RockWorks Revision History

(167) New Feature (03/19/06/JPR): The Borehole-Manager / Bitmaps data tab now includes a utility program that significantly simplifies the process of identifying the "header base" and "footer top". This program is called the "Raster Log Calibrator". The Raster Log Calibrator is invoked by specifying the bitmap file name within the Borehole-Manager / Bitmaps data tab.

(120) New Feature (02/22/06/JPR): The Project Dimensions now includes a button titled "Preview Dimensions".

The purpose of this new option is to provide a sense of the relative resolution of the model by displaying a simple diagram that shows the relative voxel dimensions as well as the minimum storage requirements.

(119) New Feature (02/20/06/JPR): A new option titled "Layout Options" has been added to the Options list within the 3-D borehole designer. When selected, this option will display a new menu that includes an item titled "Snap To 45-Degree Increments", which causes the program to automatically position data columns at the closest 45-degree increment.

(118) New Feature (02/19/06/JPR): A new option titled "Intended Vertical Exaggeration Factor" has been added to the Perimeter Annotation option list that is used by a variety of programs that generate profiles and sections.

This new option will adjust the vertical position and size of selected elements within a diagram based on the user-defined exaggeration factor. The following example illustrates the utility of this new option.

Let's say that we have a project area that we have a series of shallow boreholes (<100 meters deep) within a very large project area 60,000 x 60,000 meters. These boreholes are separated by large distances (average spacing = 6000 meters). Creating a meaningful cross-section is difficult. With a vertical exaggeration of 1.0, a typical profile looks like this;

If we attempt to vertically exaggerate (by 10x) this diagram within RockPlot/2D, the profile title will be too high, the coordinate axes will be too low, and the tick-marks within the coordinate axes will be stretched, as shown by the following example;

This dilemma is solved by the new "Intended Vertical Exaggeration Factor", which automatically adjusts the positions and dimensions of the offending entities (i.e. the title, the endpoint labels, and the coordinate axes) based on the user defined exaggeration factor. In the following example, we have selected an "Intended Vertical Exaggeration Factor" of 10.0 and plotted the diagram within RockPlot/2D at a vertical exaggeration of 10.0;

(117) Removal (02/12/06/JPR): The Tools / General-Preferences / Display-Toolbar / Visible-Buttons option has been removed.

(116) Cosmetic (02/12/06/JPR): The Borehole-Manager / Stratigraphy / Pick-Contacts data-editing menu has been redesigned.

(115) Removal (02/12/06/JPR): The Tools / General-Preferences / Datasheet Buttons options have been removed.

(114) New Feature (02/12/06/JPR): The Project Dimensions / Statistics window now displays both the 2-dimensional as well as the 3-dimensional diagonal size of the project area.

(113) Removal (02/11/06/JPR): The Tools / Preferences / Compilation-Options settings have been removed.

(112) Removal (02/11/06/JPR): The Help / Download / Searchable-Help and Help / Download / HTML Help options have been removed since the contutorial files have been incorporated into the main help "system". As a consequence, the following menu items have been changed;

(111) Cosmetic (02/10/06/JPR): The tutorial files have been incorporated into the main help "system". As a consequence, the following menu items have been changed;

Tools / General Preferences
- Tutorials: Renamed to "Show Help Messages On Startup."
Help
- Tutorials - Removed.

(110) Removal (02/08/06/JPR): The RockWare Assistant has been replaced by a more conventional Windows help system. As a consequence, distracting help messages no longer appear as the user is perusing a given menu. Instead, the user must now click on a "Help" button in order to see the associated help messages.

As a consequence, the following items have been removed from the Tools / General Preferences menu;

Display Help Dialog
Default Help Width

(109) New Feature (02/06/06/JPR): The "Summary" option within the 3-D I-Data log design menu now includes options for positioning the various data columns within the logs.

(108) New Feature (02/06/06/JPR): The 3-D I-Data log plotting menu now includes an option for defining the direction in which the tubes will be plotted relative to the log axis.

