RockWorks/16 Revision History
2014/Q3 (07/01/14-09/30/14)

(146) Enhancement (09/30/14/MIW): The "Show Location in Google Earth" button within the Borehole Manager / Location tab now uses the raster symbol that is associated with the borehole when showing the borehole location within Google Earth.

(145) Bug Fix (09/30/14/MIW): Negative manual calibration coordinates may now be used when digitizing items from images. 

(144) Bug Fix (09/30/14/MIW): Raster symbols exported to Google Earth are now transparent where they're supposed to be transparent.

(143) New Feature (09/29/14/JPR): A new, Level-4 program titled "Identify Overpopulated Cells" has been added to the Borehole Manager / StripLog sub-menu.

This program will generate a report that lists cell nodes (midpoints) that contain more than one borehole.  The dimensions of these cells are defined at the base of the main RockWorks menu under the heading "Project Dimensions".  For each of these cells, the program also lists the boreholes that reside within the cell.

The intent of the program is to assist the user in identifying clusters of boreholes where they may want to consider either making the cells smaller, disabling boreholes, or consolidating the clustered boreholes into a single "composite" borehole and disabling the clustered boreholes that are represented by the composite borehole(s).

The program will also provide a simple summary listing the number and relative percentage of overpopulated cells.

Note: This program only applies to vertical boreholes.

(142) Cosmetic (09/26/14/JCJ): The "tree-style" menus have been redesigned such that the option buttons for associated boolean (true/false) variables are now shown immediately to the right of the labeled checkbox rather than on a separate line below the checkbox.  This change significantly declutters many menus as shown below.



(141) Cosmetic (09/25/14/MIW): The "G = Color" option within the Color Model / Solid Options dialog since it's redundant.

(140) Bug Fix (09/25/14/MIW): Negative values within the Continuous Color legend no longer cause entries to appear as white within the RockPlot2D program.

(139) New Feature (09/23/14/MIW): The RockPlot3D -> Google Earth export capability now includes options for automatically offsetting the vertical coordinates based on either the project dimensions or the scene dimensions.

(138) Improvement (09/23/14/MIW): Models and grids exported from RockPlot3D to Google Earth are now more accurately registered.

(137) Bug Fix (09/19/14/MIW): Items with an opacity less than 100% are now exported correctly to Google Earth.

(136) Bug Fix (09/19/14/MIW): Isosurfaces that are exported from RockPlot3D to Google Earth are no longer "flattened" within the z-axis.

(135) Improvement (09/18/14/JCJ): The program now checks for increments of zero when specifying color cycle increments.

(134) New Feature (09/18/14/JCJ): Area, Volume and Mass units (as defined within the adjustable units section at the base of the main RockWorks menu) have been added to the Excel import and export programs.

(133) New Feature (09/18/14/JCJ): The Preferences / Project Manager listing now includes an option for skipping the space-savings test when opening an Access database.

(132) Bug Fix (09/17/14/MIW): The Movement Analysis program now calculates the dip correctly.

(131) Bug Fix (09/17/14/MIW): The Directional Analysis program now calculates the dip correctly.

(130) Bug Fix (09/17/14/MIW): Raster exports from the RockPlot2D program no longer clip the sides of the diagram if the Vertical Exaggeration is greater than 1.0.

(129) Bug Fix (09/17/14/MIW): The coordinate conversions now work correctly if the coordinate system is the same but the units are different (e.g. feet to meters).

(128) New Feature (09/17/14/MIW): The Utilities / Picture Show / AVI Export now allows the user to set the frame-rate (in frames per second) within the output file.

(127) Bug Fix (09/17/14/MIW): The Borehole Manager / T-Data / 2-D Statistics Map program no longer fails when run twice.

(126) New Feature (09/08/14/MIW): It is now possible to create grid and block models from a comma-delimited text file.  This new capability assumes that all text is numeric and does not apply to CSV files that include quoted text.

(125) Bug Fix (09/05/14/MIW): The warping and tilting features within the block modeling were "off" by 1 voxel.

(124) Bug Fix (09/05/14/MIW): Color modeling now works properly when the declustering option is activated.

