Free Mini Class on Advanced Visualization Techniques
C Tech will conduct a free mini-class on Advanced Visualization Techniques using Earth Volumetric Studio, on July 12, 2017 at 11:00 am EDT. We will cover some clever tricks with the buffer and union modules and some surprises. The class was open to the first 50 registrants. It was posted Thursday June 22 and the final registrant was early Monday morning on June 26. The recorded video of the class is below.
read moreOn the death of Dr. Christopher Rautman, C Tech’s Chief Geologist
It is with great sadness that I announce that Dr. Christopher Rautman, C Tech’s Chief Geologist passed away on May 12th from complications related to an ongoing illness. I’ve known, liked, worked with and respected Chris since we first met ~20 years ago when he was at Sandia National Laboratories. The first projects he tackled with our software included the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository and the salt domes and solution mined caverns used to store the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserves. Over the years that Chris was at Sandia,...
read moreFree Mini-class on What’s-New in Studio 2017.3.2.
Free Mini-class on What’s-New in Studio 2017.3.2. More details on C Tech’s Facebook page @CTechSoftware
read moreFault Surfaces in Earth Volumetric Studio
There are normally two reasons to create fault surfaces in EVS. We either just want to display them, or we want to use them to create fault blocks as part of a more complex geologic model. When we create fault blocks, we are using the surf_cut module and the fault surface is input to the right input port. There are three main cases to consider with respect to the creation of fault surfaces: 1) Planar surfaces. A planar surface is a surface which is flat. It can be oriented in any way, but is has no curvature, bumps, etc. This type of...
read moreVolumetrics Study: Studio vs. MVS
Prior to the formal release of Studio, we did a comprehensive volumetrics study because we were making significant changes to both volumetrics and subsetting (e.g. plume) modules in Studio. In that study we looked at our new Studio algorithms compared with MVS as a function of grid resolution. We’ve always known that as you increase the resolution of your model, the accuracy improves and we always see volumetrics results approach an asymptotic “theoretical” value as the grid resolution is increased. Our new algorithms in...
read moreModeling of Karst Geology with Caves
One of C Tech’s distributor’s in China asked us to explain how Earth Volumetric Studio could be used to model Caves. The most straightforward approach is to use indicator kriging (e.g. indicator_geology module) and treat the cave as as if it were another material in the site lithology. The video below takes this approach. You can also apply adaptive_indicator_kriging to stratigraphic geologic models. In this way, if you have a site with stratigraphic geology, you can include a cave based on lithology data within the...
read moreC Tech’s Twitter Feed is the Exclusive Source for Free Training
Our Twitter feed is the only place you’ll find our announcement and registration info for the free online class on how to use our new texture library when we release 2017.1. Go to @CTechSoftware
read more3D Publishing to 3D PDFs in Earth Volumetric Studio
We just put out a new video on 3D Publishing to 3D PDFs in Earth Volumetric Studio using C Tech’s 3D PDF Converter. https://www.ctech.com/training/videos/
read moreVideo on Cut-Fill Optimization in Studio using Python Minimization
We have posted a new Tips & Trick on Cut-Fill Optimization in Studio which uses a Python script to quickly converge on the optimal elevation for an excavation surface so that the amount of fill needed exactly matches the amount of material that is cut. The video is here:
read moreFull list of Recorded Online Classes now Available
We have updated our Online and Recorded Classes page to reflect the full list of Recorded Online Classes which are now available for rent. These are the meticulously edited video recordings of the online classes which were recently held and reflect the functionality of the current version of Earth Volumetric Studio. The rental of each class includes the additional materials, data and/or applications which were generated during the class, and are provided by download. Introduction to Earth Volumetric Studio: 4 parts: 3 hours each Migration...
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