Slide3 Maintenance+ Update History

Version 3.033 - September 11 2025 [Download]

1. NEW Added Lambda vs. FS "M vs F" graph type and added a regression line to the other Lambda vs. FS graph types
   
2. NEW Ru Coefficient option Pore Water Pressure data for the Data on Plane
   
3. NEW Probabilistic analysis for Ru Coefficient
   
4. CHANGED User-defined surface improvements: ability to export and import all user-defined surface types
   
5. CHANGED Overall Surface computed sample surface data now displaying in Filter All Surfaces dialog
   
6. CHANGED Updates to the bolt property table columns and headers
   
7. CHANGED Removed warning in statistics dialog when there are no statistics defined for any material (or support)
   
8. FIXED For overall slope analysis, samples are seemingly missing from the Filter All Surfaces dialog
   
9. FIXED CAD view freezes when viewing some boundary conditions
   
10. FIXED Models with many weak layers can cause a crash when starting compute
    
11. FIXED Column Viewer X and Y values can appear wrong for models not built around the origin
    
12. FIXED Applied property does not immediately select Material in use
    
13. FIXED Design standard export button enabled when there are no user-defined design standards defined

Version 3.032 - August 5 2025 [Download]

1. NEW Statistics and sensitivity analysis for bolts and seismic
   
2. NEW Added AASHTO and Australian design standards for the LRFD analysis
   
3. NEW Vertical Undrained Function material failure criterion
   
4. NEW CNI material failure criterion
   
5. NEW Geosynthetic Shear Strength Input Type options and Friction Factor options
   
6. NEW Strata manufacturer in geosynthetic manufacturer library
   
7. NEW Hyper Fibers in geosynthetic manufacturer library
   
8. FIXED When exporting a section with a water grid to Slide2, sometimes interpolation fails causing a crash
   
9. FIXED Sometimes using the custom contour range and pressing OK will cause a hole in the safety map
   
10. FIXED Exporting a Slide2 file with simplified and computing immediately shows wrong boundaries in Interpret
    
11. FIXED Crash if open report generator and then close before loading
    
12. FIXED 'Hide Failure Surface Top' Checkbox Not Working
    
13. FIXED On very complex models, Display Geometry as Inset seems to hang indefinitely
    
14. FIXED Sometimes changing the interval count in the contour options dialog will cause a hole in the safety map
    
15. FIXED When anchorage is not at both ends, stresses along the geosynthetic are sometimes inaccurate
    
16. FIXED Issue opening program if Excel is not installed
    
17. FIXED Some material properties become permanently linked after copying
    
18. FIXED Cancel in Statistics dialogs not working for min/max/standard deviation
    
19. CHANGED Update Dextra products in Manufacturer Library for Soil Nails and Grouted Tiebacks
    
20. CHANGED Ctrl+A in Visibility Tree now selects all nodes
    
21. CHANGED Updated label when pseudo static seismic coefficient is used to be clear of what the FS is as well

Version 3.031 - April 2 2025 [Download]

1. NEW Lambda vs. FS Plot
2. NEW Launched Soil Nails
3. NEW Helical Anchors
4. NEW Scene Manager
5. FIXED Using property table "All Viewports" option can cause exception when trying to set a floating point
6. FIXED After modifying boreholes, sometimes external appears to be available to delete when it is not
7. FIXED Imported Water Table with Slide2 models are not reflected in property table
8. FIXED Hu data is missing from report and property table
9. FIXED Importing properties when a block model is defined causes block model to be reset
10. FIXED Discrete function hybrid interpolation causes engine to output an error code when there are less than 1000 points
11. FIXED Fixed changes in material dependant strengths in supports from being shared across all similar defined supports
12. FIXED When accessing the GSI calculator for Generalized Hoek Brown, program shuts down
13. FIXED Project settings fluid unit weight does not convert units when exporting to Slide2
14. FIXED Slide2 import causes crash when the Slide2 file uses one of the new design standards (AASHTO or Australian)
15. FIXED "Error reading results" warning for some models where global minimum is an error surface
16. FIXED Adding a new support property duplicates the previous support property instead of adding the default one
17. FIXED Models that use Derive material type show wrong base materials in column viewer
18. FIXED C/Phi materials are converted to Mohr Coulomb when exported to Slide2
19. FIXED Some function types do not convert units when exporting to Slide2
20. CHANGED Block model material should not be allowed to be copied
21. CHANGED Improved Add Supports and Add Loads functionality

Version 3.030 - February 6 2025 [Download]

1. NEW RSInsight access from Help menu

Version 3.029 - August 21 2024 [Download]

1. NEW Sensitivity Analysis for material properties
2. NEW Ability to add multiple search limits for Intelligent Search
3. NEW RSData Integration for Material Properties
4. FIXED Filter all surfaces button "Export Slide3 Model" not working
5. FIXED Hardware accelerated contour rendering occasionally causes missing contour sections when using MMO
6. FIXED Slide2 Results sometimes not visible after computing sections
7. FIXED Critical surfaces that are extremely small are not drawn on the safety map
8. FIXED Search not displacing the mins reported
9. FIXED Warn user if shear/normal function has size zero.
10. FIXED Selection box for discrete function interpolation method not showing the expected options
11. CHANGED Improve speed of importing discrete functions with large number of points
12. CHANGED ROI surface not generated by default after compute, added option to load it in the Interpret menu
13. CHANGED Added Section Through Global Minimum option to the Slide2 Section Creator dialog
14. CHANGED Slide3 Intelligent Search should export to Slide2 as PSO
15. CHANGED Advanced settings cleanup of some obsolete settings
    

