the release of Studio OP V3.0

With the latest release of Studio OP we have a significant number of improvements to present both in OP specific functionality and Core improvements coming to OP with this release.

Auto-Design Improvements

• Automated Pit Design and Dump Design task panels have been overhauled to simplify the process of generating adaptive or fixed roads. By combining the ‘new’ and ‘edit’ command groups, it is now much easier to create or select a road for modification.
• This includes several changes to the Berm Tapering (now merged with the Road Overrides panel) and String Conditioning panels to reduce screen clutter and make the automated design process more straightforward.

• Define road override settings at either the pit or bench level. A new Road Overrides screen lets you define, per adaptive ramp/road, specific tapering and endpoint settings.
• This can be set for the entire road, or even at bench elevations, overriding all other tapering and flat road distance settings related to the design. You can set up a pattern too, say, to create a safety ramp for a particular spiral road, every 5th bench. 

• Generate a pit void top surface when generating phase shell contours. This could be useful, say, to capture pit rim ground data during automated design calculations.

• Automatically convert absent values to a different value on validating a model for the planning managed tasks. You can also convert a non-absent value to be absent (e.g. a particular void value code) and convert any negative number to a consistent value.
• A Lift Sections toolbar has been introduced to support dump design operations.
• Generate intersection strings where pit design surface data intersects with the topography, contact surface or both.
• Generate a persistent object and overlay for generated auto pit design data, for use in downstream tasks, using the new Create Overlays feature.
• Toggle filleting for individual bench or lift ‘projections’ using a new Fillet Projected Contour string conditioning setting.
• Control how projected toe and crest string are formed where severe angle changes occur, using a new Projection Method option (Advanced tab).