GMS:Release Notes GMS

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GMS 10.3 Bugfixes

GMS 10.3.7 - May 21, 2018

3D Grid

• 010684 GMS Crash when you try to create a 3D grid in new instances of GMS
• 010674 Edit Variogram Crash
• 010408 MODPATH Long Export/Display Update Times

Boreholes

• 009853 Can't import Borehole Sample Data with Z Values in Ascending Order

CAD

• 010527 CAD symbols don't resize as expected

General

• 010752 GMS crashing when opening .gpr
• 010349 MODFLOW Calibration tutorial
• 010788 MODPATH zone code colors not saving

MODFLOW

• 010741 GMS-written native UZF file cannot be read back in
• 010499 Export native text
• 010516 MODPATH Backwards Particle Tracking

GMS 10.3.6 - March 21, 2018

Borehole

• 09853 Can't import Borehole Sample Data with Z Values in Ascending Order

CAD

• 10527 CAD symbols don't resize as expected

Map

• 10064 GMS Attribute Table SFR2 Display Bug

General

• 10409 I,J,K in View Values
• 10502 QT Popup Menus Go Off Screen and are Unclickable

GIS

• 10361 GIS Layers not showing

Grids

• 10408 MODPATH Long Export/Display Update Times
• 08647 LGR - Index Out of Range Error
• 10456 UGrid has no Menu Item for Creating New mod-PATH3DU

MODFLOW

• 10499 Export native text
• 10010 Model checker with SFR and LAK
• 10357 Transient MODFLOW-USG PEST model gives error
• 10056 Model checker should warn if SFR ELEVUP or ELEVDN is below cell bottom
• 10349 MODFLOW Calibration tutorial

MODPATH

• 10359 modPath3du pathline coloring
• 10516 MODPATH Backwards Particle Tracking

MT3DMS

• 10463 MT3D Error with newer GMS 10.3
• 10492 MT3DMS Mass Calculator not available for SEAWAT

Rasters

• 10237 10.3 Recharge raster

GMS 10.3.5 - December 20, 2017

Boreholes

• 10204 Multiple Materials In Cross Section Polygon Should Not Be Drawn

Contours

• 10011 Flooded cells symbol on UGrid with Color filled contours

Mesh

• 09997 Units for SEEP2D Flux BC

MODFLOW

• 10070 MODFLOW-USG CCF error w/ LAK package

General

• 10088 Unable to Download Online Images in 10.3
• 10069 Incorrectly reading Native MODFLOW files

Scatter Data

• 09996 Crash pasting scatter values

Time Series

• 10007 Transient datasets don't keep their timestep

TIN

• 10071 Duplicating TIN Duplicates Scatter Set Instead

GMS 10.3.4 - October 18, 2017

Borehole

• 10017 Message from borehole cross section editor

General

• 10007 Transient datasets don't keep their timestep
• 10011 Flooded cells symbol on UGrid with Color filled contours

Scatter

• 09996 Crash pasting scatter values

MODFLOW

• 10003 Fix layer errors
• 10010 Model checker with SFR and LAK
• 09934 fixed pilot point with null space Monte Carlo

SEEP2D

• 09997 Units for SEEP2D Flux BC

MODPATH

• 10012 Pathline selection

GMS 10.3.3 - September 22, 2017

Solids

• 09990 GMS crashes when changing material for a solid.

General

• 09969 Borehole tools missing
• 09966 Unable to import old MODFLOW files
• 09925 10.3 - Toolbar icons missing
• 09899 ETS file compatibility
• 09901 GMS Dev stops working when opening this project

Boreholes

• 09902 After deleting the Borehole dataset redrawing the display causes a crash

MT3DMS

• 09900 MT3D-USGS Define Species
• 09779 THKMIN Default Value

Interpolation

• 09896 Interpolate To MODFLOW Layers Is Wrong

MODFLOW

• 09931 GUI Test: MODFLOW fails Testing
• 09756 map to MODFLOW causes warning when using externally created DISU data
• 09673 Map->MODFLOW USG

MODPATH

• 09851 GUI Test: MP3DU generates an empty .gsf2 file

Grids

• 09878 GUI Test: Crash when mapping a Grid Frame to a 3D Grid
• 09823 Crash when converting a 2D Grid with all hidden cells to UGrid

