Earth Volumetric Studio 2020.10
Earth Volumetric Studio 2020.10: The October 2020 release of EVS brings many improvements and a long-asked-for thickness module.The thickness module provides the ability to compute the (vertical direction) thickness of any complex object. For those who have asked how to do this in the past and we said it wasn’t possible and would require a complex ray-tracing approach: that is what we needed to do. This provides the ability to do all of the following (and more): Compute the thickness of plume, intersection or union outputs Thickness can...
read moreRelease of Earth Volumetric Studio 2020.5
The last time I was this excited about a software release was August 2016 when we released the first 64-bit version of Studio. In many ways, the May 2020 release is far more significant. However, before I list the new features you will be able to enjoy, I need to make you aware of the requirements to run Earth Volumetric Studio 2020.5. All Enterprise and Floating license customers must uninstall their current license servers and install and configure the new CTech Universal License Server. Instructions are here. This new server will support...
read moreNew EVS Training Video: Advanced use of the place text module
In an effort to keep all of our users both entertained and educated during these times, we’ve put together another free training video on advanced use of the place text module. This is the second (permanently free) video in less than a week on powerful but underused EVS modules.As stated in the last announcement, we have made the four Intro Series videos available on YouTube as well as these new training videos on the buildings and place_text modules.I hope that these new training materials will help keep you engaged and fruitfully...
read moreNew EVS Training Video and Changes to Free Access
I hope that you’re all safe and healthy during these times. Almost 4 weeks ago we announced that we were providing Free Access to a large number of our Premium Training Videos. I am very pleased that the response has been overwhelming. For the first time in 4 and a half years that we’ve used screencast.com to host our training materials, we have dramatically exceeded our bandwidth allotment.In response, I am temporarily making the four Intro Series videos available on YouTube as well as a new training video that I created over the...
read moreC Tech’s Response to Covid-19: Free Premium Training
During this difficult time, we know that many of our customers and prospective users are required to work from home. We won’t remind you to isolate or wash your hands frequently, since we know that our customers are far more educated than the average citizen, and hopefully less narcissistic than the partiers who descended on the beaches 2 miles from my home.We want to help our community in any way we can, so until May 1, 2020 we are offering: The following Premium Video Classes will be FREE to everyone: The 4-part Introduction to Earth...
read moreFast Geostatistical Realization
The next release of Earth Volumetric Studio will also include our Patent Pending Fast Geostatistical Realization™ (FGR™) technology. This is the “secret” that we could not talk about prior to filing the patents.Our Geostatistical Realizations are a significant advancement to industry standard Gaussian Geostatistical Simulations (GGS). A good reference on GGS can be found on ESRI’s website.Traditional GGS provides realizations (potential scenarios) showing how a geostatistical model might vary from the nominal prediction due to the...
read moreNew Features and New Prices!
Our next software release, likely in early April 2020, will be the biggest in years. The most notable new features include: EVS Presentations – a single file deliverables which allow our customers to provide versions of their Earth Volumetric Studio applications to their clients, who can then modify properties interactively. For example, allow your clients to: Choose their own plume levels Change Z-Scale and/or Explode distance Move slices or cuts through the model Draw their own paths for (thin_fence) cross-sections Advanced (secret)...
read moreEVS Advanced Training Class: How to Edit Stratigraphic Geology
I am pleased to announce the release of a new EVS Advanced Training Class on How to Edit Stratigraphic Geology a.k.a. How to Develop Stratigraphic Geology from Hand Drawn Cross-Sections. This video workbook covers the techniques to employ the complex texture_geology and edit_horizon modules to their full advantage, and opens up new methodologies for customization of your stratigraphic geologic models.This video has been over one year in the making and is one of the most challenging ones we’ve completed to date. Though these two key...
read moreThe MVS Resistance
I realize that some C Tech’s MVS users are resisting migrating to Earth Volumetric Studio because they are a bit daunted by the need to use Python syntax in modules like node_computation vs. the non-standard “equation” syntax used in modules like data_math and field_math. I encourage you to submit examples of your most complex equations to support@ctech.com and I will be preparing a short tutorial on how to use node_computation and to demonstrate just how easy it is to do these same operations in Earth Volumetric Studio. By...
read moreChange of Address for C Tech Accounts Receivable
C Tech has changed our Accounts Receivable address for all payments. This address can be used for both U.S. Postal mail and courier shipments (e.g. FedEx, UPS). Please forward this information to your Accounts Payable and/or Contracts personnel to ensure that we receive payments promptly.Every month we have customers who “accidentally” send payments to our ~4 year old Hawaii address and at least once per year someone sends a payment to our 15 year old California address. These mistakes generally impact the users the most.Our new...
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