RockWorks | Utilities | Solid Menu
Use the tools in the Utilities | Solid menu to create, manipulate and analyze solid models. This topic summarizes the tools that are available - click on a link for more information.
- Model: Read XYZG data and generate a solid model (.RwMod file) - or read an existing .RwMod file - for display as a 3D isosurface or voxel diagram.
- Profile: Read an existing .RwMod file for display as a 2D profile diagram.
- Section: Read an existing .RwMod file for display as a 2D cross-section diagram.
- Projected Section: Read an existing .RwMod file for display as a 2D projected cross section diagram.
- Fence: Read an existing .RwMod file for display as 3D fence diagram.
- Plan Map: Read an existing .RwMod file for display as a 2D plan slice.
- Fracture Disks -> Solid: Creates a fracture solid model representing distance from XYZ fracture data
- Initialize: Creates a new solid model from scratch, with nodes set to a user-defined value or randomly
- Statistics: Tools for analyzing solid model value ranges and for comparing the model to the original data
- Report - A textual summary of the solid model's contents
- Histogram - A frequency histogram of the solid model's values
- Krajewskigram - A scatterplot showing original values versus interpolated values.
- Residuals - Computes the difference between original values and interpolated values. (Model error)
- Lithology XY Analysis - Reads a lithology RwMod file and summarizes the percentage of each lithotype in each XY column of nodes.
- 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.
- Math: Tools for doing arithmetic operations with solid models, storing results in a new model
- Model & Constant - Perform arithmetic operations with a solid model and a constant
- Model & Model - Perform arithmetic operations with two solid models
- Resample - Change the extents and/or node spacing of a solid model
- Merge - Merges two solid models based on a horizontal plane or a grid model
- Filters: Tools for filtering solid model node G values based on ranges or node locations, storing results in a new model
- 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
- Continuity Filter - Filters an existing solid model into contiguous blocks of voxels that have the same, or close to the same, G-values, representing "geobodies".
- Distance Filter - Filters an existing solid model file based on the nodes' distances from the control points
- Fill Voids - Replaces null voxels in the interior of an existing solid model using a closest point method.
- Grid Filters -
- G Filter - Replaces selected node values within a solid model based on their location relative to a surface model
- One Bounding Grid - Replaces, multiplies, or ignores node values within a solid model based on their location above or below a surface model
- Two Bounding Grids - Replaces, multiplies, or ignores node values within a solid model based on their location above, below, or between two grid surfaces
- Polygon Clip - 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
- Range Filter - Deletes high or low G-values from a solid model, reassigning them a user-specified constant
- 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"
- 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
- 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
- Tube 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
- Boolean Operations: Tools for creating Boolean (true/false) models, and analyzing them
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- Boolean Conversion - 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
- 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")
- Density Conversion - Multiplies individual Boolean voxels with a density value so that the program can compute total mass as well as total volume
- 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
- Convert: 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.
- Ore Thickness -> Grid - "Flattens" a Boolean solid model file representing "ore" versus "not-ore" into a 2-dimensional grid file that represents total ore thickness
- Overburden Thickness -> 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
- Extract Grid - Removes a horizontal or vertical slice from a solid model, saving the layer as a 2D grid model (.RwGrd file)
- Insert Grid - Inserts a 2D grid model (.RwGrd) into a solid model, as a horizontal or vertical plane
- Morph: Generates a series of intermediate "morphed" 3D images given a list of existing solid models, and automatically loads them into the RockPlot3D program
- Import: Imports solid models from other programs
- Text: Imports text XYZG data into a RockWorks solid model format
- MicroModel: Imports a solid model file output from the MicroMODEL software program
- Export: Exports RockWorks solid models to another format
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