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(077) 06/29/21/JCJ - Bug Fix:
RwGrd file created through the Maps | Borehole Map program shows elevations.
(076) 06/29/21/JPR - Bug Fix:
The T-Data / Multiple Solids program will now stop processing if an error is encountered and the user clicks on the Cancel option.
(075) 06/29/21/JCJ - Improvement:
Project Dimension will now import the dimensions from a GeoTIFF file. The spacing needs to be adjusted to the user's requirements.
(074) 06/29/21/JCJ - Improvement:
Grid Import - GeoTIFF import: added a button to get a list of the extents and spacing of the GeoTiff grid.
(073) 06/29/21/JCJ - Improvement:
Import ASCII XYZG to Solid (MicroModel) can now choose the Null value to initialize the solid to and choose whether to resolve the nulls to a value from their nearest neighbor.
(072) 06/28/21/JCJ - Bug Fix:
In the Borehole Manager, data tabs the user may define additional fields. If the additional field is a Value List, a new button allowing editing the list became visible. This button now shows list for more than just 2 Value List fields.
(071) 06/25/21/JCR - Bug Fix:
The program will no longer attempt to display the model if the Cancel button is clicked when viewing a declustering report for solid modeling.
(070) 06/22/21/MIW - Bug Fix:
Opening a RockPlot3D file in a non-project folder with associated files no longer prompts the user to find the files.
(069) 06/22/21/JCJ - Improvement:
ModOps | Grid | Import now directly imports elevations from a GeoTIFF file.
(068) 06/21/21/MIW - Bug Fix:
Exporting color legends from RockPlot3D to SketchFab Obj now honors settings for order, label interval, scientific notation, prefix and postfix labels.
(067) 06/18/21/MIW - Bug Fix:
The automatic creation of Subface grid and Superface grid makes sure that the grid Distance Filter is turned off to avoid unexpected solid filtering caused by the grids.
(066) 06/18/21/MIW - Improvement:
Redesigned the menus for exporting from RockPlot2D to Raster and PDF, and Multiple Rw2D to PDF. The Image width in units and pixels are now linked to make them easier to understand and a Line Width Adjustment has been added to modify the appearance of lines in the output.
(065) 06/18/21/JCJ - Bug Fix:
Menus with Linear or density units drop-down lists will read and write to the ini settings file correctly.
(064) 06/16/21/MIW - Improvement:
The Multiple RockPlot2D Files to PDF program now allows users to enter a scale for output allowing for the scaled display of unequal size diagrams in a PDF. This option will leave blank space around smaller diagrams. An option has also been added to specify output width in inches.
(063) 06/15/21/JCJ - Bug Fix:
Solid | Import | ASCII file - The header is now being parsed correctly.
(062) 06/14/21/MIW - Enhancement:
An option has been added tp the Peripherals to plot Pattern Legends without the pattern lines.
(061) 06/14/21/JCJ - Bug Fix:
Imported Surfer Binary grids now calculate the Y Spacing correctly.
(060) 06/11/21/MIW - Enhancement:
Added an option to the RockPlot2D/Export to Raster dialog to specify the output width in Inches or Centimeters. The Units and DPI options were moved from the Scale Factor Page because the DPI is used by all the Raster Exports and the Units are also used by the Width by Units
(059) 06/11/21/JCJ - Bug Fix:
The help in the Lateral Geo-Steering was not showing the second time the dialog was shown.
(058) 06/11/21/JCJ - Bug Fix:
When Reassigning or reprojecting the project's coordinates, the Borehole Manager units are updated with the correct label (feet/meters).
(057) 06/11/21/MIW - Improvement:
Solid model smoothing can now be performed last to allow smoothing to include previous filters. In addition the smoothing settings are now being set correctly for both pre and post smoothing.
(056) 06/09/21/MIW - Bug Fix:
Printing from Reportworks to a page with different dimensions then the document now correctly scales line widths and places text accurately.
(055) 06/07/21/MIW - Bug Fix:
The Grid to Flow Table program now offers Ledger Output Options instead of outputting to the Utilities Data Sheet.
