01 Working in Move DownLoadLy - Ir
01 Working in Move DownLoadLy - Ir
01 Working in Move DownLoadLy - Ir
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Tutorial 1: Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Introduction
Aim
To learn how to work in the 3D, Map, Section and Google Map views in Move, and explore some of the
display settings in each view. Then see how data is organised and filtered within the Model Browser.
Dataset
l Field data and 3D geological model of Sheep Mountain anticline in Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, has been
provided courtesy of Heather Stanton, Colorado State University.
l 30 m resolution Digital Elevation Model (DEM).
l Landsat 7 natural colour satellite image.
Selection modes
When working in Move, there are three types of selection control. These are object selection, vertex
selection and face selection. The selection rules are listed below:
l By default Move is in object selection mode, i.e. click on an object, selects the whole object.
l Multiple objects can be selected by holding down the Ctrl key on the keyboard and clicking on several
objects in the view or Model Browser.
l Part object picking mode can be activated by holding down Shift on the keyboard. Which part of the
object (vertex, face, cell) is determined in the Quick Tools toolbar, located to the left of the main view.
l Left click and press Shift, to select a single vertex or face within an object.
l Left click, press Shift and drag the cursor, to select multiple vertices or faces within an
object.
l If objects are selected prior to pressing Shift, then part picking and loop selection will be
restricted to those objects.
Note: Objects can also be selected in the Model Browser regardless of the active selection mode or
filter. The only way to select objects belonging to the same set is to use the Model Browser, unless using
quick object selection. Changing the selection mode will clear the current selection.
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Figure 1: Default Display Units tab with all attribute categories set to metric.
The Attributes & Units tab of the Document Properties will list the display unit and precision for each
individual attribute. Individual attributes are assigned to a category, and the categories are listed in the
Default Display Units tab. By default, the unit assigned to the category will be assigned all attributes within
that category.
This may be overwritten in the Attributes & Units tab by clicking on the padlock next to the display unit or
precision of an attribute. When unlocked the attribute is effectively no longer linked to the main category and
will become editable (Figure 2). Therefore, if the units of the Default Display Units are changed from metric to
US Oil Field, the unlocked attribute will not update.
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Figure 2: Attributes & Units tab with the precision of the elastic thickness and friction angle unlocked.
When a file is saved the units assigned to each attribute will be saved. This will preserve the saved units
when working on a file and opening it on more than one computer.
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Objectives
l To visualize a model of Sheep Mountain, Wyoming, in the 3D, Map, Section and Google Map View.
l To examine some of the controls in the Display toolbar and View tab, such as draping images over
a DEM, creating camera positions, displaying stratigraphy columns, the Lighting tool and Clipping
tool.
l To examine some of the navigation options in the Section View.
l To show how to display multiple views in one tab.
When a new project is opened, the 3D View is displayed by default. However, in addition to the 3D View, it is
possible to work in a Map, Section, and Google Map view in Move. All view types can be opened from the
View tab (Figure 3).
Note: The default view can be changed by navigating to File tab > Preferences > Viewer & Display.
Figure 3: Zoomed in segment of the View tab showing the range of views available within Move.
When working in each view the Display toolbar and View tab can be used to control and optimise the display
state of the active view.
3D View
The 3D View can be used to visualize all objects in a model. A geological model consisting of a number of
object types, which include a DEM, satellite image, surfaces, polylines, cross-sections and dip data, will be
opened in the 3D View.
2. Set the file format to MVE Format (*.mve *.move *.movz) and open file:
...\01_Working_in_Move\01_Sheep_Mountain.move
4. At the bottom of the 3D View on the Display toolbar, click Overlay and click Satellite Image. The
image will be draped on the DEM grid, as shown in Figure 4.
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Figure 4: File 01_Sheep_Mountain.move opened in the 3D View, with the satellite image draped over
the DEM.
5. On the Display toolbar (Figure 5) at the bottom of the main window, click Seek to Picked Point
and click on the model to zoom into a particular point. This also changes the centre of rotation.
Note: The middle mouse button can also be used to zoom in and out of the model.
6. Click Home to reset the view. This will reset the view and the centre of rotation, so that all
objects within the bounding box are visualized, whilst preserving the original angle of display.
The extent of the grid that surrounds a 3D model can be controlled using the Bounding Box editor, which is
located on the Data & Analysis tab. Using the editor, it is possible to control the interval spacing of the grid.
The grid of the bounding box can also be removed from view by clicking on the Toggle Grid Lines icon ,
located in the Display toolbar. The outline of the bounding box can be removed altogether by clicking Toggle
Bounding Box . An example of the file with the bounding box enabled and disabled is shown in Figure 6.
