What's New

The following is a listing of major feature additions which have been made in the latest Maintenance + release of Slide3.

Version (3.031)

• Lambda vs. FS Plot
• Launched Soil Nails
• Helical Anchors
• Scene Manager

Version (3.030)

• RSInsight access from Help menu

Version (3.029)

• Sensitivity Analysis for material properties
• Ability to add multiple search limits for Intelligent Search
• RSData Integration for Material Properties
• Improved speed of importing discrete functions with large number of points
• Option to generate/load ROI surface added Interpret menu
• Added Section Through Global Minimum option to the Slide2 Section Creator dialog
• Slide3 Intelligent Search now exports to Slide2 as PSO

Version (3.027)

• Change of block model tutorial using Intelligent Search

Version (3.026)

• Block Model with block-level parameters, visualization of block model on 2D sections and export to Slide2, visualization of block model on external, accurate parameter estimation, and updated import wizard
• When a Slide2 file with two slope limits is opened in Slide3, the slope limits are displayed with the wrong default colours (Fixed)
• Exporting a Slide2 section with "Cohesion varies with depth" and F(undrained Cu) was not resulting in proper material cohesion type in Slide2 (Fixed)
• Discrete function sometimes not recognized as being defined when pressing OK in the material dialog (Fixed)
• Issue importing properties from a Slide2 project with a discrete function defined (Fixed)
• Change of interface when importing sensor data

Version (3.025)

• Compute Issue with Intelligent Search + Overall Slope

Version (3.024)

• Creating 2D section through the middle of the global minimum automatically
• Adding Intercolumn Force Diagram dialog to Column Data Viewer
• Converting Anisotropic Strength material exported from Slide3 to equivalent Generalized Anisotropic in Slide2
• Intelligent Search surface generation method
• Creating 2D section for export from polylines
• Draw polyline - plane origin selection tool

Version (3.023)

• Improved message for Maintenance+ subscription

Version (3.022)

• Mapping Function options added to Generalized Anisotropic
• Update to Add Water by Location: ability to import Sysdam data
• Advanced option in Generalized Anisotropic dialog

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)

• RSPile

New Tutorial

• RSPile integration

Version (3.011)

• Section Export to Slide (modified export)
• Design Standards
• Block Model

New tutorials

• Design Standard tutorial
• Block Model Tutorial

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