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Description

Create wireframe from a pair of drive roof and floor strings.

How to use

This command will typically be used to create a wireframe from underground survey data. This survey data will typically have been surveyed or digitised and then interpolated for the correct elevations, to create completely three-dimensional floor and roof strings for each drive.

Identify these strings, and a drive wireframe model will be created by end-linking both strings and linking them to each other. If a cell model has been opened, the drive will be fully evaluated against it. The newly-created wireframe data will join any other currently available wireframe data.

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Using this command in conjunction with the 3D Solid linking method.

If you have strings on adjacent sections that are to be linked together, and those strings cross each other when viewed in the direction of wireframing, then temporary vertices are inserted into the string and these temporary vertices are used when the wireframe is created.  Since pairs of strings are wireframed at a time it is possible for these temporary vertices to be created for one pair of strings and not the other.  In this situation a wireframe may be built which contains inconsistencies.  Therefore the 3D-Solid method is not suitable for use with the older linking commands if adjacent sections contain strings that cross each other in the direction of wireframing.

More about the 3D Solid linking method...