Studio UG Design Types

There are four design types that can be used to define your Studio UG planning project:

Fixed Cross Sectionals(FXS) - created by applying a fixed cross sectional area to a design string (survey line). More...
Outlines(OUT) - created by projecting closed strings a set distance perpendicularly, or by projecting them to hanging-wall and foot-wall wireframes. More...
Complex Solids (CXS) - created by wireframing two closed strings which may be irregular. More...
Wireframes - volumes representing underground cavities, which typically do not have uniform dimensions, such as stopes. Imported Wireframes are wireframe files which have been imported from applications such as Vulcan, or created in Studio 5D Planner/Studio UG using the Mineable Shape Optimizer (MSO) tool. More...

Your project can contain any combination of these design types. Subsequent processing of these design types will result in the input design strings being projected, imported, linked and/or extruded to form volumes which are segmented to honor the design definitions associated with each string entity.

Studio UG greatly extends the functionality of its predecessor (Studio 5D Planner) in that you can now use more than one file of the same design type in a project, whereas previously only one file could be specified for each type.

These schedule 'segments' will contain system attributes and possibly custom attributes defined by you. Ultimately, these segmented volumes will be used to form an operational schedule and report reserves information based on the interrogated input block model(s).

About Matching Attributes

Datamine's legacy underground scheduling packages, including Studio 5D Planner and its predecessor, Mine2-4D, differentiate between unique instances of design types according to a unique combination of linestyle (LSTYLE), color and symbol attribute values.

In Studio UG, you can use any combination of any attributes to make a definition unique. Design files that are added to the project with the same matching attribute values will automatically be connected to the corresponding definition.

For example; your design definitions are isolated using (only) a COLOUR attribute. In other words, COLOUR is the "matching attribute". You have four definitions represented by colours 1 to 4. Your loaded design data also contains a COLOUR attribute with values spread throughout the file ranging from 1 to 4. When the design is added to the project, each element of the file is automatically associated with a definition according to the COLOUR value for each design file record.

You can set up one or more matching attributes. If multiple attributes are specified, the design file data must match all corresponding definition values to be connected to that definition (e.g. COLOUR must equal 2, LSTYLE must be 1001 and REGION must be "INFR_WEST").

This, in combination with a unique name, makes definition assignment quick and easy.

See Matching Attributes.

	Related Topics
	Fixed Cross Sectional (FXS) Complex Solids (CXS) Outlines (OUT) Wireframes (WFM) MSO Introduction