icons | Symbol | Description |
|---|---|---|
Blue Plus |  | Create a new blank Operation Set. All operations must be individually added |
Double Page | Copy an existing Operation Set including all existing operations. If the same operations are being used to create a phase, swap out the required files | |
Red X | Remove highlighted Operation Set | |
Up / Down arrows | Reorder Operation Set by moving highlighted set up/down the list |
All icons have tools tips.
Operations Panel
Click the Add Operation button to display a list of the available operations. Each operation performs a single boolean step and a number of these steps are used in concert to create the final result.
Operations from Add Operation dropdown are described in table below.
Operation | Description |
|---|---|
Upper Surface | An open surface is created of the upper part of the input solid(s). |
Lower Surface | An open surface is created of the lower part of the input solid(s). |
Clip Surface by Polygon (Exclude Outside) | Intersect a surface with a polygon(s). This can be digitised in graphics or imported. Exclude the outside. |
Clip Surface by Polygon (Exclude Inside) | Outersect a surface with a polygon(s). This can be digitised in graphics or imported. Exclude the inside. |
Append Surfaces | Append surfaces to one another in the given order. |
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Besides Add Operations button Operations Panel also contains icons to delete operations, move up/down, run and save results to the file or Layers panel.
See the detailed description of these icons in the table below.
Icons | Symbol | Description |
|---|---|---|
Red X | Remove highlighted Operation | |
Up / Down arrows | Reorder operations by moving highlighted set up/down the list | |
Blue triangle (Play sign) | Run selected operations | |
Save Disc | Save the result of the selected operation to a file | |
Green Arrow | Save the result of the selected operation to the Layers panel |
All icons have tools tips.
Viewport
In a viewport you may review and work with results of operations and imported layers.
Depending on the operations that are being run, different icons become available at a top of viewport.
All icons have tools tips.
Layers Panel
In Layers panel you may import surfaces and solids triangulations, display and organise them, as well as assign colors, visibility etc.
Detailed description of Layers panel options find here.