RockWorks | ModOps | Solid Menu
Use the programs in the ModOps | Solid menu to create, manipulate and analyze solid models. This topic summarizes the tools that are available - click on a link for more information.
- Create: Create a solid model from a variety of data types, with options for display in a 3D scene.
- XYZG -> Solid: Read XYZG data and generate a solid model (.RwMod file) using one of a variety of modeling methods.
- ASCII XYZG -> Solid: Read XYZG data from an external data file and generate a solid model (.RwMod file) using one of a variety of modeling methods.
- Faults -> Solid: Generate a solid model showing fault locations.
- Fractures -> Solid: Creates a fracture solid model representing distance from fractures or fracture intersections.
- Images -> Solid: Creates a solid color model from raster images.
- Polygons -> Solid: Creates a solid model based on polygon definitions and elevation ranges.
- Display: Display an existing solid model (.RwMod file) using voxels or an isosurface in a 3D scene.
- Display as Isoshells: Display an existing solid model (.RwMod file) as nested isosurfaces, showing different concentration levels.
- Profile: Read an existing solid model (.RwMod file) for display as a 2D profile diagram.
- Section: Read an existing solid model (.RwMod file) for display as a 2D cross-section diagram.
- Projected Section: Read an existing solid model (.RwMod file) for display as a 2D projected cross section diagram.
- Fence: Read an existing solid model (.RwMod file) for display as 3D fence diagram.
- Plan Map: Read an existing solid model (.RwMod file) for display as a 2D plan slice.
- Math: Tools for doing arithmetic operations with solid models, storing results in a new model
- Solid & Constant - Perform arithmetic operations with a solid model and a constant
- Solid & Model - Perform arithmetic operations with two solid models
- Resample - Change the extents and/or node spacing of a solid model
- Statistics: Tools for analyzing solid model value ranges and for comparing the model to the original data
- Report - Reads an existing solid model and generates textual summary of the solid model's contents.
- Multiple Solid Statistics: Reads a list of solid model names from the RockWorks datasheet and generates a report of general statistics of all of the models.
- Solid Metadata - Reads an existing solid model and generates a text report of the model's metadata.
- Histogram - Reads an existing solid model and generates a frequency histogram of the solid model's node values.
- Normalize - Reads an existing solid model and converts the node values to range between a user-defined minimum and maximum value.
- Standardize - Reads an existing solid model, computes the standard deviation for each node, and creates a new model whereby the nodes represent the standard deviations.
- Residuals - Computes the difference between original values and interpolated values. (Model error)
- Scattergram - A scatterplot showing original values versus interpolated values.
- Volumetrics: Reads an existing solid model and computes a variety of statistics, by level, for one or more grade ranges, for output to a datasheet report.
- Filters: Tools for filtering solid model node G values based on ranges or node locations, storing results in a new model
- Range Filter - Deletes high or low G-values from a solid model, reassigning them a user-specified constant
- Geobody Filter - Filters an existing solid model into contiguous blocks of voxels that have the same, or close to the same, G-values, representing "geobodies".
- Surface Stripping Filter - Filters high or low G values from the surface of a solid model file downward, until a value outside the specified range is encountered and the filtering will stop
- Distance Filter - Filters an existing solid model file based on the nodes' distances from the control points
- Polygon Filter - Edits solid model node values inside/outside a polygon
- RockPlot2D Polygon Clip - Edits solid model node values inside/outside one or more polygons pulled from a saved RockPlot2D map
- Grid Filter - Filters a solid model based on one or two surfaces (grid models, or horizontal/inclined planes). Replacement nodes can be null, constant, or values from another model.
- Merge - Merges two solid models based on a grid model
- Table-Based Replacement Filter - Converts g-values within a solid model based on the contents of a lookup file that contains a minimum and maximum range for the values to be changed and a replacement value
- Replacement Filter - Replaces selected nodes within a model with the node values from another model
- Rounding Filter - Rounds solid model node values up or down to the user-declared G-value rounding interval
- Smoothing Filter - Averages the G-values based on a user declared "filter" size, to smooth out "noise"
- Tunnel Filter - Given a list of xyz coordinates that represent the axes of tubes, this program will set all nodes for a designated solid model either outside or inside the tubes to a null value
- Borehole Filter - Creates one or more tunnels (or mine drifts) through a solid model, using borehole location coordinates and downhole survey information for the active boreholes in the Borehole Manager
- Fill Voids - Replaces null voxels in the interior of an existing solid model using a closest point method.
- Logic: Tools for creating Boolean (true/false) models, and analyzing them
- Solid - Boolean Solid - Convert an existing solid model to a yes/no Boolean grid based on a G value range
- Minimum Ore Zone Thickness - Reads a Boolean model and allows you to specify a minimum thickness for any individual ore zone to be included in the output model and computations
- Minimum Total Ore Thickness - Reads a Boolean model and allows you to specify a minimum thickness for the combined, total ore zones to be included in the output model and computations
- Maximum Waste Thickness - Reads a Boolean model and allows you to remove small pockets of "non-ore" material from surrounding "ore" blocks, translating them to "ore" for future calculations
- Max. Stripping Ratio - Filters an existing Boolean solid model based on the ratio between the thickness of the overburden ("waste") and the thickness of the zone of interest ("ore")
- Mass Calculations - Multiplies individual Boolean voxels with a density value so that the program can compute total mass as well as total volume
- Extract Grids: Tools for converting solid models into grid models
- Solid -> Grid - "Flattens" a solid model into a 2D grid, based on highs, lows, averages, elevations, etc.
- Solid -> Grids - "Flattens" a solid model into multiple 2D grid models, like above, but at regular elevation intervals.
- Solid -> Zone Grids - Reads a list of grid file pairs (upper and lower surfaces) from the datasheet, extracts all voxels from a solid model that reside between the grids, performs the selected statistical operation on them, and saves the result in the specified output grid file.
- Solid -> Total Ore Grid - "Flattens" a Boolean solid model file representing "ore" versus "not-ore" into a 2-dimensional grid file that represents total ore thickness
- Solid -> Total Waste Grid - "Flattens" a Boolean solid model file representing "ore" versus "not-ore" into a 2-dimensional grid file that represents total overburden ("not-ore") thickness
- Solid Layer -> Grid - Removes a horizontal or vertical slice from a solid model, saving the layer as a 2D grid model (.RwGrd file)
- Solid -> Grade Thickness Grid - Converts a solid model containing grade values into a grade-thickness grid model (.RwGrd file).
- Import: Imports solid models from other programs or file types
- MicroModel: Imports a solid model file output from the MicroMODEL software program
- Text: Imports text XYZG data into a RockWorks solid model format
- Grid - Inserts a 2D grid model (.RwGrd file) into a solid model, as a horizontal or vertical plane
- Export: Exports RockWorks solid models to another format
- Initialize: Creates a new solid model from scratch, with nodes set to a user-defined value or randomly
- Grids -> Stratigraphic Model: Creates a solid stratigraphy model given a list of grid surfaces.
- Edit: Tools for editing the node values in a solid model
- 2D (Edit Slices) - Edit individual slices using the Grid Editor, inserting the edited slice back into the model.
- 3D (Edit Solid) - Use an interactive 3D model editor
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