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GMS 10.4 Bugfixes

GMS 10.4.4 - May 02, 2019

3D Grid

• 01174 Splitting layer crashes GMS

Feature Object

• 11735 Drain observation not labelled, does not plot

MODFLOW

• 11780 GMS crashes when opening file saved with many CLN TransientIBOUND inputs

Online Maps

• 11794 Add online maps doesn't load the desired image

Save

• 11729 Display Theme options incorrectly executing

GMS 10.4.3 - April 16, 2019

3D Grid

• 11750 "Vector<T> tool long" popup when classifying material zones

Boreholes

• 11752 Borehole is framed and selected after the canceled creation of a solid

Export

• 11663 World Imagery issues

Map

• 11770 Delete key crashes GMS

Mesh

• 11755 GMS crashes when clicking select all for 3D Mesh when no mesh data exists

MODFLOW

• 11773 Mapped CLN wells with small segments can cause a crash
• 11736 Conceptual model wells map as NaN when grid conductivity is zero
• 111674 Export native text with Pilot points using log interpolation does not allow replicating the log interpolation functionality with exported text. Warning added.

MT3DS

• 11739 Incorrect Unit for 1st Sorption Const. in MT3DMS Chemical Reaction Package. Previously units for the first sorption constant in the MT3DMS chemical reaction package were set as volume per mass. Now, in GMS 10.4, they're labelled as volume per time.

UGrid

• 11680 Crash when converting empty TIN to UGrid. Should create a new empty UGrid.

GMS 10.4.2 - February 3, 2019

Display Options

• 11557 Isosurface options dialog has wrong dialog name.
• 11541 GUI Test: Contour labels always horizontal regardless of what is set in the Label Options dialog.

Export

• 09897 Exporting TIF file seems to give bad data where the elevation values are different than the original TIF file.

GIS

• 11361 GUI Test: Never stops processing when removing TIF from the GIS module.

Import

• 11438 Pasted Text Import doesn't import. When pasting a text import into GMS the Import Wizard opens OK, but when it closes the points are not actually imported.

Interpolation

• 11454 Tutorial Review: Interpolate Raster to Feature Objects issue. The elevation values from rasters were only being interpolated to the nodes of feature objects and not to the vertices.

Legend

• 11534 GUI Test: Missing MODAEM Legend. Turning on the legend would not cause the MODAEM legend to appear.
• 11460 GUI Test: Legends not appearing consistently. When using UGrids, not all of the UGrids legends would appear and those that did would overlap each other.
• 11409 Legend Text Color Options. In earlier versions (verified in 10.0 and 10.1) the legend text would be white if the background was set to a darker color. In more recent versions, the text stays blank and is difficult to read.
• 11429 GUI Test: DEM legend moved to be displayed incorrectly in the center of the DEM.

Main Menu

• 11459 GUI Test: Contour Options is always enabled when using the Display | Contours Options command.

Materials

• 11501 10.4 - Deleting last HUF material causes crash. When first opening the HUF package, there are no materials listed. When adding a material and then attempting to delete it, GMS crashes.

MODFLOW

• 11544 Crash opening USG native MFN. When attempting to load in the native MFN file written out by GMS, the MODFLOW translator runs successfully, but when the project tries to load, GMS crashes.
• 11507 GUI Test: MODFLOW-USG not using all observation points. It was not creating a gauge or calculating the head for all points.
• 11556 GMS vs native results with pilot points. When changing interpolation settings for pilot points (e.g. using the nearest 16 points down to the nearest 4 points), the head solution in the GMS run does not match the head solution from the native files written out from the same run.
• 11551 MODFLOW-USG different results running native files; the heads are noticeably different between the GMS files and the native files.
• 11500 10.4 - Capture Zone solutions display simultaneously. When you select a capture zone solution, then scroll with the up/down arrow keys to other solutions, the first solution is still displayed and two solutions are visible at once.
• 11391 MODFLOW-USG results incorrect when observation on dry area included. When an obeservation point is included over a dry area of the model, the head values end up being all the same. When the dry observation point is removed, the values return to what is expected.
• 11481 10.4 - CCF does not match grid. After running a transient MODFLOW, the CCF file does not match the grid that was just used to run MODFLOW.
• 11463 10.4 - MODFLOW HOB bug. Observations that are at the end of sp1 and the beginning of sp2 are assigned to sp2 at time 0 and it makes the most sense for them to be assigned to sp1 at the end time.
• 11482 10.4 - MODFLOW Steady State solution keeps transient time steps. When a MODFLOW model is changed from transient to steady state and rerun, the solution keeps the transient steps.

