Use the Striplog Fractures check-box to plot your fracture measurements as oriented disks in your 3D striplogs. The data is read from the Fractures table in the RockWorks Borehole Manager database. When you click on the Fractures item in the Visible Items window you’ll see the following settings in the Options pane to the right.
Menu Options
- Column title: Click here to enter text to be displayed above the column. If no title is desired, you can leave this field blank.
- Offset Direction: This reflects the position of the column, relative to the log axis (center), with 0 = north, 180 = south, and so on. As you click and drag the Fractures column in the Layout Preview pane (top), this value will be updated. Conversely, if you edit the azimuth direction in this prompt, the Preview will be updated.
- Offset Distance: This represents the distance of the Fracture column center from the log axis (center), expressed as a percent of the output dimensions. As you reposition the column in the Layout Preview pane at the top of the screen, this value will be updated. And, as you edit the offset distance here, the Preview will be updated. In the example above, the Fracture column is positioned on top of the Lithology column, both with an Offset Distance of 0.
- Column Radius: The radius of the Fracture column is established as a percent of the output dimensions. As you click and drag to resize a column in the Layout Preview at the top of the window, this setting will be updated. If you edit the radius via this prompt, the size of the column in the Preview will be updated. This setting will be ignored if you choose Variable dimensions, below.
- Stretch with Vertical Exaggeration: Insert a check here if you want the dip angles of the disks to change as the vertical exaggeration changes while still honoring the relative spatial relationships. Leave this un-checked if the disk angles should remain constant.
- Dimensions: Expand this item to select whether the fracture "disks" will be plotted at a fixed size, or at the size(s) declared in the Fractures datasheets.
- Fixed: Choose this option for all of the fracture disks to be plotted at a radius defined by the Column Radius, above.
- Thickness: A Thickness setting of 1 will plot a very thin disk, and at a thickness of 5, the disk will be thick.
- Variable: Choose this option to plot the fracture disks at the radius and aperture (thickness) settings listed in the Fractures datasheets. In this manner, small fractures can be displayed with small-radius disks, large fractures with thick disks, and so on.
See also Miscellaneous Options for settings that establish the font size and offset for the column title.
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