What's New

The following is a listing of major feature additions which have been made in the latest Maintenance + release of RS3.

Version 4.031

• Hybrid Mesh
• Deformed configuration
• Import QUIKSLOPE data
• Cancel button for DFN operation
• Editing the location of SSR/Plastic/Hybrid regions
• Groundwater Verification
• Consolidation Verification
• Theory Manual for Hybrid Mesh
• Hybrid Mesh Example
• DFN Example
• Documentation for the result’s legend

Version 4.029

• Discrete Fracture Network (DFN)
• Recovery the analysis if the computation is canceled midway through
• Advanced bolt selection tool for bolt results
• Copy joint data within the joint property dialog
• DFN tutorial
• Bolt results documentation

Version 4.028

• Plastic Region
• Adding the option to show the contours passing the min/max limit
• Checkbox to use unsaturated shear strength
• Example manual-Relief Well
• Help page for strength factor calculation

Version 4.027

• Updating liner properties based on installed stage
• SSR option for Barton-Bandis and Geosynthetic Hyperbolic joint slip criterion
• Importing Sysdam data
• “Open File Location” option is added to File Menu
• Tunnel Designer help page
• Joint Verification

Version 4.026

• Plotting line query based on stage number and stage time
• Exporting plotted curve directly to Excel
• Copy and past functionality for “time” column in staging tab in project setting
• Data grid to assign prescribed displacement in multi staged model
• Search bar in RS3
  

Version 4.025

• Preview button to display loads before they are applied

Version 4.024

• Display failure of all joints for generalized anisotropic materials.

Version 4.023

• Pile connection to liner can be selected as assigned to first layer or all layers
• Accelerated convergence criteria for faster analysis
• Visualization of tensile failure in beams and liners
• Dip/Dip Direction option to define joint orientation for Jointed Mohr Coulomb and Jointed Generalized Hoek-Brown materials

Version 4.022

• Define liner local coordinates for contouring and querying liner results
• Save option with file size optimization in history cleaning process (to reduce file size)
• Lasso selection mode when using the mouse
• Visibility Pane Selection Tab for saving the selection of multiple volumes, faces, edges and vertices

Version 4.014

• Using SQLite database to store and retrieve geometry in a fast and efficient way
• Import Maptek Data
• Add new regions of interest to RS3 that allow rapid results viewing similar to EX3
• Ability to view discharge velocity vectors
• Ability to rapidly preview isosurfaces bound to regions of interest in RS3 similar to EX3
• Ability to define the Generalized Hoek-Brown failure criterion using GSI, mi and D

Version 4.011

• Add Springs to Selected
• Add joint Surface - ability to define removal stage of a joint surface
• User Data

Visualization

• New view port display option
• Grid Data visualization
• Normal and shear stresses from a plane
• Align camera with selected plane or face
• Right click property table tools (Improved annotation tool)

Performance

• Clean history
• Fixing Memory leaks

Sensor data import

• Reutech sensor data import
• 3vGeomatics data import

Version 4.007

• RS2 Import to RS3
  • RS2 import to RS3 tutorial
• Contour shading option
• Advanced Display Options
• Additional Pressure Inside Joint - Joint properties

Version 4.005

• Tunnel Designer and tutorials
  • Sequence tunnel designer
  • Cross section tunnel design
  • Tunnel design with boreholes
  • RS2 import to RS3 tunnel design
• Performance improvements with the following features:
  • The following problems have been addressed:
  • Divide all, Add to external, Segmenter
    • Improved material assignments to ensure that the new external pieces inherit from the correct parent pieces.
    • Efforts have been made to identify the boundaries of the solid pieces in cases where highly complex and poorly intersected geometries present in the process.
    • Fewer sliver or high aspect ratio pieces.
  • Volume meshing
    • Improved speed and accuracy in determining the material assignment of solid elements.
    • Feedback with greater detail has been added to inform the user of problems with geometries.
• EX3 Import to RS3
• Discharge Section Information in Properties Pane
  Having a model with discharge sections, user should be able to select a discharge section to see the direction and magnitude of the vector in the properties pane.
• Add Line Query at Intersection
  In case of defined a contour plane that has some geometry intersecting it, user can create a query line at the intersection of the contour plane with the geometry.
• Labels on Line Queries
  Having a line query, user can now see the locations and data values at each sample. Selecting a polyline, bolt, beam, pile, or forepole query, the properties pane now has four additional checkboxes:
  • Show Sample Value - off by default
  • Show Sample Positions - off by default
  • Show Sample Nodes - show dots at the sample points; on by default (documented in another Task)
  • Show Contour - draw the contour colour; on by default (documented in another Task)
• New tutorial: Discharge sections - Additional Exercise in Relief Well tutorial.

Version 4.002

• Groundwater Seepage Analysis
• Relief Well
• Wick Drains
• Structural liner interfaces and tutorials
  • Anchored Sheet Pile wall
  • Tunnel with Liner and Joint
  • Joint Slope SSR tutorial
• Joint Properties
• Graph shear strength reduction
• Simplify Geometry
• Improved Report Generator
• IDS Radar Data Import
• Import Tre Altamira radar data
• Section Export for RS2
• Add surface from points
• Advanced Material Models