Version 3.028 - May 27 2024 [Download]

1. FIXED Block-level Mohr-Coulomb parameters results in very low FS when only block-level cohesion is used in the material
2. FIXED Issue with invalid inputs in block model wizard sometimes causing crash
3. FIXED Units are wrong for volume in Slip Surface Filters
4. FIXED Simplify triangulation on weak layer surface resulting in invalid surface

Version 3.027 - April 23 2024 [Download]

1. CHANGED Block model tutorial using Intelligent Search

Version 3.026 - April 12 2024 [Download]

1. NEW 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
2. FIXED When a Slide2 file with two slope limits is opened in Slide3, the slope limits are displayed with the wrong default colours
3. FIXED Exporting a Slide2 section with "Cohesion varies with depth" and F(undrained Cu) was not resulting in proper material cohesion type in Slide2
4. FIXED Discrete function sometimes not recognized as being defined when pressing OK in the material dialog
5. FIXED Issue importing properties from a Slide2 project with a discrete function defined
6. CHANGED Change of interface when importing sensor data

Version 3.025 - March 20 2024 [Download]

1. FIXED Compute Issue with Intelligent Search + Overall Slope
2. CHANGED Decrease frequency of safety map refreshing during section creation
3. CHANGED User-Defined surfaces from Slide3 should export to Slide2 when User-Defined surface generation method is used.

Version 3.024 - February 26 2024 [Download]

1. NEW Ability to automatically create a 2D section through the middle of the global minimum
2. NEW Intercolumn Force Diagram dialog added to Column Data Viewer.
3. NEW Anisotropic Strength material exported from Slide3 will be converted to equivalent Generalized Anisotropic in Slide2.
4. NEW Added surface generation method: Intelligent Search
5. NEW Create 2D section for export from polylines
6. NEW Draw polyline - plane origin selection tool
7. FIXED Shear/normal function name resetting when switching function selection
8. FIXED Pressure Head & Total Head Grids from Slide3 -> Slide2 Not Exporting
9. FIXED Changing offset of a result's contoured inset geometry separates inset into upper and lower pieces
10. FIXED Editing added bolt pattern creates a new bolt pattern
11. FIXED Export of 3D anisotropy from Slide3 to Slide2 in cases where anisotropic surface doesn't intersect the 2D section.
12. FIXED MMO results from Slide2 not displayed in Slide2 sections in Slide3.
13. FIXED Search Limits drawn offscreen upon creation in some cases.
14. FIXED Saving a model with the same name as an existing model with results causes a crash
15. FIXED User-Defined Surface is missing from CAD views after re-opening a project
16. FIXED Crash when editing slope limits imported from old Slide2 files.
17. FIXED Symmetry line logic causing no results to compute in rare cases
    
18. FIXED Material-dependent anchorage friction was not applied
19. CHANGED Change to the Progress Bar control in compute dialog.
20. CHANGED Display of surface search limits now consistent with display of volume search limits. Only volume can be assigned to arbitrary volume slope limit.
21. CHANGED Improvements to slope wizard dialog.
22. CHANGED Add units to compute time in Report Generator
23. CHANGED Restrict the number of columns input within reasonable value
    
24. CHANGED By default, don't export Slide3 surface to Slide2.
25. CHANGED Allow user to create 2D section, even without Slide2 license

Version 3.023 - September 12 2023 [Download]

1. CHANGED Improved message for Maintenance+ subscription.

Version 3.022 - June 13 2023 [Download]

1. NEW Mapping Function options added to Generalized Anisotropic.
2. NEW Update to Add Water by Location: ability to import Sysdam data
3. NEW Advanced option in Generalized Anisotropic dialog.
4. CHANGED Column bases at edges of slip surfaces no longer treated as weak layer material if only their underground vertices touch a weak layer
5. CHANGED Improved algorithm for handling of vertical weak layers.
6. CHANGED Some togglable advanced discretization improvements added to the advanced project settings dialog
7. CHANGED Defaults option added to Slip Surface Options dialog along with some warning messages to guide the user.
8. CHANGED Warning messages added about vertical weak layers and reverse curvature weak layers.
9. CHANGED Revised searching logic relating to the minimum solution and filtering of slip surfaces.
10. CHANGED New validation rule: material function input is required in Material Properties dialog.
11. CHANGED Improved Multiple PSO algorithm.
12. CHANGED Assign more precise tooltip mouse coordinates
13. FIXED Columns of material property functions switch when using Import option.
14. FIXED High memory usage during probabilistic multiple minima sampling method.
15. FIXED Discrete functions and porewater pressure models could sometimes produce different results on different computers.
16. FIXED Fixed skipped numbering of multiple particle swarm surface IDs in Show All Surfaces dialog
17. FIXED Calculation of block model per-material bond strength of anchorage
18. FIXED Warning message added in case where file needs to be saved before launching Report Generator.
19. FIXED Rare crash when loading projected slope limit
20. FIXED Tab functionality in User Defined Manufacturer and Geosynthetic Manufacturer library dialogs.
21. FIXED Flip sign on bottom of contour legend.