Note: If the log axis is to the right of the column, the meaning of left-to-right and right-to-left are reversed.

(107) New Feature (02/06/06/JPR): The 3-D I-Data log plotting menu now includes an option for plotting the interval values adjacent to the tubes, cylinders, oblates, or spheres.

(106) New Feature (02/06/06/JPR): The 3-D I-Data log plotting menu now includes options for defining the interval thickness.

An "Automatic" setting will set the top and base of the interval to the specified depths whereas the "Manual" setting allows the user to specify the thickness of the interval (centered on the midpoint of the measured interval).

Note: The I-Data Interval-Thickness setting has no effect upon data that is plotted as spheres.

(105) New Feature (02/06/06/JPR): The 3-D stratigraphy log plotting menu now includes options for plotting descriptive text adjacent to each interval.

(104) New Feature (02/05/06/JPR): The 3-D lithology log plotting menu now includes options for plotting descriptive text adjacent to each interval.

(103) Cosmetic (01/16/06/JPR): The following tables are now installed within the \Samples folder (as opposed to the \System folder) where they make more sense (i.e. these files should belong to the project, not the system);

borehole_survey.tab
color_index.tab
color_fill.tab
contours.tab
faults.tab
land_grid.tab
line_index.tab
etc...

(102) New Feature (01/15/06/JPR): The following tables have been added to the Samples folder;

custom_benzene_scale.tab
custom_porosity_scale.tab
custom_gold_scale.tab
custom_sand_scale.tab

These files are designed to illustrated the utility of the new table-based bargraph scaling within the two-dimensional striplogs.

These tables specify a minimum and maximum value plus a scale factor for the bargraph. The scale factors represent the percentage of the designated column that are to be filled. In the following example, an I-Data value between 0.17 and 0.33 will fill 25% of the associated bargraph column.

In the following example, the column scaling is set up in terms of standard-deviations from the mean (as established by the I-Data / Statistics option). Notice how much more meaningful the diagrams are when compared with linearly-scaled bargraphs.

(101) New Feature (01/15/06/JPR): A new option titled "Sort by" has been added to the Borehole Manager / Lithology / Volumetrics program.

This new option can be used to determine the order in which the volumetrics are listed. The listing on the left shows an alphabetical listing whereas the listing on the lower-right shows a listing which is based on the G-Values (as defined within the lithotype table).

(100) New Feature (01/14/06/JPR): A new option titled "Lithotypes to be Included Within Report" has been added to the Borehole Manager / Lithology / Volumetrics program.

This new option can be used to show the volumetrics only for the lithologies that are flagged as "Show In Legend" within the Lithology-Types table. For example compare the two following reports; on the left is a report with all lithologies listed whereas the example on the lower-right shows just the lithologies that are flagged as "Show in Legend".

(99) New Feature (01/12/06/JPR): Depth labels within two-dimensional, vertical striplogs are now saved as "scalebar objects". This means that they can be manipulated within the RockPlot/2D program. For example, you could click on a scalebar and easily change the labeling interval. On the other hand, depth labels within inclined or deviated boreholes are stored as individual graphic elements (e.g. line segments and labels).

(98) Bug Fix (01/12/06/JPR): The striplog profiles no longer show the column titles for logs that are not within the profile.

(97) Bug Fix (01/11/06/JPR): The new feature that checks to see if a referenced file exists (see item #77 below) has been fixed. The previous version would sometimes issue and error message even if the file existed.

(96) New Feature (01/10/06/JPR): The Project-Dimensions/Statistics menu now shows the project midpoint coordinates.

(95) New Feature (01/10/06/MIW): The RockPlot/2D program now supports the import of extended AutoCAD DXF colors.

(94) New Feature (01/10/06/MIW): The RockPlot/2D program now supports the import of AutoCAD DXF circles.

(93) New Feature (01/10/06/JPR): The Borehole-Manager/Striplogs/Single-Log(2D) program now includes an option for adding the lithology comments to the text that is plotted within the two-dimensional lithology text column.

In the following example, the keywords and comments are plotted within the lithology text column.

