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(090) 06/09/26/JCJ - Bug Fix:
RockPlot2D Profile export to RockPlot3D access violation is resolved by clamping profile bitmap crop rectangles to PNG bounds before embedding panels.
(089) 06/09/26/JCJ - Improvement:
RwMenu files are now being listed in the project manager and can be opened with a double click. Also, when rwmenu files are opened, they are converted using the Playlist converter.
(088) 06/09/26/JPR - Bug Fix:
Fixed RockPlot2D EMF/WMF export sizing when manual vertical exaggeration is used, preventing oversized imports in applications such as Adobe Illustrator.
(087) 06/15/26/JPR - New Feature:
The PDF file created by the Borehole Operations / Striplogs / All Logs -> PDF program now includes a "Table of Contents" strip along the left side of the PDF file that will allow you to navigate to other logs within the PDF. Click on the help button with the menu to learn more.
(086) 06/15/26/JPR - New Feature:
The Borehole Operations / Maps / Borehole Map / Output Options list now includes an item titled "HyperMap". This new option is used to create an interactive HTML version of the borehole map that is viewable within a web browser. Clicking on a borehole symbol within this map will display borehole log diagrams within the PDF file created with the Borehole Operations / Striplogs / All Logs -> PDF program. Click on the Help button within the menu to learn more.
(085) 06/14/26/JPR - Improvement:
Added live refresh support for datasheet column-selection menus in these program option areas, so open menus update their column lists after datasheet columns are changed: Block Labels; Circular Symbols; Colored Raster Symbols; Convex Hull; Copy File List; Extract Values; File List; Google Earth Cylinders; Grid Evaluate; Hyperlinks; Vertical Image Margins; 2D Montage; Object Size; Polyline to 3D Faults; 3D Points; Polygons to Solid; 2D Polyline; Polyline Export; Replace Text; Scattergram Border; Solid Evaluate; Table-Based Raster Symbols; Ternary Map; Time Mass; 3D Tubes; Uniform Raster Symbols.
(084) 06/09/26/JCJ - Improvement:
Added a DXF 2D import option to import closed DXF polylines as RockPlot2D polylines instead of filled polygons. This allows closed contour loops from CAD files to retain their Z/elevation values so they can be used by the Contours | Grid program, while preserving the previous polygon import behavior by default.
(083) 06/09/26/JCJ - Improvement:
Added a datasheet shapefile polygon import option to create one row per polygon instead of one row per polygon vertex. When enabled, the import includes Polygon #, Min X, Min Y, Max X, and Max Y columns along with the selected DBF attributes. This makes it easier to import polygon-level data such as PLSS lease-map attributes. The existing vertex-per-row import behavior remains unchanged by default.
(082) 06/08/26/JPR - Improvement:
The lag points within the variogram editor have been changed from small, hard-to-see crosses to small black dots.
(081) 06/08/26/JPR - Improvement:
The "Pre-Model Points For Variograms" within the Solid Kriging menu is now multithreaded - meaning that it's significantly faster.
(080) 06/08/26/JPR - Improvement:
The ModOps | Solid | Statistics | Residuals program is now multithreaded - meaning that it's significantly faster.
(079) 06/07/26/JPR - Improvement:
The ModOps | Grid | Statistics | Residuals program is now multithreaded - meaning that it's much faster.
(078) 06/07/26/JPR - Improvement:
The Radial Basis Function (RBF) solid modeling better supports faulting.
(077) 06/07/26/JPR - Improvement:
Fixed Single Spoke kriging variogram handling so the correct variogram is used in 2D and 3D kriging, and corrected Single Spoke option indexing in 3D metadata and 2D variogram setup.
(076) 06/07/26/JPR - Improvement:
Changed kriging variogram output labels from “Relative Sill” to “Sill” because the reported value is the variogram sill/semivariance coefficient, not a normalized relative sill.
(075) 06/06/26/JPR - Improvement:
Improved 3D kriging solid modeling speed while preserving model quality by using parallel processing and balanced sample selection around each voxel.
(074) 06/06/26/JPR - Improvement:
Added support for verticalized/TVD deviated boreholes within the Stratigraphy | Section | Linear Correlation program.
(073) 06/04/26/JPR - Improvement:
The little red and blue questions marks that adorn many menus have been standardized to blue and the pull-down menus that most of them trigger now include options for viewing the RockWorks Training page and the RockWare Knowledge Base.
(072) 06/04/26/JPR - Improvement:
Help hints have been added to 301 RockWorks buttons and typos with 20 help hints have been fixed.
(071) 06/04/26/JPR - New Feature:
The Execution History page now has a "Copy to Clipboard" button. If clicked, the contents of the history list will be copied to the Windows clipboard.
