Quick Start Tutorial

This tutorial provides a quick tour of the major analysis and plotting features of Dips. A typical example file is used to illustrate stereonet plots (pole, scatter, contour), rosette plots, identification of data clusters (joint sets) with the set window option, display options, charting, querying etc.

Quick Start Tutorial (click to view PDF file of tutorial)

Topics Covered in this Tutorial

Grid view (input data spreadsheet)
Pole plot
Scatter plot
Contour plot
Terzaghi weighting (bias correction)
Stereonet options
Rosette plot
Added planes
Creating sets / set windows
Mean planes
Major planes plot
Display options
Symbolic pole plot
Charts
Query

Quick start example file - grid view, pole plot, contour plot, rosette plot