RockWorks Revision History

2007/Q1 (01/01/07-03/31/07)

(124) Bug Fix (03/29/07/JPR):  The RockPlot3D, ReportWorks, and RockWorks Licensing options within the main Windows Start / Program Files / RockWare folder now point to the proper files and execute without generating a Browse-for-File message.

(123) New Feature (03/28/07/JPR):  A new program titled "Google Earth Stratigraphy Sections" has been added to the Borehole Manager / Striplogs / menu.

This program will plot stratigraphic columns within Google Earth as rectilinear columns whose lateral dimensions are based on the "Fill Percent" column within the Stratigraphy Types table table.  The base of each stratigraphic column is positioned at the ground surface (Google Earth does not allow for sub-surface displays).

Clicking on the title icon at the top of a section will list the stratigraphic thicknesses as well as any other information that is stored within the Location/Comments field.

Once selected, the program will present the user with the following menu:

Selected options within this menu are described (by examples) as follows:

Note:  The locations are based on the Longitude / Latitude fields (not the Easting/Northing fields) within the Location tab.

To view the dataset that was used for these examples, click on the following link:

http://www.rockware.com/catalog/pages/rockworks2002/Revisions/geosites/colorado_plateau_strat_sections.kmz

(To obtain the actual data, please contact RockWare and we'd be glad to email it to you.)

(122) Bug Fix (03/28/07/JPR):  The Borehole Manager / Striplogs / Striplog(2D) / Summary option no longer generates a "maximum number of items has been exceeded" error.  The maximum number of menu items has been increased from 700 to 800 items.

(121) Bug Fix (03/21/07/JPR):  The Tables / Land-Grid / File / Import Commercial / RockWare Landbase option now uses the specified min/max range/townships correctly.

(120) Improvement (03/21/07/JPR):  The pattern density selection buttons now change in 0.25 increments rather than whole numbers.  This makes it easier to "fine-tune" the density without manually typing the desired density.

(119) Improvement (03/21/07/JPR):  The high-fidelity option within the gridding now used the logarithmic values resulting in better models.

(118) Bug Fix (03/21/07/JCJ):  When searching for the closest point in RockPlot/2D, the program no longer generates "undefined variable" errors.The RockPlot/2D program no longer garbles the angle when editing angled text when reading older version of the RockPlot/2D files (e.g. diagrams produced within RockWorks/2004).

(117) Bug Fix (03/21/07/MIW):  The RockPlot/2D program no longer garbles the angle when editing angled text when reading older version of the RockPlot/2D files (e.g. diagrams produced within RockWorks/2004).

(116) Bug Fix (03/21/07/JPR):  Null values within lithologic block models no longer cause an error when using the Borehole Manager / Lithology / Plan-View program.  These null values are added when using the Stratabound modeling option in order to truncate the model above the ground surface (or whatever surfaces the user wishes to use as a filter(s)).


Plan view map for steeply dipping lithology truncated by ground surface.


Plan view map for folded lithology truncated by ground surface.

(115) Bug Fix (03/21/07/MIW):  The conversion of RockWorks/2004 graphic files (.rkw) to RockWorks/2006 (.rk6) no longer muddles up the embedded scalebars.

(114) Bug Fix (03/20/07/JCJ):  Lithology profiles and sections will no longer plot an extra black line across the top of the diagram.

(113) New Feature (03/19/07/JCJ):  It is now possible to keep and display information about each RockWorks project by selecting the View / Project Information option.  This will load the project information (aka "metadata") into a simple text editor.  The information may be formatted with bold, italics, fonts, colors, alignment, etc.  This information is stored within the project MDB file.

(112) Bug Fix (03/19/07/JCJ):  The Borehole Manager will no longer cause an error when changing directories/projects during an import.  The problem was caused by the program trying to show the list of boreholes in between closing one project and opening another.

(111) Improvement (03/19/07/JPR):  The logarithmic gridding and solid modeling options produce better models when the control points include negative values.

(110) Bug Fix (03/16/07/JCJ):  The ASCII and Excel imports no longer fail if replacing a borehole with the imported one when that borehole was in the current well picks.