(123) Bug Fix (09/05/14/MIW): The color modeling now works correcly if the faulting is enabled.

(122) New Feature (09/04/14/MIW): Lithology and Stratigraphy types tables may now be exported to the Utilities Datasheet.

(121) New Feature (09/05/14/MIW): A new program titled "Lithology Model XY Analysis" has been added to the Utilities / Solid / Statistics menu.  This program may be used to analyze the content of a lithologic or stratigraphic model by using the exported types types table (see modification #___ below).

(120) New Feature (09/04/14/MIW): Lithology and Stratigraphy types tables may now be exported to the Utilities Datasheet.

(119) Improvement (09/03/14/MIW): The Point Map Range Table is no longer limited to 25 entries.

(118) Improvement (09/04/14/MIW): The Oriented Objects progam now changes the required columns depending upon the settings.

(117) Bug Fix (08/30/14/JPR): The Utilities / Volumetrics / Block Model Grade Statistics By Level program now includes an option for specifying the density units.  This setting is used to determine how to convert the volumetrics to the selected output mass units.

(116) Bug Fix (08/30/14/JPR): The Borehole Manager / Lithology / Volumetrics program no longer generates a fatal error if the density for a lithology type within the lithotype table is blank (undefined). 

(114-115) New Feature (08/30/14/JPR):  Volume and Mass calculations within stratigraphic models are now displayed in the output units (1) that are selected within the main RockWorks menu (2).

In the event that the density conversion factor for a given stratatype is not defined (blank), the mass will be listed as "[DENSITY UNDEFINED]".
This new capability means that the density conversion units and the output mass can be mixed.  For example, density conversion factors could expressed in grams per cubic meter, the output volume can be in cubic meters while the output mass units can be in pounds.

(113) New Feature (08/29/14/JPR):  A new menu item labeled "Density Units" has been added to the Stratigraphy Type menu bar.

Clicking on the Density Units option will display a pull-down menu that shows a list of possible density units that tell the user and the program what the units within the Density column represent.  Once an item has been selected, it will be shown within the Density Units button label within the menubar (Item #1 in the screenshot below).

(112) New Feature (08/29/14/JPR):  The Include Volumetrics option (1) within the Lithology Modeling menu now displays and labels the mass (2) in whatever output units are selected within the main RockWorks menu (3).  This new capability is accomplished by using the new density conversion unit information (see item #110 below).

This new capability means that the density conversion units and the output mass can be mixed.  For example, density conversion factors could expressed in grams per cubic meter, the output volume can be in cubic meters while the output mass units can be in pounds. 

In the event that the density conversion factor for a given lithotype is not defined (blank), the mass will be listed as "[DENSITY UNDEFINED]".




(111) New Feature (08/29/14/JPR):  The Include Volumetrics option (1) within the Lithology Modeling menu now displays and labels the volume (2) in whatever output units are selected within the main RockWorks menu (3).

This new capability means that input and output units can be mixed.  For example, the XY borehole coordinates, collar elevations, and depths can be in meters while the output volume can be in cubic yards.

(110) New Feature (08/29/14/JPR):  A new menu item labeled "Density Units" has been added to the Lithology Type menu bar.

Clicking on the Density Units option will display a pull-down menu that shows a list of possible density units that tell the user and the program what the units within the Density column represent.  Once an item has been selected, it will be shown within the Density Units button label within the menubar (Item #1 in the screenshot below).

(109) Bug Fix (08/29/14/MIW): Double-clicking on a pattern within the Lithology and Stratigraphy Types tables do longer causes the wrong pattern to be selected within the Pattern Picker dialog.

(108) New Feature (08/25/14/JPR): A new program titled "Multiple Polygons → Grid" has been added to the Utilities / Map / Polygon Maps sub-menu.

This program will create a grid by reading the vertices within the listed polygons (stored in individual rwdat files as defined within the "Polygon File" column) and assigning z-values to the cells within each polygon to the value listed within the respective "Z-Value" column.

 

(107) Bug Fix (08/25/14/MIW): - The Solid color-modeling algorithm no longer generates an out-of-range error.

(106) Bug Fix (08/25/14/MIW):  The G-Value filtering within the lithologic modeling has been restored.

