We are really excited about this program, the fruit of 3+ years of development. Please visit our website for a list of some of the new features in RockWorks2020.
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(111) 12/30/2020/JCJ - Bug Fix:
Datasheet files with un-even last columns (i.e. rows with different number of used columns) will no longer cause an error. (Try Earth_Cones_Proportional_Sediment.rwDat)
(110) 12/27/2020/JPR - Improvement:
It is now possible to specify directions between -360 and +360 degrees when specifying the offset direction for parallel profiles.
(109) 12/27/2020/JPR - New Feature:
It is now possible to independently vary the manually-specified X and Y coordinate intervals when plotting dual axes within profiles. This solves a problem when the profiles are close to aligning in east/west and north/south directions.
(108) 12/26/2020/JPR - New Feature:
A new option titled "Color Blend" has been added to the Multiple Grids | Multivariate Map program. This option will produce maps in which the relative percentages represented by each of the colors assigned to the designated grids will be blended into a color map reminiscent of an impressionistic painting. The basic idea is to show subtle geologic transitions.
(107) 12/25/2020/JPR - New Feature:
The Annotation menu used by all programs that create profiles, sections, and projected sections now includes separate configuration options for the left and right vertical axes. This allows for completely different intervals (1), titles (2), label angles (3), etc.
(106) 12/23/2020/JPR - New Feature:
A new menu option titled "Traverse Defined By ..." has been added to all of the programs that create sections. If the "Interactive Map" setting is selected, these programs behave just like the used to, meaning that the section location is selected via the Section Location tab at the top of the menu. The new "List ..." options provide a way to define the sections based on ASCII text files that contain either a list of Borehole IDs or XY coordinates. This new feature has been added to the menus for the following programs:
(105) 12/23/2020/JPR - New Feature:
A new program titled "Multivariate Grid Map" has been added to the ModOps / Grid sub-menu. This program will use two to five grid models to create multivariate pie chart or star burst maps in which the size of an individual slice or petal represents the average cell value from the associated grid within the vicinity of the diagram. In this way it is possible to show multiple parameters at the same time. Hence the name “multivariate”. The examples below depict pie chart and star burst maps based on sand, gravel, and clay grids.
(104) 12/23/2020/MIW - Enhancement:
Users can now generate vertical scales for Profiles and Sections using Depth below a Datum.
(103) 12/23/2020/MIW - Bug Fix:
The correct tab layout in the main window is maintained after running an RwCmd file from the command line or from the Windows File Explorer.
(102) 12/22/2020/JPR - Enhancement:
The Multivariate Lithology Map now includes an option for adding a lithology legend.
(101) 20/12/21/2020/MIW - Enhancement:
Items in RockPlot3D can now be offset in the X and Y directions as well as Z.
(100) 12/20/2020/JPR - New Feature:
A new program titled "Drape Grid" has been added to the ModOps ? Grid sub-menu. This program will create a 3D color contour map in which the elevations are based on an “elevation grid” while the colors are based on a different grid (e.g., geochemistry).
(099) 12/19/2020/JCJ - Improvement:
Added Project_Cmd to be able to set the project in the Playlist or a command script
(097) 12/19/2020/JCJ - Bug Fix:
Changing the project will clear the current Playlist (as it does for the current Datasheet)
(096) 12/18/2020/MIW - Bug Fix:
RockPlot2D no longer exports layers that are inactive to RockPlot3D.
(095) 12/18/2020/MIW - Improvement:
The color fill contours in Cross Sections and Profiles now honor the faults that are enabled in the Fault table.
(094) 12/18/2020/MIW - Bug Fix:
RockPlot2D no longer generates aan Access Violation when pressing a tool bar button.
(093) RW20/12/17/2020/JPR - Improvement:
The following changes have been made to the Grid Import / Bitmap program:
(092) 12/17/2020/JCJ - Improvement:
Since the improvement in the Datasheet import of CSV files allowed multiple lines and quotation marks in a field, The Save and Open a datasheet will now also allow these improvements.
