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DATAMINE STUDIO 2 SHORTCUTS

By Desmond Koh

Loading/Unloading Files and Design Window

om
ga
gw

Open block model

Get all strings
Get wireframe

wa
ww

Write all strings

Write wireframes

eal
ers
usf
eaw
erw

Erase all lines (strings)

Erase string (or select and press delete)
Unload string file
Erase all wireframes
Erase wireframe

cdw

Clear design window of everything

rd

Redraw

Filters and Querying

fm
fs

Filter block model

Filter strings

qp
qtr
qst
ql

Query point
Query wireframe triangle
Query string
Query line (drawn between two points)

aul
afc

Automatic legend
Assign fill codes

Visualizer and Design Window

uv
vv

Update visualiser object

Update visualiser view

1
2

Plane by 1 point
Plane by 2 point

Plane by 3 point

zx
za
zz

Zoom in by rectangle
Zoom all
Zoom out

uc

Use clipping

ssi
sex

Set symbol size

Set exaggeration

String Tools

eat

Edit string attributes (such as colour, size, etc.)

ns
a3
cir

New string
Arc by 3 segments (End, End and Radius)
Circle by centre and defined radius

cond
red
pro
cps

Condition string
Reduce points on string while honouring original shape
Project string
Copy string

ipo
dpo
mpo
mo
ule (or Ctrl+Z)
clo
ext

Insert points
Delete points
Move points
Move object (entire string)
Undo last string edit
Close string
Extend string

ii
bs
conn
com

Insert points at intersections of strings

Break string
Connect two strings
Combine string segments (join one to another)

rev

Reverse string (if you have selected the wrong high side of the
string

Open Pit Design

rseg
rcon
rbe

datamine quickies.doc

Create road segment from a toe string

Create road contour
Road berm

fng
sbw

Set face angle

Set berm width

Creating and Manipulating Wireframes

ewa

Edit wireframe attributes (such as colour)

sfi

Create string from intersection of two wireframes

md

Make dtm (wireframe)

dal
sil
sol
ctp

Deselect all limits

Select inner limit
Select outer limit
Clip-to-perimeter

mus

Multiple slices

Designing pits

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2.
3.
4.
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6.

Set berm width (sbw) and face angle (fng)

Start at the bottom
Create toe string (ns)
Make a road segment to the next level (rseg)
Create a contour string (rcon) on the next level
Then:
a. Make a road berm (rbe); or
b. Make new strings to follow optimization
7. Repeat from 4 until daylight

Making Wireframes

When pit daylights, to make DTM:

1. Select outer limit, i.e. top string of pit (sol)
2. Make DTM/wireframe (md)
3. Load topography wireframe (gw)
4. Create string from intersection (sfi)
5. Erase both wireframes (eaw)
6. Clip pit design strings to perimeter (ctp) defined by the intersection of pit and
topography
Plotting

When producing plots to use in Corel Draw:

1. Load strings you wish to plot
2. Reduce point size (ssi) and set all values to zero
3. Use the plotter (plo) and set page to A4, set scaling, and define the area plotted
(orange box)
4. Save plotted image

datamine quickies.doc

5. Run function pdrive

a. Files | IN - is the plotted image;
b. Parameters | PLOTTYPE = 16
c. Parameters | SPOOL = 0
6. Click ok, and save file but add a plt extension to the name (e.g. plot.plt)
7. Open in Corel Draw

Bugs in Datamine
Datamine stops producing road segments when a string file is loaded:
1. Run command SELCOP and export values
a. PVALUE
b. PTN
c. XP
d. YP
e. ZP
f. COLOUR
2. Run command sort on the exported file with the same values in that order

datamine quickies.doc