RockWorks | Utilities | Grafix Menu
Use the tools in the Utilities | Grafix menu to create and manipulate a variety of 2D and 3D graphic types. This topic summarizes the tools that are available - click on a link for more information.
- 2D Utilities:
- Append: Combines the contents of two RockPlot2D files (*.Rw2D) for display as a new, combined image.
- Clip: Extracts from an existing map or diagram all of the contents that lie within a user-declared rectangular area.
- Edit Projection: Assigns the coordinate system and units which are stored in a RockPlot2D map or cross-section diagram.
- Montage: Rescales (if necessary) and combines multiple RockPlot2D files (*.Rw2D) into a single "montage," using coordinate information that you enter into the Utilities datasheet.
- Rescale: Rescales X,Y location coordinates in a graphic image using either new origin coordinates and scaling multipliers or new coordinates entered for one or more boundary edges.
- Import:
- AGL: Imports labels, symbols, lines, and polygons from an AGL file into RockPlot2D.
- DXF: Imports the contents of a DXF (AutoCAD-compatible Data eXchange) file into the RockPlot2D program for display as a plan-view image.
- Shape: Imports point, line, or polygon data from ESRI Shapefiles for display in RockPlot2D.
- Export:
- BMP: Saves an existing Rw2D image in a BMP format.
- DXF: Saves an existing Rw2D image in a DXF (AutoCAD-compatible Data eXchange Files) format.
- EMF: Saves an existing Rw2D image in an EMF format.
- JPG: Saves an existing Rw2D image in a JPG format.
- KMZ: Saves an existing Rw2D image in a Google Earth KMZ (Keyhole Markup Language - Zipped) file.
- PNG: Saves an existing Rw2D image in a PNG format.
- RockPlot3D: Displays an existing Rw2D map in RockPlot 3D, either draped over a grid model or floating at a particular elevation
- TIFF: Saves an existing Rw2D image in a TIFF format.
- WMF: Saves an existing Rw2D image in a WMF format.
- 3D Utilities:
- Fault Contours -> Fault Surface: Generates a 3D triangle mesh based on two or more polylines that represent contours along a fault surface.
- Outcrop LiDAR -> Surface:
- Oriented Objects: Reads location, bearing, and inclination data for objects and draws 3-dimensional arrows at those locations.
- Perimeter: Reads a list of X, Y coordinates and elevations, and creates a series of vertical panels that may be used to show a project area perimeter within a 3D diagram.
- Storage Tanks:
- Horizontal: Reads location, elevation, radius and color data and draws horizontal 3-dimensional cylindrical tanks at those locations.
- Vertical: Reads location, elevation, radius and color data and draws vertical 3-dimensional cylindrical tanks at those locations.
- Triangles: Plots a series of colored triangles in 3-D space, given the XYZ coordinates of the three corners.
- Tubes: Reads X1 Y1 Z1, X2 Y2 Z2 coordinates and displays these as 3D oriented tubes.
- Prismgram: Reads a listing of azimuth bearings, inclination angles and lengths, and displays them as prisms in a single 3D diagram.
- Urchingram: Reads a listing of azimuth bearings, inclination angles and lengths, and displays them as arrows or tubes in 3D as a single "urchin" shaped object.
- Combine Two RockPlot3D Diagrams: Combines two RockPlot3D Rw3D files into a single diagram.
- Combine 2+ RockPlot3D Diagrams: Reads a list of Rw3D file names from the datasheet and combines them into a single Rw3D scene.
- Cage: Access the settings for the 3D border annotation options.
- Color Converter: Translates colors between a variety of different formats: RGB, Hexadecimal, Decimal (Windows 32-bit) integers, RockWare color names, and Munsell colors.
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