DUG Insight Release Notes

Volumes

• Easily filter volumes when adding to session (2D, 3D, on-disk and processes)

• Crossplots: Crosshairs ignored the global show/hide setting
• Views: An erroneous licensing error would appear in some cases
• Volumes: Improve handling of special characters in 2D lines

Polygons

• Add polygon operations (union, intersection, etc.)

Processes

• +Convolution (IGP, GA, and Exp Modules)

• Crossplots: Show/Hide wells and added new datums
• Snapshots: added to the Explorationist module
• Wells: add class settings button to well curve choosers
• Wells: export curves dialog includes class and unit labels
• Wells: improved settings display in Control Panel

• 3D: Well charts did not draw markers using their colour
• 3D: Well charts could be positioned incorrectly
• 3D: Wells could display a different curve to the selection
• 3D: Horizon polygons respond better to thickness settings
• Pore pressure: an error when exporting some result logs
• Processes: Improved clarity of scaling header warnings
• Views: Angle mutes were missing on angle gather sections
• Wells: Progress bar could exceed 100% when importing

Welcome to DUG Insight 4.6!

• Many changes and improvements under-the-hood.
• As always, Insight is faster than ever.
• Have fun with the new Insight!

Crossplots

• Improved well crossplots with polygon highlights in well views

Processes

• +Trim Statics (IGP and GA Modules)
• +High-Resolution Radon Transform (IGP and GA Modules)
• +Local Trace Alignment (GA Module)

Views & Displays

• Added quick-view shortcuts to volume details
• Improved colourbar annotations for all views
• Snapshots : Save/restore windows and display settings (requires one of Exp, IGP, GA, PP, DM, LF modules)

Wells (Sections and 3D)

• Display multiple-log curves using templates
• Flexible automatic curve selection for views
• Customisable well annotations for each view
• Show logs along the bore and as charts in 3D

Well Views & Templates

• Build custom, detailed log displays
• Easily share templates with other project users
• Use templates in well views, sections and 3D
• Display highlights from polygons in well crossplots

Petrel Link

• Support for Petrel 2019!

• Shapefiles: add convert-to-polygon option
• Volume maths: add toDegrees and toRadians functions
• Volume maths: add variables and multi-expression formulas
• Volume export: faster response when cancelled
• Volume export: SEG-Y export optionally outputs QC information
• Well View: Gather tracks include mutes

• Many minor bug fixes throughout the software

Well Correlation

• Display any volume in the connecting area between wells – perfect for interpretation!

• Views: Faster zooming and panning for very large volumes
• Volume maths: now supports bitwise operations
• Volume export: faster with better resource management

• Crossplots: a rare error when crossplotting horizons
• Horizons: a rare error when exporting to X/Y
• Well views: an error with gather tracks with no well selected

Horizons

• Show picks from adjacent lines while interpreting 3D IL/CL horizons

Well Views

• Status bar includes well and volume data for seismic and gather tracks

• AVA StackRotation and Intercept/Gradient allow irregular rotation angles

• Faults: a rare error when projecting fault sticks
• Interface: some web links would not open correctly
• Surveys: a rare error when showing some 2d survey lines
• Well tables: an error when pasting incorrectly formatted data
• Well tables: an error when component is deleted while editing
• Well tables: show shallowest and deepest in markers summary
• Well tables: path inc and azimuth affected by units (display only)

Well Components

• View and edit well markers, checkshots and paths in an easy-to-use table

• Horizons: Smoothing operation would sometimes not be applied
• Horizons: Smoothing operation would sometimes not cancel
• Spectra viewer: Disabling or removing a volume cancels in-progress calculations

Well Displays

• ‘Stacked fill’ log display added to well views

• Horizons: Dramatic improvements in smoothing speed
• Horizons: Faster export to text formats
• 2D SEG-Y Loading: UI improvements and streamlining

• Geo-images: Improved support for very large images
• Kingdom Link: Faults could create enormous extents
• Mistie-Corrections: Fractional phase and time shifts could cause errors during display and export
• Volumes: An error when exporting 3D spectral decomposition

Petrel Link

• Support for Petrel 2018!

• General: Faster Insight start-up
• 3D view: Simpler initial display with multiple surveys
• Control panel: Help menu links updated
• Horizon Operations: Negative strike direction allowed
• LFM Models: Allow sample intervals smaller than 1 ms
• Processes: Layout for band-pass filter
• SEG-Y loader: Improve warnings for 2D SEG-Y loading
• Sessions: Offer to save when exiting

• Crossplots: Exported points from wells could include duplicates
• Painters & views: 2D views sometimes clipped data when picking
• SEG-Y loader: Allow import of SEG-Y files containing one trace

Data manager

• New reporting tools
• Command-line operation of project backup, compact, repair and reports

• SEG-Y loader: Don’t allow SEG-Y import without CMP or SP

• Data manager: Backup operation could report an error
• Horizons: Rare error when importing a horizon
• Remote links: Nuisance error when making local copies of volumes
• Volumes: export: fix error when re-exporting 2D volumes

3D view

• New 3D cursor settings

Painters & Views

• Updated settings and hotkeys for navigation markers and view intersections

• Horizons: Improve ZMAP horizon support
• Hotkey change: CTRL+SHIFT+S Save session as
• Polygons: Show in map when hovering over table entries
• Wells: Wells have a default TD of 1888.0m

• Sessions: poor performance when manipulating large sessions
• File I/O: Improve handling of special Windows file locations
• Horizons: Don’t allow taking ownership copies during operations
• Mapping: 2D Line label font size in Map view screenshots
• SEG-Y loader: Better handling of no valid traces
• Surveys: Provide feedback when parsing invalid p6/98 data
• Volumes: Nuisance error when completing some exports
• Volumes: Improve resource management during SEG-Y export
• Wells: Improve handling of LAS files with invalid header values