Creating a Borehole Location Map

RockWorks | Borehole Manager | Map | Borehole Locations

Use the Borehole Manager's Map | Borehole Locations tool to create a 2-dimensional or plan view of your borehole locations. These maps can include any/all of the following:   

• Unique symbols for each borehole
• A variety of labels for each borehole (ID, elevations, etc)  
• Log trace plots for deviated holes   
• Contours of the boreholes' surface elevations 
  ! Tip: use this grid model as a surface filter for your solid models.   
• Background image below the points   
• Border coordinate labels

Menu Options
Step-by-Step Summary

Menu Options

• Borehole Symbol & Label Options: Click on this button to establish the settings for the map symbols, labels, and borehole traces. Lots of labeling options are available.  (See Borehole Symbol + Label Options for details.)
   
• Background Image:  Insert a check in this check-box to display, behind the borehole symbols and other items, an existing image.  These formats are supported:  BMP, JPG, EMF/WMF, PCX, PNG, TGA and TIF.  Expand this item to establish the background-bitmap settings. See Bitmap Layer Options for details. 
   
• Surface Contours: Insert a check here to interpolate a grid model that represents the ground surface elevations and to create a color-filled or line contour map.  Expand this heading to establish the gridding and contouring settings.
  • Grid Name:  Click here to enter the name for the grid file that will contain the model for the surface elevations.  The program will append the RwGrd file name extension.
  • Gridding Options: Click on this button to establish the gridding settings: algorithm, dimensions, and various options.
  • Contour Lines: Insert a check in this box to illustrate the surface with line contours. Expand this item to establish the contour settings.
  • Colored Intervals: Insert a check in this box to illustrate the surface with color-filled intervals. Expand this item to establish these settings. (More.)
  • Fault Polylines: If you've activated Faulting in the gridding process, you can use this option to display the fault lines with the map.
  • Labeled Cells: Insert a check in this box to display on the map the actual values of the grid model nodes. Expand this item to establish this layer’s settings.
     
• Border: Insert a check in the Border check-box to annotate the map borders with axis titles and/or coordinate labels. Expand this item to access its settings. See Border Layer Options for details. 
  
  
• Rules and Filters: Use the settings on the far right side of the window to apply rules to any formation labels, and date filters to any Aquifer or T-Data labels. (More.)
  
  

Step-by-Step Summary

1. Access the Borehole Manager program tab. 
2. Enter/import your data into the Borehole Manager. 
3. Select the Borehole Manager | Map | Borehole Locations menu option. 
4. Enter the menu options as described above.
5. Click Process to create the map. 

The program will create a 2-dimensional map of the well locations, reading the location information and symbol style from the Location table. Requested labels will be pulled from their respective data tables.  Log traces, if included, will be computed from the downhole survey data in the Orientation table. If you requested surface contours, the program will create a grid model of the borehole elevations listed in the Locations table, and display these elevations with line and/or color-filled contours as requested.  The map will be displayed in a RockPlot2D tab in the Options window.

6. You can adjust any of the mapping options along the left or rules/filters to the right, and click the Process button to regenerate the map (and grid model if surface contours were requested).
   
   ! Each time you click the Process button, the existing display will be replaced. 
   ! Tip: You can undock the plot window using the button.
    
7. View / save / manipulate / print / append / export the map in the RockPlot2D window.  (More.)
   
   

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