Map3D User's Manual - Version 72
Keyword Index

• Map3D Overview
  • Introduction
  • About Map3D
  • Map3D Overview
  • Applications
  • Model Building Overview
  • Boundary Element Formulation
  • Rock Mass Response Predictions Using Numerical Modelling
  • Implementation of Modelling into the Mine Design Process
• Model Building and Editing
  • Model Building and Editing
  • Building Surface Models
  • Building Models out of Blocks
  • Constructing Alternate Material Zones
  • Material Codes - Mining Step Sequence
  • Defining Ground Surface
  • Defining Open Pits
  • Defining Fault Planes and Tabular Mining Zones
  • Defining Inactive Blocks for Visualization Purposes
  • Common Problems When Model Building
  • Discretizaiton and Lumping
• Model Building Tutorials
  • Video demo of FFLoop model building
  • Video demo of DDLoop model building
  • Video demo of Model Simplification Using Slicing
  • Freehand Sketching - Room and Pillar Mining
  • Bulk Mining Example
  • Tabular Mining Example
  • DDLoop Pillar Example
  • FFLoop Drift Example
  • FFLoop Stope Example
• Model Calibration Tutorials
  • Rock Mass - Overbreak Failure 
  • Rock Mass - Pillar Failure
  • Structurally Controlled Overbreak Failure
  • Fault Slip Failure
• Menu Commands
  • File Menu
    • MODEL VIEW (Quick Open Model)...
    • RESULTS VIEW (Open Analysis Results)...
    • New Model (CAD)
    • Quick Open (View Only)
    • Open Model (CAD)
    • Save Model (CAD)
    • Save Model As (CAD)
    • Import model from DXF or PNT
    • Export model as DXF or PNT
    • Restore Auto-Save CAD State
    • Save named CAD State
    • Restore named CAD State
    • New Construction Lines
    • Quick Open Construciton Lines (View only)
    • Open Construction Lines
    • Save Construction Lines
    • Save Construction Lines As
    • Open Analysis Results
    • Subtract Restart Files
    • Restart an Analysis
    • Update Restart Files
    • Mining Step #
    • Output
      • Copy Screen to Clipboard
      • Copy Screen (B&W flipped)
      • PNG, GIF, JPEG, BMP or TIFF Screen Image
      • PNG, GIF, JPEG, BMP or TIFF (B&W flipped)
      • DXF Screen Image
      • PNT Screen Image
      • OBJ Screen Image
      • WRL Screen Image
      • 3D-PDF Screen Image
      • Selected Grid Components
      • Selected Surface Components
      • Animated TIFF/GIF Recorder
      • Image Recorder
    • Image Viewer
    • Save View
    • Restore View
    • Recent Files
    • Exit
  • View Menu
    • Hide
      • Off
      • Surfaces
      • Blocks
      • Colour Numbers
      • Colours (1-10)
      • Materials
      • Names
      • Mining Steps
      • Window
      • Crossing
      • Undo last Hide
      • Redo last Hide
      • Unhide All
      • Inactive
      • Solids
      • Excavations
      • Unused
      • Translucent
      • Show Errors
      • Hide Errors
    • Hide Block Colours
      • Hide All
      • Unhide All
      • Colour 1
      • Colour 2
      • Colour 3
      • Colour 4
      • Colour 5
      • Colour 6
      • Colour 7
      • Colour 8
      • Colour 9
      • Colour 10
    • Hide Excavation Steps
      • Hide All
      • Unhide All
      • Step 1
      • Step 2
      • Step 3
    • Hide Cline Colours
      • Hide All
      • Unhide All
      • Colour 1
      • Colour 2
      • Colour 3
      • Colour 4
      • Colour 5
      • Colour 8
      • Colour 9
      • Colour 10
    • Hide Grid Colours
      • Hide All
      • Unhide All
      • Colour 1
      • Colour 2
      • Colour 3
      • Colour 4
      • Colour 5
      • Colour 6
      • Colour 7
      • Colour 8
      • Colour 9
      • Colour 10
    • Render
      • Block Outlines
      • Grid Lines
      • Block Colours
      • Material Numbers
      • Mining Step Numbers
      • Dark Shading
      • Bright Shading
      • Texture Rendering
      • Assign Block Textures
      • Small Block Numbers
      • Large Block Numbers
      • Small Block Names
      • Large Block Names
      • Small Coordinate Numbers
      • Large Coordinate Numbers
      • Backfacing Surfaces
      • Fixed width spacing
