Creating Color Model Fence Diagrams

RockWorks | Borehole Manager | Colors | Fence

Use this program to:

• Create a new 3-dimensional solid or block model representing your downhole color intervals (an .RwMod file) - OR - read an existing .RwMod file you've already created.
• "Slice" this model along multiple panels.   Because the model is interpolated across the entire project, you can place the fence panels anywhere you like.

You may request regular panel spacing, in a variety of configurations, or you can draw your own panels.  The color model stores the actual Windows color for each node. 3D logs can be added to the image if desired.  The completed fence diagram will be displayed in RockPlot3D.

Feature Level: RockWorks Standard and higher
 

Menu Options
Step-by-Step Summary

Menu Options

• Color Modeling Options: First, tell the program whether you wish to use an existing color solid model (from a previous use of this tool or another Colors menu tool) or you wish to create a new color solid model, by clicking in the appropriate radio button.
  ! NOTE This is not trivial. Creating the color model can take some time, depending on the resolution of the model and the detail of your data. If you already created a pleasing model for display as a profile, for example, you can use the same model, which was stored on disk as an .RwMod file, for the fence.
   
  • Create New Model:  If want to create a new model, from which the fence will be sliced, click in this radio button, and expand this item to establish the modeling settings. 
    • Create Filter / Sampling Report: If you select any filter/resampling options, this option will create a summary report of the results. (More.)
      ! Note that these tools filter the data that is passed to the modeling procedures.  This is distinct from the filters that are applied after the model is completed (see Other Modeling Options below).
    • Color Range Filter: Insert a check here to filter the input data based on color.  (More.)
    • Spatial (XYZ) Filtering: Insert a check in this box - on the far right side of the current program window - to activate a data filter based on spatial coordinates. Expand this heading to establish the filter settings. 
    • Solid Model Name: Click to the right to enter a name for the color model.  The program will append automatically the file name extension .RwMod. 
    • Solid Modeling Options: Click on this button to establish important modeling settings:
      • Algorithm (Modeling Method): This determines the modeling method to use, for creating a solid model from your irregularly-spaced drill hole color data. (More.)
      • Model Dimensions: This determines the model density. (More.)  Unless there's a specific reason to do otherwise, you should probably leave the solid model dimensions set to the current output dimensions.
      • Other Modeling Options: These include tilting, warping, filtering above-ground, defining this as a color model type, and much more. 
         
  • Use Existing Model: If you wish to use an already-existing color model, click in this radio button, and expand this item to select: 
    • Model Name: Click to the right to browse for the name of the existing color model (.RwMod file) to be used for this fence diagram.
       
• Color Range Filter: Insert a check here if you wish to activate a color filter for the output fence panels.  Colors outside the range you define here will be rendered transparent in RockPlot3D.
  • Desired Color: Click here to select the color you wish to view in the panels.
  • Tolerance: Type in the range of colors to either side of the Desired Color, as a percent,  which are to be displayed in the fence panels. Tolerance is expressed as a percentage whereby 100 corresponds to all possible colors while zero would limit the visible voxels to only those that have exactly the same color value.
     
• Diagram Title: Click to the right to enter a name for the 3D "group" or layer that will be displayed in the RockPlot3D window.
  
  
• Plot Outline Around Each Panel: Insert a check here to include a solid-line outline around each fence panel, and expand the heading to define the line style and color. 

  
   

• Plot Surface Profile:  Insert a check here to include a solid line profile on each fence panel that represents a user-selected grid model, typically the ground surface. 
  • Expand this heading to select the grid model to be represented in the profile, and to establish the profile settings.  (More.)

• Plot Logs:  Check this box to append striplogs to your fence diagram.
  ! Note that 3D logs for all active boreholes will be appended to the fence diagram.
  • Clip Logs: Check this sub-item if you want to restrict the logs to a particular elevation range.  This should match the elevation range of the color model you are creating at this time (or the existing color model, if specified).
  • 3D Striplog Designer: Click on the 3D Striplog Designer tab to the right, to select the items to display in the individual logs to plot with the fence diagram.  

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    • Visible Items:  Use the check-boxes in the Visible Items column to select which log items are to be displayed.  See Visible Item Summary for information.
    • Options: Click on any of the Visible Items names to see the item's settings in the Options pane to the right.  See the Visible Item Summary for links to the Options settings.
    • Layout Preview: For each item you've activated, you'll see a preview cartoon in the upper pane, showing an overhead view of the log columns.  Click and drag any item to rearrange the log columns; click and drag the circle handles to resize a column.  See Using the 3D Log Designer.
       
• Reference Cage: Insert a check here to include vertical elevation axes and X and Y coordinate axes in the 3D diagram. Expand this item to set up the cage items.  (More.)
   
• Create Location Map:  Insert a check here to have the program create, along with the fence diagram, a reference map that shows the fence panel locations. (More.)

• Fence Selection Map: Click on the Fence Selection Map tab to the right, to draw where the fence panels are to be placed. The most recent panels drawn for this project will be displayed.  (More.)

Step-by-Step Summary

Follow these steps to create a 3D fence diagram of the project's interpolated color intervals:

1. Access the RockWorks Borehole Manager program tab. 
2. Enter/import your data into the Borehole Manager. This tool specifically reads location, orientation (if any), and color data.
3. Select the Colors | Fence menu option. 
4. Enter the requested menu items, described above
5. If you are including logs, be sure to click on the 3D Striplog Designer tab to establish how you want the logs to look.
6. Click on the Fence Selection Map tab to select the fence panel locations.
7. Click on the Process button to create the fence diagram. 

If you've selected Use Existing Model, the program will load the information from the existing color model (.RwMod file), and will proceed to diagram generation.

If you've selected Create New Model, the program will scan the project database and extract the XYZ points for all of the downhole color measurements. (For color data, the elevations will represent interval midpoints.) It will apply any source data filters you have requested.

8. If you requested Confirm Dimensions, the program will first prompt you to confirm the default solid model dimensions.  (More.)

The program will use the selected algorithm to create a solid model of the downhole color data, storing the actual Windows color number as the "G" value in the model. The completed model will be stored on disk under the indicated file name. 

The program will look at the coordinates specified for each fence panel and determine the closest nodes along the cuts in the brand-new model, if created, or in the existing model. It will construct a vertical profile to illustrate the color zones, using the actual Windows colors stored in the .RwMod file.  This process will be repeated for each fence panel you drew. Logs will be appended if requested.  The completed diagram will be displayed in a RockPlot3D tab in the Options window.

! Each time you click the Process button, the existing display will be replaced. 
! * If the color model looks OK and you just need to adjust one of the diagram settings, you don't need to keep re-interpolating the model.  Choose Use Existing Model and browse for the color .RwMod file to be used for the fence. This can save you a lot of time.

9. You can adjust any of the following items and then click the Process button again to regenerate the diagram.
   • Color model settings in the Options pane on the left*, and/or
   • Fence diagram settings in the Options pane on the left, and/or
   • Striplog settings in the 3D Striplog Designer tab, and/or
   • Panel locations in the Fence Selection Map tab.
      
10. View / save / manipulate / print / export the image in the RockPlot3D window. 
    
    

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