Software Products

USER INTERFACE and PLOTTING

• Updated plotting libraries. Faster and more stable, especially on Remote Desktop
• New plotting paradigm. Select the object being plotted and then choose the color scheme or value to be contoured
• Multi-threaded block plots (not done yet)
• All quantities can now be contoured (e.g. stress and strain)
• Most plot items include the ability to map to other coordinates and the ability to plot with exaggerated deformation

• Updated plotting libraries. Faster and more stable platform, especially when working with Remote Desktop
• All quantities can now be contoured (e.g. stress and strain)
  
• Most plot items include the ability to map to other coordinates and the ability to plot with exaggerated deformation to highlight large displacements in small strain models
  
• Ability to reorder, copy, and paste plot items interactively

MODEL CONSTRUCTION

• Automatic mesh generation in fully deformable blocks now uses same libraries as in Griddle
  
• Build models directly from closed geometry surfaces (e.g. DXF):
  
  • Fill volume with tetrahedral blocks, or
    
  • Merge blocks to form zones within single closed surfaces
    
• Cut blocks with DXF geometry
• Create blocks from VRML files
• Built-in voronoi block generator
  
• New grid file format for importing and exporting blocks and zones
  
• Convert tetrahedral blocks into zones during import. Blocks with the same group name can be merged together to form multiple zones within a single block. 2-3x faster than joining. NEW
  
• Beam, cable, and pile geometry can be imported from CAD data NEW
  
• Define groups using visual and property-based ranges UPDATED
  

• Create blocks from VRML files

• Built-in voronoi block generator

• Export model grids, along a plane, to UDEC
• New grid file format for importing and exporting blocks and zones

• Convert tetrahedral blocks into zones during import
  • blocks with the same group name can be merged together to form multiple zones within a single block
  • 2-3x faster than joining

• Beam, cable, and pile geometry can be imported from CAD data
  
• Define groups using visual and property-based ranges

JOINT MODELS

• Three new, built-in joint models have been added:
  • Softening healing Mohr-Coulomb to improve modeling seismicity such that not all joint slip events are seismic and joint stick-slip behavior is possible
  • Bilinear Mohr-Coulomb with two different shear strength envelopes where the transition may be automatic (envelopes intersection) or specified
  • Power Law Creep to simulate the creep due to the joint gauge (infill) material

STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS

• Structural liners, previously an option, are now included
  
• More structural elements (piles, shells, and geogrids)
  
• Elastic finite element blocks (20 or 28-noded hexahedra), previously an option, now included
  
• Hybrid bolts add dowel segments to cable bolts to resist shearing and opening across joints

UPDATED COMMANDS and SCRIPTING

• Updated commands and FISH syntax that is intuitive, easy to learn, and easy to apply
• Automatic conversion tool to translate 3DEC 5.2 data files to the updated 3DEC 7.0 syntax
  • Converted sources files are archived automatically to a local pre-conversion folder
  • Ambiguous or obsolete syntax is highlighted with recommendations

• Documentation includes a Command and FISH mapping reference

• Totally updated syntax for commands and FISH to make more intuitive and more consistent with other Itasca programs
• Conversion tool to convert commands and FISH from old syntax to new syntax
• Display of global FISH symbols as calculation progresses.
• New variable types include: Boolean, Symmetric Tensor (e.g., stress and strain), Matrix (with built-in functions to inverse, multiply, etc.), Map (or associative array), and Structures
• FISH <strong>foreach</strong>construct can now be used for 3DEC objects. This greatly simplifies 3DEC FISH
• FISH functions now available for all objects including structural elements
• Improved editor with better highlighting, visible line numbers and code folding (collapse and expand segments of code)
• Fully integrated Python. All FISH functions also available as Python methods

• FISH foreach construct can now be used for 3DEC objects. This greatly simplifies 3DEC FISH

• FISH functions now available for all objects including structural elements
• Improved editor with better highlighting, visible line numbers and code folding (collapse and expand segments of code)
• Fully integrated Python. All FISH functions also available as Python methods
• Control 3DEC entirely using Python data files and/or using the enhanced interactive IPython console built right into 3DEC
• IPython provides a powerful set of tools, such as:
  • GUI-based script shell
  • interactive data visualization
  • comprehensive object introspection
  • Python script parallel processing
  • robust error handling

MORE RESPONSIVE HELP

• Documentation is now in HTML format
• Access Help at the command prompt or within a data file [F1]
• Access Inline Help [Ctrl + Spacebar] to auto-complete commands

AND MORE ...

• Seismic wizard to pre-process ground waves for dynamic (option) analysis
• Groups and extra variables for all objects, including structural elements and flow planes
  
• Save files can be automatically (optionally) compressed
  
• Save files will be compatible with future 3DEC versions