RockWorks14 Feature List

Data Input: Two main data windows:

The Borehole Manager stores multiple blocks of data for each borehole in a Microsoft Access database (MDB) file. Different blocks of data
include locations, downhole survey (for non-vertical wells), lithology, stratigraphy, downhole quantitative data (geophysical, geochemical,
etc.), water levels, fractures, vectors, downhole raster images, well construction, special log symbols & patterns. Define “keywords” for
lithology, stratigraphy, and well construction. Transfer locations, stratigraphy to the RockWorks Utilities datasheet. Edit data tables as a
spreadsheet. Simple & complex queries, database backup & integrity checking. See also Import and Export, below.
The RockWorks Utilities data manager operates like a flat spreadsheet, reading and saving row and column data as ASCII tab-delimited files.
Easy cut and paste from other applications. Display graphic symbols, patterns, and line styles right in the data sheet. Data sheet capacity:
100,000 rows x 99 columns. Layout is stored in a header portion of the .atd file. Insert/delete rows, column arithmetic operations, statistics
computations, data filters, sorting. Transfer borehole locations or stratigraphy tops to the Borehole Manager. See also Import and Export,
below.
Logs and Log Diagrams: Display observed data for individual wells as a 2D or 3D log, or for multiple wells in 2D hole to hole cross sections,
projected “profile” sections, 3D log diagrams, log maps, and plan projections of log orientations. Inclined & deviated wells displayed with true
geometry. Interactive log designers allow you to specify column order, size, and to activate any of the columns: title, depth labels, lithology patterns
or colors & text, stratigraphy patterns/colors & text, 1-4 interval-data bargraphs & text, 1-4 point-data curves, raster images, well construction & text,
water levels & text, vector tadpoles (2D) or arrows (3D), fracture tadpoles or 3D discs, log symbols, generic pattern blocks. Append logs to any of
the interpolated diagrams described below.
Stratigraphic Diagrams: Create customized stratigraphy library for each project to link formation names to patterns and colors. Pick
stratigraphic tops interactively from curve, lithology, raster logs. Illustrate borehole formations in single 2D and 3D logs, 2D projected cross-
sections, with user-declared formation patterns and colors. Display logs and/or panels in hole to hole sections. User surface modeling tools to
create stratigraphic profile “slices” or 3D fence diagrams. Model tops or bases as single or multiple 2D or 3D surfaces or isopachs. Create a 3D
stratigraphic block. Create geology maps where stratigraphy intersects a surface or lies at a particular elevation. Compute formation volumes.
Manually build stratigraphic models and fences from individual grid models. See also Gridding Tools, below.
Lithology Diagrams: Create customized lithology library for each project to link rock types to patterns and colors. Illustrate borehole lithology in
single 2D and 3D logs, 2D projected cross sections and hole to hole sections, with user-declared lithology patterns and colors. “Lithoblending”
tool allows modeling of lithology as 2D profile slices, and 3D fence diagrams and solid models. Create geology maps where lithology intersects a
surface or lies at a particular elevation. Compute lithology volumes. See also Solid Modeling, below.
Interval-Sampled, Point-Sampled Quantitative Data: Illustrate as bargraphs or curves on 2D logs, or as bars, tubes, spheres or oblates in 3D
logs. Create solid models and display as 2D profile slices, 2D multi-panel sections, 2D plan slices, 3D fence panels, 3D isosurface. Compute
volumes with a variety of filtering options. Create data statistics computations, frequency histograms, and maps. See also Solid Modeling, below.
Water Levels: Enter with date, create 2D and 3D plan-view surfaces, 2D profiles, 2D multi-panel sections, 2D plan slices, 3D fences and solids.
Display water level on 2D and 3D logs.
Fracture Diagrams: Display as discs on 3D logs. Create solid models representing fracture proximities and display as 2D profile slices, 2D multi-
panel sections, 2D plan slices, 3D fence panels, 3D isosurface.
Vector Diagrams: Interpolate cavern models from downhole laser surveys.
Mapping Tools: Map types: 2D and 3D point maps, triangulation-based contour maps, and grid-based line contour, color-filled contour, labeled
cell, strike and dip, uphill and downhill gradient, 2D and 3D flow maps, 3D surfaces. Point maps with customized symbols, multiple labels, and
optional proportional scaling. Import commercial land grid data, use the RockWare LandBase (included) or create idealized land grid maps. Read
survey data and translate to XY and create map. Multi-variate maps display pie-charts, starbursts, barcharts, spiders at X,Y locations. Google
Earth Placemark, Polyline, and Polygon maps. Annotation with border tick marks and coordinate and axis labels. Automated profile, cross-
section, fence diagram maps showing section traces.
