MineSight Release Notes Update 2007

Included in these release notes is information about additions and changes since the 2006 update CD was released. The first part of these release notes highlight additions and enhancements that were done in the past year. Appendix A contains the full list of changes to MineSight 3-D, MineSight Compass and MineSight Grail. Appendix B contains the full list of MineSight program and procedure changes. Appendix C contains the MineSight installation notes and instructions.

Table of Contents
MineSight 3D v4.0 Desktop Menu Reorganization Function Consistency Drillhole Coding MSCODE.EXE - Standalone Coding Engine Contour Tool Enhancements Underground Enhancements Solid Expansion Tool Plot Order Tool Solids as Cuts in MSIP with GSM models MineSight GRAIL v. 4.0 MineSight Activity Planner (MSAP) v1.5 MineSight Data Analyst (MSDA) v.2.0 MineSight Strategic Planner v.1.23 Appendix A: MineSight 3D/Compass/GRAIL Release Notes Appendix B: MineSight Programs, Procedures and Documentation changes since 10-30-2006 Appendix C: MineSight Installation Instructions MineSight Grail Installation Instructions

MineSight 3D v4.0
Desktop Menu Reorganization in MineSight 3D Items on the MS3D desktop menu have been reorganized into more intuitive groupings. Some old menus are gone and some new menus have been created. There are three significant changes. Items in the old Tools menu are now found under Geo Tools (geology), Eng Tools (engineering), Utilities, or Viewer.

The old Compass menu has been renamed MineSight. This menu still has a Compass menu item, but now you can also run many other programs from the MineSight suite such as Data Analyst or Strategic Planner. The old Database menu is now a submenu of Utilities.

Notice also that items under each menu have been more logically grouped and most have been given unique mnemonic keys. Function Consistency Functions under the MineSight desktop menu are in the process of being made more consistent. About half the functions have been upgraded in the v4.0 release. Upgrades will continue in future versions of MineSight . Some changes you will notice in the upgraded functions: When a function is active, the function name is displayed in the desktop Function Field. Better instructions and results are displayed in the Messages window along with messages stating the function has started/ended. If possible (depending on the function), you will be able to select and unselect multiple elements for the function to work on. Ctrl-A will select all elements and Ctrl-U will unselect all elements. Some dialogs will no longer have the Entire Selection toggle. Selected elements will remain highlighted till operated on. If the function has a dialog, there will be an Apply, a Preview, and a Reselect button, where Reselect allows you to pick new elements for the function.

Drillhole Coding New to MineSight 3D is the ability to code Drillholes from polygons. The Drillhole View properties page now contains a coding option that is similar to the Model Coding function found in the Model View Properties. The same geometry set can be used to code both Drillhole and Model Views. MSCODE.EXE - Standalone Coding Engine A new standalone coding engine has been added to MineSight, which gives the ability to externally code Models and Drillholes. The user now can setup a Model or DH coding run in MineSight 3D and save it to an external template file that can be run with the MSCODE.EXE standalone engine. This is extremely useful when you want to run a scripted/automated coding function outside of MineSight 3D.

Contour Tool Enhancements Grade Contouring The Contour Tool in MineSight 3D is now able to contour grade values. With this new enhancement, grade values from a 3DBM can be contoured along a bench level, section level, or where a surface intersects each block. When contouring grade on a bench/section you can optionally create contours following block outlines. The Contour Tool can also contour data from a GSM, a GSF as well as Drillholes. Drillholes are contoured along an elevation or where an interval spears a surface. With contours of grade values along a surface, the result can be draped back onto the surface. CONTOUR.EXE is available as a standalone engine, which provides for repetitive scripted operation, external to MineSight 3D. Underground Design Enhancements A number of enhancements were made that improve MineSight 3D underground mine design capability. These include: Autoslicing around a looped development. Previous versions of MineSight 3D have not properly handled a development that has a substantial curve in the shape, resulting in improperly slicing development out of order. This has been fixed in MineSight 3D v4.0. Smoothing in Attach Template Function. This function now provides an option to smooth the resulting shape, resulting in more realistic transitions on tight angles in the final shape. A new Drift Solid Tool has been added which gives a realistic shape when irregular wall, pillar, back and sill survey shots are selected Solid Expansion Tool A new Tool has been added that lets you expand/contract an arbitrary shaped solid uniformly in all directions. Future versions will include non-uniform expansion. Plot Order Tool This new option allows geometry types to be ordered preferentially in a plot. In previous versions, ordering was available between different classes of MineSight objects (models, Drillholes, geometry, etc.). Now, you can order a plot based on different types of geometry. For example, text can now be made to always appear on top of polygon fill.

Solids in MSIP with GSM models New with this version is the ability to mine solids as cuts in MSIP when using a GSM model. This opens up numerous possibilities for GSM modeling and scheduling. Selection of solids for GSM models is now done the same way as 3D block models. GSM plans are set up as before, including the reporting of interburden and overburden. The default selection of seams for both 2D and 3D cuts are the seams currently displayed in model properties. This function makes it possible to get volumes for non-vertical pit walls in a GSM.

MineSight GRAIL v4.0

Highlights A number of performance enhancements were made to MSGrail in both speed in data access, as well as improved data transfer throughout the MSGrail modules. In addition, searchable documentation was implemented in GRAILDOC.CHM. Scripts A number of scripts were added, or modified including: minesight_info.py: report environment variables required for MineSight (3291). em_material.py: List Objects associated with specific Material (6980). Added sample script to illustrate the grail.ms3d.selectionbuffer module (7134). Added sample script (em-project.py) to illustrate the grail.ms3d.project module (7126).

MineSight Activity Planner (MSAP) V1.5

The new MineSight Activity Planner (MSAP) is a new mine scheduling tool developed by Mintec. MSAP is flexible enough that it may be used in either long or short range planning, but the emphasis is currently on the latter. MSAP improves short-range mine planning by enabling the mine planner to create plans in the level of detail required to prove that they are feasible, practical, and executable.

The core tools in MSAP include a Planning Board for interactively scheduling resources, and a Gantt chart for viewing activities and setting precedents between them. Mine Planners can define whatever resources they wish to schedule, such as mining cuts, haul roads, stopes and development, trucks, blast rigs, shovels, graders, front end loaders, drill jumbos, work crews and so on. Each resource can be assigned as many attributes as the planner cares to track, e.g. tonnages and grades for mining cuts and stopes, and operating costs and haul rates for trucks. Once the resources have been scheduled to perform the desired activities, such as blasting, drilling, loading and hauling the mining cuts in a desired sequence, and with specified equipment, one can then view charts and reports showing how the resources were used, and how their attributes varied in time. For instance, one could chart the overall average copper grade mined on a daily basis, or perhaps the total operating cost of all trucks as a function of time. Mining cut and other resource data can be imported from MineSight Interactive Planner (MSIP), as well as from generic sources such as an Excel spreadsheet. Once a schedule has been generated in MSAP, the results can be returned to MSIP and displayed in color coded form, e.g. one might color code the month in which each stope was mined. Known Issues The following are known issues in MSAP v1.5: 1. If you are running Windows XP, and you wish to be able to import data from MSIP, you must be sure that you have the latest Windows Installer, which is available with Windows Service Pack 2. If you do not already have Service Pack 2, you can get the Windows Installer here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=889482fc-5f564a38-b838-de776fd4138c&DisplayLang=en 2. Occasionally, on some computers, the Month label is absent from the Work Calendar dialog. This appears to stem from a problem with some Third Party software that we are using, and we are looking into a solution. 3. On some occasions when using the Planning Board, especially after a drag and drop, the cursor icon will not reset properly.

