New release highlights of 2024
- New releases
This year saw several new features, updates and countries released, highlighting the hard work of our technical and development teams to extend the Scalgo Live user experience. It was difficult to narrow the list down, but these five are well worth re-visiting in this end-of-year round-up.
1. New features to explore hydrodynamic simulations
Modelspaces were enabled with greater capability in 2024, with detailed information about water flow, volume and depth now able to be extracted using the profile tool. Use this feature to visualise flow velocities, query volumes and flows, and explore water depth.
Flow velocity can be visualised with three different animations.
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2. Spain is added to Scalgo Live
Spain became available in Scalgo Live in the latter part of the year, based on elevation data provided by the National Geographic Institute (Instituto Geográfico Nacional, IGN). Our release campaign featured three locations in Spain – Mount Teide, the Ebro River and San Sebastian – and continues our roll out of new country releases.
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3. The introduction of contour lines
Contour lines are one of Scalgo Live’s most popular datasets. In May, users explored contour lines for more than 140,000 minutes, and in June, we enabled contour lines to be generated as part of all Workspace computations. These contour lines accurately depict the terrain in your Workspace, which means that when you modify the terrain, the contours are updated to reflect your latest terrain design.
The combination of easy terrain editing tools and detailed contour lines make it easy for everyone to work with detailed terrain design.
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4. Spill points feature
This new feature helps users better understand depressions, enabling more efficient flood prevention and water retention measures that leverage the existing terrain. It’s an important tool in exploring and understanding terrain in the early stages of planning, especially because planners want to avoid surface water problems.
Flooded areas with spill points (black dots) and highlighted active depressions.
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5. DynamicFlood automatically selects local design rains in Norway
We launched DynamicFlood (powered by TUFLOW, the industry leader in hydraulic modelling accuracy), in Spring and continue to upgrade its capacity. In Norway, from September, pre-configured rain events and climate scenarios based on local rain data are available, making DynamicFlood even more precise and easier to use.
Norway is now divided into polygons that define local rain regions. This serves as automatic input into DynamicFlood simulations.