Version 3.021 - February 13 2023 [Download]

1. NEW Integration with Slide2 when exporting Generalized Anisotropic materials
2. NEW Heuristic: New, faster weak layer handling option (available with Particle Swarm only
3. NEW Water options added to tension cracks
4. NEW File > Open File Location option
5. NEW Button that resets viewport layout
6. CHANGED Default search settings are now Type = Spline, Method = Particle Swarm Search, and Weak Layer Handling = Heuristic
7. CHANGED Clicking the RSPile button in Support Properties dialog, before a file has been loaded, will now launch a new instance of RSPile
8. CHANGED Tension cracks will only truncate regions of the slip surface if there are no columns behind (with respect to the slip direction) which extend below the tension crack
9. CHANGED Tension cracks surfaces are assumed to extend upwards at the edges, forming a closed zone. The lowest tension crack at any point is assumed to govern
10. CHANGED Slip Direction in 'Show All Surfaces' dialog now follows Dip Direction convention (CW from +y
11. CHANGED Visibility tree doesn't reset when switching methods in Results tab
12. CHANGED Word "altered" removed from MMO FS table
13. CHANGED Order of minima in MMO table changed to show FS values in increasing order
14. CHANGED Save As dialog now will input current project name as default
15. CHANGED Box Window / Create External Box UI improvements
16. CHANGED Improve the effectiveness of the search when the "Enhanced searching algorithm" checkbox option is toggled on
17. CHANGED Some improvements to handling of vertical weak layers clipping a column
18. FIXED Slow performance when projected load/bolt is added to model
19. FIXED Importing Slide2 file with slope limits truncated completely inside box to slope limit with highest y-coordinate
20. FIXED Colour of Block Model entities not updated when child material colour changed
21. FIXED Pressure Head and Total Head units in Define Water Pressure Grid dialog
22. FIXED Translation of block mode
23. FIXED Repair failure could stop the program
24. FIXED Multiple search limits with Cuckoo or Particle Swarm showing more result surfaces than expected
25. FIXED Duplicate slip surfaces IDs showing up in the Show All Surfaces dialog
26. FIXED "Hardware accelerated contour rendering" option in Display Options dialog displayed oddly with surface offset option
27. Fixed Deleting a Weak Layer doesn't retrieve parent geometry
28. FIXED Some auto tension crack surfaces have holes in the discretization
29. FIXED Show All Surfaces does not update the tension crack location when switching between result surfaces
30. FIXED Cancelling Material Properties dialog from Properties Pane while editing doesn't close the dialog
31. FIXED The ponded water load option removed from Load dialog
32. FIXED Slow processing time when loading or selecting large amounts of geometry
33. FIXED Maximum contour colour was not updated when using Turbo Contour, reversed
34. FIXED Borehole manager very slow performance in some cases
35. FIXED Rare case where column base sampling causes slight change to FS after replicating a result slip surface as a user-defined surface
36. FIXED Spline search returns no result if entire model below Z=
37. FIXED Crash when overwriting an existing section in Section Creator
38. FIXED 'Reverse Colour' checkbox wasn't displayed in Contour Options dialog in some cases
39. FIXED Printing from the modeler wasn't showing any images due to Windows Security update
40. FIXED Crash if unavailable printer was set as the default
41. FIXED Manufacturer Library datagrid loses focus on editing
42. FIXED Loading bar upon clicking Cancel on Contour Options dialog
43. FIXED View > Align Camera with Selected Plane or Face error
44. FIXED View setup resets after going into Display Options dialog

Version 3.020 - September 20 2022 [Download]

1. NEW Add Spline Search Method to Slide3 slip surface type
   
2. NEW Improve Metaheuristic search methods
   
3. NEW Add Terrain Generator to Slide3
   
4. NEW Add MMO feature for Wedge or Multiplanar surface search methods
   
5. NEW Add Synteen Manufacturer to the support manufacturer library
   
6. NEW Improve contour display option to match RS3
   
7. CHANGED New checkboxes for the Advanced options for search methods
   
8. CHANGED Improve Multi-Section Slide2 section creator in Slide3
   
9. FIXED Removing the additional user defined surface removes the results
   
10. FIXED Number of failed attempts to create a surface varies has undefined behaviour
    
11. FIXED PSO Wedges for symmetric models not supported
12. FIXED Cohesion and Friction Angle tabular values could be non-incremental
13. FIXED Engine dialog not showing per region progress when model has multiple search regions with probabilistic active
14. FIXED With multiple search regions and probabilistic ON, surface altering only occurs on the global min from all search regions
    
15. FIXED Slide2 section creator in Slide3 with more than 40 sections does not allow click compute
    
16. FIXED Wrong Scatter Plot Regression Line in Excel for the probabilistic analysis results
    
17. FIXED Highlighting probabilistic data points based on FS considers negative FS (error) values
    
18. FIXED Vertical weak layer not clipping the slip surface for this case
19. FIXED PSO Multiplanar search not working for models with large X and Y coordinates
    
20. FIXED Saturated unit weight in the material dialog is grayed out for all the cases
    
21. FIXED Contour color turns black when "Display Geometry As Inset" is checked
22. FIXED Block Model Function disappears when saving and reopening the model
23. FIXED Block Model Material changes Unit Weight to zero after giving an error to user when they try to add another block model material
    

Version 3.019 - July 7 2022 [Download]

