Create a Drive Solid

Generate a closed wireframe surface or surfaces based on input desurveyed development strings.

Activity Steps

  1. Load or import surveyed string data representing underground developments.
  2. Open the Drive Solid from Survey Data screen.
  3. If required, filter your data (for example, by using the Quick Filter control bar.
  4. If required, preselect strings from which to generate a solid.

    Note: if no string data is selected, all string data will be used to generate a solid.

  5. To select string data for surfacing, you can either:
    • Select an existing string object from the Input Survey Data list, or;
    • Use the pick button to select any loaded string data. This is not recommended if you have preselected string data for surfacing (in this case, just pick the data object from the list. or;
    • Browse for a string data file to load and automatically select for solids generation.
  6. To choose how data is generated:
    1. Select Current object to output wireframe data in the current wireframe object. This can be useful if you wish to combine the results of several string surfacing activities into the same output wireframe. If no current object exists, one will be created.
    2. Select New object, and specify an object name, to generate a new data object containing drive solid data. If an object of the same name exists in memory, a unique numeric suffix will be applied.
  7. To control how hole detection is performed, use Hole threshold (%). Higher values tend to produce more internal voids in output surface data. See Hole Detection.
  8. Click Generate to create a solid drive wireframe.