Figure 6: Sheep Mountain model with A) bounding box fully visualized; B) bounding box grid hidden; C)
bounding box completely turned off.
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8. Click on Z and increase the speed to 3. Click Play to start the animation.
Note: The model can also be rotated relative to the viewing direction by toggling on Any and selecting
Up, Down, Left or Right.
The Camera Positions icon can be used to save the current view angle and zoom level in a project.
This is a useful command for exporting screenshots of the model and ensuring that a consistent angle or
zoom level is used. Multiple camera positions/angles can be saved and deleted by selecting theblack triangle
at the right of the icon. This command is also available in the Map View and Section View. Camera views are
saved per project.
10. To save this view angle/zoom level, click Camera Positions . Assign the name North-east view
and click OK.
11. Rotate the model to a new orientation. Then to return to the saved camera position, click the black
drop-down arrow on the icon and select North-east view (Figure 8).
In the 3D View it is possible to display the stratigraphic column using the Show Vertical Legend command.
This command is also available across the Map View and Section View.
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By default the stratigraphy column will appear to the right of the 3D View and display the horizon ages.
Currently no ages are assigned.
13. Double-click on the stratigraphy column to open the Strat. Column Properties. Click Show
Horizon Label and Top of Unit.
Note: The name, age and thickness of each horizon is controlled in the Stratigraphy database, which is
accessed from the Data & Analysis tab.
15. Click Close. The stratigraphy column will look like the one in Figure 10.
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Figure 10: 3D View displaying the stratigraphy column alongside the model.
Note: A stratigraphy column can also be displayed in the Map View and Section View.
It is possible to scale the model vertically using the Z-Exaggeration command on the Display
toolbar. By default, the maximum value of Z Exaggeration that can be set is 25. If a larger exaggeration is
needed this can be changed in the preferences.
Note: The vertical exaggeration can also be edited in the Section View, allowing for smaller differences in
elevation to be displayed more clearly on seismic and other data.
The Lighting tool, which is located on the View tab, can be used to control the direction and tone of lighting in
the 3D View. In the toolbox there are three options available that control light display:
l Camera Headlight – The position of the light source is the same as the camera position i.e. the
position of the viewer.
l Infinite Directional Light – The light source is a fixed distance away from the model and its angle
and azimuth can be changed.
l Local Scene Light – The light source is at a set X/Y/Z position.
The Lighting toolbox is shown in Figure 10, with Local Scene Light chosen to specify the X, Y and Z position of
the light source. The tone and intensity of the lighting can also be changed using sliders in the toolbox.
Clicking on Light Source Visible will visualize a sphere, which represents the light source position. This option
is only available under the settings Infinite Directional Light and Local Scene.
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Another visualization tool available in the 3D View is the Clipping tool. Located on the View tab, this tool
allows the user to view the interior of a 3D model, without having to deselect objects in the Model Browser.
When the toolbox is open, a grey plane is visualized; this is the clipping plane. The orientation and position of
the plane can be adjusted. Figure 12shows the Sheep Mountain model with the clipping plane cutting
halfway through the model.
Map View
16. To visualize the model in the Map View, on the View tab click Map View.
The Map View will open in a new tab (Figure 13). The view will automatically display all lines and points
already in the 3D View.
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Figure 13: File 01_Sheep_Mountain.move visualized in Map View with a shaded fill Mesh Style
Enabled, highlighting topography of DEM.
The display of objects in Map view can be contolled using the Mesh Style options in the View tab (Exercise 1).
Three options are available; Outline, Flat Fill and Shaded Fill.
Figure 14:Mesh Style tool, located in the View tab wish shaded fill selected
17. In View tab click Mesh Style and select the option Outline Figure 15
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Figure 15:File 01_Sheep_Mountain.move visualized in the Map View, with the satellite image hidden
to show the DEM outline.
Section View
18. At the top of the Model Browser click Section_3. It will be highlighted in the Map View.
Note: Alternatively, a section can be open by going to the View tab, clicking Section View and selecting a
section.
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Using the Display toolbar, it is possible to navigate between sections in the model using the Section
Animation Control (Figure 17). The blue arrow heads can be used to move between each section,
alternatively a section can be selected by clicking on the section name from the drop-down list and displayed
in the Section View.
Note: The Section Animation Control will maintain the current zoom settings in the section.
Figure 17: Section Animation Control, which is located in the Display toolbar.
20. Zoom in on part of the section to look at the crest of the fold, as shown in Figure 18.
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21. Use the arrow buttons on the Section Animation Control to move between sections. Note how the
scale is preserved.
Note: It is also possible to display a different section without opening a second Section View by dragging
the section name from the Model Browser into the current (active) Section View.