1. NEW Reporting the volume of each material for the critical slip surface in the report generator
   
2. NEW User defined option for geosynthetic manufacturer library
3. CHANGED New look for manufacturer libraries in supports
   
4. CHANGED Data Grid look added for the the support properties menu
   
5. CHANGED Data Grid look added for the the material properties menu
   
6. CHANGED Show/hide Rapid drawdown in Groundwater Project Settings
   
7. CHANGED Better PWP Export/import between Slide2 and Slide3 and keeping the resolution of the grids
   
8. CHANGED Default force orientation for anchors in Slide3
   
9. FIXED Add warnings for supports that are not supported by Slide3 imported from Slide2
   
10. FIXED Engine database crashes if a non-English alphabet is used
    
11. FIXED Matching the Response surface option in the project settings for Slide3 to Slide2 exports
    
12. FIXED Error for running multiple Slide2 sections
    
13. FIXED Fixing a crash related to the old Slide3 files
    
14. FIXED Models with porewater grid give different results when porewater pressure interpolator is precomputed versus if it isn't precomputed
    
15. FIXED Slide2 file export from Slide3 crash because of the invalid 2D section
    
16. FIXED Discretization issue caused by overlapping weak layers leading to unrealistic slip surfaces
    
17. FIXED Wrong graph for the c-phi material type
    
18. FIXED Normal stress validation in the shear normal function
    
19. FIXED Fixing the Contour display option becoming black
    
20. FIXED Fixing a crash related to the All entity selection option in the visibility menu in the 2D section creator in Slide3
    
21. FIXED Validation added to normal stress in the shear normal function material type
    

Version 3.018 - April 29 2022 [Download]

1. NEW Support Properties to be copied properly between Slide3 and Slide2
2. NEW Search limits integration Slide3-Slide2
3. NEW Search options and filter to be copied properly between Slide3 and Slide2
4. NEW Texture Mapping
5. NEW Project Settings options to be matched between Slide3 and Slide2
6. NEW Surface Options to be copied properly between Slide3 and Slide2
7. NEW Geosynthetic support properties to be exported properly from Slide3 to Slide2
8. NEW Tension crack surfaces to be transferred from Slide3 to Slide2
9. NEW Turbo color hot to cold
10. NEW Sliding Direction Arrow display option
11. NEW Contour for column depth
12. NEW Add equations to Slide3 material dialog similar to Slide2
13. NEW Add Reverse Colours Option for Contours
14. NEW Show user defined surface in the 3D view of the 2D section creator
15. CHANGED Coordinate system modifications
16. CHANGED Change the transparency of the safety map to 10%
17. CHANGED None option for Nut Capacity in Manufacturer Library
18. FIXED Discrete function rendering, does not show the discrete function properly
19. FIXED Change Unit for material properties and undo the change but the values stay as for the previous unit
20. FIXED Changing execution priority in Slide3 Engine has no effect
21. FIXED Click on repair crashed because of the weak layer removal
22. FIXED Results Transparency is backwards in display option dialog compared to the visibility tree
23. FIXED Project Settings Advanced between Slide2 and Slide3 should reset to default
24. FIXED GHB conversion systems does not match
25. FIXED Unit change bug in manufacturer library
26. FIXED Show Contours Crash for MMO
27. FIXED Slide2 file with a pore water pressure grid import to Slide3 change to water surface
28. FIXED File Path Issues: exporting a Slide2 section with long file names does not open
29. FIXED PSO: Number of Failure Slide2 to Slide3 does not match (MMO)
30. FIXED Material statistics from Slide3 to Slide2 does not match
31. FIXED Multiple 2D section creator Slide3 makes duplicate names
32. FIXED Discrete function from Slide3 to Slide2 creates two materials
33. FIXED Number of columns in Slide3 did not match Number of Slices in Slide2
34. FIXED Drawdown drop down menu in the add water by location becomes empty after unchecking the option in the project settings
35. FIXED Ground water material assignment from borehole does not update the material properties dialog
36. FIXED Slide2 with Discrete function material import to Slide3 does not show
37. FIXED Weak Layer option Slide2 to Slide3 did not match
38. FIXED Mb, s, a parameters not imported correctly from Slide2
39. FIXED Import material properties dialog gets hidden if the user clicks on the modeler
40. FIXED Probabilistic analysis option stays greyed out if the previous option in the surface option was MMO for PSO and then change to Cuckoo search
41. FIXED Import Anisotropic Surface while Importing Generalized Anisotropic property is broken
42. FIXED Slide3 Applied Manufacturer Library Design Factor for Geosynthetic support type changes to None in Slide2
43. FIXED Material stats are not imported from Slide2 to Slide3
44. FIXED File location for the 2D section creator crash-the file location in the 2D section dialog does not change from one computer to another
45. FIXED Slide2 & Slide3 Weak Layer Handling Different
46. FIXED Support properties are not copied from Slide3 to Slide2
47. FIXED Water grid option in Slide3 changes to water surface option in Slide2
48. FIXED Improve handling of cliff columns in block models
49. FIXED Slide3 2D section creator creates empty sections in Slide2
50. FIXED Trying to link blank RSPile file gives confusing error
51. FIXED Changing interval size in safety map contour option crash
52. FIXED Add remove columns in view all surfaces changes to default after closing and opening show all surfaces
53. FIXED Slide3 support dialog crash when user defined support is empty
54. FIXED Wrong coordinate writing to the compute file for geosynthetic supports
55. FIXED External transparency in display option bug-changing the transparency in the display option does not do anything
    

