Geosoft Target for ArcGIS 3.2 Release Notes

Length Weighted Mean calculations have been added to the statistics tools. By highlighting a selected section of your drillhole database, you can now calculate Length and Length Weighted Mean values. This makes it easy to quickly find out the length of several irregularly spaced samples as well as the length weighted mean assay value.

Significant Intersections Report

Significant Intersections Reporting is a new option added to the Drillhole Database Composite tool (under the DH-Data menu).

This tool enables geologists to quickly identify drill core intervals that have significant assays based on minimum cut-off length and grade. This is useful for highlighting successful drilling results visually within sections, maps or 3D views, and is exportable as a tabular report.

Grouped Geosoft Map Layers

To provide more flexibility in the display of Geosoft Map Layers in separate data frames, we have created a "group layer" of the various graphic elements of a Geosoft Map. Now you can now turn these individual items on or off, or easily combine them with Shapefiles created in Target for ArcGIS.

Strip Logs now support Shapefile Output

When creating Strip Logs, we have added the option to create Shapefile outputs as well Geosoft Map Layers. This is consistent with section and plan maps, and provides added flexibility in creating detailed graphic logs of your drillhole data.

Legends in Data Frames

Due to customer feedback, we have reinstated Legends within data frames for all Target for ArcGIS maps (plan, section, multiple section, strip logs and fence diagrams) allowing easier organization of map layers, especially when working with multiple sections in one MXD.

3D Subsurface Improvements

Voxel Colour Bar Button

We have added an option to display a Colour Legend Bar for voxels to the layout of a 3D view.

GOCAD Voxet orientation support

Orientation of GOCAD Voxet files can be specified in several ways. The GOCAD Voxet conversion to Geosoft Voxel has been expanded in this release to fully support the orientation parameters. This ensures that voxets are correctly oriented and located in the Geosoft 3D Viewer.

Sample a Voxel to GDB locations

The new Sample a Voxel capability allows you to query the values in a Geosoft voxel using a Geosoft databases with X, Y, Z coordinates. All voxels, including lithology voxels, can be sampled. This capability is useful in data verification to compare original database values to interpolated voxel values, or can be used to add a new channel containing voxel values to a database that contains a different data type (e.g. Geochemical voxel values to Lithology table).

Log and Log/Linear options for 3D Gridding

We have added new options to the 3D Gridding tool. You can now use Log and Log/Linear interpolation when creating voxels. Using the logarithm of the original values can be a very effective way to reduce distortion in highly skewed data, such as geochemical assays.

Improved Data Access

Seeker

Seeker simplifies the data search and retrieval process from DAP Servers and other online data sources. Seeker replaces our two 'Find Data' options with a workflow-driven design.

Seeker's design combines capabilities and concepts from DAP Find Data and Dapple interfaces to create a straightforward 3-step workflow.

Search criteria, including Structured Metadata Queries, are used to refine the result set and provide access to relevant metadata. The search results are easy to review, and selected datasets are simple to retrieve and use in your local mapping environment. The Seeker data access tool is available in all Geosoft applications and plugins.

ODBC Import with Filters

A new filtering capability has been added to our ODBC tools, both for accessing drill hole databases or surface data. Now you can access just the data that you need without the requirement for SQL query knowledge for both surface data GDBs and Target drill hole projects. This new capability will also allow you to connect to other drill hole databases such as DataShed and Century systems.

Target Geochemistry Extension

New Duplicate Sample Identification Method

Duplicate sample identification has been simplified and improved. The Duplicate indicator column now contains the original sample number of the parent sample. This enables you to have multiple duplicates that reference a single parent sample.

Log options for Box plots

Box plot graphs have been improved with the addition of a new option for plotting a logarithmic scale.

