Back on June 26th Maptek announced the release of
Vulcan 8.2.2. This release came less than two months after 8.2.1 was introduced
to the market and seemed to indicate an effort by Maptek to bring releases to
Vulcan users on a more frequent basis. The 8.2.2 release prompted me to write
an evaluation of some of the upgrades (see: Maptek Vulcan 8.2.2 Release).
Vulcan users had two weeks to enjoy the new release before
some bad news came down. On July 11th an email came out stating that
version 8.2.2 was flawed. If users were attempting to select block model blocks
using bounding surfaces Vulcan was returning incorrect results. This is a
pretty big deal to anyone who uses the effected tools but I never select blocks
using bounding surfaces so I wasn’t too worried about it.
Little did I know that this error prompted Maptek to pull
release 8.2.2 from the market completely. I was helping a co-worker
download the most current service pack for Vulcan when I discovered that
releases are no longer on the open side of Maptek’s website. Users must now use
the password protected side of Maptek to download any service packs. Once we
jumped through the appropriate hoops we discovered that release 8.2.2 had been
removed completely.
Maptek doesn’t like to admit that they were wrong. They
don’t like to admit that their software has bugs until they are fixed. I was
shocked to learn that Maptek was willing to admit that they were so wrong about
the release of a Vulcan version that they were willing to pull it from the
market.
Maptek Vulcan 8.2.3 is due out soon. Let’s hope that it
lasts a little longer than two weeks on the market.
Just popping in to say how useful your blog has been with learning tricks and tips with Vulcan. I just wanted to add one of my own (there are several Vulcan users here in the office) which is the triangle filter. On the bigger models, sometimes the scheduling/haulage packages struggle with unfiltered triangulations and running the filter makes a MASSIVE difference to the size without taking away any real detail. Thanks for the updates and have a great weekend!
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