(109) Improvement (03/15/07/JPR):  The Grafix / 2D-Utilities / Montage program no longer interrupts the processing with notifications about missing files.  Instead, the program now lists all of the missing files within a single report after the entire montage list has been processed.

(108) Bug Fix (03/15/07/JPR):  The "MONTAGE" command within the RCL (RockWorks Command Language), now uses the correct output file name as specified by the "DEFINE: GENERAL 2D_OUTPUT" parameter.

(107) Improvement (03/14/07/JPR):  The "Save Model" option within the Borehole Manager / Stratigraphy / Model menu has been renamed to "Save Numeric Model" and moved from within the "Interpolate Surfaces" group into it's own heading. 

This change provides greater flexibility for user who wish to modify (or replace) individual grid models in order to create a numeric block model.  For example, you could initially create all of the necessary grids by selecting the "Interpolate Surfaces" option.  Then you could replace the uppermost grid with a DEM (Digital Elevation Model) by renaming the DEM model to the name of the uppermost contact.  Next, you could re-run the program by turning off the "Interpolate Surfaces" option and activating the "Save Numeric Model" option to create the final model.

(106) New Feature (03/14/07/JPR):  The Borehole Manager / 2D / Striplog / I-Data text plotting now has options that determine if low values (e.g. zeroes) should be included when plotting I-Data interval values.

The following example show the effect of the new cutoff value option.

(105) Bug Fix (03/14/07/JPR):  The Borehole Manager / 2D / Striplog, Section, and Fence programs now plot a background grid for I-Data columns (if it's turned on in the design menu) regardless of whether or not the log has any I-Data for that particular borehole.  The previous version would not plot "foreground" grids for logs that contained no i-data (or logs in which the I-Data was composed of zeroes).

(104) Bug Fix (03/14/07/JPR):  The polyenhanced gridding is no longer at odds with the grid smoothing.  The following examples show grids that were created when both the polyenhancement (1st order) and smoothing were activated.

(103) Bug Fix (03/13/07/JPR):  The logarithmic solid-modeling options no longer interfere within high-fidelity option.  The following example shows a control model containing 1,004 points.  The z-values for these points range between -100 and +100, except for four points which have extremely high and low when compared with the other 1,000 points.  Specifically, the two red points have z-values of +10,000 while the two purple points have z-values of -10,000.

The diagrams and Krajewskigrams below show how the high-fidelity and logarithmic options now work together to create a model that minimizes the "saturation effect" caused by the four outliers (extremely anomalous values) while reasonably honoring the original control point values.

The color table within these examples was configured as follows:

  • All values below -100 are displayed as purple.

  • Values between -100 and +100 range from purple through red.

  • All values above +100 are displayed as red.

(102) Bug Fix (03/13/07/JPR):  The logarithmic gridding options no longer screw-up the high-fidelity gridding option.  The following example shows a control map containing 1,004 points.  The z-values for these points range between -100 and +100, except for four points which have extremely high and low when compared with the other 1,000 points.  Specifically, the two red points have z-values of +10,000 while the two purple points have z-values of -10,000.

The maps and Krajewskigrams below show how the high-fidelity and logarithmic options now work together to create a map that minimizes the "saturation effect" caused by the four outliers (extremely anomalous values) while reasonably honoring the original control point values.

The color table within these examples was configured as follows:

  • All values below -100 are displayed as purple.

  • Values between -100 and +100 range from purple through red.

  • All values above +100 are displayed as red.

(101) Bug Fix (03/12/07/JPR):  The ReportWorks program may now be launched directly from the Start menu.  Version after 2/22/07 required that the program be launched only from RockWorks.

(100) Bug Fix (03/12/07/JCJ):  The cross-section annotation within sections that have large lateral extents when compared with small vertical extents (i.e. short logs separated by large distances) no longer generate spurious labels well above the top of the section.

(99) Bug Fix (03/12/07/MIW):  The network and multi-user versions of RockWorks now work correctly with Microsoft Windows Vista.  The previous version could not create the necessary "keys" within the Windows Vista registry (i.e. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE).  The problem has been fixed by adding a RockWorks "Manifest" to the Windows License Manager.