(091) 12/16/2020/JPR - New Feature:
The Filter sub-menu within the Lithology | Solid Model | 3D Solid Diagram | Block Diagram now includes an option to select a given lithology (based on the Lithology Table) and use its G-Value to set the Minimum and Maximum Visible G-Value settings. This eliminates the hassle of switching back to the Lithology Table to look up the G-Value for a unit of interest.
(090) 12/16/2020/JPR - Bug Fix:
The Filter checkbox within the Lithology | Solid Model | 3D Solid Diagram | Block Diagram sub-menu can now be checked and un-checked.
(082) 12/15/2020/JCJ - Improvement:
CSV Datasheet import has been improved for better RFC 4180 compliance. Allowing quoted strings within a field, multi-line fields, unicode.
(089) 12/11/2020/JCJ - New Feature:
The RW17 Fault Contours to Fault Surface program has been added to RW20 and modified to Import the fault contours to a 3D fault in the Fault table.
(088) 12/10/2020/JPR - Bug Fix:
The Hide/Show (+/-) button within the Datasheet Column Properties sub-menu is now visible.
(087) 12/09/2020/JPR - Bug Fix:
The Grid Statistics data columns are no longer offset one line below the caption within the first column.
(086) 12/09/2020/MIW - Improvement:
2D Faults are now used when creating solid models. They are treated as triangles extending from the top of the project to the bottom. Be aware that there are Automatic and Manual settings for Top and Bottom when plotting 2D Faults in 3D.
(085) 12/09/2020/JCJ - Improvement:
Update Symbols in the Borehole Manager can now (in addition to a Well Status field) update based only on which Boreholes to include.
(084) 12/08/2020/JCJ - Improvement:
Text, CSV and Excel Datasheet imports allow the setting of datasheet column types and units. These new settings are stored in the ini file and can be set/edited in a Playlist. The data options input frame has been reorganized to incorporate these settings.
(083) 12/07/2020/MIW - Bug Fix:
The RockPlot2D Export to the Borehole Manager option from the Data Window ("Points to Boreholes") is no longer disabled when the diagram is a map type.
(082) 12/07/2020/MIW - Bug Fix:
The file open menu in RockPlot2D no longer generates an Access Violation error.
(081) 12/06/2020/JPR - Cosmetic:
The "Cutoff Distance" prompt within the "Omit Segments Near Faults" sub-menu within the 2D contouring menu is no longer truncated.
(080) 12/04/2020/MIW - Bug Fix:
The Grid and Solid Mode Export to netCdf format now includes information about other coordinate systems than UTM.
(079) 12/04/2020/MIW - Bug Fix:
The Solid Model Export to netCdf format now honors the Replace Nulls option.
(078) 12/01/2020/JPR – Cosmetic:
When an item in the Playlist is double-clicked to load the menu, the screen will change to dark gray and a notice will be displayed while the menu is being loaded. The same applies to when the menu is being saved.
(077) 12/01/2020/JPR – New Feature:
A new program titled “HTML Builder” has been added to the Misc pulldown menu. This program creates an HTML file based on a list of images and image captions. The intended purpose of this program is to provide a means for organizing and concatenating all of the images that are generated by a RockWorks Playlist into a file that can be displayed within a web browser or edited within Microsoft Word to produce a final report.
(076) 12/01/2020/JPR – Cosmetic:
A new category titled “Misc” has been added to the main RockWorks menu bar.
(075) 12/01/2020/JPR – New Feature:
A new tutorial case study project folder titled “Coal” has been added to the RockWorks Data folder. This project folder includes a PDF (Coal Evaluation Case Study Using the RockWorks Playlist) that describes the example Playlist which processes a RockWorks datasheet with 583 boreholes in order to identify the areas in which three coal seams meet a variety of criteria including overburden thickness, interburden thickness, BTU, sulfur, and ash.
