Free Voxler Alternative: 3D Well and Borehole Views in the Browser

Voxler by Golden Software is excellent software with a price to match, and plenty of people need only a slice of what it does. This page is the honest comparison: what the free tools on this site cover, and where the commercial package still earns its keep.

What the free tools cover

• The 3D Well Path and Borehole Viewer: layered borehole sticks and minimum curvature well paths in a rotatable scene with drag control, a reference grid, and PNG export.
• The Well Trajectory Planner for designing the paths the viewer displays.
• The Contour Map Generator for the plan view of the same data.

Everything runs in the browser with nothing installed and nothing uploaded: your data stays on your machine, results print to PDF, and every tool carries a Project bar that remembers your inputs and can assemble a report.

Where Voxler still wins

Voxler renders true volumetric data: isosurfaces, voxel models, stream lines, and lighting. Anything involving gridded 3D property volumes stays its territory.

The verdict

For seeing whether the well passes the boreholes and showing a client the site in three dimensions, the free viewer answers in one drag of the mouse. Start with the links above; if you outgrow them, you will know exactly what to buy and why.

Related Calculators and Reference

• 3D Well Path and Borehole Viewer, the browser equivalent for three dimensional well paths.
• Cross Section Maker for Boreholes, when a flat section communicates the geology better than a volume.
• Contour Map Generator from XYZ Data, for gridding and contouring the same point data.
• USGS National Geospatial Program, national mapping and elevation data for the base surfaces.