MineSight Data Analyst (MSDA) v. 2.0

The release version for the 2007 Update is MineSight Data Analyst v2.0, which we shall refer to here as simply MSDA 2.0. A large number of new tools and enhancements have been added since the previous version of MSDA, and many bug fixes have been implemented. The most significant new tools, enhancements and bug fixes to MSDA 2.0 since the 2006 update are as follows: New Tools:

1. Box Plot tool 2. Q-Q Plot tool 3. Auto-fit Variograms tool (fits a variogram model to one or more existing variograms) 4. Multi-chart viewer (view and print collections of MSDA charts; includes support for variograms and indicator variograms by direction and azimuth) 5. Create Variogram Parameter File for MIK programs (based on model parameters which were derived and saved during Variogram 3D Modeling) Enhancements to Existing Tools: 1. Variograms a. Added option to create indicator variograms at multiple cutoffs b. Add variogram model parameters to chart (in annotation box) c. Allow negative dip steps when specifying variogram dips d. Add option to re-initialize auto-fit parameters e. Increase precision of some chart data, e.g. nugget and sill labels 2. Variogram 3D Manager a. Import variograms via File Open dialog (rather than drag and drop from Windows Explorer, which was awkward) b. Added a feature to Save and Open the Variogram 3D Model settings and parameters. c. Add variogram model parameters to chart (in annotation box) 3. Custom Reports a. The ability to add and remove tabs (dimensions) has been made much easier and more dynamic b. Added option to quickly select and add multiple fields to the report c. Report view is now embedded in the Layout dialog so that you can see the results of your changes immediately d. The field order can be easily changed during layout (view) e. For bivariate reports, the second set of fields can be cloned from the first f. User weights may now be a combination of multiplication and/or division of several fields and numbers (previously was only multiplication) 4. Scatterplots a. Overhauled the GUI for specifying the Overflow Categories 5. Cumulative Probability Plots (CPP) a. Added option to display multiple CPP plots on a chart, eg. by Rock Type General Enhancements: 1. MSDA Manager

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a. Show full chart details in preview (previously was only certain aspects) Data Source (DAS) a. Added support to read Text Files directly (without needing to specify the ODBC connection in Windows) b. Filtered out system tables when reading data from a database MSDA File Chooser dialog a. Added various enhancements, e.g. Filter list of files by extension; some enhancements are specific to tool, e.g. when used with Indicator Variograms one can filter by cutoff grade Chart Annotations and Legends a. Annotations Box retains its position when window is resized Workflow and GUI a. Improved the process of defining the output file (used by all tools) b. Improved the tab order in all dialogs c. Disabled dialog items whenever they are not relevant (this was previously done in many but all cases) Other and Miscellaneous a. All forms have a new, more modern look and feel similar to Windows XP b. Added extensive forms validation (if you enter invalid string or number, a small red warning circle is displayed; you can hover over it to get a tool tip which explains the problem) c. Added a popup warning message when a Tool is about to overwrite an existing file or files; you are given the option to overwrite Yes/Yes to All/No/No to All d. Added default suffixes for the Application Filter (now you only need specify the filters, eg. ROCK = 1,2,3,4,5; MSDA will create file names) e. Added option to add Extended Metadata automatically as needed f. Added Remember Answer option to most pop-up dialogs g. Added Test Buttons to validate complicated input in a couple of places h. Improved some of the default values in several tools i. Implemented a new and much slicker Installer

Bug Fixes: The following bugs from MSDA 1.0 have been fixed in MSDA 2.0: 1. MSDA could not reliably recognize the field data type when less than the full set of fields was selected in DAS. 2. The variogram item label in the statistics page was not reliable (but the data itself was fine). 3. Users could not edit a chart title to more than 80 characters.

4. The model range for exponential model was wrong in variogram programs. 5. Scatterplots could not handle negative correlation co-efficients. 6. MSDA could crash if user closed Job Queue when it was empty. 7. Lists of filters such as ROCK=1,2,3,4,5 could not contain embedded blanks. 8. MS Access files would occasionally remain locked after being read by MSDA. 9. The statistics annotation box on all tools would use the wrong metal for determining numeric formats (ie. number of decimals, etc). 10. Field names in the Data Source could not be SQL or ODBC reserved words. 11. After changing the selected fields in DAS several times, MSDA tools would occasionally read and use the wrong field. 12. Minor changes were required to support Windows Vista. 13. The Favorites feature in Custom Reports did not always work correctly. 14. The Custom Reports data item and filter item were occasionally wrong after the field names selected in DAS were modified a few times. 15. Various messages and labels were not clear and have been revised. 16. Variogram 3D Set azimuth and dip per selected variogram was not correct in case of negative dip (was out by 1 degree). 17. When adding a new structure in Variogram 3D, Manager, the initial values were sometimes wrong, ie. they did not match the actual values in the model. 18. Variogram 3D azimuth window failed at 0, eg, 350 +/- 20 degree window, should be [330, 10], but we got [330, 0]. 19. User is now warned if Custom Reports output file is locked, e.g. by Excel. 20. Tools would not run (ie. they would just do nothing) if a User clicked on Use Application Filter but did not actually enter the filter value. 21. There were some problems evaluating complex SQL filters in DAS. 22. After moving and/or deleting a chart annotation box, MSDA could crash. Known Issues The following are known issues in MSDA 2.0: 1. In the Variogram 3D Modeler (VAR3D), if you toggle off the Min pairs field or the Max h field, the existing values will be destroyed and placed with -1. 2. The Network Uninstaller program does not properly clean up after itself. Specifically, the Uninstaller entry remains in the Windows Add/Remove list until it is closed and re-opened. 3. When setting cutoffs for Indicator Variogram using Auto Step feature, if the first cutoff is 0, it is ignored. Eg. if you specify 3 cutoffs starting at 0.0 and in steps of 0.1, it uses 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 rather than 0.0,0.1,0.2.

4. The individual box labels for the Box Plot program should be limited to 12 characters. Currently you can enter > 12 characters, but the label will get truncated on the box plot. 5. The Variogram 3D Modeler (VAR3D) supports a maximum of 100 individual variograms. VAR3D will not let you Add more than 100 variograms at one time. However, a bug in the program lets you add more than 100 variograms altogether, e.g. add 75, then add 50 more. This can lead to problems and should be avoided. 6. There may in certain instances be very small differences in quantile results for the Box Plot Program vs. Custom Reports. This is due to slightly different techniques used to bin the data prior to determining quantiles.

MineSight Strategic Planner v1.23

These release notes summarize the key additions and changes made since the December 2006 Intermediate Update Release Notes. MineSight Strategic Planner (MSSP) is used to develop optimal mining schedules to the end-of-mine life for open pit mines. Its main application is in long-term strategic planning. The schedule produced summarizes by period: The benches being mined in each active pushback The ore, leach, stockpile and waste tonnages The truck and shovel requirements The revenues, fixed costs and variable costs The amount of material placed on each active destination site This period-by-period information is further processed into summary tables and used to calculate a Net Present Value figure for the schedule. The period-byperiod mining is selected to maximize the Net Present Value for the schedule. This release version is MineSight Strategic Planner V1.23.09 with interface revision date of November 26, 2007 and engine program (M821V1) revision date of November 21, 2007. Enhancements and bug fixes to Strategic Planner since V1.22.03 Waste blending between acid generating and acid neutralizing materials Waste blending between two waste groups on tonnage basis Period-end-map for destinations

Fixed a problem with not all benches being output in Assumption File reserve by phase list when #of period exceeds maximum limit due to the limit of mining rate and vertical advances Fixed an error with direct mill feed surge stockpile mining percent Fixed a problem with predefined shovel fleet not being used for a phase when higher priority truck fleet is available and is not loaded by the predefined shovel fleet Fixed a problem with not allowing reading more than 32,767 lines of detailed cycle times Fixed a problem with Sort of Define Destinations for vertical advance data Enforced proper lift elevations for non-waste destinations when waste subzones are used. Enhanced SP interface to be compatible with EXCEL 2007 and maintain compatibility with EXCEL 2003. Enabled "Read in PCF File" at all times. If the option Use Truck, Shovel, Destinations on "Project Input Configuration" dialogue is unchecked, always set the parameters for trucks, shovels, and destination capacities to pre-defined default values for the engine program to execute. For EXCEL reporting, properly include tons from type1 stockpile1 to the Total Tons reported in the "Summary Mining Results" table. This also corrected the reported stripping ratio.