Version 3.017 – December 8 2021 [Download]

1. CHANGED Improved the method for sampling weight of columns
2. CHANGED Notification link in flow bar now launches 'Error Codes' dialog
3. CHANGED Slow Geometry Importer
4. FIXED Add Anisotropic Surface/Tension Crack by Location after adding Add Water By Location crash
5. FIXED Added check for min/max values in material stats dialog for COV
6. FIXED Anisotropic Surface/Weak Layers/Tension Cracks by Location allows for invalid input data and causing a crash
7. FIXED Bug where themes were being associated with files
8. FIXED Closing Change Plot Data saves the new changes
9. FIXED Crash reviewing 'All Surfaces' results
10. FIXED Custom TitleBlock Print Issue
11. FIXED Engine crashes when adding bolt to the selected surface first then editing it
12. FIXED Error when importing Material Properties when using a block model
13. FIXED Fixed a crash from too many weak layer combinations
14. FIXED Fixed some edge cases when handling geometric operations within the engine
15. FIXED Fixes to property import between RS3, Slide3 and EX3
16. FIXED Geometry written in wrong order when exporting to Slide2
17. FIXED Import Generalized Anisotropic Model with Anisotropic Surface into RS3 issue
18. FIXED Importing a blank CSV file would crash the program
19. FIXED Material Import Allowing Empty Rows
20. FIXED Max\Min Tensile Strength after Clear Selection don't change back to default values
21. FIXED Maximum negative pore pressure settings correctly exported to Slide2 sections
22. FIXED New Non-construction Geometry Invalidates Results
23. FIXED Opening a previously computed model with results, adding property table saving and reopening it would remove its results
24. FIXED Performance improvements for importing/pasting large data sets into grids
25. FIXED Performance problem with history removal on large models
26. FIXED Polyline Table Overflow
27. FIXED Reading block models status bar appearing but no block model defined
28. FIXED Selecting Manufacturer for Geosynthetic doesn't reset Min. Al. Tensile Strength.
29. FIXED Shear Strength COV range check fix (lower bound set to zero)
30. FIXED Slide2 Results Don't Show in Slide3 for Three Point Surface Results (e.g. Slope Search)
31. FIXED Slide3 Surface Result Export and Import
32. FIXED Soil Nail Grouted Tieback Nut and Plate Capacities not Refreshing
33. FIXED Symmetry Points Are Inconsistent
34. FIXED System Units Change Warning is Misleading
35. FIXED Units when exporting Slide2 section
36. FIXED User Data Dialog with Custom Variables

3.016 – September 14 2021 [Download]

1. FIXED Bolts with bond strength defined by material with frictional region crossing multiple layers may give inaccurate reactions since 3.011

3.015 – August 16 2021 [Download]

1. CHANGED Some tweaks to the handling of weak layers in specific cases where they are found to be discontinuous inside slip surfaces
2. FIXED User-defined surfaces are not properly clipped to the external when exporting a section cut from Slide3 to Slide2
3. FIXED Removing newly added Discrete New Function crashes the program
4. FIXED Vectors in property grids weren't displaying correctly or editable
5. FIXED Improved performance on reading and several operations when project has many items
6. FIXED Crash (no info) when importing Tre Altamira sensor data with missing files
7. FIXED Import Sensor Data Icons Inconsistency
8. FIXED Can't Delete Discrete Strength Function
9. FIXED Apply surface search filters when importing Slide2 file to Slide3
10. FIXED Tensile Strength parameter name is missing from SHANSEP material type
11. FIXED Fatal error when entering shear normal material strengths
12. FIXED Block Model Geometry Transparency Update Issue
13. FIXED Block Model Import Info Dialog Shows Empty
14. FIXED Able to Delete Block Model Materials
15. FIXED Import Search Limit Box Is In Wrong Location
16. FIXED Computing Search Limit By Arbitrary Volume Issue
17. FIXED Slide3 performance problem due to block model and discrete function
18. FIXED Editing imported Slide2 slope limit Crash
19. FIXED Unhandled error from printer setup
20. FIXED Showing wrong windows version in tech support window
21. FIXED Copy Paste Shear Normal Function in txt format doesn't work
22. FIXED Error 146 thrown while calculating applied loads for some slip surfaces, rendering them invalid
23. FIXED Crash during global min probabilistic with surface-based intersect slope limits

3.014 – July 9 2021 [Download]

1. CHANGED Improved splash screen
2. FIXED Mismatch between saved and loaded geometry
3. FIXED Geometric operators on External could inadvertently move geometries
4. FIXED Interpret Menu Item Toggles Broken
5. FIXED Save As Overwriting Not Working
6. FIXED Cancelling 'Draw Polyline' operation sets top left view to 'Front'
7. FIXED Pressing Enter in Support Dialog Erases Changes
8. FIXED Fatal Crash Deleting Search Limit by Surface (Projected)

3.013 – June 7 2021 [Download]

1. FIXED Fixed a problem that slows down file reading in Slide3
2. FIXED Performance improvement of several functions with models that have a large set of history
3. FIXED Traction arrow drawing on tiny geometry
4. FIXED Error with copy command

3.012 – May 7 2021 [Download]

