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Version: 3.4.20 (unreleased)

Attributes (Orientation and Polylines)

Right-click commands for the Attributes node that heads the Orientation and Polylines branches of the Interpretation Tree — the columns of each table. Select an attribute under the node to see its histogram in the Charts panel, or two or three together to cross-plot them, one point per member of the branch.

Colouring by an attribute​

Click a numeric attribute's radio button to colour the whole branch through that attribute's colour map, in the 3D view. One attribute is active at a time, and clicking the active one's button again returns the members to their group's colour. A string attribute has no button.

  • Colour map and window. Select the attribute to edit its Colour Scale in the Properties panel. Drag the handles on its histogram in the Charts panel to set the filter window, across which the ramp is spread with Scale Colours to Filter on.
  • What keeps the group's colour. A member with no value for the attribute, or a value outside the filter window.
  • Saved with the project. The active attribute and every numeric attribute's colour map and filter window.

Dip and Dip Direction​

Orientation only. Dip and Dip Direction head the list in every project. Each plane answers them from its own measurement, so they follow any edit to the plane and cannot go stale, and nothing is stored per plane. Dip Direction reads from 0 to under 360.

They can be coloured by, filtered, charted and cross-plotted like any other attribute. They cannot be renamed or deleted, and they have no default value. Lineations have no value for them, because a lineation's angles are a plunge and a trend.

A project that already holds an attribute of its own called Dip keeps it, and the built-in row becomes Dip (orientation), so the two can be told apart. The same goes for Dip Direction.

Source resources: IDR_IT_GEOATTRIBUTE.

Item Context Menu​

Right-click the Attributes node under Orientation or Polylines.

Actions​

  • Refresh Histograms — Refresh histograms (ID_GEOATTRIBUTE_UPDATEATTRIBUTES)

Add Attribute submenu​

  • Continuous — Add a new attribute of type continuous (ID_ADDATTRIBUTE_CONTINUOUS)
  • Discrete — Add a new attribute of type discrete (ID_ADDATTRIBUTE_DISCRETE)
  • Boolean — Add a new attribute of type boolean (ID_ADDATTRIBUTE_BOOL)
  • String — Add a new attribute of type string (ID_ADDATTRIBUTE_STRING)

Attribute Context Menu​

Right-click an attribute under the Attributes node of Polylines.

  • Delete — Delete the attribute. If it was the active one, the members go back to their group's colour. (ID_KEYVALUE_DELETE)