Home Tab Basic Options
Home Tab Basic Options
The Home tab has several important options which allow you to customize the behavior of Earth Volumetric Studio as a user and/or for a specific project. These options are shown below.
There are many important options. Most are quite obvious, but a few may not be and they are worth understanding:
Application Options affect the construction, function and appearance of your application:
Highlight All Connections when off suppresses showing potential connections to minor ports.
Display Minor Ports: when on makes minor ports visible on all modules including those in the Modules window. Otherwise, the minor ports are only visible when hovering over a module.
Snap to Grid: When on, modules will align with a grid. This is a recommended setting, but when off, modules can be positioned anywhere.
Z Scale: This is the global (application wide) vertical exaggeration. This controls the Z Scale in all modules with this parameter (e.g. explode_and_scale, post_samples, etc.) Each module inherits this value by default, but can be set with its own unique value if desired.
Explode: This is the global (application wide) layer explode factor. This controls the Explode parameter in all modules with this parameter (e.g. explode_and_scale, post_samples, etc.) Each module inherits this value by default, but can be set with its own unique value if desired.
Zoom: When the Viewer renormalizes, this is the default scale applied to all objects.
Connections Options affect how and when connections can be made and the appearance of connections between modules.
Connection Checking: In general we will not allow you to make completely inappropriate connections. Port connections are restricted to be ports of similar type (color). However, many output ports have content that is dependent on the type of data passed to the module and/or the options selected in the module. For example, many modules can work with lines, points and volumes. Others can only process volumetric data. Prior to a module's running, we cannot know the content of its output, and therefore we cannot know precisely which ports should be connected, and which ones should not.
Strict Checking: will not allow any connections that are not definitely appropriate. This means that many connections cannot be made until a module is run.
Basic Checking: relaxes the rules of strict checking, but still prevents most inappropriate actions.
Allow Unsafe Connections: allows you to make any connections that can potentially be appropriate. This option should only be used by experienced users who know in advance what connections are appropriate.
Connection Style:
Curved connections are much less likely to be ambiguous.
Straight Connections give your application the legacy appearance of EVS Pro and MVS.
Hide Viewer Connections is useful to keep applications simpler looking. The red connections are suppressed but modules which are connected are obvious.
The Property Display Options control the level of detail and display of module properties
Display Expert Properties should be off for novice users as it reduces the choices and helps prevent changing parameters that should normally not be changed.
Always Show Critical Properties is recommended to be on since it will always show those properties which we feel must always be considered and adjusted for all applications.
Automatically Collapse Properties is a personal preference. When on, each module's properties groups are collapsed and easy to see. When off, all properties are displayed, but for complex modules you must scroll to see them.
The Module Library Options control the level of detail and display of modules
Include Expert Modules should be off for novice users as it reduces the choices
Include Deprecated Modules should be off for novice users as it reduces the choices.
Automatically Collapse Module Groups is a personal preference. When on, each module group is collapsed and easy to see. When off, all modules are displayed, but you must scroll to see them.
Gridding Defaults: These options affect many modules such as krig_3d_geology, krig_2d, krig_3d, etc.
Display Defaults:
These options affect many modules such as explode_and_scale, geologic_surfaces, post_samples, axes, etc.
Z Scale
Explode
Estimation Defaults: These options affect modules such as krig_2d, krig_3d, etc.
Pre clip min and Post clip min affect how non-detects are used in kriging
H/V Anisotropy is an important parameter in krig_3d
Use all samples if # samples below: This toggle and the upper limit to "use all" affects how kriging is performed
Number of points: affects how kriging is performed
Log Process: is an important option which affects krig_2d and krig_3d. For data which spans several orders of magnitude like contaminant concentrations, log processing the data before kriging dramatically improves the quality of the results. It is not appropriate for many other analytes such as porosity.
See the Geostatistics Workbook for more information on the options related to Confidence.
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