- SHOTPlus™ Variant:
- Surface
- Version:
- 6.8.1 and above
- KBA Summary:
- This Knowledge base article describes how users can delete holes outside of a polygon entity.
Introduction
Blastholes outside of a polygon entity can be deleted in two ways in SHOTPlus.
Delete All Holes Outside of a Polygon
To delete all blastholes outside of a polygon:
- Draw a polygon, or select an existing polygon, that encompases the holes that are not to be deleted.
- Select the polygon so that the grips are highlighted in orange (locked layers) or black (unlocked layers).
- Select to Tools > Holes > Delete Holes Outside Polygon.
- Holes that are visible (as set by the visibility and layer managers) and located outside the polygon will be deleted.
Delete Selected Holes Outside of a Polygon
To delete selected holes outside of a polygon:
- Draw a polygon, or select an existing polygon, that encompases the holes that are not to be deleted.
- Select the polygon so that the grips are highlighted in orange (locked layers) or black (unlocked layers).
- Expand the Filter and Search window.
- Expand the Search tree.
- Select Within selected polys.
- Select Select - the holes inside of the selected polygon will be selected.
- Select Invert - the holes outside of the selected polygon will be selected.
- Select Filter selected - the holes inside the selected polygon will be filtered and the holes outside of the polygon will remain selected.
- While holding down Ctrl use the mouse to deselect any blastholes outside of the polygon that should not be deleted.
- Once complete, press Delete or right-click and select Delete.
- Remove the filter by selecting the Filter selected holes button from the main toolbar.
- Holes inside the original polygon, and any holes deselected will remain.
