RockWorks20 2023.06.06

[Katy D]

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

 

The RockWorks Revision History includes complete lists, by date, of all changes in the program.
 

New Features:

• A new algorithm titled “IDW Layered” has been added to the Algorithm submenu that is embedded within all of the applications that create solid (voxel) models. This algorithm was designed to provide a tool for quickly modeling large datasets that represent horizontally layered (but laterally discontinuous) materials.
• Video instructions are now available from within the Borehole Manager / Bitmaps table.
• Video instructions are now available from within the Contact Picking program.
• A video help option has been added to the 2D Peripherals menu.
• Video instructions are now available from within the Borehole Manager / Orientation table editor. 
• A program titled "3D Tags" has been added to the Graphics / 3D Tools menu group. A sample input file titled "Infrastructure_Labels.RwDat" is now available by clicking on the Example button within the 3D Tags menu. This program is used to add item annotation to 3D diagrams.
• The RockPlot3D Digitize option has been added as a menu item under Utilities.
• A new "Search Tree" button has been added to the How-To menu. When clicked this will highlight any items within the topic outline that contain the search term. Items that contain the search term but are "branches" of a highlighted item will not be highlighted.
• The ModOps / Grid / Statistics / Scattergram and ModOps / Solid / Statistics / Scattergram program menus are now limited to linear regression curve fitting.
• Users can now specify the minimum and maximum colors for I-Data and T-Data in 2D logs; and I-Data, P-Data, and T-Data in 3D logs.
• A program titled “Solid -> P-Data” has been added to the ModOps / Solid / Export sub-menu. This program will extract the g-values from a specified solid model into the corresponding P-Data intervals within one or more boreholes.
• The Datasheet / Transfer / Strat -> Borehole Manager program now includes options for importing elevations or depths into the Borehole Manager database. The previous version would only import elevations. In addition, the program will now convert elevations to depths for inclined and deviated boreholes.

 

Improvements:

• Titles for 3D Striplogs can now be plotted horizontally, vertically, or at a 45-degree angle.
• The RockPlot2D Scalebar can now be plotted with an opaque background.
• The menu items for the Project Notes: Load from a file and Save As, are no longer grayed out, and are functional.
• Users can now set the line style for Profile, Section, and Projected Section vertical panel lines.
• RockPlot2D Scalebars can now display either Meters converted to Feet or Feet converted to Meters.
• Added a button to set the "Project Coordinates" as that extent to use for the clip dimensions in the RockPlot2D Clip With Coordinates dialog.
• GeoTiffs specify the coordinate reference system usually with an EPSG code however, the GeoTiff may then specify different units for both horizontal and vertical values than the EPSG code specifies. RockWorks will now use any overridden units.
• The RockPlot 2D Scalebar selects a more appropriate interval when plotted as a filled bar and can be selected by clicking anywhere within its bounds.
• The Peripherals menu that is embedded within all programs that generate two-dimensional diagrams (maps, sections, graphs) has been significantly enhanced. This may cause the need for some reorganization of the peripheral items and their sizes when you open diagrams created in older versions.
• The Unidirectional gridding algorithm has been improved to vary the strength based on the difference between the direction and the data point.

 

Bug Fixes:

• Plotting I-Data and P-Data within 3D striplogs as Cold -> Hot discs now works correctly with data that has a very small range (e.g., zero to 1.0). For example, the figure below is based on P-Data which ranges between zero and 1.0.
• Datasheet - File | Import | ASCII, Column Definitions are now parsed correctly even if the units have 2 words like "Local Meters".
• The status of faulting is now stored in the grid header so that faulting will be turned on during the contouring of existing grids. For already created grids without the Fault parameter, the program will check the grids metadata.
• Licensing: RockWorks will now create MP4 videos in which the original frame dimensions are not evenly divisible by two.
• If a user has a floating license checked out and then tries to connect to the License Server, the licensing will indicate the user already has a license checked out (as floating) and read that license from the local computer's disk. However, if the user's local floating license has become corrupted or otherwise invalid, the licensing falls back to try Trialware licensing. If the user then tries to connect to the server from the Network Licensing tab of the licensing dialog, the licensing will now warn the user the License is already checked out on loan. To rectify the problem the license must be manually "returned" from the "RockWare Network License Administrator" (run on the server) from the Tools | View User Status - Clear User button. The user can then click on the "connect" button to reestablish a normal network license.
• 3D model volumetrics calculated by RockPlot3D no longer include cells assigned null values if the G-Value filter is disabled.
• The Lithology Solid Model Output Filter now disables units that fall outside of the filter range.
• Forward Slash ("/") characters in Lithology, Stratigraphy, and Aquifer Tables are now being read correctly in RockPlot3D. Rw3D files will need to be recreated to correct this issue.
• Lithology models are now embedded in RockPlot3D files.
• Exporting Lithology and Solid models files from RockPlot3D as Shape files now include all Voxels including the voxels that would normally be hidden. Keep in mind that while RockWorks will create larger files there is a 2GB limit on the size of Shape files in most programs.
• The Borehole Manager Quick Map now correctly displays the background image when a Sub Site is selected and the image location is based on the Project Dimensions.

We recommend that Network license users install the RockWare Network License Administrator v. 1.18. 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 RockWorks. 

 

RockWorks Link, click on the 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 June 2023.

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