.

Annual Maintenance &

Services Offer

2014 - 2015

Release Notes

Datamine Studio RM v1.2.45.0 (32-bit) (English)

Datamine Studio RM v1.2.45.0 (64-bit) (English)

1

Table of Contents

What’s New for Datamine Studio RM v1.2 2

Main Messages for Datamine Studio RM v1.2 2

RELEASE NOTES – STUDIO RM 1.2 5

Core System Commands & Processes 5

User Interface 7

Visualization 8

Data Transfer 8

Utilities & Supporting Services 9

Documentation 9

This documentation is confidential and may not be disclosed to third parties

without the prior written permission of Datamine Software Limited.

© Datamine Software Limited

2

WHAT’S NEW FOR DATAMINE STUDIO RM V1.2

Studio RM is Datamine’s latest Resource Modelling solution, and represents a major step

forward for Datamine customers worldwide. Studio RM is built on the proven Datamine Studio

RM platform.

Main Messages for Datamine Studio RM v1.2

New!! Advanced Estimation Module

The Advanced Estimation module contains multivariate

estimation, improved variography with auto fitting as well as

Kriging Neighbourhood Analysis. It has been developed as part

of Datamine’s collaboration with Geovariances.

With univariate Kriging each block estimate is calculated from the

sample values for a single variable (grade). The multivariate co-

Kriging method uses values from other grades that are correlated

to the grade being estimated.

Advanced Estimation is an additional module to the core system

of Studio RM.

New!! MSO Version 3

Studio RM 1.2 contains an early-access version of MSO v3.0.

Consult your online Help for more information on the substantial

improvements that are now available for stope optimization.

A separate license is required to access this feature. Contact your

Datamine representative for information on licensing and usage.

3

New!! New Processes and Process Improvements

New processes are available in this version, including

• WFEXPND: A new process – WFEXPND has been created

to expand an existing wireframe in three dimensions.

Similar to the expand-string function, you can control the

level of expansion and tolerance setting.

• WFCODE: A new process has been created to assign

wireframe surface zone values to X,Y,Z locations. This

could be useful, for example, to code a block model with

multiple classification wireframes, or update a drillhole

file with domain information that is modelled as

wireframe surfaces.

• COMPSE:

o The maximum number of samples per drillhole

has been increased from 1000 to 5000.

o An optional HOLESOUT file can be created. This

has the same sample geometry as the input file

but contains composited values for the VALUE

field. It can optionally contain an OWCODE field

containing values of 1 or zero to identify samples

as ore or waste respectively.

o An optional ZONE field can be specified to

constrain samples within which compositing

occurs. No output composites are created from

samples with different ZONE values.

o An optional Ore/Waste flag field can be output.

The default name is OWFLAG. If an output

composite is ore then its value of OWFLAG is 1.

Other composites will have a value of zero. This

can be useful because it is possible that output

composites can have a grade value higher than

the CUTOFF but due to internal waste and/or

minimum ore constraints they are flagged as

waste.

o An optional MINGLEN parameter can be used to

define the minimum value of grade * composite

length. This can be used to force COMPSE to treat

relatively short samples whose length is less than

the minimum length to be treated as ore if their

length * grade is greater than this value.

o A new parameter, ANYORE2, can be set to 0 or 1

to control the behaviour of the second

compositing rule.

o In some cases output composites could contain

consecutive waste samples with a total length

that was greater then the specified internal waste

4

MAXWASTE. This has been fixed.

o The COMPSE documentation has been updated to

more clearly describe the rules that are applied in

the process.

New!! Visualization Improvements

The popular 3D window has been enhanced again with this update,

including the following improvements:

• 3D Variogram window: To support the new Advanced

Estimation module, a dedicated 3D Variogram contour

window provides a clear view of the anisotropic trend in

any direction.

This window is supported by dedicated tools that display

the model in 3 perpendicular planes, with enhanced

section rotation tools to accurately define your directional

variograms. Rotation information is dynamically linked to

the new Advanced Estimation workflow UI (see above).

• View-independent clipping: You can now choose to

"Ignore Clipping" in any data view independently, giving

you more flexibility in how you present your data. This

allows you to show clipping in the main application but

disable it in one of your external 3D windows, for example.

New! Gemcom Model Conversion Utility

A new conversion utility has been provided to import Gemcom

format models without cell size fields.

New! Hosted Licensing Support

In addition to supporting the latest products from Datamine, the

version of License Services installed with this update includes

support for hosted licensing, allowing you to connect your

clients to a Datamine-hosted licensing environment.

For more information on license hosting, please contact your

local Datamine representative.

…and many other improvements made since the last release of Studio RM.

A full list of changes is available in the “Release Notes” section further below.

