Volume Define

Volume Define using Drillholes

Start Designer then logon as Username: Administrator, Password: z.

Go to File > New and create a new database in the MineWorks Designer window.

Click on New button in the Views section and create a new Graphic view.

Go to DesignerDB > Import > Lynx > Drill Holes

Select the subset dh3 from the Wolfach project located in ... \mwc\Lynx\projects\Wolfach as shown
in the diagram below.

Click on the Ok button.

Select the view you created then click the Open button to open Designers Graphic window.

Click on the View Mode button

then the Zoom All button.

The drillholes will be displayed as shown in the diagram below.

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Click on the Drillhole Colour Map button in the Property Window (Left Hand Side of the Graphic
View)

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Description of the functions in the window:

Drillholes: select the drillhole subset
Variable: select the variable of the drillhole
Colour Map: name of the colour map. If it is empty then a default colour map is used
Colour Map browser button: used to select a colour map
Colour Map table: displays the colour for the selected drillhole set and variable
Values: displays a sorted set of values of the variable for the drillhole subset
Colour: allows the user to change the colour of the selected rows.
Apply: converts the entries in the table widget into a colour map
Save: saves the colour map to file.

Select the Variable - Min

Go to Settings > Scene Geometries in the menu bar.

Turn off the visibility of all the regions in the subset dh3 except region 15_0 then click the Close button

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Click on the 'Snap to Drill hole' button in the toolbar.

Note: use Alt + Ctrl + the three mouse buttons to orient the display of the drillholes. Also
note that as you zoom in, the drillholes labels are displayed.

Click the Select Mode button in the toolbar.

then the Select All button

Click the 'show selected data in solid / wireframe mode' button.

Observe that after clicking on this button the drillholes become solid when the cursor is positioned in the
working area and wireframe when the cursor is away from the working area.

Zoom in the drawing to the first drillhole - B21955S.

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Go to Settings > Features, select the feature Polyline then click on Create New button.

Snap on the radius of the first disk that represent the From value (green colour) of the Min variable of
drillhole - B21955S.

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Very important note: Remember to move away and back from the working area as you snap
to see which disk to snap on. You can only get that indication when the drillhole to snap into
is solid.

Release the mouse button then move the cursor to snap on the radius of the first disk that represent the
From value of the second drillhole.

Zoom in / out to have the other drillholes displayed on the screen by using Alt + Ctrl + the three
mouse buttons as you continue to snap to all the From values of all the selected drillholes.
WIREFRAME

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SOLID

When finished, right-click the mouse to terminate snapping of the polyline feature.

Pan back to the first drillhole - B21955S. Press F2 to re-activate the snapping of the polyline feature.

Repeat steps of snapping the polyline, but this time snapping on the To value of the Min variable.
When whole process is completed the design must look as shown in the diagram below.

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Go back to the Scene > Geometries in the Settings menu.

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Turn off the visibility of the region 15_0 then click on Close button.

Only the polylines you created will left in the working area.

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Click the Select Mode button again in the toolbar.

then the Select All button

Click on the Snap to Node button

Zoon in to the start of the polylines as shown below

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Click on the Join Polylines button, then snap on the first node of one polyline, hold and drag the
mouse to the next node of the other poyline as illustrated in the diagram below.

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Pan to the end of the polylines, this time click on the Drag Node button.

Hold and drag the mouse to close the polylines, thus creating a closed polygon.

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Click the Select Mode button again in the toolbar.

then the Select None button

The completed closed polygon showing the boundary of the variable Min of the all the drillholes

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Repeat all the above steps for the regions 15_1 and 15_2 in the subset dh3. Use the Scene
Geometries option in the Settings menu item to control the visibility of the features.
when the three regions have all been done, the closed polygons must look as shown
below.

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Click on Volume Editor toolbar button.

The following Volume Editor toolbar buttons will appear.

Select\Drop Profile - to Select \ Deselect profiles for Volume Define

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Link - to Link selected profiles

Unlink - to Unlink snapped link

Unlink All - to Unlink All profiles

Process Volume - to create volume

Save Volume

Save Volume to Lynx Project

Click on the Select / Drop Profile button.

Snap to each of the three polygons

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Click on the Link button

Snap - release and drag the mouse from the first polygon, then snap to the next one until all three polygons have been linked.

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Right-click the mouse to terminate the linking function.

Click on the Process Volume button.

Three volumes will be created from the linked polygons.

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Click on the Save Volume button

The volumes will then be displayed as solid.

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Click on the Save Volume to Lynx Project button

Fill in save details, the click on OK.

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The volumes will be saved into your Lynx project and can be opened using Lynx Modelling System.

Go back to Scene Geometries in the Settings menu item, turn on the visibility of the regions 15_0,
15_1 and 15_2 to the volumes with the drillholes intersection with respect to the variable Min.

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