ROM Stockpile Boundary

To access this panel:

Activate the Home ribbon and select Boundaries | ROM Stockpile
Run the command "survey-boundary-stockpile"

ROM stockpile monthly reporting involves a cut and fill assessment of ROM stockpile locations for a specific area of the mine. Commonly, multiple stockpiles are assessed and results are broken down into per-pile results.

To both limit/constrain the data that represents each stockpile, and to assign a unique stockpile reference, a boundary string is used. This can be one or more closed strings.

As boundaries change over time, each boundary string object (containing one or more strings) is added to the database in relation to a reporting date.

You can use this panel in one of two ways (or a combination of the following):

Digitize string data using the ROM Stockpile Boundary panel New command and add it to the database with the specified date label.
Load previously-created boundary data and highlight a boundary (or boundaries), then add it to the database. Again, this will be added with the current Survey Date context.

String data that is associated with the same Survey Date will be available for selection when running an EOM ROM report, and that survey date is selected.

Example;

In the following image, showing a ROM surface according to latest drone data, the EOM ROM report needs to include volume results for each of the four stockpiles indicated. Currently, stockpile boundary data is not available for stockpiles 1, 2 and 3. Existing boundary data is available for stockpile 4 (from a previous report):

To digitize boundaries for stockpiles 1-3, you can either use existing string editing tools (e.g. those on the Edit ribbon) to create closed strings around the stockpile bases, or you can use the ROM Stockpile Boundary panel functions:

Ensure the Current ROM is the one you want (i.e. the one to which the boundary string data will apply). Change it if you need to, using the browse button to display the Database Settings panel (ROMs category).
Enter the ROM Stockpile Name (e.g. "STOCK1") for the boundary to be digitized.
Select the Surveyor responsible for the boundary data.
Select the Survey Date that represents the boundary data you are going to create. This date will be chosen during the EOM ROM report calculation later.
Click New
Digitize a boundary (a closed string will be constructed)
Click Add Selected
Similarly, digitize then add string data for stockpiles 2 and 3, clicking Add Selected after each one.

For stockpile 4:

Load the string data (using any load/import method) so that the existing boundary is displayed in the 3D window (alongside the ROM ground surface data). Keep the same Survey Date to ensure the imported data is added to the same boundary collection as boundaries 1-3.
Enter the ROM Stockpile Name (e.g. "STOCK4")
Click the imported (closed) string data to highlight it.
Click Add Selected

You can quickly generate a ROM stockpile boundary at a fixed elevation using the Surfaces ribbon's Plane | Section command. This can be used to generate a string at the intersection of the surveyed rom and a default section direction, or the current section definition.

Field Details:

The following fields are available on the ROM Stockpile Boundary panel:

Current ROM: the ROM to which the boundary data belongs. Change this using the browse button.

Surveyor: all surveyors that have been added to the database are available for selection using this drop-down list.

Survey date: select the date represented by the boundary data here. All string data added via the ROM Stockpile Boundary panel will be grouped into a date-specific collection that can be selected during subsequent reporting.

ROM Stockpile Boundary: click New if you wish to digitize a boundary in a 3D window.

ROM Stockpile Name: Specify the name of the stockpile here. This will be stored in a STKNAME attribute and can be used to filter the results of reporting later on, say, to a particular stockpile within a group.

Add Selected: add the currently highlight string data to the database (associating it with the current Survey Date and assigning the specified ROM Stockpile Boundary.