Slide3
Program Updates
Slide3 Program Updates
Slide3
Program Updates
Slide3 Program Updates
3.010 – November 25 2020 [Download]
- CHANGED Borehole diagram display
- CHANGED Add Viewport tab to Display Options
- CHANGED Remove report generator tab from Display Options
- FIXED Show surface as inset does not work with MMO
- FIXED Display Geometry as Inset
- FIXED Add Plane Coordinate Issue in models with global offset
- FIXED Error Saving Arbitrary Search Volume
- FIXED Error Saving Surface Search limit
- FIXED Pullout strengths by material not working properly
- FIXED Section Viewer 4k UI issue displaying ruler in 2D Section Preview
- FIXED Collapse Small Volumes ListBox Selection Issue
- FIXED Changing Method in Results resets Custom Range for Add Safety Map
- FIXED Losing license access crashes program
3.009 – November 9 2020 [Download]
- NEW Particle Swarm MMO (Multiple failures)
- NEW Probabilistic Shear (COV method)
- NEW Wavin Support
- NEW Copy Image
- NEW Section Cut Front View
- NEW Report weight in tonnes as well as kN
- NEW Option in the section cut dialog to turn off writing user defined surface
- NEW Display Weak Surfaces and Anisotropic Planes in Assign Materials Using Cutting Plane window
- NEW Add Section at Segment Midpoint
- NEW Ability to drop and drag geometry to import
- NEW Add interslice forces and surface metrics (slip dir, mass, etc.) to the Slide3 results file for all surfaces
- NEW Different Colours for Different Method Results
- NEW Column Width in Column Data Viewer
- NEW Add Interslice Forces to Contouring
- NEW Maximum Slip Surface Filters
- NEW New View Layout
- NEW Pore Pressure Grid Contour
- NEW Import Reutech and 3vGeomatics senso data
- NEW Save Progress Bar
- CHANGED Export Geometry File Name as Material
- CHANGED Material Dialog Auto Select New Material
- CHANGED Section Cut Select
- CHANGED Format of Column Viewer Excel Export
- CHANGED Moved Results Display Dialog to Tab in Display Dialog
- CHANGED Display All Surfaces Dialog
- FIXED Scale Crash in Reconstruct Surface
- FIXED Orientation Preview crash in Reconstruct Surface
- FIXED Loft Tool Crash
- FIXED RE: Can't export material info
- FIXED Orientation doesn't work properly
- FIXED Create As User-Defined crashes in "Display All Surfaces" dialog
- FIXED Null reference exception
- FIXED Report Generator crashes when opening it in a model with results
- FIXED Reading models with results (built with older builds) issue
- FIXED Import Geometry Crash
- FIXED Slide3 export of 2D section has wrong infill
- FIXED Chart in Excel crash
- FIXED Support pattern does not allow a value of 1m
- FIXED Paste from Excel to tables bug
- FIXED Discrete function input not written to file
- FIXED Reading results performance issue
- FIXED Slide3 view surfaces crash
- FIXED define material statistics dialog bug
- FIXED Same model different results
- FIXED Recomputing a model after opening the column viewer crashes the program
- FIXED Arbitrary Search Volume Saving and Compute fails
- FIXED Show surface as inset does not work with MMO
- FIXED Display Geometry as Inset Problems
- FIXED Slide3 crash
- FIXED Add Search Limit Box coordinates are off
- FIXED Opening any Slide3 model crashes the program
- FIXED Add Plane Coordinate Issue when having a model with the global offset
- FIXED Error Saving Arbitrary Search Volume
- FIXED ASC File has Optional Nodata Value
- FIXED Changing Method in Results resets Custom Range for Add Safety Map
- FIXED Add Elevation Map Crashes Program
- FIXED Results File Writing State doesn't change after modifying a model that initially gives error code
- FIXED Borehole UI Issues
- FIXED Remove display options for report generator in application
- FIXED MMO table is not being removed after saving as MMO model (minor UI issue)
- FIXED MMO bug: two identical surfaces printed
- FIXED Display All Surfaces Icons are too big
- FIXED Sl3 Modeler fatal error when changing from infinite strength material
- FIXED PWP Data Role Bug
- FIXED Slope limit rendering wrong colour
- FIXED Copy and Paste of Data into a User-Defined Support data grid misses the last item
- FIXED Discrete Function doesn't work for various combinations
- FIXED Slide3: Rotated weak layer surface not writing to compute file
- FIXED Model crashes when re-open in slide3 after adding a section
- FIXED Adding a 3D Primitive Geometry to a model with results in results workflow tab coordinate/scale issue after Saving and reopening
- FIXED Slide3: Gen aniso function update not saving when switching to another material
- FIXED When Max Neg Pore Pressure box not checked, value set to 0
- FIXED Don't allow entry of Ru that is less than zero
- FIXED YZ Plane is disabled in the Interpret
- FIXED Safety Map Custom Range min value has changed
- FIXED Import Geometry dialog missing Post Processing "Simplify Triangulation" and "Repair Option" page and directly imports the geometry
- FIXED Slide3 plane creation via normal vector seems to ignore sign of z
- FIXED Section cut compute issues
- FIXED Collapse Small Volumes ListBox Selection Issue
- FIXED Section Viewer UI issue displaying ruler in 2D Section Preview
- FIXED PWP Legend dos not get removed after water grid is being deleted
- FIXED Sensor Data Role Bug
- FIXED Reutech sensor Data Contour Min Max remains in the viewport after deleting it
- FIXED Opening old files with only user-defined surfaces causes it to change to a search method
- FIXED Column Viewer gets disabled for all surfaces after turning off "Show only selected outline"
3.008 – August 21 2020 [Download]
- Search volume bug fixed
- Import (search volume\slope surface\Anisotropic surfaces) coordinate bug fixed.
