In RockWorks, the 2D profile and cross section diagrams and the 3D fence diagrams offer an option to create a Location Map that shows the section or panel locations in a plan-view map. This topic discusses the settings available in the Create Location Map option.
Menu Options
- Traverse Line Style: Click here to choose the characteristics for the map line illustrating the slice location.
- Show Profile "Swaths" (log based profiles only): Use this option to display the "swath" (cutoff distance between the profile axis and control points) within the location map. This option ONLY APPLIES to Striplog | 2-Dimensionals | Profile diagrams, and other Profile diagrams in which you have activated the Plot Logs setting. (See Excluding Logs from a Profile for more information.)
- Default Search Distance: Click here to type in the default distance to either side of the profile line within which logs will be projected onto the section line. If you change this distance interactively in the Profile Location window, the swath distance in the map will be adjusted accordingly.
- Fill Swath With...: Expand this heading to establish how the swath will look:
- Nothing: No fill
- Color: Color-filled. Expand this heading to select the fill color.
- Pattern: Pattern-filled. Expand this heading to select the pattern designs, colors, and transparency. (See examples below.)
- Plot Border Around Swath: Plots a solid-line border around the swath polygon. Expand this heading to select line style and color.
- Plot Endpoint Labels: If you have activated the Endpoint Labels in the Perimeter Annotation, you can request that these same labels be displayed on the location map. Insert a check in this box to display these labels.
- Font Size: Click to establish the size of the endpoint label text, as a percent of the map dimensions..
- Offset: This setting determines the distance from the line endpoints on the map that the labels will be placed. Default is "2" (as a percent of the map dimensions).
- Borehole Locations: Insert a check here to include a variety of borehole map options. Expand this heading to click on the Borehole Symbol + Label Options button where you can set up the map. (More.)
- Border: Insert a check here to include in the map border coordinate labels, titles, etc. Expand this heading to establish the border options. More.
- Append Map to Profiles & Sections: Insert a check here to include the location map in the profile or section diagram itself.
! Note: Embedding section-location index maps within diagrams that will be vertically exaggerated is not advisable. If you wish to combine a section location map with a vertically exaggerated cross-section, generate the cross-section and the index-map separately and combine them with the ReportWorks program.
- Position (Relative to Diagram): Expand this heading to define whether the map is to be placed above, below, or to the left or right of the profile or section diagram.
- Size (Relative to Diagram): Expand this heading to define the size of the location map, relative to the section or profile.
- Display Map as Separate Diagram: Check this to display the location map in a separate RockPlot2D tab, as an independent graphic. (For sections and profiles, you can both append the map to the section/profile diagram and create the map image separately.)
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