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Drawing Tools:
- Create 3D points, lines, polygons and text (crestlines, toe lines, blast boundaries etc)
- Measurement tool (calculate dimensions)
- Layer system for viewing, grouping and managing data
- Create north marker
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Basic Blast Design:
- Text, DXF import/export
- Creating blast templates (loading designs, blast patterns, settings etc)
- Managing hole types (front row, production, touch coal etc)
- Design data (drill diameters, burden, spacing)
- Creating blastholes and patterns
- Edit blasthole collar locations and labels
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Blasthole Charging:
- Develop basic loading rules for charging design process (hole length, diameter, angle, type)
- Loading rules can have multiple decks, initiators and displayed graphically
- Specify one variable deck so rule can be applied to holes of different lengths
- Save loading rules as templates for future blast designs
- Apply loading factors to account for known variations in blasthole diameter
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Non-Electric Initiation Design:
- Create Exel initiation designs using common surface and in-hole delays
- Cord initiation designs
- Define initiation point(s) and add dummy holes to simplify tie up
- Apply auto hook ups to a regular pattern by selecting and echelon and control row surface delay
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EBS Initiation Design:
- Create initiation designs based on electronic blasting systems
- Develop logging plans and upload data from loggers and blasters
- Set individual time offsets within and between holes
- Automate timing by setting common intra and inter row delays
- Automate timing using timing tools
- Create logging paths and plans
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Timing Calculations:
- Functions for checking and improvement of initiation design
- Visualize timing tool
- Angle of initiation tool
- First movement tool
- Burden relief tool
- Time envelope tool to check MIC
- Quantities report for IS requirements
- EBS functions and field reports
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Surfaces:
- Create surfaces from survey data and register surfaces
- Expand and render surfaces
- Create data set from a surface, create contours on a surface
- Move objects to a surface, create surface intersections
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Volumes:
- Volume wizard to calculate generic volumes from standard bench designs using survey data
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Managing Surveys:
- Survey point tool to plot survey stations or other equipment
- Laser wizard to import survey data
- Resection calculator
- Boretrack wizard and hole deviation tool to manage boretrack survey data
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Advanced Blast Design:
- Creating a baseline and adding rows/pattern to the baseline
- Profile tool for management of front row burden
- Mark out tool to adjust collar locations relevant to surrounding holes
- Import and visualise profile trace information and automate the identification of strata intercepts.
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Advanced Blasthole Charging:
- Application of automatic backfill for overdrilled holes
- More conditions available for loading rules (including water)
- Apply loading rules based on strata intercepts
- Use of loading tables to create multiple variable decks
- Loading tool for viewing and editing blastholes
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Prediction Tools:
- Time envelope tool to check MIC and vibration
- Fragmentation prediction based on rock parameters and loading design
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BlastIQ™
- Export plans, loading rules, tolerances, measurements, and surface tie-up designs to BlastIQ™
- Import plans and measurements from BlastIQ™
- Import deck measurements and sync with BlastIQ™
- Manage BlastIQ™ blast information, including firing time, tags, KPIs, and Notes
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Advanced Design Tools:
- Section tool the creation of section views through an part of a design
- Batter wizard
- Hole measurement tool to measure distance between two holes at any point
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Blast Management:
- Hole table to view and manage hole properties
- Populate hole table by direct data input or from data imports
- Input data related to blasthole condition to drive application of loading rules (eg. water, temperature, depth)
- Exclusion zone tool to estimate required exclusion zone based on blast parameters
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Reporting:
- A range of pre-loaded reports for various activities relating to drill and blast
- Report designer for advanced users to create custom reports
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Add-ons:
- 24-seam intercept for use of more strata horizons
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AVM™
- Advanced Vibration Management™ (AVM™) online platform enabling integration from blast design to execution
- Capture and store results of vibration modelling and monitoring including seed wave analysis
- For more information about AVM™, click here.
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