WAsP 8.2

This page describes the public releases of WAsP 8.2, the bug fixes and other changes made. The latest installation file uploaded (WAsP 8.02.0016) fixes some annoying licencing and dongle problems; otherwise the software is practically identical to the previously released installation files (8.02.0012 and 8.02.0016).

The latest release (24 Sep 05) can be installed on clean machine, using the MSI file, or can be used to update an existing installation of WAsP 8.0 or 8.1 or 8.2. To perform an update, you can just run the MSI file. There is no patch.

New features and improvements in this release

• Map size limit raised (doubled) to about 1,000,000 points. Warning added if map too large.
• Added graphical clue to indicate when user corrections are adjusted for a site.
• Added graphical clue to indicate when project parameters have been adjusted.
• Improved handling of sites and maps with long co-ordinates (negative, >7 digits).
• HTML reports <Title> tag is less vague.
• New wind atlases / met. stations are now created with automatic recalculation disabled.
• The help file includes an explanation of the emergent distribution.
• The help file has been updated and recompiled.

Problems fixed in this release

• Obstacles sometimes appeared huge in spatial views.
• Latest Map Editor program was not included in the Tools menu.
• Colour scaling logic for RIX data grids was sometime incorrect if edited.
• A site on or very near a roughness change line could sometimes give radically (and obviously) incorrect results and cause a resource grid calculation abort.
• If a new workspace was created, then it was not actually selected in the workspace hierarchy.
• Large resource grid calculations were running much more slowly than previous versions.
• A non-fatal error message appeared when adding the first obstacle to an empty obstacle group.
• Weibull roses wherein one or more sectors had zero frequency were impossible to display.
• A map exported to file from inside WAsP was sometimes incompatible with the format.
• The wake model's farm power curve was sometimes wrong.
• Removing a turbine site would sometimes cause an error message to appear.
• The MS Word report for the wind atlas used a fixed path for the DOT file.
• Scripts could not be targeted at 'any' type of hierarchy member.
• Performing all the calculations in a project could not be interrupted properly.
• WAsP 8.02.0012 installation fails on Windows ME and NT4
• Dongle not recognized in Windows XP
• Actions can be done in WAsP main form while calculating
• Dongle not 'seen' by the licence manager / PC
• Resource grid progress meter could show more than just seconds
• Resource grids not displaying in spatial view
• Progress meter for saving resource grids not working correctly

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