What's new in Eye4Software Hydromagic 11.0.64.307

Mar 7, 2024
  • The software now supports multi transducer setups. You can now record and edit data from up to 8 dual frequency transducers;
  • Water quality can be monitored by recording up to 12 parameters. At this moment sensors with ASCII or ModBus RTU interface are supported;
  • A new graph editor allows you to edit GNSS elevation, motion, temperature and sensor data;
  • New plugin to control Hydromagic features or autopilots with a Xbox game controller;
  • Improvements for displaying on high DPI displays (work in progress);
  • When a transducer isn't mounted vertically (tilted) you can specify tilt angles in the vessel designer to use ray tracing;
  • The instant cross section tool can now be used with up to three matrices simultaneously;
  • When the sounding wizard generates a report of the conversion progress, it will now list transducer, GNSS and motion sensor offsets;
  • New echo sounder display, allows you to graph up to 8 dual frequency transducer depths;
  • The vessel designer now contains a separate window pane where transducer, sensor, GNSS and motion sensor offsets can be defined;
  • The digitizer window is now resize-able to using the mouse and can be used full-screen;
  • In soundings, the GNSS quality indicator now has its own field instead of using sensor data #1;
  • The inspect ping dialog now shows GNSS quality as a textual value as well as the water and air temperature (when available);
  • Added a time span tool to the sounding wizard which allows you to remove raw data outside a specified time span;
  • Raw data import option for "Deeper TM" CSV files added to the raw data import wizard;
  • In plugins offering TCP/IP communication, you can now choose between "UDP Server" and "UDP Client" mode;
  • Improved the cross section statistics tool with new algorithms to detect sounding crossings near section crossings;
  • The USV alarm functionality has been extended with system temperature for the CEE-USV;

New in Eye4Software Hydromagic 11.0.64.222 (Feb 22, 2024)

  • The software now supports multi transducer setups. You can now record and edit data from up to 8 dual frequency transducers;
  • Water quality can be monitored by recording up to 12 parameters. At this moment sensors with ASCII or ModBus RTU interface are supported;
  • A new graph editor allows you to edit GNSS elevation, motion, temperature and sensor data;
  • New plugin to control Hydromagic features or autopilots with a Xbox game controller;
  • Improvements for displaying on high DPI displays (work in progress);
  • When a transducer isn't mounted vertically (tilted) you can specify tilt angles in the vessel designer to use ray tracing;
  • The instant cross section tool can now be used with up to three matrices simultaneously;
  • When the sounding wizard generates a report of the conversion progress, it will now list transducer, GNSS and motion sensor offsets;
  • New echo sounder display, allows you to graph up to 8 dual frequency transducer depths;
  • The vessel designer now contains a separate window pane where transducer, sensor, GNSS and motion sensor offsets can be defined;
  • Depths in raw data files are now recorded without applying transducer draft, allowing you to change the transducer offset during data processing;
  • The digitizer window is now resize-able to using the mouse and can be used full-screen;
  • In soundings, the GNSS quality indicator now has its own field instead of using sensor data #1;
  • The inspect ping dialog now shows GNSS quality as a textual value as well as the water and air temperature (when available);
  • Added a time span tool to the sounding wizard which allows you to remove raw data outside a specified time span;
  • Raw data import option for "Deeper TM" CSV files added to the raw data import wizard;
  • In plugins offering TCP/IP communication, you can now choose between "UDP Server" and "UDP Client" mode;
  • Improved the cross section statistics tool with new algorithms to detect sounding crossings near section crossings;
  • The USV alarm functionality has been extended with system temperature for the CEE-USV;

New in Eye4Software Hydromagic 10.2.64.803 (Aug 3, 2023)