(054) 06/06/21/JPR - New Feature:
The Horizontal and Vertical Resolution settings within the Solid Declustering menu may now be specified in map units as well as percentages of the project size.
(053) 06/06/21/JPR - New Feature:
An option has been added to the Borehole Operations / T-Data / Multiple Solids program menu that determines how the program will handle duplicate points with different g-values that have been obtained within the same sampling interval.
(052) 06/04/21/JPR - Bug Fix:
The Sector Width and Sector Height within the IDW Advanced / Closest In Sector sub-menu are now interpreted properly. Previous versions would increase the selection by one level (e.g., 30 degrees would be incremented to 45 degrees).
(051) 06/04/21/MIW - Bug Fix:
Changed the calculation of line thicknesses from RockPlot2D to print, raster and PDF to provide slightly thicker lines in the output.
(050) 06/04/21/MIW - Improvement:
An option to perform smoothing last has been added to the solid modeling.
(049) 06/04/21/MIW - Bug Fix:
ReportWorks Printing when scaled to the output page now correctly locates Legends and Text, and scales Line Widths.
(048) 06/04/21/JPR - Cosmetic:
The local coordinates for the cursor are now displayed within the Grid Editor.
(047) 06/02/21/KD/MM - Upload:
New public version of RockWorks updated on webpage
(046) 05/26/21/MIW - Improvement:
An option to perform smoothing after all other options are complete has been added to the Gridding dialog.
(045) 05/26/21/MIW - Improvement:
Generating Profiles from existing models now always looks for enabled faults for contouring.
(044) 05/24/21/MIW - New Feature:
You can now use the -playlist switch on the command line to load and run a playlist: RockWorks20.exe -playlist "c:\path\filename.playlist" Or just use the PlayList file to load a playlist: RockWorks20.exe "c:\path\filename.playlist"
(043) 05/21/21/MIW - Addition:
The Multiple RockPlot2D to PDF Export options now includes Pattern Scaling options.
(042) 05/20/21/MIW - Bug Fix:
The Polygon List --> Grid program no longer offers a Point Map Overlay which could cause error messages.
(041) 05/20/21/JCJ - Bug Fix:
Graphics - Images | Vertical | Single Curved - The EMBED directive was being expanded to include the project path, causing an "EMBED have been moved" error.
(040) 05/19/21/MIW - Bug Fix:
The Grid|Filters Distance Clipping program now uses Clipping Distance as a percent of the 2D Project size.
(039) 05/14/21/MIW - Improvement:
Added a command to the Playlist to reset the project settings to their default values.
(038) 05/14/21/MIW - Improvement:
The Reassign Projection to a RockPlot2D diagram can only be used with a map.
(037) 05/12/21/JCJ - Improvement:
The "Grid | Import" dialog for "Bitmap (Raster Image)" now has a button on the "Image Dimensions | Manually Specified" page to get the extents directly from a GeoTiff file.
(036) 05/12/21/MIW - Improvement:
Added the ability to specify output in page units for the Graphics | 2D Tools | Export | PDF.
(035) 05/12/21/JCJ - Improvement:
The frame for setting a Coordinate Reference System found in several places in RockWorks can be used to import a CRS from a file. The "Set Projection" button has an option to "Import from a file". The file types you can import are Text (.txt), ESRI Shape (.prj), Well Known Text (.wkt), ProjJSON (.json) and new Tagged Image (.tif & .tiff) files. (Mantis 9281) For the Tiff files this will only work when the Tiff file meets the GEOTiff specification.
(034) 05/10/21/MIW - Bug Fix:
2D Faults when intersected with a grid are no longer terminated by null values or the border of the grid.
(033) 05/07/21/MIW - Bug Fix:
Added a very small random value to Stratigraphy XY coordinates in order to avoid faults being ignored if the borehole was directly on the middle of a grid cell.
(032) 05/03/21/JCJ - Enhancement:
Added Map Options to the RockPlot2D Shape File Import, so that Borders, Labeled Axes, etc. can be specified directly in the Shape file import.
