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Strater
TM
Version 1
A
Powerful and Innovative Well Log and Borehole
Plotting Program for Geoscientists
Complete Strater package includes:
- Strater CD
- Strater Getting
Started Guide
Technical Support!
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Overview
Golden Software is excited to announce the release of
Strater. Strater is a well log and borehole plotting
software program that imports your data from a multitude
of sources (database files, data files, LAS files, ODBC,
and OLE DB data sources). Strater provides innumerable
ways to graphically display your data. All the logs are
fully customizable to suit your needs. Design and save
template and scheme files to make log creation efficient
and consistent, create multi-page continuous logs, and
quickly display new borehole logs. Utilize the header
and footer panes to store all the information about the
logs, such as well number, driller, location, method,
company name, and company logo. The flexibility Strater
offers is unparalleled. Strater is written for use with
Windows 98, Me, 2000, and XP.
Strater easily creates a multitude
of log types to visualize your depth data.
Which
Strater Features Would You Like to Learn About?
Flexible Borehole
Design
Strater offers unsurpassed flexibility in log design
and layout. The advanced user interface makes designing
and displaying your data easier than ever. Simply select
the log type you want to create, click on the page where
you want the log to be created, specify a data file and
the import parameters, and the log is created! No other
log plotting package in its class can create logs this
easily!
Customize your borehole designs by easily creating,
editing, and updating illustrative and informative
header, footer, and log items in their separate design
areas. Strater includes 12 popular log types to
graphically display your data. Each of the logs can be
modified to suit your needs. The header and footer areas
are ideal to store the detailed information about the
logs, such as well number, driller, location, drilling
method, company name, and company logo. Strater offers
interactive point-and-click selection and modification
of every item in your borehole design.
We want to make sure you can have all your data and
logs easily accessible in one project. Strater allows
you to create multiple borehole views and data tables
and store them all in a single project. Each borehole
view can contain a different borehole design, allowing
tremendous flexibility in the presentation of your data.
You can easily switch between borehole views with a
single click! You can also import and store data for
multiple boreholes in one data table. Having the data
for all your boreholes together allows you to switch
between borehole names with a single click. When you
change the borehole names, the logs update immediately
and automatically with the new information!
Log Types
Strater includes 12 popular log types to graphically
display your data: zone bar, bar, percentage, graphic,
well construction, lithology, post, classed post,
complex text, line/symbol, crossplot, and depth logs.
Strater logs give you full control over all log
parameters. You can accept the Strater defaults to
automatically create a log, or select a log and easily
customize the log features in the Property Inspector.
Zone Bar Log
Display a wide variety of logging data with
the zone bar log. For instance, zone bars
can represent sample intervals, alteration
zones, contamination layers, etc. They also
provide a mechanism to display simple
keyword text objects either with or without
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Create
zone bars to display interval
information,
such as formation thicknesses and
alteration zones. |
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Bar Log
Show your data as either a
standard bar log or a polarity bar log! A
standard bar plots a bar from the data
minimum value to the row's data value. The
polarity bar plots data based upon zero, so
if there is a mix of negative and positive
data, bars exist on both sides of the zero
line. Effortlessly switch the bar type for
bar logs between standard and polarity. |
Plot your data using a
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Percentage Log
Visually compare the percentages
of items in a borehole easily using the
percentage log! The percentage log can be
used to show different percentages of
alteration types, mineralization types,
geochemical data, or rock types. The
percentage log uses data fields to create a
series of blocks (interval data) or polygons
(depth data). You can select any number of
numerical fields from a specified table. If
you select five fields, five different
blocks or polygons are created. The data for
each row are normalized to 100 percent, so
the data in each row's field can be any
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Show the
percentage of multiple components per
sampling interval using the percentage log! |
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Graphic Log
Create graphic logs that display
images directly on the log. The graphic log
allows you to specify bitmap file names and
show the bitmaps at specified intervals.
This is useful in displaying photos of the
core, alteration, rock types, sample
intervals, etc. |
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Display bitmap images
as a log. Graphic logs are
great for showing images versus depth, such
as core or thin section photos.