A major expansion to MineSight Strategic Planner (V1.3x) is underway. The 1 st version of this series, MineSight Strategic Planner V1.30-Beta is available on a requested trial basis. Known Issues in Strategic Planner V1.23: The option Reclaim All in dialogue Define Schedule Title/Options by Period should not be used when option Mill ore split using a secondary stockpile in dialogue Run Options is selected. The user needs to pay attention to the schedule materials defined in a schedule project. All schedule materials need to be defined via the dialogue

Standard Report Header Options. For example, if you have two waste types waste and overburden - and you only define a header for one waste type, this may cause a program setup problem or an empty report header for waste type 2. To reclaim from secondary Type 2 mill ore stockpiles, one must request to reclaim from secondary Type 1 mill ore stockpile as well even just a tiny amount. In dialogue Run Options, in frame Rank phases by economics, the choice A For all phases is not implemented. Variable mining cost by phase by bench by material type (cost class) will be available starting with V1.3x series. Standard reporting of fuel consumption and unit cost will be available starting with V1.3x series

Enhancements and Fixes that have been made which, at the time of this release, are still in testing: Omit reporting STOCKPILE MATERIAL STORED for surge stockpile usage when all mined mill ore materials are to be processed in a period because Process all the mined materials option is checked on Define Target Constraints dialogue. Fixed a problem with ranking of phases by economics having no impact when all phases coming from one block model but more than one block models are defined

Appendix A: MineSight 3-D Release Notes

Required DLLs for v.4.0 4.00-00 Client Release Dec 14/2007 2007 Update CD installation version Great New Stuff Known Problems Specific Changes

Required DLLs for MS3D

These lists of DLLs are relevant for the current Client Release Version.

MS3D DLLs and other files in \winexe:

Filename ATTRIB13_16.MDB ATTRIB13_17.MDB DIGITIF.DLL DXF1528.HDI GM.EXE GRIDCONTOUR.DLL GVIEW.EXE HOOPS1528.DLL HPGL1528.HDI HPGL21528.HDI ICONV.DLL IJL11.DLL LIBEAY32.DLL LIBPNG1.DLL LIBXML2.DLL LSAPIW32-7-0.DLL LSAPIW32-8-0.DLL MESHDLL.DLL MFC42.DLL MFC80.DLL MFC80U.DLL MFCM80.DLL MFCM80U.DLL Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest Microsoft.VC80.MFC.manifest MINTECAG-VC6.DLL MINTECATTRDB-VC6.DLL MINTECCORE-VC-8.DLL MINTECCSHARP-VC8.DLL MINTECCSTK-VC8.DLL MINTECDHMSR-VC6.DLL MINTECDIALOG-VC6.DLL MINTECERR-VC6.DLL MINTECIPH-VC6.DLL MINTECLOG-VC6.DLL MINTECMEM-VC6.DLL MINTECMESH-VC8.DLL MINTECMESSAGEWIN-VC6.DLL MINTECMSXML-VC6.DLL MINTECSE-VC6.DLL MINTECSIROTIFF-VC6.DLL MSTABLE212.DLL MSVCIRT.DLL Version Numbers N/A N/A 3.60.7.0 12.28.0.0 1.0.0.1 N/A 1.0.0.1 1528.1.0.0 1528.1.0.0 1528.1.0.0 1.9.0.0 1.1.2.16 N/A 1.0.8.0 N/A 1.0.0.1 8.0.0.0 1.0.88.0 6.0.8665 8.0.50727.762 8.0.50727.762 8.0.50727.762 8.0.50727.762 N/A N/A 4.0.0.0 4.0.0.0 N/A N/A 4.0.0.0 4.0.0.0 4.0.0.0 4.0.0.0 1.0.0.1 4.0.0.0 4.0.0.0 N/A 4.0.0.0 4.0.0.0 N/A 4.0.0.0 2.1.2.0 6.1.8637.0 Information Mintec, Inc. Mintec, Inc. digitifd 2005 1986-2007 Tech Soft America, Inc. 2001 Mintec, Inc. Mintec, Inc. 192002 GVIEW MFC Application 1986-2000 Tech Soft America, Inc. 1986-2000 Tech Soft America, Inc. 1986-2000 Tech Soft America, Inc. 1999-2003 GNU Library General Public License 1999 Intel JPEG Library - Retail Version N/A 1998-2000 Glenn Randers-Pehrson N/A 1997-1999 Rainbow Technologies, Inc. 2004 SafeNet, Inc. Trevor Coulson 1993-1998 Microsoft Corp. Microsoft Corp. Microsoft Corp. Microsoft Corp. Microsoft Corp. N/A N/A 2005 Mintec 2000-2006 Mintec 2005 Mintec 2005 Mintec 2005 Mintec 2004 Mintec 2004 Mintec 2005 Mintec 2005 Mintec 2006 Mintec 2005 Mintec N/A 2003 Mintec 2005 Mintec N/A 2004 Mintec 2001 Mintec Microsoft Corp. 1981-1999

MSVCM80.DLL MSVCP60.DLL MSVCP80.DLL MSVCR80.DLL MSVCRT.DLL OG801AS.DLL POSTSCRIPT1528.HDI PYTHON22.DLL SFL103AS.DLL SIROTIFF.DLL SX32W-6-3.DLL VGAL8A.DLL VGALAXY8.VR ZLIB.DLL ZLIB1.DLL

8.0.50727.762 6.0.8168.0 8.0.50727.762 8.0.50727.762 6.1.9359.0 8.01.0 1528.1.0.0 2.2.3150.1011 1.0.3.0 1.0.0.1 6.3.1.0 0.0.0.0 N/A 1.1.3.0 1.2.2.0

Microsoft Corp. Microsoft Corp. 1981-1998 Microsoft Corp. Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Corp. 1981-1999 1995-1999 Rogue Wave Software, Inc. 1986-2000 Tech Soft America, Inc. 2001-2003 PythonLabs at Zope Corporation 2000 Stingray Software 2001 2003 Rainbow Technologies N/A N/A 1995-1998 Jean-loup Gailly & Mark Adler 1995-2004 Jean-loup Gailly & Mark Adler

MS3D & MSCompass v.4.00-00 Client Release Dec 14/2007 2007 Update CD installation version Great new stuff:
Look and feel o More intuitive interface and menu groupings o More consistency between functions Coding enhancements o Drillholes can be coded from polylines o Drillhole and Model View coding allow material code override o Standalone coding engine (MSCode.exe) Contour Tool enhancements o Drillhole and Model item value contouring on a surface o Model item value contouring on a bench/section o Model contouring following block outlines o Model partials from polygons o Standalone contouring engine (Contour.exe) MineSight 3D Underground enhancements o Autoslicing along looped development o Added smoothing in Attach Template function o Drift Solid Tool New Tools and Old Tool noteworthy enhancements o New Solid Expansion Tool o Autolinker option in the Linker Tool. o Plot order tool includes geometry order o Standalone Solid Expansion tool (SolidExpand.exe) MSIP o Cuts from solids for GSMs General o Styling by date cutoffs in Geometry Views.

Known Problems:
Users who run MineSight on Windows Vista: this operating system includes an executable, clip.exe which has the same name as one of the Standalone Engines that Mintec distributes. The existence of two executables with the same name can cause conflicts. If your site makes use of Mintecs version of clip.exe, please contact Mintec Technical Support for help with your questions or concerns. Survey to AGDM importer does not properly process single quotes/apostrophe (bug 5843). GeoMap editor will crash if material used for any lines and .or symbols has Line labels by Object Name toggled ON (bug 8209). The functions Polyline->Clip Polylines, Polyline->Intersect Polygons, Polyline->Self-Intersect Polylines do not work with geometry View Objects (bug 6620). Context-sensitive help gets the user to the helpdoc page, but not to the bookmark (bug 6931). Using IE7 in Windows Vista there are problems when trying to display the MS3D helpdoc from inside MS3D. Fix is expected in v.4.00-01. In the meantime, create a desktop shortcut that points to the ms3d.htm file for easy access (bug 8037). Using Netscape v.7.1 and greater, context-sensitive help can cause MS3D to exit unexpectedly (bug 8262). Creating a compressed model without selecting a block definition file causes a crash (bug 8266). When coding a model from Polygons using the CODE by majority code option and code as waste option, MSCODE.EXE will code as ore (bug 8268). MS3D (Contour Tool) contour DH View (on elevation) that has items that are not loaded, results in contouring the wrong item (bug 8271).

