[Borehole location map in 2020]

OK!  I was clicking through on the Maps/Bore hole map with poor results yesterday, but today it works just fine.

 

Also yesterday the second choice in that menuu for "optional fields" would not open at all - some error message about first database field = -1 or similar, and it is opening and working fine  now also.  

 

Maybe all it needed was to have a good reboot or have a night to settle in.

[Borehole location map in 2020]

Just downloaded, installed 2020.  Looking around I tried the borehole location map and wanted to check that I had brought over the proper files for making the topo.  When I click borehole location map it does not bring up the screen where I would be able to select to add traces, contours, change symbol size and text size, etc.  It jumps straight to making a map with no options offered.

 

Where did that go?

[Programming suggestion for striplogs]

I suggest that in the processing of orientation data, if there is no value at 0 depth, but there IS survey data starting deeper, that the default be to assign the next present azi and inclination to the interval starting at 0 depth.  However, if there is NO orientation data at all, then keep the default case to be the assumption that the hole is vertical, as is now done.

 

As often as not, when I am given orientation data, for drill holes in which there are data, the orientation was not entered for the 0 depth.  It must be that Minesight and other commonly used programs do what I am suggesting.  I typically only spot this after I start making sections and see the dogleg drillhole traces.

 

 

[Striplogs in profiles...multiple bar charts]

On 2D profiles, I want to plot "I data" bar chart, Lithology and alteration intensity (1-6 scale) for each drill hole.  I can'd load the alteration values as if they were another "I data" field because the to-from is different than the I data to-from.  First I thought to load alteration as "stratigraphy"  but the values are chaotic and repeat which is not allowed for Stratigraphy .  If I load alteration as "T data" can I display it in addition to the "I data" bar chart?

[XYZ for I data]

For my I data, I would like to generate xyz coordinates for each downhole I data interval.

 

How does that work?  I see where it says it will generate the data, but I can't seem to find it.

[Strip Map on XSection - N Arrow points east!]

I just noticed that the N arrow in all of my strip maps is pointing east. This red arrow is inserted in the area between my cross section and strip map even when the N arrow option is turned off in Strip Map/Options

What's up with that? It's easy to delete but hard to remember to do so!

[Adding topography]

Tom,

How do I get a surface the intersection of which displays on a 2D profile?

[Strip map width (includes distant collars)]

I would like to make my strip map narrower in order for it to fit above my profile. It is expanding to too great of a width when I have inclined holes that are no where near parallel to the profile axis. For some profiles, the strip map is wider than the profile on the plot. I see no way to truncate those parts of the criss-crossing drill hole traces which lay outside of the desired strip map (swath) width.

Time to abandon the strip map?

[Save DH Profile settings (or change DH filtering for existing profile)]

The other question was about changing the filtering of displayed DHs in an already constructed profile.....

[Save DH Profile settings (or change DH filtering for existing profile)]

I would like to make duplicate profiles with different sets of drill holes turned on. Is there any way to either access a previously-designed 2D Profile's settings (I-data widths, margins, fonts, etc.) or else to open an existing 2D file and then change the DH filtering?

[Adding updates to orientation data]

I received new orientation data and want to add it for numerous holes at once. In the Import > Excel I see nowhere offered to import Orientation data.

[Adding topography]

As is commonly the case, the topography that I have available is a .dxf of topo lines. Is there a way to use this in Rockworks 17? I only see instructions for using xyz grid data.

[Compiling data before import vs inside Rockworks]

Another newbie question here, first project. I have data continuing to trickle in, in addition to having numerous source files of I-data from older programs. Is it actually that easy to append new data into the project from many files, or am I better off merging many Excel sheets before importing?

[Advisable maximum number of drill holes in project]

New user here. My project has about 1000 drill holes that I could load, of which about a third are of much greater interest than the other shorter holes. It is advisable to load so many holes or will it REALLY bog things down?