We would like to announce that the 2023 Release 1 of HxGN MinePlan is now available on the Hexagon Mining Division website in the section "Client Center” (https://client-portal.hexagonmining.com/). 

This release contains several improvements and performance improvements.

MinePlan Platform

MinePlan 3D v16.1.0

• Menu options and titles have been updated to reflect renamed programs, as well as installation files and Start menu shortcuts.
• To improve the user experience, items that were previously found in the MinePlan menu have been removed from your domain menu, as detailed below:
  • The MinePlan menu has been removed. Tools previously located in this menu have been moved to their domain menus.
  • The menu Axis of MinePlan has been renamed to operations to reflect the commercial product update.
  • the custom menu operations has been merged with the default menu.
  • Scripts custom, and procedures logic and Compass, previously in the MinePlan menu, will now be in the new menu run. The Run menu will only appear if a tool or procedure is assigned to it.
• Added to Booking the possibility of pasting tables in the tab of Material Set for Zone, Values, Density, etc.
• Adds a data integrity warning to Model Manager when the minimum, maximum, and precision values are out of range, which can cause the values to be written incorrectly to a model item.
• Improvement in the performance of auto slicer when creating cuts using the reservations.
• Our Quarry license customers now have the ability to visualize and create point clouds.
• Removes “.NET” files that may cause false positives in some antivirus scans.]
• Improved the procedure logic for the reservations. The procedure now uses the improved engine Reservations 4.x. This allows for faster booking processing, in addition to using the Object Content Browser in the selection of elements for calculating reserves.
• improvement in Drillhole View, for cases where a selected font is not installed on your machine.
• Improvement in the tables cutoff, allowing the use of the “Delete” key on the keyboard.
• improvement in GSM Model View, when coding to a layer using indices.
• improvement in Labels previously located outside project boundaries, which maintained the notice of project boundaries even after they were moved within project boundaries.
• improvement in Model Manager, when adding an item named TOPOG, it will not clean up items below the TOPOG index.
• Tool improvement Create Point Cloud, recognizing .las files with uppercase text. Both lowercase and uppercase file extensions will now appear when selecting the .las or .laz filters.
• Improved object properties, allowing properties used in a geometry to be updated after selecting a second object.
• Improved project settings, allowing to use an assigned font not installed on the user's machine.
• Improved DART when using a .csv file as source and destination.
• Tool improvement Attach Template Along Polyline, when applying the surface.

Bookings v4.4

• Add option to BLK file as CSV.
• Improved the use of a sub-blocked model during the execution of the reservations.
• Improved generation of the BLK file, using combined cuts.
• improvement in reservations where, when using the option footwall of a layer of coal, the materials of the surfaces will be respected.

Database Manager v4.5

• Updated to support the Drillhole Manager v7.1.

MinePlan Basis Modeling

Logic v2.0.1

Installed together with MinePlan 3D

• Improvement in the procedure logic for the reservations. The procedure now uses the improved mechanism Reservations 4.x. This allows for faster booking processing, as well as allowing you to use the Object Content Browser in the selection of elements for calculating reserves.

MinePlan Products for Engineering

MinePlan Activity Scheduler v6.3

• add the Process Points to Optimization
• Adds LCM and HCM to constraints and objectives for optimization.
• Increases decimal precision for grade items when manually editing bookings for an activity.
• Improved visualization of grades in the “Activities Pivot grid”.
• Improved activities import.
• Improved project conversion when it has reports.
• improvement of Daily Dig, no longer releasing cuts with undefined level.
• Improvement when saving reports..
• Improvement when applying templates during cut creation.
• Improved functionality when opening a project prior to version-6.0.
• Improved element, material, and object name retention after activity trimming.
• Improved MWA recovery method (subzone).

MinePlan Schedule Optimizer v13.0

• Adds new fields in the equipment usage report to show truck/excavator data.
• Provides an option to update the PCF location without resetting the sequencing.
• Destination ramps do not have direction for calculating the cycle time in the same bank.
• Added an option to specify unavailable roads per level.
• Improved SCD file generation by level if decimal numbers are present.
• Improvement in the calculation of the recipe, allowing the nomenclature of the content to present a space at the end.
• Improved calculation of Process Point when the handle missing values option is set to zero.
• Improved option to export multiple reports to the excel.
• Improved import of opening inventory balance using a .csv file.
• Improved visualization of buttons in the edit tool Scripts.
• Improvement in the configuration of sterile destinations, allowing the manual modification of the entry point, even if there are others.
• Improved geometry import when loading new targets.
• Improved configuration of Constraints, allowing copying for all periods in windows that was not available.
• Improved phase mapping in sequencing.
• Improved calculation of grade weighted averages by mass and volume when the option handle missing values is set to false.

MinePlan Project Evaluator v2.1

• Improved compatibility with Windows 11 22H2 system. 

MinePlan Products for Geosciences

MinePlan Drillhole Manager v7.1

• Adds functionality to create ranges of drillholes from intersections with solids when coding Torque drillholes from solids.

QAQC v1.3

Installed together with MinePlan 3D

• Improved QAQC exporter to export all samples.

Drillhole Correlation v1.3.1

• Updated to support MinePlan Drillhole Manager v7.1.

Image Viewer v1.3.7

Installed together with MinePlan 3D

• Improved using special characters in the Image Connection dialog's username field.

MinePlan GeoLogic v2.5

• Improved naming of surfaces and solids generated from subdomain events to be consistent with other types of events.
• Improved point generation off-surface, to handle complex situations more robustly.
• Improved calculations of True Thickness when using a reference layer that exists in zones that have multiple faults.
• Improved guidance with generating solids using the True Thickness in models with multiple fault zones.

MinePlan Sigma v1.6

• Adds the ability to turn negative values into missing and/or values missing to zero for analysis.
• Adds the ability to apply a natural log transformation to histogram data.
• Improves updating of data source status indicators in Data Source Setup when the dialog is open.
• Improved export of values by Sigma Pivot Reports for the excel, no longer being formatted as text.
• Improved the main display in Sigma when closing the dialog Data Source Setup.

MinePlan Products for Production

MinePlan Blast v4.80.1

• Improved use of templates for naming polyline meshes.
• Improved IREDES export making sure mesh name is mandatory.

MinePlan Product Reformulation

Updates made to the following versions are for product branding and naming purposes only. There are no changes to product features or functionality.

• MinePlan Dynamic Unfolding v2.5.1
• MinePlan Model Interpolation v2.0.1
• MinePlan Stereonets v1.0.1
• MinePlan Basis v17.90.1
• MinePlan Data Analyst v3.30.12
• MinePlan Tools v1.52.1 

In this release some nomenclature changes were inserted in the main menu, so when running MinePlan the program will present an appendix notifying which modifications have been applied.

Figure 1: Appendix

To the next!!!