  • New export tool to export matrix data in several LiDAR and third party file formats (LAS, PTS, XYZ, ArcInfo ASCII and HYPACK MTX);
  • Improved display of water column data on higher zoom levels (no gaps);
  • Problem with elevations fixed in Terrain Viewer. Matrices are now always centered after clicking the Reset View button;
  • When opening a matrix in the Terrain Viewer, the color set is automatically transferred to the Terrain Viewer from Survey;
  • When importing or exporting your configuration, the main toolbar layout and button selection is also backed up and restored;
  • From the Manage Sections window, you can right click items to sort the order of sections manually;
  • After renewing maintenance sometimes the old maintenance date was displayed in the About box. This issue has been fixed;
  • When exporting multiple soundings to the same CSV file, you can now include a column with the sounding or raw data file name or number;
  • The route planner now has an option to export the route as either PDF or HTML report with run times per leg;
  • All reports which can be exported as PDF file can now be exported as HTML web page as well;
  • You can now convert NAVD88 elevations to MSL, DTL, MHHW, MHW, MLLW, MLW and MTL using built in NOAA VDATUM support;
  • Texts often used in comments, descriptions and annotations can now be defined in the Predefined Text window and quickly inserted when creating, for instance, a new comment;
  • Support for big (Geo)TIFF files using the open source libtiff library;
  • Problems with generating PDF files on high DPI displays has been fixed by upgrading to a newer PDF writer library;
  • When editing an echogram within the Sounding Wizard, you can now show water column data as background just like in the Echogram Digitizer;
  • In the boundary editor, it is now possible to select multiple points and delete them at once;
  • Large raw data files can be split using the new split option. At this moment they can be split by time, distance or cross sections;
  • In the project explorer, you can now rename project items in place. Select an item and press F3 to rename a waypoint, comment, route, sounding or section;
  • User defined folders in the project explorers can now be dragged into another folder, becoming a sub folder;
  • You can move multiple items from one folder to another folder in the Project Explorer. Just hold the shift key to select multiple items;
  • To show or hide multiple items in the project folder, you can now use the check boxes of sub folders in the Project Explorer;
  • Remove multiple items from the project from the Project Explorer. Just hold the shift key to select multiple items and right click the items with your mouse to select the Remove option from the menu;
  • Matrices, waypoints and comments now include an automatic creation date meaning that you can see the exact timestamp they were created;
  • A warning will be displayed when soundings are processed using different RTK settings than in which they were recorded (geoid, antenna height etc);
  • The route planner allows import and export of Keyhole Markup Language files (Google Earth KML);
  • Installer is now digitally signed, so no more Windows SmartScreen popups upon installation of the software.

New in Eye4Software Hydromagic 10.0.64.1028 (Oct 30, 2022)

  • The "Project Explorer" can now be customized. It is now possible to hide folders that you never use (for instance: SideScan and Routes are not applicable to all Hydromagic users);
  • Items in the "Project Explorer" like maps, waypoint and matrices can now be organized in sub-folders;
  • The size of the color legend can be customized, the row height can be adjusted in the Color Schema's dialog;
  • User defined points can be defined on the vessel, and recorded seperatly in an ASCII logfile;
  • North indicator will be scaled to the size of the map view window;
  • When importing sections from an AutoCAD DXF files, the lines can now be sorted by distance, file, X-positions or Y-positions (selectable);
  • You can transfer routes using the popup menu (right-click) of the route in the "Project Explorer";
  • When importing a project with a map projection not in the geo database now adds the missing projection to the database;
  • Overlapping lines in contours are now omitted;
  • Added home button and go to waypoint functionality in the ArduPilot control window;
  • It is now possible to select the projection file type which is written during exports (ESRI WKT, EPSG WKT, PROJ.4, XML etc);
  • Added the "Project" menu item to the top menu, it contains a couple of project operations;
  • Plugins can be assigned nick names, so you known what plugin serves which purpose (right click device and select "Rename Device");
  • Updated offline user manual with new version of reader software and content;
  • Added support for importing Kongsberg SIMRAD EK80 raw data files;
  • Added new plugin for Impact Subsea ISA500 (for new firmware versions);
  • Cross section lines can now be exported as ACII files;
  • Depth values can be included in event and annotation texts;
  • Raw data can be exported as CSV ASCII files.

