RocFall3 Maintenance+ Update History

Version 1.017 - March 3 2025 [Download]

1. NEW Rock path interpolation time step
2. NEW Hide rock paths when interacting with viewport
3. NEW Export raw barrier impact data
4. CHANGED Binary results file I/O
5. CHANGED Outdated version files with results computed in earlier versions need to clear results or recompute in order to save
6. CHANGED Material regions no longer included in computations if material region view node is deleted
7. CHANGED Default rock path interpolation time step
8. FIXED Results not cleared after deleting nodes for material region view and auto assigned materials view
9. FIXED Program closes after drawing material regions without a slope
10. FIXED Small interpolation error in rigid body barrier impact results

Version 1.016 - January 28 2025 [Download]

1. NEW RSInsight access from Help menu

Version 1.015 - November 29 2024 [Download]

1. NEW Material option for fully damping (stopping) rock motion
2. NEW Progress dialog displayed whenever generating plots for rock trajectory heights
3. FIXED Model layers not drawn in the right order on file re-opening
4. FIXED Rare unhandled lump mass edge contact case where calculations failed to terminate
5. FIXED Applying default project settings did not reset Advanced Rigid Body Options
6. FIXED Compute folder not emptied on clearing results and saving
7. FIXED Mismatch between slope and rock path positions due to missing global offset when creating a slope entity from a Construction geometry
8. FIXED Materials incorrectly displayed in the Section Creator
9. CHANGED Show Shape Table option disabled during drawing mode for improved program stability
10. CHANGED Plot Barrier Results in 3D option disabled during drawing mode for improved program stability
11. CHANGED Surface texture application now only available for slope entities and not geometry surfaces
12. CHANGED Automatically set a mean translational velocity of 0.01 if the input is an exponential distribution with a 0 mean to prevent undefined calculations
13. CHANGED Warning provided when saving model file using an invalid name (e.g., name is too long or contains path directory syntax)

Version 1.014 - April 5 2024 [Download]

1. NEW Create 2D sections for export to RocFall2 from polylines
2. NEW "Select Origin" option in the Draw Polyline Tool
3. NEW Rigid body advanced options (friction dissipation methods and coupling of normal and tangential impulses)

Version 1.013 - December 14 2023 [Download]

1. NEW Surface heatmaps for rock kinetic energies and trajectory height
2. FIXED Annotated Shape Table not displaying
3. FIXED Annotated Seeder Properties Table displaying incorrect values
4. FIXED Lump mass sliding calculations using default friction angle
5. FIXED Broken links to documentation pages
6. FIXED Dimensions of Terrain Generator models for the imperial unit system
7. FIXED Filter box in Import Geometry dialog cannot be closed
8. FIXED Inclinations of barriers exported to RocFall2
9. FIXED Seeder initial velocities exported to RocFall2
10. FIXED Option to use spheres v.1005 reported incorrectly in the Report Generator
11. FIXED Viewport preview mode not exited when closing the dialogs for adding a barrier or a plane seeder from a polyline
12. CHANGED Area seeder exported to RocFall2 now results in only one line seeder
13. CHANGED Compute disabled when slope surface not present
14. CHANGED “Apply All” button removed from Contour Options dialog
15. CHANGED Dialog name for “3D Barrier Plot Display Options”

Version 1.012 - September 12 2023 [Download]

1. NEW 3D Barrier plots – analyze impact intensity along barriers in 3D
2. NEW Graph data along barriers
3. NEW Barrier result types for plotting - number of rocks passing over barrier, height over barrier, impact height, and impact angle
4. FIXED Reversed barrier impact logic in Report Generator
5. FIXED Saved manufacturer (predefined) barrier properties do not get displayed after model re-opening
6. FIXED Name of predefined barriers not displayed correctly in Report Generator and overlay table
7. FIXED Geometry and mesh generation of inclined barriers
8. FIXED Cannot graph rock bounce heights on barrier when slope is perfectly planar and horizontal
9. FIXED Material parameters export
10. FIXED Copy Data to clipboard for barrier and endpoint plots
11. FIXED Crash when model has 2D sections and slope is cleared
12. FIXED Unreasonable plunge value for the initial velocity of a seeder imported from RocFall2
13. FIXED Selection mode not returned to default after area seeder creation
14. FIXED Stuck in polyline drawing mode after selecting ‘Cancel’
15. FIXED Components in Visibility Tree not updated when switching between projects
16. CHANGED Removed Hardware accelerated contour rendering
17. CHANGED Removed “Add area seeder” from Seeder menu; area seeder option still available through “Add area seeder from selection”
18. CHANGED Maintenance+ subscription expiry reminder

Version 1.011 - June 22 2023 [Download]

1. CHANGED Third party license link
2. FIXED Program stability issues

Version 1.010 - June 19 2023 [Download]