(92) New Feature (01/07/06/JPR): Minimizing the main RockWorks form will now minimize the RockWare Assistant.

(91) New Feature (01/01/06/MIW): RockPlot2D now allows you to organize the different items on a page into different "layers". These are groups of items that can be displayed or hidden with the click of a button. For example, you might organize your original image in one layer, while text and logo annotations are kept in separate layers. For more information, click on the link below;

Managing Data Within RockPlot/2D Layers

(90) New Feature (01/01/06/MIW): It is now possible to add symbols, text, shapes, images, legends, and grids to the current diagram within the RockPlot/2D program. For more information, click on the link below;

Adding Graphic Objects Within RockPlot/2D

(89) New Feature (01/01/06/MIW): RockWorks-generated diagrams that are displayed within the RockPlot2D window now consist of graphic objects that can be selected, moved, resized, and edited. For more information, click on the link below;

Editing Graphic Objects Within RockPlot/2D

(88) New Feature (01/01/06/JCJ): Every other line within a Borehole Manager data tab is now displayed with a white background. This creates a more readable effect ala' general ledger paper.

*This is the first documented case of geologists learning anything useful from accountants.

(87) New Feature (01/01/06/JCJ): Right-clicking on a Borehole Manager data tab (e.g. Stratigraphy) will now display the "Tabs to View" dialog. This new feature provides the ability to set various attributes for the data tab sheets in the Borehole Manager.

The check boxes allow you the show or hide the sheet. The order of the sheets can be changed with the ‘Move Up’ and ‘Move Down’ buttons or by clicking dragging the name to a new order. If you wish to change the background color or title of the sheet, first double click on the sheet name you wish to change, this brings up another dialog, "Edit Tab Sheet" (see below). The OK button will update the Data tab sheets, where the Cancel button will not.

The caption that appears on the data tab sheet in the Borehole Manager can be edited within this menu. It is also possible to change the background color for the associated tab sheet by clicking ellipses (…) button. Be careful to keep this color light (e.g. pastel) or you may not be able to read your data. You may also show or hide the sheet with the ‘Visible’ check box. The OK button will save your changes and the Cancel button will return the setting to what they were before opening this dialog.

Note: Making a tab sheet visible or invisible does not effect the actual data.

(86) New Feature (01/01/06/JCJ): New fields may now be added to the Borehole-Manager Location tab by right-clicking in the Optional Fields area of the Borehole Manager.

The visibility of optional fields may be controlled or their displayed name changed. The three buttons on the left will respectively Enable all the fields to be shown, Hide (Disable) all the fields from being shown or Add a new field (see New Field Dialog below). If the box to the left of the field is checked it will be displayed in the Borehole Manager. The OK button will accept the changes and the Cancel button will cancel the changes.

Clicking on the Add button in the Optional Fields Dialog will bring up the "New Field" dialog (see below) and allow you to add a new field to the database in the Location table. This field may be a string, integer, floating point or date type. You may choose the name of the field in the database, the name displayed in the Borehole Manager and a brief description of what you will be storing in the field. String fields are added with a default width of 50 characters. The field name will be changed if necessary in order to make it acceptable for the database table.

To edit one of the optional fields, right-click on the field in the Optional Fields Dialog. The "Edit" dialog (see below) will be displayed and allow you to edit the name displayed in the Borehole Manager or the description of the field. The database table field’s name and type are not editable.

(85) New Feature (01/01/06/JCJ): A new program, called "Select Boreholes" has been added to the Borehole-Manager / View menu.

This program is similar to the Filter Boreholes option described below, except that it is much more powerful in that it may be applied iteratively, meaning that very complex filters may be applied. It's also a bit more difficult to understand.

The Select Boreholes dialog works very similar to the Filter Boreholes dialog, only it allows successive filters to be applied. Here when you form criteria you are choosing a subset of the data for which you then either enable or disable boreholes. So for each criterion you add that is true, the subset is reduced to only those that meet all the criteria. Then just this subset of boreholes is acted upon by either enabling or disabling them. Those boreholes not in this subset are ignored completely. Contrast this to the Filter Boreholes dialog where the criteria are applied to the entire set of boreholes in your project.

