Release notes

This wiki page describes the new features of the qgis2fds releases, that can be installed on all major platforms: Linux, MacOS, and MS Windows. It also specifies the required software version for:

• the QGIS application hosting the qgis2fds plugin, other versions may not work;
• the target FDS solver, other versions may fail to read the exported cases.

Now: qgis2fds dev

This is a placeholder for the current development version. This version is not recommended for production use, as it is may be unstable.

Tool	Required version
QGIS	3.30
FDS	dev

What's new

No new features, now working on the wiki documentation.

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2023-06-08: qgis2fds 1.0.2

A new fixing stable release is out.

Tool	Required version
QGIS	3.28
FDS	6.8.0

What's new

This release only fixes the issue #48.

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2023-02-25: qgis2fds 1.0.1

A new fixing stable release is out.

Tool	Required version
QGIS	3.24
FDS	6.7.9

What's new

This release only fixes the issue #42.

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2022-07-21: qgis2fds 1.0

A new major stable release is out.

Tool	Required version
QGIS	3.24
FDS	6.7.9

What's new

This release adds many improvements and features:

• Add DEM layer interpolation.
• Fix bugs related to command line usage (see wiki).
• Reduce decimal positions to reduce file size.
• FDS OBST terrains are now the default, because GEOMs are not considered ready yet by FDS developers.

The code is not yet as clean as I would like, contributors are very much welcome!

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2021-12-29: qgis2fds 0.90

This release adds new features:

• Added the ability to export an FDS OBSTs terrain.
• Improved maintainability of the Python code by moving to full OO approach.
• Added a new automatic verification suite.

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2021-09-10: qgis2fds 0.80

This release adds many new useful features:

• The user can set multiple fire origins, burning lines, and burned areas with the new Fire layer feature. The old Fire origin is removed in favor of the new approach.
• The translation of the landuse attribute from the Landuse layer to the FDS boundary condition is now configured with the new Landuse type *.csv file. This allows per project configuration of boundary conditions.
• The user can request the generation of multiple FDS MESH namelist for parallel calculation.
• The FDS MESH cell size can be set from the user interface.
• The FDS WIND speed and direction ramps can be directly imported from a *.csv file.
• A new CIMA Propagator QGIS style (*.qml file) has been added.
• Relative paths can now be used in the plugin input parameters (eg. ./fds as exporting path).
• Improved readability of the Python code.
• Improved algorithm feedback to the user.

And many bugs are fixed in boundary condition treatment and bingeom generation, due to stricter checks performed by FDS.

See the updated Quickstart page for the details.

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2021-06-30: qgis2fds 0.61

• Fixed macOS bug
• Slightly improved the algorithm speed

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2021-03-31: qgis2fds 0.57

• Improved precision of dem sampling
• Better placement of FDS terrain extent (GEOM) over FDS domain (MESH)
• Added hidden debug mode for extents

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2021-03-25: qgis2fds 0.56

• Improved user feedback, now the process progress is clearly displayed

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2021-03-24: qgis2fds 0.55

• Circumvented a qgis bug when transforming user input to WGS84

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2020-09-30: qgis2fds 0.54

• Improved IJK generation
• Corrected WIND to easily show a result
• Corrected a little bug from shortlived 0.52 and 0.53 releases.

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2020-09-30: qgis2fds 0.52

• Updated FDS output, according to current state of levelset development. FDS GEOM BINARY_NAME and READ_BINARY=T parameters were removed from FDS in favor of BINARY_FILE.
• Added RGB to SURF to temporary facilitate importing to BlenderFDS.

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2020-07-29: qgis2fds 0.50

• Updated FDS output, according to current state of levelset development.
• Moved geometric routines to numpy for speed and efficiency.
• Improved sanity checks for user input data, better safe than sorry.