File

• New
• Open
• Load
• Insert
• Save - common *.mve file format for 3DMove, 2DMove and 4DVista
• Save as
• Import
  • Ascii - XYZ, plus attributes and format files
  • Charisma
  • CPS-3
  • Dxf
  • Earthvision
  • Geodes
  • Geosec
  • Geoquest/IESX
  • GOCAD
  • Grids (generic)
  • Landmark
  • Ukooa
  • Vulcan
  • ZMap
  • TrapTester
  • 3DTracker
• Export
  • Ascii
  • CPS-3
  • Dxf
  • Geoquest
  • GOCAD
  • Grid
  • Landmark
  • ZMap
  • TrapTester
  • 3DMove 3.5
  • 3DMove 4x
• Hard copy
• Exit

Edit

• Undo
• Cut
• Copy
• Paste
• Delete
• Pick all
• Clear
• Invert Picking
• Fuse Patches - create a separate 'patch' within a surface
• Resample - change the data density of an object
  • Half sample - decrease the data density
  • Double sample - increase the data density
  • Sample (2) - increase the data density
  • Sample toolbox - toolbox to use a number of different functions to change the data density of an object

• Reconnect - functionality to reorient the triangle normals of a surface onto one 'side' of a surface
• Retesselate - functionality to create another surface from the original surface using the tesselation algorithm and removing any double z value points
• Extend to UTM - functionality to extend one or multiple surfaces to the UTM boundary using a gridded algorithm
• Trim to UTM box - functionality to trim one or multiple objects to the UTM boundary using a gridded algorithm
• Flip normals - functionality to 'flip' the normals of a surface from one side to the other side
• Reset normals - functionality to recalculates the triangle normals of a surface onto one 'side' of a surface
• Group
• Ungroup

Tools

• Picking toolbox
• Selection toolbox - select parts of objects using various geometric filters
• Model Building - toolbox designed to facilitate 3D model building and editing. Objects that can be edited include lines and surfaces such as faults and horizons. Objects can be cut or fused together.
• Fault Block Creation - facilitates the creation of horizon fault blocks using fault surfaces.
• Reshape toolbox - reshape model (horizons and faults) to new control point or to new cross section interpretation
• Transform toolbox - translation, rotation and scaling
• Deform toolbox - reshape surface using user defined sphere or cylinder
• Sampling / Retesselation - using a number of different functions to change the data density of an object
• Curve Filtering - fit a curve through a line
• Rugosity filter - toolbox to filter out and remove user defined wavelengths of surface rugosity
• Fault block ID - toolbox with a number of different types of analyses to enable the user to identify hangingwall and footwall cut offs and therefore help with the identification of individual fault blocks.

Create

• Surface
• Points
• Selected Points
• Lines
• Selected Polygons
• Grid
• Plane
• Data Cloud from Surface
• Volume
• Well  - create new wells and edit existing wells such as deleting, adding sidetracks and extending using a number of different functions such as: directional, dx dy dz, minimum, J Curve
• Line freehand - on surfaces
• 3D shape - complex 3D surface creation from point data, supports overturns such as for salt structures.
• Attach boundary line
• Project surface from line - project surface using user defined curves
• Snap to surface - fault to fault and horizon to fault snapping
• Top/mid/base surface - toolbox used to create a surface from various parts of pre-existing surfaces
• Construct fault surface - from minimal hangingwall, footwall or regional information
• Construct fold surface - construct parallel or similar folds, supports growth stratigraphy
• Object
• Disk
• Sphere
• Cube
• Plane - variety of plane insertion parameters with visual aid

Display

• Display toolbox - variety of object display functions as well as a number of global display tools including vertical exaggeration and anatomical view through the model
• Display Toolbar – frequently used Display functionality icons viewed on the main window

   

• Modelling Toolbar - frequently used Modelling tool icons viewed on the main window
• Lighting
  • Gouraud shade - a type of shading which gives a smooth look to a surface
  • Flat shade - a type of shading which gives a specific shade to each individual triangle with no smoothing
  • Lighting toolbox
• Modes
• Wire frame
• Faces
• Outline
• Tri Mesh
• Translucent
• Solid
• Points
• Invert background
• Views
  • Map view
  • X-Z View
  • Y-Z View
  • Home View
  • Set Home
• Texture mapper - toolbox to insert image data into the 3Dmodel such as satellite images or geological maps onto a DEM
• Recolour
• Colour mapper - Toolbox using colour variation across a surface to highlight surface attributes
• Projection - allows the user to display their model in either parallel or perspective view
  • Perspective - displays the 3D model with an illusion of depth
  • Parallel - display a 2D representation of the 3D model