This dialog also allows you to apply your criteria to either enable or disable boreholes and to specify if the boreholes lie inside or outside of your range. You may in addition reset all of the boreholes to disabled or enabled with the two buttons under the borehole diagram on the right.

(84) New Feature (01/01/06/JCJ): A new program, called "Filter Boreholes" has been added to the Borehole-Manager / View menu.

This program is used to enable or disable boreholes based on a variety of possible search criteria. The boreholes that "pass" the filtering parameters are shown within the small preview menu located along the right side of the menu.

This dialog allows the user to select multiple criteria to filter boreholes by. Each of the boreholes where every criterion is true will be enabled and the remaining boreholes will be disabled. The OK button will apply the filter and exit back to the Borehole Manager. Clicking the Apply button will apply the filter without closing the dialog allowing the user to see the effect of the filter in the diagram on the right. The diagram is a simplified Borehole Location Map. The Cancel button exits the dialog without applying the filter, however if the Apply button was pressed whatever filter was set will remain in effect.

Where there are two boxes for values, a ‘From’ and ‘To’ box, the values represent an inclusive range, i.e. where the field is greater than or equal to the ‘From’ value and less than or equal to the ‘To’ value. If one of the boxes is left blank the range will be open ended. For an exact value place the same value in both boxes. The check mark for the ‘From’ and ‘To’ Water Level value boxes work similar to leaving the box blank. This is because these values must represent real dates. To leave the ‘From’ Water Level box ‘blank’ un-check it. To leave an entire selection out of the filter, un-check the selection on the left.

‘Optional Fields’ selection allows filtering on the name of the borehole and the optional borehole fields. The ‘Like’ operator allows the use of wild-card characters in your criterion. In SQL, the wildcard characters are percent (%) for zero or more characters, and underscore (_) for one character.

When you are ready to apply the filter you may view a textual summary by clicking on the ‘Show Summary’ button. Clicking on the ‘SQL Statement’ button will show the underlying SQL statement that is being executed.

The ‘Show Disabled Boreholes’ check box on the right, when checked, will show the disabled boreholes as a light grey. When unchecked, disabled boreholes are not shown at all.

(83) New Feature (01/01/06/JCJ): A new program, called "Adjust Total Depths" has been added to the Borehole-Manager / Edit menu. This program is used to adjust the Total Depth field within the Location tab by scanning all of the downhole data (e.g. lithology, stratigraphy, etc). If data is found below the TD for a given borehole, the TD will be adjusted accordingly.

(82) New Feature (01/01/06/JCJ): Borehole data is no longer stored in separate ASCII files. Instead all borehole data is contained within a single MDB relational (Microsoft Access) file. This adds greater flexibility in dealing with your data;

(81) New Feature (01/01/06/JCJ): A new option titled "New Project" has been added to the Borehole-Manager / File menu.

Once selected, the New Project option will display a menu that allows the user to create a new project database. Notice that much of the existing project can be automatically copied into the new project database.

(80) New Feature (01/01/06/JCJ): A new program called "Utilities Datagrid" has been added to the Borehole-Manager / P-Data / Export menu. This utility is used to export selected P-Data from the Borehole Manager into the RockWare Utilities datasheet.

(79) New Feature (01/01/06/JCJ): A new program called "LAS" has been added to the Borehole-Manager / File / Import menu. This utility is used to import selected data from LAS (Log ASCII Standard) files.

Once selected, the LAS program will walk the user through a series of three screens that determine which data will be imported into the RockWorks database.

(78) Improvement (01/01/06/JPR): The trialware period has been extended from 10 days to 30 days and the maximum number of "sessions" has been increased from 10 to 100.

