Adding data to a project

Driver is a data-driven platform, so providing well-sampled 3D data coverage is a key component to a Driver analysis. Driver will only reveal features that are delineated by the provided data and will not generate features outside of the data area. Driver's algorithms are designed to reveal connectivity, or continuity, of geological features between neighbouring drillholes, so it is important that sufficient data is provided to enable these features to be recognized.

You can import two main data types into Driver:

• Drillhole information as a 3D point cloud. See the Drilling data topic for more information.
• Volumes as wireframe meshes. See the Meshes topic for more information.

Object data formats Driver supports include:

• Point data (*.csv)
• Domains and meshes. (*.obj)
• Seequent Evo geoscience objects:
  • Downhole intervals that contain numeric attributes such as assays
  • Triangle meshes

For each data type, you can import files from your local hard drive or from Seequent Evo. When you are importing data from Evo, only data in the workspace the Driver project belongs to can be imported into the project.

At a minimum, drilling data must be desurveyed before importing. However, for best results, compositing the data and following the steps described in Preparing numeric drilling data for Driver is recommended.

When creating a project using a local *.csv file (UTF-8), data should be formatted to include:

• XYZ coordinate for each sample
• Hole_id or BHID for each sample (optional)
• Any number of numeric attribute columns (e.g. Au_ppm)