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Accessing MSPD Geometry via MS3D Geometry Views (April 2009)
Attributed Geometry Data Model (October 2003)
Attributed Geometry Data Models in MS3D v.3.30-00 (February 2004)
Convert Your AGDM from Microsoft Access to Microsoft SQL Server (August 2007)
Database Management for the Attributed Geometry Database (October 2008)
MineSight Planning Database (January 2009)
SQL Changes and MineSight (September 2008)
Troubleshooting a Database Connection (October 2007)
View the Attributed Geometry Database Using Microsoft Access 2000 (July 2003)
MineSight 3D (MS3D)
Attach Template with Smooth Corners and the Polyline Tube in Autoslicer (April 2008)
Autoslicer Tool with Slice by a Grid Set (April 2004)
Autoslicer Tool (November 2002)
Auxilliary Files (September 2009)
Blast Pattern Editor Enhancements (November 2008)
Blastholes with Length and Dip Labels (June 2008)
Class Order Rendering Tool (January 2003)
Clip Polygons Against Boundary (June 2009)
Clipping Solids with Polygons (September 2003)
Coding from Nested Polygons (August 2003)
Coding Gridded Surface Files with Polygons (October 2004)
Command Line Options (June 2005)
Composite 3D Model Blocks between Surfaces with IGP4MS.DAT (February 2003)
Contouring Surfaces (January 2003)
Coordinate Extents (December 2009)
Copying a Project to Another Directory (October 2001)
Cut Generation Tool (June 2005)
Data Security System and Synchronization (July 2009)
Development and Scheduling at the Vazante Mine (March 2007)
DHID Labeling Variations (November 2001)
Digitizer Stand-alone Program (March 2003)
Digitizer Setup for a Non-Orthogonal Vertical Section (July 2006)
Digitizing in MineSight 3D (February 2003)
Dipmeter/Rose Diagram Display in Drillhole Views (July 2003)
Displaying Channel and Chip Sampling (June 2005)
Drape Tool for Data Manipulation (July 2005)
Drillhole Coding (December 2007)
Drillhole Collars and Topographic Surfaces (October 2003)
Drillhole Information (September 2005)
Drillhole Spearing (September 2004)
Drillhole View Data Translated into Geometry Object Data (March 2006)
Drillholes, Composites, and Model Coding with Solids (April 2007)
Drillholes: Loading Composite Data (November 2006)
DXF File Size Reduction (April 2007)
End of Period Maps Tool (February 2003)
Extend Topographic Surfaces to Cover the GSF (August 2006)
Extrude Tool with the Slope Option (June 2004)
Fence Diagrams (November 2004)
Files Created by MineSight 3D (December 2003)
Filtering Drillhole Views (December 2006)
Floating Ellipsoid Display (April 2005)
Folio System for Antamina Mine (March 2007)
Geomap: Face Mapping (August 2009)
Geomap: Geologic Maps in MS3D from 2D Field Maps (June 2007)
Geometry View Objects (June 2002)
Geosym Symbol Labels (July 2004)
Geosym: Geologic Symbols in MS3D (July 2001)
Global Viewer Tools (November 2003)
Grade Shell Creation (March 2008)
Grid Sets and Coincident Flat Surfaces (November 2004)
Grid Sets:Reorder and Rename Plan Sections (June 2008)
Gridded Surfaces to GSM (January 2002)
Haulage at the Elizabeth Mine, Namibia (March 2007)
Hidden Lines and Hard Edges (June 2004)
Hot Keys for Selection (April 2008)
Import Formats: Part l (January 2008)
Import Formats: Part ll (February 2008)
Import Parameter and Geometry Sets from Other Projects (August 2005)
Legend: Create Customized Map Key (August 2009)
Legend Objects with Geometry Objects (February 2004)
Legends - Sizing Legends Title Blocks in MineSight 3D (July 2009)
Legend Tool – Placing Legends on Plots (January 2002)
LGO Display in MineSight 3D (November 2009)
LGO Tool and Extracting Surfaces from Solids (July 2007)
Locking Material Properties (January 2010)
Materials in Legends (August 2007)
Materials List Using Script em-materials.pyc (November 2008)
Material Properties (October 2008)
Menu Reorganization in MS3D (June 2008)
MineSight GIS Model of the Yellowknife Camp (February 2003)
MineSight in Exploration of Quebrada Blanca (March 2007)
Mining Floor Design and Controlling Ore Contamination (July 2008)
Model Blocks Display (December 2005)
Model Coding 3DBMS with Polygons (March 2009)
Model Coding from Surfaces (April 2010)