- Displaying Show All Surfaces bug fixed.
- Engine: Center of Rotation when falling below failure surface bug fixed.
- Displaying numbers in borehole manager bug fixed.
- Removing excavation role for Add Plane and fixing “fit plane to selected” option.
- Error codes -116 through -119 relating to slope limits renumbered to -150 through -153
- Error codes -130 and -137 weren’t being reported in file; fixed.
3.007 – July 9 2020 [Download]
- Fixed an issue with slip surfaces touching external boundaries being admitted during searching
- Fixed an issue with unexpected searching behaviour in models with rotated box slope limits
3.006 – June 11 2020 [Download]
- NEW: Import and Export search limits
- Fixed a rare issue with hydrostatic forces being applied in the wrong direction to some vertical column faces
- Improved algorithm for detecting vertical column faces, which is used to clip the column geometry
- Improved algorithm for detecting vertical discontinuities within a slip mass
- Fixed an issue with internal islands being created within slip masses
- Fixed an issue with some slip surfaces not being shown in the Display All Surfaces dialogue
- Fixed an issue with the program not being able to detect internally concave surfaces and outputting the appropriate error code (-121)
- Fixed an issue with slope limits not being fully respected as the edges of slip surfaces
- Improved properties import from Slide2 to Slide3
- Fixed a section viewer crash
- Fixed Elevation/Safety Map contours visibility
- Improved Support dialog UI (error handling)
- Fixed Add Water by Location crash
- GSI and MI value entry issue in material properties fixed (it was crashing entering a letter, it also had a UI issue not showing the entered value)
- Create external from surface decimal issue entering a value is fixed
- Assign aniso material to a weak layer results crash error fixed
3.005 – April 22 2020 [Download]
- Improved volume slope limits when determining whether a surface is inside or outside the limit.
- Fixed a bug with the computation of base area of columns under rare circumstances.
- Improved the computation of ponded water loads on vertical faces.
- Angle brackets in Material names sometimes caused the program to stop; fixed.
- Older projects with an External volume could have unexpected outcomes after Clear External; fixed.
- A Generalized Anisotropic Function window label was fixed.
- An Import Properties from Slide Project bug was fixed.
- The Compute message regarding undivided geometry was updated.
3.004 – March 27 2020 [Download]
- Importing arcs caused subsequent file open to fail; fixed.
3.003 – March 25 2020 [Download]
- Fix for response surface in cases where LE method returns error codes.
- Fix for trilinear interpolation.
- Fixed bug with slope limits.
- Boolean operations are now more robust and efficient, and there is more feedback if errors are encountered.
- The Slide2 section tool and export was improved.
- Tre Altamira data can now be imported and contoured.
- A primitive geometry Edit bug was fixed.
- Some Add Search Limit by Volume bugs were fixed.
- A Generalized Anisotropic editing bug was fixed.
- A Show All Surfaces > Export Surface bug was fixed.
- Some Add Surface From Points bugs were fixed.
- A Construction entity visibility bug was fixed.
- An Export Surface Results bug was fixed.
- Some Discard Selected Construction Geometry bugs were fixed.
- Some Add Loads and Add Support bugs were fixed.
- The Discrete Function point set was sometimes drawn incorrectly; fixed.
- A Borehole Manager Location bug was fixed.
- Some Clear External Visibility bugs were fixed.
- A Theme Light bug was fixed.
- Dip / Dip Direction entry boxes sometimes drew incorrectly; fixed.
