3D View Display Controls

3D View Tools: 3D View Display Controls

The 3D View Display Controls dialog box is used manage general display properties, control the appearance of wells and templates, and determine which layers are actively being displayed in the 3D View window. To open the 3D View Display Controls dialog box, on the Buttons toolbar, click , or from theView menu select 3D Controls, and then choose General, Wells, Color Style, Scaling and Rotation Preferences, or Lighting.

Tabs

There are four tabs, used to set the display properties in the 3D View window.

General Tab: Specify general window behaviors and appearance, control color styles, adjust hyperlink options, and control the model frame. See General tab options...

General Tab Options

Background Color: Click on the color field to open the Color Table and change the background color for 3D display.

Foreground Color: Click on the color field to open the Color Table and change the foreground color, which includes the model frame and scale markers.

Constant Rotation: When this is turned on, the 3D display will rotate continuously in the direction of the last manual rotation. The only way to disable this rotation is to turn this option off.

Cross Section Tracker: Turn on a marker showing the location of your cursor in the Cross Section window.

Map View Tracker: Turn on a marker showing the location of your cursor in the Map View window.

Frame Rate: Display the frame rate, or the number of graphics frames drawn per second (screen updates) to assess the performance of your project. Use this to determine if you should take steps to optimize the performance of your project.

Graphics Performance: Display the current graphics load, a measure of the system usage being taken up be graphics, on the status bar at the bottom of the window. Use this to determine if you should take steps to optimize the performance of your project.

Show Compass: Display a compass in the specified location to help orient the 3D display. Choose from Lower Left, Lower Right, Upper Right, or Upper Left.

Color Scale: Display on a small dialog box showing the color spectrum of a selected object as a cylinder, with its associated data values. You can also turn this on and change the selected object while in Color Spectrum Mode. By default this will be places on the top left corner of the 3D display.

Background Color: Click on the color field to open the Color Table and change the background color for Color Scale dialog box.

Sync Background Color: Make the Background Color of the Color Scale dialog box the same as the Background Color for the 3D display.

Contrast: The Background Color will display lighter for higher contrast with the scale bar text.

Reset: Return the color scale to t default position on the top left corner of the 3D display.

Color Style: Determine how colors are shown in the display.

Gouraud Shading: Color and shading is interpolated across polygons to give smoother images. In large projects, the additional processing may be significant.

Discrete Coloring: Display colors are shown without shading or interpolation. This method may also be called solid or flat.

Muted Colors: Display colors are toned down, making them less bright. This is often used when printing hard copies to reduce the ink saturation of the paper.

Hyperlinks: Turn hyperlink markers on or off. You can create a hyperlink marker while in Hyperlink Object Mode.

Show: Determine for which wells the hyperlink markers will be show. Choose from For All Wells and For Selected Wells.

Marker Size: Use the arrows or type in a value to scale the relative width of all the hyperlink markers in the 3D display.

Model Frame: Draw a frame in the Foreground Color showing the volume of interest (VOI) specified on the Display tab in the Limits dialog box.

Elevation Scale: Display the elevation in project units along the Z-axis of the model frame.

X & Y Scale: Display the X and Y values in project units along the X- and Y-axis of the model frame.

Elevation Plane: Display a translucent plane at a constant elevation. The elevation plane can be move up or down using the handle at the corner of the plane.

Wells Tab: Control the appearance of wells, curves, and templates on the 3D display. See Wells tab options...

Wells Tab Options

Well Path: Turn on the well path display for the specified wells using the selected options .

Show: Determine for which wells the well paths will be drawn. Choose from For All Wells and For Selected Wells.

Inside AOI: Show only the well path display for wells in the area of interest (AOI) specified on the Display tab in the Limits dialog box.

Thickness: Specify the thickness of the well path displays. Choose from Thin, Medium, and Thick.

Well Path Color: Click on the color field to open the Color Table to select or change the default color for the well path displays.

Color By: Override the default to color apply color using the well Group, or Status.