      • Discretize
      • Perspective
      • Cline dot radius
      • Point Size
      • Line Width
    • Find Coordinate
    • Initialize
    • Zoom Extents
    • Zoom
    • Pan
    • Length
    • Centre of Rotation
    • Translation Increment
    • Rotation Increment
    • Zoom Factor
    • View XY plane
    • View YZ plane
    • View ZX plane
    • View Grid plane
    • View Digitizer plane
    • View 640x480
    • Continuous Rotation
  • Plot Menu
    • Stress
      • Major Principal Stress
      • Intermediate Principal Stress
      • Minor Principal Stress
      • Maximum Shear Stress
      • In-Plane Shear Stress
      • In-Plane Normal Stress
      • In-Plane Maximum Stress
      • In-Plane Minimum Stress
      • Ubiquitous-Plane Shear Stress
      • Ubiquitous-Plane Normal Stress
      • Ubiquitous-Plane Maximum Stress
      • Ubiquitous-Plane Minimum Stress
      • Octahedral Shear Stress
      • Mean Stress
      • Sxx Cartesian Stress
      • Syy Cartesian Stress
      • Szz Cartesian Stress
      • Txy Cartesian Stress
      • Txz Cartesian Stress
      • Tyz Cartesian Stress
      • Value
        • Effective stress
        • Total stress
        • Induced Stress
        • Absolute Stress
    • Strain
      • Major Principal Strain
      • Intermediate Principal Strain
      • Minor Principal Strain
      • Maximum Shear Strain
      • In-Plane Shear Strain
      • In-Plane Normal Strain
      • In-Plane Maximum Strain
      • In-Plane Minimum Strain
      • Ubiquitous-Plane Shear Strain
      • Ubiquitous-Plane Normal Strain
      • Ubiquitous-Plane Maximum Strain
      • Ubiquitous-Plane Minimum Strain
      • Octahedral Shear Strain
      • Volumetric Strain
      • Exx Strain Component
      • Eyy Strain Component
      • Ezz Strain Component
      • Exy Strain Component
      • Eyz Strain Component
      • Exz Strain Component
      • Value
        • Elastic strain
        • Plastic Strain
        • Total Strain
        • Induced Strain
        • Absolute Strain
        • Strain
        • Milli-Strain
        • Micro-Strain
    • Displacement
      • Total displacement
      • X displacement
      • Y displacement
      • Z displacement
      • In-plane normal displacement
      • In-plane maximum displacement
      • Ubiquitous-plane normal displacement
      • Ubiquitous-plane maximum displacement
    • User defined plot
    • Thermal/Flux
      • Plot > Thermal/Flux
      • Total flux
      • X flux
      • Y flux
      • Z flux
      • In-plane normal flux
      • In-plane maximum flux
      • Ubiquitous-plane normal flux
      • Ubiquitous-plane maximum flux
    • Strength Factors
      • Rock Mass Parameters
        • Rockmass Strength Parameters
        • Accumulated Damage
        • S1 Excess Stress
        • Tmax Excess Stress
        • Toct Excess Stress
        • NS1 Normal Probability
        • SF-A Strength/Stress
        • SF-B Strength/Stress
        • SF-C Strength/Stress
        • SF/A Stress/Strength
        • SF/B Stress/Strength
        • SF/C Stress/Strength
      • In-Plane Parameters
        • In-plane parameters
        • Accumulated Damage
        • In-plane Excess Shear Stress
        • In-plane Excess Wall Stress
        • RCFip Rock Wall Condition Factor
        • NTip Normal Probability
        • SF-ip Strength/Stress
        • SF/ip Stress/Strength
      • UB-Plane Parameters
        • Ubiquitous parameters
        • Accumulated Damage
        • Ubiquitous Excess Shear Stress
        • Ubiquitous Plane Excess Wall Stress
        • RCFub Rock Wall Condition Factor
        • NTub Normal Probability
        • SF-ub Strength/Stress
        • SF/ub Stress/Strength
        • UB#
    • Surface Components
      • Surface Contours Off
      • Serr Stress error
      • Ferr Failure error
      • Shear stress
      • Normal stress
      • Maximum Tangential Stress
      • Minimum Tangential Stress
      • Shear strain
      • Accumulated strain
      • Normal strain
      • Shear Displacement (Ride)
      • Normal Displacement (Closure)
      • ERR
      • SF-D Strength/Stress