Model Coding from Polygons (June 2003)
Models: Compressed Models (May 2009)
Multiple Projects from the Same Directory (August 2001)
Narrow Vein Compositing (July 2008)
Narrow Vein Deposits Ore and Waste Calculations (March 2007)
Nearest Element List (May 2007)
Never Mix Versions (February 2006)
New Features in v.3.30 (July 2003)
New Features in v.3.40 (February 2005)
New Features in v.3.60 part I (September 2006)
New Features in v.3.60 part II (October 2006)
New Features in v.4.00 part I (September 2007)
New Features in v.4.00 part II (October 2007)
New Features v.4.00 part III (November 2007)
New Features v.4.50 part I (November 2008)
New Features v.4.50 part II (December 2008)
New Features v.5.00 part I (December 2009)
New Features v.5.00 part II (January 2010)
Non-Orthogonal and Non-Parallel Grid Sets (March 2004)
Oil Sands and Coal Projects Focus of Calgary Area Office (March 2007)
Pit Expansion and Road Calculations (March 2002)
Pit Expansion and Working with Polygons and Controlling Slopes (February 2009)
Pit Expansion Tool and Slots (January 2007)
Pit Expansion with Variable Complex-Pit Slopes (July 2008)
Pit Expansion: Restarting the Session (December 2007)
Placing Angled Point Labels (July 2010)
Plot a Series of Cross Sections (April 2002)
Plot Layout with Synchronized Views (June 2004)
Plot to a PDF File (February 2010)
Plots and Adding Viewers (September 2009)
Plots and Making PNG Files (January 2004)
Plots and Multiple Viewers (August 2006)
Plots: Repetitive Plots (September 2007)
Plotting Drillhole Collars and IDs (February 2001)
Plotting Surfaces Using a Fill Pattern (November 2004)
Plotting with Multiple Synchronized Viewers (September 2002)
Point Elevation Snap (April 2003)
Polygon Selection in MS3D (August 2008)
Polyline | Assemble Tool (October 2005)
Polyline Offset in Small Steps (January 2005)
Polyline Offset with Vectors (May 2010)
Popup Menu Definitions (March 2009)
Project Cache File (December 2003)
Project Coordinates (October 2004)
Project Settings Options (January 2007)
Recommended Method for Creating TOPO Solid (June 2010)
Refresh to Reread the PCF (August 2005)
Ring Design Tool (February 2001)
Rotate an Element (April 2007)
Scripts: An Introduction (April 2009)
Scripts: Common Configuration Options (May 2009)
Scripts: Embedded Scripts (March 2005)
Scripts for Processing Multiple Objects (November 2006)
Scripts Included with MS3D (May 2008)
Selecting a Tool for Reblocking (April 2010)
Selection Filter (December 2002)
Solid Expansion Tool (November 2007)
Solids Intersections and Checking the Results (May 2006)
Solids vs. Surfaces (October 2003)
Sorting:Assigning a Sorting Folder for LSORT (May 2010)
Spearing Using Surfaces (November 2005)
Surface Conditioning (February 2010)
Surfaces and Solids (October 2008)
Surfaces as a Boundary to Clip Solids (October 2003)
Surfaces: Check and Condition (July 2005)
Texture Surface Tool (November 2000)
Texture Surface Tool and Image Size (May 2009)
Texture Surface Tool and Recommended JPEG Sizes (December 2005)
Texture Surface Tool Applications (April 2004)
Texture Surface Tool with World Files and Sirovision (January 2005)
Transitioning from Slot to Road in the Pit Expansion Tool (May 2010)
Triangulating Point Data in MineSight 3D (October 2009)
Triangulated Surfaces and Vertices’ XYZ Locations (July 2003)
Useful Functions: Material Editor, Rotating Objects, and Status Bar Info (March 2006)
Useful Tips: Normalization, Project Maps, Drape Tool, OCB, etc.(July 2006)
User-defined Attributes in Elements (May 2007)
Viewer Popup Menu Customization (January 2003)
Volume Calculations (August 2003)
Walkthrough Tool (October 2006)
MineSight Axis (MSAxis)
Drill & Blast (September 2009)
Grade Control Module (October 2009)
Overview of MineSight Tools for Medium & Short Term Planning (November 2009)
MineSight Compass (MSCompass)
Copying Assay Data (March 2010)
Menu Customization (July 2007)
Multi-run Preselected Files (July 2003)
Multi-Runs and Format Statements in P61001.DAT (June 2006)
MineSight Data Analyst (MSDA)
2D Variograms in the Variogram 3D Manager (July 2006)
MineSight Data Analyst (MSDA) (October 2005)
