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The document provides a comprehensive guide on using Micromine Spry, covering essential tasks such as creating and opening projects, navigating the Project Explorer, and managing windows. It includes instructions for adding or importing items, accessing settings and support, and organizing various windows within the software. Overall, it serves as a foundational resource for new users to effectively utilize Micromine Spry for their projects.

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The document provides a comprehensive guide on using Micromine Spry, covering essential tasks such as creating and opening projects, navigating the Project Explorer, and managing windows. It includes instructions for adding or importing items, accessing settings and support, and organizing various windows within the software. Overall, it serves as a foundational resource for new users to effectively utilize Micromine Spry for their projects.

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Find your way around in Micromine Spry


Where the most important things are and how to do the basics.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

Contents
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................ 1
Create a new project .............................................................................................................................................. 1
Understand the Project Explorer ............................................................................................................................ 2
Add or import something ....................................................................................................................................... 2
Find Micromine Spry settings and support ............................................................................................................. 3
Open a project ........................................................................................................................................................ 3
Open something in the Project Explorer ................................................................................................................ 4
Close and open the Home tab and ribbon .............................................................................................................. 4
Navigate the Home tab and ribbon ........................................................................................................................ 4
Organise windows opened from the Project Explorer ........................................................................................... 5
Open a new Data Table or Scenario window.......................................................................................................... 5
Organise other Micromine Spry windows .............................................................................................................. 5

Introduction
We're going to jump into using Micromine Spry. If you need help with getting a copy of Micromine Spry and
installing it on your computer, take a look at the module in this course called "Get Micromine Spry".
To start using Micromine Spry, you will need to either start a new project or open an existing project.
If this was not your first time in Micromine Spry, you could select Restore Project Layout before you open a
project you were working on in the past. This will open the project with all the windows laid out the way you
left them.
Micromine Spry gives you lots of windows and window display options. Selecting this checkbox will prevent
you from needing to open and rearrange each window every time you close and re-open a project.

Create a new project


When you first open Micromine Spry, you can create a new project in
two different ways.
Either open the File menu and select New or click New under Actions.

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1 Click New.
Give your project a name that is meaningful to you and save it in a
2 Enter a File name. location that suits you.
3 Click Save.

Understand the Project Explorer


The Project Explorer allows you to easily navigate through the main areas of Micromine Spry. You will find
most things specific to each project here.
Our new project, and every project, has these main areas.
Starting from the bottom, Scripting is a tool used to customise Micromine Spry in almost any way imaginable.
This is an advanced feature that you may never need, and definitely won't need as a new user of Micromine
Spry.
If you do think of something you need down the track that you just can't achieve with the built in features of
Micromine Spry, then Scripting could be the solution. In this case, contact Micromine for assistance with this
feature.
Design is a CAD space for visualising spatial data related to your mine site.
The Documents feature enables the storage of documents as part of your Micromine Spry project. This allows
you to easily keep relevant files together.
For example, you can take advantage of spreadsheeting features directly from within Micromine Spry and
represent your schedule with the charts and graphs available.
Another example is a document, such as a PDF, that contains the technical specification for a piece of
equipment used at your mine, such as the specifications for a Cat 6060 excavator.
We will be looking at the Data and Scenarios features in this Learning Pathway.
Data is a list of all the tables that are contained within the model of the mine.
The tables store the inputs into your schedule. Typical tables are a deposit table to store your reserved mining
data, dump tables to store your designs for your waste destinations, and calendar tables to store information
about equipment and locations that might change month over month.
Scenarios are where spry schedules are stored. We call them scenarios because you can schedule against the
same input data in multiple different configurations.
Scenarios is where you tell Micromine Spry how you want to use the data – how you want to mine. In each
scenario you specify what you want to dig; what you want to treat as coal; what you want to treat as waste.
This all goes in to Scenarios.

Add or import something


When you want to add something to your Micromine Spry project, such
as a new Data Table or Document, you will need to right-click to access
1 Right-click. the context menu.
Select Add in the
2 context menu.

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Select Import in
3 the context menu. You can also import existing items from the context menu.

Find Micromine Spry settings and support


The File menu in Micromine Spry provides project options, such as
1 Click File. saving, opening, backing up, and finding recent projects.
There are also other preferences and information about Micromine Spry
available.
Click Settings in If you want to change how Micromine Spry does something, there might
2 the File menu. be a setting that lets you make this change.
For example, you might want to use specific keys on your keyboard to
complete an action in Micromine Spry.

To edit the keyboard shortcuts, you will first need to unlock the
Keyboard Settings.

If you make changes to these keys and later decide you want to go back
to how they were originally set up, you can reset them to the default.
Click About in the The About page has information and options that could help you solve
3 File menu. problems in Micromine Spry.
You can also see what has changed in recent updates to Micromine Spry.
The Exit option will close Micromine Spry, just like the X in the top right
corner.

Click the back arrow to get back to your project.

Open a project
Let's open an existing project so you can see how Micromine Spry works
1 Click File. when there is more in the Project Explorer.
2 Click Open.

You can get a copy of this example project in the course resources.

Select the project If you are not sure how to find the resources, take a look at the module
3 file. "Navigate this Learning Pathway".
4 Click Open.

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When you open a Micromine Spry project there is a Lock File
automatically created. This prevents you from opening the same project
in two instances of Micromine Spry.

You don't need to worry about the Lock File, it is automatically


managed.

Open something in the Project Explorer


Double-click an
item, or right-click
an item and select
1 Open. You can double-click to open things in the project explorer.

Alternatively, you can right-click and select open in the context menu.

Close and open the Home tab and ribbon


The Home tab is open by default.
The Home tab includes a ribbon that displays different tools and options
depending on what type of file you have open.
Click the close
arrow icon on the
1 Home ribbon. You can close the home tab with the arrow on the right.
Notice that the Home tab is not highlighted anymore.
2 Click Home. You can click the Home tab to open it again.
Click the pin icon
on the Home
3 ribbon. Click the pin icon to keep it open.

Navigate the Home tab and ribbon


The Home tab ribbon changes depending on which type of window you have selected.
You may recognise the Word Document Home ribbon. It gives you options when editing a word document that
are similar to any other text editing software, such as Microsoft Word.
There are also additional tabs available when you have a Word Document window selected.
The additional tabs disappear as soon as you select a different type of file window.
Some files have multiple windows that you can access from the ribbon.
The window you have open is highlighted on the ribbon.
When you open a new type of window the options on the ribbon change.

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Organise windows opened from the Project Explorer
You can move windows around, so they display in a way that suits you.
Click-and-drag a
1 window to move it. Drag windows out and resize them.
Click-and-drag a
window edge to
2 resize it.

Hover over a
window position
icon to snap the
window in
3 position. Snap windows to the bottom, left, top, or right.
Drag the windows around at any time to view them in different ways.

Open a new Data Table or Scenario window


You can open multiple copies of the same Data Table or Scenario
window.
Right-click a
window tab or
right-click a file in
the Project To do this, either right-click the window tab, or right-click the file in the
1 Explorer. Project Explorer.
Select an Open
option in the
2 context menu.

You can also close any file windows you don't need.

Organise other Micromine Spry windows


You can close other windows in Micromine Spry, such as the Project Explorer window.
You can open the window again and pin it back in place if you need to.
You can also maximise windows so they take up more space, and minimise them again.
Click and drag the top of the window to move it around. If you have a second monitor this allows you to put
the window on another screen.
There are several handy window snapping options that will easily put the window in a convenient location for
you.

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