As with all other views, the options in the Display toolbar control how the Section View is visualized. Certain
options behave differently. When working with the Show Vertical Legends command in the Section
View, clicking on the drop-down arrow will display three options, as opposed to two (Figure 19):
l Show Horizon Rulers - either when zoomed into the section or when horizons are tidied to the
section post, the horizon intersections with the edge of the view are labelled.
l Show Strat. Column - will display a stratigraphy column showing the horizon thickness or age
properties set up in the Stratigraphy database. Double-click on the strat. column to change its
display.
l Show Vertical Colour Map - if an object has been colour mapped, the colour map bar can be
displayed vertically.
Figure 19: Show Vertical Legends drop-down list showing the options.
In the Map View and Section View, the Camera Positions command can be used to activate the Navigator.
The Navigator will open in a new window above the Section View and allows the user to locate zoomed in
areas relative to the whole model. This can be useful when working with large maps or long sections.
21. To open the Navigator, click on the drop-down arrow next to the Camera Positions icon and
click Show Navigator.
22. Zoom into the crest of the fold. The area of the model displayed in the Section View is denoted by a
red boundary in the Navigator, as shown in Figure 20.
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As with the 3D View, multiple camera positions can be saved with the file, allowing the user to return to
zoomed in areas of the section. When using the Navigator, a camera position can be saved by clicking inside
the red box used to denote the display in the Section View.
23. Click inside the red boundary displayed in the Navigator to save a camera position.
24. Assign a name to the position, e.g. Crest of Fold, and click OK. The saved camera position will be
denoted by a green box.
25. Zoom out of the Section View, then click the camera position in the Navigator to return to the
zoomed in view of the anticline.
Multiple camera positions can be saved in the Navigator, as shown in Figure 21.
Note: The Navigator does not have to stay open for camera positions to be saved. They can also be
saved by clicking , as with the 3D View.
It should be noted that when a new view is opened, it will take the display information from the previous
active view. So since the Section View was the active view before the Google Map View was opened, it has
opened to show the section and not the full model. The extent of the full model is outlined by a blue box
(Figure 22).
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27. To display all objects in the view, on the Quick Tools click Show All Objects .
In this view horizons, section traces, posts, wells and the surface tops can be displayed. At the top left of the
Google Map View is the option to switch between Map and Satellite view and display the terrain. A *.kmz
export is available for transferring data from Move into Google Earth.
Note: Points (such as dip data), are not shown in the Google Map View.
Split-view
It is possible to display multiple views under one tab in Move. This can either be carried out by splitting an
active view using the Split Screen command (in the Display toolbar) or by defining a view layout preset (in
the View tab). Both options will be shown.
29. On the Display toolbar, click Create Horizontal Split in active view . This will open a new
pane under Section_3 (Figure 20).
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30. From this pane, the new view type can be selected. Click 3D View.
As with the Google Map View, the 3D View will open to display only the objects in the previously active view,
which in this case was the Section View.
31. To display all objects in the view (Figure 24), on the Quick Tools click Show All Objects .
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To change the active view, click in the view required. The selection will be confirmed by a yellow highlight box.
The active view will control what tools are active and what options are available in the Display toolbar. For
example, the Surface tool is only active in the 3D View, and the Section Animation Control is only active in
the Section View. The active view will also control the filtering in the Model Browser, when in the Section View
the Model Browser will update to show only the objects that belong in that section.
32. A split-view can also be created by defining a preset. On the View tab, click Presets.
34. In the top-left pane click 3D View, in the top-right pane click Map View, in the bottom-left pane click
Section View and select Section_1 and in the bottom-right pane click Section View and select
Section_4 (Figure 25).
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Figure 25:Quartered display showing the 3D View, Map View and two Section Views.
Note: If Co-cursor tracking is on, the cursor will be displayed across all views and can be tracked in
the 3D View and Map View.
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l Sections Browser
l Sets Browser
l Object Types Browser
l Quick Editor
Sections Browser
The Sections Browser contains a list of all sections in the model. When in the 3D View and Map View, each
section can be displayed by activating the check box next to it. When a section is selected in the Model
Browser, the lower sub-browsers are filtered based on the sets and objects in that selected section.
Sets Browser
The Sets Browser contains a list of all sets in the model. Selecting a set will filter the Object Types Browser to
show only the objects that are in that selected set.
Quick Editor
The Quick Editor becomes available when an object is selected. The Quick Editor allows for the editing of
basic display parameters, such as the name and colour of the object. Multiple objects can be edited at once
by multi-selecting and editing in the Quick Editor.
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l To learn how the Model Browser can be used to organise all objects within a model and filter
objects by the sections and sets they belong to.
l To create a user-defined set and add objects to this.
l To use the Quick Editor to change the name of an object.