1. FIXED Models saved with periods at the end of the file name will now prompt a warning asking for the user to rename the model.
2. FIXED Some issues with convergence of Factor of Safety in models containing materials with tensile strength
3. FIXED Opening a model with modified MMO Table Options crashes the program
4. FIXED Program crashes when constructing an elevation map due to floating external pieces
5. FIXED Save As to Path Without Drive Letter

3.011 – April 18 2021 [Download]

1. NEW Block model feature
2. NEW Ability to define design standards
3. NEW Faster file open/close using a database format
4. NEW Ability to clean geometry history
5. NEW Ability to compute multiple "completely within" search regions at once
6. NEW Import Maptek Data
7. NEW Add user-defined groups
8. NEW Discrete function visualization
9. CHANGED CSV Importer revamp
10. CHANGED Slide2 section creator improvements
11. CHANGED Tensar support manufacturer default values
12. CHANGED Performance Issue with reading Point Cloud Data when adding a surface from points
13. CHANGED Viewport Grid Options Modification
14. CHANGED Missing selectable faces if the entire surface mesh is extremely smooth
15. FIXED Output error when computing a model with invalid slope limit polyline
16. FIXED User Defined Support sorts values automatically without giving an error to user
17. FIXED Removing a property while its table is present issue when saving and reopening the model
18. FIXED Multi-Sections Path Table Paste
19. FIXED Traction arrow drawing on tiny geometry
20. FIXED Coefficient of Variation Ranges dialog (dark theme) wrong background color
21. FIXED Material stats dialog theme issue for error rows - wrong background color
22. FIXED Water interpolation data wiped upon re-computing a previously computed file
23. FIXED Section Creator Esc During Draw Closes Dialog
24. FIXED Options edit bugs - saving selection, apply all, cancel not working
25. FIXED Crash with results tables when double click opening a file
26. FIXED With more than 3 annotation tables, spacing can be wrong
27. FIXED Repair Crashes for Import Geometry
28. FIXED Exception thrown from Zoomfit while loading entities in during geometry import

3.010 – November 25 2020 [Download]

1. CHANGED Borehole diagram display
2. CHANGED Add Viewport tab to Display Options
3. CHANGED Remove report generator tab from Display Options
   
4. FIXED Show surface as inset does not work with MMO
5. FIXED Display Geometry as Inset
6. FIXED Add Plane Coordinate Issue in models with global offset
7. FIXED Error Saving Arbitrary Search Volume
8. FIXED Error Saving Surface Search limit
9. FIXED Pullout strengths by material not working properly
10. FIXED Section Viewer 4k UI issue displaying ruler in 2D Section Preview
11. FIXED Collapse Small Volumes ListBox Selection Issue
12. FIXED Changing Method in Results resets Custom Range for Add Safety Map
13. FIXED Losing license access crashes program

3.009 – November 9 2020 [Download]

1. NEW Particle Swarm MMO (Multiple failures)
2. NEW Probabilistic Shear (COV method)
3. NEW Wavin Support
4. NEW Copy Image
5. NEW Section Cut Front View
6. NEW Report weight in tonnes as well as kN
7. NEW Option in the section cut dialog to turn off writing user defined surface
8. NEW Display Weak Surfaces and Anisotropic Planes in Assign Materials Using Cutting Plane window
9. NEW Add Section at Segment Midpoint
10. NEW Ability to drop and drag geometry to import
11. NEW Add interslice forces and surface metrics (slip dir, mass, etc.) to the Slide3 results file for all surfaces
12. NEW Different Colours for Different Method Results
13. NEW Column Width in Column Data Viewer
14. NEW Add Interslice Forces to Contouring
15. NEW Maximum Slip Surface Filters
16. NEW New View Layout
17. NEW Pore Pressure Grid Contour
18. NEW Import Reutech and 3vGeomatics senso data
19. NEW Save Progress Bar
20. CHANGED Export Geometry File Name as Material
21. CHANGED Material Dialog Auto Select New Material
22. CHANGED Section Cut Select
23. CHANGED Format of Column Viewer Excel Export
24. CHANGED Moved Results Display Dialog to Tab in Display Dialog
25. CHANGED Display All Surfaces Dialog
26. FIXED Scale Crash in Reconstruct Surface
27. FIXED Orientation Preview crash in Reconstruct Surface
28. FIXED Loft Tool Crash
29. FIXED RE: Can't export material info
30. FIXED Orientation doesn't work properly
31. FIXED Create As User-Defined crashes in "Display All Surfaces" dialog
32. FIXED Null reference exception
33. FIXED Report Generator crashes when opening it in a model with results
34. FIXED Reading models with results (built with older builds) issue
35. FIXED Import Geometry Crash
36. FIXED Slide3 export of 2D section has wrong infill
37. FIXED Chart in Excel crash
38. FIXED Support pattern does not allow a value of 1m
39. FIXED Paste from Excel to tables bug
40. FIXED Discrete function input not written to file
41. FIXED Reading results performance issue
42. FIXED Slide3 view surfaces crash
43. FIXED define material statistics dialog bug
44. FIXED Same model different results
45. FIXED Recomputing a model after opening the column viewer crashes the program
46. FIXED Arbitrary Search Volume Saving and Compute fails
47. FIXED Show surface as inset does not work with MMO
48. FIXED Display Geometry as Inset Problems
49. FIXED Slide3 crash
50. FIXED Add Search Limit Box coordinates are off
51. FIXED Opening any Slide3 model crashes the program
52. FIXED Add Plane Coordinate Issue when having a model with the global offset
53. FIXED Error Saving Arbitrary Search Volume
54. FIXED ASC File has Optional Nodata Value
55. FIXED Changing Method in Results resets Custom Range for Add Safety Map
56. FIXED Add Elevation Map Crashes Program
57. FIXED Results File Writing State doesn't change after modifying a model that initially gives error code
58. FIXED Borehole UI Issues
59. FIXED Remove display options for report generator in application
60. FIXED MMO table is not being removed after saving as MMO model (minor UI issue)
61. FIXED MMO bug: two identical surfaces printed
62. FIXED Display All Surfaces Icons are too big
63. FIXED Sl3 Modeler fatal error when changing from infinite strength material
64. FIXED PWP Data Role Bug
65. FIXED Slope limit rendering wrong colour
66. FIXED Copy and Paste of Data into a User-Defined Support data grid misses the last item
67. FIXED Discrete Function doesn't work for various combinations
68. FIXED Slide3: Rotated weak layer surface not writing to compute file
69. FIXED Model crashes when re-open in slide3 after adding a section
70. FIXED Adding a 3D Primitive Geometry to a model with results in results workflow tab coordinate/scale issue after Saving and reopening
71. FIXED Slide3: Gen aniso function update not saving when switching to another material
72. FIXED When Max Neg Pore Pressure box not checked, value set to 0
73. FIXED Don't allow entry of Ru that is less than zero
74. FIXED YZ Plane is disabled in the Interpret
75. FIXED Safety Map Custom Range min value has changed
76. FIXED Import Geometry dialog missing Post Processing "Simplify Triangulation" and "Repair Option" page and directly imports the geometry
77. FIXED Slide3 plane creation via normal vector seems to ignore sign of z
78. FIXED Section cut compute issues
79. FIXED Collapse Small Volumes ListBox Selection Issue
80. FIXED Section Viewer UI issue displaying ruler in 2D Section Preview
81. FIXED PWP Legend dos not get removed after water grid is being deleted
82. FIXED Sensor Data Role Bug
83. FIXED Reutech sensor Data Contour Min Max remains in the viewport after deleting it
84. FIXED Opening old files with only user-defined surfaces causes it to change to a search method
85. FIXED Column Viewer gets disabled for all surfaces after turning off "Show only selected outline"