Enhancements and bug fixes

Target for ArcGIS

8034	Fixed - 3.1.1 YO FR: Target does not pass on allthe datafields from the .gdb files into the Shapefiles that it generates;client would like to see all fields in the interval (assay gdb) passed to theexport
10953	Fixed -3.1.1 ABORT <sClipLineIntPLY>
11165	Fixed - Afterusing Target Surface > Import >Geosoft Database tool to import surfacedata, the dialog box to choose the databse is no longer displayed if try torun it again.
14102	Fixed - 3.0."Create Lithology Voxel" should use default Rockcode CSV file asspecified in Preferences.
14244	Fixed - 3.0.1(OL) , Shadow Cursor Tool with Data Linking is not consistently reliable
14340	Fixed - v7.0, 7.0.1, 7.1 (Oasis montaj, Target for ArcGIS, Target, Free Viewer): ABORT <CDOC_Cell::sWriteData>
14787	Fixed - v7.0.1,v7.1.1 ABORT<CGeoExtMap::bCanLink>
15122	Fixed - v7.0.1,v7.1, v7.1.1 ABORT<CompleteInstallESRIStyles>
15374	Fixed - 3.0.1Association/support for Geosoft *.grd formats 'lost' in ArcGIS 9.3
16027	Added - OM:Need the ability to plot a colour range legend for Voxels on a 3D Map (or 3D View)
16412	Fixed - v7.1(Plugin and ) ABORT <sSetERM_IPJ> <sSetStringINI_GXX> - uninstallplugin as it should not exist on a computer running
16420	Fixed - 3.1 -BUG - - Section Legends: the Legend dataframe is NOT created. Instead, anumber of layout elements are generated for each section that remainspermanently visible on the layout. They cannot be turned on or off easily.
16426	Fixed - 3.1 -Bug - Auto Save Time under Geosoft Setup -> Advanced Settings doesn'tgenerate a save pop-up.
16618	Fixed - v7.1 (,Plugin) BUG - .tbl, .zon and *.lut files available to display grids with inArcMap needs to be updated
16621	Fixed -v7.1 BUG - Creating a plan map ONLYusing the Shape File Output option still produces a map with a referencegrid. Inconsistent behaviour with v3.0 and v3.0.1.
16700	Fixed -v7.1 BUG - unable to see certaingroups when opening map in
16791	Fixed - Sectionlocation information changes erratically when the spacing is changed.
16925	Fixed -v7.1 BUG - Voxel Section GX - linesselection parameter, "Displayed line" and "Interactive - frommap" make no sense for
17004	Fixed - 7.1.1VU StripLog/selection. Option to plot a range of drillholes is not working,all the holes are plotting
17079	Fixed -3.1.1 ABORT <sClipLineIntPLY>
17128	Fixed - v3.1.1: BUG: when enter "minus", "-" sign in a database cell it prints as "1/2","half"!
17132	Fixed - v3.1.1: BUG: Polynomial fit for hole resurveying needs manual entry for user tospecify order. to prevent N (number of defined deviation survey measurements)equal or greater than number of points in survey - strange borehioledeviation observed.
17512	Fixed -v3.1.1 Bug - When you type a numberfrom the keyboard numeric pad into the table the result is a letter or a kind of symbol, so you have tobackspace and then re-type the number.
17592	Fixed - v3.1.1: 3D Viewer error when displaying multiple images at once: "boundary isinvalid in the required projection".
17719	Fixed - v3.2(1U) - Fence Diagrams: when output to separate data frames, the name of thelegend data frame is "ESRI_DH_Legend_Legend". Should be "FenceSection_Legend" to be consistent with other map types.

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Target for ArcGIS 3.2 Release Notes

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Enhancements & bug fixes

Enhanced Support for Windows 7: Geosoft Target for ArcGIS will run on Windows XP (32 Bit), Windows Vista (32 and 64 Bit) and Windows 7 (32 and 64 Bit) operating systems. Requires ArcGIS v9.2 (SP6) or 9.3.1 (SP1).

Drillhole Features

Length Weighted Mean Calculation