Follow these steps to adjust how a vertical fence panel is to be colored.
- Right-click on the name of the panel to be modified (in the data pane of RockPlot3D), and choose Options. You may need to expand a group or two to access the vertical grid icon.
If you have a difficult time determining which panel is which, remove a panel’s check-mark to see it disappear from the display.
- Color Scheme: Locate the Color Scheme drop-down box. By clicking the down-arrow you can see the options.
- Solid: Fills the panel with a single color; click on the color box to choose the fill color.
- Continuous: Color-codes the fence's vertical grid based on G (geochemical or geophysical "grade") values. Use the Min-Max button to the right to choose the gradational color palette to use, such a cold-to-hot, custom (table-based), direct (color models) and more.
- Minimum and Maximum: Use these prompts to set the G value range to be associated with the selected end colors. These will default to the entire G value range. You can type in your own values to illustrate a subset of the G values contained in the model. Or, if you are comparing different models with the same color scheme, you can use these prompts to establish the same G value range.
! You can click the Info button at the very bottom of the window to see the model's G-value range.
- Lithology Table: If the fence panels represent lithology types, choose this option to apply the background colors from the Lithology Types table in the RockWorks Borehole Manager database.
- Stratigraphy Table: If the fence panels represent stratigraphy types, choose this option to apply the background colors from the Stratigraphy Types table in the RockWorks Borehole Manager database.
- Click the Apply button at any time to view the effect of your color changes on the panel. You may need to drag the Options window out of the way to view the display. You do not need to close the Grid Options window to apply and see the changes.
! Using the Apply button tells the program to invoke the changes you have made. You cannot discard changes once they have been applied.
- You can repeat this process for additional panels, without even closing the current Grid Options window. Just double-click on another panel name and its Options window will be docked with the others.
These color schemes can be used with any of the panel Draw Styles.
! Vertical grids can be thought of as a vertical slice from a solid model. Despite the fact that the dependent variable in a grid model is typically referred to as the "Z" variable, here we refer to it as the "G" variable since it is extracted from a solid model.
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