(105) Bug Fix (08/25/14/MIW):  Using the Undo option within in the Section and Fence selection dialogs when they were empty no longer causes an "index out of bounds" error.

(104) Bug Fix (08/25/14/JPR): The Utilities / Map /  Polygon Maps / Multiple-Polygons programs no longer generate a range-check error.

(103) Bug Fix (08/21/14/MIW): It is now possible to switch between OpenGL hardware and software drivers within the RockPlot3D program.

(102) New Feature (08/21/14/JPR): A new program titled "Solid → Zones" has been added to the Utilities / Solid / Convert sub-menu.

This new program will extract all of the voxels from a block (solid) model that reside, in whole or in part between two specified surfaces, perform the selected statistics on them (just like the Solid → Grid program), and then save the result within the specified output grid.

If desired, ESRI-compatible shp, dbf, and shx files will also be generated based on the name of the Output Grid.  For example, if the output grid is named "Potosi_Zone.rwGrd", then the program will create the following files: Potosi_Zone.dbf, Potosi_Zone.shp, and Potosi_Zone.shx.

(101) New Features (08/20/14/JPR): New options have been added to the Solid → Grid program for restriction the computations to regions either (1) below a grid, (2) above a grid, or (3) in-between two grids.

If using the new weighted arithmetic means or weighted harmonic means, only the portions of voxels below/above the constraining grids will be included within the computations.

Note: The constraining grids must have the same XY dimensions as the input model.

(099-100) New Features (08/20/14/JPR): New options have been added to the Solid → Grid program for computing the:

(098) Bug Fix (08/20/14/MIW): Incorrectly-constructed closed contours are no longer generated for grid models that contain null nodes along the perimeter of the model.

(097) Improvement (08/20/14/JCJ): The program that imports Excel data into the borehole database will no longer round the data if the import units/projection are the same as the project database.

(096) Improvement (08/20/14/JCJ): Exports from the Utilities datasheet will now be saved regardless of whether or not the user has elected to edit the file.

(095) Improvement (08/19/14/JCJ): The default location of pattern and symbol files has been changed to the location where they're actually installed.

(094) Bug Fix (08/19/14/JCJ): The East/West button within the Borehole Manager / Location / PLS / Range setting now works correctly.

(093) Cosmetic (08/19/14/JPR): The Contour Line Options dialog (used by >50 programs) has been re-designed.

(092) Cosmetic (08/18/14/JPR): The multiple Colored Intervals options that were defined within over 35 tree-style menus are now defined within a single dialog box.

(091) Improvement (08/14/14/MIW): The pattern density values within the Pattern Designer no longer behave in a manner opposite to the rest of the program. 

(090) Cosmetic (08/14/14/MIW): The bitmap panel within the Pattern Designer now "collapses" completely.

(087-089) Improvement (08/14/14/JPR): The multiple legend options that were defined within the following tree-style menus are now defined within a single dialog box:

(086) Improvement (08/14/14/JCJ): The Multiple-Table ASCII import now skips extraneous tab characters.

(085) Improvement (08/14/14/JCJ): The LAS import now works when the machine is set to non-US number formats.  The LAS file is assumed to be in US/Canadian format for floating point numbers.

(084) Improvement (08/14/14/JCJ): The Multiple/Bulk LAS import can now map existing boreholes to the Well Name, API number or UWI number in LAS  header.

(083) Improvement (08/14/14/JCJ): When using the Tab Manager to work with tables and fields, the Tab Manager will now open on the same table as the current data sheet.

(082) Bug Fix (08/14/14/JCJ): In the ADO import, the dialog to get the Overwrite option (Create New/Skip/Replace) was not moving to the next record when the Skip option was selected.

(069-081) Improvement (08/14/14/JPR): The legend options that were defined within some of the tree-style menus are now defined within a single dialog box.

These changes have been implemented within the following menus:

(068) Bug Fix (08/13/14/MIW): KML files that are created by exporting 3D scenes from RockPlot3D to Google Earth no longer include sporadic garbage at the end.

(067) Bug Fix (08/13/14/MIW): Bitmap images that are embedded within RockPlot2D files that were generated by RockWorks15 are now being displayed within RockWorks16.

