The Pattern Editor

The Pattern Editor is a tool that permits you to edit an existing pattern design or create a new pattern design for use to illustrate rock types in logs, cross sections, etc. Pattern designs are stored in a RockWorks "Pattern Table."

The Pattern Editor is accessed from the Select Pattern window. From the main menu, you can display the Select Pattern window by following these steps: *

1. Click on the Project Manager tab in the main RockWorks program window.
2. Expand the System Tables heading at the end of the Project Manager listing.
3. Double-click on the Patterns item. The program will load the default pattern library into the Select Pattern Window.
4. If you wish to edit pattern(s) contained in a different Pattern Table, open that Table (click the File button and choose Open).
5. Click on the pattern design you wish to edit, scrolling down through the samples as necessary, so that it is displayed as default in the upper Preview box.
   Or, if you want to create a new pattern, click on a blank pattern design.
6. Click the Edit button at the top of the Select Pattern window.

The selected pattern design (or blank pattern) will be displayed in the Pattern Editor.

(* The Select Pattern window can also be accessed from within the Lithology Types Table, the Stratigraphy Types Table, the Aquifer Types Table, the Well Construction Types Table, and "pattern-type" columns in the RockWorks Utilities data sheet.)

Topics

• Create new patterns
• Import an existing pattern design
• Edit existing patterns
• Draw patterns
• Understand the pattern origin
• View pattern sizes
• Exit the Pattern Editor

See also

• The Select Pattern Window
  

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