Variograms in MSDA (November 2005)
MineSight Data ASCII Reformat Tool (MSDART)
Calculation and Reblocking (June 2006)
Introducing MineSight DART (September 2005)
Reblock Your 3D Block Model (August 2008)
MineSight Stand-alone Engines (MSEngines)
MS3D Engines as Stand-alone Programs (February 2001)
New Stand-alone Engines: contour, mscode, and SolidExpand (March 2008)
MineSight Economic Planner (MSEP)
Overview of MineSight Tools for Medium & Short Term Planning (November 2009)
Scheduling and Cutoff Grade Optimization with MSVALP I (June 2007)
Scheduling and Cutoff Grade Optimization with MSVALP II (September 2007)
Using Complex Slopes (January 2006)
MineSight Haulage (MSHaulage)
Designing a Haulage Network with a GSM (March 2009)
Introduction to MineSight Haulage (May 2008)
Overview of MineSight Tools for Medium & Short Term Planning (November 2009)
MineSight Interactive Planner (MSIP)
Considerations for Use with a Gridded Seam Model (January 2005)
DumpCutsForArchive.pyc (January 2008)
End-of-Period Surfaces Tool (May 2006)
Equipment Reporting (February 2005)
Non-Orthogonal Grid Sets in the Autoslicer (December 2004)
Overview of MineSight Tools for Medium & Short Term Planning (November 2009)
Overview of Reserves Reporting Scripts (July 2010)
Partials’ Slice Direction and Autoslicing (March 2004)
Period Maps Tool (January 2009)
Reconciliation Control (July 2008)
Restrictions & Bindings in the Digline Generator Script (June 2010)
Setup Autoslicer in IP (August 2004)
Setup Considerations for Ore Control (October 2004)
Short term Planning with the Autoslicer and IP (November 2004)
Short term Scheduling at the PT Freeport Grasberg Project (March 2004)
Stockpile Modeling at the Batu Hijau Mine (April 2004)
Underground Applications and Working with Solids (December 2004)
Validating Reserves Calculations (October 2009)
MineSight License Manager (MSLM)
License Keys and MineSight (February 2006)
MineSight Key Number for Support (February 2009)
MineSight License File Document (May 2008)
MineSight Basis (MSBasis)
Cmpres/Modcls/Pitres "Packages (August 2008)
Composites in Interpolation (October 2001)
Creating GSF Surfaces from 3D Block Model Values (July 2010)
DHID1 and DHID2 in Composite Files (December 2001)
Drillholes and Downhole Surveys Increased Limits (August 2004)
Ellipsoidal Searches (December 1998)
Fixed Length and Horizontal Compositing Options (September 2003)
Fixed length Compositing – Important Notice (August 2003)
Geologic Matching in Interpolation (September 2000)
Interpolation and the Unsorted Composite File (December 2000)
Interpolation Search Parameters (October 2001)
Kriging Variance and Other Error Related Output (August 2005)
Loading Composite Data via M500V1 (March 2005)
MineSight Error Numbers (November 2007)
Model Calculation Script, cp-modelCalcTool.pyc (September 2008)
Modeling Zonal Anisotropy (June 2001)
Partials Computations and the Number of Passes (August 2000)
PITRES: Dilution in Planning Reserves (March 2005)
Relative Elevation in Interpolation (March 2003)
Resource Classification Index (April 2002)
Using PITRES to Report between GSF Surfaces (April 2010)
Using up to 500 Items in PITRES (February 2010)
MineSight Schedule Optimizer (MSSO)
Assigning Variable Mining Costs in MSSO (November 2009)
Overview of MineSight Tools for Medium & Short Term Planning (November 2009)
MineSight Strategic Planner (MSSP)
New Generation in Long Term Scheduling (August 2002)
Preparing Reserves Files (February 2006)
Third Party Reporting Tool (August 2007)
Tool for Long Term Planning (Special Edition 2002)
MineSight Tools (MSTools)
MSRESCLEAN: Find and Clean-up Bad Resource Files (December 2001)
MSNOMAD to Migrate Preferences (August 2004)
Project Audit to List Objects and Flag Corrupt Objects (December 2007)
Support
3rd Party Graphics and MineSight (September 2006)
Alert: Standard DLL as a False Positive (June 2006)
Configuring Real-time Anti-Virus Software (January 2006)
LSORT: Sorting a CSV File (July 2004)
Microsoft Windows Display Properties Settings (September 2004)
Network vs Single-user License (July 2009)
Remote Access Servers (May 2009)
Solutions Group (January 2009)