Wireframing Geological Interpretations in 3D

Once you have digitized a geological feature on at least two section maps, you can create a wireframe from the interpretations. This document provides a description of the workflow to join polylines or polygons in a geostring file to form open surfaces or closed bodies that will be stored in a geosurface file. After saving the wireframe to a geosurface file, total surface area is reported for open surfaces and total volume is reported for closed bodies. Several open and closed surfaces can be saved to the same geosurface file. This single file solution makes it easy to manage the wireframed results and to share your work with others.

The following workflow is provided to assist you in working with the wireframing tools:

  1. Start a wireframing session
  2. Join polylines to form an open surface
  3. Join polygons to form a closed surface
  4. Add new segments to a wireframe
  5. Add tie lines to a wireframe
  6. Remove wireframes for the active feature
  7. Save wireframes to a geosurface file
  8. About geosurface files
  9. View information for surfaces in a geosurface file

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