6.6.2 SHOTPlus™ Release Notes

SHOTPlus™ Variant:

Surface

Version #:

6.6.2

Release Date:

3 August 2021

New Features

• Graphical Charging Rules ¹

• Exclusion Zone Calculator Tool

Exclusion Zone Calculator KBA Link

• Backfill decks (‘Updated design’ and ‘Actual’) are now represented separately in Table View, under ‘Hole loading’.
• Added ability to export ‘Updated design’ loading from the SHOTPlus™ text exporter.
• Added the ability to clear ‘Actual Drill Locations’ within SHOTPlus™ ².
• Plans and holes with loading rules containing packaged explosives can now be exported to BlastIQ™ ³.

Improvements

• Polygons - Text tag for polygons moved to be in line with the polygon.
• WebGen™ 100 - Include .csv export.
• Environmental prediction - Prevent 0 m/s velocity from being entered into vibration monitor ‘monte carlo setup’ dialog box.
• Text Import - Implemented warning where deck lengths, imported via text importer, exceed the measured hole length.
• Added warning when trying to import a loading design with missing decks e.g., decks one and three, via the text importer.
• Update in-hole initiation design when importing an updated loading design from BlastIQ™, and not automatically reapplying loading rules.
• Improved check for existing Drill Actuals in BlastIQ™.
• Estimate deck length when deck loading is imported via the text importer and length is not provided.
• Ignore blank bulk explosive decks imported from BlastIQ™ when building 'Actual' loading.
• Update text importer and text exporter to standardise available fields and order of parameters.
• Backfill decks are now classified as a specific deck type for text imports and exports.
• Updated WebGen™ ICD.
• Implemented minimum validation for bulk product decks when importing ‘Design’ or ‘Actual’ loading via the text importer. Must now supply at least:
  • Deck No.
  • Product.
  • Length, horizon, weight, or any combination of the three.
• Implemented minimum validation for packaged product decks when importing ‘Design’ or ‘Actual’ loading via the text importer. Must now supply at least:
  • Deck No.
  • Product.
  • Length, horizon, quantity, or any combination of the three.
• Increase the number of decimal places used for converting between metric and imperial for coordinate transforms.
• Blank cells are now ignored for defined columns when using the SHOTPlus™ text importer.
• Added information pop-ups to the BlastIQ™ Export dialog box.
• Clarified warnings when exporting plans to BlastIQ™ ¹.
• Variable deck indicators are no longer shown for manually edited holes.
• Improved validation for Resource List matching between SHOTPlus™ and BlastIQ™.
• SHOTPlus™ now validates that all backfill decks imported via the text importer are an inert product.
• Align organisational trees for Text Import and Text Export fields.
• Changed the hole ordering field for the Default Dip Sheet Report.
• Added a confirmation prompt when deleting a blast via the BlastIQ™ interface in SHOTPlus™.
• SHOTPlus™ now validates that all inert decks imported via the text imported are assigned either a deck horizon or a deck length.
• WebGen™ 200 - Product Updates.

• Unhandled Exception - Turning off face triangles in Profile Tool workbox caused an unhandled Exception.
• AVM™ Online Import - Some monitoring point variables were not being set when downloading from AVM™ Online.
• Initiation Rules - Diameter was being incorrectly converted from imperial to metric.
• Filter & Search - Wildcard option was not applying correctly.
• Initiation Rules - EBS offset was not applying when using WebGen™ resources.
• Drill to surface method was not applying correctly when no surface was registered.
• BlastIQ™ Deck Histories - First import was incorrectly displaying reference ID's in some instances.
• Volume Overview Tool - Incorrect calculation when a single row was present.
• WebGen™ - Logging Summary Report - Det and Deck# were not being populated.
• WebGen™ - Encoder path - Multiple encoder paths were incorrectly able to be assigned to the same hole.
• WebGen™ - Enable encoder paths for all charges was not applying correctly.
• WebGen™ - Unhandled exception when changing blaster type from WebGen™ to i-kon™.
• Resources - Certain detonator lead lengths were not being recognised as available in the resource list.
• Text import - Incorrect ‘duplicate hole ID’ warning shown when importing profile log information.
• BlastIQ™ Import - In certain instances BlastIQ™ exception handling was causing SHOTPlus™ to become stuck in a loop.
• Exporting firing data with cosines not reporting correct error.
• Screen refresh issue after using ‘adjust EBS time intervals’ tool.
• Calculations - Holes loaded with packaged explosives incorrectly registered as misfires.
• Profile tool - Charging diagram was not updating to current loading design when using the profile tool.
• Loading rules - All imported Initiation Rules were being shown as Rule No. 0.
• Text export - When exporting 'quantity' property from the text exporter, the number of packages was not being correctly reported.
• In some circumstances, Manually Edited Loading was being adjusted when importing from BlastIQ™.
• Inert decks added in Loading tool were being incorrectly marked as backfill.
• Importing packaged product actuals from BlastIQ™ was replacing existing packaged product decks with Air in some circumstances.
• Holes were incorrectly being highlighted in Analytics View – Hole Depth Variance.
• The variable deck indicator was incorrectly being adjusted for manually edited holes in certain situations.
• ‘Number of Items’ recorded for Packaged Explosives in BlastIQ™ Mobile was not being correctly imported into SHOTPlus™.
• Initiation points with no booster were incorrectly failing validation and preventing plans from being exported to BlastIQ™.
• Unhandled error - When importing plans from BlastIQ™ that contained products not included in the SHOTPlus™ resource list. Error now correctly reported.