(070) 06/03/26/JPR - Bug Fix:
The Size option within the RockPlot3D menu now responds correctly to a size that is manually entered.
(069) 06/02/26/JPR - Improvement:
When running a Playlist, 2D and 3D diagrams are no longer displayed in separate dialog windows before being plotted within a Playlist tab.
(068) 05/31/26/JPR - Improvement:
RockWorks automatically creates backup copies of your playlist files and project settings before making changes to them. These backup files are saved in the Backup subfolder within your project folder.
(067) 05/31/26/JPR - Bug Fix:
Onlap/underlap only adjusts cells that already exist in the current formation and have valid top and base elevations. It does not create new cells from blank areas, and it does not let blank areas in neighboring formations shrink the current formation.
(066) 05/29/26/JPR - Improvement:
When generating layered stratigraphic models or stratigraphic block models, units within the Stratigraphy Table that have an unchecked Show-In-Legend setting now log a "quiet note" within the execution log rather than displaying a warning message. This eliminates interruptions when processing a playlist.
(065) 05/27/26/JCJ - Improvement:
License Administrator Update: Added thread synchronization to the Network License Server using TCriticalSection to protect shared licensing state across concurrent Indy client threads. Shared access to license records, user datasets, license counts, loan data, and license request processing is now serialized to prevent race conditions, intermittent lookup failures, duplicate license allocation, and dataset corruption during simultaneous checkout, heartbeat, borrow, return, and status operations. Improved server shutdown sequencing to safely stop active client contexts before releasing shared resources.
(064) 05/15/26/JPR - Improvement:
The Playlist menu now has an option to pick a recent playlist from a history list
(063) 05/14/26/JPR - Improvement:
When closing the program, the "Save Warning" now has an option titled "No to All" that will skip subsequent save warnings and discard any unsaved changes to RockPlot2D and RockPlot3D files.
(062) 05/14/26/JPR - Improvement:
RockWorks now provides a notice when an older Project.ini file is updated.
(061) 05/14/26/JPR - Improvement:
Eight new hydrological symbols have been added to the raster symbol library.
(060) 05/14/26/JPR - Improvement:
The following changes have been made to the RockPlot2D | Edit | Copy Image and RockPlot3D | Edit | Copy Image operations.
(059) 05/05/26/JCJ - Improvement:
Borehole Operations - Lithology | Solid - 3D Solid Diagram | Block Diagram Filter option filters the diagram for the selected Lithology G-Values.
(058) 05/04/26/JCJ - Bug Fix:
RockPlot3D Point Digitizing / Export to Borehole Database will now work, even when using a fixed elevation, so that users can choose the Collar Elevation.
(057) 04/29/26/JPR - New Feature:
The title-block text auto sizing has been updated for multi-line peripheral title blocks and allows the text to fit within their designated boxes more reliably.
(056) 04/29/26/JCJ - Bug Fix:
Fixed issue where pasted numeric/date values (e.g., from Excel) were rejected due to hidden whitespace. Now the paste process uses normalized input with field 'OnSetText' handlers.
(055) 04/29/26/JPR - Bug Fix:
RockPlot2D drawing tools can be selected after zooming into a newly opened map/diagram instead of the zoom button state forcing the program back into zoom mode.
(054) 04/28/26/JPR - Bug Fix:
Fixed the Utilities | Maps | Point Symbols program such that points still plot when Z values are enabled but individual Z cells are blank.
(053) 04/28/26/JPR - Bug Fix:
Fixed the Utilities | Animate | Grids | Contour Map Animation program such that animation color palettes no longer shift unexpectedly.
(052) 04/28/26/JPR - Bug Fix:
Fixed the Utilities | Animate | Grids | 3D Surface Animation program such that animation color palettes no longer shift unexpectedly.
(051) 04/28/26/JPR - Bug Fix:
Fixed the Utilities | Animate | Solids | 3D Animation program such that animation color palettes no longer shift unexpectedly and RockPlot3D flashes less during frame rendering.
(050) 04/28/26/JPR - Bug Fix:
Fixed the Utilities | Animate programs such that cleanup after animation processing no longer causes history/logging access violations.
(049) 04/28/26/JPR - Bug Fix:
Fixed the Utilities | Images | Logarithmic Digitizing program such that the Logarithmic help button opens the correct help topic.
(048) 04/28/26/JPR - Bug Fix:
Borehole Operations | Lithology | Volumetrics Improvements:
(047) 04/28/26/JPR - Bug Fix:
RockPlot3D | Lithology Model Options dialog Fixes:
(046) 04/28/26/JPR - Bug Fix:
Fixed 2D map programs that use logical color maps such that shaded relief is not incorrectly applied to logical true/false color fills.
