Unlike much other software, once you purchase a PoreXpert licence, updates (although not upgrades) are supplied free of charge.
PoreXpert is in continual use for research and development, and we regularly receive feedback from users.
Where possible, such feedback is acted on, and changes are included in the next release.
Details of planned, current and previous updates are shown in the table below.
The latest update of the Help pages accessible from this website was on 9th February 2022. The update includes answers to questions posed by attendees at a recent online training programme, and is now more up to date than that supplied with Build 703 detailed below.
Type of release | Date | Version | Description of change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upgrade | 23rd March 2025 | 3.0.747 | Beta release available for trial from downloads page on computers that have not already had a trial of previous versions. Channel porosity input with diameter range. On-line permeability calibration. This beta version stable for direct operations, but not yet for batch processes. |
| Upgrade | 2023 | 3.0.713 | Corrected stabilisation of extreme pore skew attempts within Simplex parameter space |
| Various cosmetic changes such as rounding limits | |||
| Access to Portuguese language on-the-fly activated | |||
| Warning re slow calculation now only shows for unit cells greater than 25x25x25, which is normally the licence limit. | |||
| Convergence on to channel porosity, as measured by porometry and image analysed SEM, rather than open porosity. | |||
| Improved precision of automatic cluster identification applied to porometry files | |||
| Total numbers of different void types displayed on Fitting dropdown menu after fitting completed | |||
| Update | 20th July 2022 | 2.1.710 | Correct the loading of .pXt and .poreXpert files when user has a non-English locale |
| Material name PoreXpert Mercury changed to PX Mercury | |||
| Better precision control of percolation results shown in operations screen and in progress commentary line under the operations list | |||
| _Summary.csv file edited to give correct outputs for percolation | |||
| Set number of auto cluster iterations automatically | |||
| Maximum number of percolation intermediates reduced to 10, since previous maximum of 100 was unachievable. | |||
| Improved stability when working in a corporate network environment, with respect to handling of the learning experience datafiles. |