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February 2012 Sprint Highlights

By mkennard on February 27, 2012

Some of the more interesting accomplishments from the February 2012 sprint:

Released GMS 8.2
Finished GMS 8.3 beta
Flow vector calculations are now velocity vectors
Design for MODFLOW-CDSS
Gage package progress
PEST Null space Monte Carlo progress
Fixed over 36 bugs
Created GUI tests for the MNW2 package, FEMWATER transport tutorial, Map -> 3D scatter, 2D Scatter -> 3D Scatter and other features
Progress on MODFLOW-LGR design
MT3D heat transport tutorial
Documented versions of third party software on the wiki

January 2012 Sprint Highlights

By mkennard on January 27, 2012

Some of the more interesting accomplishments from the January 2012 sprint:

Fixed over 18 bugs
Finished 8.3 installer and separated tutorials from main program
Created two new videos on our YouTube channel
Finished about 99% of our continuous integration system
Finished MODFLOW MNW2 package interface
Updated MODFLOW NWT to the latest version
Implemented tech support notifications for the new "Report A Bug" feature
Added support for MT3D steady state stress periods
Overhauled the CCF -> Vectors feature to actually give velocity vectors (long overdue). Pushed it to GMS 8.2.
Created some more SEAWAT tutorials
Started on creating more MNW2 tutorials
Hooked up the dialog help buttons to the CHM file.
Found and fixed some memory looks.
Designed the interface for the MODFLOW SUB Package
Added MODPATH starting locations -> 3D scatter and vice versa
Added Shapefile -> 3D Scatter and vice versa
Added some SEEP2D images to the Image Gallery
Got the intermediate tests passing for Visual Studio 2010
Made the Community Edition work without a license

ZONEBUDGET in GMS

By alemon on January 19, 2012

GMS has an extensive tool set for working with flow budget information from MODFLOW. GMS is the only package that reports flow budget information on GIS features. For example, if polylines or polygons were used to create drain boundary conditions in MODFLOW then GMS will report the flow into or out of the model from the polyline/polygon. For some time now, GMS has allowed users to view flow budgets for selected sub-areas of their models as well as the ability to assign zone budget ids to cells and extract flow budget information.

Beginning with GMS 8.2, we will now include an interface to USGS ZONEBUDGET. This tool is accessed by selecting the Flow Budget menu command in the MODFLOW menu. There is a USGS ZONEBUDGET tab available in the dialog. The user can set up their input options and then there is a button to launch ZONEBUDGET. The input and output files for ZONEBUDGET are written to the same directory where the MODFLOW Cell-to-cell flow file is located.

There is also a new tutorial available that shows the various ZONEBUDGET options. Go to the GMS Learning Center on http://www.aquaveo.com/gms-learning to download the tutorial.

A video that demos the ZONEBUDGET feature is available on the Aquaveo youtube channel.

December 2011 Sprint Highlights

By mkennard on January 3, 2012

Some of the more interesting accomplishments from the December 2011 sprint:

Fixed over 14 bugs
Finished 8.2 installer
Greatly improved the MODFLOW water table display in side view and got it working with MODFLOW-NWT solutions
Posted the first beta of GMS 8.2
Finished about 80% of our continuous integration system
Finished about 80% of the MODFLOW MNW2 package interface
Created an initial chm help file from the wiki. Doc-To-Help has a couple of blog posts about it
Created initial support for opening the chm help file to a particular topic from a dialog
Implemented a user request to change the MODPATH pathline color as it passes through different zones
Added a "Report a Bug" command to the Help menu
Added some user testimonials to aquaveo.com