3.008 – August 21 2020 [Download]

1. Search volume bug fixed
2. Import (search volume\slope surface\Anisotropic surfaces) coordinate bug fixed.
3. Displaying Show All Surfaces bug fixed.
4. Engine: Center of Rotation when falling below failure surface bug fixed.
5. Displaying numbers in borehole manager bug fixed.
6. Removing excavation role for Add Plane and fixing “fit plane to selected” option.
7. Error codes -116 through -119 relating to slope limits renumbered to -150 through -153
8. Error codes -130 and -137 weren’t being reported in file; fixed.

3.007 – July 9 2020 [Download]

1. Fixed an issue with slip surfaces touching external boundaries being admitted during searching
2. Fixed an issue with unexpected searching behaviour in models with rotated box slope limits

3.006 – June 11 2020 [Download]

1. NEW: Import and Export search limits
2. Fixed a rare issue with hydrostatic forces being applied in the wrong direction to some vertical column faces
3. Improved algorithm for detecting vertical column faces, which is used to clip the column geometry
4. Improved algorithm for detecting vertical discontinuities within a slip mass
5. Fixed an issue with internal islands being created within slip masses
6. Fixed an issue with some slip surfaces not being shown in the Display All Surfaces dialogue
7. Fixed an issue with the program not being able to detect internally concave surfaces and outputting the appropriate error code (-121)
8. Fixed an issue with slope limits not being fully respected as the edges of slip surfaces
9. Improved properties import from Slide2 to Slide3
10. Fixed a section viewer crash
11. Fixed Elevation/Safety Map contours visibility
12. Improved Support dialog UI (error handling)
13. Fixed Add Water by Location crash
14. 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)
15. Create external from surface decimal issue entering a value is fixed
16. Assign aniso material to a weak layer results crash error fixed

3.005 – April 22 2020 [Download]

1. Improved volume slope limits when determining whether a surface is inside or outside the limit.
2. Fixed a bug with the computation of base area of columns under rare circumstances.
3. Improved the computation of ponded water loads on vertical faces.
4. Angle brackets in Material names sometimes caused the program to stop; fixed.
5. Older projects with an External volume could have unexpected outcomes after Clear External; fixed.
6. A Generalized Anisotropic Function window label was fixed.
7. An Import Properties from Slide Project bug was fixed.
8. The Compute message regarding undivided geometry was updated.
   