Gridding Tools: Grid stratigraphic or water level data in the Borehole Manager. Grid any X,Y,Z data in the RockWorks Utilities datasheet.
Gridding algorithms: inverse distance, with optional radial searching/sector searching/directional weighting, triangulation, closest point, kriging,
multiple linear regression (MLR), trend surface analysis, trend surface residuals, distance to point, cumulative & sample density (count occurrences).
Faulting available for inverse-distance & MLR methods. Grid utilities: compute grid statistics, residuals, and multi-variate anomalies, display as
histogram or scatterplot; grid-grid or grid-constant arithmetic operations; grid filtering (real number or grid limits, minimum area, normalize,
standardize, polygon, rounding, and smoothing); grid logic operations; interactive grid editor, grid export (see Export, below), grid import (see
Import, below). Compute slope and aspect and display as upgradient, downgradient, strike and dip, 2D & 3D flowlines. Build profiles & fences
from grid models. Manually build stacked surfaces, stratigraphic fences and block models from a grid list.
Solid Modeling: Reads XYZG data from RockWorks data sheet or external XYZG files. Modeling methods: Inverse-distance with directional
weighting, horizontal biasing, isotropic or anisotropic; distance to point; closest point; lithoblending. Modeling tools: Warp or tilt model based on a
surface or inclined plane, filter based on stratigraphic surfaces. Display solid models as voxels or isosurfaces, with rotation, exaggeration, lighting,
zoom. Morph multiple solid models for animated display. Filter display on G value, display volume computation; insert slices. Other solid model
options: statistical computations, arithmetic operations, model editing, extraction and insertion of 2-D horizontal or vertical slices as grid files.
Other tools: model smoothing and rounding, model filtering based on data range, grid surfaces, polygon overlays, distance from control points.
Boolean models created and filtered based on thickness of ore zones and stripping ratios; density conversions convert volumes to mass. Import
XYZG ASCII solid model files. Export solid model files (see Export, below).
Volumetrics: Compute volumes of X, Y and Thickness values using simple triangulation technique. Or use grid-based volumetrics with
thickness, stripping ratio, distance-to-point, polygon clipping, and up to 5 other data column filters; the grid-based volume or mass results can be
output in a report and visualized in a 2 or 3D map. Advanced 3D volumetrics create solid models of "ore" versus "not-ore" and offer the 2D filters

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in 3-dimensions, with report and block diagram output of volumes or mass. Create a simple pit extraction model based on solid model
characteristics. Create grade thickness maps from 3D grade models.
Statistics: 1 variable: Basic statistical computations, relative frequency histograms (with optional color-coding & annotation based on standard
deviations), normalize or standardize a column of values. 2 variables: XY (scattergram) plots with optional point-to-point, smoothing, and linear
regression annotations. 3 variables: Ternary plots with optional point density contours as lines and solid colors. Random number generators.
Create sieve grain size distribution diagrams.
2D Feature Analysis: Rose diagrams (full or half) created from azimuth bearing or line endpoint data from the RockWorks data sheet. Data
interpreted as uni- or bi-directional; may be rotated and filtered (by length and/or direction). Variable petal width, optional statistical legend and
mean ray and error, and easy modification of title, reference rays and circles. Lineation gridding tools offer 2D and 3D maps of lineation
frequencies, lengths, intersections, or a combination, reported as real number, normalized, or standardized values. Lineation maps and arrow maps
illustrate lineations on a 2D map. Compute azimuth, line length, and lineation midpoint for line endpoint data. Movement analysis computes
direction, distance, inclination, and velocity data from X, Y, Z, and time data. Import DXF Line and Polyline entities into the data sheet.
3D Feature Analysis: Stereonet diagrams created from strike and dip (or dip-direction, dip-angle) data; plot linear, planar, or rake features.
Planar data plotted as great circles or pole (normal). Unique symbols for each sample or groups of samples. Mean directional vectors, statistics,
symbol index, and legend. Optional line and/or color-filled contours to illustrate point density; density grid computed using step function or
spherical Gaussian technique. Other options: Rotation of planar data, computation of planar intersection lineations, conversion of rake
information to lineations. Equal area (Schmidt) or equal angle (Wulff) projections.
Hydrology, Hydrochemistry: Compute simple drawdown for a single well using Theis equation, display as report and/or diagram. Compute
drawdown for multiple pumping or injection wells listed in data sheet (also using Theis equation), display as 2D or 3D surface map. Display
imported flowpath data as 3D flowlines. Piper, Stiff , and Durov diagrams and Stiff diagram maps for common cation/anion distribution, ion
balance & TDS computations.
