RockWorks 2024.02.27

[Katy D]

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

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

New Features:

• The Solid Modeling / Algorithm / Directional tab now contains four algorithms, two of which (Line and Polyline) are new. The line-biased modeling provides a tool for specifying the endpoints for a line that will be used to bias the modeling. The polyline-biased modeling provides a tool for specifying the vertices for a polyline that will be used to bias the modeling.
• The main form will now auto-adjust to fit within the desktop if the last-used location was outside the current desktop. This situation can occur when switching between multi-monitor and single-monitor systems.
• A new program called “GeoCylinders” has been added to the Utilities / 3-D sub-menu. This program is used to plot geologic units encountered within boreholes or measured as color-coded vertical cylinders.
• RockPlot2D now allows searching through block text and text by name allowing users to find Boreholes or Data Points by their labels.
• New Bouguer Anomaly program added that converts gravity observations to Bouguer Anomaly values for subsequent gridding in to Bouguer Anomaly contour maps. 
   

Improvements:

• RockWorks will always start on the form where it was last closed and adjust the size to fit in the active computer screen.
• When importing an LAS file, in the LAS File Import Wizard | Options for the required borehole data, we have added a input field for Collar Elevation.
• Using very large Cell Spacing in RockPlot2D Pattern Legends no longer causes an empty legend. Since users might mistake the Cell Spacing setting for cell height the value is automatically limited to 5% in the properties dialog and in existing Rw2D files.
• Improvements were made to the Data Integrity Check program; remove T-Data duplicates will now handle comparing dates and records with NULL date values, and show the correct T-Data Type (instead of an I-Data Type) .
• The Backup and Restore options within the Borehole Manager / File menu have been duplicated within the Project menu. 
• The Licensing help dialog has been updated to include the Toolbox.

Bug Fixes:

• Borehole Manager - File | Import | Excel/Text | Row-Based - "Replace" option now works as expected.
• Raster images exported from RockPlot3D to Google Earth are now visible.
• The ModOps / Solid / Create / 3 Grids -> Solid program now displays the correct Input/Output sub-menu.
• The ModOps / Volume / Extract via Surface Excavation program now correctly extrapolates the pit to the edges of the user-specified perimeter (if used).
• If all the comments in the Peripherals/Title Block are blank the comments section isn't plotted.
• The decimal places within the output from the ModOps / Solid / Export / Other Formats / ASCII XYZ program are now based on the values specified within the menu. 
   

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

Or visit our website and click on the RockWorks 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 February 2024.

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