1. FIXED Geometries and rock paths now displayed and exported in original user coordinates and not global offset coordinates
2. FIXED Automatic update in the number of points previewed in Add Surface from Points dialog
3. FIXED Unreasonably large contour values for rigid body calculations
4. FIXED Non-drawing related functions are now disabled when drawing polylines and polygons
5. FIXED Cannot interpret barrier results after saving and re-opening model

Version 1.009 - March 9 2023 [Download]

1. FIXED Topographic lines crash when graphics shader is not supported
2. FIXED Topographic annotation offset
3. FIXED Animation dialog crash
4. FIXED Slow responsiveness in Animation dialog when using a large number of compute steps
5. FIXED Rigid body animation now uses actual rock size by default
6. FIXED Rigid body calculations for large rock mass
7. FIXED Distribution of rock starting points in plane and area seeders

Version 1.008 - February 13 2023 [Download]

1. NEW Warning dialog for reading in v1.005 and older rigid body files

Version 1.007 - January 31 2023 [Download]

1. NEW Rigid Body Shape Library
2. NEW Added user-defined runout reference lines for end point plotting and exporting to RocFall2
3. NEW Added Area Seeders
4. NEW More data in the path details export
5. NEW Multi-section export to RocFall2
6. NEW Select faces by lasso selection (GUI)
7. NEW Added progress dialog with progress bar for various features that may take some time to load/render
8. NEW Automatic material assignment by surface texture
9. NEW Multi-section creator dialog
10. NEW Users can create end point plots with selected seeders
11. NEW Added "Open File Location" option to File menu
12. CHANGED Minor update with data precision in restitution library
    
13. CHANGED Various UI updates
14. CHANGED Users have more control in the scaling of the rocks on the slope, custom scalingn or actual size (GUI)
    
15. FIXED Crash when opening files with results computed with older versions
16. FIXED Highlight Selected Path is not visible if surface mode (heat map, etc) is selected
17. FIXED Import terrain is disabled when there is a slope
18. FIXED Better warning message when users try to import barrier properties from a file without any saved barrier properties
19. FIXED Import button in barrier design dialog
20. FIXED Cursor update to match the current task
21. FIXED Seeders are not allowed to have duplicate names
22. FIXED Material region assignment issue when importing RocFall2 models
23. FIXED When the heat map is explicitly turned off or deleted, the results mode will automatically switch to path mode
24. FIXED Crash when trying to copy and paste a value with statistical definitions
25. FIXED Only one animate dialog is allowed at a time
26. FIXED Geometry repair failure could stop the program
27. FIXED Crash when deleting heat map
28. FIXED Export path details to csv works with filtered paths correctly
29. FIXED Cancel Geometry Repair operation crashes program
30. FIXED Program crash at initialization when OS's default printer is unavailable

Version 1.006 - Beta Release

Version 1.005 - September 14 2022 [Download]

1. FIXED Disabled Vegetation Tab in RB Material Properties Dialog
2. FIXED Crashing issue with computers without OpenGL support
3. FIXED Broken link in the Software Update dialog

Version 1.004 - June 7 2022 [Download]

1. NEW Export All Results option added in main menu
2. NEW Button to export Rock Path Info data to a CSV file
3. NEW Added option for 'imprinting slope' when adding line/plane seeder
4. FIXED Assign Texture doesn't work with imported Slide3 surface geometry
5. FIXED Vanishing Slope after Clearing/Resetting Slope
6. FIXED Slope Geometry is Translated When Cleared
7. FIXED Adding seeders/barriers to volumes caused double lines to appear
8. FIXED RF3 to RF2 Section Export Bugs
9. FIXED Fix for crash when trying to view results in a file with all 'error' paths
10. FIXED Fix for plane seeders with EdgeModel error and compute terminating early

Version 1.003 - May 3 2022 [Download]

1. CHANGED 'Edit Texture' option added for selected nodes
2. CHANGED Show error message when all paths return errors
3. FIXED Fix for crash when trying to view results in a file with all 'error' paths
4. FIXED Compute could get stuck in an infinite loop in rare instances
5. FIXED Issue with no barrier properties being present when importing Rocfall2 files with no barriers defined
6. FIXED Filter selection issues
7. FIXED Removed 'End Reason Developer' result type (not intended for users)
8. FIXED Transparency slider showing for entities that don't do transparency
9. FIXED Default for topographic lines Colors changed to 'True'
10. FIXED Improper units when importing from some Slide3/RS3 files (display issue)
11. FIXED Crash when clicking certain reference links in the barrier manufacturer library
12. FIXED 'Save as' with results properly keeps results loaded
13. FIXED Only try to extract 'top surface' when an imported RS3/Slide3 model has an external defined
14. FIXED Slope partitioning removed from project settings dialog (always 3D Grid)

Version 1.002 - April 19 2022 [Download]

1. Commercial Release

Version 1.001 - March 31 2022

1. Beta Release