- The Repair Settings panel was improved.
- Entities can now be selected in the Visibility pane even during Disable Selection.
- An Assign Materials Using Cutting Plane bug was fixed.
- When viewing imported sensor data, only parts completely inside the External extents are drawn by default.
- The Segmenter tool was improved.
- The freehand object manipulator was improved and added to more tools.
- Mouse coordinates were shown in the CAD views even when not being used; fixed.
- Opening multiple projects at the same time sometimes caused unexpected window states; fixed.
- The Search Limit was sometimes incorrectly set when importing a Slide2 project; fixed.
- A Shear Normal Function bug was fixed.
- Geometry Import Post-Processing is now only enabled for surface meshes.
- Discard Isolated External Pieces now considers the Construction Role.
- An Extrude bug was fixed.
- Certain tools using their own CAD view or geometry Preview entities were sometimes resulting in incorrect behaviour; fixed.
- A Section Cut bug was fixed.
- Add Surface From Existing Contours was improved.
- A Water Surface delete bug was fixed.
- A Draw Polyline bug was fixed.
- A Loft Undo / Redo visibility bug was fixed.
- An Import Slide2 Project Symmetry Line bug was fixed.
- Some Geotextile bugs were fixed.
- The grid from Viewport Grid or Draw Polyline was sometimes drawing incorrectly; fixed.
- A Project closing bug was fixed.
- Some Import Properties bugs were fixed.
- Interacting with the Geometry Import window is now faster.
- Grid lines in the CAD view sometimes flashed or disappeared; fixed.
- A view closing bug sometimes stopped the program; fixed.
- Some Geometry Import visibility bugs were fixed.
- When saving a project, warn the user if potential future additions to the project path would make it too long.
- Some geometry operations should complete much faster now.
- The CAD view ruler coordinates were sometimes incorrect; fixed.
- The Contour Legend context menu now contains "Toggle Density Histogram", converting the legend into a histogram.
- A DTM file import bug was fixed.
- The support database has been updated.
- Materials were sometimes not imported with a Slide2 project; fixed.
- An Autodesk export bug was fixed.
- The Geometry Repair tool is now faster when finding defects.
- A section tool visibility bug was fixed.
- A Geometry Import delete bug was fixed.
- Some Slide2 section bugs were fixed.
- Assign Materials Using Cutting Plane was not invalidating results; fixed.
- Opening large projects should now be a little faster.
- The Global Minimum entity visibility was sometimes inconsistent; fixed.
- A Slide2 import bug was fixed.
- A Discrete Function visibility bug was fixed.
- A Generalized Anisotropic dialog bug was fixed.
- There is now a report of issues when exporting a Slide2 section.
- Some Slide2 export bugs were fixed.
- A Geosynthetic dialog bug was fixed.
- A Draw Polyline coordinate entry bug was fixed.
- A file saving bug was fixed.
- A Collapse Material Boundaries Undo / Redo bug was fixed.
3.002 – January 17 2020 [Download]
- The Intersects slope limit did not work correctly, fixed.
- The Add Surface From Contours and Points dialogs were improved.
- Shapefile geometry can now be imported, with support for points, polylines, and polygons.
- Entries in the Undo / Redo lists have better names.
- Some Section Creator bugs were fixed.
- Some Bolt and Load dialog bugs were fixed.
- A Shear Normal Function dialog bug was fixed.
- The Section Creator's interactive manipulation was improved.
- A Geometry Merge bug was fixed.
- Some Contour Legend bugs were fixed.
- A Create External From Surface bug was fixed; the tool is now more flexible. There is now a Create Volume Under Surface operation.
- A Divide All Geometry bug was fixed.
- A Create External Box bug was fixed.
- The Import Geometry dialog is now faster; some dialog bugs were fixed.
- A geometry file reading bug was fixed.
- A data file import bug was fixed.
- Some Colour Table names were changed to be consistent with other Rocscience software.
- A borehole bug was fixed.
- Entity visibilities are now saved with the project, and used when the project is opened.
- A Safety Map bug was fixed.
- The Loft operation sometimes resulted in holes; fixed.
- Some Multi-Planar surface bugs were fixed.
- Help buttons were added to many dialogs.
- Importing geotextile reinforced Slide projects added some extra geometry; fixed.
- The label for Micro Pile supports has been changed to Pile / Micro Pile.
3.001 – December 5 2019 [Download]
- Maintenance+ version released.
2019.016 – September 10 2019 [Download]
- A bolt pattern bug was fixed.
- Undoing a Delete operation could add multiple copies of the deleted entities; fixed.
- The Properties pane sometimes displayed incorrect coordinates for single bolts; fixed.
