What's New in RockWorks/15 New Interface Options

Embedded Output: 2D images, 3D images, text reports are displayed right within the program's Options window. This allows you to adjust settings and re-process the diagram with just a few clicks. You can also quickly "un-dock" the window to keep that copy on your desktop.

Embedded Help: See instructions for the current topic; you can adjust the tab stacking order.

Embedded Striplog Layout Tools: Click on the Striplog Designer tab to define the log settings.

Embedded Profile, Section, Fence tabs: Click on the Selection Map tab to define the panel locations.

Detailed Settings in Redesigned Windows: Gridding , mapping, solid modeling, and many diagram options have been pulled out of the tree menus to their own dialog boxes. Much easier to use!

Borehole Manager Tabs: The data tabs are displayed along the left side of the program window (you can change back to tabs-on-top using Tools / General Preferences / Main Menu Options).

Project Menu Settings: Maintain separate menu settings for different projects.

New Data Tools

Support of SQL and Other Databases: MDB is still the default database type, but RockWorks now supports SQL Server and other ADO databases.

Lithology Picker: Pick your lithology intervals from logs, just like the stratigraphy picker.

Accessory Tables in Database: Project-specific tables, such as Color-Fill, Polygon, and Bargraph Scaling are now stored in the project database. You can maintain multiple copies of each.

Reorganized Project Manager: Even easier to access your data, models, and graphics.

I-Text and P-Text: Use I-Text and P-Text tabs to enter downhole alphanumeric data - Sample numbers, comments, etc.

Shapefiles: Import Shapefiles and attributes into the Utilities datasheet.

New Striplog and Cross Section Tools

I-Text and P-Text: Display downhole comments, notes, etc. in striplogs.

Text Wrapping: Display detailed descriptions. (See above.) Custom Color Tables: Link these to your 2D I-Data and T-Data Bargraphs

New Mapping and Gridding Options

Kriging tools: New variogram types, an interactive variogram editor, and a variogram matix plot.

Point Map Layers (symbols and labels): Added for Lithology, Stratigraphy, I-Data, T-Data, and P-Data plan/surface maps

Point Map Labels: Detailed labels can display varied types of data stratigraphy depths/elevations/thickness, water level dates/depths/elevations/thickness, T-Data values/dates/elevations/depths/thickness, and more.

Transparency: Adjust the transparency of color contour and raster layers in your RockPlot2D images.

Drainage Nets/Flow Maps: New tools in 2D and 3D, with exports of line segments, fill sinks, and stratigraphy filters

Rose and stereonet diagrams from grid models: Run a topography grid through a slope/aspect analysis and generate a Rose or Stereonet diagram.

New color palettes: Automatic palettes, custom palettes, and multiple color cycles

Shaded relief: Display 2D contour maps with a variety of shaded relief options

New Solid Modeling and Display Tools

Interactive Editor: 3D solid model editor - edit individual voxels or blocks drawn as polyhedra.

Filters: Automatic filtering of ground surface AND borehole bases (manual options, too).

Solid Model Cut-Outs: Display color variations on the faces of 3D isosurface cutouts

Animations: Animate automatic beveling of voxel blocks or isosurfaces

Other Tools
Fault Surfaces: Create 3D fault surfaces from contour polylines

Rose Diagrams: New Rose Diagram options for petal length

Profiles and Sections: Smoother solid model profile and section diagrams.