(074) 12/01/2020/JPR – New Feature:
A new program titled “Multiple Grid Multiplication” has been added to the main RockWorks menu bar. This program multiplies all of the grids with a Datagrid list. This tool is designed as an “AND” filter for Boolean grids. As shown in the example below, 13 boolean grids (1=True,0=False) have been multiplied together to form the final boolean grid within the lower-right corner. This grid shows areas in which all of the other grids are “True” (1.0). This tool is analogous to overlaying transparent contour maps on a light table to determine where they all agree.
(073) 12/01/2020/JPR - Cosmetic:
The PNG Display On/Off option within the 2D and 3D diagram export options now works correctly.
(072) 12/01/2020/JPR - Cosmetic:
Blank lines have been removed from text and RTF Report output.
(071) 11/30/2020/MMM - Upload:
Version 2020.11.30 uploaded to the RockWare website.
(070) 11/30/2020/MMM - Improvement:
Auto-licensing is now available in RockWorks2020.
(069) 11/21/2020/JPR - Bug Fix:
When pasting a horizontal series of cells within the Datasheet, the program now properly pastes the contents of the rightmost cell.
(068) 11/19/2020/JCJ - Improvement:
The Borehole Mananger's Edit | Save Enabled List needed the TXT (Notepad) options to be set to "Format for Import into Other Products" to be readable for re-import. The TXT Options will now automatically select "Format for Import into Other Products". The import is now more forgiving if the wrong option is selected and reports the number of updated boreholes.
(067) 11/15/2020/JPR - Improvement:
Five new symbols have been added to the Raster Symbol Library.
(066) 11/15/2020/JPR - Improvement:
The maximum Fixed Icon Altitude within the Utilities | Earth | Sample Point Icons program has been increased from 10 to 100,000 and the increments of the spin buttons have been increased from 0.1 to 10.0.
(065) 11/13/2020/MIW - Bug Fix:
The RockPlot3D Triangle Network now remembers the user selected color scheme.
(064) 11/11/2020/MIW - Bug Fix:
All Sections, Profiles and Projected Sections now plot underlaid 2D files.
(063) 11/11/2020/MIW - Bug Fix:
Disabled faults are no longer included in solid models.
(062) 11/11/2020/JPR - Bug Fix:
The ModOps | Grid | Filters | Smooth program no longer attempts to smooth across 3D faults if the "Use Enabled Faults" option is checked.
(061) 11/11/2020/JPR - New Feature:
A new option titled "Double Gridding" has been added to the Gridding | Options | Faulted sub-menu. "Double Gridding" will create more accurate interpolations adjacent to 3D faults but it increases the processing time by 100%. Without Double Gridding, grid interpolation begins by fitting an un-faulted surface to the data and then using the intersections of the 3D faults and this un-faulted surface to define fault polylines. These polylines are then used within the final modeling. When Double Gridding is activated, the "final" model is used to re-define the fault polylines and the data is re-gridded resulting in a more accurate map. The Double Gridding option is disabled by default because the effects are typically negligible. In addition, Double Gridding is unnecessary if the Smoothing option is enabled during gridding because the smoothing is essentially a form of Double-Gridding.
(060) 11/10/2020/JCJ - Bug Fix:
Hang on datum is available in linearly-correlated stratigraphy sections.
(059) 11/10/2020/JCJ - Bug Fix:
In linearly-correlated stratigraphy sections, if Stratigraphy was referenced to Collar Elevation, Boreholes were drawn correctly referenced to Collar, but Linear Correlations were referenced to Z Elevation, creating an offset. This has been fixed.
(058) 11/09/2020/MIW - Bug Fix:
The Delete key now works in the RockWorks Datasheet.
(057) 11/09/2020/MIW - Bug Fix:
Using the keyboard shortcuts for Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete in a dialog no longer cause an Access Violation error.