- The Geometry Repair tool sometimes did not recognize surface entities; fixed.
- A Section tool bug was fixed.
- New Window sometimes did not work with Results; fixed.
- The Copy operation was incorrectly copying some entities; fixed.
- A contour surface bug was fixed.
- Some Add Supports and Add Loads bugs were fixed.
- A User-Defined Surfaces visibility bug was fixed.
- When editing values in the Add Supports dialog, the program sometimes drew a copy of the previous version of the supports; fixed.
- Some window management bugs were fixed.
- Some User-Defined Slip Surface bugs were fixed.
- Borehole surfaces sometimes incorrectly interacted with the External volume; fixed.
- Some Slide2 Compute bugs were fixed.
- A Theme editing bug was fixed.
- Import Properties from Slide3 didn't interact correctly with Anisotropic Surfaces; fixed.
- Some 3D viewport issues were fixed.
- After opening a file with a support pattern, the pattern could be un-editable; fixed.
- A borehole manager bug was fixed.
- Some user interface elements in the Add Geotextile dialog were improved.
- The Contour Plane dialog was improved.
- Show Error Codes now has more informative messages.
- Cuckoo, Grid, and Particle Swarm searches interacted incorrectly with large coordinates; fixed.
- A Slope Wizard material assignment bug was fixed.
- Improved error messages and the error log for slip surfaces that fail to yield a valid factor of safety
- Fixed a bug that could result in discarding some valid wedged due to error code -145 (invalid boundary columns)
2019.015 – July 4 2019
- Some Pore Pressure Grid interpolation bugs were fixed.
- The Load tool is now faster.
- A Section tool bug was fixed.
- While drawing a polyline, clicking on the space between viewports no longer adds vertices.
- An entity highlighting bug was fixed.
- Add Multiple Geotextiles is now more robust.
- Bolts sometimes used incorrect coordinates; fixed.
- "Lines to Center of Rotation" sometimes didn't draw; fixed.
- A Bolt Pattern bug was fixed.
- Allowing to save and load the hybrid interpolation grid in order to skip precomputation for unchanged pore water pressure data points.
2019.013 – June 14 2019
- The user is now warned about using Intersection search limits and Ellipsoids.
- The Edit Shortcuts window was not resizing correctly; fixed.
- The user is now warned about using infinite strength materials with weak layers.
- Some 3D view bugs were fixed.
- The Collapse Small Volumes tool now runs faster.
- Some sensor data import tool bugs were fixed.
- Simultaneously deleting multiple entities sometimes resulted in incorrect behaviour; fixed.
- The Seismic Coefficient was missing from the Seismic Loading window; fixed.
- An Anisotropic Surface visibility bug was fixed.
- Add Search Limit by Surface was incorrectly enabled for some entities; fixed.
- Some geometry bugs were fixed.
- An Extrude bug was fixed.
- Water tables were sometimes using incorrect X and Y coordinates; fixed.
- The Slide2 Section Creator was sometimes incorrectly enabled; fixed.
- A Create External From Surface bug was fixed.
- The Create Plane tool sometimes chose an undesirable initial location; fixed.
- An ambiguous Column Viewer error message was edited.
- Water Pressure Grids can now colour their points based on value.
- There was an issue interpolating pore pressures when importing a Slide project; fixed.
- Enabled user-abort in pre-computation for hybrid interpolation.
- Some 2D interpolation methods did not work correctly and were switched to a different fallback method. Fixed.
2019.012 – May 29 2019
- A Re-Triangulate bug was fixed.
- Some file open bugs were fixed.
- Some drawing bugs were fixed.
- Extruded geometry now has a better surface triangulation.
- Some Section tool bugs were fixed.
2019.011 – May 28 2019
- Fixed reading and applying maximum negative pore pressure in Slide3 models.
- Fixed a bug that in few occasions could cause wrong evaluation of the external boundaries.
- Union, Intersect, and Difference now behave more consistently regarding open-ness and closed-ness.
- When opening a project, the program now warns the user if some project files are missing.
- A Safety Map bug was fixed.
- Some pore pressure bugs were fixed.
- A volume collapsing threshold is now present in the Divide All Geometry options.
- Some drawing bugs were fixed.
- Simultaneously deleting multiple items sometimes stopped the program; fixed.
- A Contour Legend settings bug was fixed.
- The Results Display Options now include "Show Only Global Minimum Surface".
- A Bolt Pattern bug was fixed.
- A Load drawing bug was fixed.
- A Sphere primitive bug was fixed.
- Some Focus Search Region bugs were fixed.
- The borehole dialog was displaying incorrect units; fixed.
- A loft bug was fixed.
