Enhancements
| 7.0.00.0 | All | Non-Beta release. |
| 7.0.00.0 | All | Runs on WinXP. |
| 7.0.00.0 | Softree Opt | Side-cast subtractred from Mass Haul. |
| 7.0.00.0 | Softree Opt | Haul graph output file - option to aggregate station ranges. |
| 7.0.00.0 | Softree Opt | Add "pit borrow" and "pit waste" to the information list available items. |
| 7.0.00.0 | Softree Opt | Quick Profile added: creates a smoothed ground line based on optimizer constraints and standards - available to RoadEng licenses. |
| 7.0.00.0 | Softree Opt | "User defined" alignment specification added to Standards: keeps current alignment VIP and curve locations (preserves curve length) during optimization. |
| 7.0.00.1 | Loction | Pits dialogue box replaces old Borrow/Waste assignments. |
| 7.0.00.1 | Loction | Re-Cost check box added to Recalculate all dialogue box. |
| 7.0.00.1 | Loction | Mass Haul, Optimal haul graphics, show faded (washed out) if out of date. |
| 7.0.00.1 | Loction | Profile graphics show faded (washed out) if another alignment is selected in the Alignment panel. |
| 7.0.00.3 | Terrain | Grading: basic templates enabled (beta - not suitable for inside corners). |
| 7.0.00.3 | Softree Opt. | Profile hover tip (tooltip) improved to include pits and other items. |
| 7.0.00.3 | Softree Opt. | Tutorial and help files updated. |
| 7.0.00.9 | Location | Multi-Plot allows more than one Profile sub-view; added pagination to deal with two or more Profiles per page. |
| 7.0.01.0 | Softree Opt. | Tolerances added to Module-Setup, units tab. Used for ignoring small constraint violations in Softree Optimal. |
| 7.0.01.0 | Softree Opt. | Auto station ranges based on side slope for a) Full bench cut constraint b) Min cut depth constraint c) Side-cast constraint. |
| 7.0.01.0 | Softree Opt. | Auto station ranges based on average ground line grade for haul direction constraint. |
| 7.0.01.0 | Softree Opt. | Enhancements to Alignments panel tree display. |
| 7.0.01.0 | Softree Opt. | Optional constraints violations check in re-cost. This allows you to see quickly if a design is within standards. |
| 7.0.01.0 | Softree Opt. | Constraints display in Profile more informative (select contratins in Alignments panel tree display). |
| 7.0.01.0 | Softree Opt. | Show actual volume in pits dialog box (if solution exists). |
| 7.0.06.0 | Survey | ASCII format (*.IPD) added for iPad Survey App (beta). |
| 7.0.10.0 | All | Added warning when you open a file saved from version 8.0 or greater. |
Bug Fixes
| 7.0.00.0 | Location | H Curves button missing from windows tool bar. |
| 7.0.00.0 | Location | OB not in available list for Mass Haul material selection. |
| 7.0.00.0 | Terrain | Merge Terrain: stray destination feature left over after merge. |
| 7.0.00.0 | Terrain | Select by boundary misses a feature if "retain selected features" checked. |
| 7.0.00.0 | Softree Opt | Borrow pit material wrong if choose any material after composite in table. |
| 7.0.00.0 | Softree Opt | Pits dialogue box: re-arrange and change some terminology. |
| 7.0.00.0 | Softree Opt | Prompt to re-calc all after pits modification in current alignment options. |
| 7.0.00.0 | Softree Opt | Optimization control dialogue box: constraints hard/soft indicator wrong sometimes. |
| 7.0.00.0 | Softree Opt | Volumes error (usually small) in re-cost for long roads with multiple mataerial. |
| 7.0.00.1 | Location | Move last vertical alignment point, get "Horizontal alignment does not contain all points - Vertical alignment may be removed.", then last VIP is removed and the horizontal alignment is shortened. |
| 7.0.00.1 | Location, Terrain | Multi-Plot Legend Options, Items dialog box font on text in list too small.. |
| 7.0.00.1 | Location, Terrain | Report Point Properties list and Terrain surface shading list: font too large (small too sometimes) for line spacing (Laptop with high res screen). |
| 7.0.00.2 | Terrain | 3D window: Not redrawing selected ftrs correctly. |
| 7.0.00.2 | Softree Opt | change "discretization" -> "sampling" (dialog boxes, help and tree list) |
| 7.0.00.2 | Softree Opt | error on update menu for Multi-plot: "Record has too many characters. Check that the end of record delimiter is specified correctly (i.e. \n instead of \n\r)." (depends on contents of clipboard) |
| 7.0.00.2 | Softree Opt | Optimal Haul graphic not visible of no Alignments panel |