Specific Changes:
Autoslicer Tool 2797 - In Autoslicer Tool, added the ability to slice looped polygons/solids using a polyline tube with a given radius. 5343 - In Autoslicer, added option to specify a target folder and create multiple objects. BPE 6130 - Fixed reporting volume and overdrill coordinates for non-vertical holes. 8035 Fixed problem with ID increment=0. CAD 7803 - Corrected problem with Surface -> Decimate recreating self-intersections. 7836 - Surface -> Condition Surfaces Tool restores previous setting correctly for Patch Openings. 7855 - Corrected highlighting problem with Polyline -> Substring Dynamic Erase. 7910 - Corrected problem with the used of Surface -> Create Solid -> Attach Template along Polyline and the Element -> Query functions. 7940 - Corrected spelling error in Surface -> Openings -> Patch. 7957 - Corrected highlight issue when using Selection -> Use Nearest Element List Dialog and Surface -> Delete Face. 7803 - Corrected problem with Surface -> Decimate recreating self-intersections. 7836 - Surface -> Condition Surfaces Tool restores previous setting correctly for Patch Openings. 7855 - Corrected highlighting problem with Polyline -> Substring Dynamic Erase.

7910 - Corrected problem with the used of Surface -> Create Solid -> Attach Template along Polyline and the Element -> Query functions. 7940 - Corrected spelling error in Surface -> Openings -> Patch. 7957 - Corrected highlight issue when using Selection -> Use Nearest Element List Dialog and Surface -> Delete Face. 664 - New Drift Solid Tool to create an underground drift (or drifts) solid surface using a wall outline (polygon) with random sill and back survey points 1265 - Added corner smoothing to Attach Template Along Polyline function. 3022 - Fixed Geometry Set Editor for to allow typing a new set name without discarding selected geometry. 3024 - In Geometry Set Editor, added an option to select geometry from all open objects in a folder. 3320 - In polyline->offset, added an option to not remove self-intersections 3586 - Allowed box selection in Delete function. 3756 - Reworked Polyline->Compute Area/Length function. 3352 - In Surface->Openings->Patch, added an option to save the patch separately. 5559 - Reworked Element->Attribute function. 5795 - When "style by cutoffs" is selected and the attribute (everywhere else known as the cutoff item) is not defined yet, then when the props dialog is closed, the cutoff editor should be opened. This is the way drillhole and model views work. 6191 - Make "Adjust Elevations" more "tool like." 6211 - Add ratio to label line. 6247 - Changed to properly triangulate "bounding boxes" when saving utility markers. 6861 - Surface Create from Grid can be used to create a solid. 6862 - Add option to not compute volume/area for shell query. 6866/etc - Function cleanup. 8072 - Fixed problem with union due to bad solid with duplicate faces and openings. 8195 - Fixed problem with polyline clip when data selection is from the Viewer, rather than from the Data Manager. 7649 - Changed Extrude tool surface preview to display with secondary preview color. 7687 - Fixed Polyline->Smooth to retain attributed point data on the unchanged points. 8056 - New Solid Expansion Tool. 7707 - Enhanced Polyline->Size Parameters (formerly Compute Area/Length.) 7736 - Fixed crash when using both Element->Scale and Surface->Generate Partials at the same time. 7732 - Fixed Condition Surfaces to still see surfaces that were saved from selection mode.

Compass 7789 - COMPASS.MNU: Add procedure GRDSLP.DAT to the Gridded Surfaces menu group. 5093 - Replaced Compass menu with MineSight menu to start all MS programs from within MS3D. 4846 - On file creation added notification of decreased Max value should Min/Max range be too large. 6509 - Cleaned up selection of restricted items on open and clone with editing. 6699 Fixed tab order in project bounds dialog. Contour Tool 3150 - Contour and Isopach tool now allow index contour increments that are not a multiple of the elevation increment. 4766 - Added contour naming (attributing) using wildcards.

5756 - New standalone engine: (Contour.exe). 6408 - Changed to contour in either direction.

Contour Tool and Isopach Tool 6869 Added button to the Contour Tool and the Isopach Tool to compute the start and end levels for the selected surfaces. Cursor Tool 7815 - Corrected problem with using the Cursor Tool in an inactive viewer. 5620 - Made scalable cursor rotates in direction relative to edit grid and/or viewer. Added some simplification (minor speed ups) in scalable cursor. Cut Generation Tool 4894 - Added an option to name cuts before/after clipping. Data Manager 4690 - Added a new message to indicate that a material is missing but referenced in an object (e.g. when an objects msr file is copied from project to project). 4967 - datamanager.make_folder should generate an exception if a folder already exists. This will allow users the ability to either create a folder, and just "pass" if the folder already exists. 6025 - Folders with numbers are no longer display when using the OCB to view Geometry View objects. Database (AGDM) 8221 Disabled custom WHERE clause in Geometry View creation. Drillhole Views 2754 - Added option to DH View coding to use material code order. 3406 - Added more filtering to Drillhole properties, Points tab. 4310 - Added contouring of DH item values. 5506 - Added new option to tick drillhole strips to place ticks at assay intervals in addition to the existing fixed distance placement. 6663 - Fixed query to not leave a persistent marker. 6718 - Fixed to remove the interval highlight when you edit another drillhole. 6828 - DH View spearing no longer returns incorrect results with empty Geometry objects. 7605 - Remove "Cutoff Item" from DH and Model View Properties Info tab. Drillhole Views - Coding 3078 - Added coding of Drillhole Views from polygons. Drillhole Design Tool 4732 - Added check for existing rod names to prevent duplicate rod names. 4792 - Changed label preview to use size of the current edit object. DSS 2582 - Fixed Copy of DSS objects to create a non-DSS object. General 3460 - Added Preset Editor to the Viewer Menu. 7885 - Corrected problem with help doc activation for Microsoft Windows Vista with Microsoft Internet Explorer 7. 7897 - Added documentation for the MSAGDM Converter. 4545 - ESC key now simulates a right mouse button click (not including bringing up the viewer popup menu).

5719 - New command line options to enable stereo graphics. 6632 - Fixed zoom in/out with the mouse wheel in the Viewer. 6763 - Added module and module-list command line options. 6870 - Make the check for Duplicate Faces (Project Settings) the default setting. 7696 - Added new command line option to force MineSight viewers to use software or OpenGl rendering instead of having to set the registry to do this. 5093 - Replaced Compass menu with MineSight Application menu. MineSight Compass and customized procedures will still be available from the MineSight menu. In addition, other products in the MineSight suite will be available from this menu. 6150 - Added -runas command line option. If you have a full license you can view the appearance of the other flavors of MineSight 3-D using the -runas option. 6763 - Added -module and -module-list options to the MineSight 3-D command line options. Use these options if you want to start MineSight 3-D with a particular license module. 7189 - Fixed distortion of custom procedures in the old Compass menu. The new MineSight menu will not distort the appearance of custom procedures.

