1 introduction to minesight 2012

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Introduction to MineSight

2012 Dr. B. C. Paul

NoteThis presentation refers to trademarked mine design software products

and includes screen shots from the program MineSight by Mintec. Credit for

the products so referenced or shown is given to the developers.


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Why Design Software

Mine layouts have long needed to be

drawn out

Today computer drafting predominatesover manual

Mine optimization and evaluation

requires large numbers of redundantcalculations

Best done by computer


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What is MineSight?

MineSight is a suite of mining tunedcomputer programs

Heart is a 3D CAD graphics program called

MineSight Has a wide array of mining calculations

programs that link production planning to thegraphics functions in the 3D CAD program

MineSight development started with firstcomputer routines in the 1970s and list hasgrown since

Collection includes everything from old fortran

routines to modern python program languageroutines


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MineSights Visually Linked

Calculation Routines MineSight Compass

A windows like user interface built over abunch of old Dos, Fortran and Unix

Programs Collection of over 400 routines

Have the feel of old mainframe batchprograms

Thats because they are old mainframe routinesand subroutines with a modern windows likegraphical interface to feed them

Looks new but has you do some things to

set up runs that are like old mainframebatch routines


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New Kids on the Block

Built a Suite of New Programs that run inPython visual language Economic Planner

State of the Art Open Pit Metal Mining Optimizationand integrated together

Activities Planner Microsoft Projects Gant Charts set up for Mining

Data Analyst

Ore Reserves Statistics and Geostatistics Interactive Planner

Link between databases and 3D graphics forplanning

Strategic Planner

Other procedures constantly being prepared


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Editorial Commentary

Lack of Consistency A 40 year collection and operating systems have run in

fundamentally different ways over the years

Made to look windows like but cant always hide the architectureunderneath

Has bugs in it Most bugs are triggered by assuming people will input in a certain

wayand you dont

Mining has lots of local terms in it so wording can encourage you todo unexpected things

Most bugs are operator error triggered but it is rather unforgiving

Very computer and graphically intensive Pushes hardware and designs to the limit and a lot of hardware and

system components misbehave when they are at their limit

Its wonderful to have so much integrated power and routines allin one semi-coherent package


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One of a Limited Set of

Programs MineSight(master of the open pit metalmine)

Probably most overall advanced and complete

Vulcan(very good 3D CAD for hardrockunderground)

Gemcon/Mincom

Serve CAD / Carlson

Really an autocad add on for graphics anddesign

Quite popular with underground applications notdemanding heavy 3D visualization and

manipulation Well liked in coal


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Lets Start this Puppy Up!


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Look for the Desktop Icon for

MS3D and Click on It

OkI Dont Have One Cause I Dont Start

That waybut some people do.


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Programs Front Icon OpensMines or designs

Are kept as

Projects

It can default

Start where the

Program lives

Or be sent to

Where you store

A project

If you have aProject or design

Already you can

Have it loaded

And ready to go.


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I Can Click on An Arrow and See

a List of Recently Worked

Projects


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I Can Browse

This lets me see my directory or existing projects or

Create a new project with Make New Folder.


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I Can Purge Old Files

The weird X is the delete command for

Deleting a selected project.


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After I Get My Project Selected I

Click on Ok


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The Program Starts

If you are starting a

Whole new project

It will ask about

Permission to write

System files in theProject area and

Possibly what the

Coordinates are

For the project


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It has typical Windows drop down

menus

Not all options may be

Available at any one

Time. As typicalnon-

Available options

Are grayed out.


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Lots of Things are Drawn With

Lines

They are found

Under the

Polyline Menu

Polyline isA continuous

Series of line

Segments.


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Most Common Commands are

Accessed with Icons

(again note that ones not available

Are grayed out)


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If I Cant Remember what an icon

is I can put the curser over it and

it will spill its guts


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The Big Gray Area is the Drawing

Window

A box that appears at theBottom gives you

Instructions or informatio


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The Data Manager

Data Manager is

A two tiered

Windows

Exploring

Select aSubdirectory up top

You see the

Contents of that

Subdirectory down

Below.

