The following article written by Mr. David Markwood of AECOM provides an excellent summary of the latest beta (candidate) version of HEC-RAS 5.0. Well worth the read! https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hec-ras-50-beta-update-david-r-markwood-pe
RAS Mapper is a window in HEC-RAS that allows you to preprocess 2D areas, map results, and manage background images. In future versions of HEC-RAS, RAS Mapper will become more and more prevalent in our HEC-RAS modeling experience. As I understand it, eventually RAS Mapper and the geometry editor window may merge to form the […]
(Initial post 19 Feb., 2015. Updated 20 Feb., 2015). I continue to be more and more impressed with how user-friendly and robust the new 2D feature is in HEC-RAS. However, there are some issues to be aware of, particularly in how results are mapped. I want to take the next two blog posts to highlight […]
Let’s say you have a digital terrain model of the area you want to model with 2D HEC-RAS. ONLY 2D RAS. In other words, you want to lay out a grid, but do not want to have do to any 1D computations-all 2D. The problem is the area you want to model includes one or […]
HEC has just released an updated beta version of HEC-RAS 5.0. This is the third and final beta release before the final release due out in January 2015. This new release takes care of most of the bugs that have been reported and includes some nice new features like spatially varying Manning’s n values for […]
(Update: New release is now available here) Just heard from HEC that a new, updated beta version of HEC-RAS 5.0 will be coming out soon (later this month or early next). The full release of HEC-RAS Version 5.0 is still scheduled for the end of the calendar year. New features in the next beta release […]
There are a lot of new features in Version 5.0. We’ve discussed quite a bit the new two-dimensional capabilities. But a real pleasant surprise for me was how great the new RAS Mapper is. I’m going to try to highlight some of these new Mapper features over the next few months, but in this post […]