(066) Cosmetic (08/13/14/JCJ): When RockWorks detects that a new version is available, the program will now display the most recent revision list.  The latest version was off by one iteration.

(065) Improvement (08/13/14/JPR): The Background Image options that are defined within many (>50) tree-style menus are now defined within a dialog box.  This dialog box includes logic that warns the user if the dimensions don't make sense (e.g. x-min > x-Max).

(064) Improvement (08/13/14/JPR): The rectangular region dimensions that are defined within many (>50) tree-style menus are now defined within a dialog box.  This dialog box includes logic that warns the user if the dimensions don't make sense (e.g. x-min > x-Max).

(063) Bug Fix (08/08/14/MIW): The 3D strip logs now plot the correct stratigraphic unit names. 

(062) Bug Fix (08/07/14/MIW): Using a defined column as a Lookup Table within the 3-Dimensional Point Maps program no longer causes an "index out of range" error.

(060-061) Improvements (08/06/14/JPR): The following changes have been made to the EarthApps / Quick Locator program:

(054-059) Cosmetic (08/06/14/JPR): The following menus have been modified such that the check-boxes and radio buttons associated with the menu tabs now reside within the tabs themselves rather than being adjacent to the tabs.  These changes provide for greater compatibility with Windows large-font settings and stretched/squished menus.

(049-053) Cosmetic (08/04/14/JPR): The rose diagram options within the following menus have been moved from the expanding/collapsing tree menu into a dialog with lots of diagrams to serve as visual shortcuts to looking up the information within the help file.

The following screenshots depict the previous tree menu (left) and a sampling of the "pages" within the new menu (right).

(045-048) Cosmetic (08/04/14/JPR): Several improvements have been made to the Gridding Options menu:

(044) Bug Fix (08/04/14/MIW): A problem with pinchouts in striplog sections that are plotted from the edges of the logs (as opposed to the axes) has been fixed.

(043) Bug Fix (08/01/14/MIW): The RockPlot3D program now saves all of the Information nodes (e.g. Volume, Mass).  The previous version only save the first level.

(042) Bug Fix (07/31/14/MIW): The RockPlot3D / Morphed Models program now reloads the initial model when the Repeat option is checked. 

(041) New Feature (07/25/14/JCJ): A "Help" option is now available when choosing a UTM datum.

(040) New Feature (07/25/14/MIW/JCJ): The RockWorks installation program now installs a new program called Rw15to16Converter.  This program is used for the bulk-conversion of RockWorks15 project files to a RockWorks16 format.

(039) New Feature (07/25/14/JCJ): An editor has been added for maintaing the "pick-lists" that appear when a borehole data table has one or more custom fields.  For example, let's say that you want to record the angularity for lithology samples.  The new Edit Field Lists option will allow you to add terms that will appear within a pull-down menu when the user clicks on a cell within the Angularity column.

(037-038) Cosmetic (07/22/14/JPR): The Single Dip List -> Solid Fault Model program has been renamed to Single Dip List -> Boolean Fault Model and the Multiple Dip List -> Solid Fault Model program has been renamed to Multiple Dip List -> Boolean Fault Model".

(036) Bug Fix (07/22/14/MIW): The horizontal titles are now plotted within the Utilities / Statistics / Well-Production output graphs.

(035) Bug Fix (07/22/14/MIW): The correct pattern is now plotted within the Utilities / Statistics / Well-Production output graphs.

(030-034) New Feature (07/21/14/MIW): When creating surface (grid) models based on block models, it is now possible to filter the surface based on the top, center or base of the block model voxel.  These new capabilities have been added to the following programs:

(029) Bug Fix (07/17/14/MIW): The Solid Model 3D Editor no longer loses the "focus" (i.e. hides behind another open program window) while editing a model.

(028) Bug Fixes (07/16/14/JPR): The Utilities / Map / SpherePlot / 2D programs no longer generate range-check errors.

(027) Improvement (07/14/14/JPR): The maximum x and y dimensions of the block model smoothing filter has been increased from 6 to 100.