      • Excess Shear Stress
      • Incremental Shear Strain
      • Stress/Strain rate
      • Cohesion
      • Phi
      • Temperature/Head
      • Normal Flux
      • Value
        • Elastic strain
        • Plastic Strain
        • Total Strain
        • Absolute Strain
        • Induced Strain
        • Induced Stress
        • Absolute Stress
    • Miscellaneous
      • Delem Distance to nearest element on surfaces
      • Dgrid Distance to nearest grid on surfaces
      • Delem/Lelem DON ratio on surfaces
      • Dgrid/Lelem DOL ratio on surfaces
      • Dratio on surfaces
      • Dgrid Distance to nearest element on grids
      • Dgrid/Lgrid DOL ratio on grids
      • Matl# - Material Number on Grids
    • Contour Range
    • Grid Selection
    • Plot Options
    • Properties
      • Control Parameters
      • Mining Step Titles
      • Material Properties
      • Map3Di Setup
      • Model Information
    • Average Box
    • Polygon Box
    • Excel Plot (Grids)
    • Excel Plot (Surfaces)
  • Analysis
    • Analysis
    • Analysis Options
  • CAD
    • Build
      • Block
      • FF Loop
      • DD Loop
      • Tunnel
      • Grid Plane
      • Grid Line
      • Construction Lines
      • Enter Point
      • Extrude/Offset Remaining
      • Undo Point
      • Redo Point
      • Undo Build
      • Redo Build
    • Snap
      • None
      • Nearest Edge
      • Nearest Corner
      • Nearest Surface
      • Midpoint of Line
      • Tangent Snap
      • Intersection Snap
      • Trace Cline Snap
      • Trace Cloop Snap
      • Points Window
      • Rectangular Grid Snap
      • Circular Grid Snap
      • X-Grid Snap
      • Y-Grid Snap
      • Z-Grid Snap
      • Cursor/Grid Setup
      • XY Cursor
      • YZ Cursor
      • XZ Cursor
      • User defined cooordinate system
    • Properties
      • Control Parameters
      • Mining Step Titles
      • Material Properties
      • Map3Di Setup
      • Model Information
    • Edit
      • Entity Properties
      • Erase Entities
      • Move Entities
      • Copy Entities
      • Scale Entities
      • Rotate Azimuth
      • Rotate Dip
      • Slice Entities
      • Dump to File
      • Group Entities
      • Stretch Verticies
      • Move Verticies to point
      • Move Verticies to X
      • Move Verticies to Y
      • Move Verticies to Z
      • Move Verticies to Plane
      • Subdivide Edges
      • Smooth Construction Lines
      • Remove Construction Line Vertex
    • Grid Selection
    • Digitizer Setup
    • Resequence Block Links
    • Recheck Blocks for Errors
    • Pack and Renumber Blocks
    • Unpack Blocks
    • Unpack Surfaces
    • UnGroup DDs
    • Pack and Renumber Clines
    • Unpack Clines
  • Tools
    • Mouse Options
      • Mouse Buttons
      • Double Click Time
      • Drag Wait Time
    • Toolbars
      • Rotation Toolbar
      • Translation Toolbar
      • Contour Toolbar
      • Configure Contour Toolbar
      • Solve Toolbar
      • Configure Solve Toolbar
      • View Toolbar
      • Configure View Toolbar
      • CAD Toolbar
      • Configure CAD Toolbar
      • Block Colours
      • Contour Colours
      • Set Default Block Colours
      • Set Contour Colours 1
      • Set Contour Colours 2
      • Set Contour Colours 3
      • Set Contour Colours 4
      • Configure Button Font
      • Reset Default Font
      • Small Size Buttons
      • Medium Size Buttons
      • Large Size Buttons
      • XL Size Buttons
      • XXL Size Buttons
    • Assign Hotkeys
    • OpenGL
      • OpenGL <On/Off>
      • OpenGL Parameters
      • OpenGL Antialiasing
      • OpenGL Redraw
      • OpenGL Pick
      • OpenGL Crosshairs
      • OpenGL Interactive Edit
    • Disk Performance Test
    • Smooth Scroll
    • Cursor Pick Box Size
      • Small Pick Box
      • Medium Pick Box
      • Large Pick Box
  • Shift-key Selection
  • Crosshairs
  • Visualization
    • Visualization (of text files)
    • Visualization (of EVP files)
    • Visualization Database
    • Contour Plane Options
    • Plot
  • Help
    • Contents and Index
    • What's This?
