mineCAD has been designed as a versatile and configurable application allowing clients to "bolt on" only those modules they require. This helps to provide a competitively priced application that is tailor made to clients needs.

Both mineCAD and mineORBIT are available as free standalone viewers to allow plans and visualizations to be freely distributed and viewed.

Licensing is available in both network and machine locked versions to suit clients work place needs.

Restructuring of the mineCAD modules has recently been undertaken with the release of v2.2. This aims to group the functionality developed over the past years into more distinct modules and remove functionality overlap.

The table below lists each of the modules available for mineCAD and their general functionality.

mineCAD General Status Functionality Description Notes
mineCAD Base Release
  • Core engine to mineCAD
  • Complete 3D layout capability
  • Extensive polyline alteration tools
  • Annotation and Dimensioning
  • Paperspace/viewport approach to plotting
  • Dynamic plot entities (grids and north arrows)
  • Advanced view management features
  • Ability to read/write mining datasources
  • Advanced layer control capabilities
  • Block management utilities
  • VB macro creation and running
  • Digitizer: Integration with CALCOMP digitizers
  • Plot Management: integrated check-in and check-out with automatic backup. Rollback capability. Audit trail automatically generated
 Available as a free viewer (with reduced functionality for viewing and plotting only)
mineCAD Underground Presentation Release
  • Advanced annotation tools
  • UG polyline annotation tools (gradient change, safety bays, ventilation symbols, seismic events, drillhole handling)
 Requires mineCAD Base
mineCAD Underground Design Release
  • Create complex ramp designs
  • Advanced polyline manipulation
  • Wireframe slicing
  • Projection of polylines to wireframes
  • Polyline Boolean operations
  • Borehole warning routine
  • Block model slice viewing
  • Curve table creation
  • Import seismic and survey data
 Requires mineCAD Base and Underground Presentation
mineCAD Open Pit Presentation Release
  • Advanced annotation tools
  • Open Pit polyline annotation tools (gradient change, seismic events, drillhole handling)
 Requires mineCAD Base
mineCAD Open Pit Design In Development
  • Automatic pit wall and ramp projection
 Requires mineCAD Base
mineCAD Solids Modeling Release
  • Linking polylines both manually and automatically
  • Solid volumetrics
  • Creation of drift solids
  • Endlinking of polylines
  • Solid slicing to create polylines
  • DTM (tesselation) creation and manipulation
  • Solid Boolean operations (union, difference, etc)
  • Standard CAD solid creation tools (donut etc).
 Requires mineCAD Base
mineCAD Block Model General Release
  • Create slices through a block model
  • Interrogate a block model using a solid for ton and grade information
 Requires mineCAD Base
mineCAD Visualizer (mineORBIT) Release
  • 3D visualization window for communicating designs with others
 Requires mineCAD Base or free standalone viewer
 

 
mineCAD Specialized Status Functionality Description Notes
mineVMS (Ventilation Management System) Release
  • Management system for ventilation, using centralized database for housing ventilation information in multi-user environment
  • Capture of control status, flow direction and properties, stope recovery plans, control locations
 Requires mineCAD Base
mineRMS (Rock Mechanics Management System) Release
  • Management system for rock mechanics
  • Centralized database of rock mechanics information
  • Ground condition, QA and QC
  • Support types and conditions
  • Cable bolting design.
 Requires mineCAD Base
mineRECON (Reconciliation) Release
  • Used to capture CMS information and automatically generate valid closed solids without manual intervention
  • Automatatically generates overbreak and underbreak reports without manual solid Boolean operations.
 Requires mineCAD Base
mineHAUL (Haulage Analyzer) Release
  • Calculates the distances between nodes (and cycle times) in a network of haul roads or tunnels
  • Integrates with TALPAC for advanced cycletime calculation.
 Requires mineCAD Base
mineCAVE - Caving flow simulation Beta
  • Integrated system for performing caving flow simulation
  • Reports such as grade over time can easily be extracted and written to EPS.
 Requires mineCAD Base
mineSERV Release
  • Unique tool for simulating services (air, water, power) to ensure that plans are achievable.
  
Slide Show Release
  • Allows mineCAD plots and various graphic file formats to be displayed in a slide show format
  • Useful for communicating to production
 Requires mineCAD Base
Autostope Designer In Development
  • Automatic generation of stope shapes for various mining methods such as narrow vein deposits
 Requires mineCAD Base
Autostope Optimizer In Development
  • Interactive tool for governing stope mining "stop" in narrow vein deposits
 Requires mineCAD Base
 

 
mineMARKUP Status Functionality Description Notes
mineMARKUP - CORE Release
  • Advanced survey tool which runs on a pen computer and communicates wirelessly (or wired) with TPS2000 theodolite
  
mineMARKUP - SURVEY Release
  • Survey specific functions including, resection, floor and back shots, toping, capturing points of interest, automated tracking of theodolite directly on screen
 Requires mineMARKUP Core
mineMARKUP - MOSS (Miner Operated Survey System) Beta
  • Revolutionary system for miners to perform face markups without survey intervention
 Requires mineMARKUP Core
mineMARKUP - 3D CAPTURE In Development
  • Functions to allow geologists and rock mechanics to capture true 3D underground data without the need for survey
 Requires mineMARKUP Core
mineMARKUP - CMS Beta
  • Tool to perform CMS functions using the TPS2000
 Requires mineMARKUP Core
 

 
iRING Status Functionality Description Notes
iRING - DESIGN Release
  • Ring design application with advanced automated ring design capabilities
 Requires mineCAD Base
iRING - CHARGE Release
  • Allows charging and detonation to be easily incorporated in ring design
  • Bill of lading automatically generated
 Requires mineCAD Base and iRING DESIGN
iRING - FRAGMENTATION Release
  • Advanced fragmentation tool for checking the validity of a ring design and charge
 Requires mineCAD Base and iRING DESIGN