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Volume DefineVolume Define using Drillholes
Start Designer then logon as Username: Administrator, Password:
z.
Go to File > New and create a new database in the MineWorks
Designer window.
Click on New button in the Views section and create a new
Graphic view.
Go to DesignerDB > Import > Lynx > Drill Holes
Select the subset dh3 from the Wolfach project located in ...
\mwc\Lynx\projects\Wolfach as shownin the diagram below.
Click on the Ok button.
Select the view you created then click the Open button to open
Designers Graphic window.
Click on the View Mode button
then the Zoom All button.
The drillholes will be displayed as shown in the diagram
below.1
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Volume Define Click on the Drillhole Colour Map button in the
Property Window (Left Hand Side of the GraphicView)2
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Volume Define3
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Volume DefineDescription of the functions in the
window:Drillholes: select the drillhole subsetVariable: select the
variable of the drillhole
Colour Map: name of the colour map. If it is empty then a
default colour map is usedColour Map browser button: used to select
a colour mapColour Map table: displays the colour for the selected
drillhole set and variableValues: displays a sorted set of values
of the variable for the drillhole subsetColour: allows the user to
change the colour of the selected rows.Apply: converts the entries
in the table widget into a colour mapSave: saves the colour map to
file.
Select the Variable - Min
Go to Settings > Scene Geometries in the menu bar.
Turn off the visibility of all the regions in the subset dh3
except region 15_0 then click the Close but-ton4
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Volume Define Click on the 'Snap to Drill hole' button in the
toolbar.
Note: use Alt + Ctrl + the three mouse buttons to orient the
display of the drillholes. Alsonote that as you zoom in, the
drillholes labels are displayed.
Click the Select Mode button in the toolbar.
then the Select All button
Click the 'show selected data in solid / wireframe mode'
button.
Observe that after clicking on this button the drillholes become
solid when the cursor is positioned in theworking area and
wireframe when the cursor is away from the working area.
Zoom in the drawing to the first drillhole - B21955S.5
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Volume Define Go to Settings > Features, select the feature
Polyline then click on Create New button.
Snap on the radius of the first disk that represent the From
value (green colour) of the Min variable ofdrillhole - B21955S.
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Volume DefineVery important note: Remember to move away and back
from the working area as you snapto see which disk to snap on. You
can only get that indication when the drillhole to snap intois
solid.
Release the mouse button then move the cursor to snap on the
radius of the first disk that represent theFrom value of the second
drillhole.
Zoom in / out to have the other drillholes displayed on the
screen by using Alt + Ctrl + the threemouse buttons as you continue
to snap to all the From values of all the selected drillholes.
WIREFRAME7
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Volume DefineSOLID
When finished, right-click the mouse to terminate snapping of
the polyline feature.
Pan back to the first drillhole - B21955S. Press F2 to
re-activate the snapping of the polyline feature.
Repeat steps of snapping the polyline, but this time snapping on
the To value of the Min variable.When whole process is completed
the design must look as shown in the diagram below.8
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Volume Define Go back to the Scene > Geometries in the
Settings menu.9
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Volume Define Turn off the visibility of the region 15_0 then
click on Close button.
Only the polylines you created will left in the working
area.10
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Volume Define Click the Select Mode button again in the
toolbar.
then the Select All button
Click on the Snap to Node button
Zoon in to the start of the polylines as shown below11
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Volume Define Click on the Join Polylines button, then snap on
the first node of one polyline, hold and drag themouse to the next
node of the other poyline as illustrated in the diagram
below.12
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Volume Define Pan to the end of the polylines, this time click
on the Drag Node button.
Hold and drag the mouse to close the polylines, thus creating a
closed polygon.13
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Volume Define Click the Select Mode button again in the
toolbar.
then the Select None button
The completed closed polygon showing the boundary of the
variable Min of the all the drillholes14
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Volume Define15
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Volume DefineRepeat all the above steps for the regions 15_1 and
15_2 in the subset dh3. Use the Scene Geometries option in the
Settings menu item to control the visibility of the features. when
the three regions have all been done, the closed polygons must look
as shown below.
Volume Define Click on Volume Editor toolbar button.
The following Volume Editor toolbar buttons will appear.
Select\Drop Profile - to Select \ Deselect profiles for Volume
Define16
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Volume Define Link - to Link selected profiles
Unlink - to Unlink snapped link
Unlink All - to Unlink All profiles
Process Volume - to create volume
Save Volume
Save Volume to Lynx Project Click on the Select / Drop Profile
button.
Snap to each of the three polygons 17
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Volume Define Click on the Link button
Snap - release and drag the mouse from the first polygon, then
snap to the next one until all three pol-ygons have been
linked.18
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Volume Define Right-click the mouse to terminate the linking
function.
Click on the Process Volume button.
Three volumes will be created from the linked polygons.19
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Volume Define Click on the Save Volume button
The volumes will then be displayed as solid.20
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Volume Define Click on the Save Volume to Lynx Project
button
Fill in save details, the click on OK.21
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Volume Define The volumes will be saved into your Lynx project
and can be opened using Lynx Modelling System.
Go back to Scene Geometries in the Settings menu item, turn on
the visibility of the regions 15_0,15_1 and 15_2 to the volumes
with the drillholes intersection with respect to the variable
Min.22
Volume Define using DrillholesDescription of the functions in
the window:Volume Define