- User-defined Wedge surfaces weren't correctly responding to new geometry; fixed.
2019.010 – May 13 2019
- Fixed checking minimum number of active columns where on occasions could allow generating invalid slip surfaces.
- Improved the algorithm for extracting the 3D boundary polyline of the external geometry.
- Improved performance of models with Generalized Hoek-Brown material component used in anisotropic materials.
- Improved performance of anisotropic materials by rewriting trigonometric functions.
- The Repair tool was incorrectly allowed to operate on non-geology and non-excavation entities; fixed.
- The Borehole Manager was behaving incorrectly with large coordinates; fixed.
- Pore Pressure Grids were sometimes drawing incorrectly; fixed.
- The Load window was sometimes drawing the loads incorrectly; fixed.
2019.009 – April 18 2019
- Improved intersecting slip surface with small volumes with infinite strength material property.
- Added a new robust algorithm to reliably extract boundary polyline for complex geometries.
- Revised cleaning results folder for new computation to only apply on Slide3 files.
- Fixed multi-threading bug in hybrid interpolation.
- Fixed interpolation issues for discrete-function materials.
- Improved convergence behavior of LEM analysis methods based on given tolerance.
- Removed Z component of force in the computation of X and Y support force for the info viewer.
- Improved performance of generalized Hoek-Brown when used in materials with generalized anisotropy.
- Fixed creation of slip surfaces with very small number of columns that could happen in some rare scenarios.
- Improved performance for calculating anisotropic angles.
- Some point cloud data import dialog bugs were fixed.
- A Clear External bug was fixed.
- Some grid copy & paste bugs were fixed.
- Some Section Tool bugs were fixed.
- Some notifications were causing a crash; fixed.
- The Loft operation sometimes moved the model out of view; fixed.
- A CAD view selection bug was fixed.
- The Slide2 modeler or interpreter can now be opened from Slide3.
- The Column Viewer dialog is now resizable.
- Groundprobe DAT files can now be imported and displayed.
- Undoing Divide All Geometry can move the model out of view; fixed.
- Some Section Cut bugs were fixed.
- A User-defined Sphere / Ellipsoid Slip Surface bug was fixed.
- An Add Anisotropic Surface bug was fixed.
- A Results Plane bug was fixed.
2019.008 – March 27 2019
- Fixed a multi-threading bug in PSO search which caused slight differences in search output at different run times.
- Improved the algorithm for extracting top layer of model geometry, now more robust for models with non-conforming geometric meshes.
- Compression bolts consistent with Slide 2018.
- Incorrect mode reported for micropile.
- Improved detection of column base intersection with infinite strength blocks.
- The Geometry Repair operation didn't behave correctly when it didn't repair an entity; fixed.
- The Ungroup Disjoint operation is now faster.
- The info viewer was displaying some incorrect information; fixed. It now also displays more information.
- Some elements of the Draw Polyline pane were being cut off; fixed. Some polyline tool bugs were fixed.
- A Segmenter bug was fixed.
- The Section tool is now faster. Some section tool bugs were fixed.
- The Slide2 section export was incorrectly determining the slope segment; fixed.
- The Slide2 section export can now automatically determine slope failure direction.
- Weak layer geometry was not displaying correctly; fixed.
- The Infinite Strength model now disallows sliding along boundary by default.
- Editing a Search Limit volume was not behaving correctly; fixed.
2019.007 – March 12 2019
- The option to define different strength above the water table did not work. Fixed.
- Cuckoo search for wedge surfaces in some cases would fail to complete all the iterations. Fixed.
- Wedge analysis in some cases would produce slip surfaces with hanging columns. Fixed.
- Modified stopping condition for multi-planar search to stop computation where no progress is being made.
- Some geometry Boolean bugs were fixed.
- There was a display issue when using a Surface Cut on contoured surfaces. Fixed.
- "Display Geometry as Inset" is now optional.
- The CAD view labels and geometry repair tool now look better on high-DPI displays.
- Several data grids now look better.
- The Info Viewer was displaying some incorrect units and data types. Fixed.
- The Segmenter functionality was improved, and now works more reliably.
- The Section Viewer wasn't cutting through surfaces. Fixed.
- The Hydraulics tab in the Material window had a display issue. Fixed.
- Divide All Geometry is now more reliable, and the error messages are more clear.
- The Geometry Repair operation behaved incorrectly when not all entities were modified. Fixed.
2019.006 – March 1 2019
- Improved error analysis report for stochastic search methods, accessed from Interpret drop-down menu.
- Improved user abort command for computations, allowing to write computed slip surfaces for analysis methods that have been completed before hitting abort.