3.004 – March 27 2020 [Download]

1. Importing arcs caused subsequent file open to fail; fixed.

3.003 – March 25 2020 [Download]

1. Fix for response surface in cases where LE method returns error codes.
2. Fix for trilinear interpolation.
3. Fixed bug with slope limits.
4. Boolean operations are now more robust and efficient, and there is more feedback if errors are encountered.
5. The Slide2 section tool and export was improved.
6. Tre Altamira data can now be imported and contoured.
7. A primitive geometry Edit bug was fixed.
8. Some Add Search Limit by Volume bugs were fixed.
9. A Generalized Anisotropic editing bug was fixed.
10. A Show All Surfaces > Export Surface bug was fixed.
11. Some Add Surface From Points bugs were fixed.
12. A Construction entity visibility bug was fixed.
13. An Export Surface Results bug was fixed.
14. Some Discard Selected Construction Geometry bugs were fixed.
15. Some Add Loads and Add Support bugs were fixed.
16. The Discrete Function point set was sometimes drawn incorrectly; fixed.
17. A Borehole Manager Location bug was fixed.
18. Some Clear External Visibility bugs were fixed.
19. A Theme Light bug was fixed.
20. Dip / Dip Direction entry boxes sometimes drew incorrectly; fixed.
21. The Repair Settings panel was improved.
22. Entities can now be selected in the Visibility pane even during Disable Selection.
23. An Assign Materials Using Cutting Plane bug was fixed.
24. When viewing imported sensor data, only parts completely inside the External extents are drawn by default.
25. The Segmenter tool was improved.
26. The freehand object manipulator was improved and added to more tools.
27. Mouse coordinates were shown in the CAD views even when not being used; fixed.
28. Opening multiple projects at the same time sometimes caused unexpected window states; fixed.
29. The Search Limit was sometimes incorrectly set when importing a Slide2 project; fixed.
30. A Shear Normal Function bug was fixed.
31. Geometry Import Post-Processing is now only enabled for surface meshes.
32. Discard Isolated External Pieces now considers the Construction Role.
33. An Extrude bug was fixed.
34. Certain tools using their own CAD view or geometry Preview entities were sometimes resulting in incorrect behaviour; fixed.
35. A Section Cut bug was fixed.
36. Add Surface From Existing Contours was improved.
37. A Water Surface delete bug was fixed.
38. A Draw Polyline bug was fixed.
39. A Loft Undo / Redo visibility bug was fixed.
40. An Import Slide2 Project Symmetry Line bug was fixed.
41. Some Geotextile bugs were fixed.
42. The grid from Viewport Grid or Draw Polyline was sometimes drawing incorrectly; fixed.
43. A Project closing bug was fixed.
44. Some Import Properties bugs were fixed.
45. Interacting with the Geometry Import window is now faster.
46. Grid lines in the CAD view sometimes flashed or disappeared; fixed.
47. A view closing bug sometimes stopped the program; fixed.
48. Some Geometry Import visibility bugs were fixed.
49. When saving a project, warn the user if potential future additions to the project path would make it too long.
50. Some geometry operations should complete much faster now.
51. The CAD view ruler coordinates were sometimes incorrect; fixed.
52. The Contour Legend context menu now contains "Toggle Density Histogram", converting the legend into a histogram.
53. A DTM file import bug was fixed.
54. The support database has been updated.
55. Materials were sometimes not imported with a Slide2 project; fixed.
56. An Autodesk export bug was fixed.
57. The Geometry Repair tool is now faster when finding defects.
58. A section tool visibility bug was fixed.
59. A Geometry Import delete bug was fixed.
60. Some Slide2 section bugs were fixed.
61. Assign Materials Using Cutting Plane was not invalidating results; fixed.
62. Opening large projects should now be a little faster.
63. The Global Minimum entity visibility was sometimes inconsistent; fixed.
64. A Slide2 import bug was fixed.
65. A Discrete Function visibility bug was fixed.
66. A Generalized Anisotropic dialog bug was fixed.
67. There is now a report of issues when exporting a Slide2 section.
68. Some Slide2 export bugs were fixed.
69. A Geosynthetic dialog bug was fixed.
70. A Draw Polyline coordinate entry bug was fixed.
71. A file saving bug was fixed.
72. A Collapse Material Boundaries Undo / Redo bug was fixed.

3.002 – January 17 2020 [Download]

1. The Intersects slope limit did not work correctly, fixed.
2. The Add Surface From Contours and Points dialogs were improved.
3. Shapefile geometry can now be imported, with support for points, polylines, and polygons.
4. Entries in the Undo / Redo lists have better names.
5. Some Section Creator bugs were fixed.
6. Some Bolt and Load dialog bugs were fixed.
7. A Shear Normal Function dialog bug was fixed.
8. The Section Creator's interactive manipulation was improved.
9. A Geometry Merge bug was fixed.
10. Some Contour Legend bugs were fixed.
11. A Create External From Surface bug was fixed; the tool is now more flexible. There is now a Create Volume Under Surface operation.
12. A Divide All Geometry bug was fixed.
13. A Create External Box bug was fixed.
14. The Import Geometry dialog is now faster; some dialog bugs were fixed.
15. A geometry file reading bug was fixed.
16. A data file import bug was fixed.
17. Some Colour Table names were changed to be consistent with other Rocscience software.
18. A borehole bug was fixed.
19. Entity visibilities are now saved with the project, and used when the project is opened.
20. A Safety Map bug was fixed.
21. The Loft operation sometimes resulted in holes; fixed.
22. Some Multi-Planar surface bugs were fixed.
23. Help buttons were added to many dialogs.
24. Importing geotextile reinforced Slide projects added some extra geometry; fixed.
25. The label for Micro Pile supports has been changed to Pile / Micro Pile.
    

3.001 – December 5 2019 [Download]

1. Maintenance+ version released.