About Block Model Objects

Before starting with Earth Materials and Volumes, you must specify the data to work on. You can either create a block model in session or import it.

To import a block model object in the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, first create a physical product to host the block model data. As with other representations, the block model representation is attached to a product, and a product can contain several block model representations.

Importing a block model object creates automatically an alternative representation of geometries (regular blocks of equal dimensions) that contain point clouds and associated properties. A block model is traditionally generated from boreholes using advanced modeling techniques. Here is a typical representation of a geological model consisting of blocks:

Each block within a block model has attributes. Here is an illustration of a subset of attributes for a block:

The attributes of a block model are defined in a csv file, where for example:

• : each row is a block.
• : each column is an attribute.

These numeric or character string values are defined in Geoscience Resources in Data Setup. . For more information, see some typical examples of a palette and a semantic dictionary (csv files) provided in Geoscience Resources .

By default, The orientation of the block model representation is specified by the local reference systems (CRS).

You can export the block model information in text reports.