Hello,
I would like to display a borehole that shows when the diameter has stepped down. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do so?
You can make custom well graphics to show this in symbol design. The patterns are applied as the total width of the column. If you look at the CMNT11 graphic, it has the pattern applied from 0 to 35%, and from 35% to 100%. The "blank" space in the middle is the well, and the vertical borders are the well edges. If your hole is 12" at top, and it reduces to 6" below, start the pattern at 25% (25% to 35%) and end it at 75% (65% to 75%). 0 to 25% and 75 to 100% should show as blanks, and it will appear to step in. You will need to do this for each graphic in the lower portion.
Hi William, search gINT help for "Clipping properties", which explains another approach to this.
My approach is as follows
I created two new well graphic symbols called small hole and tiny hole. Snall hole has solid white fill from 0-10% and 90-100% it also has vertical lines at 10 and 90% tiny hole is the same except it extends to 20% and 80% This gives me 2 different hole diameters in addition to the full diameter. I then added a second graphic vs depth entity to the well column that only prints these symbols. Print order is set higher than the well graphic so it prints on top. Of course the well graphic is set to not print for these symbols. The solid white then blocks out some of the standard backfill graphic and adds a new edge of hole.
Advantages of this in my mind are:
1. No need to create a lot of new well symbols for narrow versions of all your well graphics
2. Input is easy, just specify your well as you normally would then add the overlay graphic for the range that has a smaller diameter. I have specified my well table to allow duplicate depths but if you dont want to do this simply offset your depth by a tiny bit if it starts at the same depth as one of your normal symbols
3. If you change or add well symbols this still works.
4. I have other overlay symbols that allow me to add items in the backfill anulus range
5. No need to add a data field to specify clipping ranges. Works with your existing well table
Many ways to do this. Each has advantages and disadvantages.