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Well Construction Log
The well construction log
replicates a well construction diagram for
the log, and is generally used in the
environmental industry. The well
construction log shows how the monitoring
well or piezometer was created. This log
shows items such as screen, packing
material, end caps, and covers. The well
construction log is a visual representation
of the well rather than a detailed
engineering drawing to scale. |
Well construction logs
display diagrams of wells. |
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Lithology Log
Show the various stratigraphic
layers in the borehole using the lithology
log. The display can be as simple as a
filled block, or the display can be more
elaborate and show weathering patterns and
contact line styles. Lithology logs can show
distinct contact line styles and indent
percentages/scales to show weathering
profiles. |
Use the lithology log
type to display all your lithologic data! |
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Post Log
Post logs are used to display
symbol positions and text at particular
depths. The symbols can represent sample
locations at depth or intervals, and in the
case of monitoring wells, the depth to water,
contamination, etc. Symbols can be rotated
according to data in the data table. The log
also allows placing text at one of five
positions relative to the symbol position.
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Post symbols at certain
depth locations using a post log. You can
rotate symbols to any angle specified in the
data table. |
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Classed Post Log
Classed post logs are used to
display symbol positions and text at
particular depths with symbol properties
based on numerical values in the data.
Symbols can be rotated according to data in
the data table. The log also allows placing
text at one of five positions relative to
the symbol position. |
Classed post logs
display a symbol at each depth location with
the symbol properties based upon another
field of data. You can choose to show text
labels. |
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Complex Text Log
Complex text logs can be used to
show rock descriptions, alteration
descriptions, and any general descriptive
text that represents interval data. The text
is generally more than just one or two words;
it is generally a sentence or series of
sentences. The long sentences are wrapped to
fit within the bounds specified for the log
item. Complex text logs can have arrows,
brackets, or offset ticks to separate the
text fields. Each text block can be
individually edited by double clicking on
the text section. |
Display text notes and
descriptions easily using
the complex text log. You can change the
text
content or the text properties by simply
double
clicking over the text. |
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Line/Symbol Logs
Display your depth data as a
graph! Line/symbol logs can be useful for
displaying assay values, geophysical
parameters, moisture content, etc. You can
wrap line/symbol logs with multiple styles:
truncate, custom wrap, wrap at a 10X scale,
or wrap at a 100X scale. |
Line/symbol logs show
depth data as a graph. |
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Crossplot Log
See exactly where two curves on a
graph intersect using the crossplot log!
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Crossplots plot two
line/symbol logs and highlight where they
cross each other. You can specify the curve
line, fill, and symbol properties for both
curves and you can set the fill properties
for the overlapping portion. |
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Depth Logs
Quickly see the depth or
elevation of your log using the depth log as
a scale bar. Optionally set your depth logs
to show depth or elevation, or positive or
negative values. You can add tick marks,
tick mark labels, and specify the interval
between major or minor tick marks.
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Depth logs provide a
depth scale for reference. Depth logs can
display depths in feet (above, left), meters
(above, right), inches, centimeters,
millimeters, or yards. |
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Headers and Footers
Utilize the header and footer
design areas to include comprehensive text descriptions,
linked text, imported image files, or drawing objects.
You can set the header and footer areas to be any size
you wish.
You can create an exceptional and
impressive log by importing company logos, icons, and
artwork. You can also speedily click-and-draw and
click-and-edit text, polygons, polylines, symbols,
rectangles, rounded rectangles, squares, ellipses, and
circles. All items can be fully modified, including font,
color, size, fills, width, etc. Add text objects in
header and footer areas that are linked to your database,
such as borehole name, page numbers, field units, or
field descriptions. When the borehole information is
changed, this information automatically updates.
Create
informative headers that display detailed information
about the project,
such as project name, company name, driller or well
identifier, location, drilling date,
and imported graphics (e.g. company logo or site map).
Database View
Strater's integral tabbed database
view allows you to import, display, enter, edit, sort,
and print data. Import data from common spreadsheet and
database formats, including: MDB, DBF, DB, LAS, XLS,
SLK, WKS, CSV, TXT, DAT, BNA, BLN, ODBC, OLE DB, or
other SQL data sources. Strater boasts full Excel import
capability, which includes using multiple sheets from a
single Excel file!
You can import data for multiple
boreholes into one data table, and you can create
multiple data tables in one project. Available data
table types include: collars, depth, interval, lithology,
project information, text item, and well construction
tables. You can rename any data table to descriptive
names to keep your data organized, and you can export
any data table to an ASCII text file. If source data
files are updated with new information, you can
automatically reload the data into Strater to update the
logs!
