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6.19.1 SHOTPlus™ Release Notes

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6.19.1

SHOTPlus™

Surface

Production

August, 2024

Version 6.19.1 of SHOTPlus™, first offered to users on Monday, 5th August 2024.
A notification will appear on start-up in SHOTPlus™ once the update is available.
For further information on updating SHOTPlus™, please contact the BlastIQ™ Support Team via support.blastiq.com.

  Important

Update to SHOTPlus™ Support Policy

There has been an update to the support policy for SHOTPlus™. Support will be provided for the current version, with a buffer of 60 days for the previous version to allow time to update.

For more information on this update, please refer to this article.

  New

  1. Users are now able to import georeferenced JPG files.
  2. Users are now able to filter profile traces in the Hole table and Profile logging tool1.
  3. Total number of connected primers now displays on BID label for WebGen™ products.
  4. Arrows in the "First movement" visualisations are now colour coded based on their bearing.
  5. BlastIQ™ users are now able to copy plan tags from existing plans to new ones within SHOTPlus™.2
  6. Users can now export points and polygons to a KMZ file.3
  7. When using EBS timing tools, users are now able to adjust the available intervals from arrows on the toolbar.

  Information

    1. A "Filter profile data" checkbox has been added to the Hole table and Profile logging tool which enables users to filter for outliers in their datasets. When the filter is turned on, a median filter is applied which decompresses the x-axis and improves readability of the trace.
    2. For more information on how to copy tags please refer to this KBA
    3. Users must have a site transform defined in 'Edit' > 'Blast Properties' > 'Site coordinate system'.

  Improved

  1. Users are now able to export Excel load sheets for selected holes only.
  2. The frequency of "Angle of Initiation" annotations have been adjusted to improve readability on high resolution monitors.
  3. When attempting to transform holes with "actuals" data, a notification message is triggered.
  4. EBS field logging report has been updated for i-kon™ EBS systems.
  5. Improved handling of unsupported BlastIQ™ loading rules.
  6. Improved validation for cBlast file import.
  7. Software libraries have been updated.
  8. Server timeout notification has been improved.
  9. Old printing functionality has been deprecated across some tools.
  10. Printing functionality has been further refined across view and analysis tools. 1
  11. Users can opt to display measurements through the stemming zone in the Row View tool. 2
  12. Grid display has been added to the Row View tool.
  13. EBS logger reports now only display loggers that are in use.
  14. When adding a staggered pattern the first row will be square. 3
  15. The advanced EBS tools no longer uses floating point numbers for calculations, instead now apply integers. 4
  16. "Loaded Holes" in Tools > Find holes has been renamed to "Holes with actual loading".

  Information

    1. For more information on how printing functionality has been improved, please refer to this KBA.
    2. A checkbox is now available in the Row View tool to enable or disable this functionality.
    3. The first row is defined as the row aligned with the baseline, not the row at the front of the blast.
    4. For further information on EBS integers in SHOTPlus™ please refer to this KBA.

  Fixed

  1. Pyrotechnic ties displayed at primer location when "Grade point" is unchecked via Visibility Manager.
  2. Text import column headers were not refreshing after "click and drag" interaction.
  3. SHOTPlus™ was incorrectly mapping water measurements on cBlast import.
  4. Hole loading visualisations were not displaying properly.
  5. Holes imported from cBlast were not flagging as "manually edited", triggering the reapplication of loading rules.
  6. The Encoding Path tool now notifies the user if there are invalid sequence paths.
  7. Users were unable to enter loading tolerances that were within the tolerance limit when imperial units were applied.
  8. When using the "add rows to holes" tool, hole bearing was not updating when requested.
  9. Inconsistencies with how loading tables were being applied in strata loading design have been fixed.
  10. Duplicate Simple Chinese translations were causing text import and export functions to fail.
  11. The Row View report was not displaying actual deviation data.
  12. Error message when exporting Type 2 loading rules has been fixed.
  13. "Row length of baseline" option was not refreshing the blast shape polygon.
  14. Blast exclusion tool was using the the design burden and not the actual burden.
  15. Error messages have now been rephrased and reformatted to clearly detail exporting errors surrounding Holes and Loading rules with incorrect products.
  16. Loading rules containing packaged explosives are no longer flagged after the holes are emptied.
  17. Exporting a blank plan to BlastIQ™ was causing an unhandled exception.
  18. Exporting using IREDES v1.2 schema did not honour the "Use Hole ID as Name" selection.
  19. Surface delay times were being calculated incorrectly for dummy holes.
  20. When using the pattern layout tools, the H and V keyboard shortcuts were not locking the pattern to horizontal or vertical respectively.
  21. The custom area scale option text field was disabled, limiting the custom print area functionality.
  22. In SHOTPlus™ Standard, when a monitoring point was blank in the Time Envelope tool, using the undo function was causing the program to crash unexpectedly.
  23. In some cases, regional format settings were causing SHOTPlus™ to multiply Z values by ten when using the Transform Coordinates tool.
  24. Critical density calculations were not working properly for angled holes loaded with configured variable density bulk product.
  25. A mismatch between EBS actuals and loading actuals was causing an error when using the Time Envelope.
  26. Users were unable to print from the Profile Tool Workbox when face burden triangles were displayed.
  27. Exclusion area tool was not refreshing front row burdens.
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