Observations

• 11490 CLN Well Observations map to MODFLOW incorrectly. When mapping CLN observation wells to MODFLOW, one of the non-pumping wells maps to 'Well To Node' instead of to 'Cln Well To Node' like the other non-pumping wells.

Particles

• 11390 10.4 - Generate particles at wells in MODPATH was not detecting wells that are selected.

Plots

• 11319 S/S Flow vs. Time plot always enabled even when it should not be a valid plot option.

UGrid

• 11510 UGrid swap tool not working as expected with the tool swapping edges in an unpredictable manner.
• 11509 UGrid split/merge tool not finding correct edge when merging or splitting UGrid cells. This caused the wrong set of cells to be merged or split. In some cases GMS would not allow merging or split even though the criteria had been met.
• 11470 GUI Test: Unexpected behavior when converting Map to UGrid with a selected Map node. The Ugrid was displayed incorrectly after generating the UGrid until refreshed.
• 11431 GUI Test: GMS hanging when creating UGrid points in the UGrid module.
• 11461 GUI Test: Unable to unlock UGrid for editing.

Vectors

• 11489 10.4 - Velocity vectors were not being extracted from CCF when using the Extract Velocity Vectors command in the Project Explorer.

GMS 10.4.1 - November 14, 2018

Display Options

• 11393 Dataset Contour Options for UGrids

Import

• 11297 10.4 and Dev: .xyz files load as images

Materials

• 11297 10.4 and Dev: .xyz files load as images

MODFLOW

• 11403 Zone Budget only displays up to 5 zone budgets

MODPATH

• 11345 10.3, 10.4, Dev: FEMWATER material XY series not being remembered. Emma Shipley

MT3DS

• 11342 GMS 10.4: MP3DU direction arrows work for forward particles but not for backward particles
• 09778 Max Number of Sources and Sinks

Polygons

• 11392 Crash When using Map to |Polygons -> UGrid

Projection

• 11221 MT3D-USGS MXSS

Simulation

• 11268 10.4 and Dev: Image not reprojecting on the fly correctly with TIN

Time Series

• 11305 New SWB Simulation, crashes if launched

UGrid

• 11308 GUI Test: Time step window not right after opening a new solution
• 11358 GMS 10.4: Contour labels don't turn off after turning off contours
• 11338 GUI Test: F value for points has changed in dev
• 11339 GUI Test: Select cell id off by one
• 11317 GUI Test: UGrid points have incorrect Y value
• 11310 GUI Test: Map Shapefile to CLN is not naming UGrid correctly
• 11300 Select with Poly tool crash

GMS 10.4.0 - September 22, 2018

• Initial Release

GMS 10.3 Bugfixes

GMS 10.3.8 - August 8, 2018

3D Grid

• 10888 10.3 - Insert layer in 3D grid with SEAM3D model

MODFLOW

• 11052 10.3 - PHT3D species not written as expected
• 10904 10.3 - Pest with MODFLOW-USG with both types of regularization turned on
• 10903 10.3 - Problem running SVDAssist with MODFLOW-USG with multiple regularization groups

Opening File

• 10911 10.3, 10.4: No to all doesn't work

Plots

• 10677 10.3 - Observation package in MT3D-USGS

Save

• 10989 GMS Save/Save As Crash

TIN

• 10072 TESTING - Attempting to Select Stacked TIN Causes Incorrect Message Window to Appear

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.