The geological model
A Model tab with the project's geological model: a stratigraphic column checked against every log, a 3D model built from it, and the model on cross-sections.
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The Model tab and the geological model
A new Model tab holds the project's geological model: set up the stratigraphic column once and assign layers to its units by name across every log. The logs stand on a scheme along a line across the site plan, each beside what the model takes from it. Under it are the questions they raise, such as gaps in the logs and CPTs that disagree with the borehole nearby.
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A model in a few steps
Borebase can suggest the column from the logs, keeping every layer name as a layer of its own or grouping the layers by soil and rock type or by material. It asks only what it cannot decide, and a group opens to show each layer in it, so a layer you read differently can be counted as another group.
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The geological model in 3D
Build the model from the column and each unit becomes a solid body around your boreholes, with its volume, thickness, elevations, colour and hatch beside it. Turn it, stretch it, cut it with a clip box, measure between any two points, pull the units apart and save a picture with a legend. Its ground follows an uploaded terrain model or the relief of the topo plan.
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Choose how contacts run between boreholes
Build settings offer six ways to draw the contacts between boreholes: straight, smooth, cubic, inverse distance, nearest borehole and a trend surface, each with a line on what it does to the model. Ground drawn on a cross-section far above or below the boreholes beside it is left out of the model and named in the build warnings.
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The geological model on cross-sections
A cross-section can show the model cut along its line, under your own correlation, and correlation lines you bend on a section guide the next build. In the 3D view, a click on a side of the model or a face of the clip box saves a cross-section along that cut with the boreholes and CPTs nearby on it, and dragging a contact of the model there bends the next smooth build through that point.
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Export the geological model
Download the model as GLB, OBJ or STL bodies, as LandXML, ESRI ASCII or XYZ surfaces, as 3D faces in a DXF, or as borehole tables for Leapfrog and Datamine.
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The first time you sign in after this release, a short slideshow with clips walks you through what 2.5 and 2.6 brought: the project and object overviews, weight soundings and topo plans, drawings on the map, generated cross-sections, geophysics and the geological model in the Model tab.
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In Compare boreholes, layers assigned to units of the geological model are joined unit by unit from one borehole to the next, with each unit's top and thickness in the table.
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The Cross-Section tab opens on a table of the project's sections beside a preview of the one you pick, its line on the map above its sheet. An open section is laid out like the 3D model: pick another from the toolbar or step through them with the arrows beside it, fold the side panels away or drag them wider, and beside the drawing see only what is drawn on it.
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The Map tab is laid out the same way: the layers on the left with an eye on each, the map settings on the right, and Export PDF in the toolbar above the map. A click on the topo plan shows its coordinate and height systems and what can be done with it beside the map.
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The Export tab lists the report sheets beside a preview of the one you pick, as the Objects tab lists objects beside the map. An open sheet is laid out like the 3D model too, and another sheet is picked from the toolbar or reached with the arrows beside it.
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The Geophysics tab on boreholes, with LAS and CSV import and curves on cross-sections and report sheets, is open to every user.
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The Location map on a project's or an object's overview zooms with the mouse wheel, without pressing Edit location first.
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The map's PDF export now includes the project's topo plan when it is switched on, drawn as on the map and without the layers and groups you have hidden.
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Exporting the map to PDF is faster, and the file is much smaller on the streets, light, dark and outdoors styles.
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A weight sounding can be tied to the borehole it was made beside, from the sounding's overview or from the borehole's related tests, as CPT, SPT and DPT tests already can.
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Zoomed far out on the project map, object names, cross-section names and the numbers around a weight sounding stay hidden until you are close enough to read them, and the markers shrink to small dots that still show where the site is.
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The weight sounding diagram on the Sounding tab scales its half-turn axis to the largest value, so a loose soil fills the width and high counts stay apart.


