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Exporting Lithologic Surfaces to DXF

Molly — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:44:06 +0000

As RockWorks view the world, lithology materials are not necessarily layered – they can repeat within a single borehole and may be inconsistent in sequence across the project area. As such, RockWorks uses a solid modeling process, rather than surface-modeling, to create lithology models, with the 3D nodes or voxels assigned a material type and represented in the 3D viewer as color-coded blocks.

Lithology Model in RockPlot3D

This presents a challenge, then, for users who wish to view lithologic SURFACES as plan-view contour maps, or in 3D, or exported to CAD.

In RockPlot3D you can access the lithology model’s Options window and filter the display for the desired material type, or range of types. Here is the above model filtered to display the Soil voxels only.

Lithology Model Filtered for Soil Only

This can be exported to DXF, but note that you’ll be getting all of the blocks representing that material. (Shown here in black and white for contrast purposes.)

Lithology Model Soil Voxels Exported to DXF

If you need a surface rather than blocks, RockWorks also has tools which will fit a surface to the uppermost elevations or the lowermost elevations of a rock type in a lithology model. These are in the Lithology | Superface (Top) and Subface (Base) menus. Here is an example of the same soil lithotype extracted as a surface (upper elevations), and displayed in RockPlot3D and then exported to DXF.

Surface Representing Top of Soil, Displayed in RockPlot3D

DXF Surface Representing Top of Soil

Earthquakes 5+ Magnitude Worldwide Jan 2012

Molly — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:06:34 +0000

We used RockWorks15 and Google Earth (TM) to create a map of all of the 5+ magnitude earthquakes across the world in January 2012. You can visit our RockWorks data page to download the Google Earth KMZ file and the RockWorks data file:

http://www.rockware.com/assets/products/165/downloads/data/36/usgsworldquakes5+jan2012.zip

: Google Earth (TM) display of earthquakes worldwide, Jan 2012, from RockWorks15

Once you load the KMZ file into Google Earth, more information about each quake is available by clicking on the symbols.

Earthquakes 5+ Magnitude Worldwide Dec 2011

Molly — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:42:05 +0000

We used RockWorks15 and Google Earth (TM) to create a map of all of the 5+ magnitude earthquakes across the world in December 2011. You can visit our RockWorks data page to download the Google Earth KMZ file and the RockWorks data file.

http://www.rockware.com/assets/products/165/downloads/data/35/usgsworldquakes5+dec2011.zip

Google Earth (TM) display of earthquakes worldwide, Dec 2011

Once you load the KMZ file into Google Earth, more information about each quake is available by clicking on the symbols.

Welcome to the RockWare Blog

insightdesigns — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:00:57 +0000

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