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New Features and Improvements

• Requires any installed version of IMAT to be removed from your computer before installing
• Updated the platform to Java 25 and a new version of Apache NetBeans
• IMAT packages FLAC3D 9.8.54
• Added COMBA constitutive model to IMAT
• A new shrink wrapping algorithm for geometries
• Support for reading Rhino (3dm) files in IMAT
• Support for reading Deswik (duf) files in IMAT
• Added a new remeshing tool for geometries
• Improve large DUF file performace
• IMAT now supports importing Deskwik Duf files
• Added the ability to change colour legend significant digits
• Added a ray casting technique to assign material domains for water tight meshes

Bug Fixes

• Block model import bug fix

New Features and Improvements

• Change backfill constitutive models (now Elastic, Mohr-Coulomb, and SUBI).
• IMAT now supports 9 languages namely: English, Afrikaans, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, Chinese, Swedish, German.
• Linked FLAC3D model "active step" to time view.
• Added ability to view DXF layers.
• Added Omori plot for reentry analysis.
• Added seismic event contouring tools.
• Added seismic event clustering tools.
• Added a native file browser to help with performance issues on some Windows machines.
• Modified export block model properties.
• Upgrade bundled FLAC3D version to 9.6.
• Added Bilinear-Softening constitutive model.
• Added zone ID and zone volume to the FLAC3D grid export.
• More MassFlow improvements.
• MassFlow SLC updates.
• Faster STL file reading and writing.
• Added blast types for Nanometrics.
• View stress orientation directions for a model in the stereonet plot.
• Ability to change the font size of the data file editor.
• Added search functionality to date file editor.
• Change fieldpoint results rendering.
• A new button to export any visible geometry with associated data to a CSV file.
• New 3D library for the viewer - Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) 3.6.
• Set geometry dates from mining sequence.
• Added a Polyhedron seismic event filter.
• Add residual properties to contacts.
• Add units to seismic source parameters.
• Nanometrics requests.
• Copy data filter options.
• MassFlow module updates.
• Refactored seismic events to support multiple new source parameters.
• Performance improvement in Open Pit module when building a model in a pure tet mesh.
• Visualization of prism data displacement.
• Added prism data charts.
• Added new fields to seismic events for Nanometrics.
• Import and visualization of Prism data.
• Import a CSV grid of point cloud data.
• Added a nearest neighbor interpolation scheme for pore pressure falling outside the FLAC3D grid.
• New option to import point cloud data from a csv file.
• Added transformation of CSV pore pressure grid.
• Ray cast containment check.
• Added a scene clipping option in the FLAC3D movies builder.
• Added option to densify lines.
• Added line data rendering option.
• Change backfill properties defaults.
• Optimization with zone joint solving.
• Changed Elexon tilt markers to disable when they stop reporting data.
• IMASS material can now track plastic shear strain.
• Support for zone joints.
• Tools to delete slots and groups from a FLAC3D grid.
• FLAC3D model cut planes can now be used to clip the 3D geometry, like how FLAC3D cut planes clip the 3D viewer.

Bug Fixes

• General bug fixes.
• Bug fixes with the MassFlow module.
• Added missing language translations.
• Added missing legend to "Excavations" item.
• Fixed Hoek-Brown softening table not showing.
• Fixed bug with pit region not showing.
• Fixed bug with unit system when exporting results.
• Fixed bug with exporting wireframe contours.
• Fixed bug with exporting line and point data.
• Fixed issue with uncoupled MassFlow module.
• Bug fix with MassFlow coordinate system.
• Bug fix with modelling parameter time chart.
• Fixed bug with length measurement tool when using imperial units.
• Bug fix with building open pit grid with no interfaces.
• Fix bug with continuing an existing solve.
• CSV import bug fix.
• Fixed bug in the stereonet plot.
• Block model import bug fix.
• Fixed typo in the FLAC3D generated data file.
• Fix grid point fixity issue.
• Fix WIPP-Drucker model default friction coefficient value.
• Bug fix with zone joint initialization.
• Fixed bug with Nanometrics database creation.
• Fixed bug with creating mining steps from geometry names.
• Fix bug where backfill properties weren't shown under certain conditions.x bug with TBR geometries not always being closed.
• Fix Open Pit bug when importing pore pressures from a CSV file.
• Bug fix with backfill in the data file.
• Dip Direction bug fix with cut planes.

