Use the Striplog Fractures check-box to plot your fracture measurements as tadpoles in your 2D striplogs. Insert a check in the Fractures Text check-box to plot the fracture measurements (dip bearing and dip angle) at depth in a text column. The data is read from the RockWorks Borehole Manager's Fractures data table.
The horizontal position of a tadpole indicates the dip angle (0 on the left, 90 on the right) while the line/tail that extends from the symbol points in the direction of the dip azimuth bearing (0=up, 90=right, 180=down, 270=left).
When you click on the Fractures or Fractures Text items in the layout window you’ll see the following settings in the pane to the right. Note that you can activate the tadpole and text columns independently.
Fracture Data
Fracture Text
Fracture Tadpole Column Options
- Left Margin: Determines the space between the tadpole column and the item to its left, as a percent of the project output dimensions. The greater the value, the wider the space. Default = 0.1.
- Width: This setting establishes the width of the fracture tadpole column, as a percent of the output dimensions. The greater the value, the wider the column. Default = 1.
- Column title: Click here to enter text to be displayed above the tadpole column. If no title is desired, you can leave this field blank.
- Font: This establishes the size for the column title as a percent of the output dimensions. A smaller size setting creates smaller text characters.
- Vertical Offset: Determines how far above the column the title will be plotted. If you expect to apply vertical exaggeration of 5x or more to your log or section, you might consider a value of 0.
- Column Perimeter: Insert a check here to border the tadpole column with a line style and color that you choose.
- Background Subdivisions: If activated, the program will display on the tadpole a series of vertical lines to function as a visual reference for the placement of the tadpole symbols. Since the horizontal placement of the symbol is determined by the dip angle (0 along the left, and 90 to the right), the default number of divisions is 9.
- Intervals: This setting adjusts the number of divisions to be represented by the background lines.
- Style: Choose the style and color for the background lines.
- Plotting Sequence: Choose Foreground for the lines to plot on top of the column, or Background for the lines to plot behind the column.
- Tadpole Settings: Expand this heading as necessary to set the options for the tadpole symbols.
- Radius: Click to establish the symbol radius, as a percent of the project output dimensions. The larger the value, the larger the symbol. The tadpole tail will be set to 2x the circle radius. Default = 0.05.
- Fill Color: Choose a fill color for the tadpole circles.
- Border Style: Choose a line style and color for the tadpole circle border.
- Tail Style: Choose a line style and color for the tadpole tail.
Fracture Text Column Options
- Left Margin: Determines the space between the fracture text column and the item to its left, as a percent of the output dimensions. The greater the value, the wider the space. Default = 0.
- Width: This setting establishes the width of the text column, as a percent of the output dimensions. The greater the value, the wider the column. Note that you may have to adjust this if your font size is large. Default = 1.0.
! Text does not wrap within this column - it's designed for short labels.
- Column title: Click here to enter text to be displayed above the fracture text column. If no title is desired, you can leave this field blank.
- Font: This establishes the size for the text title as a percent of the output dimensions. A smaller size setting creates smaller text characters.
- Vertical Offset: Determines how far above the column the title will be plotted. If you expect to apply vertical exaggeration of 5x or more to your log or section, you might consider a value of 0.
- Column Perimeter: Insert a check here to border the column with a line style and color that you choose.
- Font: Establishes the size for the fracture measurement labels as a percent of the study area dimensions. A smaller size setting creates smaller text characters. Default = 0.5
- Fill Interval: Insert a check here if you want the background of the text column to be opaque. (This can be helpful when the logs overlie an interpolated panel, for example.) Expand this heading to select the Fill Color.
- Azimuth Prefix: Click here to type in a prefix to plot before the azimuth measurements. For example, you could enter "A=" as shown in the graphic example at the top of this page. For no prefix, you can leave this field blank.
- Inclination Prefix: Click here to type in a prefix to plot before the inclination (dip) measurements. Example: "I=" as shown in the above graphic. For no prefix, you can leave this field blank.
- Azimuth/Inclination Separator: Click here to type in any characters you want to plot between the azimuth and dip labels. Default: "/".
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