SURPAC VISION

SOFTWARE
INTRODUCTION

Presented by:
MAHARSHI(BT15MIN013)
SWARAJ(BT15MIN014)
MANOHAR(BT15MIN015)
MANIKIRAN(BT15MIN016)
Objectives

 Introduction
 Interface
 Tools and customization
 Data plugins
What is Surpac?

 Geocom Surpac is the world’s most popular geology and mine planning
software.
 Surpac is a comprehensive system for ore body evaluation, open pit and u/g
mine design.
 It provides tools for geological modelling, surveying, and mine planning.
 Surpac Vision is an analysis and design tool, which provides flexibility and
numerous options with the integration of a 3D graphical environment
containing multi layer control and split screen viewports.
 Surpac Vision version 5.0 has a range of excellent new functionality in key
areas.
Functions: It has a comprehensive set of data analyses and
visualization tools for all stages of mine development
between Site Investigation and actual mining.

User: Requires specialized personnel to operate.

Data Management. Reads ODBC databases, shapefiles,

AutoCAD and multiple other raster and vector formats.
Can export DXF surfaces to other softwares.

From http://www.surpac.com/vision_Graphics_and_visualisation.asp
Software Analysis/ Users Data
Visual tools Management
Geosoft Critical, but Need Proprietary data,
Oasis not many technical but good
Montage specialist interface
Arc View w/ Many, but User Friendly Reads ODBC, DXF
3D Analyst Not all. multiple raster
and grid formats
Surpac Almost Need tech. Reads(Arc)Shape
Vision everything specialist/prof ODBC, multiple
review. raster and grid
formats
acQuire Minimal Training/Data Provides all
Functions Management levels of Data
Specialist Management

Rockware Many, Requires Reads MDB, and

almost All reading of ArcGIS Interface.
manuals
Functionalities
Geological & Resource
modelling

Mine Planning

Mine Production
GEOLOGICAL AND RESOURCE MODELING

Data Management
 Employ sophisticated database tools to store, manage and review drilling
data.
 Interface to any popular database product and work in real time while
connected to that data.
 View and output sections quickly and easily using drillholes and existing
topographic or pre-modeled data.
Estimation and Modeling
 Surpac contains outstanding tools for sample compositing and geostatistics.
 Variogram modeling includes variogram fans and dynamic lag adjustment to help identify the
best variograms for data.
 Estimation tools include an interface to GSLIB for both normal kriging and conditional
simulation options.
 Comprehensive 3D wireframing tools enable the development of a truly representative model of
any orebody.
 Surpac block modeling tools cover an extensive range of functionality and are easy to use. With
multiple cores, validating a model and generating any level of report can be done quicker than
ever.
MINE PLANNING

 Data from various sources can be viewed and incorporated into plans to
support feasibility projects.
 Different pieces of information can be viewed simultaneously to ensure
designs are within the physical constraints of the mining area and to
maximize the economic extraction of a resource.
 Data can be used directly from other software package formats with Surpac’s
sophisticated Data Plug-ins.
 Interact with all mine design data: drill holes ; existing orebody and surface
models; optimized pit shells; block and grid models, colored by grade
distribution; and many more
MINE PRODUCTION

Mine Survey and Ore Control

 Calculate and validate volumes quickly.
 Compare kriged models against raw drillhole data to optimize reserve
extraction.
 Produce high quality to-scale maps of any relevant project information.
 Road and pit design tools are geared towards surveying setout, ensuring the
necessary details required by earth movers are marked out accurately.
 Integrated resource models, pit designs and survey data results in up-to-date
ore markouts and dig plans with grade and tonnage reports.
Benefits

