Updating Panel Configurations in GEOVIA Minex

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In today’s tip, I’ll be discussing how to easily change existing panel configurations in an underground mine design.  Creating multiple versions of a mine design for reserves analysis for different panel configurations can often be tedious.

With Minex, the process is easy and allows engineers to spend more time analyzing results rather than building a new design from scratch.

Before we start, please ensure that:

  • Your Underground Project (*.ugpr) is open
  • Your Geometry (*.GM3) files are open

Using a Room and Pillar design, we will update the MAIN panel configuration in a few simple steps.

  1. First, open up Data Manager under the UG Design menu. This gives engineers the ability to change crosscut length, spacing, angels, and offsets to existing panels.
  3. Select Panel Configurations from the drop down and then select the Panel you want to change the configuration.  For this example, we will change the MAIN configuration.
  4. Expand the menu for MAIN and we can see how the existing panel is configured along with a visible preview of the panel configuration on the right.
  5. For this example, let’s change the road widths for A through E from 5m to 6m. You can change each road width one at a time, or if we hold the CTRL key we can select all entries at once and simply change the value from 5 to 6.
  6. Next, we will alter the crosscut spacing from 40m to 50m. Again, we can select all crosscuts at once and change 40m to 50m. Save your changes.
  7. Now that we have updated to our new configuration, we need to re-compute our pillars. Right click on the centerline of the MAIN panel and select Compute Pillars. 

  8. Complete the form below as per your design requirements and click on Compute.
  9. The MAIN panel configuration has been updated and you can now report the updated reserves.


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Ryan Blackwell

Ryan Blackwell

Technical Specialist, GEOVIA at Dassault Systèmes
Ryan is GEOVIA Services Director, North America with over 13 years of experience in the mining industry. He provides consultative selling expertise to enterprise mining clients, with a focus on 3D applications, Mine production management, and business process transformation. Based in Ohio, USA, Ryan specializes in GEOVIA Minex and InSite and enjoys playing ice hockey in his spare time.