CAD Applications

Survey Draughting

The CGSS Survey draughting systems have been developed in close association with mine staff in actual work situations. All systems originate from planning system outputs and are always full 3D spatially accurate systems. Input data comes from automatic downloads from data loggers and total stations (electronic theodolites), or from third party survey reduction software. The systems are available for underground open stope operations, underground bord and pillar operations and large or small scale open pits. A surface plan management system is available and the system includes a large array of drafting tools to aid in 3D draughting, plotting and drawing management.

The Surface Plan module includes a management system to tile drawings and raster images such as aerial photographs, satellite images and scanned objects, to easily reference and attach adjacent or spatially referenced drawings and images, and to manage the plotting of tiled layouts etc.

The underground draughting module handles multiple level plans based on consistent naming conventions, and the spatial referencing of plans relative to each other. Survey station management and reduction from data logger downloads is available, Blast long hole drilling design is facilitated through real space positioning of hole start and end positions and the generation of hole drilling angles and lengths. Fan Rock bolting layout designs are also automated.

Underground bord and pillar operations also use the Station management system, and include download data from data loggers for offset pickups and monthly mining measure. Automated long sections and contouring options are available.

Open pit draughting is managed through a thorough drawing management system and the spatial referencing of drawing data is all automated. Blast design is fully automated and interaction between the drill and blast design and draughting functions is managed via the system.

All modules include plotting utilities as well as a host of draughting and editing utilities not found in the standard AutoCAD package.

Requires AutoCAD R14 or AutoCAD 2000.