Digitizing: Digitizing of points and individual lines directly into the data sheet, using an electronic digitizing tablet (not supplied with program).
Requires installation of the "Wintab32" driver supplied by the digitizer manufacturer. Or, screen-digitize points from a scanned bitmap, using image
boundaries or three calibration points.
Survey tools: Convert bearing/distance measurements to XYZ points, 2D & 3D map. Triangulation survey data translated to XYZ. Display
downhole well survey (depth, bearing, inclination) in plan-view, 3D or cross section.
Graphics tools: 3D: Images (BMP, JPG, TIFF, PCX, PNG) as floating, draped over a surface, or as horizontal or vertical panels; horizontal &
vertical tanks; oriented objects (fossils, fractures, archaeological tools); surface objects, 3D spheres and tubes. 2D: Raster image conversion,
screen-digitize from raster images, convert raster images to RKW, rotate bitmaps.
Coordinate Conversions: Translate XY coordinates listed in RockWorks data sheet: Longitude / latitude to/from UTM (feet or meters) using 23
projections, decimal degrees to/from degree-minute-second, polar (bearing and distance) to/from XY. Also convert azimuth bearings to
quadrant, quadrant to azimuth bearing. Rescale, rotate, and shift XY coordinates. Translate Jeffersonian points and polygons (range, township,
section) to X,Y based on idealized or commercial land grid.
Geological Tools: Three-point contouring, periodic table of the elements, geologic time scale, structural and trigonometric computations,
geometry computations, measurement unit conversions (length, area, mass, etc.), financial utilities.
RockPlot2D: Edit graphic entities with click-and-drag including contour lines, colors, text, legends. Append other images. Draw points, lines,
polylines, polygons, text. Insert legends, grid lines, scale bars. Measure area, distance, perimeter, bearing. Rescale coordinates, clip images,
group layers. Zoom on screen, stretch on screen, print to any scale on any paper. See also Import and Export, below.
RockPlot3D: Append other images, turn layers on/off, adjust vertical stretch, lighting, transparency. Rotate, zoom, view from any angle,
capture rotation as animations –AVI or individual frames. Filter surface and solid/isosurface values on the fly, update volume computations. Insert
slices, adjust color schemes and drawing styles. Add legends.
ReportWorks: Page layout program for placement of RKW images, bitmaps (BMP, JPG, TIFF, PNG, GeoTIFF, etc.), scale bars, legends, text,
lines, symbols, polygons.
Import: Borehole Manager: RockWorks99-2006, LogPlot DAT, ASCII, Excel, gINT, GDSII, IHS (297 well data), KGS, LAS, Newmont Assay,
Tobin WCS, Penetrometer, Colog, Fugro CPT. RockWorks Utilities: Land grids from PI/Dwights, Tobin, and Platte River; ASCII, DBF, Garmin
text, Geonics, Delorme GPL, GEM Systems mag data, Laser Atlanta surveys; Modpath particle flowpaths; NEIC Earthquakes, SEG-P1 shotpoints;
Excel; Tobin WCS. Grid import from Surfer, ESRI ASCII grid, Geosoft GXF, RockWorks DOS v.7, and ASCII formats. Solid model import from
ASCII. RockPlot2D: Import DLG, DXF, E00, XML, Shapefiles. RockPlot3D: Import DXF.
Export: Borehole Manager: ASCII, Excel, LogPlot DAT; ASCII XYZG. RockWorks Utilities: ASCII, Dbase, Excel. Grid files exported to
ASCII XYZ or matrix, DXF matrix, Ohio Automation ENZ, RockWare RTM, RockWorks DOS (v.7), Surfer, VistaPro. Solid model files to ASCII,
NOeSYS, Slicer Dicer formats. RockPlot2D: Raster & metafiles (BMP, JPG, PNG, TIFF, WMF, EMF, etc.), DXF, RockPlot3D. RockPlot3D:
Export BMP, JPG, TIFF, PNG, AVI, ESRI 3D Shapefile
Other System Features: RCL (RockWare Command Language) for background processing and display. Symbol, pattern, and text editors,
graphics file rescaling and combining, printer/plotter output with full scaling. Context-sensitive Help messages, on-line tutorials, user manual,
searchable knowledge base on RockWare’s web Support page, online discussion forum.
Minimum System Requirements: IBM-compatible computer running Windows 2000 / NT / XP / Vista, 512 MB of RAM (1GB+ recommended),
Pentium III or newer CPU (1.4 GHz or faster recommended), 75 MB of free disk space for program installation, display set to greater than 800 x 600
pixels. Supports most Windows-supported peripherals. Single-user, single-computer, and network licenses available.

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