Command and Processes Table - C
These tables list all commands and processes available in all Datamine Studio products. If your product has access to a command or process, the link on the left of the table displays a help file. If no link appears, the function isn't available in your product.
Symbols used in this table:
                                             A green tick indicates that the module is part of the core 
		 system licensing for the specified product - no additional module 
		 is required.
 A green tick indicates that the module is part of the core 
		 system licensing for the specified product - no additional module 
		 is required.
X A red cross indicates the module is not part of the listed system and any commands held within it cannot be run (a separate product will be required).
� A blue diamond indicates the module is an optional extra for the specified system and will require a dedicated, additional license.
Note: For an explanation of the terms 'command', 'process' and 'macro command', see Command Table Introduction.
For Macro commands, see here.
Commands - C
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                                                         | X | X | Calculate a blast volume based on input top, bottom and pit surfaces. | ||
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                                                         | Calculates the average joint spacing, fracture frequency and RQD for a set of selected planes. | ||
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                                                         | Convert logged alpha angle, beta angle and (if available) core orientation line data into dip and dip direction values. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Cancels the current command. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Creates a COG (center of gravity) point for each of the selected perimeters (closed strings). | Command Help | |
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                                                         | X | X | X | X | X | Change current calendar period. | ||
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                                                         | X | X | X | X | X | Toggle for controlling the automatic use of crossovers in pit design commands. | ||
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                                                         | Check wireframe data for crossover areas. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | X | Check link crossovers on selected strings | Command Help | |
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                                                         | X | X | X | Check current toe spacing against limits | ||
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                                                         | Draws an arc defined by three points interactively in a 3D window. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Draws a circle with a center point and a radius defined interactively in a 3Dwindow. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Draws a circle with a diameter set by two points defined interactively in a 3Dwindow. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Draws a circle from a center point defined interactively in a3Dwindow and a radius dimension. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | X | X | X | X | X | Classify categories into scheduling groups. | ||
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                                                         | Delete point and string data lying inside a selected perimeter. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Delete point and string data lying outside a selected perimeter. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Clip perimeter data using other perimeter data. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Clip one or more strings using one or more perimeter (clsoed) strings. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Clip one or more strings using one or more perimeter (clsoed) strings. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Clip selected string data to loaded wireframe surface or volume data. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Changes all open strings into closed perimeters. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Closes a selected open string | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Combine two perimeters (closed strings) into a single perimeter. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Combine the data of two loaded objects. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Generates a single string from two overlapping strings. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Generates a single string from two overlapping strings., preserving string attributes | Command Help | |
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                                                         | X | X | Displsys the Compliance to Design reporting panel | ||
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                                                         | X | X | Displsys the Compliance to Plan reporting panel | ||
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                                                         | Turns on the drillhole compositor mode for both the Design and 3D windows. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Uses the parameters of maximum and minimum chord lengths, and a minimum angle to modify a string. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | X | Generate a wireframe cone from a drillhole. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | X | Generate a wireframe cone from a string. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Connects two strings, from the selected end-point of the first to the selected end-point of the second. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Connects two strings, from the selected end-point of the first to the selected end-point of the second. Attributes from both strings are retained. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Generates strings between a 3D point and any points on a string which produce a predesignated angle. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Removes unwanted string vertices by extrapolating two selected converging string segments to their point of intersection, creating a single vertex. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | X | Creates strings from the hull (outline) of an existing wireframe. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | X | X | X | Copy ring data to the clipboard. | ||
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                                                         | Copy string data to the clipboard. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Copies the attributes of one string to another string, or from a string to a group of strings. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | X | Interactive command for copying a wireframe to a new location. | Command Help | |
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                                                         |   | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | Create a volume that represents a specific key field value within an input samples file. | ||
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                                                         | Generate single or branched centerlines from selected perimeter strings. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Create a legend based on date ranges. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Creates a drillhole collars table object from the current drillholes object. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | X | Extrude a designed profile shape along one or more design strings. | Command Help | |
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                                                         |   | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | Create grade shells representing volumes above a nominated cut-off grade. | ||
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                                                         | X | Create a wireframe isosurface(s) from defined values within a block model. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | X | Generate and preview (non)rotated block model prototypes, using defined parameters, an existing file or loaded data objects . | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Creates a new drillhole object in memory. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Creates a new drillhole object in memory. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Opens the Legend Wizard dialog in order to generate a new legend, either from loaded data or defined ranges. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Creates a new planes object in memory. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Creates a new points object in memory. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Creates a new strings object in memory. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Creates a new wireframe object in memory. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Define a rectangle by height, width, azimuth and anchor point, then position it in a 3D window interactively. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Create a new plot sheet containing a single projection representing the current view direction in the current window | Command Help | |
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                                                         | Draws a ramp string using a start point and defined start azimuth, gradient, radius and other parameters. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | X | Projects a string horizontally by a berm width to create new string. | ||
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                                                         | X | Projects a string inwardly from the control string by a berm width to create new string. | ||