5

27

RELEASE NOTES – STUDIO RM 1.2

The following cases have been resolved since the last released version of Studio RM

Core System Commands & Processes ID Type Description Multiple

Advanced Grade Estimation + KNA has been implemented in this version.

This includes support for fitting models in both univariate and multivariate instances and a

new visualization window for the analysis of variograph maps (“Variogram”).

Consult your online help for more information.

Multiple

Studio RM 1.2 will be used to showcase a pre-beta version of the MSO v3 ribbon – this will

take the form of a new command that will enable the ribbon and panel access for demo

purposes.

MSO v3 is currently scheduled for release as part of Studio RM 1.3. Studio RM v1.2 will only

be used to showcase a technical preview for consultants only.

STUDIO-830

A new process has been introduced – WFEXPND – to allow a wireframe to be expanded in a

similar way to the expand-string command.

STUDIO-892

PROMOD now combines subcells which fill a parent cell, into a single parent cell.

CORE-1606

Drive linking commands are now available in Studio RM via the command line.

CORE-1599

Several enhancements have been made to the COMPSE process – consult your online

documentation for more details.

CORE-307

A new process – WFCODE – has been implemented to permit zone field decoding into model

or drillhole files.

STUDIO-3845

REBLOCK now provides more detail regarding output mass (tonnes) weighting fields

STUDIO-3844

An issue that could force REBLOCK and the system to become unresponsive has been resolved.

STUDIO-3656

TONGRAD will now support file names greater than 20 characters in length

STUDIO-3648

Error messages have been extended and improved in REBLOCK

STUDIO-3632

The Volumetric Block Modelling function now allows you to specify a Control Perimeter file.

STUDIO-3609

SURTRI will now accept a string file containing up to 60,000 strings. The previous limit was

25,000 strings.

STUDIO-1254

Studio installation folder path lengths are now permitted up to 256 characters in length.

STUDIO-1148

The Log View Properties dialog no longer limits the display of available holes to 100.

STUDIO-956

The maximum number of permissible samples in COMPSE has been increased.

CORE-3663

STUDIO-3570 The WGTFIELD and DATAFILE fields in the STATS output file are now explicit.

CORE-1588

REBLOCK now includes the option to use mass to determine dominant values as opposed to

volume.

CORE-1570

Wireframe volume calculations for zones over 50 will now display a message indicating that

the process may take a while to complete.

6

CORE-1536

SORT and OUTPUT commands are now supported by the LINK command in macros.

CORE-1508

REBLOCK now allows model names to contain underscore characters

CORE-1460

The super-processes NSCORE, SGSIM and BACKTR can now be used where a project path

length is up to 256 characters in length

CORE-1445

STATS can now be used to report where the number of records equals zero (useful for

validating mine planning models).

CORE-1414

A vertex snap option has been added to the wireframe-clean function.

CORE-1406

The “Field weighted by” value during dynamic string evaluation is now based on % of cell . A

new “Full Cell Evaluation” option has been added which can be used by all weighting options.

CORE-1384

The maximum number of lags in VGRAM has been increased to 10000

CORE-1331

TONGRAD now supports the use of retrieval criteria

CORE-1230

New options have been added to the context menu for points, strings, drillholes and planes

to allow the contents of entire objects to be selected or deselected.

STUDIO-3821

File renaming using the Project files control bar has been reinstated

STUDIO-3745

Unexpected results running SORT, MGSORT and OUTPUT commands with very large files

(64-bit application) has been resolved.

STUDIO-3743

A data corruption issue caused by reversing a string after merging string segments has been

resolved.

STUDIO-3727

TRIVAL was incorrectly reporting tonnes and grades where the NOSID parameter was set to

0 and an unverified wireframe was set as an input. This has been resolved.

STUDIO-3719

An issue preventing the wireframe-create-from-points command to operate in Studio RM

has been resolved.

STUDIO-3641

An issue causing the failure to assign a BLOCKID attribute during evaluate-all-strings has

been resolved.

STUDIO-3638

An issue preventing the successful execution of MSO has been resolved.

STUDIO-3617

The problem causing the system to halt unexpectedly with a specific combination of unload-

all, evaluate-one-string and evaluate-all-strings, has been resolved.

STUDIO-3600

Evaluate wireframe commands no longer remove the filter applied to the model.

STUDIO-3597

CORE-1503 Unloading data no longer removes filters from the remaining loaded data objects.

STUDIO-3566

The field DIST_2D in the output file from CLOSEPTS is now correctly calculated.

STUDIO-3216

An issue preventing the completion of the MRO tutorial has been resolved.

STUDIO-3079

An issue preventing CORREL from completing when an alphanumeric entry exists in the

specified ZONE field has been resolved.

