Export activity areas

Filters the activity areas included in the export.

• Visible: Only activity areas visible in the plot are exported.

• Selected: Only plot-selected activity areas are exported.

• All: All activity areas are exported.

Activity areas are associated with several types of geometries. They reflect the shape of the activity area at certain points of the schedule configuration, from drawing/designing, reserving to derive solids, and scheduling. This property defines which type of shape is derived from the export.

• Designed: Refers to the base polygonal shape of the activity area, before it’s extruded into a solid or scheduled. The shapes are initially drawn or derived from external data.

  • If the activity area was designed on a flat mining level, the shape’s Z-coordinates are the same as the mining level.

  • If the activity area was designed on a stratigraphic surface, the exported polygon’s Z-coordinates are the average elevation of the surface inside the design.

• Reserved: Refers to the shape of the activity area after it’s extruded into a solid from a polygon. Using the options below, you can choose to derive the solids themselves or the roof and floor polygons.

• Scheduled: Refers to the shape of the activity area, after it’s converted to a solid – while representing the mined status of it. Only activity areas, where mining has occurred within the selected period range during the schedule, are included. Within the activity area, the portion of the entire solid included reflects how much the activity area has been mined.

  If the activity area is:

  • 100% mined, the entire shape is shown.

  • 50% mined, half the shape is shown.

  • 25% mined, a quarter of the shape is shown.

Two designed geometries

Two reserved geometries

Two scheduled geometries. At this point in the schedule, 100% of the green activity area has been mined, and about 25% of the red activity area has been mined.

For reserved and scheduled geometries, this property defines whether solids or roof and floor polygons are derived from the activity areas.

• Solids: A closed triangulation explicitly defining a volume in 3D space.

• Polygons: A closed shape, formed by several points connected with lines. An activity area includes two key polygons, each defining the shape of its upper and lower surface area.

  • Roof: The polygon outlining the shape of the activity area’s upper surface.

  • Floor: The polygon outlining the shape of the activity area’s lower surface.

  Reserved and scheduled polygons differ from designed polygons because their outlines are registered to the roof or floor, which are usually not flat, resulting in many more points.

  More specifically, the X and Y coordinate layout of both polygons is the same, as they derive from the designed polygons. However, the Z coordinate layout of each polygon varies.

  • The roofpolygon is draped onto the topography, so the elevation of its points aligns with the surface.

  • The floorpolygon is draped onto the floor of a specific mining level.

Solids and roof and floor polygons, deriving from the same reserved activity areas

Selects a specific calendar group, which is set up in General and Calendar Settings.

A calendar group organises periods by a shared value. The calendar group is a field, and each period contains value of the field.

For example, there could be a calendar group field named Week. Each period includes a respective value (Week1, Week2, Week3…). The periods are organised by their shared calendar group values.

When exporting a scheduled activity area, the software will merge its slices with other slices that share the same calendar field value.

Following the example above, if five slices were scheduled in the first week, the software merges them into a single solid.

If you select None, you choose individual periods to define the scheduling period range.

Defines the first group of periods to include in the scheduling range.

Defines the end group of periods to include in the scheduling range.

Defines the type of file that the activity areas will be exported to.

Defines whether the activity areas will be exported into multiple files or a single file.

• Multiple: Each activity area is exported into a single file, making up a collection of several files.

• Single: All activity areas are exported into a single file. Within the file, each activity area is stored as a separate layer.

Indicates the folder where the exported activity area file or files will be saved. Navigate to and select a file using the File Explorer prompt.

• For the Single method, specify a file name within the prompt.

• For the Multiple method, note that, if you select a general folder that contains other files, the new exports will be placed directly in that folder and won’t be grouped into a separate one.