(031) 05/05/21/MIW - Enhancement:
The 2D Tools Export to PDF now includes the option for Dynamic or Manual Pattern Scaling.
(030) 05/05/21/JPR - New Feature:
The grid and solid math menus now include options for computing the log base 10 and natural logarithms of the node values. This is a useful tool for identifying spatial relationships for data in which the majority of the values are much lower than the highest value. image.png
(029) 05/03/21/MIW - New Feature:
Layers in RockPlot2D window can now be locked from selecting to make it easier to edit dense diagrams.
(028) 04/30/21/JPR - Improvement:
The execution speed for the solid gradational filter has been significantly improved. Example: The large model (291x281x215 voxels) shown below now requires two minutes whereas the previous version would have required two weeks.
(027) 04/29/21/MM - Upload:
The installer for the RockWare 15/16 File Converter has been uploaded to the RockWare website: https://www.rockware.com/downloads/software/rockworks/Converter_Setup.exe There is a link for this on the RockWorks Product Updates page: https://www.rockware.com/support/rockworks-support/rockworks-downloads/rockworks-product-updates/ The Help topics are included in the RockWorks webhelp: https://help.rockware.com/rockworks/WebHelp/rw1516_converter_intro.htm It is also referenced in the Troubleshooting topic which automatically displays if the user gets the FireDAC error opening an older project using RockWorks: https://help.rockware.com/rockworks/WebHelp/ref_troubleshoot.htm
(026) 04/28/21/JPR - Bug Fix:
The processing of a Playlist is now terminated if the Cancel button has been clicked. The actual termination will not occur until after the active item is finished processing. The "active" item is defined as the item that was being processed when the Cancel button was clicked. In addition, the user will now be asked to confirm the cancellation if the Cancel button is clicked.
(025) 04/26/21/MIW - Improvement:
The 2D Contour Label Size is now based on the project dimensions rather than the extent of the contours in order to provide more consistent label sizes.
(024) 04/23/21/MIW - Bug Fix:
Polygon Clipping is no longer applied to automatically generated grids for Subface and Superface Clipping surfaces since it caused Polygon Clipping to fail.
(023) 04/22/21/JPR - New Feature:
An option titled "Apply Custom SQL Query" has been added to the Animate / Solids -> 3D Animation and Solids -> 3D IsoShell Animation / Striplogs / T-Data Only sub-menu. This new option can be used to apply an SQL query (as contained within an ASCII text file) to the database after the T-Data has been filtered for each time interval. This filter has been added for instances in which wells are to be excluded from the animation even though they fall within the selected time interval. Admittedly, this is a very rare occurrence, but if you ever need it, it's there.
(022) 04/21/21/JCJ - Improvement:
The Playlist will create a backup file when saving changes.
(021) 04/21/21/MIW - Bug Fix:
Profiles that cross a fault more than once now show all fault intersections.
(020) 04/18/21/JPR - New Feature:
A new program called "Copy Files" has been added to the Utilities / Misc sub-menu. This program is used to copy a list of files (within the RockWorks Datasheet) to a designated folder. The intent is to provide a means to copy selected files to another folder, computer, server, or FTP site.
(019) 04/18/21/JPR - Improvement:
The maximums for the Font Size and Label Spacing within the Multiple Grids -> Profile program are now virtually unlimited.
(018) 04/16/21/MIW - Bug Fix:
Descending Color Legends in Rockplot3D with non equal color and text intervals now plot correctly.
(017) 04/16/21/JPR - New Feature:
The Grid and Solid Range Filters now allow null values to be filtered and replaced.
(016) 04/12/21/MIW - Improvement:
Improved the RockPlot3D export of text in Wavefront Obj files for Sketchfab. Additionally, added a text scalar option.
(015) 04/11/21/JPR - New Feature:
When an error is encountered while processing a Playlist, the error message dialog now provides a new option to cancel the process rather than continuing with the Playlist processing or closing/restarting the program.
(014) 04/11/21/JPR - New Feature:
The Enable and Disable buttons within the Playlist now have small black arrows along the right side of the button that will display additional options for enabling/disabling all of the options above or below the currently highlighted item within the Playlist. These new options are also available within the View option at the top of the Playlist as well as the popup menu that appears if the user right-clicks within the list.
