Ring Design

Edit Fan Properties

The Fan Details have been added to the Properties pane in Edit Fan mode.

When a fan is selected, the Fan Details are available for editing directly in the pane:

You can use the information contained in the Properties pane, such as Method, Spacing and Direction to directly edit the selected fan.

Ring Design Setup

The Ring Design Setup tool has been added to Ring Design on the Mining | Ring Design tab, in the Parameters group to configure the settings for your ring design. This addition has simplified the creation of a ring design and is consistent with the functionality of other features such as Pit Design.

Now, when creating a new design, only a name (which can be Untitled) and optionally a template is required to get started:

All other settings are configured with the new Setup tool. These setup options are stored in the Ring Design file (previously, they were stored in form sets in the FLDVAL.BDB file within the project folder).

If you open an existing file created in an older version (before 25.5), the setups will be migrated from the form sets in the FLDVAL.BDB file of your project folder and marked with a change indicator (*) in the Vizex Layer Display window. In addition, if you open a file created in version 25.5 or later with an older version like 25.0, a warning message will appear, notifying you that the setup data may be lost.

For information on using the Setup tool to configure a ring design, see Drill Rig .

Default Drive Boundary

The Default Drive Boundary tab has been added to the Ring Design Setup form on the Mining | Ring Design tab, in the Parameters group to specify a drive boundary profile to create a ring for created drive strings that do not have a wireframe tunnel.

The Shape field is optional, and when creating a new ring design file it will be empty, and the default profile shape will be a square with sides equal to 5. A warning message will be displayed when the profile shape is invalid - for example if the boundary is not closed.

This option was added because you can now create drive strings without defining a drive tunnel. When a new ring is created on a drive, its profile will now be taken from the Default Drive Boundary settings. If no default shape is set, a square with a size of 5 will be used by default.

Charge Template Autofill

The Autofill function has been added to the Edit Charge Templates tool to allow automatic calculation of Depth values for Primers.

The Autofill button will open the Primers form from which Primers and Calculation Methods for the calculation of Depth can be configured: