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ZoneVu 6.5 Release Notes

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ZoneVu 6.5 Release Notes

The ZoneVu 6.4 release includes the Target Line Tool, Wellbore Mod Update, Curve Mnemonic Auto-Assignment Tool, Well Copy, Dropdown Menu Upgrade, Knowledgebase Widget, Dynamic Button Trees, ZoneVu Frac Upgrades, Measuring Tool Upgrade, Drawing Tool Upgrade, API Upgrade, Python SDK Update, 3D Viewer Enhancements, New Color Tables, New Litho Textures, Geosteering Updates, Scene Snapshot Upgrade, Enhanced Metric Unit Support, and other minor updates and bug fixes.

Last updated on 27 Jan, 2026

Key Updated Features:

Target Line Tool: (NEW)

The new Target Line tool will allow users to create 4 specific Target Lines (0’ VS Lines, Drill to Plan, Floating Waypoints, and Floating Waypoints with Guidelines). Each of these Target Lines can be drawn on the Cross-Section and/or created in a table, with the ability to customize the Line and Drilling Window styling.

  • 4 Specific Target Line Types

  • Customized Line and Drilling Window Styling

  • Controlled from Scene Control

  • Can be displayed in 2D, 3D, and the Map Viewer

  • Can be created in MD and VS Space

  • Support for U-Turn Wells in VS & MD!

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Wellbore Modification Tool: (UPGRADED)

The Wellbore Modification Tool has been upgraded to allow greater customization and styling while improving usability.

  • Customize Wellbore Mod Line style

  • Customize Wellbore Mod Drilling Window style

  • Added a sorting option: Name, Date, or Creation

  • Added a ‘Star’ button

  • Added a ‘Copy’ button

  • Added a ‘Copy To Clipboard’ and ‘Export’ buttons

  • Define Right/Left on Drilling Windows

  • Can now change a Wellbore Mod’s associated Survey after creation

  • Can now change a Wellbore Mod from ‘Free Floating’ to ‘Survey Point’ after creation

  • Can now multi-select Wellbore Mods in the list

  • Wellbore Mods can now be created solely from the Points table (no longer require the creation of points on the Cross-Section to edit them in the Points table)

  • Enhanced Wellbore Mod to better support U-Turn Wells

  • Wellbore Mods can be displayed in the 3D and Map Viewers

  • Removed the Wellbore Mod Button tree and moved all functionality into Scene Control

  • By default, Wellbore Mods will only display in the horizontal scale (MD/VS) they are drawn in (released mid-build cycle)

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Curve Mnemonic Auto-Assignment Tool: (New)

While registering an LAS file, ZoneVu will now auto-assign master mnemonics. We have also expanded our Mnemonic list to include more drilling, geosteering, mudlogs, XRD, and XRF logs (176 in total). We have also upgraded our curve list and Curve Registration GUI.

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Well Copy: (NEW)

You can now right-click on a Well in the Well List and make an exact copy of it.

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Dropdown Menus: (UPGRADED)

We have upgraded our dropdown menu system to support flyouts and added several new dropdown options and menu items.

  • Added new main menus

  • Support nested menus

    • Main, Geosteering, Frac, & Data

  • Numerous menu options have been added

  • Color changed to black

  • Added option to access the Mobile Viewer Editor

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Knowledgebase Widget: (NEW)

We have added the ZoneVu Knowledge Base Widget. Allowing you to access every article in our Knowledgebase and send out support team an email, all without leaving ZoneVu.

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Dynamic Button Trees: (New)

Button trees can be placed on all 4 sides of the Viewer (Top, Bottom, Right, Left) and stacked together or in separate rows/columns. Also, the Button Trees will now wrap when necessary.

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ZoneVu Frac: (UPGRADED)

  • Full support for Metric units – Display, Import, & Export

  • Units’ selection dropdowns added to Frac Import and export dialogs

  • Import options upgraded and fixed

  • Water/Length column is now supported for import

  • Added Frac Copy button

  • Stage Table – GUI upgraded

  • Stage Table - Prop/Ft column is not editable

  • Stage Table - Renamed "ProppantWeight" column to "ProppantWeightPerLength"

  • Stage Table - GUI update

  • Stage Table – Treatment Detail & User Defined Columns sections checked on by default

  • Stage Table – Improved auto decimal digit selection

  • Frac Export dialog has been simplified

  • Clusters Columns is no longer editable

  • Better auto decimal selection

  • Updated Frac Import Spreadsheet (Attached)

    • New Styling

    • New Columns: ProppantPerLength & WaterPerLength

 Measuring Tool: (UPGRADED)

  • GUI updated

  • Auto-transitions between points

  • Can display both points and distances section at the same time

  • Better object snapping

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Drawing Tool: (UPGRADED)

  • GUI updated

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API: (UPGRADED)

New supported dataset

  • Seismic Faults

  • Seismic Horizons

  • Survey Header Data

Python SDK: (UPGRADED)

  • SDK is now 2.0.2

  • Requirements downgraded to support Python 3.10

  • Example scripts have been moved into their own package

  • Now support Seismic Fault, Horizons, and Survey Header data

3D Viewer VE and Elevation Controls: (NEW) 

  • The Vertical Exaggeration and Elevation controls have been added to the upper right corner of the 3D Viewer

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Color Tables: (UPDATED)

  • 2 new Color tables

    • Tool Face & BlueYellowBrown GR

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Litho Textures: (UPDATED)

  • 5 new Litho Textures are now supported

    • Gypsum, Silty Sandstone, Silty Shale, Silty Limestone, Silty Dolomite

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Geosteering: (UPDATED)

  • Add ‘Import’, ‘Export’, & ‘Edit Mode’ buttons to the Geosteering Interpretation Settings dialog

