Plotting Images on 3D Cubes

RockWorks | Utilities | Imagery |
Cubes (Images -> 3D Cube Faces)

Use this program to display raster images on cube for display in RockPlot3D. Supported bitmap formats include: BMP, JPG, EMF and WMF, PCX, PNG, TGA, and TIFF.

Menu Options
Step-by-Step Summary
 

Menu Options

• Input Columns:  In the left pane of the program window, specify where the required data is listed in the datasheet.
  • Title: Choose the column that contains the title, if any, for each cube. This will be used as the label for the cube in RockPlot3D.
  • X Center, Y Center, Z center: Choose the three columns that contain the location coordinates for the center of the cube.
    These can be defined in your project coordinates or other coordinate system. See Defining your Datasheet Coordinates for more information.
  • Width, Depth, Height: If you have requested Variable cube dimensions (see below), you need to specify here the columns in the datasheet that list these dimensions.  If you've specified a fixed size for the cube(s), these settings will be ignored.  
  • Base Pic, Top Pic, West Pic, East Pic, South Pic, North Pic: Choose the columns that list the file names of the images that will be displayed on the specified faces of the cube.  Be sure the images are in the current project folder.  Supported file types are listed above.
• Group Name: In the middle pane of the window, click here to specify a group name for the cube(s) as they'll be displayed in RockPlot3D.
• Cube Dimensions: Expand this to choose:
  • Fixed: Click here if all cubes are to have the same dimensions. Expand this to specify the width, depth, and height.  These units can be virtually anything, but if they are to overlay any other real-world images they must correspond to that unit system.
  • Variable: Click here if you've listed dimensions in the datasheet. Be sure the Width, Depth, and Height columns are correctly defined to the left.
• Opacity: Select from the following:
  • Opaque: Choose this option to display the images as opaque. Note that you can also adjust overall transparency of the faces in RockPlot3D itself.
  • Transparent: Choose this option if you want to specify a specific color in the bitmap images to be displayed transparent. For example if the images have a white background and you would like that part to be see-through, you would select white. 
    If activated, expand this heading to click on the color box to choose the image color that is to be set to transparent.
• Reference Cage: Insert a check here to include vertical elevation axes and X and Y coordinate axes in the 3D diagram. Expand this item to set up the cage items.  (More.)
  
  

Step-by-Step Summary

1. Access the RockWorks Utilities program tab.
2. Open a data file that contains a listing of XYZ locations and picture names, with optional dimensions and titles. 
3. Select the Imagery | Cubes (Images -> 3D Cube Faces) menu option.
4. Enter the requested menu settings, described above.
5. Click the Process button to proceed.

The program will read the listed images and build 3D cubes at the specified XYZ locations, using the specified cube dimensions.  They will be displayed in a RockPlot3D tab in the Options window. 

6. You can adjust any of the diagram options in the pane to the left and then click the Process button again to regenerate the 3D image.
   
   ! Each time you click the Process button, the existing display will be replaced. 
   
   
7. View / manipulate the image in RockPlot3D.
   
   

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