As a Geologist or a Mining Engineer, you may be working with block models regularly, viewing the model with graphical constraints, creating attributes, re-coding a block model and depleting a block model.

Did you know that as long as the block model audit trail is ticked when the model is created, all of these are stored in the model and can be saved as a macro?

By default, the block model audit box is ticked.

To reach the audit trail, click Block Model>Block Model>Display Audit Trail.

Within the audit trail the following is saved.

1. The step number or process number
2. The function used on the block model. This is anything that has been applied to the model. For example

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​                       * Attributes that have been added

                       * Graphical Constraints that have been used

                        * Estimation

                        * Block Model Maths.

           3. The date and the version the function was run in.

To save the step as a macro,

1. click on the step/process number
2. select save as a macro.

You can then edit the macro in note pad/context or another editing package.

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