Ring Design

Ring Design functionality provides for the interactive design, editing and display of underground blasthole layouts. Designs suitable for any stoping method can be generated, taking into account the characteristics of the area being excavated, and the physical limitations of drill rigs.

Ring Design data is organised in a Ring database format which contains one or more drives which can be loaded in the same display layer. Wireframe models representing drives can be sliced at any orientation to produce strings that can be used in the hole design procedure.

Ring database

The Ring database is used to store:

• Parameters and ring data associated with each drive. This will include drive points and references to wireframes used to model the drive.

• Parameters and hole data associated with the rings on each drive

A suggested way of organising ring data is to store each drive in a separate ring database. In this way, each drive can be added as a separate display layer during the design process. However, if your ring design comprises a large number of drives, you may prefer to store all the drives on the same level in one database.

Naming of objects

All objects in the Ring database are assigned a default name when they are added to the database. You can change the default names at the time you create new objects, or change them later by editing object properties.

Selection Assistant

While many functions operate on the objects selected in the display, you do not necessarily need to have those objects selected before you run a function.

If no objects are selected in the display, a Selection Assistant is provided. You are prompted to make the necessary selections as you are guided through the process.