Direction

Change Direction

Use the Direction option to change the mining direction of a selected (red) polygon. The direction is used for targeting.

No panels or prompts apply. To define the mining direction, click on the direction arrow until the required direction is reached.

If the direction of mining is a specific angle, you may change the direction from the command line in one of two ways:

Method One

Select the reserving polygon using the Files > Select Polygons option. Do not highlight it.

Type:

tag_by_name /layer="<layer name>" /object="<Polygon name>" /vector=(x-direction,y-direction)

This command selects the polygon and sets the mining direction. The vector portion of the command directs the arrow that you see on the screen. The vector notation is in polar co-ordinates. In the table below is a list of vector notations and their corresponding angle measurements and bearing.

Wildcards can be used for both the layer and object name, for example tag_by_name/layer=*/object=*/vector=(1,0).

Method Two

This method chooses the polygons in the order that they were loaded into Rsvute.

Type:

vector/polygons=(1,2,3,..., n)/vector(1,0)

where n is the number of loaded polygons. For example, if you had five polygons loaded, n would equal 5.

This vector rotates the direction vector of the all of the polygons to the desired direction. If you only specify polygon=(1), then only the first loaded polygon is rotated.

Wildcards cannot be used with this command.