MineSight works

In an overall

Directory dedicated

To each project.


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Place the Curser Over

Something You Would Like to

See and Right Click

The item turns blue


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Left Click to Pop-Up A Menu for

the Item


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Just Moving the Curser Over the

Second Menu Turns Things Blue


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A Simple Right Click Turns the

Object On in the Viewer


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You Can Play with the Surface

View

Push and hold the left and right keys

On your mouse as you move it to

Rotate your object in 3D (so you can

Look at it from different directions).


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You Can Move Your Surface Up

and Down (Pan Around)

Hold the right click button and the

Center button down (often the center

Button is a roller) and move the mouse

Around.


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You Can Zoom In and Zoom

Out

Hold the left click button and the

Center button down (often the center

Button is a roller) and move the

mouse around.


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I Can Also Rotate Views with

Keyboard strokes


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More Keyboard Rotation


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More Keyboard Rotation


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You May Want to Create Your

Own Directory or Files

Select the root directory by

Highlighting and Right clicking


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Drop Down the Menu and Pick

New and then Folder


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It Asks You For the Name of the

Folder

I typed experiments

I will then click Ok


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The New Folder Name Appears


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Now Select the Experiments

FolderDrop down the menu

Pick new

On the submenu pick new

Geometry object (a file that

Contains geometricInformation).


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It Asks the Name of the

Geometry Object

Type it in and click Ok

Th N G t Obj t


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The New Geometry Object

Appears in the Lower Part of the

Data Manager

I O d t D Thi i th


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In Order to Draw Things in the

Geometry File I Need to Put it

Into Edit Mode Highlight the geometryobject (put the curser over

It and right click)

Now left click the menu

Drops down

Move the curser to

Highlight Edit

Left click to go into Edit

Mode.


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The Geometry Object is Now

Marked With a Gold Open Box

What you draw will go into that

Geometry object.


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The X Box

The little red

box closes

Things.

ou can close

The WindowsExplorer like

Data Manager

You can close a 3D

Visualizationwindow

You can close the

Whole program


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General Quirks and

Observations MineSight does not have an escape key function You right click to finish a function which gets you out of it (but might alsofinish a goof)

MineSight has a more enforced save structure Some drawing functions will not let you move on until you save you last

group of edits

It is not consistent in when this happens but if the program stops takingorders a right click to finish what ever it thinks your doing and then a save isa good guess.

MineSight has limited Undo functionality You can save the last set of edits and then go back and undo it.

It does not keep a step by step undo list that lets you go back and undothe last 20 things one at a time

Undo function often requires you to save before it becomes available

If you really goof it keeps back-up copies of everything and you can goin and fetch a back up copy of what you screwed up.


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Some Rigidity in Menu and Icon

Structure

Microsoft Office allows you to pickgroups of icons, call them toolbars anddock your favorites in a certain

position Vulcan has created some tool bar

dockability

MineSight has not MineSight does allow you to right

click and pull up an on the spot menu ofrecently used and custom chosen

functions


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So Why Should I Learn

MineSight CAD like mine design packages are rapidly

becoming an industry standardknowingone increases your marketability

There is enough similarity in packages thatknowing one will allow you to learn any otherwith greater ease (in case your employerdidnt make the same choice for basic

package as we didor if your employerchanges his/her mind later).

We are using it in this class and you dontwant to even think about life without it.


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A Term You Need to Know for

Homework

Screen Shot

You can copy the screen to the

clipboard with Control-Print Screen

You can paste the screen shot into a

word document.


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Assignment #1

Get a copy of a starter file from the website

Take a screen shot of you selecting the

starter file from your thumb drive as you open

MineSight

Open Geometry Object Topo Surface

Take a screen shot

Zoom out on object Take a screen shot


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Assignment #1 Continued

Zoom in on object Take a screen shot

Zoom back to a convenient view Take 3 screen shots of different rotated position

Close Topo Surface Take a screen shot

Create a geometry object called shapes Take screen shots of creating it

Take a screen shot for putting it in edit mode

Draw a line

Take a screen shot Draw a circle

Take a screen shot

Draw a 6 sided closed polygon Take a screen shot

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