MINIMUM
REQUIREMENTS

• Windows XP or later, 32 or 64 bit
• 200 MB of free hard-disk space
• 256 MB memory (RAM)

SUGGESTED REQUIREMENTS

• Windows 7, 32 or 64 bit
• 200 MB of free hard-disk space
• 1 GB memory (RAM)

Output: Excel Charting

The Chart in Excel feature exports any chart, and its accompanying data, to Microsoft Excel with one click. Note that the Chart in Excel option is only active when a chart or graph view is made current.

Chart in Excel option under Graph menu

Excel charts created from the Bounce Height Envelope graph

 

Output: Copy to Clipboard

The "Copy" button in the Slope Editor, Barrier Editor and Data Collector dialogs enables the geometry and associated parameters to be copied to the Clipboard. This is useful if you want to paste their properties into a spreadsheet for further analysis or writing reports. Note that a summary of all model information is provided with the InfoViewer option, which can also be copied to the clipboard.

The Slope Editor dialog

The Barrier Editor dialog

The Data Collector Editor dialog

 

Output: InfoViewer

The InfoViewer option in the File menu or the toolbar displays a summary of RocFall model parameters, and analysis results, in its own view. The InfoViewer information can be copied to the clipboard and pasted into word processing programs. The information can also be saved to a text file.

InfoViewer

InfoViewer can be saved as a text file or a Word document

 

Output: Grayscale

The Grayscale option allows the user to convert the entire view to grayscale (black and white) with a single mouse click. This can be useful when black and white screen captures or printouts are necessary.

Effect of grayscale

 

Output: Annotation Tools

RocFall 4.0 improved the Annotation Tools, such as Multi-line text boxes, arrows, custom-axes, rulers, lines, circles, rectangles, Bitmap Images. These can all be added to the slope and slope/chart views and scaled easily.

Annotation Tools under Tools menu

Effects of adding annotations

 

Output: Display Options

The Fill Behind Slope option in the Display Options dialog lets the user to customize the appearance of the slope. The user can choose either to fill or hatch the back of the slope or to just leave it blank.

The Fill Behind Slope option in Display Options dialog

The back of slope is filled with brown color

The back of slope is hatched

 

Output: Import/Export Materials, DXF, CRS & Image files

RocFall allows the user to import and export other data files with Import and Export options under the File menu.

Import option under File menu

Export option under File menu

The user can only import a slope (.DXF) or a CRSP (Colorado Rockfall Simulation Program) into a blank RocFall model. RocFall entities (slopes, barriers, collectors, seeders and rock paths) can also be exported to a DXF file (AutoCAD Drawing Exchange File), using the Export DXF option in the Export sub-menu of the File menu. The properties of materials defined in RocFall can be stored in RocFall property files. Property files have a .RFM filename extension. Property files are independent of other RocFall data files. They allow users to create their own "database" of material properties. The saved RocFall property files can be loaded into a RocFall model later on. The active view in RocFall can be exported to an image file (which can be used for reports or other graphics purposes). The program can save image files in the following graphics formats: JPEG (.JPG), Windows bitmap (.BMP), Windows enhanced metafile (.EMF), and Windows metafile (.WMF).