FLAC3D4.0版本介绍

yangxing

Itasca系列软件之FLAC3D新版本4.0预发行软件现已发布。相比于之前的3.1版本，Version 4.0是FLAC3D发展历程中的一次革命。本次升级中，很多地方体现了其创造性的特点。
1、更快速度更高性能（与3.1版本相比）。
Calculations
• Up to 2x faster for mechanical calculations on a mixed-discretized grid using a quad-core i7.
• Mechanical calculations using Nodal Mixed Discretization (up to 3x faster).
Commands/Operations
• GEN ZONE (more than 10x faster)
• GEN COPY (more than 10x faster)
• GEN REFLECT (more than 10x faster)
• GEN MERGE (more than 10x faster)
• APPLY REMOVE gp conditions
• Clearing a model (NEW -- up to 100x faster)
• Saving & Restoring a model (up to 3x faster)
• Importing a grid file (up 3X faster)
• Spatial searching using FISH functions (gp_near, z_near, z_containing) (up to 100x faster)
2、焕然一新的图形用户界面，更直观、更容易使用、更高效建模。
The FLAC3D user interface is completely overhauled in version 4.0. In summary, the interface achieves the following major objectives: all plotting uses accelerated 3D graphics, which dramatically increases rendering speed to the screen; all plotting control is available interactively, with all tools — both specification tools and manipulation tools — suitably near-at-hand to the user; a built-in editor provides native data file editing, and data files open in FLAC3D may be run directly; project management is now feasible with the implementation of the project file and the use of the project pane (see "Project Management"); program configuration and project settings are easily accessible and specified in a single location.
3、定制用户窗口界面，更人性化的布局，满足用户使用习惯。
FLAC3D uses floating and docking windows that may be arranged in any manner the user wishes. Four built-in layout options are provided (click on the first four tabs to view the different built-in layouts). User-created, custom layouts may be saved and applied to future projects (the last pair tabs illustrate two of the numerous possibilities). As the "User 1" tab shows, it is possible to keep multiple plot windows (or any other kind of window, for that matter) open simultaneously using these capabilities.Work in FLAC3D is saved in a new file type: the Project file. The Project file references Data Files, Save States and Plot Files in one location. A Project file can be shown in the Project window. The Project window displays all files associated with a Project, and allows the user to quickly open or close those files.

4、更直观的数据管理模式，方便用户对整个模型进行管理，数据文件、保存状态、绘图文件集成在一个项目管理中，用户可以快速打开和关闭任意一个文件，实现更直观、方便的数据管理。
Work in FLAC3D is saved in a new file type: the Project file. The Project file references Data Files, Save States and Plot Files in one location. A Project file can be shown in the Project window. The Project window displays all files associated with a Project, and allows the user to quickly open or close those files.Project files and the Project window simplify project management.A Project window, displaying all the associated files of a project. Colored icons have been loaded and gray icons have not.

5、FLAC3D内置的文本编辑器，除提供了普通文本的编辑功能外，亦提供了语法检查功能，并包含了执行激活状态文档的命令。
Any text file may be loaded into the FLAC3D editor. In addition to providing common edit functions (cut, paste, select, etc.) the editor features a syntax highlight tool that will indicate problematic lines in the current data file. The editor also contains a command (found on its toolbar or on the right-click context menu) to execute the active data file.An open data file with highlighted sections after the "Validate Syntax" tool has been used. The highlights indicate syntax errors; correcting the error causes the highlighting to be removed.

6、更快的图形显示、更全面的可视化选项，极大的扩展、增强了后处理功能。
Along with accelerated 3D graphics, FLAC3D provides a number of new items and options for plotting when displaying model results. As a result the already robust model visualization capabilities are dramatically extended. Some of the additions include:A plot using the new transparency attribute.

7、新的动画录制功能选项，用户完全自定义后处理动画制作参数，完全满足用户动画演示计算结果的要求。
Using the "Movie" section of the "Options" dialog, the user may set any open plot in FLAC3D to be captured as a set of bitmap frames. The set may later be turned into a movie with the user's preferred movie media-building tool. As seen in the image, setting the plot to be frame-captured is a matter of checking one box. The dialog also provides controls for the capture frequency (specified in calculation cycles), bitmap type (format), size, and name of the captured frames.The Options dialog, showing that three plots have been set to produce captured frames when the program cycles.

 8、附加特色。

FISH
• Local variables
• Function arguments
• Command-line debugging
• Improved error messages
• Vector types
• Dynamic arrays
• Zone field data functions
• C++ FISH intrinsic plug-ins
Plots
• Interactive clipping box
• Iso-surfaces
• Line profile
• Zone group plot showing internal group boundaries
• Equal angle stereonet of principal stress/strain orientations, as well as FISH extra values
• DXF files
• FISH function plotting
• Scale box
Misc.
• Improved C++ Constitutive Model plug-in interface.
• Improved GROUP range element.
• FISH range elements.
• User-defined scalar, vector, and tensor fields.
• CYSoil model.

    FLAC3D Version4.0各项功能的改进，相信会给广大用户带来全新的感受，让复杂的问题变得更简单，为广大的岩土科研工作者们提高研究效率，解决更多的实际问题。

shengmingchx

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cloud328

已经有人发过该贴了。

lookcity

楼主翻译了一部分  还是蛮辛苦的  谢谢