STUDIO-2151

An issue preventing Shrink model option in MRO from being accessible in Studio RM has

been resolved.

STUDIO-1050

An issue whereby different single- and extended-precision results from COMPSE were

generated has been resolved.

STUDIO-892

PROMOD will now combine subcells that create a parent cell where expected.

CORE-1638

An issue preventing REBLOCK from completing (related to the underlying SORT process) has

been resolved.

CORE-1613

STATS no longer fills the DATAFILE field with unexpected data on the 64-bit RM system

CORE-1560

An issue that could force the system to halt unexpectedly when running ‘update-vr-objects’

has been identified and resolved.

CORE-1553

An issue whereby DECODE could return incorrect values when forced into an error state has

been resolved.

7

CORE-1545

OUTPUT now exports implicit values as expected.

CORE-1549

generate-outlines and generate-outlines-attrib will no longer flatten strings if the outl-plane-

switch is not set

CORE-1484

In the previous version, MODSPLIT was incorrectly treating the @PLANE parameter as ‘XY’

regardless of its setting. This has been resolved.

CORE-1460

NSCORE, SGSIM and BACKTR superprocesses can now operate in conjunction with project

path lengths > 48 characters. The extended 256 character limit imposed for other processes

is now supported by these superprocesses.

CORE-1450

TRIPOI now works as expected.

CORE-1434

Generate-outlines no longer generates unexpected results for values with greater than 3

decimal places

CORE-1431

Evaluation with a single string will now produce expected results when working with vertical

sections.

CORE-1430 Cleaned wireframes now preserve the keyfield attribute.

CORE-1426

CORE-1500 You can now rename a file using the Project Files control bar.

CORE-1408

CORE-501 Commas are now correctly applied between retrieval criteria when recording a macro.

CORE-1351

Using TRIFIL with @MODLTYPE=2.0 no longer creates models with missing cells.

CORE-1260

DECODE is now generating expected results in all cases

CORE-1154

A data-specific instance of COMPSE not processing a drillhole file correctly has been resolved.

CORE-830

The IJKGEN process now correctly includes rotated model fields when copying attributes

CORE-143

CONPOL will now create a closed perimeter.

User Interface ID Type Description

Various

A new data window has been added to Studio RM – Variogram – to display/analyse generated

variogram maps resulting from Studio RM’s Advanced Estimation module

STUDIO-3878

The VCONTOUR user interface has been updated to match a standard visual style

STUDIO-3877

The MRO user interface has been updated to match a standard visual style

STUDIO-3653

The “Close Points” (CLOSEPTS) command has been added to the Sample Analysis ribbon.

STUDIO-3637

By request, the command wireframe-surface-project has been added to the Structure ribbon

in Studio RM.

STUDIO-1148

You are no longer restricted to a 100 hole list limit in the Log View Properties dialog

CORE-1610

“Write Selected Strings” has been added to the Data ribbon

STUDIO-3898

The Datamine Script Converter’s Start menu entry no longer references “Studio”

8

STUDIO-3899

The Studio RM start menu shortcut now launches the application as expected on all operating

systems.

STUDIO-3806

The correct version number for the installed Mesh.exe component is now shown in the Help |

About dialog on 64 bit systems.

STUDIO-3774

Context menu sheets bar “Link to EPS” commands have been removed from the respective

menus as they are not relevant to this product.

STUDIO-3633

A typographic error in the ‘Select Outlines Individually’ tooltip has been corrected.

STUDIO-3630

You can now access a hole dropdown list for log sheets.

CORE-1546

Typographic errors in WFCODE process dialog have been corrected.

Visualization ID Type Description

STUDIO-3877

MRO has been overhauled to provide an improved user experience.

CORE-1468

An option to disable clipping in any view (independently) has been added to the View ribbon

for the 3D window, and the external 3D window menu.

STUDIO-3603

A problem preventing the application of the default ‘on-load’ display template for drillholes

has been resolved.

CORE-1557

The Ignore Clipping option no longer causes unexpected results if displayed data contains

labels.

CORE-1464

Labels applied to drillholes are now correctly filtered according to the current display filter.

CORE-1457

An issue causing an unexpected 180 degree rotation when using the section controller has been

resolved.

CORE-1427

Unexpected results when using infinite clipping have been resolved.

CORE-1354

An issue preventing the application of filters when applied via script has been resolved.

CORE-1334

An issue preventing access to font size editing for scatterplots and histograms has been

resolved.

CORE-1123

An issue preventing the display of dynamic holes after create-plot-view has been resolved.

CORE-411

The 3D window section will now rotate as expected when an azimuth is applied with a zero dip

value.

Data Transfer ID Type Description

CORE-1550

A conversion utility has been provided to import Gemcom format models without cell size fields.