• Better sharing of data, skills and project knowledge increases efficiencies within teams.
• Tasks in Surpac can be automated for compliance with company-specific processes and data flows for
increased time savings and consistency of execution.
• Software ease-of-use quickly ensures staff develops an understanding of the system and project data
quickly.
• Surpac is modular and easily customized to adapt to changing needs.
• Surpac reduces data duplication and interfaces with common file formats from GIS, CAD and other
systems.
• Multilingual support: English, Chinese, Russian, Spanish and French.
 THE SURPAC PLATFORM
 Main Window
 The main window is where all the ”work” gets done. It is important that you understand how to
 use the various features of this window to get the maximum benefit from the software.
 Surpac Interface
Surpac has a user friendly interface making information
easy to locate and manipulate
 Menu Bar: There are 11 different menus to choose from in Surpac
Vision. The two defaultmenus are called Main Menu & Applications
Menu. Others include Applets, Blast Design,Block Model, Database, Mine
Design, Ring Design, Solids, Surveying, & Scheduling.
 Toolbars: There are 14 different toolbars to choose from in Surpac. The
two defaulttoolbars are called Status Items, & Main. Others include
Edit, Create, Display/Hide,View, Inquire, File Tools, Block Model,
Database Mine Design, Blast Design, RingDesign, & Scheduling.
 Menus or Toolbars may be displayed or removed by right-hand clicking
any region withno menu item and selecting or de-selecting the
menus/toolbars from the subsequentcontext menu. Menus are located
above the separator line in the context menu, andtoolbars below
 Navigator: Exporer-like view of mapped drives
 File management within navigator by right-click
 Status Bar: The status bar show vital information such as cursor coordinates, currentview dip and
azimuth, change of distance in axis when moving or copying, connectivity todatabases & block models.
 Message Window: All information relayed from Surpac to the user is displayed in themessage
window. It can be resized, minimized & maximized. Its position can also betoggled between floating
and docked. Text in the message window may be copied andpasted.
 Viewport: This is the 3D graphical environment in Surpac. All data types are viewed inthe
viewport (string, surfaces, databases, block models, etc…). Three modes of dynamicview movement in
the viewport are attained using the mouse

 Command Chooser: All commands run (either from menus, toolbars, or typed in) aredisplayed
in the command chooser. In parentheses after the function name, the short-cutkey is also
displayed. While typing commands using the keyboard, the commandchooser will auto-complete your
keystrokes. The up arrow can be used to scroll throughpreviously run functions.

 Layer Chooser:All available layers are displayed in the layer chooser. Theselected/displayed layer is

the active layer. Modifications to data or creation of new datacan only take place in the active
layer. Surpac Vision always starts with one layer, the“Main Graphics Layer”. Other layers can be added
by clicking “new layer” from the layerchooser, or by opening files from the Navigator using open
mode”
 CURRENT WORKING DIRECTORY
 The current working directory
is the directory path “set”
within surpac to which all
subsequent files are saved.
This directory is displayed in
the uppermost title bar of the
SURPAC Vision window
FORMS & FORM HELP

 right mouse button in the current field presents a popup menu:

Last Values

 The five values previous entered in the field are displayed. Selecting one
of these values copies it into the current field.
 Following these items is Last value for all fields. Selecting this
item reverts every field
on the form to its value
the last time the form
was applied
Cut, Copy and
Paste items (where
appropriate)
 Field Help, Form Help Auto Help

 Field Help
 Selecting this item displays the field help for the current field. The field help information
automatically updates for any later selected fields. When the form is closed, the help will
not re-appear for subsequent forms, unless this menu option is selected again.
 Form Help
 Selecting this item displays the form help
for the current form. When the form is
closed, the help will not re-appear for
subsequent forms, unless this menu option
is selected again.
 Auto Help
 Selecting Auto help makes the form and
field help window appear for every form
until you either select it again, or shut
down the software.
 Last Value if blank
 This causes the field to retain the last value entered where the application does not supply a
value. For example, if selected for the Layer field of the Recall a File form, this option
would not alter the field, but if selected for the Location field of the same form, the last
file location would be presented.
 Last Value
 Selecting this item causes the field to retain the last value regardless of any other value
inserted by the application. For example, if selected for the Layer field of the Recall a File
form, this option would present the name of the layer the previous application of this form
used.
 Constant...
 Selecting this item allows entry of a
value to use for this field every time the
form is displayed.
 Application
 Selecting this item causes the field to
behave in the same way that it did in
previous versions of the software,
displaying any value entered in the field by
the application
Function Keys
Selected keys on the keyboard are defined so that various actions can be performed. These keys are:
Key Physic
Functionality
Name al Key

F2
Enter
Apply Invoke a function entered in the Command Chooser. Complete a form.

