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• LAS/LAZ ASCII MS3D

IMPORT

• Triangulate, Large Gridded Object (LGO)

TRIANGULATE

• Despike, Verify, Repair

PROCESS

• Contour, Texture, Spot Heights

UTILIZE

Generalized Workflow

• Mines surveyed in las/laz format may be imported to MineSight 3D (MS3D) as point clouds after first converting these files to ASCII

• The release of 64-bit MS3D in the first quarter of 2014 makes it easier than ever to work with large datasets

Import

Triangulate • A topography surface may be created by triangulating the data in the

previously imported point cloud.

• MS3D makes use of the Delauney triangulation technique, which attempts to create triangles as close to equilateral as possible.

Triangulate • An alternative option is to create a Large Gridded Object (LGO) from the ASCII

file, which may be used to store and manipulate very large surfaces.

• An LGO stores elevation values at centers of a user-defined grid, and may be displayed as either a series of parallel polylines or as a gridded surface.

Process • The de-spike function may be used to remove vertical spikes from surfaces,

where spikes are needle-like extrusions with large height-to-width ratios.

• Vertical faces greater or equal to a defined maximum height-to-width ration will be automatically removed and patched in the surface.

Process • Larger anomalies in the surface, likely caused by vegetation in this case, can be

edited manually using the MS3D CAD tools.

• The Surface Verify tool can be used to patch (repair) holes in any surfaces where the user has removed unwanted faces.

Utilize

• Once the user is happy that all processing of the surface is complete, there are many ways in which the surface may then be used.

• The Contour Tool offers a method of creating contour lines from a MineSight surface.

Utilize • The General Gridder tool overlays a set of evenly spaced grid points on any

triangulated surface and calculates and stores the surface’s elevation at each point, thereby providing a series of spot heights at a user-defined spacing.

Utilize • The Texture Surface Tool allows you to drape digital images in a number of

formats over a surface in MS3D.

• For more information on any of the topics covered in this document, please contact your local MineSight technical support office.

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