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MineSight Interactve Planner (MSIP) has received signifcant enhancements recently to make manual scheduling much
easier. The biggest of these enhancements is the Material Manager. This tool has streamlined the manual planning
process and made it easy to report and route all of your cut material as soon as you add that cut to your schedule. With
just a few tweaks to your setngs in MSIP, you can keep your screen updated in real tme, as well by having cuts disappear
as soon as they are scheduled. This is partcularly helpful if you have several levels of cuts stacked on top of each other.
With this type of situaton, you will ofen go into a 2D view and work on a single level. While that does make it easy to
pick those cuts, it makes it a litle harder to see the big picture, so fnding a way to work in 3D will make the scheduling
process much easier.
To start, lets think about the scheduling process. The engineer will start with a set of unscheduled cuts in their IP Set
and then set up the Quick Atribute panel to assign cuts to a given period. They will then select the cuts from the viewer
to schedule them in that period. On another screen, MSIP-Material Manager will be displaying the dynamically-updatng
tonnage and routng informaton from the schedule. At this point, if the engineer makes a few clever changes to their cut
display propertes they will then disappear from the viewer, just as if they were actually mined out. This technique can
be extremely useful for getng a visual snapshot of the current plan.
These display changes are made in the propertes dialog for your Interactve Planner Object. By default, the cuts are
displayed according to the Plan Material, and will usually appear as cyan-colored polygons. To make the cuts disappear
while manually scheduling, simply change the Style By propertes to use your Period Atribute, then edit the Cutof Item
corresponding to that Atribute such that geometry is not displayed for your scheduled period cutofs. The step-by-step
process for setng this up is listed below.
STEP 1: Open the propertes for your IP object.
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STEP 2: In the propertes secton, change the Style By: opton to Cutof and select the period atribute. Then click the
Cutofs buton to open the Cutof Item Propertes for that atribute.
STEP 3: Add cutofs that correspond to the periods stored in the Atribute, select all of them, and set color by range to
give each cut a unique color. This will make it easy to display the mining by period afer making a schedule. You may also
wish to set the unscheduled period value to a unique color to make it stand out.
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STEP 4: Select all of the scheduled period values, click the propertes buton, and uncheck the Show Geometry box.
Now that you have customized your cut atributes you can exit the cutof item propertes, and click OK in the Geometry
View Propertes window to apply the changes. As you atribute your cuts with a Period value, they will now automatcally
disappear from the screen, just as if they were mined out. A visual demonstraton of this efect can be seen below in
Figure 5.
Figure 5: As you schedule cuts, they will now disappear from the viewer.