BlastIQ™ Underground Desktop - Grouping blasts

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Application:

BlastIQ™ Underground Desktop

Version:

1.4.1 and above

KBA Summary:

This KBA will explain how users can add a blast group label to new or existing blasts using BlastIQ™ Underground Desktop.

Introduction

In underground drill and blast design and execution, it is helpful to be able to group blast plans into a category to help identify and organise them. For example, blasts may be grouped into a stope (Diagram 1) or each sub-level cave ring will be grouped to the drive that they are located in.

Diagram 1: An example showing how blasts might be grouped into stopes.

 

This article will explain how to:

  1. Customise the plan group name for your BlastIQ™ Underground site.

  2. Add a plan group label to a new or existing blast in BlastIQ™ Underground Desktop.

Customise plan group name

To customise the plan group name for your BlastIQ™ Underground site, you will require admin privileges. Then:

  1. Go to BlastIQ™ Admin. 
  2. Navigate to Blast Control  > General, where the current "Plan Group Name" is displayed
  3. If you wish to change the "Plan Group Name", click on the Edit button.
  4. Replace the value in the input box with the name to be used at your site.
  5. Click on Save to save these changes.
  6. Open or re-start BlastIQ™ Underground Desktop to see these changes in the application.
Using plan group labels in BlastIQ™ Underground Desktop

To add a plan group label to a plan:

  1. Ensure that the plan is loaded in the BlastIQ™ Underground Desktop. You can either import a new plan via the importer or download an existing plan via the the BlastIQ™ button in the Project tab.
  2. Open the plan data table via the folder icon on the Project Manager.
  3. In the data table, there is a new input field where you can:
    1. Click on the field to see a list of existing plan group labels to select from.
    2. Type to start filtering the list of existing labels, or
    3. Start typing in the input box to create a new label.
  4. Once you have either selected an existing label, or created a new one, save the changes by pushing the plan to BlastIQ™. 
  5. Once the plan has successfully been pushed to BlastIQ™, the plan label will be greyed out and unable to be edited.
  6. A plan group label has been applied to the blast.
     
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