(056) 11/08/2020/JPR – New Feature:
An option titled “Perpendicular Mode” has been added to the Borehole Operations | Fractures | Solid Model menu. Checking this option will disregard the fracture azimuth and inclination data. Instead, all fractures will be assumed to be perpendicular to the log axis. This capability has been added for downhole seismic and radar surveys in which the fracture radius represents the distance to an object and the aperture represents the height of the object. As a consequence, using the Distance-to-Closest Intersection option can be used to identify features such as pilings and reservoirs.
(055) 11/08/2020/JPR – New Feature:
An option titled “Perpendicular Mode” has been added to the 3D Log Designer | Fractures sub-menu. Checking this option will disregard the fracture azimuth and inclination data. Instead, all fractures will be assumed to be perpendicular to the log axis. This capability has been added for downhole seismic and radar surveys in which the fracture radius represents the distance to an object (e.g. pilings) and the aperture represents the height of the object.
(054) 11/08/2020/JPR - Improvement:
The grid smoothing and plotting of 3D fault intercepts within 2D maps has been improved.
(054) 11/03/2020/JCJ - Improvement:
Editing a fault in the "Edit Fault" dialog, will now check for a duplicate name and allow the user to change the name to an unique value. Editing the Name directly in the Fault Datasheet to a name that already exists will still raise an "Unique constraint" error.
(053) 11/04/2020/JPR - Improvements:
The new Layout tools (Tile, Cascade, Horizonal, & Vertical) now (1) include minimized forms and (2) position the main RockWorks form as the first item.
(052) 11/03/2020/JCJ - Improvement:
Adding a new fault will now check for a duplicate name and allow the user to change the name to an unique value.
(051) 11/03/2020/JCJ - Bug Fix:
Multiple LAS file import now correctly retrieves the new Point Type Id to be able to import the data curves.
(050) 11/03/2020/JCJ - Bug Fix:
The conversion from a 2D fault to a 3D fault was broken while converting to Array DML. Works again.
(049) 11/03/2020/JCJ - Improvement:
The faults can now be transferred when creating a new project.
(048) 11/02/2020/JCJ - New Feature:
The faults are now included in the Multi-Table import/export (hence in the Archive also)
(047) 11/02/2020/JPR - New Feature:
The Borehole Operations | Maps | Borehole Map menu now includes an option for using the borehole symbols that are unique to each borehole (as defined within the Borehole Location tab for each borehole) or specifying a uniform symbol for all boreholes.
(046) 11/01/2020/JPR - Improvement:
The 2D Fault Map title font size, title spacing, symbol size, and symbol spacing are now specified as a percentage of the Project Size.
(045) 11/01/2020/JPR - Cosmetic:
The Graphics | 2D Tools | Reassign Projection menu no longer includes options for adding embellishments.
(044) 11/01/2020/JPR - Bug Fix:
The volumetric mass is no longer displayed within the output report produced by the ModOps | Volume | Ore Grid program if the Volume-to-Mass option is unchecked.
(043) 11/01/2020/JPR - Bug Fix:
The Geologic Resources and Economically Feasible Reserves options within the ModOps | Volume | Ore Grid program now produce different types of reports in accordance with the selected Type of Classification.
(042) 11/01/2020/JPR - Cosmetic:
The example file for the ModOps | Volume | Ore Grid has been changed to "Playlist_Coal_Data.RwDat"
(041) 11/01/2020/JPR - Cosmetic:
The ModOps | Volume | Ore Grid | Stripping Ratio Filter sub-menu no longer shows stripping method sub-options. These are only available when computing volumetrics for block (solid) models.
(040) 10/31/2020/JPR – Bug Fix:
Faults are now properly plotted when their intercepts with grid models are projected onto 2D maps (Figure 1). In addition, portions of “blind” faults that lie below a grid surface are now omitted from 2D maps (Figures 2 & 3).
(039) 10/30/2020/MIW - Bug Fix:
Sections and Profiles without annotation now export correctly to Google Earth.