| 7.0.00.2 | Softree Opt | Optimal Haul Table output: hard to understand |
| 7.0.00.2 | Softree Opt | Options dialog, General tab, uncheck all, try to change the Start/End for the optimization range, we get this annoying cursor issue where it sets itself at the front after typing the first number |
| 7.0.00.2 | Softree Opt | Sidecast with optimization that is subset of the length of the road -> crashing |
| 7.0.00.2 | Softree Opt | Undo Set Current doesn't redraw alignment list correctly (shows two current alignments) |
| 7.0.00.2 | Location | Profile sub-windows not working - anything after Mass Haul or Optimal Haul is blank (since version 7.0.00.1). |
| 7.0.00.3 | Location, Terrain | Multi-Plot Legend Options, Items dialog: items ALL black after any action by user. (since version 7.0.00.2). |
| 7.0.00.3 | Location, Terrain | Multi-Plot sub-view options: locking drop down not big enough. |
| 7.0.00.3 | Terrain | Merge TIN: change default hull offset to 0.01 (from 0.001). Small hull offset sometimes causes crossing hull-s and hull-d breaklines. |
| 7.0.00.3 | Terrain | Import GPX, GML, MapInfo fails. |
| 7.0.00.4 | Location | Save-As Google earth crash. Remove from release until fixed. |
| 7.0.00.4 | Location | Optimal Haul graphic: sidecast hover tip (tooltip) crash. |
| 7.0.00.5 | All | Change so that screen layouts that have just been installed will "enable all permitted", instead of doing nothing. |
| 7.0.00.5 | Location, Terrain | 3D window, large model: long pauses, sometimes with hourglass, during simple operations. |
| 7.0.00.6 | All | Samples and tutorial files get mixed up with version 6 installs; append "70" on new folders. |
| 7.0.00.6 | Location | Export Multi-Plot to DWG with start page > 1 generates one or more junk DWG files with page number less than start page. |
| 7.0.00.7 | All | License not Found wizard: I would like to purchace button -> bad link. |
| 7.0.00.7 | All | Some samples require Softree Optimal function group for no reason. |
| 7.0.00.7 | Location | Fixed section window docked in panel: can't see top right buttons unless widen panel. |
| 7.0.00.9 | All | 3D window: cancel out of some non-3d functions (move size?) -> extents undefined -> no 3D display. |
| 7.0.00.9 | All | 3D window: Large mem leak and error message box (mem alloc failed) sometimes. |
| 7.0.00.9 | All | 3D window: user selected explicit re-build -> no TIN rebuild (sometimes). |
| 7.0.00.9 | All | Digits after decimal < 0 will cause problems . |
| 7.0.00.9 | All | Multi-Plot Legend, can't turn off bounding rectangle. |
| 7.0.00.9 | Install | Old version 6 Survey_Map shortcut remains on desktop after install. |
| 7.0.00.9 | Location | Bad template component in Library: RoadWay/Lane applies super twice. |
| 7.0.00.9 | Location | Wrong digits after decimal (decimals) for grades. |
| 7.0.00.9 | Location, Survey | Open ground table fails if extension not upper case (gdx fails, GDX OK). |
| 7.0.00.9 | Location, Terrain | Multi-Plot, image sub-views: if border is visible, it is always rounded with radius 4mm (after file or screen layout open). |
| 7.0.00.9 | Terrain | Simplify always removes all but first and last point for closed features. |
| 7.0.00.9 | Terrain | Move/Size/Rotate: sometimes only rotate cursor available if the bulk of the selected rectangle is off the screen (zoomed in). Fix by setting maximum rotate border size. |
| 7.0.00.9 | Terrain | Move/Size/Rotate: sometimes only move cursor available if the border of the selected rectangle is off the screen (zoomed in). Fix by switching to rotate mode with the Ctrl key. |
| 7.0.00.9 | V.Opt | Control points elevation and grade rounded. |
| 7.0.00.9 | V.Opt | Feasibility fails for no reason, rare.. |
| 7.0.00.9 | V.Opt | Optimized alignment doesn't meet grade specs, rare. |
| 7.0.00.9 | V.Opt | Options, General tab, sample spacing: can't type a decimal point first (no easy way to enter 0.5m spacing). |
| 7.0.00.9 | V.Opt | Options, General tab, Station Range: type ".." instantly turns into end station (this is only ok if enough digits after decimal). |
| 7.0.00.9 | V.Opt | Spurious warnings for PolyLine curves mode (station 0.0 is the first station): "WARNING- No maximum grade break (sag) for line starting at station 0.00." and "WARNING- No maximum grade break (crest) for line starting at station 0.00.". |