    • Web: www.map3d.com
    • Email: support@map3d.com
    • Email: Key check to support@map3d.com
    • Download: Map3D update (setup.exe)
    • Download: Map3D update (Map3D.zip)
    • Download: HTML User's Manual
    • Download: PDF User's Manual
    • Download Ebook User's Manual
    • About Map3D
• Appendix
  • Analysis
    • Analysis > Options > MSCALC Output File Name
    • Analysis > Abort
    • Analysis > Auto Plot
    • Analysis > Auto Range
    • Analysis > BEM Analysis
    • Analysis > Discretization
    • Analysis > Go to CAD
    • Analysis > Go to Results
    • Analysis > View Results
    • Analysis > Intersections
    • Analysis > Load Model
    • Analysis > Minimize
    • Analysis > Options > Accelerator
    • Analysis > Options > Async I/O
    • Analysis > Options > Auto Repair
    • Analysis > Options > Batch
    • Analysis > Options > CGM
    • Analysis > Options > Closure
    • Analysis > Options > Collinearity
    • Analysis > Options > Collinearity Search Radius
    • Analysis > Options > Collapse
    • Analysis > Options > Creep
    • Analysis > Options > Threads
    • Analysis > Options > Drive #
    • Analysis > Options > Move Points
    • Analysis > Options > MSCALC
    • Analysis > Options > Initialization
    • Analysis > Options > Halt on Errors
    • Analysis > Options > Initialization file name
    • Analysis > Options > LERD/LSS
    • Analysis > Options > LERD/LSS file name
    • Analysis > Options > Linear & Quad
    • Analysis > Options > Lumping
    • Analysis > Options > Lumping Accuracy
    • Analysis > Options > Planar
    • Analysis > Options > P-ram
    • Analysis > Options > Precondition
    • Analysis > Options > Renumber
    • Analysis > Options > Reset
    • Analysis > Options > V-ram
    • Analysis > Options > Verbose
    • Analysis > Options > Zero Strain Placement
    • Analysis > Options > Host Stress Datum is Ground Surface
    • Analysis > Options > Calculate Tangential Stress Components
    • Analysis > Options > Nosleep for Analysis
    • Analysis > Suspend
    • Analysis > Conclude
    • Analysis > Disable
    • Analysis Dialog
  • CAD
    • CAD > Properties > Map3Di Setup > View
    • CAD > Build > Block Mesh Spacing
    • CAD > Snap
    • CAD > Edit
    • CAD > Edit > Entity Properties > DDPlane Thickness
    • CAD > Edit > Entities
    • CAD > Edit > Entities
    • CAD > Edit > Build A List of Entities for Editing
    • CAD > Edit > Build A List of Verticies for Editing
    • CAD > Digitizer > Activate
    • CAD > Properties > Material Properties > Stress State
    • CAD > Properties > Material Properties > Stress State > Cartesian
    • CAD > Properties > Material Properties > Stress State > Datum
    • CAD > Build
  • File
    • File > Open > Merge Materials
    • File > Output > Animated GIF Recorder > Append Images
    • File > PNT Output File Format
    • File > PNT Construction Line File Format
    • File > PNT Model File Format
    • File > Restart File Formats
    • File > Construction Line File Formats
    • File > DXF Construction Line File Format
    • File > DXF Model File Format
    • File > INP Model File Format
    • File > Open > Recent Directories
    • File > Open > Merge Geometries
    • File > Model File Formats
  • Materials
    • Materials > Mohr-Coulomb in 3D FF Blocks
    • Materials > Hoek-Brown in 3D FF Blocks
    • Materials > Drucker-Prager in 3D FF Blocks
    • Materials > Fault-Gouge in DD Planes
    • Materials > Equilibrated-Gouge in DD Planes
    • Materials > Yielding-Pillar in DD Planes
    • Materials > Softened Material
    • Materials > Hyperbolic-Backfill in DD Planes
    • Materials > Quadratic-Backfill in DD Planes
    • Materials > User Defined Parameters
    • Materials > Dump to File
    • Materials > Expansion Coefficient and Conductivity
  • Dock the View Toolbar
  • Dock the Contour Toolbar
  • Map3D Analysis Stages
  • Map3D Versions
  • Map3D Fault-Slip
  • Map3D Modeller
  • Map3D Results Viewer
  • Map3Di Integrated Seismicity
  • Map3D Thermal-Fluid Flow
  • Map3D Non-Linear
  • Map3D Visco-Plastic
  • Model Building Tutorials
  • Plot > Stress
  • Plot > Failure Modes
  • Plot > Strain
  • Plot > Surface Components
  • Stress Orientation Icon
  • Translating the Model
  • View > Render > Discretize
  • Visualization > Make Point
  • Global Transform Z+ up

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