Just showing you what it is that I am working on and how it is progressing.
This is a downhole survey application that is based on the Minimum Curvature method of calculation.
What is mostly in use now is an Excel spreadsheet that calculates the wellbore curve in a directional well. Excel lends itself to being very breakable. It has to fake variables by calculating them in hidden cells referenced by other row formulas. It was with some moderate difficulty that I had to chase all these cryptic formulas down and code them into Java. Maybe my sample Excel sheet was not the best one in existence, and some are made better with .Net or VB.
Users must first start by entering a Tie-In survey which must include the proposed azimuth of the well. The defaults are zero when drilling from surface. All fields must be filled out if this is an actual tie in.
Another feature of this application includes the ability to import surveys from other sources. Users may cut,paste or hand type the three items into a JTextArea dialog and import them into the table. The survey depth, inclination, and azimuth are entered into the text area line by line. They can be separated by spaces, tabs, colons or commas.
After Tie In and/or imports are complete the user may delete a particular row by right-click. Subsequent surveys are entered in the top left panel. There is also an option to save or open these surveys.