Geometry Views 2795 - Allowed Exposed ore and model coding from Geometry View objects. 5796 - Fixed problem of geomview object loses the cutoff item style when the cutoff item is refreshed. Grid 4945 - Fixed viewer grid to always be on top of everything else. Import/Export 2376 - Added shifting to DXF import. 5821 - DXF import now ignores spline control points on an ACAD PLINE. Labels 8062 Allow labels (except Fixed) to be created in Geometry View objects. 8083 Changed to not create empty labels when converting forward and upright labels to fixed (a fixed label is created for non-empty lines only). LGOs 4920 - Allow for importing to LGO all geometry a folder or geometry object. 6383 Added ability to re-compute the bounding boxes for all the surfaces in the LGO View. Materials 5810 - Added Point material to default materials Model Views 1690 - New option to Compute grades shells showing block outline. 2053 - New option to contour grade value from Model Views. 5887 - Added the display of the Model View range limits as a bounding box. 7679 - Fixed Model View display limits on refresh if PCF size becomes smaller. 7700 - Fixed Model View grade shell limit. Values were not always inclusive. Model Views - Coding 3086 - In Model View coding, Changed "Code as Waste" to "Code as" dropdown box with values of: 1) Ore; 2) Waste as inverted partial; 3) Waste in Increasing Direction; 4) Waste in Decreasing Direction.

3144 - Added Partials File output from Model View Coding. 3118 - Added option to overwrite model codes in Geometry Sets. 3134 - Model and DH Coding from polygons now report unresolved blocks/intervals with plane location.

Model View - Contour 6781 Add option to contour model values along block outlines. MSIP 3136 - Added option to IP Tool Cut Design to assign attribute values with element attributes on Geometry to cut or Import multiple. 3672 - Allowed solids to be used as 3D cuts against GSM models in IP. 3719 - Added option to display cuts as extruded solids to IP Tool Cut Designer. 4047 - Added the batchReserves module that allows scripts to access reserves when outside of the IP tool. 5191 - The IP scripts, ip-label.py and ip-accum.py, now have swell factor options for waste tonnage and volume. 5929 - IP Tool now shows path (relative to the project resources directory) for Model View selection in Area Tab. 6808 - Disabled the selection of Elements from an IP set for Attributed Geometry Edit. 8044 - Fixed crash in IP with partials mapping, then autorecomputing reserves. 8061 - Fixed YZ swap error when getting IP geometry. 8228 - Improperly formed date attributes should result in a default date being stored and not a failed save. Partials 5575 - Added option to output integer partials in free format to Generate Partials Tool. 5954 - Corrected problem with rounding in real partials in Generate Partials Tool. Period Maps 6406 - Changed to make Period Maps Tool more robust when making multiple periods on a single Apply. Pit Expansion 4346 - Allow slots for inward expansions in Pit Expander Tool. 5214 - In Pit Expander Tool, corrected problem with changing max width with previously used slot lead line. 5427 - In Pit Expansion Tool, slots will now extend indefinitely when the end is reached. 6066 - Added a cancel button to disable exit confirmation. 6385 - Added button to clear the current Model View selection. 6584 - Correct problem when switching a Parameter Set on a working pit that contains Roads and/or Slots. 6805 - Fixed slot smoothing to not produce sharp angles. 8081 - Corrected problem with road gates moving after editing the same toe multiple times. Plotting 4544 - Fixed Area listing to reflect area changes in Plot Layout editor. 4866 - Enhanced Legend properties dialog behavior. 5838 - Added cancel option for plotting. 6190 - Added a new text line width factor to the plot settings dialog. 8063 - Fixed plotting to HPGL2.

Query 6068 - Query selection changed to report the plane of the selection. Scripts 6142 - Fixed IP-LABEL.PY to automatically compress labels when turning off display options. 6159 - Added "-runas" command line option. 3291 - minesight_info.py: report environment variables required for MineSight. 6980 - em_material.py: List Objects associated with specific Material. 7134 - Added sample script to illustrate the grail.ms3d.selectionbuffer module. 7126 - Added sample script (em-project.py) to illustrate the grail.ms3d.project module. 3291 - New script minesight-info.py to display information about the installed MineSight software and your computer. Solid Intersector 7770 - Fixed solid intersector when solids contained duplicate faces. 7771 - Fixed solid intersector to not unnecessary split coplanar triangles. 7723 - Fixed Intersect Solids problem when reconstructing final solids that are fully coincident. Texture Surfaces Tool 5266 - Changed the texture surface tool to display 4 decimal places for better accuracy. 6272 - Fixed crash when reducing a texture from 24 bit color to 8 bit palletized color. Triangulation 7766 - Fixed tolerance problem when triangulating nearly co-linear close points. 7683 - Fixed to avoid an infinite loop case. 7701 - Fixed to handle larger data sets. True Thickness Tool 7933 - Corrected problem with use of DH Views that have omitted. 7966 - Prevent the selection of the items and materials folder. 6562 - Add option to keep open polyline. 8124 - Added SDIP explanation to the TTHK documentation. Walkthrough Tool 5862 - Fixed walkthrough tool to not allow camera target and camera position to be the same point.

Other Product Release Notes - Dec 07/2007 2007 Update CD installation version
MSDART 6815 - Added a counter option to the Output Options. MSEP 7963 - Corrected problem with parsing schedule files with non-alpha characters in grade names. 7963 - Corrected problem with parsing schedule files with non-alpha characters in grade names. 8178 - MSOPIT Fixed an array-out-of-bounds problem.

8179 - MSOPIT Fixed problem when limits for the design variable were used. 8180 - MSOPIT Corrected problem related to 2D LGs out of bounds. 8248 - MSEPc Fixed to properly open schedule files.

MSGrail General 4436 - Added pointlist smoothing functions smoothaverage(),smoothbezier(), and smoothspline() to the grail.ag library. 5784 - Added grail.images library for access to common Mintec Images in scripts. 7396 - Added grail.mstypes for efficient handling of point, pointlist and face data in MSGRAILs Python extensions. 7760 - Added point_inside_pointlist2d routine to grail.ag. 7761 - Added polygon_check function to grail.ag. 8007 - Add functions pointlistplane and transposematrix to grail.ag 8050 - Fixed missing SafeNET dlls from "grail" directory. This could have caused grail.longhaul to silently fail. 4230 - Added functions to calculate azimuth (get2dazimuth) and dip (getdip) from two points to grail.ag module. MSGrail and MSCompass 5666 - Added cmpsys.itemfromfilelist helper function.

MSGrail and DATA 7201 - Creating semi-transformed labels via MSGe is consistent with grail.data.geometry and MineSight. 4512 - When a path to Geometry MSRs does not exist, it now generates an IOError. 4296 -Increased speed for model access when using strings for a model item name. 6722 - increased speed for MSR access via grail.data.geometry module. 7317 - Fixed addtransformlabel in the Geometry class to allow empty strings as a blank name.

MSGrail and MSIP 3833 - Added better error messages when importing IP or MineSight 3D modules from incorrect location. 7266 - Added convenience function using the python "odbc" module via grail.ip.reslib.

MSGrail Embedded (MSGe) 4270 - Added the ability to query the projects origin via the grail.ms3d.project module. 4745 - Added the ability to filter elements during the grail.ms3d.selectionbuffers get_elements function call. 4751 - The grail.ms3d.datamanagers create_geometry now defaults to a Geometry material. 4967 - The grail.ms3d.datamanagers make_folder now generates an IOError when the folder already exists. 5974 - Added the ability to create forward labels via grail.ms3d.element module. 6342 - Added the ability to determine the original MSR (if any) for any given element within MSGe.

MSGrail and Documentation 4519 - MSGRAIL documentation is now a searchable CHM file found in $ (medexe)\\doc . Documentation will continue to exist in $(medexe)\graildoc. 7988 - agdm module agdmf_from_fl should be agdmfl_from_fl, also agdmf_as_fl should have been agdmfl_as_fl (7988). 8000- grail.data.geometry get transformed label text incorrectly states list, instead of string is returned (8000).

