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What’s New: GEOVIA Surpac™ 6.6

Introducing the new Stope Design Tools Module and significant
digitising and 3D CAD tools improvements

The World’s Surpac 6.6 introduces the first mining software solution with
features specifically suited for the design of stope shapes.
Most Popular Including the interactive Stope Designer and Stope Slicer tools,
the Stope Design Tools module provides underground engineers
Geology and and designers with a new way to design stopes efficiently.

Mine Planning Alongside over 80 customer-requested enhancements and

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product quality improvements, this release includes significant

Software improvements to Surpac’s plotting, digitising and 3D CAD tools
and to its industry renowned scripting commands for even more
ways to advance user productivity.
Stope Design Tools Module
The new Stope Design Tools module offers a simple
and fast stope design process to improve operational
results and productivity by maximising ore recovery
while minimising costs. Included in the module, the new
interactive Stope Designer tool steps through planes to
delineate practical stope boundaries – ultimately creating
a designed solid. The Stope Slicer tool then divides solids
into practical mining shapes using planes and elevations
to produce stope, pillar and crown pillar solids.
Interactive Stope Designer
Eliminating the need for highly complex, clumsy and
inefficient macro-based solutions, the interactive Stope
Designer tool allows underground engineers to create
practical mining shapes. By stepping back and forth through
a series of planes to digitise a desired outline on each plane.
Any number of reference solids, surfaces or block models
can be used to guide the design process. The polygons on
each plane can be easily evaluated using the block model,
which allows for rapid refinement of the designed shape.
Once the polygons on all planes have been designed, the
volume, mass and grade of all material types are calculated
and assigned to the designed solid for reporting and
analysis. Benefits include:
• Improved operational productivity and ore recovery
through a set of dedicated tools for quick “what-if”
scenario analysis during the design process.
• Offers an interactive, highly dynamic and flexible
underground mine design experience through the necessary
spatial order provided by Surpac’s planes feature.
• Supports CAD tools for the easy creation of designs
that comply with key design criteria such as minimum
footwall angle and minimum width, etc.
Stope Slicer
Stope Slicer enables underground mine designers to
produce practical, tactical mining shapes by dividing
any solid into smaller solids that represent the stoping
units to be mined. By allowing multiple scenarios to be
considered, this tool ensures the optimal design is chosen
for use in downstream planning and scheduling activities
to satisfy mining objectives. Once produced, resultant
solids are organised, named and coloured to distinguish
stopes from pillars and crown pillars, which can then be
used in GEOVIA MineSched™, GEOVIA’s long-term and
short-term scheduling product. Benefits allow you to:
• Create solids easily that satisfy geotechnical safety
criteria, represent stope blocks to be mined, and
identify safety pillar blocks.
• Evaluate multiple scenarios quickly using a wider range
of slicing and evaluation methods.
• Gain greater flexibility in reporting with the ability to
export to CSV file format and to create comprehensive
reports that assess evaluation results.
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• Interrogate the volume, mass, grade and metal content
easily in the Surpac 3D graphics environment through
the assignment of resultant solids attributes.
Table Entities in Surpac Plotting
Given the prolific use of spreadsheets, all Surpac plotting
users will benefit from improvements to the speed and
quality of presenting tabulated data. Ensuring greater
data integrity, the data defined in spreadsheets can now
be easily included in Surpac plans and sections by direct
reference to spreadsheet cell ranges, replacing the former
tedious manual and error prone process used to create
tabulations in plots. Core users will enjoy benefits that:
• Ensure data integrity by directly referencing the
source data and provides an efficient way to present
the tabulated borehole data on plans and sections
mandated by many government authorities.
• Allow inclusion of block model reports, mine schedules,
stockpile volumes, grade control summaries, etc. on
plans and sections
• Save time by enabling ranges of cells to be copied
from spreadsheets into Surpac plots with Surpac’s Plot
Editing window.
• Automate routine tasks by extending the power
of Surpac’s batch plotting to include content from
spreadsheets.
3D CAD Design and Digitising
Enhancements
With Surpac 6.6, all core CAD users can create superior designs
and models with fewer mouse clicks following significant
improvements in CAD capabilities. Highlights include:
• Surpac’s Digitiser Drafting mode now includes a new offset
snap parameter, which allows the offset snap setting to be
set independently of the distance snap setting.
• Exact digitising and editing is achieved by snapping to
virtual strings where surfaces and solids intersect planes.
• Solids and surface attributes are now displayed in
the properties panel allowing you to immediately
interrogate and display user properties.
• Improvements to various editing commands including
POINT MOVE, SEGMENT MOVE when in 2D view mode.
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User Experience Enhancement
A significant number of specific enhancements, all listed
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in the detailed release notes, demonstrate Dassault
Systèmes’ commitment to providing value for Support
and Maintenance subscriptions. In addition, over 80
customer-requested enhancements and product quality
improvements across a range of software features have
been added to the release.
For more information and a complete list of new
enhancements, features and updates, visit
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