Home Dashboard

The Dashboard provides access to recent project, license details and useful links.

Main User Interface

The AlmaSim user interface is designed to maximise the 3D Scene visualisations whilst minimalising the other tools and panels to support the workflows within the Build and Analyse stages.

The AlmaSim user interface is designed to maximise the 3D Scene Visualisation whilst minimalising the other tools and panels to support the workflows within the Build and Analyse stages.

Toolbar

The toolbar on the top-middle holds the following types of tools

icon	label	description
	Reload Network	When clicked, AlmaSim's entire 3D scene is reloaded (except for Surface objects) and object references are recalculated (Shortcut ESC)
	Select	Selecting or draging will cause object selection
	Zoom In	Draging the mouse upward will cause zoom in (to be removed)
	Zoom Out	Dragging the mouse downward will cause zoom out (to be removed)
	Rotate	Dragging the mouse will rotate the view
	Pan	Dragging the mouse will pan the view
	Undo	Undo most recent network edit (Shortcut CTRL+Z)
	Redo	Redo most recently network edit undo (Shortcut CTRL+Y)
	Active Draw	When toggled, draw options activate (Shortcut D)
	Snap to Point Only	When toggled, only joins are allowed (Shortcut Q)
	Snap to Surface	When toggled, snap tp surface as well as joins are allowed (Shortcut W)
	Snap to elevation	Disabled. When toggled, all points will be placed at the specified Elevation (Shortcut E)
	Delete	When toggled, any selection in the scene will trigger automatic delete (Shortcut X)

Navigation Gizmo

The Navigation Gizmo at the Top Right of the UI shows the camera's orientation.

It provide controls to pre-set the viewing angle of the camera based on a cube's sided, edges and corners. Clicking on those geometries centres the camera's position and rotation.

For large networks, the distance from the world's centre and the camera can be manually set in Preferences under AutoZoom scale.

Worlflow Stage

The workfloat is split into two stages: Build and Analyse. Selecting the corresponding label on the top-left panel will active the mode.

Project Dashboard

The dashboard is a simple panel to support saving and opening projects, viewing license details and provides handy links.

Dashboard

Build Mode

The Build Mode allows the 3D network and Equipment to be editted. It provides additional Drawing Tools as well as Context menu-properties for selected network objects.

Analyse Mode

The Analyse Mode activates the various Analysis Modules.

Options Panel

The Options Panel on the Righthand side of the UI provides the following Options:

Option	Description
Segment	Provides toggles to hide and show Segments based on names
Surface	Provides toggles for hide and show Surfaces based on names
Flags	Provide ability to create and manage Flags, as well as toggled to hide or shows Segments with flags
Preferences	AlmaSim cosmetic settings and user preferences. More Info here
Settings	AlmaCore settings for how various functionality calculations are made More info here

Modules Panel

The Modules Panel on the Bottom side of the UI provides the following Modules:

module	Panel name	Description
Deterministic	Simulation Table	A UI for producing a Deterministic simulation for a Source --> Destination
Deterministic	Analytic Chart	A chart showing the speed profile for a selected Souce --> Destination simulation
Mine Plan	Mine Plan	A UI for integrating, validating and producing simulations for a full LOM Mine Plan
DES	Des Equipment	A UI for defining the stochastic truck and diggers for a Discrete Event Simulation
DES	Des Equipment	A UI for defining the production plan and equipment allocations for a Discrete Event Simulation
GNSS Playback	Playback	A UI for defining the production plan and equipment allocations for a Discrete Event Simulation
All	Console	A UI for reading logs (standard) and providing custom scripts (advanced user)

Status Bar

The Status Bar and associated Progress Bar shows the current or most-recent task being performed by AlmaSim. The history is stored in the Console

Cancellation Token

A Cancellation token is bound to most I/O and long running tasks which are pushed onto asynchronous background threads. The cancellation is called via the Escape key or a cancel button

Console

The Console stores various logs related to actions and functions triggered by the user. By default all Logs are preserved, from Informational, Warning to Success and Error. These can be filtered by toggling the corresponding icon. The list can be cleared by pressing the X Clear button.

note

The Console list can be modified within the AlmaSim Settings