incline-developers/incline

Incline is free mine design software built for mining professionals who do not want to pay for expensive, restrictive licenses. It runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS, and the project describes itself as cross platform and lightweight. The tool is aimed at the kind of design work mine planners do. It can read and write file formats used by two established commercial tools in the mining industry, Vulcan and Deswik, including formats with extensions like .00t.dgd.isis.bmf, and .duf. It also supports editing design strings, meaning points, poly lines, text, roads, colors, visibility settings, and fill styles, plus a set of design tools such as offset, auto bench, chamfer, relimit, fuse, polygon explosion, and bezier curves. Incline can exchange design strings with other CAD and mine planning software through DXF files, and it can load, view, edit, save, and export triangulated surfaces in formats like .obj.stl, and .ply. It also includes viewing and filtering for block models, a common way mining data represents ore bodies underground, stored in .bmf files. The project is in early development and is explicitly not recommended for production use yet. The README asks users to expect missing or unstable features while the team works toward a 1.0.0 release, and it recommends backing up production data and verifying exports before relying on the software for real operational work. To get started, users download the latest release from the project's downloads page and are encouraged to follow the included tutorial, which covers the basics of using Incline for mine design. Incline is licensed under the PolyForm Perimeter License 1.0.1, a source-available license rather than a fully permissive open source one. Commercial licenses and permissions beyond those terms are available directly from the copyright holders. The project is maintained by two Western Australian mining engineer brothers, Leo and Lucas Timmins.