Blocks menu contents

Create in situ block layouts on your dragline sections.

Delete all block and block label objects from your dragline section layers.

Display a block's parameters. The selected block must be on the current section.

Set or edit the swell table - a table that details the maximum swell factors to be applied, when moving a certain type of material with a certain piece of equipment. Maximum swell factors for each piece of dragline and ancillary equipment can be set or edited.

Edit Repose

Edit the angles of repose for selected blocks. All subsequent movements of the selected blocks will use the new angle of repose.

Edit Swell

Edit manually the swell factor of individual blocks on the current section.

Edit Rehandle

Edit manually the rehandled fraction of a block on the current section. The rehandled fraction is the number used to determine how much of a block has been moved.

Reset Log File

Remove all the operations that have been previously logged to the current section log file.

Reset Undo Stack

Reset the dragline undo stack, as well as delete all undo strings from the current section layer.

Reset Sections

Return the current section to its original state.

Edit Label

Edit the block labels on the current section.

Drag Label

Drag (move) a block label to a new position.

Rotate Label

Rotate block labels by indicating two points to represent the new direction of the label text.

Recentre Label

Set the position of block labels back to the centres of their blocks.

Unrotate Label

Rotate block labels back to horizontal.

Label Attributes

Set the font, text size, colour and line type of the block labels on all sections.