(026) Bug Fix (07/11/14/MIW): The RockPlot3D Export to Google Earth utility no longer builds KMZ files with the wrong paths.  This caused linked objects to not appear.

(025) Bug Fix (07/11/14/MIW): The Borehole Manager | Map | Borehole Locations -> Google Earth Advanced program no longer reports elevations in meters when the project elevations are in feet.

(024) Cosmetic (07/08/14/JPR): The check-boxes within the Borehole Map options menu no longer plot in the wrong locations when Windows is configured for large fonts.

(023) Cosmetic (07/08/14/JPR): The following solid modeling options are now longer visible/available when the Lateral Extrusion method has been selected:

(022) Bug Fix (07/08/14/JPR): The option to not smooth selected G values within the solid model classification-style smoothing now works correctly if the G-Min and G-Max are equal.

(021) New Feature (07/07/14/JPR): A new option titled "Add Points" has been added to the Solid Modeling Options menu.

This new option is used to add additional control points (contained within the currently loaded datasheet) to the data that is extracted from the Borehole Manager database (e.g. downhole geochemistry). 

Examples of applications:

Consider the following scenario.  Let's say that we have some surface geochemical (lead) data in a datasheet (A).  A proportional circle map (B & D) shows the relative magnitudes of these surface geochemical values.  If we load this file into the Utilities datasheet, activate the new Add Points option, enter the appropriate column data (C), and model the corresponding downhole geochemical data via the Borehole Manager / I-Data / Model program, we'll get a model that is based on both the surface geochemistry as well as the downhole geochemistry (E) as opposed to a model based solely on the downhole geochemistry (F).

(020) New Feature (07/07/14/JPR): A new program titled "Line Map" has been added to the Utilities / Map menu.



This program is used to plot maps based on lineation endpoints.  Unlike the Linears / Lineation Map program, the new Line Map program plots annotated symbols at the line endpoints.

The input for this program consists of a datasheet with the following columns:

The Line Map program menu provides a means to plot lines based on two endpoints including the following features:

In it's default (collapsed) configuration, the Line Map program menu looks like this:

In it's fully-expanded configuration, the Line Map menu looks like this:

Once a Line Map diagram has been created, the Lines, Point #1 Symbols, Point #2 Symbols, Point #1 Labels, Point #2 Labels, and border options may be independently rendered visible or invisible by clicking on the check boxes within the Layers menu.

The Line Map program is included within Level-2 RockWorks licenses (or higher).

(019) Improvement (07/06/14/JPR): The RockPlot2D option to "Find Closest Point In Utilities Datasheet" (accessed by right-clicking on a point within a map) now ignores datasheet rows that have been disabled.

(018) Bug Fix (07/03/14/MIW): In RockPlot2D raster images with a transparent color can only be displayed at 100% opacity. The menus in 2D Boreplot and RockPlot2D have been changed to reflect this. Using a transparent color with grey scale jpeg images often provides unexpected results and should be avoided.

(017) Bug Fix (07/03/14/MIW): Label titles within RockPlot3D scenes are now saved.

(016) New Feature (07/02/14/JPR): A new program titled "Table-Based Replacement Filter" has been added to the Utilities / Solid / Filters menu.

This program is used to convert g-values within a block model based on the contents of a lookup file that contains a minimum and maximum range for the values to be changed and a replacement value. 

In the following example, a lookup table (stored as a Utilities Datasheet) is used to convert a lithology model to a hydraulic conductivity (k-factor) model.

 

(015) Improvement (07/01/14/JPR): The classification smoothing filter no longer incorrectly smooths voxels along the vertical edges of the model.

(014) New Feature (07/01/14/JPR): A new option titled "Faults" has been added to the Preferences / Visible Features menu to enable or disable the appearance of the new Faults option (see item #007 below).

(007-013) Cosmetic (07/01/14/JPR): A new pull-down menu option titled "Faults" has been added to the Utilities menu. 

Six programs from other menus have been relocated and renamed into the new Faults menu as described below:

(001-006) New Feature (07/01/14/JPR): Programs that read dip data to create dip ribbons, fault files, and fault models now include options for processing the data in a "simple" or "complex" fashion.

This new capability has been added to the following programs:

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