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Version 6.20.3 of SHOTPlus™; first offered to users on Thursday; 24th October 2024.If you wish to update to SHOTPlus™ 6.20.3; please contact BlastIQ Support or your local Orica Digital Solutions Specialist.For further information on updating SHOTPlus™; please contact the BlastIQ™ Support Team via support.blastiq.com.$$$$$$Fixed:$$$Unhandled Exception occurring when using SHOTPlus™.$$$Unhandled Exception occurring when saving files.$$$Save files were being corrupted by an Unhandled Exception.

Fixed$$$Text importer was incorrectly structuring the defined loading of a hole.

6.19.2 SHOTPlus™ Release Notes$$$August; 2024$$$Version 6.19.2 of SHOTPlus™; first offered to users on Friday 23rd August 2024. A notification will appear on start-up in SHOTPlus™ once the update is available.For further information on updating SHOTPlus™; please contact the BlastIQ™ Support Team via support.blastiq.com.$$$ Fixed$$$When using WebGen™ and encoding in-hole charges independently; the BID label was displaying the incorrect number of encoded detonators.$$$When using WebGen™ and encoding in-hole charges independently; timing was being incorrectly applied to charges.

6.19.1$$$SHOTPlus™$$$Surface$$$Production$$$August; 2024$$$Version 6.19.1 of SHOTPlus™; first offered to users on Monday; 5th August 2024.A notification will appear on start-up in SHOTPlus™ once the update is available.For further information on updating SHOTPlus™; please contact the BlastIQ™ Support Team via support.blastiq.com.

2.8.1$$$SHOTPlus™$$$Underground$$$Production$$$July; 2024$$$Version 2.8.1 of SHOTPlus™ Underground ; first offered to users on Tuesday 9th July 2024.A notification will appear on start-up in SHOTPlus™ Underground once the update is available.For further information on updating SHOTPlus™; please contact the BlastIQ™ Support Team via support.blastiq.com.$$$Important$$$Update to SHOTPlus™ Support Policy$$$ New$$$Users are now able to click and drag the uncharged collar in the Hole table; allowing quick adjustment of loading design.$$$Users are now able to export and append WebGen™ device report data to CSV file. 1$$$Report designer datasets now include total drilled meters and total charged meters.$$$In Report designer the ring diagram visualisation has been improved to display in-hole booster location and scale indicator.$$$ Information$$$For further information about the WebGen™ device export refer to the video walkthrough.$$$ Improved$$$Users are now able to input 5-digit time values when selecting holes in a time window.$$$Hole visualisation diagrams now have clearer delineation between an uncharged collar and the adjacent deck of explosives.$$$The old print functionality has been retired as part of the SHOTPlus print standardization across the SHOTPlus suite.1$$$User can now export text files without headings.2 $$$Improvements to 2D layout printing tool to improve legibility.$$$ Information$$$For further information about the new print functionality please refer to the KBA$$$Due to this improvement; a video walkthrough has been created that demonstrates the changed workflow for SHOTPlus™ Underground text export for Cycad™. It is available for viewing here. $$$ Fixed$$$2D layout print view now aligns with the order shown in Ring Manager.$$$Remove Timing was also clearing hole loading.$$$Text import was not showing the correct in-hole primer positions.

