There are some tools in MS3D that greatly simplify the work of users when it comes to designing piles, pits and accesses. In this edition of Tips & Tricks, we will present four of them: Dump/Spoil to Target, Surface Reslope, Attach Template along Polyline and Pit Expansion.
These tools can also be used for environmental applications. An article on this subject can be found at the link: //www.minesight.com/en-us/company/newsletters/september2013/environmentalapplications.aspx.
Dump/Spoil to Target
With this tool, present in the OP Eng Tools menu, it is possible to quickly design pile solids, having only a polygon, inclination angle, tolerance, pile volume and topography as input data.
The Dump/Spoil to Target tool is interactive with the user and warns him, in the MineSight Message Window, if his targets are not feasible, then suggesting acceptable values for the project.
Surface Reslope
This tool, also present in the OP Eng Tools menu, is used to smooth the angles of a surface based on a user-specified value to efficiently balance cut and fill.
The images below demonstrate the result of applying Surface Reslope.
Attach Template along Polyline
This tool, present in the Surface => Create menu, creates surfaces based on some existing models or models created by the user, applying them along a line.
Some of these templates, applied to a transport profile, automatically create accessways and projections for cut and fill.
With this option, it is also possible to create underground accesses, shafts, among others.
pit expansion
This well-known tool is widely used for pit operation, but can also be used for access and road design.
Contrary to common sense, baseline pit lines need not be polygons. As can be seen in the image below, any line, as long as it is 2D and assigned as a base pit, is operationalized by Pit Expansion.
In the same Pit Expansion, with the Slot function, it is possible to operate accesses in a simple and intuitive way. For this, just a baseline (pit base), the trajectory line and access geotechnical parameters, which can also be read directly from the block model, are sufficient.
Pile design, accesses with operationalized slope, operationalized pits or slopes: jobs that require a lot of time to do them, but that can be simplified using the MineSight tools, presented in this Tips & Tricks.
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