Crosscut works next to the programs you already have. Drawings go to AutoCAD and back, tables come from spreadsheets and databases, clouds from scanners and drones, plans go to the drill rig.
| Format | What | Read | Write |
|---|---|---|---|
| DXF | Drawings, lines, texts, hatches, surfaces | yes | AutoCAD 2000–2018; surfaces as polyface meshes or 3D faces |
| CSV, TSV, TXT | Points: X, Y, Z found by the column names | yes | — |
| CSV | Drillholes: collars, surveys, lithology, assays | yes | yes |
| CSV | Block model and samples: XC, YC, ZC, columns, rock | yes | yes |
| LAS, LAZ | Point clouds, with a choice of classes and density on import | yes | yes, also COPC |
| E57 | Laser scans | yes | — |
| PLY | Point clouds | yes | yes |
| XYZ, TXT, CSV, PTS, ASC | Point clouds as text | yes | XYZ, CSV |
| IREDES (XML) | Drill plan for Epiroc and Sandvik surface rigs; quality log from the rig | as-drilled holes | drill plan |
| CSV, TXT | Blast holes, drilling fact, survey and MWD, charging, detonator logger | yes | yes |
| HTML | Field form for a tablet: drilling, dip and charging, saved back as CSV | CSV back | yes |
| FastReport (.frx) | Templates of the blast documents and reports | yes | yes |
| PDF, PNG | Print sheets laid out in the print area | — | yes |
| .crosscut, .crosscutt | Project and project template | yes | yes |
Drawings, outlines and surfaces come over through DXF. Drillholes, block models and point lists come through CSV: the columns are found by their names, so a table exported from another program usually reads as it is. Each import is one step that can be undone, and its report lists what was read and what was skipped.
Point clouds are kept whole and shown by detail level, so a scan of tens of millions of points stays smooth. A large DXF export writes the geometry as it goes and does not hold the whole drawing in memory; the window shows the expected file size before you export.
The demo is the full program: all six modules, nothing switched off. Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.