New in Eye4Software Hydromagic 10.0.64.614 (Jun 15, 2022)

  • Built-in configuration examples for Excavator and Cutter Dredger added;
  • New alarm for vessel speed;
  • Projects can now be cloned;
  • Origin of distance rings can be selected (pivot, echo sounder or GNSS position;
  • All dredging progress is now stored into binary files (next to ASCII logs). You can now generate matrices of progress per specified time period;

New in Eye4Software Hydromagic 9.4.21.1118 (Nov 19, 2021)

  • User defined labels for raw data files, soundings and boundaries in the Project Explorer;
  • Double click mouse scroll wheel to zoom to complete project;
  • Routes can now be exported to ASCII, DXF, KML and ESRI Shape files;
  • Improved export of ESRI Shape files (generation of idx, dbf and prj files);
  • Route information can be imported from an ASCII source;
  • Support for Reson S7K files (single beam import);
  • Support for Generic Sensor Format files (single beam import);
  • Map footer font size is now autodetected. Up to five lines of free text can now be defined;
  • Option to reset the geodesy database when it becomes corrupted for some reason;
  • Redesigned the Vector To Matrix tool. Better results and easier to use;
  • More information in volume reports (Hydromagic build number, matrix names, matrix types and matrix spacing, when applicable);
  • Contour generation much faster for big matrices (containing a lot of cells);
  • Increased the size of the digitizer window. Also higher zoom levels are permitted when editing large raw data files;
  • 10 times faster selection and eraser removal from echogram editors;
  • Raw data file loading times have been improved with 25 percent;
  • Lots of small bug fixes and user experience improvements;

New in Eye4Software Hydromagic 9.2.64.528 (May 28, 2021)

  • Added dedicated plugin for the CEE HydroSystems CEELINE echo sounder, allowing users to adjust sounder parameters while working in Hydromagic;
  • Added dedicated plugin for the Airmar EchoRange and EchoRange+ echo sounders, allowing users to adjust sounder parameters while working in Hydromagic;
  • Added number format (locale) selection to ASCII tide import toolbox;
  • Built in route planner now calculates shortest path over cross sections automatically, check box in the 'Generate Sections' tool has been removed;
  • Map display shows a warning when low frequency depths are displayed;
  • Raw data files can now be saved as Triton eXtended Format files (to process data in 3rd party applications);
  • Raw data files can now be saved as SEG-Y files (to process data in 3rd party applications);
  • The raw data import wizard supports two new file formats: Lowrance SL2 / SL3 and ASCII XYZ files;
  • Using the side scan data import wizard, you can now import data files from ImagenEx YellowFin and Sportscan sonars (81S and 872 file formats);
  • The echogram editor (part of the Sounding Wizard) is now equipped with an eraser tool, to simply delete spikes;
  • Improved XTF import functionality, both sub-bottom and side scan sonar imports are now supported;
  • Real time echogram windows can now be resized or docked into one of the existing panes in the application;
  • Font size of the Project Explorer and Activity View can be changed (hold control while scrolling mouse or use toolbar buttons);
  • You can add labels to raw data files and sounding files, which will be shown in the Project View;
  • You can customize the way boundaries are drawn (linewidth, line color, pointsize etc...);
  • You can customize the way cross sections are drawn (linewidth, line color, pointsize, arrowsize etc...).

New in Eye4Software Hydromagic 9.1.20.626 (Jul 3, 2020)

