What's New

This section describes recent changes in Earth Engineering.

This page discusses:

R2022x FD02 (FP.2214)

Support of Multiple Product References

You can now work with multiple product references within an Earth Materials and Volumes session.
This behavior applies to all Earth Materials and Volumes commands. For more information, see Product Structure Design: [placeholder for the section/ theme]
Benefits: Choosing from the product references available in session helps you focus on the model's components to perform design operations. Previously, the model's components were organized under a single common product reference in the structure tree
For more information, see Understanding 3D Shape and Product Worlds

R2022x FD01 (FP.2205)

Support of Exact Geometries

You can now work with exact geometries within an Earth Materials and Volumes session. This behavior applies to all Earth Materials and Volumes commands.
Benefits: Extend the type of supported geometries and allow you to work with polyhedral and exact geometries seamlessly. All native 3DEXPERIENCE geometries are thus supported in Earth Engineering.

R2022x GA

Polyhedral Geometry

You can now apply commands on polyhedral objects, or use polyhedral geometry as inputs.
Benefits: The Earth Engineering is more efficient and robust.

Support of the MDL Format in Surpac Block Model Import

You can now import block model files created in Surpac in the 3DEXPERIENCE.
Benefits: You can now import Surpac block models (in MDL format) to the 3DEXPERIENCE, perform advanced filtering, and control downstream reporting. This simplifies the creation of a semantic process and an error reporting system.
For more information, see Importing Block Model Files in Interactive Mode About Format Files Block Model CSV Files for Import

Optimized Preview When Importing an MDL Block Model File

You can now import block model files created in Surpac in the 3DEXPERIENCE.
You can now benefit from an enriched preview of the MDL block model file during import. The preview information provides detailed information:
  • Block model bounding dimensions (Min X, Min Y, Min Z, and Max X, Max Y, Max Z)
  • Block size for X, Y, and Z (dim x, dim y, dim z)
  • Block count
  • Attribute list
The loading mechanism has been changed to only loading the MDL header instead of the entire file.
Benefits: An improved user experience during the preview of the MDL file to import and a constant loading time regardless the size of the input MDL file.
For more information, see Importing Block Model Files in Interactive Mode About Format Files