Fault Solid Creator

This tool simplifies the creation of fault solids by providing users with an interface that can create fault block solid triangulations from a given base solid. Base solid is basically a solid covering the area of interest that will be split into fault block solids.

The input data consists of fault surface and fault lines. The fault lines are provided as design polylines that may be supplied in multiple design layers. The dip of the line on per-point basis may be encoded in the name of the point. Otherwise the interface gives user an ability to supply a default dip. Dip is defined in the same way as in Throw Faulting for Integrated Stratigraphic Modelling.

Workflow

The key elements of the workflow around Fault Solid Creator are:

selection of the base solid
selection of the solid triangulation that will be split into the fault blocks
select the way the information about cutting surfaces is presented
select the lines defining cutting surfaces
select user-defined cutting surfaces
edit intermediary results
preview the results
execute the process

Instructions

On the Grid Calc menu, point to Integrated Stratigraphic Modelling, and then click Fault Solid Creator to display the following panel.

The panel is split mainly into 6 tabs:

Base Solid

This section allows users to define the base solid.

Set Up

This section allows users to define line settings and miscellaneous output settings.

Fault Design Data

This section allows users to select the design lines representing the fault lines.

Fault Surfaces

This section allows users to use custom surface triangulations when the cutting surface cannot be produced by a projection of line.

Edit

This section allows merging of the solid blocks that are produced by sectioning of the base solid by all selected surfaces.

Preview

This section allows users to visualise components that ultimately define the splitting of the base solid.

Specification

Specification is a pre-saved file that contains the selections for the panel elements. The Fault Solid Creator specification files have extension .fsc_spec.

Specification file

Use the drop-down list to select the specification file if it is in the current working directory, or browse for it in another location by clicking the Browse button. A new file may also be created by typing the name of the new file in the textbox and clicking the New button.

Browse
New
Save
Save as

Apply and Run

This button executes the splitting process and saves the design settings to the specification file currently displayed in the specification file combo box.

OK

This button only saves the settings to the specification file for future use.