  • Sidescan sonar data can now be imported, filtered and geo-referenced and loaded as raster map;
  • The new sidescan import function supports Triton XTF, Humminbird and Lowrance (SL2) sonar files;
  • The helmsman display is now loaded as a "dockable window" and can be resized;
  • The map display window can be panned, zoomed and rotated using the keyboard (via customizable shortcut keys);
  • You can now define multiple (autopilot) routes in your project using the "Project Explorer";
  • Right clicking on the "Routes" folder in the "Project Explorer" allows you to customize the way routes are drawn as map overlay;
  • ASCII importing tools will now accept text files saved using the Unicode (UCS2) encoding;
  • The format of floating point values can be specified when importing ASCII files, for instance when a comma is used as decimal separator;
  • The build in 3D matrix viewer has been replaced with a stand alone application: the "Terrain Viewer", which offers more functionality;
  • The new terrain viewer offers customizable lighting, wire frame line width selection and the amplification range has been increased;
  • The SEG-Y raw data import function has been improved. It now supports files saved in little-endian byte order (SEG-Y revision 2.0);
  • AutoCAD DXF import improvement: Now supports ARC entities with an extrusion vector and POLYLINE entities containing splines;
  • Added definitions for the GEOID18 geoid model for the United Stated CONUS and Puerto Rico;
  • When importing a matrix file, the software will now ask whether to copy the file to the project folder when it is not already there;
  • When generating soundings from raw data files, the software will now check whether all datum or grid shift files are installed (NTv2);
  • Added a new plugin: Generic Motion Sensor plugin. Allows you to configure any motion sensor with ASCII output;
  • Added a new plugin: Manual draft plugin. Allows you to set the draft of your dredge or vessel manually;
  • Added a new plugin: Trimble GCS900 plugin. Allows you to connect Hydromagic Dredging to a Trimble GCS900 excavator monitoring system;
  • Added a new plugin: Yost Labs 3-Space Sensor plugin. This low cost IMU can be used as pitch and roll sensor for your boat or USV;
  • Updated the help application and PDF manuals with new (Windows 10) screenshots;
  • The NTRIP plugin now performs a check on incoming RTCM data. It calculates the checksum and splits messages in separate packets;
  • The AirMar EchoRange plugin can now be used to interface with dual frequency EchoRange sensors over RS485;
  • The big "North Indicator" has been replace with a more lightweight one, taking up less space in the map display;
  • The "Layer Properties" window allows you to modify the brightness of raster maps, sidescan images and matrices;
  • More information on matrices (spacing, cell count, void cells, layers) is now displayed in the "Layer Properties" window;
  • Most dialog boxes now contain a clickable link to online documentation;
  • The visibility icons (eye icons) have been replaced with checkboxes. Improved visibility in the field;
  • The "Manage Files", "Manage Soundings", "Manage Boundaries" windows buttons have been replace with bigger ones with a descriptive text;
  • A new "Export Echogram" button has been added to the "Manage Soundings" window, which will allow you to export echograms as image files;
  • Added new vessel shapes (RIB and waterscooter);
  • The "EchoLogger" plugin now supports the binary protocols, allowing for faster ping rates;
  • The "Lock Objects" button has been removed to avoid confusion. When accidentally moving objects, just undo with Ctrl-Z;
  • The "Elevation Mode" button has been removed. This will now be auto detected;
  • The confusing term "Corrected Sounding" has been replaced with "Elevation" in several post-processing tools;
  • When generating matrices, the data source is stored with the matrix. This prevents users from mixing up elevation and depth matrices in volume calculations;
  • The font size of the data view can now be adjusted with the buttons in its new toolbar;
  • The "Drawing Order" tools has been improved, now showing layer information and visibility;
  • The dredging software is now able to track multiple dredge heads simultaneously;
  • You can specify your own ASCII logging format in the dredging software;
  • Changed the way dredging equipment is configured in the dredging software, it now supports a wider range of configurations;
  • More processing tools have been modified to output logging to the new activity view pane.

New in Eye4Software Hydromagic 9.0.19.1007 (Jan 7, 2020)