- In models with large coordinates, the Search Limit Volume was incorrectly used; fixed.
- A section tool bug was fixed.
- A Material dialog alignment problem was fixed.
- The Geometry Repair tool now allows multiple filters to be toggled before refreshing the view.
- A Sweep bug was fixed.
- Some user interface bugs were fixed.
- A Visibility Tree bug was fixed.
- A Bolt Force Diagram bug was fixed.
- A Divide All Geometry bug was fixed.
2019.005 – February 7 2019
- Fixed Slide2 import bug.
- Fixed a bug with defining Slope Limits. They were incorrectly written to the compute file.
- Modified vertical offset of safety map to be close to the ground surface.
2019.004 – February 5 2019
- Commercial release.
2019.001 – December 20 2018
- Beta release.
2017.022 – March 12 2019 [Download]
- The option to define different strength above the water table did not work. Fixed.
2017.021 – December 5 2018
- Making extraction of external boundary polyline more robust.
- More robust surface extraction.
- Fix for Cuckoo and PSO for multi-planar using too large a number of trials for convergence, resulting in hours of computation in some cases.
2017.020 – November 9 2018
- A bolt orientation bug was fixed.
- An annotation-related file reading bug was fixed.
- A Slide section export bug was fixed.
- A compute file writing bug was fixed.
2017.019 – September 27 2018
- Fix for weak layers that extend above ground surface of a slope.
- Fixed creation of concave slip surfaces caused by weak planes.
- Improved quality of slip surface discretization.
- Modified SA to output the relevant error code (instead of 100 when it does not converge in that iteration).
- Some fixes to ensure slip surface columns do not enter within infinite strength materials.
- Changed default process execution priority for compute console to below normal.
- Fixed a bug that caused ignoring slope limits for user-defined surfaces.
- Improved spline conversion of spline surfaces used in SA optimization.
- Improved slip surface clipping.
- Fixed some occasional slow computation caused by multi-threading in models with discrete functions.
- Changed shear normal and cphi to be consistent with Slide.
- Modified engine to be robust for handling models with non-conforming geometric meshes.
- Bolt orientation and end-points were sometimes incorrect; fixed.
- Supports now render more clearly.
- Old files were incorrectly handling transformed boreholes; fixed.
- "Add to External" is now more flexible.
- Single boreholes now produce better quality surfaces.
- A support pattern bug was fixed.
- Some GSI calculator bugs were fixed.
- Highlighting a face, edge, or vertex did not work for certain graphics hardware; fixed.
- Vertex imprinting now works better.
- When printing, the chosen logo image file is now more centered.
- Some conflicting menu shortcuts were fixed.
- Some old files were incorrectly handling slope limits; fixed.
- A result surface export bug was fixed.
- A section export bug was fixed.
- The Slide importer is now more robust.
- The results surface is now more robust.
2017.018 – July 17 2018
- Fixed a bug related to flat horizontal infinite planes.
- Reduced initialization time for computing.
- Fix for weak layers with portions above ground surface.
- Fix for occasional creation of abnormal failure surfaces due to weak layers.
- The Geometry Import validator now identifies more relevant problems.
- A Copy Geometry Array bug was fixed.
- Some Section Viewer and Cutting Plane bugs were fixed.
- The Section Viewer and Cutting Plane tools now perform faster.
- Some failed Boolean operations stopped the program, or modified the original geometry; fixed.
- Some geometry selection bugs were fixed.
- Geometry selection speed was improved.
- An Extrude bug was fixed.
- A point cloud import bug was fixed.
- Bolts sometimes caused slowness in the modeler; fixed.
- Exporting to Slide is now more robust.
- A Water Pressure Grid visibility bug was fixed.
- A Slide import bug was fixed.
- Some Column Viewer bugs were fixed.
- Show Excavated Geometry Only was not behaving as intended; fixed.
2017.017 – May 24 2018
- Added a new error code to make a distinction between the two cases of where the surface elevation is below a user-defined cut-off value or the surface elevation is below the external geometry.
- Weak planes are not considered infinite planes unless they are used in multi-planar search.
- Modified the criteria for material assignment at base of columns in presence of weak surfaces.
- Added a check to discard soil blocks with invalid material ids. Ideally, modeller should not output such blocks into the compute file.
- Several improvements have been made to memory usage and speed; see below for more details, and further improvements.
- Some geometry processing speed improvements were made.
- The visibility tree is now faster.
- A geometry file writing bug was fixed.
- The program sometimes crashed when creating new documents too quickly; fixed.
- Vertex, edge, and face selection is now faster.
- Some texture drawing bugs were fixed.
- Projects now consume less memory.