(77) Improvement (01/01/06/JCJ): When the user checks the "Ok" button within a tree-style menu, the program now checks to make sure that all of the user-specified files within the tree menu actually exist. If they don't, a warning message is displayed and the tree menu is re-displayed. In other words, the user cannot proceed until the problem is resolved. Note that this error checking only applies to the files that will be actually used. For example, if the menu contains the name of a non-existent lookup-table and the user has elected not to use that table, the aforementioned error checking will not apply.

(76) Improvement (01/01/06/JPR): The program "abstracts" (automatically displayed help messages) are now longer displayed within the program dialog boxes. Instead, the help messages are now displayed within an independent EXE window called "The RockWare Assistant".

(75) Improvement (01/01/06/JPR): The Borehole Manager / Striplogs program has been completely rewritten. The layout options are now accessed via an interactive menu whereby the relative positions of the various striplog columns by dragging the columns within the layout menu.

(74) Improvement (01/01/06/JPR): The "Use existing model?" option that exists in a variety of menus has now been "pre-expanded", meaning that the sub-options are displayed when the menu is initially displayed. This eliminates the need to expand the "Use existing model?" option in order to check the file name before proceeding within the next step.

(73) Cosmetic (01/01/06/JPR): The "Model" option has been moved to the tops of the Lithology, Stratigraphy, I-Data, P-Data, Fractures, and Aquifers menu. This change was made to reinforce the concept that modeling is the first step in creating the other diagrams.

(72) Bug Fix (01/01/06/JPR) : The manual kriging method (e.g. spherical, exponential, linear) is now "remembered". The previous version would automatically default to a spherical variogram after a grid was generated.

(71) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): The automatic kriging menu that is used when generating grid models now includes an option for generating a report that list the parameters that were automatically computed.

This report lists the variogram type as well as the search parameters that are used when creating the "bins" that are used when creating the variograms. The distances are listed in both user-defined units as well as percentages of the project dimensions.

(70) Improvement (01/01/06/JPR): It is now possible to define the position of the log axis within two-dimensional striplogs. The log axis is important to the appearance of deviated boreholes because all other entities are projected relative to the axis. Notice the differences between the three diagrams below;

(69) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): It is now possible to plot well-construction diagrams within two-dimensional strip logs.

(68) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): 2-Dimensional striplog bargraph scaling may now be defined within a user-defined "lookup table". This allows the user to create arbitrary scaling parameters to highlight (or eliminate) ranges of particular interest.

(67) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): Vector data can now be plotted within two-dimensional striplogs as special "tadpole" symbols. The horizontal position of a tadpole indicates the inclination (0 on the left, 90 on the right) while the line/tail that extends from the symbol points in the direction of the azimuth (0=up, 90=right, 180=down, 270=left).

The azimuth "tail" within a tadpole will always use the top of the display as zero azimuth regardless of the orientation of the borehole.

(66) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR) The maximum number of I-Data columns within a two-dimensional striplog has been increased from two to four.

(65) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): The I-Data bargraph columns within two-dimensional striplogs now include an option that defines if the data will be plotted in a left-justified (i.e. data magnitude increases from left-to-right) or right-justified (i.e. data magnitude increases from right-to-left) fashion.

(64) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): The I-Data bargraph columns within two-dimensional striplogs now includes an option to plot the grid subdivisions first (background) or last (foreground).

(63) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): The maximum number of P-Data columns within a two-dimensional striplog has been increased from two to four.

(62) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): The P-Data curve columns within two-dimensional striplogs now include an option that defines if the data will be plotted in a left-justified (i.e. data magnitude increases from left-to-right) or right-justified (i.e. data magnitude increases from right-to-left) fashion.

(61) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): I-Data values within two-dimensional striplogs may now be plotted in a separate column that is independent of the the I-Data bargraph columns.

(60) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): The P-Data column within two-dimensional striplogs now includes an option to plot the grid subdivisions first (background) or last (foreground).

(59) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): Every column within a two-dimensional striplog now includes a unique left-margin setting that defines the size of the blank space (gap) between the column and whatever data column is immediately to the left.

