Tuesday, May 23, 2017
New Features and Enhancements
- The Custom Circuit Areas feature is a powerful new tool that can help with drawing automated circuits in large areas (commercial projects or snow melt), the Copy and Paste of groups of circuits for repeating rooms, and automated drawing of multiple spiral counterflow circuits in a single room.
- The new Commercial Mode for radiant heating projects.
- Automated Counterflow Circuits for both spiral and serpentine patterns.
- Improved tool for drawing of Freehand Counterflow Circuits.
- The new Project Templates allow you to save your project settings as a templates for quick reuse on future projects.
- The new Custom Construction Library provides the ability for you to save your custom construction items for re-use in other projects.
- The new Equipment Report is available to assist you in documenting the selected equipment for your HVAC system.
- Copy and Paste function for Circuits.
- Offset Circuit Tool provides for easier, faster and more consistent freehand drawing along complex boundaries.
- New Auto Set Flow Direction function.
- Air Flow calculations when in CSA mode.
- Enhanced Manual Load Input allows specifying whether back losses are included in entered values.
- Unheated Snow Melt Areas can now be specified to better handled enclosed areas.
- Implemented recommended ACCA method for Infiltration calculations for Maximum ACH50 values.
- Advanced PDF Scaling to assist with the scale setting on PDF drawings that do not have dimensions show.
- New PDF export option for drawings let's you choose between higher resolution and smaller file size.
- Custom Tables can now have the default columns set by the user.
- Multiple Room and Circuit labels can now be converted to leaders and aligned as a group.
- The default units to be used for new projects can now be set.
Fixes
- Revised attribution of Infiltration loads with CSA calculations when floorplan areas vary significantly.
- Revised handling of tube depth in the Panel Selection dialog, allowing tubing to be placed at the bottom of the slab.
- Implemented Insect Screen Update for Manual J.
- Revisions to fluid temperature calculations when supply temperature is near the room temperature.
- Fixed display of circuit lengths on Properties dialog when in Quick Design mode.
- Improved processing of radiant calculations when in Quick Design mode.
- Fixed handling of Circuit Entry objects when a floorplan is mirrored.
- Fixed display of temperature drop on Manifold report.
- Fixed error that would occur when opening Properties dialog when multiple Windows were selected.