  • Improved dataview updating speed for higher performance;
  • Added plugin to continuously adjust the sound velocity manually;
  • Supports the following volume units: Barrels and Gallons;
  • Added plugin for the Echomar EchoRange and EchoRange+ transducers;
  • Improved drawing speed for depth values in raw data, soundings and matrices;
  • Status of raw data recording can now also be selected in the dataview.
  • Support for time dependent horizontal datum transformations has been added;
  • Added built-in support for the Greek HEPOS correction grid;
  • New Unabara Hydro2F plugin supporting the new sub-bottom video data format;
  • Improvements to the echogram digitizer: support for sub-bottom viewing and better zooming (less distortion);
  • More echogram display settings, ability to set color schema presets, intensity range and refresh rate;
  • When selecting a map projection, the map projections are now sorted by state (United States only);
  • Ability to load factory settings for configuration and windows layout;
  • Built-in (S-57) Electronic Navigational Charts downloader for the United States (NOAA and USACE);
  • Improved ENC display, faster drawing and support for linestyles and area fill styles;
  • Faster echogram and graph controls by using Microsoft DirectX technologies;
  • Google Earth exports are now fully customizable (Keyhole Markup Language);
  • Separate tool to import (large) ASCII XYZ datasets as matrix file (includes up and down sampling and partial import features);
  • Replaced the triangulation algorithms, matrix generation speed improved;
  • The sounding profile window now shows the sub-bottom of backscatter data simultaneously with the depth graph;
  • CEESCOPE plugin: motion data no longer sent to raw data log when sensor hasn't been settled;
  • From the 'Manage Cross Sections' dialog, you can offset one or multiple sections in direction and course;
  • The maintenance expiration date will now be shown in the 'About Box';
  • Built-in warning when your maintenance contract is about to expire;
  • Waypoint names can now be exported when exporting ASCII data;
  • Sound velocity units can now be changed from the 'Units' tab in the preferences window.

New in Eye4Software Hydromagic 8.0.17.1017 (Oct 20, 2017)

  • Added several new Canadian Geoid models;
  • Added the Brazilian GEOMAP2015 Geoid;
  • Improved serial port handling, especially for Bluetooth connections;
  • Separate check for data validity for speed, heading, tide and S/V;
  • Support for sound velocity correction by SV probes (realtime);
  • Additional heading offset for RTK heading sensors;
  • Geofencing implemented. Sounds alarm when the vessel leaves a specific area;
  • Echogram data wasn’t deleted with RAW files, fixed;
  • Support for Sight SGE echosounder added (new plugin);
  • Support for Kongsberg EA4xx echosounders (depth and echogram);
  • Support for AML sound velocity probes;
  • Generic plugin for sound velocity probes supporting ASCII output;
  • The Geoid Converter can now export data in both XYZ and YXZ ASCII formats;
  • New raw data importing wizard, imports CEE HydroSystems raw data files, Simrad/Kongsberg raw data files, SEG-Y, XTF, ODC and NMEA0183 data;
  • Refresh rate of data and echosounder windows can be selected (100…2500 ms)
  • Raw data was corrupted (invalid timestamps) when sounding during date change, fixed;
  • Warning on startup when settings cannot be written;
  • Warning on startup when there is no write access to the geodesy database;
  • New map projections: Winkel, Wagner and Goode;
  • The tide prediction tool has now an import function and tidal constituents data for locations around the world;
  • The Realtime echogram window is now split into two separate resizable windows for low and high frequency;
  • Default vessel shape is now red. The black shape wasn’t initially visible on satellite images;
  • The RAW data recording indicator has a red background making it easier to see when the software is recording (for instance with lots of daylight on your laptop);
  • The Realime echogram now performs 2 to 3 times faster by using a different graphics library;
  • Echogram colors can now be defined by the user and the depth range can be adjusted manually in the Realtime echograms;
  • Fixed a rare crash when there was corrupted raw data (invalid northings and eastings);
  • The time shift tool can now be used per data type (position, depth, ...);
  • New compiler and SDK’s for improved overall performance;

New in Eye4Software Hydromagic 7.1.32.60120 (Jan 20, 2016)

  • New plugin for South SDE-28S and SDE-230 echosounders;
  • Added support for Ohmex Sonarmite DFX (dual frequency) in Sonarmite plugin;
  • Ability to export multiple sounding files in one go;
  • Filter elevation values (ellipsoid, MSL and Tide) in raw data files;
  • Import SEG-Y echosounder data files as soundings;
  • Import ODEC echosounder data files as soundings;
  • Added geoid and datum shifts for Hungary;
  • Tide prediction module finished;
  • Added GGGUY00 Geoid Model for French Guiana;
  • Added support for NOAA VDatum binary grid files (GTX files);
  • Ability to force the use of MSL values when performing tide corrections;