Restoration

• Move on fault - restoration involving hangingwall objects deforming/restoring along a user defined fault
  • Fault parallel flow - 'move on fault' restoration using a fault parallel flow algorithm
  • Inclined shear - 'move on fault' restoration using a shear algorithm
  • Flexural slip - 'move on fault' restoration using a flexural slip algorithm
• (Un)fold to target - restoration fault block objects deforming/restoring to a user defined target or datum
  • Inclined shear - unfolding of objects using a shear algorithm
  • Flexural slip unfolding - unfolding of objects using a flexural slip algorithm

• Block restoration - restoration technique involving the translation and rotation of fault blocks used to track block movement as well as identify area and volumetric misfit
  • Manual - this options opens up both the Tracker and Transform Toolboxes to enable the user to move fault block objects how and where they wish and track their movements
  • Automatic - opens up the Automatic Map Fitting, Area Misfit Analysis and Tracker Toolboxes this enables the use of mathematic algorithms to carry out a block restoration, the Area Misfit is quantified and the movement tracked

Operation

• Decompaction - compaction/decompaction (with or without the use of attributes) with Airy or Flexural* isostatic adjustment
• Depth conversion - conversion of time models to depth and vice-versa using a range of mathematical equations
• Contour slicer - Toolbox used to add user defined contouring as well as extracting sections or slices from the model
• Volume tracker - A tool, which is, used in conjunction with the restoration algorithms when carrying out salt tectonics restorations. This tool enables the user to allow the salt volume to flow passively and keep its pre restoration volume

Analysis

• Measurement - Toolbox with a number of object analyses options such as surface area, map area, regional orientation etc
• Allan mapper - Analysis Tool which gives the intersection line of a surface with another surface. The tool is particularly used in workflows when looking at the footwall and hangingwall cut off across a fault and there is quantitative output of slip, heave and throw. This tool can be used interactively with the 'move on fault' algorithms
• Strain - Strain analysis Toolbox giving quantitative analysis of area and finite strain with ASCII and Attribute output
• Tracker - Analysis Tool used to track the movement of objects throughout a restoration workflow with ASCII output
• Migration - updip flow pathway and catchment area analysis of a single surface model from a user defined source object
• Area misfit - Quantitative analysis of the projected, gap, overlap and misfit area with colour map and attach options
• Curvature - both simple and gaussian curvature analysis with colour mapping and attribute output
• Cylindrical - analysis tool giving the average cylindrical vector as well as the angular deviation with colour map and attribute output options. This tool may be used to identify the most appropriate unfolding direction.
• Orientation - Object orientation analysis tool which outputs surface or line orientation as attributes associated with each vertex
• Thickness - analysis tool giving the thickness between two surfaces.
• Plot orientation - an object orientation plotting tool, using Rose, Stereo and Tangent plots with numerous options

Data

• UTM editor - visualisation and editing of the UTM coordinates
• Survey editor - visualisation and editing of the survey coordinates
• Survey cursor - visualisation of plane identifying the position of a user defined in-line, x-line or random plane, this plane may be attached as a surface
• Model information - Toolbox with information regarding model coordinates as well as objects
• Object information - Toolbox with information regarding the picked object
• Set manager - Toolbox used to create, edit and manager sets
• Set information - Toolbox giving information on a particular set
• Well manager - Toolbox used to visualise, analyse and create objects from well attributes
• Attribute manager - Toolbox used to create and edit attribute types
• Attribute browser - Spreadsheet visualisation of picked object(s) with a variety of editing, visualisation as well as loading and saving options
• Attribute import - X,Y,Z plus attribute import
• Attribute export - X,Y,Z plus attribute export
• Attribute mapper - mapping attributes from one surface onto another surface along a user defined vector
• Attribute painter - tool used to 'paint' on user defined attribute amounts onto a surface using the loop selection functionality
• Attribute Display - visualisation of surface attributes

Modules

• Hydrocarbon systems - HC Charge, focussing and trap modelling as well as sediment pathway, depocentre and provenance modelling
• Fracture modelling
• Attribute base fracture generator - DFN generation using attribute and rules based fracture set generation
• Grid based fracture generator - DFN generation using stochastic grid based fracture set generation
• Connectivity - DFN and fault network analysis (DFN characterisation such as compartmentalisation, sweet spots etc.)
• Spatial - DFN and fault newtwork analysis (2D upscaling for DFN characterisation such as density, orientation etc. values used as multipliers within reservoir simulation)

Options

• Preferences - variety of model display options as well as advanced performance options
• Autospin

Help

• On context
• On mouse
• Index
• On help
• On version
• Shortcuts

Status Bar

• Status - Mode status such as viewing, selection, deforming etc
• File - name and pathway of file loaded
• X,Y,Z - world coordinates of the position that was picked within the model
• L,T,Z - Survey coordinates of the position that was picked within the model
• Strike and Dip - of the triangle that was picked on an object
• Lock - locking the model in a particular plane
  • Lock
  • XY
  • YZ
  • XZ

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