MinePlan Activity Scheduler – Truck Leveling: Practicality in leveling the number of trucks. Did you know that MinePlan Activity Scheduler has a tool that automatically levels the number of transport equipment when distributing material? Short-term planning is one of the main channels of communication between planning and mine operations. The Truck Leveling Tool allows the user to optimize material movement based on the schedule and limit truck over-utilization, automatically reducing excavator productivity. This helps to eliminate equipment overuse and create an effective schedule in a short amount of time, allowing you to analyze and adjust the number of equipment in the fleet to ensure that the target is achieved. To use this tool, click on the Truck Leveling Configuration option located in the Project panel. The tool…
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Point Editor: Versatility and precision in creating and editing points. Did you know that MinePlan 3D (MP3D) has a tool that allows you to create and edit points using specific coordinates, relative distance and/or vectors? The Point Editor tool allows you to create/edit points from input of desired coordinates. It works in conjunction with other editing tools, and allows you to create and move points, independent or associated with a line or polygon. The Point Editor is accessed through the Utilities menu. After opening the tool, you should start some editing operation with another tool, such as Create Point, Move Point, Create Polygon or Create Polyline, and the Point Editor will act as an auxiliary tool. For example, when creating a line, you can add the points of that line through the Point Editor. It is possible to add points in a…
Auto Cut Generation Batch: Agility in the generation of cuts. Did you know that MinePlan now has a feature that allows the generation of cuts for several objects in sequence? Located in the Utilities menu, the Auto Cut Generation tool now has a new tab called Batch, allowing the user to queue up the solids to be cut. To form this queue, you must first configure the parameters on the Options tabs (selection of solids, polygons or lines, definition of limits, etc.) and Naming (definition of the names of the Elements and associated Material). Then, on the Batch tab, click Add and select the object that will receive this result. By repeating this process for each solid, the queue will be built. With the queue already built, you can observe some information about the cuts: Index, listing the order that…
Set Global Color by Range: Simplicity and personality for viewing groups of data in MinePlan. Did you know that MinePlan 3D (MP3D) has a feature that allows you to color objects using a color scale? This functionality of MinePlan allows you to color several objects at once, with pre-defined or user-created color scales, thus improving the visualization of your data for use in presentations and reports. To perform this configuration, you need a group of objects and a color scale. Then, select all the objects you want to color in the Data Manager menu, clicking and dragging them, or using “Ctrl” + Left Mouse Button to individually select the objects. With the objects selected, click the Set Global Color by Range button, located in the Object Properties window,…
Query Minimum Distance Between Elements: Efficiency and ease to measure distances between different elements in MinePlan. Did you know that MinePlan 3D (MP3D) has a feature that allows you to quickly calculate the distance between different elements? Located in the Query Menu, the Minimum Distance Between Elements tool has the function of reporting the minimum distance between elements, creating a virtual element to represent this distance in space. It is a very dynamic tool, requiring only the selection of the types of elements of interest. For example, measuring the minimum distance between a point and a line, or, between a plane and a surface. Possible selection elements for the tool are: Points, Vector, Line Segment, Polyline, Plane, Face and/or Surface. The start and end element are set, and the Snap is activated automatically according to the element, to…
Smooth Substring: Practicality in smoothing line segments and polygons. Did you know that MinePlan has a very practical tool for smoothing lines and polygons? With the Smooth Substring tool, located in the Polyline – Substring menu, it is possible to dynamically smooth the shape of lines and polygons in order to obtain a new format. When starting the tool, you must define how new points will be created that will change the geometry of the line/polygon: Figure 01: Polyline – Smooth Substring. Target point spacing: Specify a distance that represents the interval between the points that will be created between the starting and ending points of the chosen segment. Insert new points: Define the new number of points that will be created between the starting and ending points of the chosen segment. Once the methodology is chosen, just specify the segment…
Silhouette: Create a planar outline from a solid or surface. Did you know you can create an outline that matches the boundaries of a solid or surface? The Silhouette tool, accessed from the Polyline menu, allows you to create the contour of a solid or surface on a plane of an Edit Grid that can be in any orientation in xViewer. If an Edit Grid is not specified then the minimum project elevation set in the Project Settings will be assumed. Figure 1: Silhouette tool. After selecting the surface, click on “Preview”, this button will provide a preview of the projection made. Afterwards, click on “Apply” to save the contour in a geometric object. Figure 2: Surface outline created using the Silhouette tool. Wassup, did you like this tip? For more information about the Silhouette tool, as well as other features and…