- Opening, saving, and closing projects is now faster.
- The Divide All Geometry operation is now more efficient.
- More operations are now allowed on pieces of the External volume.
- Entities were sometimes drawn with an incorrect selection state; fixed.
- There was a problem reading certain geometry in older files; fixed.
- The section tool was improved.
- A Project Settings bug was fixed.
- A slope limit surface bug was fixed.
- A Slide 2D import bug was fixed.
- A workflow tab switching bug was fixed.
- The column viewer is now more responsive.
2017.016 – April 17 2018
- Improved measure on closeness to anisotropic direction.
- Fix for anisotropic shear strength.
- Some geometry processing speed improvements were made.
- Imprinting is now more robust.
- A surface reconstruction bug was fixed.
- Opening files is now faster.
- The section tool was improved.
- The Slide 2D exported was improved.
- The Show All Surfaces window is now more responsive.
- A Groundwater Surface bug was fixed.
2017.015 – April 3 2018
- Polyline imprinting is now more robust.
- Updates to the 3D views are now faster.
- The selection state was sometimes incorrectly drawn in the 3D views. Fixed.
- A geometry import tool bug was fixed.
- A Sweep operation bug was fixed.
- Exporting Autodesk files is now more robust.
- Importing and exporting Slide models is more robust.
2017.014 – March 21 2018
- Fixed a bug regarding automatic extraction of external hull of input geometry. This would infrequently impact quality and location of surfaces generated by search methods in some models.
- Fixed a bug in interpreting flat surfaces of external geometry as infinite planes.
- Some surface entity bugs were fixed.
- Slide3 can now import Slide 2018 files.
- Anisotropic surfaces can now be exported to Slide.
- A material properties window bug was fixed.
- Some geometry import tool bugs were fixed.
- Rendering the 3D views is now faster.
- Some face, edge, and vertex selections bugs were fixed.
- A texture bug was fixed.
- The program now uses less RAM.
- Transparency can now be controlled without selecting any entities.
- Saving large files sometimes stopped the program; fixed.
- Several operations are now faster.
- DTM files can now be imported.
2017.013 – January 31 2018
- Fixed a bug in reading slope limits in engine.
- Removed compression from end anchored bolts.
- A Results data picker bug was fixed.
- Some Slide 7.0 import bugs were fixed.
- Setting a Slope Limit to Outside or Intersecting could cause the program to stop. Fixed.
- Opening certain files caused the program to stop. Fixed.
- The freehand manipulation tool is now more stable.
- A support pattern bug was fixed.
- The geometry import tool can now be resized more easily.
2017.012 – January 24 2018
- The geometry import tool now evaluates the quality of the imported geometry.
- The drawing guides were updated.
- Some Visibility pane bugs were fixed.
- Boolean operations can now be performed in more cases.
- The last saved location is now the same as the last open location.
- More entities can now be assigned the Construction Role.
- Polylines can now be attached to form longer polylines.
- Geometry creation and processing should now be faster.
- Extrusion and Sweeping now creates a closed volume by default, when possible.
- Primitive geometry creation windows now indicate when their parameters have changed.
- A Polyline Imprinting bug was fixed.
- The Project Summary window is now more appropriately sized.
- Geometry can now be copied without any history.
- A Contour drawing bug was fixed.
- The Generalized Anisotropic Failure Criterion is now available.
- Project Settings now contains a Force Failure Direction Trend.
- A Bolt Column Force rendering issue was fixed.
- The Excavation Role was removed.
- Contour surfaces should now draw in remote desktop or virtual machine environments.
- Some Tension Crack bugs were fixed.
- Tension Cracks - Create Automatically now has the option of "Maximum angle to sliding direction".
- Improved the algorithm to fit grid field used in discretizing slip surfaces into a set of columns.
- Modified weak layer option to automatically set it active in presence of any defined weak layers.
- Added angle option for tension cracks. Can now create a tension crack when a column base angle exceeds a user defined value.
- Tension crack surfaces now drawn with the failure surface in the Results area.
- Support that intersects a tension crack is now properly handled. Force is applied to the column.
- Geotextiles in compression is now handled.
- Multiple anisotropic directions for a single material better handled.
- Linear Critical Angle method added for anisotropic geogrids.
2017.011 – November 24 2017
- Got rid of experimental step in Surface Altering.
- Added geogrids with anisotropic strength.
- Modified the geogrid force computation to use the long length of the grid for pullout and stripping.
- Added an option to allow the user to remove geogrid compression as a mode of failure.
- Added extra checks to keep the NURBS fram above soil surface within SA.
- Added RU value in the Assign water to material dialog.
- Material dialog now disallows select None.
