Displaying Infrastructure in 3D

RockWorks | Utilities | 3-D | Infrastructure

This program is used to create simple 3D entities such as buildings, roads, tanks, and walls that may be plotted in conjunction with other three-dimensional diagrams. The input for the 3D Infrastructure program consists of a text file that contains a series of objects and parameters. This is a stand-alone version of the Infrastructure layer offered in most 3D programs in RockWorks.

These infrastructure objects can also be displayed as a 2D map and in cross section diagrams.

This program replaces the Grafix | Surface Objects program in earlier versions of RockWorks.

Menu Options
Step-by-Step Summary

Menu Options

• Infrastructure Options
  • ASCII Input File: Click on this item to select the name of the user-created text file that contains the listing of infrastructure object and parameter commands.
  • Plot Object Labels: Check this item to include object labels in the output display.
• Other 3D Diagram Options
  Use these checkboxes to append other layers to your 3D scene.
  Click each tab to set up the 3D diagram layers (images, reference cage, etc.).
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• Output Options
  
  • Save Output File: Check this to assign a name for the 3D scene in advance, rather than displaying it as Untitled.
    • Automatic: Choose this option to have RockWorks assign the name automatically. It will use the name of the current program plus a numeric suffix, plus the ".Rw3D" file name extension.
    • Manual: Choose this option to type in a name of your own for this RockPlot3D file.
  • Display Output: Check this option to have the resulting log displayed in RockPlot3D once it is created.
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Step-by-Step Summary

1. Create your external text file that contains the "Building", "Road", and other infrastructure commands, using Notepad or another program capable of saving documents as text-only. See Infrastructure Data Format for details. See the "Infrastructure_xx.txt" files in the Documents\RockWorks Data\Samples folder for examples of this type of file.
2. Select the Utilities | 3-D | Infrastructure menu option.
3. Enter the requested menu settings, described above.
4. Click the Process button to continue.

   The program will read the commands within the text file and build the shapes at the designated fixed or grid-based elevations. The completed image will be displayed in a RockPlot3D tab in the Options window.

5. You can adjust any of the options along the left and click the Process button to regenerate the 3D image.
6. View / save / manipulate / print / export the image in the RockPlot3D window.

Tip: Use File | Save As to save the view of the infrastructure objects in RockPlot3D, then use File | Append to append another existing RockPlot3D view (stratigraphic model, isosurface, etc.) to this image.

See also

• Adding this program to your Playlist
• Adding this program to your Favorites
• Save/load/view menu settings
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