(038) 10/30/2020/JPR - New Feature:
A new option titled "Launch Program" has been added to the Playlist | Add pull-down menu. This tool is used to launch external programs and includes an optional Parameter String that can be used to pass information to the program that is being executed. In the example below, an animation that was created within the RockWorks Playlist (Fault_Bounded_Plume_01.mp4) will be loaded into the TechSmith Camtasia program for subsequent editing.
(037) 10/28/2020/JPR - New Feature:
A new tab titled "Undefined" has been added to the Gridding Options menu. This new option (similar to the Solid Modeling Undefined option) provides a tool for defining the value used to identify "undefined" grid nodes that have been filtered by the new polygon clipping option.
(036) 10/28/2020/JPR - Cosmetic:
The description of Undefined Nodes within the Solid Modeling sub-menu has been expanded.
(035) 10/28/2020/JCJ - Bug Fix:
Stratigraphic thickness report was getting lost in an infinite loop if a stratigraphic unit was set to not display in legend.
(034) 10/28/2020/JCJ - Bug Fix:
Batch Import from Excel/Text file will run even if the import data file does not include Coordinate Units.
(033) 10/27/2020/JPR - New Feature:
A new program titled "3 Grids -> Solid" has been added to the ModOps | Grid sub-menu. This program will create a block model in which the voxel values between two surface model grids are defined by another grid (e.g. a grid representing ore grades). It is designed primarily for uranium exploration using two-dimensional GT (Grade x Thickness) models.
(032) 10/27/2020/JPR - New Feature:
The ModOps | Volume | Thickness -> GT Grid and Elevations -> GT Grid programs can now create a single diagram with a matrix of up to 19 grid maps rather than being limited to producing a single map. Each of these maps is labeled with the name of the associated grid. The number of columns within the map matrix is defined within the Output Options sub-menu. Empty (all null) grids are not displayed.
(031) 10/27/2020/JPR – Improvements:
The ModOps | Volume | Elevations -> GT Grid program has been significantly re-designed. Specifically:
(030) 10/25/2020/JPR – Improvements:
The ModOps | Volume | Thickness -> GT Grid program has been significantly re-designed. Specifically:
(029) 10/25/2020/JPR - New Feature:
An option titled "Polygon" has been added to the gridding options menus. This new tool can be used to crop grid models based on an automatically-generated polygon based on:
(028) 10/24/2020/JPR - Improvement:
The ModOps | Volume | Extract Via Surface Excavation menu now includes options filtering the data used for the optional 3D striplogs including Spatial Filtering, Time Filtering, Stratigraphic Rules and the 3D Log Designer.
(027) 10/24/2020/JPR - Improvement:
The 2D Log Designer Depth Bar Tick Mark Width maximum has been increased from 1.0 to 100.0.
(026) 10/23/2020/JPR - Cosmetic:
The Flow Parameters sub-menu that is used by the Grid -> Flow Path Map, 3D Flow Diagram, and Flow Table programs has been re-designed such that the five main options (Smooth Flowlines, Gradient Filter, Drainage Area Filter, Isolate Watershed, and Filter By Stratigraphy) have been converted into checkboxed tabs. Each of the new tab pages now includes explanatory cartoons. In addition:
(025) 10/23/2020/JCJ - Improvement:
State Plane selector dialog includes the State Plane number with its name.
(024) 10/23/2020/JCJ - Improvement: A number of improvements have been made to the Fault capabilities in RockWorks2020.
(023) 10/22/2020/JPR - Cosmetic:
The Fill Sinks option has been moved from the Input Model tab to the main list of options within the following programs:
This new tab includes an explanation of what the Fill Sinks option does.
(022) 10/21/2020/JPR - Bug Fix:
The Minimum and Maximum color designations used for continuously variable circle colors now works correctly.
(021) 10/21/2020/JPR - Cosmetic:
The "Cold" and "Hot" color designations within the Symbol Options menu have been relabeled as "Minimum" and "Maximum".
