What's New
The following is a listing of major feature additions which have been made in the latest Maintenance + release of Slide3.
Note: for a list of changes and bug fixes since the initial release of Slide3, see the Slide3 Update History page.
Version (3.021)
- Integration with Slide2 when exporting Generalized Anisotropic materials
- Heuristic: New, faster weak layer handling option (available with Particle Swarm only)
- Water options added to tension cracks
- File > Open File Location option
- New button to reset viewport layout
Version (3.020)
- Spline Search Method
- Metaheuristic search methods improvement
- Terrain Generator
- MMO feature for Wedge or Multiplanar surface search methods
- Synteen Manufacturer to the support manufacturer library
- Contour display option improvement to match RS3
Version (3.019)
- Reporting the volume of each material for the critical slip surface in the report generator
- User defined option for geosynthetic manufacturer library
Version (3.018)
- Different options to conduct more interactions between Slide3 and Slide2
- Search limits integration Slide3-Slide2
- Texture Mapping
- Exported geosynthetic support properties from Slide3 to Slide2
- Turbo color hot to cold
- Sliding Direction Arrow
- Contour for column depth
- Reverse Colors Option for Contours
- Show user defined surface in the 3D view of the 2D section creator
Version (3.017)
New Tutorial
Version (3.011)
- Section Export to Slide (modified export)
- Design Standards
- Block Model
New tutorials
Version (3.009)
- New search limit types
- Re-defined search limit:Surface
- Automatic weak layer handling
- Anisotropic surface altering
- Probabilistic Shear Strength
- Particle Swarm Search - new definition on one min / multiple mins
- Column Viewer - intercolumn forces
- Viewports - new viewport layout
New tutorials
- Tutorial 16b - Multiple Weak Layers
- Tutorial 24 - Search limits
- Tutorial 25 COV: Probabilistic analysis with random shear strength (COV)
- Tutorial 26 MMO: Analysis of Open Pit using multi-modal optimization (MMO)
More Version 3 Updates
- Probabilistic Analysis
- Common Support type
- Summary of Error Codes
- Improved info viewer
- General UI improvements
- General geometry improvements
- Borehole Manager Tutorial
- Seepage Analysis Tutorial
- Probabilistic Analysis Tutorial
Slide3 2019
- Built-in Geometry Repair Tool
- Wedge Type Slip Surface Option - (under 1-4 Wedge)
- Improved Divide All Functionality
- Addition of Surface Tools for improved visibility and transparency performance
- Addition of Property Pane to Visibility Tree
- Support of mining coordinates (large coordinates)
- Improved definition of loads
- Improved definition of support
- Section export to Slide2
- Rendering toolkit (display themes)
- Improved Section Viewer
- IDS GeoRadar Data Import
- Collapse Small Volumes
- AR model interaction using Microsoft HoloLens