CDAT 4.0 Beta Released

by Kyle Halliday — last modified 2005-10-03 08:40

January 10, 2005 - New features including: support for generalized grids, VCS template editor, major overhaul of VCDAT GUI, and more...

Download CDAT 4.0 Beta from the Sourceforge Download page.

---------------------------- MAJOR CHANGES TO THE RELEASE ----------------------------

Support for Generalized Grids, regridding possible using the SCRIP regridder (source code provided but not installed)
Template Editor, let you resize, drag, drop object on your VCS Canvas
Major Overhaul of the VCDAT GUI, with template and graphic methods editors. Various mode of use (variable browsing, computation mode, graphics mode).
Page Layout Editor available in VCDAT
More projection available (GCTP package), total of 28 new types of projection, each with full parameters control
Improved install process
New packages: filter, vertical interpolation, IaGraph, f2py, R/Rpy, VTK (Linux only, and not supported), thermo (thermo dynamic diagrams)
Full list of Changes available here

------------------------- KNOWN BUGS -------------------------

Beta version does not have support for inline scripting from VCDAT, final version and some future beta will have full support.

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