The database view provides the
functionality needed to make sure you can get your data
in the necessary format to create the logs you want. For
example, if you have depth data, you can easily convert
it to interval data to create zone bar, complex text, or
lithology logs! You can define a new borehole in the
data table and enter data for that borehole, or you can
remove data for a particular borehole at any time. To
help make creating a graphic log easy, you can insert a
bitmap file path and file name into the database view
with just a few clicks – you don’t have to remember and
manually type in the file path and file name!
You can create
multiple types of data tables in the database view
and each data table can store data for multiple
boreholes.
Templates
It is always easier to update a
log with new data than to start from scratch. Using
template files is an essential tool designed to make
bulk log processing easy and efficient. Once a borehole
is designed, you can reuse the design by saving it as a
template. Template files store all the graphical
features without the imported data, so you can create
borehole designs to be easily reused in other projects
or by other users. Use one of the many predefined
template that come with Strater, or create your own
specific to your needs!
Schemes
Schemes provide a way to load
drawing properties based on a keyword or range value
defined in the imported data. For example, a lithology
log uses lithology schemes. The lithology scheme
contains keywords, such as granite, clay, etc. Each of
these keywords is assigned a fill pattern, contact line
properties, line properties, and text properties.
Schemes can be reused; therefore, you do not have to go
through the time-consuming process of assigning the same
properties each time you create a new log. Reusing
template and scheme files is ideal for those who want to
continue making the same looking borehole designs for a
wide variety of borehole data.
The Scheme
Editor is where you link specific range values or
keywords to display properties. In the example above,
the lithology keyword “Granite” is tied to a granite
fill pattern and other specific display properties.
When the scheme is assigned to a lithology log, every
time the word "Granite" is used in the database table
field, Strater uses the properties assigned in the
scheme in the graphical borehole display.
Property Inspector
The user-friendly Property
Inspector allows you to interactively edit any object's
properties. Select any object and the Property Inspector
updates with the specific properties for that object.
Once you make a change, you can see the affects of that
change immediately in the borehole view – without having
to click any OK or Apply buttons!
You can easily
edit all the properties of a selected
object in the Property Inspector!
Object Manager
The object manager makes viewing
and editing any object simple. It displays all the
objects, organized by their design areas, in an
easy-to-use hierarchical tree arrangement. Select
objects in the Object Manager to easily edit them in the
Property Inspector, or check and uncheck the check box
to show or hide them.
Use the object
manager to easily access and edit all
the objects that are shown in your borehole view.
Borehole Manager
Use the Borehole Manager to manage
the different borehole views contained in the project.
Multiple borehole views are useful for displaying
multiple graphics for multiple wells or displaying
different layouts for the same data. You can add and
delete individual borehole views and load and save
template files quickly with the Borehole Manager!
Organize all
your borehole views in the Borehole Manager.
With a simple right-click, you can add and delete
borehole
views, save a borehole view as a template, and load
template files into new borehole views!
Additional Features
- Single-page or continuous printing! Choose between
single-page or continuous printing to any Windows
printer or plotter.
- Automatically or manually set the borehole
starting, ending, and scaling depths.
- Automatically set the borehole depths based on a
collars data table.
- Floating and dockable toolbars offer quick access
to Strater's commands and functions.
- Comprehensive Undo/Redo support.
- Setup Strater the way you like by controlling and
modifying the default settings.
- Copy your logs in Strater and paste them directly
into a Microsoft Word report or PowerPoint
presentation!
Import/Export Formats
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Import formats include: E00, GSI, GSB,
BNA, DLG, LGO, LGS, DXF, PLT, BLN, CLP, WMF, EMF, SHP,
MIF, DDF, TIF, BMP, TGA, PCX, WPG, DCX, EPS, JPG, PCT,
PNG, and GIF.
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Export formats include: DXF, DAT, SHP,
BNA, GSB, BLN, MIF, GSI, PDF, EPS, CGM, WMF, EMF, CLP,
TIF, BMP, TGA, PCX, WPG, PNG, JPG, PCT, DCX, and GIF.
System Requirements
- Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP or higher.
- 800 X 600 or higher monitor resolution with 16-bit
(or higher) color depth.
- At least 100 MB of additional free hard disk space.
- At least 64 MB RAM above the Windows requirement
for simple data sets.
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