RockWorks 2021.11.17

[Katy D]

A new version of RockWorks2021 was uploaded to the RockWare website, with new features, improvements, and bug fixes. 

 

The RockWorks Revision History has a complete list, by date, of all changes in the program.

 

New Features:

• A Pinchout Filter has been added to the Grid|Filters that allows the user to create pinchouts between 2 grid surfaces using either a minimum thickness or a polygon. Users can specify the pinchout to use the top, bottom or average elevation.
• The Borehole Operations / Striplogs / Lateral Geo-Steering program has been completely redesigned.
• A program titled “Total Depth Grid” has been added to the Borehole Operations / Maps sub-menu. This program will create and display a grid depicting an interpolated surface that intersects the base of all enabled boreholes.
• A program titled “Fade With Depth” has been added to the ModOps / Filters sub-menu. This program will decrement voxel values below a specified elevation or a user-defined surface (grid) model.
• The new (9/7/21) capability for including "supplemental points" when creating stratigraphic models based on borehole data has been enhanced to include optional dip information for the upper and lower contacts. Please note two caveats: (1) This information is only used if the Dip Direction algorithm is used to model the surfaces. (2) If a dip is specified for the top surface of a stratigraphic unit but no elevation is provided, the dip information will be ignored. The same applies to the base.

Improvements:

• The ModOps / Volume / Extract Via Surface Extraction program has been modified and improved.
• The Time Filter has been added to the Time Graph and Time Graph Map menus.
• Borehole Manager will now import Point Shapefiles directly into the Location table.
• The RockPlot2D Scalebar now draw the filled scalebar to appear similar to the peripherals scalebar which it replaces after this change. The endpoint labels can now be displayed left, right, both or no sides.
• Water level data can be appended to existing data like T-Data in the Single Table Import. There is a check box on the right to Append the data (or not) for Water Levels to allow the user to make this choice to replace or append the data.
• The RockPlot3D Strat Unit decimates very large grid surfaces when Solid Fill is selected. Users can see the decimation factor in the option dialog and turn decimation off.
• The drawing of the 3D Stratigraphy Units has been improved to better work with null values and the minimum thickness cutoff. In addition Cutoffs can now be applied. The minimum thickness transparency option has been removed.
• The RockPlot2D Color Legend now allows you to set a separate Text Interval form the Color Interval. The Text and Color Interval must both divide evenly into the Z Range and a warning will be issued by the dialog.
• A Copy File command has been added to the Playlist Add menu at the top.

Bug Fixes

• The 'Perform Smoothing Last' option for Solid Models now operates whether the Smoothing option is enabled or not.
• The RockPlot3D Export for Sketchfab will now plot all the Legend values for a custom table when transferred to Sketchfab.
• RockPlot2D Rectangles now use 4 points so that they can be properly converted to Latitude/Longitude Degrees and will appear correctly in Google Earth Vector files.
• The Borehole Surface Intersection now correctly omits boreholes that don't intersect the surface when the Omit option is selected.
• The Borehole Surface Intersection now correctly marks boreholes that start below the surface.
• The Borehole Surface Intersection now shows all the boreholes.
• RockPlot2D now starts in zoom rather than edit mode.
• Borehole Manager | Import Multiple Tables (Excel & Text) for the tables I-Data, I-Text, P-Data, P-Text, and T-Data the existing tracks will now be cleared when Replace Data is checked.
• Borehole Manager | Exports | ... All Tracks will now account for regional formatting (i.e. comma as a decimal separator) I-Data, I-Text, P-Data, P-Text, T-Data.
• Empty column values in the import are set to NULL for field values in Playlist CSV Import process.
• Borehole Operations Maps | Google Earth (Simple or Advanced) was giving a DB error. RockWorks allows CollarElevation to be NULL, however the function to choose the Elevation value when CollarElevation was NULL was making the field read-only.
• RockWorks will now allow coded Coordinate Systems (like epsg:2877) that are based in U.S. Surveyor's Feet.
• Upgrading a project from RW17 that uses a custom coordinate system and an "Init" style code (like epsg or esri) will succeed. The PROJ generic coordinate transformation software RockWare applies used to change how it handled "Init" parameters.

 

 

We recommend that Network license users install the RockWare Network License Administrator v. 1.15. Contact support at rockware.com for a link to the latest version.

 

To download this build, use the Help | Updates | Check for Updates menu inside RockWorks20. 

 

RockWorks Link, click on free trial tab:
https://www.rockware.com/product/rockworks/
where you can download the installation program and install the new build right over the top of the existing program. (DO NOT uninstall first.)
 
Note that you will not be able to use this new build of the program if your maintenance has expired before November 30, 2021.

Contact RockWare Sales or visit our Customer Portal (https://www.rockware.com/customer/) if you would like to update your maintenance.

 

Katy Duncan
RockWare Inc