Labels: Turn on well labels for the specified wells using the selected options .

Show: Determine for which wells the labels will be drawn. Choose from Name and UWI, and choose from For All Wells, For Selected Wells, For All Wells Inside AOI and For Selected Wells Inside AOI. The AOI) is specified on the Display tab in the Limits dialog box.

Location: Determine the location of the labels. Choose from TD, KB, and TD and KB.

Label Color: Click on the color field to open the Color Table to select or change the default color for the well labels.

Color By: Override the default to color apply color using the well Group, or Status.

Curve Filters: turn on one type of curve filter to improve speed and performance.

Use Extreme-Value Filter: Turn this on to apply an extreme value filter to the curve data. This filter reduces the number of graphics polygons used display a log curve my applying a localized min/max filter to remove small variations in the log curve, while preserving the character of the log and maintaining local minimum maximum and minimum values.

Incremental Blocking: Turn this on to group the log curve values into a number of user-specified bins applied over the log curve range.

Sample Data at Increments: Turn this on to sample the curve data so that only data at the user-defined increment is being displayed. Use the table below to help you set the sample increment, and optimize project performance.

Curve/Template Width: Specify the width of the log curve and template displays project units.

Well Deviation Survey Points: Turn this on to include deviation survey points (if any) in the display.

Template Background: Display the template using the Background Color as specified on the Tracks tab in the Template Edit Controls dialog box.

Optimize Display For Horizontal Wells: Draw the well log templates parallel to the top of the display box and normal to the directional survey of the horizontal well.

Rotate Curves With Display: Rotate the well log templates so they stay parallel to the screen, optimizing the well log template visibility.

Scale and Rotation Tab: Control rotation preferences, display scales and model scales. See Scale and Rotation tab options...

Scale and Rotation Tab Options

Rotation Preference: Specify how the display is allowed to rotation with respect to the inclination angle, or the angle relative to vertical.

Lock Inclination at present value: Use the inclination of the current display. You will be able to rotate the display around the vertical axis, but not the horizontal axis.

Lock Inclination at 0: Reset the inclination to 0, and lock the inclination. You will be able to rotate the display around the vertical axis, but not the horizontal axis.

Free Inclination: Allow the display to rotate in all directions.

Display Scale: Specify how the X/Y aspect ratio will behave during scaling.

Constant X/Y aspect ratio: Maintain the same relative X/Y scale when resizing the display.

Scale X and Y independently: Do not maintain X/Y aspect ratio during resizing.

Model Scale: Specify the limits that will be used to determine the limits of the model frame.

Scale by Display VOI: Use the display limits to determine the VOI.

Scale by Project VOI: Use the project limits to determine the VOI.

Light Position: Control the direction and quality of the lighting in the 3D display. See Light Position tab options...

Light Position Tab Options

Lighting: Turn this off to create an opaque display with no surface lighting effect. Turn this on to apply lighting effects, and unlock the following lighting controls.

Light From: Specify the origin of the light source. Choose from Left, Front, or Right. Selecting a direction will automatically adjust the Relative X, Y, and Z Position settings to reflect your choice. Click to restore the light quality settings to their default positions.

Directional: Light comes from one location and is constant over the entire area.

Positional:Light comes from one location and decreases in intensity with distance from the source.

Light Quality Settings

Specular (Shininess): Use the slider to adjust the specular lighting, or light that indicates the shininess of surfaces. Values can range from 0 (dull) to 1 (shiny).

Ambient (Backlight): Use the slider to adjust the ambient lighting, or light that exists in the environment not issuing directly from the source. Values can range from 0 (no ambient light) to 0.25.

Diffuse (Directional): Use the slider to adjust the diffuse lighting, or the amount of light reflected off a surface in many directions. Values can range from 0 (light is reflected in one directions) to 1 (light is reflected in many directions).

Relative X Position, Relative Y Position, Relative Z Position: Use the sliders to set the relative location of the light in X/Y/Z space. Values can range from -5 to 5.

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