- Update used materials in the material property dialog.
- When importing generalized anisotropic material, surfaces are imported as well.
- Fixed a bug for Assign water to material dialog.
- Name change for copy property.
- Added Zero Strength in Compression check box in Geotextile bolt.
- Fixed a bug for importing generalized anisotropic material.
- Fixed small formatting error in Info Viewer.
- Fixed timing difference check for results comparison.
- Fixed material and bolt ordering when importing properties from another file.
- Import Slide3 properties from project file.
- A contour surface bug was fixed.
- Bolt patterns are now more robust.
2017.010 – October 20 2017
- Added anisotropic tensile strength for geogrids.
- Improved interpolation for pore pressure grids.
- Improved searching (SA, Cuckoo).
- Fix for force orientation for support.
- Fix for initial sliding direction and pore pressure.
- Focus point added.
- Fixed a small bug in intercolumn force computation.
- Added tangent plane focus.
- Added edge focus.
- Volume focus added.
- Improvements in the NURB computation for searching.
- Improved moment epsilon for symmetry computation.
- Improved conversion of GHB to shear normal for deep slopes.
- Fixed a bug in the number of column computation.
- Change to timing difference calculation in results comparison.
- Adding features to results comparison.
- Fixed a bug for not showing geotextile boundaries correctly.
- Group tree fix.
- Bug fix for deleting water surface previously assigned to material.
- Minor dialgo spacing fix.
- Restrain Slide3's boundary conditions not to be put on construction volumes.
- Bug fix for "Save As" not remembering the last folder location.
- Adding "perpendicular to support" to force orientation option for user-defined bolts/geotextiles.
- Fixed a crash when Slide is not installed and try to launch Slide after export.
- Improved geotextile selection performance.
- Changed the way geotextile bolts are delivered to Section viewer.
- Borehole setter in Project Settings corrected.
- Hide rotate tool button in viewport.
- Set horizontal ruler to be at bottom of viewport.
- Changed wording of profile center.
- Fix for Project Summary not working in RS3.
- Fix for borehole surface role error.
- Borehole updates: UI - text boxes, top/bottom surface correction, set top portion to construction role. Final construction volumes set to geology.
- Bug fix on partitioning the two sides of the imprinted path.
- Update liner results units.
- Fix interface jointing.
- Assign material by section dialog: added ability to change materials for current stage and all following stages.
- Specifying orientations is now more robust.
- Geodesic polylines now work better.
- Some finite element mesh file reading bugs were fixed.
- Some geometry creation and importing bugs were fixed.
2017.009 – September 26 2017
- Interface - Ability to add multiple geotextiles
- Interface - Ability to view multiplanar intersection
- Interface - multiplanar surface nodes now hide on file open
- Interface - better default offset for multiplanar search planes
- Interface - turn off search plane visibility by default
- Interface - Focus Search objects
- Interface - Minor textbox width fixes
- Interface - Help link for generalized anisotropic window
- Interface - Minor weak layer composite dialog fix
- Interface - Visibility tree list update
- Interface - selecting entity in 3D view now scrolls in visibility tree
- Interface - text output changes in info viewer
- Interface - slide section export bug fix (ru coefficient)
- Interface - Section viewer now views geotextile supports
- Interface - Bug fix for slope direction calculation (slide export)
- Interface - added hours to the compute time in the infoviewer. Fixed bug of files taking longer than 1 hour displaying incorrect times.
- Interface - Misc speed up fixes
- Interface - automatically hide no material geometry after a compute when switching to results tab
- Interface - Misc dialog display fixes
- Interface - improved performance of previewing a large number of geometry nodes as well as removing preview nodes.
- Interface - Section viewer can view bolt patterns
- Interface - Updating chart settings to display x, y min and max values and allow user to edit them
- Interface - fix for planeDefinitionWindow vector normalization.
- Interface - scaling and rotation windows now have limit on decimal places
- Compute - Enabled Surface Altering optimization for all user-defined surface types
- Compute - Focus search option added for spherical surface grid search
- Compute - Improvement on ponded water near vertical slopes
- Compute - Improved computation performance for composite surfaces with weak layers
- Compute - Improved nonlinear solver for spline surfaces
- Compute - Developed a more robust algorithm to extract boundary hull of external geometry
- Compute - Minor bug fix in intercolumn force computation for certain slip surfaces
- Compute - Added new error codes to identify geometrical defects in the error log
2017.008 – August 24 2017
- Improvements to searching.
- Bug fixes for crashing in engine.
- Added multi-planar searching.
- Unification with RS3 for certain UI properties.
- Updated Help.
2017.007 – June 21 2017
- Commercial Release.
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