Incline Design

Design without restrictions. Incline is open source and free. Whether you’re a student, researcher, professional, or corporation; we are making mining more accessible to everyone.

Free and open source under the GNU GPL v3.
Incline desktop application showing the project explorer, design workspace, toolbars, and welcome panel.
Works with the files you use
.omf.dxf.obj.stl.ply.laz.pcd.csv.tiff

The tools mine designers need.

Benched open-pit design strings displayed in Incline.
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Designs

Create and edit points, polylines, polygons, circles and text with Incline’s powerful design tools: offset, batter-berm, chamfer, Bézier, relimit, fuse, split and drape to surface.

Triangulated mine surface rendered in Incline.
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Triangulations

Build surfaces from strings or points, then clip them by polyline, slice by elevation, trim to topology and generate contours. Import and export across OBJ, STL and PLY.

Block model with filtered ore blocks in Incline.
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Block models

Import block models from CSV, or estimate one from drill-hole samples by ordinary kriging. Colour by any variable, filter grades and cut ore shells out as triangulations.

Point cloud of a mine loaded in Incline.
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Point clouds

Load LAS, LAZ and PCD surveys, visualise them in place and generate a terrain TIN straight from the points.

Drill-hole traces coloured by assay grade in Incline.
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Drill holes

Map collar, survey and interval tables in from CSV. Colour traces by any assay or category field, and carry the intervals through to estimation.

GeoTIFF orthophoto draped over a mine surface in Incline.
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Rasters

Drape georeferenced GeoTIFF orthophotos over your surfaces, so every design can be effectively visualised.

Interoperability

Built on OMF 2.

Incline's native file-type is Open Mining Format 2. Designs, triangulations, block models, drill holes, point clouds and rasters all travel in the one open container, so your work opens in any package that speaks OMF 2 and comes back intact.