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# Creating a Dips File

This tutorial shows the steps required to create a typical Dips file. Starting with a new blank file, the file which was used for the Quick Start Tutorial (Example.dip) is recreated. This file illustrates several important features, including a Quantity Column, Traverses, Extra Columns, and multiple orientation formats.

Creating a Dips File (click to view PDF file of tutorial)

Topics Covered in this Tutorial

- New file

- Project Settings

- Global Orientation Format

- Quantity Column

- Declination

- Traverse information

- Traverse column

- Traverse Orientation Format

- Borehole traverse / oriented core

- Extra columns

Grid View of Example.dip file