Select Language??$$$6.18.3$$$SHOTPlus™$$$Surface$$$Production$$$February; 2024$$$Version 6.18.3 of SHOTPlus™ Production; first offered to users on Thursday 1st February 2024.A notification will appear on start-up in SHOTPlus™ Production once the update is available.For further information on updating the SHOTPlus™; please contact the BlastIQ™ Support Team via support.blastiq.com.$$$ New$$$Users are now able to select and import multiple text files at once1.$$$A Reapply rules button has been added to the Loading tool.$$$ Information$$$The text files must have the same number of columns and the use of a template is recommended.$$$ Improved$$$The Visualize Timing tool now starts at the first firing event. $$$The messaging of what data has been imported from BlastIQ has been improved.$$$Refined filtering for AVM workflow.$$$ Fixed$$$Issues with displaying design and hole deviation traces were rectified.$$$When clipping to surface topography in the Exclusion area tool; the safety factor was being applied twice which was causing a size mismatch between the calculated horizontal distance and the created polygon. $$$Some .dxf files were not importing into SHOTPlus™ due to hidden vertices1.$$$Some .tif files were causing an error and not saving in a SHOTPlus™ file.$$$The profile tool was not honouring minimum strata length defined in the strata rules.$$$The Blaster Printout had a black background instead of a white background.$$$When importing profile traces and marking strata; file size was increasing rapidly.$$$Some users were triggering an error when trying to re-activate their license seat.$$$A premature view refresh call was causing an Invalid strata surfaces dialog box to appear upon opening a file.$$$Some users were not able to licence SHOTPlus™ after installation.$$$ Information$$$Hidden vertices are displayed in SHOTPlus™ so surfaces may appear differently to other software packages.

Improved$$$BlastIQ™ Licencing$$$Activations can now be released from within SHOTPlus™.1$$$On start-up SHOTPlus™ will warn users where the licence linked to an activation will expire within the next 30 days.$$$SHOTPlus™ will now show the Activation and Licence expiry dates when renewing activations.$$$Wording updated to reflect the change to seat based licences.2$$$Lead-in indicator for WebGen™ 100 and WebGen™ 200 initiation designed changed to BID.$$$Updated nomenclature when using WebGen™ as an EBS system.$$$ Improved$$$Select Help > About from the main menu and select Release Activation. To release an activation; the user must be signed in to BlastIQ™. After release of an Activation; SHOTPlus™ will close all open instances.$$$For more information on the BlastIQ™ licencing model; see the Knowledge Base Article; here.$$$ Fixed$$$MSW calculations were sometimes causing a C++ debugging error.$$$Users were unable to import logger files from encoders.$$$Text objects were not saving and loading from template files.$$$Locked layers were not being honoured in saved files.$$$Refreshing of Performance Indicators was fixed.$$$The Remove Timing tool has been fixed.$$$The Visualise timing at collar check box has been fixed.$$$Deleting an empty row from the eDev table was changing the applied timing.$$$Boosters were not saving in eDev templates.$$$An Item with same key error was preventing files from being opened.$$$Some minor formatting changes were made to the Blast Loading Sheet report. For more information on how powder factor is calculated in this report; please refer to this knowledge base article.

Improved$$$BlastIQ™ Licencing$$$Activations can now be released from within SHOTPlus™.1$$$On start-up SHOTPlus™ will warn users where the licence linked to an activation will expire within the next 30 days.$$$SHOTPlus™ will now show the Activation and Licence expiry dates when renewing activations.$$$Wording updated to reflect the change to seat based licences.2$$$Holes without an EBS delay will show as a blank field when exporting text files.$$$Minor improvements were made to WebGen™ encoding reports.$$$Improved$$$Select Help > About from the main menu and select Release Activation. To release an activation; the user must be signed in to BlastIQ™. After release of an Activation; SHOTPlus™ will close all open instances.$$$For more information on the BlastIQ™ licencing model; see the Knowledge Base Article; here.$$$ Fixed$$$Users were experiencing a type error when using the EBS logging report.$$$Users were unable to allocate DRX when using WebGen™ as an EBS product. $$$Users were unable to select WebGen™ products when importing from text file.$$$When WebGen™ was selected as an EBS product; the products were not populating for manually edited loading.$$$Users were experiencing an error when importing EBS initiators and boosters via the text import tool.$$$Users were unable to import holes when specifying only charge length and design length.$$$Some files were not able to be used as templates and were causing menu items in Blast Properties to duplicate.$$$Users are now able to specify WebGen™ products for text import.$$$Hole ID was displaying incorrectly in EBS logging reports.$$$Ring Manager sort order was reversed.