| 7.0.00.9 | V.Opt | Various Help file updates. |
| 7.0.01.0 | Location | Hang on select last Fixed Section or on open design; rare. |
| 7.0.01.0 | Location | Horizontal curve panel: Arc Length should be Distance accuracy (digits after decimal), not Directions. |
| 7.0.01.0 | Location | Profile Areas graphic sub-window not working properly with Fixed Cross Sections. |
| 7.0.01.0 | Location | Spurious re-cost and optimal haul calculation on open designs with no Alignment Properties Panel or Optimal Haul window. |
| 7.0.01.0 | Terrain | Tool bar Mode Tools wrong height (too tall). |
| 7.0.01.0 | V.Opt | Ground table with composite materials not readable by older version 7 applications. |
| 7.0.01.0 | V.Opt | Design with fixed cross sections hangs on open or hangs when jump to last fixed section. Rare. |
| 7.0.01.1 | V.Opt | Re-Cost with standards check crash. Only if Options-Standards Min. Tangent grade (%) is violated. |
| 7.0.01.2 | Location | Decimals on P-line survey stations not adjustable (always 1). |
| 7.0.01.2 | Location | Export large alignment sections to LandXML causes crash. |
| 7.0.01.2 | Location | Ground line in cross sections wrong (all the same) occurs in P-Line only design where at least one P-Line cross section does not cross the L-Line. Rare. |
| 7.0.01.2 | Terrain | 3D Window Plan Drape no warning if number of tiles is huge. |
| 7.0.01.2 | V.Opt | Quick profile should report constraint violations to log if constraint is softened. |
| 7.0.01.2 | V.Opt | Feasibility is writing the standards and control points violations for the hidden profile it creates, it should not. . |
| 7.0.01.2 | V.Opt | Feasibility passes if constraint is softened but there is no indication that constraint is softened (and that the design is really still infeasible) . |
| 7.0.01.2 | V.Opt | Some projects fail to optimimize with no explanation (caused by numerical instability). |
| 7.0.02.0B | V.Opt | Constraint ranges: auto-generate crashes (7.0.02.0B only ). |
| 7.0.02.0B | V.Opt | Export Optimal Haul to clipboard: costs summary heading not right "direction" should read "haul" |
| 7.0.02.0B | V.Opt | Optimal Haul hover tip (tooltip) not right (imperial units only): shows different flow values for "All" and sum of components (All is less than sum ). |
| 7.0.02.0B | V.Opt | Optimal Haul hover tips: box not big enough for text, arrows, pit symbols don't always work (depends on font). Optimal Haul and Mass Haul, tips fall off edge of window. |
| 7.0.02.0B | V.Opt | Crash in conflict checker if control point grade exceeds standards. |
| 7.0.02.0B | V.Opt | Open older project with alignment Standards set to Curves and Tangents [slow] get bad options: Min Tangent Length value set to 0.0 (and disabled); and Process gives bad results. Work around by changing to/from another combo box selection (e.g. Curves [fast]). |
| 7.0.02.1 | V.Opt | Optimizer finds unbalanced solution because default pit is cheaper than cutting material from the roadway. 7.0.02.1 only; never released. |
| 7.0.03.0 | Location | Profile grid using font from Plan window |
| 7.0.03.0 | Terrain | Crash on save; rare, after deleting opne of multiple 3D windows. |
| 7.0.03.0 | V.Opt | Process dialogue box: disabled and inaccurate Hard/Soft radio buttons should be removed (now controlled in the Alignment panel tree context menu). |
| 7.0.04.0 | All | Multi-Plot: Spurious shuffle when select locked sub-view. |
| 7.0.04.0 | Terrain | Very slow DEM read (LiDAR data for example). |
| 7.0.04.0 | Terrain | Unable to disable section label. |
| 7.0.06.0 | Terrain | ASCII format (*.IPD) reader not reading last shot on the right. |
| 7.0.07.0 | V.Opt | Vertical band display for Full Bench constraint incorrect. |
| 7.0.07.1 | Survey/Map | "Invalid Argument" error saving and opening files in Survey/Map module on Windows 10. Intermittent. |
| 7.0.07.7 | Terrain | Not Geo-referencing SID and JP2 images correctly when a world file is not present. |
| 7.0.07.7 | Terrain | Not correctly rotating TIF and other images with world files in some situations. |
| 7.0.08.0 | Location | E-library: SubCut II - Under SG component not calculating fill volumes correctly when bIncludeInSG flag set. |
| 7.0.08.0 | Terrain | Insert image with different units (meters vs. feet), coordinate transformation incorrect. |