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                                                         | X | Projects a string outwardly from the control string by a berm width to create new string. | ||
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                                                         | X | Projects a string at an angle to a defined level to create a new string. | ||
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                                                         | X | Projects a string downwards at an angle to a defined level to create a new string. | ||
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                                                         | X | Projects a string upwards at an angle to a defined level to create a new string. | ||
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                                                         | X | Create road edge perimeter around defined centre line. | ||
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                                                         | X | Creates a road outline from a string using a specified gradient and width. | ||
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                                                         | X | Creates a road outline on the inside of a string using a specified gradient and width. | ||
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                                                         | X | Creates a road outline on the outside of a string using a specified gradient and width. | ||
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                                                         | X | Create isoshell wireframes from drillhole or point sample data. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | X | X | Create surface roads on a reference topography. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | X | Tags specific points to be joined when wireframing strings. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | X | Set color for crest strings in open pit design. | ||
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                                                         | Toggles crosshair display. | Command Help | |
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                                                         | X | Generate volumes between surfaces representing cut and fill operations, using the Cut and Fill Volumes dialog. | Command Help | 
Processes - C
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                                                         | X | X | X | X | Define possible mineralized and background samples by the calculation | ||
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                                                         | Provides a general three-dimensional coordinate rotation and translation capability within your application. | Process Help | |
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                                                         | X | X | Creates a summary table and graph of confidence for parent cells in a block model which has been created using conditional simulation. | ||
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                                                         | X | X | X | X | CHANNL3D converts a set of Channel Sample data and Channel Survey data into a 'desurveyed' Static Drillholes file | ||
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                                                         | This process transforms data into a suitable format for creating charts and optionally creates and displays a draft quality plot. | Process Help | |
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                                                         | This process carries out validation checks on string data | Process Help | |
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                                                         | Checks wireframe point and triangle files. | Process Help | |
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                                                         | X | X | CLOSEPTS identifies closely spaced collars or points in a drillhole or point data file. | ||
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                                                         | X | X | X | X | Fields are clustered (R-mode) into groups on the basis of the correlation matrix to simplify the structure. | ||
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                                                         | X | The process calculates the centre point and the dip and dip direction of each triangle in a wireframe. | Process Help | |
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                                                         | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | Performs grade estimation using univariate and multivariate methods. These include ordinary, simple kriging, inverse distance weighting and nearest neighbor | ||
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                                                         | X | Combine up to twenty wireframes into a merged, single wireframe file | Process Help | |
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                                                         | X | COMBMOD combines up to twenty block models with different data definitions into one combine output model. | Process Help | |
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                                                         | Composites drillhole data over horizontal benches. | Process Help | |
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                                                         | Composites drillhole data over horizontal benches, with additional computation of a recovered grade and recovered fraction for a specified field at a given cut-off. | Process Help | |
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                                                         | Composites drillhole data down each drillhole. By use of retrieval criteria and a very large compositing interval, COMPDH can also composite over rocktypes or seams. | Process Help | |
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                                                         |   | X | X | X | X | X | Design and evaluate a composite in a blast. | ||
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                                                         | Composites drillhole data by optimizing the composite interval using ore and waste criteria. | Process Help | |
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                                                         | X | Generates a file that contains summary results from a number of different RESULTS files, that have been produced by processes such as MODRES or TRIVAL. | Process Help | |
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                                                         | Create a convex polygon around an X,Y point data set. | Process Help | |
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                                                         | X | Generates a contour plot file from an orebody model. | Process Help | |
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                                                         | X | X | X | X | Generates contours from a block model and stores them in three dimensional format into a string file. | ||
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                                                         | Copies any file within the database from the input file to the output file. | Process Help | |
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                                                         | Copy a normal or rotated model to a rotated or normal model with different origin and/or rotations. | Process Help | |
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                                                         | Copies a database file to a new file with the addition of a field for the record (line) number. | Process Help | |
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                                                         | Calculates bivariate statistics on pairs of numeric fields in a file. All results are output as the bottom left-hand triangle of a full two-dimensional matrix. | Process Help | |
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                                                         | Outputs a file containing each different value of a set of keyfields, and the number of occurrences of each value. | Process Help | |
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                                                         | X | Investigates the relationship between mining parameters (bench height, minimum mining width, direction of mining, bench reference elevation) | Process Help | |
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                                                         | X | X | X | X | Cross correlation analysis is used to quantify and define anomalous thresholds and halo size on regularly grided soil sample lines. | ||
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                                                         |   | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | Create an output model, reserve or plot file based on percentile values, simulated points and cutoff grades. | Process Help | |
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                                                         | X | X | This process identifies ore and waste blocks in a conditionally simulated model by minimizing the cost of incorrectly classifying ore as waste or waste as ore. | 

 
                                                     
                                                     
                                                     
                                                     
                                                     
                                                     
                                                     
                                                     
                                                    