Microsoft Corp.

Note:  The person who installs the program must have Administration privileges.

This problem and the fix described above only apply to the network and multi-user version of the software.  There are no known problems with the single-user version and Windows Vista.

(98) New Feature (03/10/07/JPR): The Borehole Manager / Striplogs / 3D-Logs / Lithology options now include a suite of options under the heading "Show Contacts".

The intent of this new feature it to depict the extents of each lithologic interval by plotting thin cylinders that are slightly larger (in radii) than the cylinders that are used to depict the various lithologies.

(97) Error Trap (03/06/07/JCJ):  The maximum number of nodes in any direction has been limited to 2,500

(96) Bug Fix (03/06/07/JCJ):  The stratigraphic fence w/straight-line correlations program no longer muddles up sections within missing depth values.  Specifically, the problem was in the "Fill Gaps" routine.  It was adjusting the depth for missing depth but not adjusting the X, Y and Z values.  The sneaky part was on the menu you could check or uncheck the ‘Fill Gaps’ box and the program would do it any way.  The menu set one variable and the program looked up a different variable.  Both of these problems have been fixed.

(95) Bug Fix (03/06/07/JCJ):  The stratigraphic profile and section programs no longer hang up if one or more of the grid models contain null values.

(94) Bug Fix (03/06/07/JCJ):  The stratigraphic fence program no longer plots bizarre polygons if one or more of the grid models contain null values.

(93) Improvement (03/06/07/JCJ):  The RockPlot/2D legend scaling has been significantly improved when working with vertically exaggerated diagrams.

(92) New Feature (03/06/07/JPR):  A new program titled "Animated GIF" has been added to the Grafix / Images menu.

This program is used to create an animated GIF file (suitable for inclusion within web pages) based on a list of images (e.g. the list generated by the new Morph program (see item #91 below).

(91) New Feature (03/06/07/JPR):  A new program titled "Morph" has been added to the Utilities / Grid menu.

This program is used to generate a series of transitional grids / and/or contour-map images given two "end-member" grids.

Example applications include:

Sample Output:

Click here to view a larger and more detailed example.

(90) New Feature (03/06/07/JPR):  A new button captioned "X = Y" has been added to the Graphics / Images / PicShow program.  When checked (pressed-down), this option will set the x scale equal to the y scale.  When unchecked, the scales will be independently adjusted to fill the display area.

(89) Cosmetic (03/06/07/JPR): The following changes have been made to the Graphics / Images / PicShow program:

(88) New Feature (03/02/07/JPR): A new interpolation method titled "Cubic Spline" has been added to the P-Data resampling menu (used within a variety of programs).  This algorithm minimizes the curvature when resampling points.

  A B C D E F G
Sample Interval 1.0 0.5 2.0 0.5 0.5 0.5 2.0
Resampled no YES YES YES YES YES YES
   Algorithm n/a CP CP WA WA CS CS
   Distance Filter n/a no no 5.0 5.0 no no
   Bogus Value n/a no no no 25 no no

CP = Closest Point
WA = Weighted Average
CS = Cubic Spline

(87) Removal (03/02/07/JPR):  The "Ignore Data Outside Units" option within the "Stratabound" filtering sub-menu (used by a variety of programs) has been removed because it is now redundant with the new filtering options that are described within items 80 through 86 (below).

(86) New Feature (03/02/07/JPR):  The filtering and sampling options within the Utilities / Solid / Model menu have been significantly enhanced.

(85) New Feature (03/02/07/JPR):  The filtering and sampling options that have been added to the Borehole Manager / Lithology / Model menu (see item #84 - below) have been added to the following menus:

(84) New Feature (03/02/07/JPR):  A plethora of new filtering options have been added to the Borehole Manager / Lithology / Model menu. 