2. In the Sections Browser, click on Section_3. Once selected, the section will be highlighted and the
Sets Browser and Object Types Browser will be filtered accordingly to show only the objects in
Section_3.
The Sets Browser and Objects Types Browser will indicate whether they have been filtered based on a
selected section in their header (Figure 27).
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Figure 27: Model Browser with Section_3 selected and the lower sub-browsers filtered. Headers have
been highlighted.
3. In the Sets Browser, click on the horizon set Cambrian. The Objects Types Browser will update to
show only the objects that belong to the Cambrian horizon, as shown in Figure 28.
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Figure 28: Model Browser with Section_3 selected and filtered on Cambrian horizon.
4. In the Model Browser, expand the Polylines folder and click on polyline Cg. This will activate the
Quick Editor at the bottom of the Model Browser.
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Figure 29: Renaming the polyline Cg to Cambrian in the Quick Editor (enlarged).
Note: If a section trace is selected in the Model Browser or one of the views, the Quick Editor can be
used to control the font size and display of the section name.
6. In order to remove all previous filtering and display all objects in the Sets and Object Types Browsers,
click Clear Filters at the top of the Model Browser, as shown in Figure 30.
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Figure 30: Model Browser displaying all objects in the file 01_Sheep_Mountain.move
Note: The shaded bars at the top left of the Model Browser can be used to hide certain browsers if they
are not required.
The Model Browser currently contains two different sets: one for fault data and one for horizon data. Sets
are a useful way of binning objects so they can be selected all at once and collected into a toolbox, or turned
on and off more efficiently. A user-defined set will be created and used to group together the dip data and
outcrop interpretations.
8. Name the set Mapped Data and ensure User Defined Set is selected (Figure 31).
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9. Click OK.
The new set will be displayed in the Model Browser (Figure 32). Currently no objects have been assigned to
that set.
Objects can be added to this new set by dragging and dropping the data.
10. Expand the Point Data and Dips object folders. Hold down Shift and select DipData_Green and
DipData_Purple.
11. Drag this data over the set Mapped Data, until a plus icon appears next to the cursor, then release the
data. This will be added to set and the number of objects will be specified in brackets after the set
name (Figure 33).
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Figure 33: Dip data added to the user-defined set called Mapped Data.
13. Then in the Model Browser, turn on Images and the Polylines object folders.
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14. To hide the polylines belonging to the sections, right-click in the Sections header (at the top of the
Model Browser), and click Hide All Sections (Figure 34).
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Figure 35: 3D View showing the polylines that will be assigned to the Mapped Data .
16. Hold down Ctrl, then drag the cursor so it is hovering over the Mapped Data set and a plus icon
appears. Then release the cursor.
An additional 44 objects will be added to the set. This will make displaying the relevant objects in the Map
View easier.
19. Then in the Model Browser, turn on the Mapped Data set.
20. Select the image and in the Display toolbar, click Show Transparency Slider and increase the
transparency to 30%.
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Figure 36: Map View displaying the objects in the set Mapped Data.
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l To learn how the Object Attributes table can be used to examine all objects and their properties
within a model
1. Continue with the file from the previous exercise or open file:
...\01_Working_in_Move\01_Sheep_Mountain.move.
3. Display all objects in the model in the 3D View, on the Quick tools click Show all Objects
4. Select all objects displayed in the 3D View by using the Ctrl+A shortcut.
5. With all model objects selected, on the Data & Analysis tab, click Object Attributes.
The Object Attributes window will open displaying all of the model objects previously selected in the 3D View
and associated Object Attributes (Figure 38).
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Figure 38:Object Attribute window displaying all objects and associated attributes in 01_Sheep_
Mountain.move model.
The Object Attributes can be re-organised using the Sorting and Filter functions of the Object Attribute
Analyser allowing easier analysis and comparison of model object attributes.
6. Select the column header 2: Name in the Object Attributes Analyser, the whole column will
highlighted as shown in Figure 39.
7. To sort the objects by name, click (Sorting), located at the top of the Object Attribute
Analyser.
The Object attribute Analyser will now display all 01_Sheep_Mountain.move objects in alphabetical order, as
shown in Figure 39.
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The Filter Table Data function can also be utilised to display only specific object types.
8. Select the Filter Table Data options, located at the base of the Object Attribute Tree View.
9. Select the option Object Type from the drop-down list and define the filter to display only Mesh
Surfaces (Figure 40
The Object Attribute Analyser will update to display only mesh surface objects (Figure 40.
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Figure 40:Object Attribute Analyser Filtered to display only mesh surface objects.
The Object Analyser allows for quick analysis and comparison of model objects from simply determining
which objects are In Time vs Depth or examining which mesh surface has the largest area.
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