RockWorks | Utilities | Grid | Mosaic
This program is used to combine two or more side-by-side or overlapping grid models into a single grid model. This can be used to combine models of adjacent projects or imported grid models.
! All of the .RwGrd files must be in the current project folder.
Menu Options
Step-by-Step Summary
Menu Options
- Input Columns
- Input Files: Select the name of the column of the datasheet in which the names of the .RwGrd files to be combined are listed.
- Grid Name: Click to the right to type in a name for the output grid model, containing the mosaic of the input grids.
- Model Dimensions: Expand this heading to define the dimensions for the output model. (More.)
- Create 2-Dimensional Grid Diagram: Insert a check in this check-box if you want to display the output grid as a 2D map at this time. Expand this heading to set up the 2D map layers (bitmap, symbols, labels, line contours, color-filled contours, labeled cells, and/or map border).
- Create 3-Dimensional Grid Diagram: Insert a check here if you want to display the output grid as a 3D surface. Expand this heading to set up the 3D map layers (flat surface, Boolean colors, perimeter, reference cage). You can request both a 2D and 3D representation of the grid model.
- Create Grid Statistics Report: Insert a check here if you want to see a report summarizing the output grid.
- Include Standard Deviation: Check this box if you want the report to include standard deviation.
- Include Directional Analysis: Check this box to include slope, aspect, and strike computations. Be warned that these can take a few moments for large grid models.
Step-by-Step Summary
This program requires that the grid models to be combined into a mosaic already exist in the current project folder.
- Access the RockWorks Utilities program tab.
- List the names of the input grid models in a single column in the datasheet.
! Note that all of the grid files listed must reside in the current project folder; you need to list only the grid file names (grid1.RwGrd), not the full path (C:\project_a\grid1.RwGrd)
- Select the Grid | Mosaic menu option.
- Enter the requested menu settings, described above.
- Click the Process button to continue.
The program will initialize the new model at the requested dimensions. For each new node it will find the closest node within any of the input grids and use that z-value for the output model.
The requested diagram(s) will be displayed in a RockPlot2D tab and/or RockPlot3D tab in the Options window. If you requested a statistics report, it will be displayed in a Text Tab in the Options window.
- You can adjust any of the settings in the Options window and then click the Process button again to regenerate the diagram(s).
! Each time you click the Process button, the existing display(s) will be replaced.
- View / save / manipulate / export / print the diagram in the RockPlot2D or RockPlot3D window.
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