GMS 10.3.2 - August 11, 2017

General

• 09832 Not all native MODFLOW files are exported for project for 10.3
• 09688 MODFLOW-USG translator crashes
• 09611 Map to CLN tree and properties dialogs not modal
• 09669 Popup reappears after the user has chosen the scatter set
• 09762 GUI Test: Native Text is not being saved when the path is too long

MODFLOW

• 09646 Tutorial Test Bug: MODFLOW-LGR Dual tutorial test giving wrong results
• 09669 Update to USGS MODFLOW
• 09770 Kriging datasets go missing

MODPATH

• 09789 Crash Opening Zone Code Array in MODPATH

GMS 10.3.1 - June 20, 2017

MODPATH

• 09674 10.2 Capture Zones -> Arcs

MODFLOW

• 09438 CLN flow budget not matching OUT file

Mesh

• 09642 Add Breaklines command causes GMS to crash

GMS 10.3.0 - May 15, 2017

• Initial Release

GMS 10.2 Bugfixes

GMS 10.2.5 - June 20, 2017

Contours

• 09564 Contour Legend for USG face contours

General

• 09507 Paste data into MT3DMS/Source/Sink mixing package crashes GMS
• 09546 10.2 - Unable to Open .dat file in PHT3D Options Window
• 09627 Registering Image crashes GMS

MODFLOW

• 09652 MODFLOW Translator Crash
• 09440 Map Recharge Polygons to USG
• 09490 USG Contours and Recharge
• 09375 MODFLOW-NWT Parallel Warning
• 09486 More than 4 CLN wells causing MODFLOW to crash

GMS 10.2.4 - March 22, 2017

3D Grid

• 09373 Cell IJK Label not Anchored

Annotation

• 09518 VTK Error and Crash

General

• 09484 CLN vector crash
• 09488 MT3DMS TS column
• 09439 Pest Slave Directory

Map

• 09340 Can't pan while creating arcs

Materials

• 09442 Crash changing materials

MODFLOW

• 09483 Stream Package Mapping Incorrect
• 09473 Crash in Global Options
• 09441 GMS comments appear to cause MODFLOW crash
• 09427 USG Observation Well Display
• 09437 Flow budget reporting different values than zone budget and *.out file

GMS 10.2.3 - January 9, 2017

Map

• 09340 Can't pan while creating arcs

MODFLOW

• 09235 Null Space MC with NWT Solver

SEAWAT

• 09257 SEAWAT bug with MF parameters

Grids

• 09297 2D UGrid cell center Z is -99999999 for imported vtu file
• 09282 Annotations disable 'Select with Poly'
• 09225 Computed Values Not Updating
• 09253 Dev - Display Not Updating After Converting to Point Dataset

General

• 09189 Framing of a 3D mesh is different
• 09373 Cell IJK Label not Anchored

GMS 10.2.2 - November 9, 2016

MODFLOW

• 09249 Stochastic runs with Clusters Tech. Support

Time Series

• 09225 Vector dataset not assigned reference time on creation

UGrid

• 09176 MODFLOW-USG example GNC file fails to import into GMS
• 09206 Unable to export and then import ugrid text dataset

Plots

• 09132 Mass vs time plot not working MT3D conceptual model tutorial

MT3DMS

• 09073 MT3DMS results not being completely visualized

GMS 10.2.1 - October 19, 2016

Display Options

• 09119 GMS quits when displaying labels, IDs, and scalars for a lot of scatter points

License

• 09088 Crash on exit when no license is available.

Map

• 09188 Map polygon displays incorrectly
• 09133 Reading map file compared with GMS 6.5

MODFLOW

• 09126 SAMG Iterations not showing
• 09175 Importing MODFLOW-USG sample model fails on output control file
• 09174 MODFLOW-USG import with missing geometry file should give more descriptive error
• 09156 STORAGECOEFFICIENT option is not supported

Plots

• 09155 Time series plot options not populating times

Save

• 09092 Observation Point error

Ugrid

• 09168 UGrid Refinement Elevation Gaps
• 09123 10.3 - Selecting UGrid cell by single click no longer works

GMS 10.2.0 - August 23, 2016

• Initial Release

GMS 10.1 Bugfixes

GMS 10.1.5 - August 9, 2016

Datasets

• 08933 Flow Budget "time steps don't match" for same file
• 08978 GMS crashed after generating ghost nodes and accessing the Data Calculator

General

• 09036 Value changes when entering a number with a comma
• 09000 Crash when selecting Grid -> 3D Dataset button in HUF package array
• 08996 Initialize Parameter Crash
• 08958 Get an Error that should be a warning.

