Bug in Sediment Transport Boundary Condition

Written by Chris Goodell, P.E., D. WRE | WEST Consultants
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In the sediment data, rating curve boundary condition editor, there is a bug in "saving" the total load. The first time you enter it, everything is fine-works great. However, if you change anything in the rating curve editor, save it, close the sediment data editor and then reopen it, you'll see that the original data is back in. RAS won't save new edits to the rating curve window in the current version (version 4.0). An easy way to get around this is to save RAS, close RAS completely, then open up the *.s01 (or *.s02, *.s03, whatever sediment file you are using) in a text editor. If you have an XML editor, it will be easier to sift through the data and find what you want to change. Then, find the data you wish to change and manually change it in the editor, external to HEC-RAS. Then reopen HEC-RAS, and you'll see the changes have been made. Caution! Be careful when making edits in the text editor. If you accidentally change any of the syntax, you could corrupt the sediment file, making it partially or totally unreadable by HEC-RAS. To be safe, it's not a bad idea to make a backup copy of the original file, before you make any edits to it.

Make changes in a text editor

or make changes in an XML Editor (easier)