CORE-1266

You can now export data in DGN format (points, strings and wireframes)

CORE-1611

INPUTD has been added to the Data ribbon.

9

CORE-511

The DWG import facility is now able to detect and manage subdivided wireframe entities.

CORE-299

Exporting data to Microsoft®Excel® from the Loaded Data control bar will now permit export of

the maximum number of rows permitted by your currently-installed version of Excel (system

resources permitting)

STUDIO-3839

Studio RM no longer displays the Save Project reminder when nothing has been edited during

the current session.

STUDIO-3834

An issue saving the system profile when closing down the latest RM 1.2 test version has been

resolved.

STUDIO-3826

CORE-1581

An issue preventing a Data Converter (DSDIE3) object from being instantiated through script,

where a 64 bit application is in use, has been resolved.

STUDIO-3802

A specific instance of the system halting unexpectedly when opening an archive created in an

earlier version, using the Windows 8.1 operating system, has been resolved.

STUDIO-3621

The problem reported in the previous version, whereby exporting Plots/Logs information to DXF

vectors would cause the system to halt unexpectedly, has been resolved.

STUDIO-3619

An issue preventing access to the Earthworks ODBC driver in the 64-bit RM system has been

resolved.

CORE-1244

An issue preventing the successful import of a particular Vulcan .isis file has been resolved.

CORE-1550

An issue introduced with the new Gemcom-model importer which could cause a side-side

installation issue with MineTrust has been resolved.

CORE-1548

The “Upload to Summit” function is now operating as expected.

CORE-1539

The Data Converter utility will no longer report failures to find licenses for all supported

products. It will now only report an issue if no licenses can be found.

CORE-1506

The Data Converter utility now saves/loads XML configuration files as expected.

CORE-1467

The Datamine Data Converter can now be used with a Studio RM license.

Utilities & Supporting Services ID Type Description

STUDIO-3589

Integration work has been completed to connect to the new ALS Coreviewer® website

STUDIO-1254

The installation path length for Studio RM has been increased to 256 characters

STUDIO-3618

The crash reporting mechanism has been standardized for both 32- and 64-bit systems.

STUDIO-2800

An issue whereby extraneous runtimes were installed on the host machine in certain cases has

been resolved.

CORE-1483

An obscure issue that caused unexpected behaviour in Studio RM after uninstalling Studio 5D

Planner has been resolved.

CORE-1480

An obscure (and longstanding) side-side issue (caused by one of the remaining shared

components) could, in some cases, prevent Studio 5D Planner from working correctly after

uninstalling Studio RM. The symptom was a “Error compiling a list of Project Files” message

when running one of the prepare commands. This has been resolved.

Documentation ID Type Description

10

STUDIO-3664

STUDIO-3606 The documentation for the Advanced Estimation processes is complete.

STUDIO-3897

The Datamine Script Converter online help has been rebranded to “Datamine”

STUDIO-3877

The MRO tutorial has been rewritten, in line with the recent UI changes

STUDIO-3569

Additional information ha been added to the STATS help file to explain how MAD and percentile

calculations operate with respect to the WEIGHT field.

STUDIO-3119

Minor changes and enhancements have been made to the Grade Estimation tutorial

CORE-1546

Minor updates have been made to the WFCODE online help.

CORE-1485

The Mining Power Pack help file has been rebranded from CAE to Datamine.

CORE-1473

The Studio RM Macros tutorial has been rebranded to “Datamine”

CORE-1470

The MRO Help file has been rebranded to the new company logo and name.

CORE-1456

QT Licensing information has been added to the Studio RM help file.

STUDIO-3657

The REBLOCK help file has been extended to explain the usage of FILLVOL and VOIDVOL fields

STUDIO-3626

The Unfold wizard will now display context-sensitive help when using <F1>

STUDIO-3659

The LUNICOND help link no longer incorrectly displays context-sensitive help for the UNIFCOND

process.

STUDIO-3622

An issue causing the Studio RM (64-bit edition) to halt unexpectedly, when accessing context-

sensitive help from the Transform Coordinates dialog, has been resolved.

STUDIO-3614

You can now view context-sensitive help for the Expression Builder dialog.

STUDIO-3610

The Expression Builder dialog will now display context-sensitive help when using <F1>

STUDIO-3567

The context-sensitive help file for CLOSEPTS is now displayed as expected

STUDIO-3383

Missing documentation for the convert-wf-hull command is now complete.

STUDIO-3344

A handful of incorrect branding (CAE) references in Studio RM help pages have been corrected.

STUDIO-2606

Errors in the LUNICON, UNIFCOND and SUPPCORR process help pages have been corrected

LICSERV-188

Several missing help links have been reinstated in the License Services help file.

11

© Datamine Software Limited – All Rights Reserved