MSLM 7978 - Corrected problem when displaying multiple details windows. MSSP 7921 - Limited number of benches partially minded to five in Define Phases and Vary Phase Parameters by Period. 7967 - Allow for Mining from Multiple Areas. 8028 - Corrected problem with meeting target mill ore requirements in specific cases. 7874 - Allow for changing of PCF at all times. 6099 - Fixed Misc Option setup error caused by importing IOP28=1 or IOP30=1. 6100 - Changed waste matching validation error to a warning. 6338 - Changed to Output direct mill stockpile reclaim into the summary file for spreadsheet / database. 7668 - Changed M821V1 to cap the number of bottom benches by phase by period to 5. Changed M821V1 to use all service hours for the added fleets. 8046 - If not using trucks & shovels, output truck & shovel defaults. 8186 - Fixed a problem with shovel by phase by bench. 8189 - Excel total tons should include stockpile1 tons. 7668 - Changed M821V1 to cap the number of bottom benches by phase by period to 5, and changed M821V1 to use all service hours for the added fleets. 7672 - Added to MSSP Destination Period-end-map filename. Standalone Engines 8122 Union.exe - Added option to read in 3D triangle files. 7716 Union.exe - Cleaned up command line interface. 7717 Union.exe - Fixed a problem with configuring internal modules of the program when running Union with input multiple streams. 7718 Union.exe - Fixed a problem with providing correct triangle orientation of the solids when having multiple output streams. 7719 Union.exe - Fixed a solid intersector problem when assigning shell attributes in SM_MULTIPLE mode when having multi- part solids in group A and B. 8120 - New SolidExpand.exe standalone engine for Solid Expansion. 8259 - New MSCode.exe standalone engine for Coding. 5756 - New Contour.exe standalone engine for Contouring.

Appendix B MineSight Programs, Procedures and Documentation changes since 10-30-2006

Contents:
MineSight Compass Programs MineSight Compass Procedures MineSight Compass Program documentation (PDFs)

MineSight Compass Programs:

bldusr.bat clinc.exe 7554 - Added "-out" option to specify the name of the resulting executable. 6957 - Changed to force a new page for seam total summary. 7052 - Fixed to properly add in bloom when the waste item was missing. 7406 - Added new IOP25 option to ignore topo% and use percentage below original ground for factoring. 6957 - Changed to force a new page for seam total summary.

cloxide.exe

clres.exe

clrpct.exe

7586 - Fixed problem when using 0.1 precision on percentage items. 7785 - Added IOP12=3 to store all neighbors and IOP13=2 to store H:V ratio. 7250 - A subroutine common to all of the Dipper programs was fixed to properly process the end of the row properly. Both \Big and \Huge dipper versions are available. 7258 - Increased the max number of cycles for huge dipper.

clslop.exe DIPPER suite: m717ts.exe, m717v1.exe, m718v1.exe, m718v2.obj, m720v1.exe, m720v2.exe, m720v3.exe, m720v4.exe, m721v1.exe, m721v2.exe, m721v3.exe, m722v1.exe, m723v1.exe, m724v1.exe, m727v1.exe, m728v1.exe,

m729v1.exe, netdip.exe gn508grd.exe

7176 - Added tolerance to include composites on the PF xmin & ymin. 7787 - Added error messages to the output report file. 6549 - Increased assay limit from 5,000 to 20,000. 6613 - Changed check to be against missing not 0, larger field for outputting number filled in, and allow up to 40 items. 6991 - In-house change. 7115 - Changed to report the MineSight License version used to compile with. 7344 - Fixed to use precision when checking for values below item minimum. 7250 - A subroutine common to all of the Dipper programs was fixed to properly process the end of the row properly. 7684 - In-house change. 7258 - Increased max number of cycles for huge dipper. 6638 - Issue with storing second item when using RELEV. 7757 - Calculate the MIK resources at multiple cutoffs 8047 - Changed to exit with an error message if more than 99 items are requested. 7047 - Now recognizes and reports "increased limits" compressed models. 7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum. 8110 - Removed pen number lines in survey files. 7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum. 7059 - Changed to display an error message and stop if the max number of intervals is exceeded. 7205 - Fixed error filling gaps when -ai- item has insufficient precision. 7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum. 7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum.

gnclass.exe gndhmin.exe gnfill.exe

libusr.lib

m102v1.exe

m104ts

m110v1.exe m140v1.exe

m201v1.exe

m202v1.exe

m205v1.exe

m208rp.exe

7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum. 7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum. 7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum. 7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum. 6113 - Fixed formatting for large coordinates. 7344 - Changed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum. 7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum. 8105 - Increased input line size to 1024 characters. 7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum. 7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum. 7847 - Fixed to properly derive the midpoint of composite intervals for drillholes of length smaller than composite intervals. 7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum. 7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum. 7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum. 7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum. 7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum. 7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum. 7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum.

m208v1.obj

m217v2.exe

m219v1.exe

m500bhs.exe

m500v1.exe

m501sm.exe

m501v1.exe

m502v1.exe

m505v1.exe

m508rp.exe

m508v1.obj

m517v1.exe

m522v1.exe

m523v1.exe

m524v1.exe

7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum. 7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum. 6989 - Added new option, IOP15 to weight by the inverse. 7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum. 7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum. 7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum. 6001 - Added PAR10 to set a minimum tolerance to use a composite in interpolation. 6638 - Fixed to properly store the second item in the case when relative coordinates are used and the same composite item is interpolated by different methods (both POLYG and IDW). 6001 - Added PAR10 to set a minimum tolerance to use a composite in interpolation. 6638 - Fixed to properly store the second item in the case when relative coordinates are used and the same composite item is interpolated by different methods (both POLYG and IDW). 6001 - Added PAR10 to set a minimum tolerance to use a composite in interpolation. 6638 - Fixed to properly store the second item in the case when relative coordinates are used and the same composite item is interpolated by different methods (both POLYG and IDW). 6638 - Fixed to properly store the second item in the case when relative coordinates are used and the same composite item is interpolated by different methods (both POLYG and IDW). 6638 - Fixed to properly store the second item in the case when relative coordinates are used and the same composite item is interpolated by different methods (both POLYG and IDW). 7757 - Calculate the MIK resources at multiple cutoffs. 6109 - Added options for octant/quadrant interpolation, added PAR12, added IOP10 and changed search from "rectangular" to "elliptical". 6906 - Fixed for cuts that have a period label at a negative angle.

m601v1.exe m608v1.exe m610v2.exe

m612sm.exe

m617v1.exe

m620v1.exe

m620v2.exe

m621v1.exe

m624v1.exe

m624mik.exe

m640v1.exe m709s1.exe

m724v1.exe m729v1.exe m819v1.exe

7254 - Increased format for the contents of a B-file. 7261 - Changed to correctly dimension the bench array. 7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum. 7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum. 7344 - Fixed to use the precision when checking for values below an item's minimum. 6955 - New program, Uniform Conditioning. 6997 - Changed epsilon from 0.0001 to 0.00001, and started new pg for totals when reporting details. 6998 - If ore zone code is missing from zone input file, then use the default ore sg from the panel rather than from the 1st zone in the zone input file. 7356 - Added option (IOP18=2) to weight insitu grades by diluted tonnage. 7357 - Added option to not waste a block when bin has grade that is higher than the grade in the next bin (PAR>0). 6997 - Changed epsilon from 0.0001 to 0.00001, and started new pg for totals when reporting details. 7041 - Fixed bug for waste type reporting when mixed case types (forced all to upper case). 7356 - Added option (IOP18=2) to weight insitu grades by diluted tonnage. 7357 - Added option to not waste a block when bin has grade that is higher than the grade in the next bin (PAR>0).

m819v2.exe

m819v3.exe msuc.exe

mtres.exe

mtsum.exe

MineSight Compass Procedures:

cmpoxi.dat cmpres.dat consec.dat grdslp.dat 7407 - Added new IOP25 option. 6958 - Removed the sort on MS3D partials, and changed the topo option. 7243 - Fixed to properly set IOPs 18 and 19. 7786 - Added option to store all neighbors and horizontal:vertical ratio.

