Add Pin Point

Pin Points are used to provide stopping points within a panel. This is similar to, but not exactly the same thing as sub-dividing as panel.  Pin Points can be used to sequence mining up to the stopping point for both advance and retreat mining. Difficulty factors can be changed between pin points by placing the difficulty factor by text on the DIFFICULTY layer to impact the mining rate as well. Units can mine up to a pin point, mine in another panel, and then return to continue mining later. The N_Mains panel below has been broken into 6 parts that can be scheduled with the 5 pin points as shown.

The function Add Pin includes new pin points into the panel as desired.

For the example shown the sequence of advance mining is as the following:

N_MAINS <B:1>
N_MAINS <1:2>
N_MAINS <2:3>
N_MAINS <3:4>
N_MAINS <4:5>
N_MAINS <5:E>

The different pieces may also be assigned to the separate units as well.

The same set of pinpoints is used for both advance and retreat mining with the following naming convention:

Retreat
MAINS<B:1>
RET MAINS<2:E> RET, so that a section name on retreat is the same as on advance except for suffix the RET.

Prompts

Pick pinpoint or Enter distance or Define size[<Pick>/Enter/Size]: Whenever this prompt is displayed, you can click directly on a mine panel to place a pin point. This will continue until you select a new command line option or press ESC to exit the command.

Pick pinpoint or Enter distance or Define size[<Pick>/Enter/Size]:E This option will let you select a single mine panel and enter distances down the length of the panel to place a pinpoint

Select mine panel:
Enter distance from starting point:100 Places a pinpoint at exactly 100 ft (or meters) from the start of the panel
Enter distance from starting point:200 Places a pinpoint at exactly 100 ft (or meters) from the start of the panel

Enter distance from starting point: Press ESC to return to the main prompt

Pick pinpoint or Enter distance or Define size[<Pick>/Enter/Size]:S Allows you to change the size of any new pinpoints created
Pinpoint size <50.00>: 25 Sets the size of the pinpoints to 25

Pulldown Menu Location: Underground
Keyboard Command: addpin