What's New

The following is a listing of major feature additions which have been made in the latest Maintenance + release of RocFall2.

Version 8.020

• Multi-sectional Analysis and Group Plots for sections exported from RocFall3

Version 8.016

• Updated Maccaferri barriers

Version 8.013

• Added RISP barriers

Version 8.012

• Added separate controls to toggle seeder location in charts independent from show graph markers

Version 8.011

• Minor UI updates to icons and dialog layouts

SEEDER LIBRARY DIALOG

• Added Seeder Library dialog under Seeder menu. Users can now update seeder properties without needing to right click on each seeder in the model view.

PLOTTING MULTI-VALUES

• Added plotting multi-values to the envelope graph view. Users can now choose to plot multiple values (max, mean and/or 3 different fractiles of choice) in a single plot. When multi-values are selected, the user cannot toggle between different seeder types, rock types, end reasons, etc.

SAVING/LOADING VIEWS

• Previously opened views (charts) are saved if rock paths are saved (checked in the Project Settings). The views will be opened the next time the file is loaded.

NEW: REPORT GENERATOR

• Report Generator replaces Info Viewer to provide more flexibility
• Barrier Design Reports generates in an in-program view frame first, where users can choose to export to an external browser (as an htm file) or add to the report generator

Version 8.010

SHOW SEEDER

• Added Show Seeder option to toolbar to plot seeder start location(s) on Endpoints graph and Envelope graph.

IMPROVED GRAPH ENDPOINTS

• Improved Graph Endpoints option with new Graph Endpoints dialog.
• Added option to plot Number of Rocks or Percent of Rocks on primary y-axis.
• Added option to plot Rock Endpoint Location, Rock Endpoint Distance From, or Runout Distance on x-axis.
• Added option to plot All Rock Paths, Currently Filtered Paths, or Paths with Selected Rocks.

IMPROVED BARRIERS

• Added Display Hits option to right-click menu to display information about Number of Rocks Hit and % Retained and Passing for Barriers and Collectors in Results view.
• Added X Translational Velocity and Y Translational Velocity to Graph Barriers and Collectors dialog. Note: Raw data for each rock path can be viewed by selecting Plot in Excel option from the right-click menu in chart view.

PREDEFINED SLOPE MATERIALS LIBRARY

• Added Common Types to Slope Material Library with common slope materials.
• Quickly populate material coefficients by making a selection from Material Library Common Types dialog.

PREDEFINED ROCK DENSITY LIBRARY

• Added Common Types to Rock Type Library with common rock densities.

OUTPUT PATH DETAILS

• Added Output Path option to right-click menu in Results view. Event details for the selected path are exported to HTML.

Version 8.005

FILTER OPTIONS

• Added Event option to Filter Results dialog. This allows the user to filter paths results by an event type and location.

Version 8.004

EXPORT

• Added Export All Path Details option to Export Path Details dialog. This allows users to export positions, velocities, accelerations, and energies of each rock, at each time-increment, to a comma-delimited .txt file.

Version 8.002

PROJECT SETTINGS

• Import/Export predefined Project Settings.
• Users can choose for Collectors to record multiple impacts or the first impact from each rock path.

BARRIER ANALYSIS AND DESIGN TOOLS

• Pfeifer Isofer Barriers added to predefined Barrier Design Library.
• Added impact energy percentile design parameter to the non-factored method.
• Barriers can be placed on Berms.

GRAPHS

• Added toggle end reasons, seeders, rock types and rock shapes to Endpoint Location, Envelope, and Distribution graphs.