Original Question: I would like to hear about others experiences with either creating boring log drawings in ArcView (3D) or creating boring log drawings in other applications, then bringing the results into ArcView. We are debating about whether to create the logs in AutoCad, ArcView, or other software designed specifically for creating boring logs. And, we are wondering what we can do with ArcView to display and analyze the data. I"ll sum all responses. *************************** Here are the responses. Thanks for all the input: try WinLog 3 - you can access the data directly form ArcView as it uses an open-architeure back-end - you can display the logs in ArcView via a hotlink as WinLog can create PDFs Greg Cocks *************************** As far as I know, there are only two ways to display boring logs within ArcView 3D Analyst. 1. An extension created by GeoArctic for creating simple, non-patterned logs and fence diagrams. The website for this product is at the following address: 2. You can export boring logs to 3D Analyst from the EQuIS environmental database, with the ArcView interface. Again, the logs appear as simple, non-patterned logs with no attributes (ie. no curve or histogram data, no well construction info etc. etc.). More information about the EQuIS database is found through the following link: My personal recommendation is to use a stand-alone product. Although obviously biased, I recommend our stand-alone program, LogPlot2001- it is a very flexible, powerful, and easy-to-use program. LogPlot2001 allows you to construct your own templates, so that you can create a standard boring log form that all the employees in your organization adhere to. The type of data you can display in LogPlot2001 is limited only by creativity, and includes well construction diagrams, multiple water table levels, downhole geochemistry and geophysics data, lithology and stratigraphy data, aquifer/aquitard (hydrogeologic) boundaries, permeability/transmissivity values, tip and sleeve stress values, blow counts. The graphical entities include curves, histograms, symbols, patterns, scale bars, images, text- all of these are can be edited for font, color, size etc. We offer a fully-functional download for LogPlot2001 on our website, the download allows you to test the program for 10 days/25 uses. More information about LogPlot2001 can be found through the following link: Currently, the interfaces between subsurface modeling products (such as LogPlot2001 and RockWorks), and GIS desktop mappers like ArcView are very poor, although I suspect this will change over the next two years. ArcView 8.1 has a hyperlink feature that allows you to launch a Windows-based 3rd-party application from a hyperlink that's tied to a point, line or polygon theme- so you could potentially create a 2D site map of boringhole locations in ArcView 8.1, click on the borehole, and launch your LogPlot diagram in a separate window- not ideal functionality, but it is an improvement. Please feel free to contact me if you have any further questions about any of the above. By the way, we also are a full-fledged ESRI distributor, and would be happy to help you determine a software solution that will work for you. Sincerely, Tom Meuzelaar RockWare, Inc. ************************** the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has an extension that creates lithology stick diagrams: http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/mis/gis/tools/arcview/extensions/lithostick/litho logy.html It's pretty slick, but I've found that ArcView is generally pretty clunky when it comes to things like this. good luck, Kathryn Schoephoester GeoTrans, Inc. Brookfield, Wisconsin kschoephoester@geotransinc.com **************************** and a response from the person who asked the question: I hear the Port of Seattle contracted to have a review done of boring log software. They might give out the report if asked. ********************************************* Marie Mills, GIS Analyst Pacific Groundwater Group 2377 Eastlake Ave E Seattle, WA 98102 USA (206) 329-0141 x207 marie@pgwg.com http://www.pgwg.com http://www.tumtum.com/mmills