Mesh

• 08945 Exporting mesh before project save creates bad mesh

MODFLOW

• 09030 MODFLOW Native text external arrays
• 08998 Transient Head not displaying even though there is a solution
• 08889 Model Check reporting error that should be warning

Simulation

• 09059 Deleting a SEEP2D simulation caused GMS to crash

Tutorial

• 08877 MODFLOW Error - Soulution did not converge for heads
• 08872 Error REQUIRES NNODES=1 appears when running MODFLOW

GMS 10.1.4 - June 2, 2016

MODFLOW

• 08888 No Flow Vectors for a 1-Layer Model
• 08862 MNWI package bug
• 08852 Long execution time for Map Layer to MODFLOW from TIN

Grids

• 08892 Crash with grid visibility

T-PROGS

• 08894 T-PROGS crash

Contours

• 08853 Can't Open Project With Contours On

General

• 08857 Crash When Clicking Chinese Items in the Project Explorer
• 08855 Bad Dates and Times in Solution
• 08655 Edited Files Not Provoking Save Operation
• 08718 Crash when editing z value of feature point

MT3DMS

• 08688 MT3D Source/Sink Mixing package not applying dataset values to array

GMS 10.1.3 - March 03, 2016

MODFLOW

• 08676 UCN files do not read into GMS
• 08658 10.1 - More LGR Issues
• 08638 Parent to Child Grid RCH Package
• 08471 TOBS package errors
• 08523 10.1 - MODFLOW model checker for drains

MT3DMS

• 08429 10.0 - MT3DMS TOB well screen

MODPATH

• 08614 10.1 - Export Pathline Report

Zone Budget

• 08470 USG and Zone Budget

Pilot Points

• 08539 HK Pilot Points Forward Run

Rasters

• 08619 10.1 - Crash When Attempting to Convert to Trimmed Raster

General

• 08535 10.1 - Project Doesn't Open at the Same State of Where it was Saved
• 08533 10.0 - Shape to Features crash

GMS 10.1.2 - February 06, 2016

MODFLOW

• 08523 MODFLOW model checker for drains fix

MT3DMS

• 08429 MT3DMS TOB well screen Fix
• 08471 TOBS package errors Fix

USG

• 08470 USG and Zone Budget Problems

Pilot Points

• 08539 HK Pilot Points Forward Run

Rasters

• 08619 Crash When Attempting to Convert to Trimmed Raster

General

• 08535 Project Doesn't Open at the Same State of Where it was Saved
• 08533 Shape to Features crash

GMS 10.1.1 - December 08, 2015

2D Grid

• 8462 - MODLOW HUF Data Visualization

Coverage

• 8246 - Loading Display theme with material colors Does Not Update Display of Boreholes

Datasets

• 8485 - Text in the table should not be editable.
• 8503 - GMS crashes after changing the F value for multiple cells.

General

• 8500 - Crash When Adding Column to GwConnections Table in CLN Dialog
• 8449 - Display Doesn't Update Correctly When Reading in MODPATH Solution
• 8498 - Crash When Attempting to Convert 3D Dataset to 2D Dataset in SWI2 Dialog
• 8486 - Changing stress periods in MODFLOW-LGR model changes stress periods in MODFLOW-USG models

Grids

• 8484 - Map to MODFLOW maps to all modflow models in the project

Import

• 8463 - Model checker doesn't find elevation errors in layers other than layer 1

Materials

• 8401 - MODFLOW importer fails to read sub file

Model Control

• 8428 - Help group box in general section of preferences dialog cut off

MODFLOW

• 8529 - Model Check Crash
• 8353 - GMS Maps to MODFLOW Slow and Saves Slow
• 8420 - Crash editing layer number in Chemical Reaction Package Dialog
• 8419 - Crash adding BC values
• 8412 - Crash when editing dechlorination parameters
• 8417 - GMS Transient Obs. Head data not importing
• 8354 - MODFLOW 2005 Import Error

Project Explorer

• 8298 - Converting an MNW model to MODFLOW-USG keeps MNW file in name file

Scatter Data

• 8356 - UPW Package Interpolation Options

GMS 10.1.0 - October 21, 2015

• Initial Release

Older Versions of GMS

See the article GMS:Older Bugfixes GMS.