Drillhole Planning

On the Drillhole tab, in the Planning group:

• Click Drillhole Planning to open the Drillhole | Planning ribbon and put the Vizex window in Planning mode.

  

• Click Drillhole Planning | New Plan to create a new Drillhole Plan layer and open the Drillhole | Planning ribbon with Vizex in Planning mode.

  

• Click Drillhole Planning | Open Plan to load and configure an existing file in the Planning form to open it as a Drillhole Plan layer in Vizex in Planning Mode.

  

• Click Drillhole Planning | Load Drillholes Into Plan to load existing collar and survey data, or traces, into the active planning layer.

  

On the Drillhole | Planning tab, in the Planning group:

• Click New to create a new Drillhole Plan layer in Vizex.

  

• Click Open to load and configure an existing file in the Planning form to open it as a Drillhole Plan layer in Vizex.

  

• Click Edit Form to open the form for the selected layer.

  

• Click Drillhole Planning | Load Drillholes into Plan to load existing Collar and Survey data or Traces into the active planning layer.

  

• Click Copy to Active Layer to copy selected drillholes to the active String layer.

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On the Drillhole | Planning tab, in the Create group:

• Click From Collar to interactively design a curved or straight drillhole starting from the collar, then build the trace towards the target area.

• Click From Target to interactively design a curved or straight drillhole starting from the target, then build the trace towards the collar.

• Click Collar to Target to build a planning drillhole by defining fixed collar and target locations.

• Click Wedge to plan a wedge hole off an existing or planned drillhole using kick-off depth, wedge deflection and toolface values.

• Click Create Pattern to generate a regular pattern of planned holes and add them to the planning layer. The holes of the pattern can be adjusted interactively.

• Click Create Fans to generate one or more fans of planned drillholes.

  

• Click Manual Hole to manually digitise a hole trace.

  

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• Click Extend Hole to interactively extend an existing hole.

• Click Reverse to reverse the order of the points on selected drillhole traces.

  

• Click Extend and Clip to extend or clip drillholes so that the collar coincides with the DTM surface. The rest of the drillhole will not be moved

  

• Click Drape to drape collars onto a DTM surface by repositioning the Z position of the collar to patch the DTM.

  

• Click Enable Snapping (or use the S shortcut key) to enable or disable Snap mode.

  

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• Click Finish Plan to save the planned holes. Holes are enumerated using a default “PDH001, 2, 3, etc“ identifier for each hole.