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Datamine Studio
Version 3.24.25.0

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Whats New for Datamine Studio MR24
Main Messages for this version of Datamine Studio

Technical Note: Using Studio with non US/UK characters

Setting non-US/UK language support

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Region Settings

Environment Files

Portability of Data Files

Issues resolved in Datamine Studio MR24

WHATS NEW FOR DATAMINE STUDIO MR24

This release includes many updates in response to feedback from previous versions. In addition,
there are functional changes which are particularly significant:

Main Messages for this version of Datamine Studio

New!! Uniform Conditioning Functions
Uniform Conditioning in Studio 3 helps you to optimize the accuracy of
your predicted recoverable resource estimates and access the
information you have available regarding recoveries predicted at the
mining (SMU) scale. See your online Help for more information (Using
Studio 3 | Grade Estimation | Uniform Conditioning).

New!! Extended Foreign Character Support

Studios clients can now use foreign (non UK/US) characters in many
more areas of the system than previously possible, including data values,
file and project names, plot items and dialogs.

New!! Wireframe Thickness Calculations (including True Thickness)

The Calculate Wireframe Volume, Grid DTM and intersect-drillholeswireframes commands have been extended to provide support for
vertical, horizontal and true wireframe thickness calculations.

New!! Improvements to the Calculate Volume command

Now supports keyfields, for per-domain, per-level etc. reporting
Now allows writing of the volume calculation data to an output table
Can optionally write key calculations back to the wireframe triangles, e.g.
thickness, areas, azimuth and dip.

New!! Create Isoshells Variogram Support

The popular isoshell generation routine now includes support for a custom
variogram parameter file, permitting a wider range of grade shell
scenarios.

New!! Line Charts

Studios scatter plot options have been extended to allow the creation of
compelling line charts, including spline fitting.

New!! PDF3D Output Improvements to Handle Larger Animations

Studio's PDF3D output function has been improved to allow for export of
more complex animations and a significant reduction in resulting PDF file
size over the previous version.

New!! Synchronised VR String Coloring Options

Strings in the VR window can now automatically link the colours of their
lines and symbols, so that changes can be made more easily.

New!! Divide Wireframes Enhancement

Studios powerful command to divide wireframes by existing strings has
been extended even further to provide an optimised solutions when using
outlines, including support for nested strings and also to allow you to
specify an INSIDE parameter to explicitly define an internal boundary.

Important Fix in this version:

In the last release of Studio an error was introduced which will often reset the ST1PAR3 (and other
ST?PAR3s) to 1 during variogram modelling. This was intended to only happen for 2D variograms (to
make the output consistent with other variogram processes), but often happens with 3D variograms
as well. This release fixes that issue.

TECHNICAL NOTE: USING STUDIO WITH NON US/UK CHARACTERS

Studio MR24 allows non-US/UK characters to be used in the following situations:

Project paths and names

File names
Text columns/fields
Plot item text boxes and similar

Although it is possible to also use non-US/UK characters in field/column names, this is not
fully supported at this time, and its use is not recommended.

Setting non-US/UK language support

Region Settings
In order to provide backwards compatibility of DM format files, Studio makes use of the
current Windows Code Page to tell it which language to expect. This code page can be set in
the operating systems Regional settings, so please check your operating systems help file
for exact steps for the version you are using.

Example of Windows 8.1 Region Settings

More information on the code pages currently supported by Microsoft Operating Systems can
be found at the following website:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/goglobal/bb964654.aspx

Environment Files
In addition to the regional settings, some processes require that an option is turned on in the Studio
Environment Files in order to use non UK/US text data. In these cases an environment file should
contains the appropriate SEC_CHAR_SET entry, e.g.:

SEC_CHAR_SET = RUSSIAN (set automatically for the Russian version of Studio)

SEC_CHAR_SET = INTERNAT
SEC_CHAR_SET = GREEK
(This setting is only required for non US/UK text data attributes; it is not needed for filenames, project
names, or plot items etc.)

Portability of Data Files

Since DM files use the Windows Code Page to specify how the characters should be interpreted,
characters in a DM file may appear differently if read on a computer with different Region Settings to
where it was created. For DM files which move between language regions, it is recommended that
only UK/UK characters are used in text fields.

ISSUES RESOLVED IN DATAMINE STUDIO MR24

The following cases have been resolved for this version:
ID
Type
Description of Change
Core System Commands and Processes
CORE-52
Imp
Support has now been implemented for filenames containing foreign
characters.
CORE-54
Imp.
You can now enter foreign characters into Plot window items
supporting text, e.g. text boxes.
CORE-271
Imp.
The About box now contains a Credits button which credits any Open
Source 3rd party software used with our products.
CORE-108
Bug
MGSORT no longer creates a single precision file in an extended
precision project.
CORE-126
Bug
An issue causing the system to halt unexpectedly when specifying
non-existent files in certain process dialogs has been resolved.
CORE-138

Bug

An issue causing the system to halt unexpectedly when restoring

process command parameters with retrieval criteria has been
resolved.
Incorrect command icons that previously appeared in the Russian
version of Studios Data menu have been corrected.

CORE-159

Bug

CORE-165

Bug

The Browse button tooltip in the Retrieval Criteria tab of process

dialogs has been removed.

CORE-396

Bug

The Find Command function no longer forces the system to become

unresponsive if a project is not loaded.

CORE-463

Bug

Various processes, including MGSORT, SORTX and OUTPUT are no

longer restricted to 1024 uses per Studio session.

CORE-397

Bug

The merge identical records option for the display of drillhole

attributes now works as expected.