(58) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): The Tables listing now includes a Hydrostratigraphy Table. This new table contains the items that can be included within a hydrostratigraphy striplog. It is identical in purpose to the Stratigraphy Table, except it's designed for hydrostratigraphic units rather that chronostratigraphic units (e.g. formations).

(57) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): The Tables listing now includes a Well Construction Table. This new table contains the items that can be included within a well-construction striplog.

(56) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): A new program called "Extract" has been added to the Borehole Manager / I-Data menu. This program is used to extract I-Data that is bounded by two user-defined surfaces. The output is copied into the RockWare Utilities datasheet for subsequent analysis.

(55) Improvement (01/01/06/JPR): The margins within the RockPlot/2D / Printer menu are now "remembered".

(54) Bug Fix (01/01/06/JPR): The RockPlot/2D / Export / PNG program no longer omits the rightmost pixel.

(53) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): A new program called "Append Raster Image" has been added to the Grafix / 2D-Utilities menu.

This program is used to combine a raster image (bitmap) with an existing RockPlot2D diagram (e.g. overlaying a contour map over an airphoto).

(52) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): A new program called “Prismgram” has been added to the Grafix / 3D-Utilities menu.

This program is used to generate diagrams that depict the relative variability of directional data.

(51) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): A new program called “Urchingram” has been added to the Grafix / 3D-Utilities menu.

This program is used to plot directional data (e.g. directional variability) in three-dimensions.

(50) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): A new program called “Point Distances” has been added to the RockWare Utilities / Stats menu. This program is used to compute the distance

Given a list of xy or xyz points, the program will compute a variety of statistics about the relative distribution of the points as show by the following report.

(49) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR: A new solid-modeling technique called “Inverse-Distance/Table-Based" has been added to the list of solid modeling algorithms that is used by a variety of programs. This modeling method allows the user to create a special “look-up” table that is used to define weighting factors based on specific three-dimensional directions that are defined by the user within a special table called the “IDW Solid Weighting Table”.

(48) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): The Grafix / 3D-Utilities / Spheres program now includes a options that allow the user to define the relative sphericity of the sample points.

(46) Improvement (01/01/06/JPR): The horizontal annotation axis within profiles will now automatically omit the y-coordinates if the profile is perfectly oriented along an east-west axis (i.e. y1 = y2). In a similar fashion, the x-coordinates will be omitted if the profile is oriented along a north-south axis (i.e. x1 = x2).

(45) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): The following changes have been made to the Lithology Legend option within the RockPlot/2D / Options / Legend program;

The “Lithology Index Table” option has been removed (the lithology table is now embedded within the project database)
It is now possible to specify if the lithology legend should be sorted alphabetically, or by the G-Value that is associated with each lithotype.

(44) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): The following changes have been made to the Stratigraphy Legend option within the RockPlot/2D / Options / Legend program;

(43) New Feature (01/01/06/JCJ): A new option titled “Show In Legend” has been added to the Stratigraphy Table.

(42) Removal (01/01/06/JCJ): The Lithology Table file no longer exists as a separate text file. Instead, this data is now embedded within the project database. The program now includes utilities for importing old lithology tables and lithology tables that are embedded within other project databases.

(41) Removal (01/01/06/JCJ): The Stratigraphy Table file no longer exists as a separate text file. Instead, this data is now embedded within the project database. The program now includes utilities for importing old stratigraphy tables and stratigraphy tables that are embedded within other project databases.

(40) New (01/01/06/JPR): A new program titled “Montage” has been added to the RockWare Utilities / Grafix / 3D-Utilities menu. This program is the 3-D analog to the RockWare Utilities / Grafix / 2D-Utilities / Montage program. It is used to combine many 3D diagrams into a single diagram based on a list of files. Unlike the 2D version, there are no provisions for rescaling.

· A new file called Montage_3D.atd has been added to the Samples folder. This file is designed to be used in conjunction within the RCL_00.rcl file.

(39) Redesign (01/01/06/JPR): The RockWare Utilities / Grafix / 2D-Utilities / Montage program no longer uses a “table” to store the list of files and coordinates. Instead, the program now uses the RockWare Utilities datasheet (i.e. an “ATD” file). As a consequence;

· The Montage option has been removed from the RockPlot/2D / Utilities menu. It is now available exclusively from the RockWare Utilities / Grafix / 2D-Utilities menu.

