Hydromagic release notes - version 5.2

Build 5.2.13.1203

• Significant drawing speed improvement when drawing matrices as colors;
• Maximum number of colors for matrices increased from 20 to 30 items;
• Added undo/redo functionality to sounding and echogram editor and several other dialogs;
• Improved plugin for SyQwest echosounders (Bathy DF500, Hydrobox and more);
• Support for EGM2008 geoid model added (EGM2008Util);
• Ability to generate shorelines and boundaries from polyline and polygon objects;
• Ability to generate matrices without setting clipping region;
• Ability to draw matrix as text in colors (and export as DXF);
• New object query dialog, enables you to query XYZ values in a matrix as well as shape objects;
• Added new color schema's (HSV, red, blue and green) for auto classification dialog.

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Build 5.2.13.1021

• Support for shorelines and islands (holes) when generating a matrix / DTM;
• Support for accelerator keys for data collection operations, like start / stop recording;
• Depth contour smoothing functionality added;
• LR indicator (helmsman) display added;
• Ability to calculate a DTM from multiple soundings and/or shorelines;
• Ability to calculate depth contours from multiple soundings and/or shorelines;
• Added new plugin for SyQwest Hydrobox;
• ASCII import and export of shoreline data;
• Whole new AutoCAD DXF export dialog, allowing you to export a selection of project data;
• Improved support for magnetic heading; True and magnetic heading selectable;
• Fixed a problem with importing depth data in Feet;
• Replaced the TIN algorithm with a new one: 10 times faster and more accurate;
• Support for dual-frequency sounding data storing, processing, filtering and editing;
• Added support for storing sensor data, for instance magnetometer or Unabara reflectivity, bottom loss and others;
• Added a new "Survey" menu, which contains all options needed during data collection;
• Ability to display a course line in front of the vessel shape;
• Added echogram editor which can be used to easily remove void data and spikes from soundings;
• Ability to clip DTM or matrix data by shorelines, just select whether water is left or right of the shoreline;

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