(045) 04/28/26/JPR - Bug Fix:
Fixed older project loading such that legacy contour/color settings are preserved when older projects are opened.
(044) 04/28/26/JPR - Bug Fix:
Fixed the Borehole Operations | Maps | Location Map program such that transect endpoint labels use the correct table-based labels and that transect profile endpoint labels no longer inherit section label offset and font settings.
(043) 04/28/26/JPR - Bug Fix:
Fixed the Borehole Manager | QuickMap tab such that option pop-downs appear in the correct screen location.
(042) 04/28/26/JPR - Bug Fix:
Fixed In RockPlot3D:
(041) 04/28/26/JPR - Bug Fix:
Fixed the Project | New, workflow such that the old project’s datasheet is closed after a new project is created.
(040) 04/28/26/JPR - Bug Fix:
The Borehole Operations | I-Data | Resample program is set up so that the weighted-average resampling uses the interval center.
(039) 04/24/26/JPR - Bug Fix:
Fixed the Utilities | Solid | Extract Grid(s) | Solid to Grids program such that non-whole slice elevations are preserved in output grid/map names instead of being rounded.
(038) 04/24/26/JPR - New Feature:
Creating a new project or changing the project now clears the main datasheet only if the project folder actually changed. This fixes instances in which an old project’s datasheet stayed open in the new project, while still avoiding a wipe if the user cancels the New Project dialog. If the datasheet has not been saved, the user will be given an opportunity to save it!
(037) 04/06/26/JPR - Bug Fix:
Logarithmic histograms allow the Show Legend option to be enabled (without access violation errors).
(036) 03/24/26/JPR - Improvement:
The RockPlot2D program has been modified such that the current "mode" is prominently displayed at the top of the dialog. Clicking on the mode button will automatically cancel the current mode and return control to the "Edit Mode". This replaces the former controls that were less prominently displayed within the lower-left corner of the screen.
(035) 03/24/26/PR - Bug Fix:
The point-in-triangle algorithm that is used by a wide variety of RockWorks applications no longer rarely misidentifies a point. By "rarely" we mean once in the last 20 years.
(034) 03/16/26/JCJ - Improvement:
Creating a Lithology model in RockPlot3D, the Lithology types were being saved in the file as element names. In strict XML it is not allowed to have spaces in element names. The Lithological Types and Names are now saved as attributes allowing them to have spaces.
(033) 03/17/26/JPR - Bug Fix:
Converting Coordinates in the RockPlot3D Utilities now converts the internal X, Y, Z offsets as expected.
(032) 03/16/26/JPR - Improvement:
A "Fault Gap" option, that defines the gap between contour line segments and nearby fault segments, expressed in Project Units (Feet or Meters), has been added to the Faulting | Use Faults When Conntouring tab.
(031) 03/16/26/JPR - Improvement:
Key improvements have been made to the ModOps | Grid | Import | Raster program, especially related to tif imports.
Click to view this Write up from the online Knowledge Base to read about all of the improvements.
(030) 03/12/26/JCJ - New Feature:
When the mouse pointer is positioned over certain menu items (e.g., Stratigraphy Layered Model), a small abstract is displayed describing the output produced by that command. These images are now stored in a TImageCollection, where each image is maintained individually in a compressed PNG format. This change eliminates the need to load a large bitmap at startup, reducing memory usage and decreasing the overall size of the RockWorks executable.
(029) 03/06/26/JPR - Improvement:
The ribbon menu as the top of the Lithology, Stratigraphy, and Hydrostratigraphy "Pickers" has been condensed to accommodate smaller monitors.
(028) 03/03/26/JPR - Improvement:
The smoothing within the Utilities | Maps | Triangulation Contours program has been improved such that the contour lines are in-synch with the color bands.
Click to view this Write up from the online Knowledge Base to learn more.
(027) 03/01/26/JPR - New Feature:
Two new capabilities have been added to the Borehole Operations | Maps | Striplog Map program:
Click to view this Write up from the online Knowledge Base to learn more.
(026) 02/22/26/JPR - Bug Fix:
The Borehole Operations | Maps | Striplogs Plan View program now includes textual information for inclined and deviated boreholes and omits all vertical boreholes.
(025) 02/22/26/JPR - Bug Fix:
Column titles within striplogs that are projected into a 2D vertical plane are plotted directly over their respective column of data.
(024) 02/13/26/JCJ - Bug Fix:
When changing projects, RockWorks closes the previous project's windows. Sometimes this would result in a pointer or access violation error, which has been resolved.
(023) 02/08/26/JPR - Improvement:
The formations within a layered stratigraphy model no longer list the "Elevation Grid" as a sub-item for the Top and Base of each unit.
