The changes in this beta will be available in the next Source production release, due out at the end of December 2020.
Source improvements in this release include:
- Order Crawler (for analysing complex interactions between ordering and delivering, especially for models with travel time) now can present a lot more data,
- Application setting for Source data directories, such as temp data directories,
- Extension of constituent marker routing with Weirs and Storage Routing to handle non-conservative constituents, and
- a number of minor improvements.
Urban Developer improvements include:
- Custom end-uses can now be defined with a Function or Data Source,
- The parameteriser can now work on all existing end-use models, and
- Graphs are now shown for end-use models.
Order Crawler Recorder
The order crawler recorder is a new recorder to show all the nodes and links in a network. Available under: Miscellaneous \ Ordering \ Order Crawler. The Order Crawler is a fully interactive zoomable schematic that shows the entire network with node locations in the same location as the network. There is a slider-bar to choose which day you are interested in. Data available includes:
- Min Constraints (All, Min Travel time, Max Travel Time, Min & Max)
- Max Constraints (All, Min Travel time, Max Travel Time, Min & Max)
- Orders \ Requirements (All, Min Travel time, Max Travel Time, Min & Max)
- Downstream Flow
- Travel Time (Min and Max)
Note: for large networks, it does record a lot of data and is primarily for problem-solving and not intended to always be turned on.
Application setting for Source data directories
You can now specify the path that Source will use for storing temporary data and applications settings. Available under Edit \ Application Settings...
Constituent marker routing with Weirs and Storage Routing
Marker routing can now use constituent processing models at Weirs and in Storage Routing links.
Minor improvements
- Feature table (and other tables) now includes units when exported,
- Environmental Flow Nodes have a new recorder for consecutive successful time steps. This can be helpful when using functions and the environmental flow manager.
- Functions or modelled variables that are used and don't have a Time of Evaluation (ToE) set will trigger a new assurance rule with an error by default.
- There was previously a maximum node limit of 1,000 nodes, this has been removed.
- You can now put a function on a weir's upstream reach's time-series flux.
- and other minor bugs.
Urban Developer Changes
Custom end-uses
Cusom end-uses can now be defined under Edit \ Urban Developer Options. Right click Custom End Uses to add your own.
Urban parameteriser
When linking a Source scenario to Urban Developer Scenarios, you can now use the Urban Water User Parameteriser for all existing end use types.
Applicance configuration
Appliance configurations now have graphs to help understanding of water use
Showers:
Washing Machines:
Plugin Developers
We have moved to .NET 4.8 and are looking at moving to the new .csproj format on our journey to .net core. Once we complete this, we will require plugin developers to upgrade to Visual Studio 2019.
Regression Testing
We have removed the tolerance in our regression tests to help find issues earlier if we get different results on different machines or versions of operating systems.
Regression test repository changes since the first Source 5.0:
01 Project results updated with changes to plugins 02 Projects edited to be a warning
Details here: 5.1 Regression Test Changes
Insight
To run Insight, you also need to install the 32bit version of Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package.
This installer is for both 32bit machines and 64bit machines since the library we use is 32bit: Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86).
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