The "Create Filtering / Sampling Report" options will generate a summary of the filtering / sampling results as shown below:

(83) Improvement (02/29/07/JPR):  The filtering and sampling options that have been added to the Borehole Manager / P-Data / Model menu (see item #82 - below) have been added to the following menus:

(82) Improvement (02/29/07/JPR):  The filtering and sampling options within the Borehole Manager / P-Data / Model menu have been expanded as shown by the following image:

(81) Improvement (02/28/07/JPR):  The filtering and sampling options that have been added to the Borehole Manager / I-Data / Model menu (see item #80 - below) have been added to the following menus:

(80) Improvement (02/28/07/JPR):  The filtering and sampling options within the Borehole Manager / I-Data / Model menu have been expanded as shown by the following image:

New Features:

(79) Bug Fix (02/27/07/JCJ):  A colon within the first column of the Menus.txt file (the file that contains all of the RockWorks menu items) will now cause the program to skip that line without any error message.  This is how lines may be commented-out.

(78) Bug Fix (02/27/07/JCJ):  The Perimeter option within the Utilities / Grids / Grids -> 3D-Stack program now checks for the file path and only adds one if necessary.

(77) Improvement (02/27/07/JCJ):  Programs that create files names based on stratigraphy names will now remove any "illegal" characters (e.g. ampersands, periods, quotation marks, etc) from the file names.

(76) Improvement (02/25/07/JPR):  The File / Save option within the RockPlot/3D program is now available within the trial version of RockWorks.  This is part of an ongoing process towards converting RockPlot/3D into a stand-alone freeware program.

(75) Bug Fix (02/22/07/JPR):  The installation program now copies the GDIplus.dl. into the application directory.  This file is necessary for Windows2000 users now that the program supports non-solid lines that are greater than one pixel in width (see items 57, 58, and 59 below).

(74) Bug Fix (02/22/07/JPR):  The version number information has been removed from the RockPlot-3D / Help / About dialog.  Instead, the program just shows the last revision date.

(73) Improvement (02/20/07/JPR):  The RockPlot-2D / File / Print utility will now behave as follows;

(72) Bug Fix (02/20/07/JPR):  The program no longer generates an error message if the user selects an undefined custom color from the color selection menu.  Instead, the program now defaults these selections to black.

(71) New Feature (02/20/07/JPR):  The RockPlot-2D / File / Print / Misc menu now has two new items titled "Horizontal Scaler" and "Vertical Scaler".  These settings are used to adjust pattern densities.  Example applications include diagrams that are being grossly exaggerated  thereby causing the patterns to be plotted as black filled regions.

(70) Bug Fix (02/20/07/JPR):  Setting the margins to zero within the RockPlot-2D / File / Print menu no longer causes the printout to generate multiple-page printouts.

(69) Cosmetic (02/20/07/JPR):  The RockPlot-2D / File / Print menu now shows the margin settings and units within a separate tab.

(68) New Feature (02/19/07/JPR):  The RockPlot-2D / File / Print menu now allows the user to change the paper orientation (i.e. portrait vs. landscape) directly from the main menu.

This eliminates the need to navigate through the associated printer driver. 

(67) New Feature (02/19/07/JPR):  The RockPlot-2D / File / Print menu now shows the vertical exaggeration based on the ratio between the horizontal and vertical scales. 

The vertical exaggeration will not be shown if the "Horizontal Scale = Vertical Scale" option has been checked.

(66) New Feature (02/19/07/JPR):  The RockPlot-2D / File / Print option now includes an option for changing the current printer.  The Configure button has been relocated to the immediate right of the printer "pull-down" option.

(65) Improvement (02/19/07/JPR):  The Utilities / Import / ASCII program will omit the first column if all lines contain a delimiter as the first character within each line.

(64) Bug Fix (02/19/07/JPR):  The Utilities / Import / ASCII program longer generates an error if the header line contains a delimiter as the first character.

(63) New Feature (02/19/07/JPR):  A new item titled "Skip Header Line(s)" has been added to the Utilities / Import / ASCII menu has been renamed to "Extract Column Titles From Header Line".  This item contains a sub-item that now allows the user to specify the number of lines to be skipped.

(62) Cosmetic (02/19/07/JPR):  The "Process Header Line" option within the Utilities / Import / ASCII menu has been renamed to "Extract Column Titles From Header Line".