gsmres.dat modfil.dat p10002.dat

6905 - Added pop-up help to the first panel. 6614 - Changed to allow up to 40 items. 7361 - Fixed BHS project initialized with strange elevations. 6150 - Removed SRV project option. 7039 - Trivial panel wording change regarding max length of dummy intervals. 7453 - Changed item label on PANEL13 to look for file 8, not file 9. 8018 - Added new IOP15 option to tread weights as TF. 4464 - Updated to include picklists of more commonly used acQuire compound definitions. 6045 - Fixed a problem with using the extra collar virtual field for HOLEID. 7604 - Added Best Assay and Corp Best Assay compound defs. 7451 - Added in a parameter for additional cmd line parameter, and exclude project, add in DH list from file. 7619 - Updated to allow users to enter SQL statements. 6953 - Added a check that you can't fill in in the NDH without having NCMP filled in. 7152 - Removed the "partials from MS" toggle as its no longer needed. 8049 - Increased waste/ore cutoff item to 10. 7758 - New procedure for multiple cutoffs option in m624mik.exe. (replaces p624mk.dat. 6956 - New procedure for Uniform Condition (goes with msuc.exe). 7152 - Removed the "partials from MS" toggle as its no longer needed. 7650 - Changed the columns being sorted from m667v1 output. 6991 - Added new procedure psuc.dat. 6991 - Added new procedure psuc.dat.

p20101.dat p52401.dat p60801.dat p60802.dat

pacq2med.dat pacq2med.met

pintrp.dat

pitres.dat

pmik01.dat psuc.dat smures.dat ug1res.dat compass.mnu EngineeringOpenPit2005.mnu

Geology2005.mnu GSM2005.mnu MSOPS2005.mnu UG2005.mnu

6991 - Added new procedure psuc.dat. 6991 - Added new procedure psuc.dat. 6991 - Added new procedure psuc.dat. 6991 - Added new procedure psuc.dat.

MineSight Compass Documentation (PDFs):

M200.pdf 6965 - Updated an error message in M205V1 doc. 8149 - Add note about how to evaluate log to base 10 to M208RP. 7422, 6596, 7431 - Updates to m524v1. 8149 - Add note about how to evaluate log to base 10 to M508RP. 7210 - Updated BLOCK LIMIT to 999 in M620V1 & M624V1. 6991 - Added MSUC program documentation. 6989 - Added new IOP15 option to weight by the inverse to M608V1. 8149 - Add note about how to evaluate log to base 10 to M612RP. 6001 - Add new PAR10 option to M620V1, M620V2, M621V1. 7757 - Add new CMD=CUTGS option for multiple cutoffs to M624MIK. 7790 - Updated info about model limits to INTRO-600. 7470 - Updated M724V1 doc. 7501 - Formatting fixes in M720V2 and M720V4-intro. 7578 - Cosmetic tidying. 7579 - Add info re: "big" & "huge" dipper limits in TEC-700 and updated M718V1 & M718V2 debug sections for "big" & "huge" series. 6554 - Checked links in m500 section. 7470 - Checked links in m700 section. 6991 - Added MSUC to the list. 7757 - Updated links in m600 section (due to M624MIK change). 6109 - M640V1, added octant/quadrant interpolation.

m500.pdf

M600.pdf

m700.pdf

TableOfContents.pdf

vbm.pdf

Appendix C MineSight Installation Instructions

This CD can be used to UPDATE or make a NEW installation of MineSight . As an UPDATE, existing files are overwritten if they match files on the CD. New files are added to the directories and old files with no matching CD files are left untouched. As a NEW installation, all MineSight files will be written into the selected directory. ====================== I N S T R U C T I O N S ====================== In order for all installation options to work properly you will need to log on as a user that has permissions to install software and system drivers. This will generally be a user with Administrator permissions. BACKUP your existing MineSight installation. Do this especially if you intend to install over a previous version as certain outdated folders (such as \Dipper, \Helpdoc, \graildoc) will be cleared before installing the newer folders. CHECK YOUR DISK SPACE. NEW installations require a total of 1020 MB of disk space. UPDATE installations require less disk space since previously installed files are not added but rather updated. SAVE SITE-SPECIFIC FILES. Skip this step if you are making a NEW installation. Otherwise, if you have site-specific files (e.g., plot.inf, digit.inf, medlist.bat) copy them to a save directory. START THE INSTALLATION. Normally, simply loading the CD will automatically start the installation. The installation can also be started in any of the following ways: Click Start, click Run, and enter d:\install\setup. From Windows Explorer: double click on file d:\install\setup From DOS: at the command prompt, enter d:\install\setup. where d: is your specific CD drive containing the CD. Click the Next button on the Welcome Screen. Read the License Agreement carefully and click Yes only if you accept the terms. Next, the Information Screen is displayed. Text on the Information Screen also appears as file, \install\ReadMe.txt on the CD. Click the Next button to get past the Information Screen. The next screen allows you to perform one of several different setups. The "Typical" setup installs all MineSight program products except Visualizer and Strategic Planner. The "Custom" setup allows you to include MineSight Visualizer and MineSight Strategic Planner and to omit from the installation certain program products, optional files, or online documentation. The "Visualizer" setup installs only the MineSight Visualizer program and online documentation. The "Network Client Installation" is only for installing system files, shortcuts and registry settings on a network client machine. Prior to selecting this setup type, you must have already performed an installation on the server machine using any of the other setup types. If you are performing a "Network Client Installation", you will be asked to click Browse to locate and select the network server's MineSight folder. You will be required to first map a drive letter to the server before using the browser as this will affect the execution of MineSight .

Next, the install program will ask for the drive and directory in which to install MineSight if you are performing a "Typical", "Custom" or "Visualizer" setup. If you want to change the default installation directory, click the Browse button to select another drive and directory. You will next be given a choice of a program folder in which to put the MineSight icons. The default will be "MineSight", but you can rename this folder or choose to put the icons in an already existing folder. The working directory set up for each of these icons will usually be C:\. You will next be given a choice of where you wish to set environment variables. Setting the environment variables in the User section is ideal for a single computer user. Setting these variables in the System section allows multiple users of the same computer to use the same System environment settings providing that these variable names are not also defined in the User section. Should the same environment variable be defined in both sections, the User environment variable will take precedence. Clicking Next will start the actual installation process. After your chosen installation is complete, a few things will occur in the background. Environment variables and Registry settings will be set or updated with current information. The MineSight Grail installation will then be performed. Unless Python was already installed, three separate Python installations will occur in succession. In some cases, the Python installer may prompt a popup dialog asking you to restart the computer now. Please click CANCEL; otherwise, the installation will not be able to perform it's cleanup tasks. Release notes for Grail Installation Instructions will follow the MineSight Installation Instructions. The .NET2 installation will occur next. The wizard will skip the .NET2 installation if it detects that .NET2 was already installed. Approximately 255 MB of disk space is required to install .NET2. The .NET2 installer requires Microsoft Windows Installer 3 as a prerequisite which usually is already installed. If Microsoft Windows Installer 3 is missing, you may execute WindowsInstaller-KB893803-v2-x86.exe from the CD found in the folder, \install\dotNET (this installer requires 12 MB of disk space). For "Typical" setups and (if selected in) "Custom" setups, the MineSight Activity Planner and MineSight Data Analyst installations will follow. The MineSight Activity Planner installer will invoke the SQL Server Native Client installer and the Crystal Reports installer. The SQL Server Native Client installer supports 32 bit machines only. If you wish to install on a 64 bit machine, we provide an "sqlncli_x64.msi" installer located on the CD in folder, \install\MSAP\sqlncli. The SQL Server Native Client is used only for supporting the "Import Resources" tool of MineSight Activity Planner. If selected in "Custom" setup, MineSight Strategic Planner will install next. Next, the Sentinel key driver is installed. If a prior version already exists, it will first be uninstalled. All Sentinel USB keys will need to be removed prior to the installation (and uninstallation if applicable). In some cases, the Sentinel Installation may prompt a popup dialog asking whether to reboot now or wait until later. Please respond LATER; otherwise, the Minesight Installation will not be able to perform it's cleanup tasks. Approximately 83 MB of disk space is required to install the driver. Once the MineSight Setup window announces 'InstallShield Wizard Complete', you may select YES to restart the computer; otherwise, ensure you restart the computer at a later time. To complete the installation program, click on the Finish button. SENTINEL COMPATIBILITY ISSUES. The Sentinel SuperPro version 7.4.0 key driver we install is developed by SafeNet and is reported to be compatible with all 32 and 64 bit computers with

