SMS:What's New in SMS 13.0

General Features

• Updates to the measure tool
• Coordinate system preview option
• New GIS tab showing GIS module information in the Information dialog.
• New Notes tab included in property dialogs.
• Updates to projections.
• Toolbox and scripting - we will have an article describing this in detail (One article for model developers wishing to use scripting as part of a DMI and another for the scripting toolbox.)
• Select by features in the Edit menu:
  • Find commands in individual menus to find objects (nodes, vertices, elements, cells, triangles, polygons) by ID or X,Y moved to "Select by..." option (still being worked on)
  • Select by coverage option. Coverage
• STL files can be imported.
• Bridge scour tool.
• Ability to import a flood map.
• Floodway delineation tool.
• Plot option improvements
  • The background of all plots used to have alternating light/dark bands. The user can now control the display of this feature with a toggle in the plot options dialog.

Module Features

GIS Module

• Faster lidar file import process.
• New lidar tools and display options.

Map Module

• Constant paving density option
• Arc redistribution based on size function. This impacts mesh generation because it is not done automatically during mesh generation anymore.
• New Snap Arcs to Mesh command which changes mesh nodes to match arc nodes and vertices.

Mesh Module

• Ability to interpolate solution sets to another mesh.

Scatter Module

• Convert 2D scatter sets to raster data.
• Laplacian interpolation option removed.

Model Features

HEC-RAS

• HEC-RAS 2D grid generation tool
  • creation of DEM for HEC-RAS and autolink to this DEM
  • use of material coverage with polygons defining zones and material list defining attributes

SRH-2D

• Link to HY-8 for culvert calculations via a table of flow rates - significantly reduces for HY-8 computation time
• Update to internal links to allow for a rating curve inflow condition to these structures
• Support for internal momentum-less source/sinks

TUFLOW 2D

• Miscellaneous options added to the Model Control dialog.