New in Eye4Software Hydromagic 7.0.15.319 (May 25, 2015)

  • Added dredging monitoring software (additional license required!);
  • Replaced ASCII volume reports with detailed PDF reports;
  • Calculate staging volumes on for instance, frac pits and ponds;
  • Full undo / redo functionality added to map window;
  • Automatic cleansing of echosounder data using mean and median filters;
  • Improved volume calculation by cross sections: Ability to include multiple soundings and shorelines;
  • Hardware configuration is far more user friendly now;
  • Added support for TCP/IP sockets in most of the plugins;
  • Build-in NMEA0183 and AIS support has been moved to plugins;
  • New simulator plugin to test drive or demonstrate the software without hardware connected;
  • Geoid models added for Argentinia, Bolivia, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Norway and Poland;
  • Global geoid models EGM84 and EGM96 are now supported;
  • Added the new NAD83(2011) State Plane grids to the coordinate systems database;
  • When RTK is disabled and no tide receiver is configured, the tide level can be set in real time manually;
  • New features in the vessel editor: scale, shift, rotate and support for 3D;
  • Chart annotation on echosounders and the built-in echogram viewers;
  • New plugin for Odom MK3/CV3 format over UDP;
  • New plugin for Cee Hydrosystems Ceescope over UDP;
  • New plugin for Trimble Geodimeter total station format;
  • New plugin for AIS;
  • Now shipped with a geoid converter utility that can convert between most used file formats;
  • Introducing a 64 bit version of the software, allowing users to use data over 1 Gigabyte;
  • Position and depth correction using roll, pitch and heave data;
  • Functionality to backup your project to a ZIP, TAR or ISO file with just a few mouse clicks;
  • Configuration has been moved from the Windows registry to a single file for easier backup;
  • The build in event log now uses a database which can be emailed to support in case of problems.

New in Eye4Software Hydromagic 6.0.14.526 (May 27, 2014)

  • Whole new, improved, data acquisition core;
  • When performing a survey, all data is now stored into a timetagged raw data file;
  • Soundings are now calculated from raw timetagged data, resulting in higher accuracy soundings;
  • Support for latency corrections;
  • Raw data files and soundings are now stored as separate files;
  • Added support for motion sensors;
  • Added support for total stations;
  • Ability to set the interval for recordins in a sounding;
  • Improved plugin for the Ohmex SonarMite;
  • Supports chart updates for IHO S-57 and S-63 datasets;
  • Ability to store comments for project and soundings;

New in Eye4Software Hydromagic 5.2.13.1203 (Dec 4, 2013)

  • 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.

New in Eye4Software Hydromagic 5.2.13.1021 (Oct 23, 2013)

  • Support for shorelines and islands (holes) when generating a matrix / DTM;
  • Support for accelarator 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 reflectiviy, bottom loss and others;
  • Added a new "Survey" menu, which contains all options needed during data collection;
  • Ability to display a courseline 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;

New in Eye4Software Hydromagic 5.1.13.528 (Aug 9, 2013)

  • Support for RTK tides by using geoid models;
  • Support for VERTCON 2.0, used to convert from NAVD1988 to NGVD1929 in the United States;
  • Use OpenStreetMap, Google and Bing maps as background images;
  • Full version is now protected against unauthorized use by using a hardlock device;
  • User manual is now integrated into the software, and can be used offline;
  • Ability to attach images or photo's to a project;
  • Improved support for International and U.S. Survey Feet;
  • The software now ships with geoid models for Belgium, the Netherlands and the United States.

New in Eye4Software Hydromagic 5.0.13.705 (Jul 23, 2013)

  • Support for more map formats
  • Area calculation
  • Improved ASCII import
  • Improved KML export
  • Echosounder data timeout implemented
  • New map projections added
  • Many GUI improvements