(61) New Feature (02/14/07/JPR):  A new option titled "Treat Consecutive Delimiters As Single Delimiter" has been added to the Utilities / Import / ASCII menu.  This new option is designed to import files in which data columns are separated by one or more delimiters.  Consider, for example, a file that consists of justified columns that are separated by spaces.  The spaces that are used to justify the columns are indistinguishable from the spaces that separate the columns.

(60) Bug Fix (02/14/07/JCJ/MIW):  The "flicker" that appears when resizing a window has been diminished.

(59) Bug Fix (02/14/07/JPR):  Non-solid lines (e.g. dashed, dotted, etc.) are no longer converted to solid lines on selected printers and within exported bitmaps (e.g. PNG, BMP, etc.)

Note:  This capability uses the GDI+ driver from Microsoft.  This driver is a standard feature with WindowsXP and Vista but it is not included within Windows2000.  In Windows2000, all lines greather than 1-pixel in width will be plotted as solid lines.  To install the GDI+ driver onto a Windows2000 machine, click on the following link:

Click here to download and install the GDI+ driver.

(58) Improvement (02/14/07/JPR):  The line properties sub-menu has been redesigned to remove the mutual exclusivity described in the previous item (#57).  As a consequence, a mouse-click has been eliminated.


Previous Line Properties Menu


New Line Properties Menu

(57) Improvement (02/14/07/JPR):  It is now possible to use non-solid line styles (e.g. dashed, dotted, dash/dotted) with lines that are more than one pixel thick.  The previous version of the program would only support non-solid styles with single-pixel lines.

 

(56) Bug Fix (02/11/07/JPR):  The Utilities / Linears / Rose program now computes the correct mean lineation vector if the data is rotated.

Special thanks to Hunter Manley.

(55) New Feature (02/11/07/JPR):  The Utilities / Linears / Rose program now includes an option for plotting arrowheads at the ends of the mean lineation vector line(s).

(54) New Feature (02/10/07/JPR):  The new "Statistical Intervals" petal coloring option described below (item #55) has been added to the Borehole Manager / Fractures rose map program.

(55) New Feature (02/10/07/JPR):  The Utilities / Linears / Rose program now includes a petal-coloring option titled "Statistical Intervals". 

This new option will automatically color the rose petals based upon their statistical magnitude.  The colors are assigned as follows:

(54) New Feature (02/10/07/JPR):  The new "Cold-to-Hot" petal coloring option described below (item #53) has been added to the Borehole Manager / Fractures rose map program.

(53) New Feature (02/10/07/JPR):  The Utilities / Linears / Rose program now includes a petal-coloring option titled "Cold-to-Hot". 

This new setting will automatically color the rose petals from the "cold" colors (dark purple) through the "hot" colors (red). 

The "intervals" setting defines the number of subdivisions that will be used to produce a gradational effect.

(52) New Feature (02/10/07/JPR):  The statistical summary that is generated by the Utilities / Linears / Rose program now lists the expected confidence (as defined by the user within the Mean Error / Confidence Interval portion of the Rose menu).

(51) New Feature (02/10/07/JPR):  The statistical summary that is generated by the Utilities / Linears / Rose program now lists the mean vector direction as well as the mean vector direction plus 180 degrees when plotting bidirectional data.

(50) Improvement (02/10/07/JPR):  The Utilities / Linears / Rose program has been redesigned.  Specifically, the program has been split into two separate sub-programs: one for bearing-based (frequency) diagrams and analyses, and the other for endpoint-based (length) diagrams and analyses.

As a consequence, the "Petal Radius" options no longer exist. 

If the "From Bearings" option is chosen, the petal radii will be based on the frequency of occurrences.  This menu does not include an option for filtering based on lineation lengths.

If the "From Endpoints" option is chosen, the petal radii will be based on the cumulative lengths of lineations within the direction range represented by the petal.  Unlike the "Rose Diagram From Bearings" menu, this program includes an option for filtering based on lineation lengths.

Note:  It is no longer possible to directly create a frequency diagram based on endpoint coordinates.  If you wish to do this, it is necessary that you first use the Utilities / Linears / Lineation Properties program to first compute the bearings of the lineations based on the endpoint coordinates.  The Rose Diagram / From Bearings program is then used to create the frequency diagram based on the new, calculated bearing column.