  • Geosteering list can be sorted by: Name, Date, or Creation

  • Can now select a Geosteering block with a single-click (instead of a double-click)

  • Have 'Export all Displayed Tops" and "Export all Displayed Logs" checked on by default in the Geosteering Export dialog

  • Option to select the left or right block when a Geosteering Block is broken added to the Geosteering tab of Scene Control

  • Better support for Wellbore Mods on U-Turn Wells

  • Grey Cursor Tracking Lines can be turned off in Display Settings under the 2D Scene Tab

  • The last Geosteering Block is selected by default when no other blocks are currently selected

Scene Snapshot Tool: (released mid-build cycle)

  • New Load Type added: Partial – Well

  • Added sorting feature: Name, Date, or Creation

  • Redesigned Snapshot dialog to improve usability

  • Snapshot URL now honors Load Type settings

  • When loading a Snapshot from a URL, users are presented a dialog allowing them to choose what Load Type they want to use and backup their current Snapshot

Metric Units: (UPDATED)

  • Metric Units are now formally supported across the system

  • All dialogs honor the Units setting found in the General tab of Display Settings

  • Home Pages now honor the units settings, specified in the Header dialog(s)

Minor Updates:

  • 3D Viewer: Background color can be changed to White in Display Settings on the 3D Scene tab

  • Curve Histograms: LAS Exported added to Curve Histograms (released mid-build cycle)

  • Correlation Panel: Pressing ‘Enter’ will select OK on the Delete Top dialog

  • Composite Logs: Shifting Image Logs

  • Correlation Panel: Added ‘Select Wells’ button when the Correlation Panel is blank

  • Correlation Panel: Added ‘Add Interpretation Wells’ to the Correlation Panel tab in the Map Viewer’s Scene Control and the Well tab of the Correlation Panel’s Scene Control

  • Correlation Panel: You can now hit ‘ENTER’ to confirm a Top deletion

  • Drilling Center: Filtering Option has been added

  • Geomodels: Added an option to flip the sign of the ‘Z’ Values (released mid-build cycle)

  • LAS Data: Export honors the tab units

  • Layout Tool: Can drag Viewer Buttons from the Main Button Tree and drop them onto the Viewer

  • Map Viewer: Improved map panning and navigation with the mouse

  • Map Viewer: Add 'Zoom to Active Target Well' right-click menu

  • Map Viewer: Show correlation Panel line checked off by default

  • Performance Upgrade: Increased speed for displaying Top data in the 3D Viewer

  • Performance Upgrade: Increased Project loading speed, especially for larger Projects

  • Performance Upgrade: Improved Folder loading time on the Home Pages

  • Performance Upgrade: Increased speed for ‘Show All’ & ‘Hide All’ formations

  • Project Folder: Create Project Dialog - Coordinate System settings duplicated on the 'General' tab

  • Report Generator: Added ‘ALT+R’ as the hotkey

  • Report Generator: Added ‘Move Page Up/Down’ buttons (released mid-build cycle)

  • Right-Click Menus: Numerous right-click menu items added

  • RigStream: Added Curve List Refresh button

  • RigStream: Add right-click ‘Edit RigStream Log’ option

  • Scene Control: Automatically transitions when a new Viewer is selected

  • Scene Control: Added hyperlink to Seismic Horizons and Fault tabs

  • Scene Control: Geosteering Interpretation List is not auto-updating when a new Geo Interp is created

  • Seismic: Horizon Importer remembers column settings until tab refresh

  • Top Importing: Users can now specify Geoprog Tops using the importer

  • Viewer: Refresh List button has been added to the Geo Interp, Frac, and Wellbore Mod lists

  • Viewer: Geo Interp, Frac, and Wellbore Mod List automatically update when a new object has been created by another user

  • Viewer: Renamed ‘Geosteering Interpretation Management’ dialog to ‘Geosteering Interpretations’

  • Viewer: Toast Notification GUI has been updated and a Close button has been added

  • Viewer: improved touchscreen performance

Bug Fixes:

  • 2D Viewer: Vertical Log Track jumping around when other Geosteering Bocks are selected (released mid-build cycle)

  • 2D Viewer: Creation of random unused Log Tracks (released mid-build cycle)

  • 2D Viewer: Plans misdrawn in MD mode

  • 3D Viewer: Log Curve Selection bug

  • Curve Histograms: Too many decimals in LAS (released mid-build cycle)

  • Geomodels: Min/Max values getting blown out

  • Geomodels: Zones not recalculating correctly when grid data is updated

  • Geosteering: Geosteering in a Shared Project is causing a display lag (released mid-build cycle)

  • Geosteering: Dialog displaying off-screen

  • Geosteering: Geosteering List dialog displaying off-screen

  • LAS Loading: Error thrown when the date is out of range (released mid-build cycle)

  • Measure Tool: displaying off screen

  • Report Generator: Grids are not displaying in the Map Viewer (released mid-build cycle)

  • Report Generator: Map Viewer is jumping around when resizing Widgets (released mid-build cycle)

  • Report Generator: The wrong geosteering block is getting selected (released mid-build cycle)

  • RigStream: Mast Curve Mnemonics cannot be unassigned

  • Scene Control: 3D Viewer Logs tab - Select Star/LWD/LAS log curves selection is not getting auto-applied

  • Snapshot: Show Empty Tracks Checkbox State is not saved

  • Survey Data: Importing Surveys with Delta-X/Delta-Y causes the system to ignore the azimuth reference convergence angle

  • Top Data: Depth inputs restricting the use of ‘.’

  • Viewers: Top data not displaying on the Plan they were created on

  • Viewer: Plans are turning back on when switching between Wells

  • ZoneVu Frac: Stage Table cells cannot be Nulled out

  • ZoneVu Frac: Export column ordering does not match the import spreadsheet

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