(022) 02/06/26/JPR - Improvement:
A new option titled “Faulting” has been added to the upper tab bar for all programs that may involve faulting. This redesign centralizes the fault-related options into a single location rather than being distributed throughout the various sub-menus.
Click to view this Summary from the online Knowledge Base to learn more.
(021) 02/04/26/JCJ - Bug Fix:
RockPlot3D - When opening an existing diagram with many linked, but missing, files the dialog to browse for the files includes a checkbox to ignore the warning for missing files.
(020) 02/04/26/JCJ - Bug Fix:
RockPlot3D zooming to a node and saving views, then returning to a view later will adjust the font appropriately and center that view.
(019) 02/04/26/JCJ - Bug Fix:
Importing a Shapefile through a Playlist - the Elevation option is updated in the menu item and honored in the import.
(018) 02/04/26/JCJ - Bug Fix:
Windows Clipboard is no longer cleared when clicking on Edit menu items in RockPlot3D.
(016) 02/04/26/JCJ - Improvement:
In RockPlot3D the mouse scroll wheel will only increase/decrease the Zoom when the mouse is over the diagram. If the mouse is over the TreeView of objects it will scroll the TreeView, not affecting the Zoom.
(015) 02/04/26/JPR - Cosmetic:
The Datasheet | File | Import | GPS Track and GPS Waypoints menus now include a warning to avoid trying to read files directly from the device.
(014) 02/02/26/JPR - New Feature:
The Ternary Map program interface has been re-designed to emphasize how the program works in conjunction with the Ternary (single) program.
(013) 01/27/26/JPR - New Feature:
The ModOps | Volume | Extract Via Surface Excavation now plots the ore in red, waste in yellow and the pit shell in green.
(012) 01/26/26/JPR - New Feature:
Contour lines may now be included within the surfaces generated by the ModOps | Grid | Grids | 3D Stack Diagram program.
(011) 01/24/26/JPR - New Feature:
Lithology Volumetrics has added functionalities. Double-clicking on a lithology model within the 3D display window will now open an enhanced version of the volumetrics window that includes several important new features:
Click to view this Write Up from the online Knowledge Base and learn more.
(010) 01/22/26/JPR - Removal:
The long-since deprecated (obsolete) programs listed within the Utilities | Misc. | Obsolete Programs pull-down menu have been removed from the program. Getting rid of these obsolete programs reduces the RockWorks "footprint" (i.e., download time, memory load, and instabilities).
(009) 01/22/26/JPR - Improvement:
The Data Columns tab within the ModOps | Solid | Display program menu has been removed. Instead, the column designations have been moved into the Points sub-menu. This makes more sense given that the optional point-plotting is the only portion of this program that uses the XYZ coordinates. This redesign also eliminates the implicit question of "Why are XYZ coordinates required to display a solid model?". The same modifications have been made to the ModOps | Solid | Display as IsoShells program.
(008) 01/21/26/JCJ - Improvement:
For RockPlot3D, we've improved the import and export of DXF files using True Color (RGB) values.
(007) 01/21/26/JPR - Improvement:
The sample density contouring within the ternary diagrams has been improved.
(006) 01/21/26/JPR - Improvement:
The TDS contouring within the Durov diagrams has been improved.
(005) 01/21/26/JCJ - Improvement:
RockPlot2D can now import and export DXF files using True Color (RGB) values.
(004) 01/16/26/JCJ - Bug Fix:
The “Include Elevations” setting is now being read when importing a Shapefile, instead of using the default value.
(003) 01/16/26/JCJ - Bug Fix:
Resolved a placement bug in the RockPlot2D Google Earth export for Profiles/Sections, where increasing vertical exaggeration caused the exported panel to appear progressively higher above the ground. The export now adjusts the top of the graphic for VE while keeping the bottom anchored, so the specified offset remains consistent.
(002) 01/05/26/JCJ - Improvement:
RockWorks has been updated to use the OXml library. The NativeXml library has been removed. The main areas this affects: RockPlot3D (rw3D), KMZ/KML, Collada export, Utitlities data (rwdat), IHS Depth Register File (XML format), Downloadable files utility (Help | Download | Misc. Downloads), loading XML resource files, and import templates.
(001) 01/03/26/JPR - New Feature:
Expanding the Contours option within RockPlot3D will now show the z-values for each contour polyline thereby providing a means for selectively controlling which contours are visible. Toggling a contour between the on/off states also provides a way to identifying a specific contour.
NOTE: If you are using a NETWORK license, RockWorks20 v. 2022.5.28 and newer require the RockWare Network License Administrator version 1.18 or newer. Check with your license administrator before installing the RockWorks update.