An Example of Drawing Hard

Rock Room and Pillar in

MineSight
©2012 Dr. B. C. Paul
Note – The screen shots in these slides come from the program MineSight
developed by Mintec. Many of the operations demonstrated herein can also be
found in Mintec training courses. Appropriate credit to the software developers
is given.
 What I Will Draw
• I will be drawing a grid of 50 ft wide
openings with 50X50 pillars.
• The mine workings will have 3 levels, each
30 ft high.
– The top level will advance with jumbos
– While the lower levels will be taken out as
benches.
 The Approach
• I will develop a gridset
• I will snap an edit grid to the gridset at the top of
my room and pillar openings
• I will set my snap to the edit grid
• I will draw in centerlines for my entries as
polylines snapped to the edit grid
• I will use opening templates with the polylines to
guide them
• I will use an intersect solids tool to merge drives
and cross-cuts.
Create My Gridset
I will highlight my Gridsets Folder

I will right click to drop down a menu

On the menu I will pick New

On the side menu this opens I will

Highlight and left click Gridset

(Note I am issuing a command to

MineSight to create a Gridset)
It Wants Me To Name That Gridset

Since my gridset will be planer I

Will name my gridset “Planer
Gridset” and then click Ok
It Wants Me to Define My Gridset
Parameters
I want the
Grids to be
Planer

I want cells to
Be 100 X 100
(my entries
Will be on 100
Ft centers)

I want control
Of my levels
Every 5 ft over
The 240 ft
Thickness of
My limestone.
Click Ok to Make My Gridset
There is a Bunch of Gridsets

Note that 240 ft

Of thickness looks
Almost like paper
Over an area of
10,000 X 10,000
 Now I Will Go For An Edit Grid to
Control the Center Lines of My Entries
• I will attach my gridset to the view
• Select the level of the top of my workings
• Snap an Edit Grid to the level of the
Gridset
• Attach the Edit Grid to the viewer to
control the drawing.
I Will Click on the Pretty Green Box
to Attach My Gridset to the Viewer
Now It Wants to Know Which
Gridset
Select the gridset (ie highlight and left
Click)

Then left click Ok

Left Click the N-E icon to set the View
to look down on a Horizontal Plane
Now Choose the Plane for the Top
of the Room and Pillar Entries

The little blue

Lined box
Is the plane
Selection
List drop
Down.
The Menu Drops Down
My grid is built up from
0 and my target rock
Is 240 ft thick.

I will leave 20 ft of sill

At the top and start
Mining so I will pick
220.
 I Will Next Set My Viewer to 2D
Mode so I Can be Sure of Picking
the 220 Level for My Edit Grid
Click the 2D icon to
Shift the viewer to
2D Mode
(otherwise there are
A bunch of planes and
I can’t be sure I will
Lock the Edit Grid
To the right one).
I Will Now Snap an Edit Grid to My
220 Plane
Left Click the
Select Edit
Grid Icon
I Will Now Set the Viewer to My
Edit Grid

Left click the set

Edit grid to viewer
Icon.
With The Gridset Turned Off I Can See
My Edit Grid Locked on the 220 Level
in 2D
We will now set
Our snaps to
Snap to the edit
Grid and will start
Drawing polylines
To represent the
Center of my
Room and Pillar
Entries.
Set Snap to the Edit Grid
Left click Snap to drop
The menu

Move the curser over

Edit Grid Snap to
Highlight

Left Click to select the

Option.
Set Up An Open Edit Object Where My
Entry Centerlines Will Be Stored
Using the Polyline Menu Choose to
Create Polylines
My polylines will
Run at the center
And top of my
Entries.

Later I will attach

A template with the
Shape of the entry
To the guide
Polylines I am
Creating.
Left Click the Point for Starting an
Entry
Go to the End of the Entry and Left
Click Again
Right Click Your Mouse to
Complete that Line
Note that the line turned red.
Draw In My Room and Pillar Grid
Then Left Click MineSights Weird
Save Icon
 My Next Move
• I will select my entry centerlines to guide
my entries and cross-cuts
• I will open the template editor and set a
50X90 ft rectangular entry
• I will create a surface of the openings by
attaching the template along the polylines
I Will Tell MineSight I Am Going to Select My
Centerlines to Guide My Entries
I Will Left Click on My Centerlines

Note they turn orange as

I click on them.

When I am done I will

Right click my mouse
(the code to MineSight that
I have finished what I was
Doing).
Note That the Completed Selection
Turns Red
We Will Now Use the Template Editor to Put
In Tunnels Around those center lines
Select a Rectangle As Our
Template
Set My Entry Size for 50X90
Note I have Set Entries as my open edit
Object that will get these entries

I have set my base point to the top

 Now I Will Issue the Command to
Attach the Template to the Polylines
The Template Attach Comes Up
But It Is Grayed Out
At first glance it is a work
Duplicating pain in the Butt, but
MineSight allows you to select
A big group of objects on which
A bunch of tasks will be done
And then select subsets for
Individual tasks.

In less friendly terms for our task

Its going to make us reselect our
Centerlines.

Left Click Reselect

I Reselect My Lines and Right Click
the Mouse

Oh Cool!
The
Attach
Template
Box
Is Alive!
I Can Click Preview to Make Sure
I’m Going to Like This

When I’m satisfied I can click Apply

There is a Wire Frame of My Room
and Pillar Entries
I Can Change That Wireframe to
Faces
Highlight
Entries

Right Click
For a drop
Down menu

Pick Object
Properties

On the
General Tab
Of Object
Properties
Left click the
Faces only
Radio button
We Can Also Create A Single
Merged Surface