prettying up reports

SLOPE/W 2007 adds a simple reporting feature.  In Contour you can choose View – Report to generate a report that describes the project definition and summarizes the results.  The report is pretty basic and you don’t have much any control over what gets included or excluded at this point (though I certainly hope that will [...]

the fisherman

With all our engineers in Ottawa this week for CGS, it’s time for a light-hearted post.  Here’s a QUAKE/W analysis created by Greg.  Don’t read too much into this except that we can have fun too!

Actually this does demonstrate some fairly advanced features in GeoStudio 2007.  We could not have done [...]

undo

We’ve had undo & redo in our products for a couple of versions now, but version 7 has taken it up a notch.  Besides adding undo into Contour (previously it was only in Define), we’ve added an undo description and undo within most dialog boxes.
Undo Description
Every action you perform now has a “description” that shows [...]

welcome direct contact readers

I’m expecting a surge of visits over the next few days as I’ve been informed the October edition of Direct Contact will include a link to this blog.  Welcome!  I’m glad you’re here. 
I plan to blog something interesting at least once a week, so drop by again for more insider tips.  Or subscribe by email to get [...]

the more things change

Back with version 5 of our products (we called it “GEO-SLOPE Office” back then, but it’s the same thing as what you know as GeoStudio now), each product had its own file format.  (I think v5 was when we first introduced file zipping though, so all the results for an analysis were at least in [...]

labeling materials

Lori, one of our support engineers (and the lovely voice behind all our videos!), has had a rash of support calls and emails lately asking for this hidden feature.  In fact even she didn’t know this could be done until this week!  So she’s given me permission to reprint the instructions she sent to one [...]