CAD Applications Overview

CoOrdinator

CoOrdinator provides a convenient and easy way to import or export data into and out of AutoCAD using just about any ASCII format. This data can be brought into AutoCAD as points, polylines or even a block. Export data can include non-coordinate data such as text string values or symbol/block attribute data.

Survey Draughting

CGSS has developed Survey draughting systems for open pit, bord and pillar, open stoping, and underground filling operations. The systems have been built around automated data input from Total Stations, data loggers and GPS (global positioning systems). These are linked, through automated drawing production and mapping operations, to blast design and mining control applications. The systems routinely interface with the major mine planning and geological modelling systems for data exchange, and are widely used for the production of presentation quality drawings of the output from the mine planning systems.

Stability Monitoring

An AutoCAD based system for maintaining a database of measurement data relating to monitored movement of points in space. Originating in the monitoring of Pit slopes, this software has applications in all fields of engineering. The system handles automated and manual data input and covers data from prisms, extensometers, piezometers and drainage wells.

WemGIS, point based GIS

CGSS has developed a package marketed as WemGIS for the management of water resources based on borehole and measure-point point data sources. The system manages physical, chemical, geological and hydrogeological data as well as geophysics (surface and downhole) and meteorological data and allows for full interrogation at database level as well as via a fully fledged graphical GIS.

Generalised co-ordinate and database connectivity

CGSS has developed many client specific systems based on the integration of a co-ordinate based data set linked to a non-graphic database allowing interrogation of both graphic and non-graphic databases from either application. Applications vary from drawing management systems, through mine planning systems and to Servitude rights databases for controlling rights issues.

Geological Compositing

Integrated with the blast design systems are a suite of programs to handle the blast compositing of open pit blasts. The compositing system allows users to do colour coded compositing in 3D on actual surveyed blast hole locations and to then generate co-ordinate files for staking of the composites via Total stations. Composite data is also available for export to any other geological ore reserve modelling system.

Face Mapping

The CGSS Face mapping system makes the collection of Geological lithological and structural data from digital photographs or in-situ mapping simple and spatially accurate. The system allows the collected data to be transferred to any other geological modelling system.