(013) 04/10/21/JPR - Cosmetic:
The embedded instructions that appear within the RockWorks application menus are now disabled by default. The instructions can now be universally activated by clicking on either the large red button in the upper -right corner (Item #1) of the main application menu or the "More Information" button (Item #2) within the sub-menus. Conversely, this information display can be universally de-activated by clicking on either the large gray button in the upper-right corner (Item #3) of the main application menu or the small "-" button (Item #4) within the sub-menus. The embedded instructions have been disabled by default for three reasons: (1) Menus load appreciably faster when the embedded-help is disabled, and (2) the menus look less cluttered/intimidating without the instructions.
(012) 04/10/21/JPR - Improvement:
The Geobody Filter program is now several orders of magnitude faster than the previous version. Seconds versus hours faster. "Geobodies" represent clusters of connected voxels that fall within a user-specified g-value range. A typical application involves the identification of "hydraulic communication" based on filtered hydraulic conductivity data.
(011) 04/09/21/JCJ - Bug Fix:
Grid | Import | Bitmap (Raster Image) - will now honor the Input Coordinate settings and properly crop the image down to the Project Dimensions.
(010) 04/07/21/MIW - Bug Fix:
Increased the accuracy of the RockPlot3D export to Wavefront Obj for Skecthfab.
(009) 04/06/21/JCJ - Bug Fix:
File | Import | Shapefile and Borehole Manager | Transfer Locations to Datasheet & Transfer Stratigraphy to Datasheet - now warns user on close of datasheet to save the datasheet.
(008) 04/06/21/JCJ - Bug Fix:
Utilities - Statistics | Histograms, honors minimum/maximum filters for both the statistics and the histogram.
(007) 04/03/21/JPR - Improvement:
The algorithm that removes duplicate points from consideration within the convex hull determination is now several orders of magnitude faster. This is very noticeable when creating block models based on downhole geophysical data (e.g., thousands of points).
(006) 04/03/21/JPR - Bug Fix:
The algorithm that determines if a point is inside or outside a polygon no longer sporadically and incorrectly identifies points (e.g., grid cells, solid voxels) as being inside or outside the polygon.
(005) 04/01/21/MIW - Improvement:
Users can now set the opacity for all the items in a RockPlot2D layer. Note that not all items can be transparent.
(004) 04/02/21/JCJ - Improvement:
RockWorks will use the materials table to define drawing order for Well Construction striplogs.
(003) 04/02/21/JPR - New Feature:
A new program titled “Distance Clipping” has been added to the Grid / Filters sub-menu.
The Distance Clipping filter is used to define a value for grid nodes that are beyond a user-specified distance from a control point. The value that is assigned to these points may be either "null" (a special value that means "nothing" - as opposed to zero), or a user-specified value such as zero.
(002) 04/02/21/JPR - New Feature:
A new program titled “Gradational Margins” has been added to the Grid / Filters sub-menu.
The Gradational Margins filter redefines the null nodes outside a clipped region by computing the distance to the closest defined node and multiplying the g-value for the closest defined node be a scalar based on the distance to that node. For example, if the closest distance from a null node to a non-null node is very small, the null node will be reassigned a value that is very close to the closest defined node. Conversely, as the distance increases, the reassigned value will decrease.
(001) 04/02/21/JPR - New Feature:
A new program titled “Gradational Margins” has been added to the Solid / Filters sub-menu.
The gradational filter redefines the null nodes outside a clipped region by computing the distance to the closest defined node and multiplying the g-value for the closest defined node be a scalar based on the distance to that node. For example, if the closest distance from a null node to a non-null node is very small, the null node will be reassigned a value that is very close to the closest defined node. Conversely, as the distance increases, the reassigned value will decrease.
NOTE: If you are using a NETWORK license, RockWorks17 v. 2019.9.30 and newer require the RockWare Network License Administrator version 1.09 or newer. Check with your license administrator before installing the RockWorks update. See our forum posting for details.