On-line help. Press the F3 key or single click the Help button to will invoke the on-line help with the page
Help
being displayed relating to the form that is currently displayed, or the function that is currently executing.
F3
Cancel Esc Cancel the current form. Escape from a selection browser.
Abort the function or macro. Pushing the abort button (on the progress feedback bar) will abort the current
Abort Ctrl-c
function
Tab Tab Advance to the next input field.
BACK_ Shift-
Move to the previous field, or to the previous column on the same row if inside a scrolling region.
TAB tab
Customizing Surpac
 Surpac Vision will start in the default installation directory.
Take note of this startup directory, it is displayed in the
window header at the top of the screen and is represented
by a tick in the file navigator.
 To customize the startup directory, exit out of surpac and
right click on the surpac icon, select the properties tab
 Useful things to change at this stage are:
The startup directory
Icon colour
Shortcut key
Menu and Toolbar Customisation
 CREATING A PROFILE: Profile is a configuration of menus and toolbars that
have been designed to suit a particular style of usage of the software. A
number of suitable profiles are provided. You can, using the customising
features of the software create your own profiles to suit your own usage
pattern.
Main Window:
The main window is where all the ”work” gets done.
The main window has four major components:
 Menus
 Graphics Window
 Message Window
 Surpac Navigator
Menu
FILE MENU

 The File menu contains functions for loading and saving string files and DTM
files.
 You will use the Save File function most commonly, to save DTM and string
files. However you can also capture screen images using the Postscript and
GIF or PNG Dump functions.
 Edit Layers
 The Edit | Layers menu contains some very useful features of Surpac Vision i.e. the ability
to use and manipulate data in multiple layers.

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Display Menu
 The Display menu allows you to nominate how to display your data on screen
 Use the toolbar.

 or the Pull down menu to Display and Hide String and DTM data in Graphics.
Surpac Navigator:
 Apart from providing a useful way to organise your data, the Navigator is an
active component that responds to double click actions to open files of
various types in file type dependant manner.
 The surpac navigator displays the document titles in hierarchical form.
 To open the file, right mouse click on the selected file and choose open.
 You can also “drag and drop” by selecting a file in the Navigator and then
dragging it to the Graphics viewport and releasing the mouse button or by
just double clicking on the file.
DTM TOOLS
Surfaces in SURPAC are modelled as DTM's
(digital terrain models). DTM's may be
generated from many different types of
data such as surface topography, bedrock
topography, & geological contacts.
Accurate volume calculations between
DTM's are one of SURPAC's strongest
capabilities.
FUNCTIONS:
CREATING SURFACES
BLOCK MODELLING
PIT OPTIMISATION
GEOLOGICAL MODELLING
DRILLHOLE DESIGN
TERRAIN MODELLING
UNDERGROUND MINE DESIGN
Surpac Vision has many functions for underground mine
design and is applicable to such underground engineering
tasks as solid modelling underground workings,
production & development layout design, ring/blast
design, and maintaining survey data.

DRILLHOLE DATABASE
Surpac has the capability to read and create any ODBC
database including MS Access.  A geology database will
contain many types of drill hole data such as lithology, &
assays.  It forms the basis of a reserves estimation. 
These data are easily imported through SURPAC's
importing functions.
 Importing Data Formats

• Surpac has its own file formats, however support is

offered for files from other software packages.
• There are two methods for reading or writing these files

Using the importing/exporting tools

Using the data plugins module

 New data connectivity within version 5.0 allows users to read and
write data from and to virtually any data source or file format via
suitable plug-ins. There is no need to import/export or duplicate
data.
 Data Plugins included with the first release of version 5.0 include
Autocad .DWG and .DXF
ArcInfo shape files
Datamine .ASC and .DM
Gemcom
Medsystem
Microstation
Vulcan
 Importing and Exporting

Files can be imported into a Surpac format via functionality

through the menus. The files are physically converted into the
Surpac format.
Supported Formats are:
Autocad DXF/DWG files
ArcView / ArcInfo files
Datamine files
Moss Genio files
Microlynx files

Likewise, Surpac files can be exported into the

above formats
Data Plugins

Data from other packages can be used in Surpac through the

enabling of the Data Plugins module. This allows drag and
drop capability and conversion of the following file types.

ArcInfo shape files (.shp)

Autocad files (.dxf, .dwg)
Datamine files (.dm, .asc, .ddf, .dat)
Gemcom files (.3dr, .bt2, .tie, .abp, .stl)
Vulcan files (.dgd, .00t)
Microstation files (.dgn)
Minesight files (.msr)
Mapinfo files (.tab, .mif)
Functionality of Data Plugins

 Data is dragged and dropped into the Surpac

workspace
 Data remains in its native format when manipulated
 Data can be saved in any of the other formats
 Data can be converted into any of the other formats
without opening the file
 Plugins are constantly maintained as other software
companies update their own format
Importing Data via Plugins

Data can be brought into Surpac simply by dragging and dropping

one of the recognised file types.