Isatis.neo - What's New?
Isatis.neo 2025.3 (December 2025)
More flexible and powerful Python workflows
Until now, Python usage in Isatis.neo was limited to the set of modules delivered with the software installer. With this release, that limitation is removed. You can now easily add and use any Python module directly within your project, opening the door to a much wider ecosystem of libraries and custom tools.
A new dedicated Python tab in the Preferences allows you to extend your project environment on demand, making your chosen libraries immediately available in Python scripts, calculators, and batch workflows. This evolution significantly enhances customization, innovation, and interoperability, enabling you to fully leverage the Python ecosystem within Isatis.neo.
Enhanced estimation & simulation workflows
This release delivers major enhancements across the entire estimation and simulation workflow, from geological pre-processing to advanced stochastic modeling, strengthening both geological realism and statistical robustness.
The new Soft Boundaries capability provides a simpler and more direct alternative to contact analysis when the objective is to extend a mesh-based selection by a user-defined distance. By enabling limited information sharing between adjacent domains, Soft Boundaries help reduce boundary-induced artifacts and produce more realistic and defensible grade estimates.
Building on this improved domain handling, the Local Anisotropies workflow has been enhanced with the introduction of a new anisotropy orientation method, complementing the existing approach. This new method is specifically designed to better handle sub-horizontal reference surfaces, improving the calculation of anisotropy directions in such contexts. Combined with smoother directional transitions, improved numerical stability, and enhanced performance, these refinements ensure spatial continuity patterns are more consistent with geological structures, providing a stronger foundation for both estimation and simulation.
Estimation robustness is further reinforced through multi-variable capping within a single neighborhood. This enhancement simplifies the management of extreme values across multiple variables, improves consistency in multivariate workflows, and contributes to more stable and reliable estimation results.
Finally, simulation workflows benefit from extended conditioning options in Pluri-Gaussian Simulations, with the introduction of simple kriging conditioning under strict stationarity assumptions. This additional flexibility allows practitioners to better align simulation strategies with their modeling objectives, while maintaining geostatistical rigor.
Together, these improvements elevate the quality, consistency, and credibility of estimation and simulation results in Isatis.neo, supporting more confident resource modeling and decision-making.
Clearer and more insightful 3D visualization
Understanding your models at a glance is easier than ever. You can now display variable values directly inside 3D grid cells in the 3D Viewer and Section Viewer. With customizable labels, colors, and layouts, this new visualization option tightly links numerical values with spatial context. It’s a powerful way to analyze, compare, and communicate results - directly within the 3D environment.