the exception of the Itanium processor. Upon startup of the MineSight programs, information is obtained from the attached Sentinel hardware key and delivered to the program being executed. Visit the SafeNet website at http://www.safenet-inc.com/support/tech/sentinel.asp for further questions regarding Sentinel driver compatibility and/or downloading. RESETTING ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES. The install program automatically sets the necessary environment variables in either the User or System section as specified above. Environment variables defil, medexe, metlib, PYTHONHOME and PYTHONPATH will be set. The directory you are installing to is assigned to medexe and is appended to the PATH variable. PYTHONHOME is also appended to the PATH variable. If you want to change these environment variables, you may do so using Control Panel\System. One simplified means of setting User environment variables is to import the installation generated registry files, mintec.reg and hoops.reg, residing in the installed \Support subdirectory. After the Administrator grants the user read & execute permissions for these files, log into the user's account and import mintec.reg and hoops.reg by using Regedit or simply by double-clicking the files in Windows Explorer. INSTALLING MINESIGHT STRATEGIC PLANNER. MineSight Strategic Planner should be installed via the "Custom" setup described above. After choosing the destination folder, you should then select the "Strategic Planner" component from the next panel. Each of these three setups will also install the required License Manager, .NET2, and Sentinel driver. This installation of Strategic Planner requires anywhere from 26 MB to 131 MB of disk space depending on preinstalled components. If .NET2 and the Sentinel are not yet installed, an additional 338 MB of disk space is required. INSTALLING ADOBE READER. If you have chosen an install option that includes documentation, you will need the Adobe Reader to read files with the .pdf extension. If you do not have this installed, we do provide an installer in the \install\acroread directory on the CD (requiring about 55 MB of disk space) which can be started in any of the following ways: Click Start, click Run, and enter d:\install\acroread\setup. From Windows Explorer: double click on file d:\install\acroread\setup From DOS: at the command prompt, enter d:\install\acroread\setup. where d: is your specific CD drive containing the CD. SITE-SPECIFIC CONSIDERATIONS. Retrieve any site-specific files you saved earlier. Copy the proper site-specific plotting programs to m122v1.exe and plotv1.exe. To determine the proper version of M122xx and PLOTxx, check page 122-3 in the M120 Programs section of the documentation (e.g., if you have an HP plotter that doesn't use HPGL/2, copy m122hp.exe to m122v1.exe and plothp.exe to plotv1.exe). ENVIRONMENT AND PATH. The environment variables necessary to run MineSight are MEDEXE, METLIB and DEFIL and the path. These environment variables should already be properly set by the installation. An explanation of these variables is as follows. MEDEXE should be set to C:\winexe or the path to the subdirectory where the MineSight executable files exist on your system. METLIB should be set to C:\winexe\metlib\ or the path to the subdirectory where the MineSight procedure files exist on your system.

PYTHONHOME should be set to C:\python22 or, the path to the subdirectory where the Python executable files exist on your system. DEFIL should be set to .\defil or just . (a single period). The PATH variable must include the path to the subdirectory where the MineSight executable programs are located. HOOPS SETTINGS IN THE REGISTRY. The installation automatically creates the HOOPS folder in the registry. The installation automatically uses the settings found in hoops_opengl.reg for better video performance. If you are experiencing video problems executing the MineSight software, please import registry file, hoops_msw.reg, found in the installed \Support subdirectory by using Regedit or by double-clicking it under Windows Explorer. Should you manually need to create the HOOPS folder in the registry, run the registry-editing program by selecting Start Run REGEDT32. There are three variables to set in the registry. Note that only the logged-in user will have the HOOPS environment installed. The HOOPS_PICTURE variable is required: Select the HKEY_CURRENT_USER on Local Machine by highlighting the HKEY_CURRENT_USER folder. Choose the menu option, Edit Add Key. Enter HOOPS for the key; enter REG_SZ for the class. Click on the HOOPS entry to open the folder. Choose Edit - Add Value. Enter HOOPS_PICTURE for the value name. The type will be already entered as REG_SZ. Click on OK. When the window opens asking for a value string, enter msw/window0 or opengl/window0, depending on which driver you want to use. Close the registry editor. The HOOPS_FONT_DIRECTORY points at the system that is examined by MineSight 3-D for valid fonts to use in the graphics viewer. Normally this should be set to your Windows font directory: hoops_font_directory: REG_SZ: c:\winnt\fonts The HOOPS_DRIVER_OPTIONS sets how much of the screen is taken up by MineSight MGI programs, e.g., M650ED. The default setting should be: hoops_driver_options: REG_SZ:subscreen=(-.9,.9,-.9,.9) This takes up 90% of the screen, and is calculated from the center of the screen. For 100% of the screen, set it to: hoops_driver_options:REG_SZ:subscreen=(-1.0,1.0,-1.0,1.0) Change it by clicking on the HOOPS folder, then highlighting the hoops_driver_options setting and choosing Edit - string. Save your changes. The HOOPS_TEXT_FONT sets the font used in the MGI programs. No default is set for this, so the system default font will be used. To set the variable use: hoops_text_font:REG_SZ:name=system default

Other choices for the font are: sansserif, roman, typewriter, stroked, Newfield, Enfield, Brooktondale or Kuma. ONLINE HELP SETTINGS. Microsoft Internet Explorer is used for displaying online help and thus is subject to Internet Explorer security restriction settings. If you receive a notice that a file is restricted from showing active content and are presented with a click here to see options message, please select the option to allow blocked content; otherwise, the online help Index & Search capabilities may be hindered.

If you have any questions about this installation, contact Mintec Technical Support.

MineSight Grail Installation Instructions

This wizard installs MineSight Grail and supporting Python software tools. If an older version of Python is detected, it will first be uninstalled and then the newer Python version from the CD will be installed. ====================== I N S T R U C T I O N S ====================== In order for all setup options to work properly you will need to be logged on as a user that has permissions to install software and system drivers. This will generally be a user with Administrator permissions. CHECK YOUR DISK SPACE. This installation requires about 58 MB of disk space for Grail and an additional 44 MB if Python was not already installed. START THE INSTALLATION. Normally, this installation is started by the MineSight installation. The installation can also be started in any of the following ways: Click Start, click Run, and enter d:\install\Grail\setup. From Windows Explorer: double click on file d:\install\Grail\setup From DOS: at the command prompt, enter d:\install\Grail\setup. where d: is your specific CD drive containing the CD. Upon clicking Next at the Information screen, the following screen allows you to select either a "Custom", "Network Client", "Network Server" or "Typical" setup. The "Typical" setup installs all MineSight Grail & Python files. The "Custom" setup allows you to omit certain components. Both of these types of setups installs files and updates registry settings. For a client/server network installation, use the "Network Server" setup to first install the required files on the server machine (a "Network Server" setup actually functions the same as a "Typical" setup). Then use the "Network Client" setup for each client machine to complete the installation. The "Network Client" setup provides a screen requiring you to browse the network to locate the Python directory previously installed on the server. You will be required to first map a drive letter to the server before using the browser as this will affect the execution of MineSight . The "Network Client" setup then updates the client machine's registry without copying any data files. PYTHON INSTALLATION. Three different Python installations will occur. Unless Python has already been installed, you will be required to install all three installations. If an older version of Python's Interpreter was previously installed, it will automatically be uninstalled as it will not be compatible with MineSight Grail. If an older version of Python's Win32 Extensions is already installed, you will be prompted to first uninstall it. Please do so as it too may not be compatible with MineSight Grail. You will not be asked to uninstall Python if the version you currently have is newer. In some cases, a Python Installation may prompt a popup dialog asking whether to reboot now or wait until later. Please click CANCEL; otherwise, the MineSight Grail Installation will not be able to perform its cleanup tasks.

To complete the installation program, click on the Finish button. SETTING ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES. The wizard will automatically set the necessary environment in the User Variables section of the Environment Variable settings. If you want these as system environment variables, they can be easily moved via System in the Control Panel.

If you have any questions about this installation, contact Mintec Technical Support.