A better way to paint geometries with contours in FLAC3D

Simon

It is possible to ‘paint’ geometries from zone values in FLAC, however when there are void (null) zones in the model, the visualisation is patchy and not great. This is because when the geometry passes through a nulled zone a value of 0 is used for the painting, even if the nearest non-null zone has a value.

To address this, a functionality has been added to StopeX to paint geometries with the nearest value from a non-null zone.

To use the functionality can be used with any geometry loaded into FLAC by substituting the geometry name into the following command

@geom_paint(‘[geometry set name]’)

Tom

Just used it, really good, thanks Simon! One thing to note, run the ‘nearest point.dat’ first to define the fish function and then make sure you put .stl on the end of your geometry you want to paint, for example: @geom_paint(‘All development.stl’)

Simon

Tom good point! all of the geometries imported by StopeX default have ‘.stl’ extension in the name, but if you use the file->open to load a new geometry the ‘.stl’ won’t be there. If in doubt, check the name in the geometry plot item

Also the function is included by default in the latest source code so no need for the ‘.dat’ file in the future!