(49) New Feature (02/09/07/JPR):  The Utilities / Stats / Histogram program output now includes a suite of option for plotting a statistical legend along the right side of the diagram.

The items within this legend are the same as those which are calculated by the Utilities / Stats / Univariate program.

These same legend options are available within the Utilities / Stats / Histogram / Multiple program.

(48) New Feature (02/09/07/JPR):  The Utilities / Stats / Univariate program output now includes the coefficient of variation.

For more information about the coefficient of variation, please refer to the following Wikipedia link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_variation

Special thanks to John Hand for suggesting this addition and providing the Wikipedia link.

(47) Bug Fix (02/09/07/JPR):  The Utilities / Stats / Univariate program now uses the proper primary and secondary titles within the output report.

(46) New Feature (02/09/07/JPR):  A new option titled "Fixed Diagram Size" has been added to the following menus:

This purpose of this option is to plot multiple diagrams at the same size for publication / comparison purposes.

Please note that the relative aspect (height/width) ratio must be in the same ballpark as the original data range.  The following examples show what happens when the height/width ratio is too large (large gaps in annotation) and too small (overplotted annotation).

(45) New Feature (02/09/07/JPR):  A new option has been added to the Tools / General Preferences menu for disabling the warning that appears when the user is attempting to create a stratigraphic model in which there are missing horizons (i.e. items that are defined within the stratigraphy table, but not necessarily in the actual data or list of grid models0.  This new capability is designed to eliminate the obnoxious messages that appear when creating a model in conjunction with a stratigraphy table that contains extraneous formations.

(44) New Feature (02/09/07/JPR):  A new option has been added to the Tools / General Preferences menu for disabling the warning that appears when the user is attempting to create a stratigraphic model and there are no points for selected units within the stratigraphy table.  This new capability is designed to eliminate the obnoxious messages that appear when creating a model in conjunction with a stratigraphy table that contains extraneous formations.

(43) Bug Fix (02/09/07/JPR):  The Borehole Manager error message that would appear whenever the program attempts to create a surface for a horizon that contains no points now lists the correct horizon. 

(42) Bug Fix (02/09/07/JCJ):  The Borehole Manager / Import / Excel program now properly imports Stratigraphy and Lithology types that are longer than 30 characters.

(41) Bug Fix (02/09/07/JCJ):  Upon startup, RockWorks will now allow the user to choose another project if the drive that contained the previous project is no longer available (e.g. a USB drive was removed).  The previous version would not start up.

(40) Improvement (02/09/07/JPR):  The custom colors within the color-selection menus are now "remembered" and shared within the following submenus:

(39) Bug Fix (02/08/07/MIW):  The Help / Contents dialog box will now move to the background if the user selects the main RockWorks form.  The previous version would always stay on top of the main RockWorks form.

(38) Bug Fix (02/07/07/JPR):  The agl_01.txt sample file that is used to demonstrate the Utilities / Grafix / 2D-Utilities / Import / AGL program has been edited such that it references the proper raster image file.  The previous version referenced an image that did not exist (hence the bug discovery documented within item #37 below).

(37) Bug Fix (02/07/07/JPR):  The Utilities / Grafix / 2D-Utilities / Import / AGL program now generates an error message if the input file contains a reference to a raster image (i.e. the "Raster:" command) and the continues to process the remaining commands.  The previous version would generate a fatal error if the raster image did not exist.

(36) Bug Fix (02/06/07/JPR):  The color-scheme menu that is used by a variety of grid-related programs no longer generates spurious range check errors.

(35) Bug Fix (02/06/07/JPR):  The Utilities / Grid / Initialize program now generates the correct surfaces within the "Inclined" option is used.  The previous version would offset the surface strike when a high dip angle was specified (e.g. a 75-degree dip would offset the surface by 20 degrees).

(34) Improvement (02/05/07/JPR):  The Utilities / Stats / Point-Distances program will computes the absolute values of the inclinations before computing the inclination statistics.

