Post by ajohnston on Aug 9, 2009 2:24:46 GMT
www.goldensoftware.com
I've been trying for a couple of years to view drill and block data in 3D without spending thousands of dollars. All I need to do is see drill strings and data in 3D, and then put metallurgical samples on there and see how it all looks.
Well last weekend I stumbled upon Golden Software's Voxler and it just took me a few hours to get it to work. In 6 hours on the plane to Mexico I managed to import drill collars, assay data, generate grade shells, label axis and shade 3D scatter plots of met data and assay data. The assay data you can change colour schemes by value and transparency. I used the rainbow (blue low values to red high values) and made the minimum values totally transparent and high values totally opaque, that way the resource really pops out. You can spin the view around with the mouse, zoom in and out, look at sections, create uniform grids and contour maps of sections too. For the drill strings I used the collar data to pin the hole in space, then calculated the trajectory of the x y and z components of the hole using the azimuth and dip (you have to do this in Excel or Access before you import the data). The vectors are not absolute and this means that you have to scale them to their approximate lengths, but at least they go in the right direction.
You can download a demo for free, but you cant save the data. The demo crashed on me a few times when I was loading and removing data from Excel and Access tables, but the paid for version has never crashed yet.
If you try Voxler and use it for geometallirgical mapping, please share your tips. It's missing the power and calculations of geological programs such as Fracsys, DataMine etc, but this one fits my pocket and does 99% of what I needed.
I've been trying for a couple of years to view drill and block data in 3D without spending thousands of dollars. All I need to do is see drill strings and data in 3D, and then put metallurgical samples on there and see how it all looks.
Well last weekend I stumbled upon Golden Software's Voxler and it just took me a few hours to get it to work. In 6 hours on the plane to Mexico I managed to import drill collars, assay data, generate grade shells, label axis and shade 3D scatter plots of met data and assay data. The assay data you can change colour schemes by value and transparency. I used the rainbow (blue low values to red high values) and made the minimum values totally transparent and high values totally opaque, that way the resource really pops out. You can spin the view around with the mouse, zoom in and out, look at sections, create uniform grids and contour maps of sections too. For the drill strings I used the collar data to pin the hole in space, then calculated the trajectory of the x y and z components of the hole using the azimuth and dip (you have to do this in Excel or Access before you import the data). The vectors are not absolute and this means that you have to scale them to their approximate lengths, but at least they go in the right direction.
You can download a demo for free, but you cant save the data. The demo crashed on me a few times when I was loading and removing data from Excel and Access tables, but the paid for version has never crashed yet.
If you try Voxler and use it for geometallirgical mapping, please share your tips. It's missing the power and calculations of geological programs such as Fracsys, DataMine etc, but this one fits my pocket and does 99% of what I needed.
