What is new in Graitec ADVANCE 2015

Welcome to Advance CAD 2015 Advance CAD 2015 is fully part of the Graitec Advance suite composed by Advance Design 2015 and Graitec BIM Connect 2015 (making possible files exchange and synchronization with Autodesk Revit ®).

GRAITEC Advance is linked also with Autodesk Advance Steel 2015 ® and Autodesk Advance Concrete 2015 ® in order to offer a Building Information Modeling (BIM) system that automates the entire structural design and construction documentation process from engineering design and structural analysis to member optimization, detailing and fabrication.

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News

1: New dockable tool palette The tool palette provides flexibility for a quick access to basic commands. It can be docked/undocked, resized and moved to different locations in the user interface. It can also be customized by adding/removing or renaming tabs and adding/deleting blocks.

Contains commands for modifying 2D/3D objects; Special tab for storing and inserting blocks.

2: Viewport clip Starting with Advance CAD 2015, viewports can be easily reshaped and still use the prior viewport settings.

It clips viewport layout objects, either by selecting an existing object or by defining a polygonal boundary.

3: Different types of licenses Starting with Advance CAD 2015, new types of licenses are available, depending on whether the design process includes 3D drafting or not:

Advance CAD Standard license (without ACIS Modeler); Advance CAD license (with ACIS Modeler); Advance CAD Viewer (viewing and printing the results).

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4: Custom page setup In the “Print” dialog box, a new functionality has been implemented, which allows saving settings for a custom page setup.

Saves the current settings to a named page setup, which can be modified from the Page Setup

Manager.

 

 

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5: Color settings for hatch Starting with Advance CAD 2015, the possibility of overriding the existing colour with a user defined colour has been implemented.

 

6: Angular dimension associativity for dynamic blocks An angular dimension contained by a dynamic block will keep it’s associativity while editing the block’s parameters.

The angular dimensions update along with the geometry of the dynamic block, either by manually stretching the grips, or by editing the parameters in the “Properties” dialog box.

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Improvements  

1: "Publish" and "Arc Length" icon available in ribbon and toolbars

 For an enhanced productivity, icons for the “Publish” and “Arc Length” features have been added in the ribbon and in toolbars.

 

2: Improvements for the start page: Videos and samples for Autodesk Advance Concrete and Autodesk Advance Steel A new makeover for social network buttons, icons and background

        

 

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3: Dimensions and dimension styles Prefixes for alternate units are displayed correctly.

Prefixes and suffixes from primary units have an increased number of allowed characters. Values smaller than 0.1 are allowed for units multiplier and tolerances.

Length for fixed extension lines dimension (DIMFXL system variable) has been added in a

dimension’s properties. Some specific cases of breaking associativity for radius and diameter dimensions have been fixed. Correct behaviour for background color of dimensions and multiline texts. Leaders can be created and placed on other elevation than 0.

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4: Blocks and attributes Justification is correctly applied for attributes with multiple lines. Copied and mirrored elements are kept in block after editing in place.

5: Hatching Snap points are temporarily disabled when hatching, to diminish errors. After the hatching is finished,

the settings for snap points are restored. Hatching with “Select Objects” option has been improved for several specific cases:

3D polylines can be selected for hatching. Objects can be selected for hatching, using a “Solid” pattern.

6: External references stability, when editing in place A stability issue which occurred when external references and blocks were edited in place has been corrected.

7: “Matchprop” command Several improvements and corrections have been made for “matchprop” command from basic objects

to texts and multiline texts. The Lineweight property can be transferred from one leader to another. The Elevation property is correctly applied for leaders.

8: "Multiple" command The “Multiple” command can be used for „box” 3D solids as well. The “Multiple” command can be used for chamfering and filleting solid objects.

9: Snap points Snap points can be acquired on face and polyface meshes objects type. Snap points can be acquired for blocks and external references in layout space. Intersection and apparent intersection between two blocks are recognized.

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10: Extruding regions, 3dpoly and dynamic extrusion 3D Polylines can now be extruded, if all vertexes are in the same plan.

 

Regions are extruded in the correct direction, depending on the height’s positive or negative value. Dynamic extrusion by defining the direction with “polar” is performed correctly.

 

11. Filleting lines and polylines Filleted line segments can be joined in some particular cases. Filleting polylines when radius=0 cuts off the correct side of the object.

12: Loading linetype .lin files Custom line types can be successfully loaded from the specified path.

13: Turning off/on control views A new system variable for turning off/on control views (VPCONTROL) has been added. To control the visibility of this control, set the "VPCONTROL" system variable to 1 or 0.

Set it to Off (0) to hide the controls. Set it to On (1) to display the controls.

 

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14: Print improvements OLE objects are correctly printed. Several printing results when using „Window” option were not correct in some specific cases. This

issue has been fixed.

15: Updated HELP HELP has been updated to eliminate any inconsistencies with the program itself.

16: Improvements for a better use of Autodesk Advance Steel A stability issue when switching the camera symbol representation off in a detail was corrected. Speed has been improved when performing a model extract.

17: Improved performance for operations on complex drawings Speed improvements were made for some specific cases.