(33) Improvement (02/05/07/JPR):  The Utilities / Stats / Point-Distances program will now subtracts 180 degrees from azimuths that are greater than or equal to 180 degrees before computing the azimuth statistics.

(32) Bug Fix (02/05/07/JPR):  The Utilities / Stats / Point-Distances program will no longer attempt to read z-values or compute inclination-related values when the "Include Z-Values" option is unchecked.

(31) Bug Fix (02/05/07/MIW):  The RockPlot DXF Import now stores the correct Group ID numbers.  All graphic objects within the previous version were therefore assigned to the default RockPlot Layer.

(30) Improvement (02/03/07/JCJ):  The Type table editor (e.g. Lithology Types) will now change the sort order when the user clicks on the title of the column that is to be sorted.  The sort is ascending.  The editor will also store it's position and size.  The position and size are the same irrespective of the specific type table being edited.

(29) Cosmetic (02/03/07/JPR):  The default symbol and pattern libraries have been upgraded to 1,000 records thereby eliminating the automatic notification that tells the user about the upgrade.

(28) New Feature (01/31/07/JCJ):  The Borehole Manager / File / Import / XLS program now allows the user to specify how data will be mapped into the Location table.

(27) New Feature (01/31/07/JCJ):  The Borehole Manager / File / Import / ASCII program now allows the user to specify how data will be mapped into the Location table.

(26) Bug Fix (01/27/07/JPR):  The Utilities / File / Import / Geonics EM38 program now properly imports the time data.  The previous version would skip the first character.

(25) Bug Fix (01/26/07/JPR):  The Utilities / File / Import / Garmin program now properly converts time data between 12:00pm and 1:00pm to the proper 24-hour format.

(24) Bug Fix (01/22/07/JPR):  The Borehole Manager / Geological Utilities / Map / Land Grid / Section Map program no longer bombs when using imported commercial data with more than four points per section.

(23) Bug Fix (01/22/07/JPR):  The Geological Utilities / Map / Land Grid / Section Map program no longer bombs when using imported commercial data with more than four points per section.

(22) New Feature (01/15/07/JPR):  The Borehole Manager / I-Data / Model and Volumetrics menus now have a Sampling Method / Regular Spacing option titled "Add Bogus Points For Intervals That Have No Data".

The basic idea behind this new feature is to allow for the modeling of datasets in which only the high values have been sampled (and/or saved).  For example, consider a uranium exploration project in which the downhole data is limited to grade/thickness values only for intervals that exceed an economic cutoff value.  As a consequence, all of the input data is high or anomalous resulting in a model that it ridiculous because there are no low data values to constrain model.  This new feature attempts to solve this problem by adding imaginary low values (typically zero) to the intervals that are otherwise undefined thereby limiting the extents of the high-grade ore to the areas adjacent to high control-point values.

The following examples depict a data set that consists of 30 control points (small discs within borehole diagrams on left).  These control points represent only the higher values (i.e. no zero-value points).  The diagram in the center depicts a model based only on the original control points using the Anisotropic modeling algorithm.  The diagram on the right depicts a model that was based on the original points plus 3,818 new zero-level "bogus" points there were added by the program.  Notice how the model is constrained by the bogus points.

Note:  Additional points require more time to process (the haiku of RockWorks).

(21) Improvement (01/14/07/JPR):  Raster images that are plotted within RockPlot/2D (e.g. scanned electric logs and photographs of core) now use a fancy algorithm (Mitchell Filtering) for rescaling the bitmaps.  The net result is the elimination of black diagrams when a raster image is condensed.  Otherwise the bitmaps look the same when they're enlarged (i.e. zoomed into).


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This new capability is especially beneficial when using the Stratigraphy Picker:


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(20) Improvement (01/10/07/JCJ):  Clicking on the "X" button within the Borehole Manager "edit as datasheet" mode will now present the user with a confirmation screen to save any changes.

(19) Improvement (01/10/07/JCJ):  The popup menu that appears whenever the right mouse button is clicked from within the Borehole Manager datasheets now includes the "Edit as Spreadsheet" option.

(18) Improvement (01/10/07/JCJ):  The Borehole Manager / Stratigraphy Table Editor now posts the "Order" changes before re-sorting the table.