CORE-448

Bug

CORE-508

Bug

CORE-465

Bug

CORE-128

Bug

COMPDH now correctly honours the @MINCOMP parameter to

ensure that composites will store an Absent value for a composite
which is dominated by Absent values along its length.
An error introduced in last release which often caused the ST1PAR3
to be reset to 1 has now been rectified. This parameter is now only
reset to 1 with 2D variograms.
An issue of MRO failing with a specific data set has now been
resolved.
An issue with MODENV causing an unexpected program termination
has now been resolved.

STUDIO-1815

Imp.

STUDIO-2662

Imp.

Visualization
CORE-409

Feature

CORE-469

Feature

CORE-599

Feature

The Define Holes process will now only compute holes when
explicitly requested by the user. Previously, the calculation was
performed automatically after each data table specification.
The intersect-drill-wireframes command has been extended to allow
additional attributes to be written to the created intersection points.
These include wireframe attributes, downhole distance, entry/exit
flags and various wireframe thickness calculations. Intersection points
may also now be limited only to entry and/or exits points.
It is now possible to automatically synchronize the line and symbol
colors in the VR window for string data.
Studio now produces significantly smaller PDF3D animated files.
The system will now display a warning if the graphics hardware fails
to have the required capabilities for the new symbol display.

CORE-77

Imp.

CORE-476

Imp.

CORE-399

Bug

STUDIO-2300

Bug

CORE-573

Bug

CORE-587

Bug

CORE-589
CORE-590

Bug
Bug

CORE-566

Bug

CORE-579

Bug

CORE-573

Bug

CORE-601

Bug

Wireframing
STUDIO-2655

Feature

STUDIO-2658

Feature

Data Transfer
CORE-449
CORE-53
CORE-494
CORE-144

Imp.
Imp.
Imp.
Bug

The VR window section clipping buttons will now be disabled if

clipping is unavailable on the active section (usually because the
section is hidden)
You can now update VR objects from script without enabling the VR
window.
The VR window no longer flashes when being used on Windows 8, or
on Windows 7 with Desktop Composition enabled.
The Sequence Control bar will now always display the name of the
object and field being animated.
An issue that caused unexpected behaviour when editing the drillhole
cylinder segment display in the VR window has been resolved.
An issue preventing the correct display of LSTYLE 1006 has been
resolved.
Point data now animates as expected in the VR window.
An issue introduced following implementation of VR symbols, making
selection of small symbol vertices potentially difficult, has been
resolved.
PDF3D output no longer shows a bounding box entity where one was
not specified in the VR window.
The sphere.x file installed with Studio was found to have an
inconsistent winding order, giving rise to visual inconsistencies this
has been resolved.
Changing the number of edges used to model drillhole and string
cylinders will now have an immediate effect in the VR window.
An unexpected program termination when accessing the properties of
individual strings in the VR window through the sheets control bar has
now been resolved.
The grid-dtm command has now been extended to allow additional
control over the grid position, size and orientation. Additional options
are also available for the copying or calculation of data attributes for
the grid points, including various wireframe thickness calculations.
The Wireframe Volume command has now been extended to provide
reporting by keyfield (domains etc.) as well as recording the results
directly to a data table. Additional options are also available for the
calculation of data attributes back into the wireframe triangles,
including various wireframe thickness calculations.

The Microstation .dgn driver now supports the import of Multi Lines
Cyrillic characters are now supported when defining file names
You can now save imported data with non US/UK file names.
An issue preventing the import of CAD data where layer data is
hidden in the source file has been resolved.
DSDIE-120
Bug
A specific instance of an issue importing a CAD data file has been
resolved.
DSDIE-129
Bug
Exporting data via DXF no longer forces the output units of
measurement to inches.
DSDIE-159
Bug
An issue with a specific DXF data file only loading half the triangles
has been resolved.
Resource/Reserve Modelling
STUDIO-896
Feature
Studio 3 now includes a new Uniform Conditioning module. Localized
Uniform Conditioning is also supported.
STUDIO-2115 Feature
You can now specify a custom variogram file when generating
isoshells (create-shells).
STUDIO-1165 Bug
ESIMATE now handles files with uppercase .DM file extensions.
STUDIO-1515 Bug
SPLICO no longer generates an error when run interactively.
STUDIO-1806 Bug
A specific case of STATS incorrectly calculating the number of
missing values has been resolved.

STUDIO-2298

Bug

In the previous version, running ESTIMATE with an alpha numeric

ZONE field was not always providing expected results. This has been
resolved.
STUDIO-2000 Bug
An issue which would sometimes cause STATS to incorrectly store
the KEY1 values when a FIELDLST was used has now been
corrected.
Customization, Automation and Scripting
STUDIO-2677 Imp.
Studio processes can now use foreign file names when called from a
script.
STUDIO-2478 Imp.
New processes have been created for Gaussian Anamorphosis,
Support Correction and Uniform Conditioning.
Charting and Reporting
STUDIO-2165 Feature
Scatter plots may now also be used to draw line charts.
CORE-537

Feature

Scatter Plots now have an extra option in the Data Selection tab for
including/excluding a combined chart when keyfields are being used.
Note that a combined chart is never shown when keyfields are used
with line chart formatting..
Utilities and Supporting Services
CORE-17
Imp.
Studio now supports installation of the application to a drive other
than the default.
CORE-55
Bug
An issue preventing Studio shutting down correctly has been
resolved.
Documentation
CORE-446
Imp.
Several additions have been made to the Studio Help File in line with
recent changes.
CORE-483
Bug
The online help page for the Estimate dialogs Unfold panel is now
displayed as expected via context help options.

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