· A new file called “Montage.atd” has been added to the Samples folder. This file is used in conjunction with the new RCL_00.RCL file.

(38) Removal (01/01/06/JPR): The Borehole Manager / File / Export / MDB program has been removed. It no longer makes sense now that the program can natively support MDB files.

(37) Removal (01/01/06/JPR): The Borehole Manager / File / Import / MDB program has been removed. It is redundant now that the program can natively support MDB files.

(36) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): The RockWare Utilities / File / Export / ASCII program now includes an option that will automatically load the output into the default Windows text editor.

(35) Cosmetic (01/01/06/JPR): The RockWare Utilities / Geotechnical / Movement-Analysis program has been moved into the Grid / Directional Analysis sub-menu and the main Geotechnical menu has been removed.

(34) Cosmetic (01/01/06/JPR): The RockWare Utilities / View / Find Point program menu no longer displays options that are specific to the Borehole Manager.

(33) Cosmetic (01/01/06/JPR): The Borehole Manager / View / Find Point program has been renamed to “Find Borehole” and the subsequent menu no longer displays options that are specific to the RockWare Utilities datasheet.

(32) Bug Fix (01/01/06/JPR): The Grafix / Images / Raster->RKW program no longer generates an error message if the single-file option is chosen.

(31) Cosmetic (01/01/06/JPR): The default value for the Tools / General-Preference / Prompt-For-Project-Folder option has been set to false.

(30) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): The RockWare Utilities Coord/Polar->XY program now allows the user to specify different origins for each coordinate conversion.

(29) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): A new program called XYZ->Polar has been added to the RockWare-Utilities / Coords menu. This program is used to convert a list of xyz coordinates into a borehole-style list of polar coordinates (i.e. distance, bearing, inclination). This program is intended for occasions when you might need to treat a list of points as a borehole (i.e. converting the data into the Borehole Manager orientation table).

(28) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): The RockWare-Utilities / Grid / Statistics / Report program now includes an option that will skip the computation and reporting of the standard deviation thereby decreasing the time required to process a grid model. This can be especially useful when evaluation large models.

(27) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): The RockWare-Utilities / Grafix / Image / Digitize-From-Bitmap program now includes an option titled "Export" that will copy the contents of the Data Window directly into the Borehole Manager datasheet.

(26) New Feature (01/01/06JPR): The RockWare-Utilities / Grafix / Image / Digitize-From-Bitmap program now prompts the user to save the data if the user closes the application without saving any new data.

(25) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): The RockWare-Utilities / Grafix / Image / Digitize-From-Bitmap program now "remembers" the column widths within the Data Window.

(24) New Feature (01/01/06/JPR): The RockWare-Utilities / Grafix / Image / Digitize-From-Bitmap program now includes a new utility titled "Bitmap Coordinates" within the Edit menu. This program will compute the global corner-point coordinates for the bitmap (assuming that the bitmap has been calibrated).

(23) Cosmetic (01/01/06/JPR): The following changes have been made to the "Data Window" within the RockWare-Utilities / Grafix / Images / Digitize-From-Bitmap program;

· The Data Window may now be hidden (collapsed) by clicking on the up-arrow within the upper-left corner of the Data Window.

· The Data Window may now be un-hidden (expanded) by clicking on the down-arrow within the upper-left corner of the Data Window.

· The Save option has been moved from the main File menu to the File menu within the Data Window.

· The Edit / Copy-Selected-Data option has been moved from the main Edit menu to the Edit menu within the Data Window.

· The Edit / Copy-All option has been moved from the main Edit menu to the Edit menu within the Data Window.

· The Edit / Clear option have been renamed to "New" and moved to the File menu within the Data Window.

· The Data Window now includes a File / Open command. This allows the user to resume digitizing from a previously saved session.