(17) Removal (01/10/07/JPR):  The Grafix / Images / Rotate-Bitmap option has been removed.  Rotations of bitmaps are now performed within the Grafix / Images / Raster Conversions program.

(16) Bug Fix (01/10/07/JPR):  The Borehole Manager log calibrator (used to import raster logs into the database) will now properly calibrate the footer pixels if the scaling factor is not equal to 100%.

(15) Bug Fix (01/10/07/JCJ):  Symbols are now properly exported via the Borehole Manager / File / Transfer utilities.  The previous version used the wrong delimiter to separate the symbol number from the symbol color.

(14) Bug Fix (01/10/07/JCJ):  The Borehole Manager / File / Import / ASCII / Multiple-Files program no longer expects the ".txt" extension to be in lower-case characters.

(13) Bug Fix (01/10/07/JCJ):  The Borehole Manager / File / Import / ASCII / Multiple-Files program no longer expects the ".txt" extension to be in lower-case characters.

(12) New Feature (01/10/07/JPR):  A new type of color scheme called "Min/Mid/Max" has been added to the color-fill Palette menu.

This new scheme allows the user to specify the starting, middle, and ending color for the colorization, resulting in some interesting effects as shown by the following examples:

(11) Bug Fix (01/09/07/MIW):  The Raster Log Calibrator (used for plotting raster logs within striplogs) no longer crashes when the user attempts to load large images with certain types of graphic cards.

(10) New Feature (01/09/07/JCJ):  The new date field that is available from within the Borehole Manager / View / Tab Manager will activate an interactive calendar when the user double-clicks within the date field.

(9) New Feature (01/09/07/JCJ):  The Borehole Manager / View / Tab Manager now allows the user to add new fields to any data tab.  The previous version would only allow additional fields within the Location tab.

(8) New Feature (01/09/07/JCJ):  The Borehole Manager / View / Tab Manager now allows the user to add boolean (true/false) fields.

Boolean fields will be displayed as "check-boxes".

(7) Cosmetic (01/09/07/JCJ):  The Borehole Manager / View / Tabs Settings option has been renamed to "Tab Manager".

(6) Cosmetic (01/05/07/JPR):  The RockPlot/3D program now reads custom color table data that contains thousand separators (e.g. commas).  This allows the RockPlot/3D use the new color-palettes (see item #3 below).

(5) Cosmetic (01/04/07/JPR):  Items within tree-style menus that trigger a submenu (e.g. the "Adjust Project Dimensions" option) are now displayed as buttons.

(4) Cosmetic (01/04/07/JPR):  The "Color Scheme" sub-options (for solid-fill color contouring) have been redesigned.  The items within the menu tree have been replaced by a dialog box that pops up when the user selects the "Color Scheme" option.

(3) New Feature (01/04/07/JPR):  The color-fill table (used when plotting color-filled contours) now includes a menu item titled "Palettes".

Once selected, the new Palettes option will present the user with the following menu;

The Palettes option will generate a color-fill table based on a user-specified z-range/increment and a color scheme.  For example, the settings within the menu above will produce a color table (shown below) whereby the colors range from cold-to-hot (purple to red) starting at a z-value of 10 and proceeding to 60 at 10 unit increments.

The "User Specified" option allows the user to select two "end members" for the color range.

The following contour map depicts the color range shown by the example settings above:

The "Cycles" option will repeat the color palette by the specified iterations with the range of z-values (from z-min to z-max).  The following examples depict various "Cycle" settings.

The various palette options are summarized within the following diagram:

The following examples depict multicycle palettes in conjunction within conventional contour lines:

(2) Cosmetic (01/04/07/JPR):  The "Misc" menu option has been removed from the polygon table editor.  It has been replaced by a new item titled "Plot Polygon" (which was formerly the only sub-item within the "Misc" menu).

The Plot-Polygon button within the speedbar has been removed since it would be redundant with the Plot Polygon option in the main menu.

(1) Improvement (01/02/07/JPR):  The color-fill table (used when plotting color-filled contours) is no longer limited to 100 intervals.  The new version supports a theoretically unlimited number of intervals.

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