First off, I hope all of the HEC-RAS users out there are staying safe and healthy during this COVID19 pandemic. I hope that in the midst of all of this, you would find some positives. Maybe a re-calibration of your life priorities, re-connection (virtually of course) with friends and family, or even learning a new […]
Well it’s been one year since I published “Breaking the HEC-RAS Code”. It was a lot of work, but I am very pleased to see how many people are making use of the book controlling and automating HEC-RAS with their own codes. For those of you who haven’t discovered it yet, this book introduces […]
One of the most powerful, yet relatively unknown features available in HEC-RAS is the HECRASController. The HECRASController API has a wealth of procedures which allow a programmer to manipulate HEC-RAS externally by setting input data, retrieving input or output data, and performing common functions such as opening and closing HEC-RAS, changing plans, running HEC-RAS, […]
Are you an HEC-RAS user? Yes? OK, try this out: 1. If you haven’t already done so, install the HEC-RAS example projects to the default location. 2. Open up a blank workbook in Excel. 3. Press Alt-F11. When the Visual Basic Editor Window opens up, select Tools…References… 4. Scroll down until you see HEC River […]
So you want to control HEC-RAS from a external program. Perhaps, you have a lot of plans to run and want to run in batch mode. Maybe you wish to run HEC-RAS, evaluate the results, make some changes, and rerun HEC-RAS-all automatically, on its own, while you’re at home with the family. The good news […]