(22) Cosmetic (01/01/06/JPR): Data within the RockWare Utilities datasheet is now right-justified if it is numeric, and left-justified if it isn't.

(21) Cosmetic (01/01/06/JPR): Column titles within the RockWare Utilities datasheet are now center-justified.

(20) Cosmetic (01/01/06/JPR): Row numbers within the RockWare Utilities datasheet are now right-justified.

(19) Cosmetic (01/01/06/JPR): The RockWare Utilities datasheet now opens with 100 rows.

(18) Cosmetic (01/01/06/JPR): A new option titled "Display Project Folder" has been added to the Tools/General-Preferences menu. This option is used to hide or show the Project Folder panel that appears directly below the main menu.

(17) Cosmetic (01/01/06/JPR): When plotting colors within the RockWare Utilities datasheet, the underlying text is no longer visible along the margins of the cell.

(16) Improvement (01/01/06/JPR): The installation program no longer creates and populates a folder called "Icons" within the main program folder. The menu bitmaps that were formerly stored within this folder are now stored within the main program exe file.

(15) Cosmetic (01/01/06/JPR): The Help option that was formerly listed along the left side of the screen has been relocated into a new main-menu item titled "Help."

(14) Cosmetic (01/01/06/JPR): The "Window" option that was formerly listed along the left side of the screen has been relocated into a new main-menu item titled "Window."

(13) Cosmetic (01/01/06/JPR): The Geological Utilities have been renamed to "RockWare Utilities".

(12) Cosmetic (01/01/06/JPR): The Util option has been renamed to "GeoTools". The programs are now accessed via a new tab along the left side of the main menu.

(11) Improvement (01/01/06/JPR): The Project Dimensions option may now be "expanded" or "collapsed" by checking or un-checking the box that appears next to the Project Dimensions label.

(10) Cosmetic (01/01/06/JPR): The Tables options now appears as a tab along the left side of the screen. Once selected, the Tables option will display a list of all of the associated tables. Clicking on one of these tables will cause the table to be loaded into a separate window for subsequent examination and/or editing.

(9) Improvement (01/01/06/JPR): The menu bar no longer flickers/redraws repeatedly when switching between the Geological Utilities and the Borehole Manager.

(8) Cosmetic (01/01/06/JPR): The Configure option that was formerly listed along the left side of the screen has been relocated into a new main-menu item titled "Tools."

(7) Removal (01/01/06/JPR): The File / Project-Folder option has been removed. It is redundant with the Project Folder option that appears directly below the main menu bar.

(5) Improvement (01/01/06/JPR): The File / Import menu no longer starts with the two major categories of "Borehole Manager" and "Geological Utilities". Instead, the program loads the appropriate list depending upon the current mode (e.g. Borehole Manager or Geological Utilities).

(4) Removal (01/01/06/JPR): The "More" button within the Geological-Utilities toolbar has been removed. These options are available by right-clicking within the datasheet or via the Edit menu (see item #3 below).

(3) Cosmetic (01/01/06/JPR): The Geological-Utilities / Edit menu now includes all of the options that were formerly only available within the popup menu that is activated by clicking the right mouse button while the cursor is positioned within the datasheet. This options and their sub-options are summarized within the following diagram.

(2) Improvement (01/01/06/JPR): The Geological-Utilities / File / Open-Datasheet option has been split into two new options;

(1) Cosmetic (01/01/06/JPR): The Geological-Utilities / File / New-Datasheet option has been renamed to "New".

RockWorks Table	LogPlot Tab
Location Total Depth, Easting, Northing, Elevation	Setup
Location optional fields	Edit-Text
Location Comment	Note-Text
Orientation	Orientation
Lithology	Lith
Stratigraphy	Lith
I-Data	Histogram
P-Data	Curve
Fractures	Tadpole
Water (Aquifers)	Text-Column
Symbols	Symbol-Column with Caption to Text-Column
Patterns	Fill-Bar with Caption to Text-Column
Bitmaps	Bitmap
Vectors	Tadpole
Well Construction	Well-Column with Caption to Text-Column