New Features and Improvements

• Massflow module updates.
• Refactored seismic events to support multiple new source parameters.
• Performance inprovement in Open Pit module when building a model in a pure tet mesh.
• Visualization of prism data displacement.
• Added prism data charts.
• New fields to seismic events for Nanometrics.
• Import and visualization of Prism data.
• Import a CSV grid of point cloud data.
• Added a nearest neighbour interpolation scheme for pore pressure falling outside the FLAC3D grid.
• New option to import point cloud data from a csv file.
• Added transformation of CSV pore pressure grid.
• Ray cast containement check.
• Added a scene clipping option in the FLAC3D movies builder.
• Added option to densify lines.
• Added line data rendering option.
• Change backfill properties defaults.
• Optimization with zone joint solving.
• Change Elexon tilt markers to disable when they stop reporting data.
• IMASS material can now track plastic shear strain.
• Support for zone joints.
• Tools to delete slots and groups from a Flac3d grid.
• Flac3D model cutplanes can now be used to clip the 3D geometry, similar to how FLAC3D cut planes clip the 3D viewer.
• New importer to load a csv grid with values and use cutplanes and isosurfaces.
• Models with backfill can now have multiple backfill material types.
• The Time View window now has a cumulative mode.
• Modified the Movie Maker plugin to be significantly simpler to operate.
• New options to batch create a FLAC3D mining sequence from geometries that have dates specified in their file names.
• New tools to batch rename geometries from csv files.
• Drawpoints and Drawbells cannow be coloured by total tonnes drawn as well as tonnes normalized to 1 or 30 days.
• A new CPU clipping mode is added.
• A new calendar library is used for choosing dates and times.
• Modelling Parameters can now be rendered on excavation surfaces.
• Modelling Parameters can now be rendered on pit shell surfaces.
• Factor of Safety values can now be rendered on pit shell surfaces.
• Users now have the ability to view at model parameter results differences between mining steps. For example: How Sigma1 changed between steps 1 and 2.
• The model solve proceedure can now be paused and continued between steps. For example, if a solve is interrrupted at step 5 out of a total 10 steps, then the solve can be continued from step 6 at a later stage.
• Hoek-Brown constitutive model now supports strain softening.
• Cut planes now support Dip and Direction of the plane when cutting through a model.
• Ubiquitous Joint constitutive model is added.
• Strain-softening material is removed and strain softening behaviour is added to Hoek-Brown.

Bug Fixes

• CSV import bug fix
• Fixed bug in the stereonet plot
• Block model import bug fix
• Fixed typo in data file
• Fix grid point fixity issue
• Fix WIPP-Drucker model default friction coefficient value.
• Bug fix with zone joint initialization
• Fixed bug with Nanometrics database creation
• Fixed bug with creating mining steps from geometry names
• Fix bug where backfill properties weren't shown under certain conditions
• Fix bug with TBR geometries not always being closed
• Fix Open Pit bug when importing pore pressures from a CSV file
• Bug fix with backfill in the data file
• Dip Direction bug fix with cut planes

New features and improvements

• Improvements to UI and rendering speed.
• Improvements to Boreholes module, including property interpolation between boreholes.
• Added new Site Data Link module for monitoring data exchange from IMAT Partners.
• IMAT now supports Imperial units.
• New time logic viewer/controller.
• New backfill logic for FLAC3D Underground module.
• VTK exporter for model results.
• Bug fixes.

New features and improvements

• FLAC3D (Open Pit) module added.
• Improvements to UI.
• Improvements to data importer (block models, seismic data, etc.).
• Bug fixes.

New features and improvements

• Functionality improvements.
• Bug fixes.

New features and improvements

• Functionality and stability improvements.
• Integrated installer.
• Bug fixes.

New features and improvements

• IMAT RELEASE version.