VIDEO: What's New in LogPlot8

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Contents:
Project Manager
Data Editor
Log Designer
Log Compiler
Log Viewer
Other Changes

Project Manager

• Reorganized layout
• New "System Files" heading for Keyword, Pattern, and Symbol libraries
• More info

Data Editor

• New layout:
  • Datasheet tabs are stacked vertically.
  • Click and drag data tabs to change tab order.

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  • Click and drag Edit Text sequence.
  • Dock/undock data files from program window
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• Create data templates: Save a current data file as a blank "template" with datasheet layout, for easy formatting of data for future boreholes.
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• Apply text formatting: Bold, italic, underline, color, superscript, subscript, or symbols for selected words in your description text.

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• Lithologic contacts: Wavy contact lines, thick contact lines
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• RockWorks connectivity:
  • Read data from RockWorks17 SQLite databases: Open the RockWorks project and double-click on the borehole name
  • Save directly to a RockWorks17 database: Save RockWorks borehole data back to the database, or LogPlot data files to the database.
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• New data types/fields for better linking with RockWorks:
  • Time Data (display as bargraphs, bargraph labels, interval text labels)
  • Interval Text (display as interval text)
  • Fractures (project fractures onto log plane)
  • Point Symbols (display in symbol column)
  • Water Levels (display symbol or filled bar in new Water Level column)
  • Collar Elevation: New field in the BH Info datasheet, you can use this as the depth reference when you compile your log.
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• Renamed data types:
  • Point Text (was Text)
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• Import AGS
• International: Unicode for non-Latin characters
• Automatic backups each time you save data file
• New data file format: LDAT8. ( Use the Data Editor's File | Import | LogPlot7 Dat File to open older-format files.)

Log Designer

• New Layout
  • Use checkboxes to display / hide design panes.
  • Click in a design pane and the applicable tools are displayed in the tool bar.

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  • Items list now visible in an expandable/collapsible pane at the bottom of the design window.

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  • Items linked between design screen and list
  • Dock/undock log designer from main program window
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• New Design Items:
  • Header/footer symbol legend
  • Header/footer pattern legend
  • Log body Fracture column (project fractures onto a plane)
  • Log body Water Level column
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• New Features
  • Curve/bargraph legends in the header can move with the column
  • Color gradient fills in Curves and Bargraphs can be vertical (or horizontal)
  • Include thicknesses in Description columns
  • Interval text with borders can automatically offset to avoid overplotting
  • Point text can automatically offset to avoid overplotting
  • New macros for Static Text: Start Depth, End Depth, Data source
  • Rotate Edit Notes and Edit Text
  • Hide scalebar text (if only ticks are needed)
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• New Functionality
  • Lock position of all design items
  • Zoom into design display

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• Automatic backups each time you save design file
• New log design file format: LDFX8. ( Use the Log Designer's File | Import LogPlot7 Design Template to open older-format files.)

Log Compiler<</p>

• Filter for time/date data

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• All data stored in compiled log
• Updated batch compiler

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• Updated command line compiling

Log Viewer

• New Layout:
  • Plot windows can be docked as tabs in the main program window (default), can be created as stand-alone windows, and can be dragged to dock/undock.
  • Entire log displayed in scrollable display.
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• New View Options for adjusting depth range, scale, continuous or page-break, header/footer selection, margin, and refreshing the display.

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• See depth and elevation for any point on the log display
• Export to PDF
• New log plot file format: LPT8. ( Older format files are not supported. You'll need to continue using LogView7 to open and view LPT files from earlier versions of LogPlot.)

Other changes

• New Pattern File format: RwPat, which offers filled shapes. ( Use the Pattern Editor's File | Import | Older Pattern Files (.PAT) to open older-format files.)
• New Keyword File format: LpKey, for unicode support. ( Use the Keyword Editor's File | Import | LogPlot7 to open older-format files.)
• New Networks License Manager: Service-based, console display, borrow licenses for use in the field.
• New Time-Limited licenses.

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