(020) 10/20/2020/JPR - Cosmetic:
The decimal place spin buttons are now plotted adjacent to the Manual options within the Perimeter Cage menu.
(019) 10/21/2020/JCJ - Bug Fix:
Faults to RockWorks16/17 Fault File exports only enabled 3D faults. All fault exports will export only enabled faults.
(018) 10/21/2020/JPR - Improvement:
If the output file for an animation (e.g. avi, gif, mp4, wmv) is in use (locked) by another program (e.g. Camtasia), an error message will now be displayed. This error message offers the user an option to change the output file name.
(017) 10/20/2020/JCJ - Bug Fix:
Filling a list of P-Data, I-Data, T-Data, P-Text & I-Text types sorts on the "SortOrder" field. Previously it tried to sort on a non-existent field which raised an exception on SQL Server but not on SQLite.
(016) 10/19/2020/JCJ - Improvement & New Feature:
Backup the entire project folder (minus the backup folder). You can backup all the files in the project folder to a compressed file located outside the current project folder.
(015) 10/17/2020/JPR - Improvements & New Features:
The following changes have been made to the Layout pulldown menu.
If there are more than nine open forms the program will tile the first nine, issue a message stating as such and not tile the additional open forms.
(014) 10/16/2020/JPR - Improvement:
There is no longer a limit to the minimum size that a RockWorks forms can be reduced to.
(013) 10/16/2020/JPR - New Feature:
A new program called "Grid Intersections" has been added to the ModOps | Grid | Math sub-menu. This program will subtract two grids, compute the absolute values of the resultant grids, and set all the notes outside the Cutoff Distance to null (-1.0e27). A typical application is to determine where a water table intersects the surface topography.
(012) 10/16/2020/MIW - Bug Fix:
Exporting DXF files with patterns from RockPlot2D sometimes caused the program to hang.
(011) 10/15/2020/JCJ - Improvement:
The user can enable a group of boreholes and then optionally assign a specific symbol to those boreholes. Borehole Manager | Edit | Enable from List.
(010) 10/14/2020/JCJ - Improvements:
Playlist changes:
(009) 10/10/2020/JPR - New Feature:
The ModOps | Solid | Filter | Replacement Table program now includes an option for setting the unfiltered nodes to the universal null value (-1.0e27).
(008) 10/10/2020/JPR - New Feature:
A program titled "Time-Based Mass" has been added to the ModOps | Volume sub-menu. This program is designed to create a report that lists the change in mass of a contaminant over time based on a list of solids that represent geochemical models for discrete time intervals.
(007) 10/09/2020/JCJ - Improvement:
The Filter/Select boreholes, plot of boreholes now shows the entire space based on all the boreholes. If the Project Dimensions was smaller than the entire project space the dialog was only showing the Project Dimensions. The Rectilinear options will initially size and show the edit rectangle to the project dimensions. There is now a button to set the rectilinear values to the current project dimensions.
(006) 10/08/2020/JCJ - Bug Fix:
The Fault table is queried separately for the interface and procedures using the faults. The two were slightly different in that the interface ignored whether the Enabled flag was set or not. Now they are queried the same way and sorted on the fault name, so if limited by licensing, the same faults are returned.
(005) 10/07/2020/MIW - Bug Fix:
Striplog Cross Sections now export without error to Google Earth..
(004) 10/05/2020/MIW - Bug Fix:
Contouring grids no longer changes the output values in Cell Maps.
(003) 10/02/2020/JCJ - Bug Fix:
Transfer boreholes and Stratigraphy from the datasheet to the Borehole Manager database had similar problems.
(002) 10/02/2020/JCJ - Improvement:
Transfer boreholes from the datasheet to the Borehole Manager database behaves better when there is a duplicate borehole listed in the Datasheet.
(001) 10/02/2020/JCJ - Bug Fix:
Transfer boreholes from the datasheet to the Borehole Manager database no longer raises an exception.
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