HEC-RAS Start to Finish Model and 2025 Wish List

Part 6 wish list items:

6.1 – Allow categories to be moved up and down for display order
6.2 – Allow layer order to be changed with clicking/dragging
6.3 – Allow CTRL and shift to select multiple layers or layer ranges to move or delete
6.4 – Prompt to save changes in RAS Mapper instead of autosaving
6.5 – Change default legend values for depth and velocity to reasonable range or allow custom program defaults
6.6 – Allow numerical entry for all opacity or transparency percentages
6.7 – Provide alternative max button showing max D, V, and WSEL from output time steps
6.8 – Recompute cell edge elevations along break lines when associations are changed
6.9 – Allow WSEL profiles and depth plots to animate together
6.10 – Allow multiple profile line selection for plotting multiple time series
6.11 – Allow selection of point and line to develop rating curves
6.12 – Allow orifice vs. weir flow to be shown for bridges in structure variable plots
6.13 – Show selected values from individual profiles in profile plot
6.14 – Provide automated generation of Excel files for profiles
6.15 – Allow adjustment of labels, legend location, and plan ID in profile plots
6.16 – Allow order of profile names to be changed
6.17 – Leave north arrow and > on once selected
6.18 – Allow north arrow to move or title to be edited/moved/removed
6.19 – Null out colours below plot tolerance, leave plot threshold on and saved for each project
6.20 – Fix rain-on-grid vector export times
6.21 – Include plan ID in output file names
6.22 – Add maximum Courant number display
6.23 – Add display of maximum WSEL error at individual profiles
6.24 – Default to reasonable values for shear legend
6.25 – Allow energy gradient to plot in profile view
6.26 – Allow 3D Viewer window to be resized
6.27 – Add aerial image draping and update legend with view in 3D Viewer
6.28 – Allow adjustment of vertical exaggeration in 3D Viewer
6.29 – Ensure inundation polygons recognize terrain modifications
6.30 – Fix leaks in closed levees
6.31 – Provide option to save window configuration and proportions to export screen shots with fixed resolution and ratio
6.32 – Allow individual rasters to be added to a virtual copy or clone of the terrain
6.33 – Allow terrain modification lines to have both cut and fill slopes
6.34 – Prompt to interpolate no-data values when present in terrain
6.35 – Default to have “update legend with view” toggled on
6.36 – Allow the RASter calculator to operate on all rasters not just results rasters
6.37 – Allow results to be added to map layers to enable display in geometry editor
6.38 – Allow all file extensions to be shown when pulling in terrains or reference layers
6.39 – Support addition of aerial photos in ecw format
6.40 – Provide option to measure slope in profile view with measure tool
6.41 – Add area delineation tool and allow area to be displayed for perimeters
6.42 – Add commas to area and length fields, leave on once selected, or turn on by default
6.43 – Provide option to compute cross sectional conveyance area [added in 6.7 beta #2]
6.44 – Show polygon centroids and allow display of latitude/longitude for measured lines
6.45 – Allow regular polygons to be created with optional rotation in polygon shape files
6.46 – Provide tool to slice polygons with polylines
6.47 – Allow undo without showing finished terrain modifications and save all vertex edits if ESC key is pressed
6.48 – Provide ability to rename Short ID in RAS Mapper without having to re-run the plan
6.49 – Allow fixed axis scales for profile plots
6.50 – Allow all variable contour lines to be exported as vector shape files
6.51 – Provide tracking of active plan view time step in time series plots
6.52 – Provide an animation recorder with user-specified frame rate
6.53 – Allow filters to be applied for terrain extraction before querying download data
6.54 – Allow internal polygon to be excluded from 2D Area with an internal perimeter boundary
6.55 – Keep displaying grids during editing
6.56 – Provide readout of max value within view on legend
6.57 – Delete break lines associated with refinement regions when refinement regions are deleted

Additional comments covered in Part 6 but relevant to other parts in this series:

6.58 – [Geometry] Provide option to plot Stage-Area curves for SA Areas
6.59 – [Flow] Avoid truncating precipitation values when pasted in from Excel or other software
6.60 – [Plan] Default to turn on 1D/2D iterations
6.61 – [Plan] Provide warning or error message recommending decreased time step where relevant
6.62 – [Program] Warn against opening other plans, geometries, or flow files when batched runs are in progress
6.63 – [Program] Fix terrain modification glitch for zipped files
6.64 – [Plan, Geometry, and Flow] Allow selecting multiple files for deletion in RAS Mapper or in plan, geometry, or flow windows
6.65 – [RAS Mapper] Avoid triangulating rain-on-grid water surface elevations at building edges or steep banks
6.66 – [RAS Mapper] Allow shape file text labels to be automatically moved instead of disappearing when overlapping
6.67 – [Geometry] Automatically update culvert US Sta and DS Sta to match GIS Sta
6.68 – [Geometry] Include shallow water roughness references for sheet flow/rain on grid