CET Designer 8.5 Release Notes

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1 CET Designer 8.5 Release Notes November 20, 2017 News & Changes Implementations from our User Poll Following our user poll earlier this Fall, we are proud to share with you that three of the alternatives have been implemented: Voting Winner: RevLink Now Exports Materials The RevLink Extension now supports exporting materials to Revit Please note that enabling this means export will take longer due to the added size of the materials. Voting 2nd Place Movie Studio now supports using Product Lighting as a Light preset option, for even better looking movies. Voting 3rd Place You can now change the scale of your Office Accessories. 1

2 New Keyboard Shortcuts New keyboard shortcut options have been added for a couple of commands: o Explode block (default: Ctrl+Shift+B) o Select and Pan the 2D View to your CAD zero point (default: Ctrl+H) Easier to Tell Papers Apart in the Paper View Paper names are now shown inside the paper miniatures. Added buttons to skip to first / last paper in longer series. Updates in the Tools Component Tab You can now place dimensions and measure distances in 3D. 2

3 Added tool for removing parts of Chain dimensions. Added support for moving the Dimension numbers to custom location along the Dimension line. Added options to change color of Dimension lines and arrow heads. Dimensions now also support changing line style. Added new arrow head styles to the Arrow tools; all styles available for the Dimension tools are now also available for the Arrow tools. Updates in the Control Panel A new option has been added to the Control Panel, letting you redirect the location of the CET Documents folder to a location of your choosing. This is intended to help in situations where the IT policy means your My Documents folder is on a networked location. 3

4 New option added to Control Panel, for enabling/disabling the Movement aid tool. Note that the movement aid is on by default. New Door Option and Window Look Added option to Architectural doors, to show/not show a threshold. Architectural Windows now support a vaulted look. 4

5 Latest Updates Now Installed Without Interrupting Your Work A new background installation system means you no longer have to stop working to install the latest updates. CET Designer will do this for you in the background, and when you are ready to move up to the new version, just click Restart With Updates. The update will wait until you click that button, so no need to worry if you wish to restart normally in between. Added Support for New Formats and Versions CAD Import now supports AutoCAD RevLink now supports Revit Added support for exporting to the.fbx format. Removing Tags or Alternatives You can now select and remove multiple Tags simultaneously from the Part Tagging dialog. Added support for removing Alternatives without having to first select them in the dialog. 5

6 Removed 32-bit Support for RevLink and SketchUp The SketchUp and RevLink Extensions are now only available for 64-bit CET Designer. It is no longer possible for us to support 32-bit versions, following changes made be the respective owners Trimble and Autodesk. Trimble (the owners of SketchUp) stopped supporting 32-bit versions with SketchUp Autodesk stopped supporting 32-bit versions with the Revit 2015 version, three years ago. Improved Texture Handling in Material Lab CET Designer will automatically indicate when unnecessarily large textures are brought in. We do not recommend using textures larger than 1024 px, or with a DPI higher than around 13. CET Designer can automatically optimize you texture for you. Simply click the Optimize texture button, and the text will be adjusted to match your size settings. 6

7 Solved Issues Fixed problem with PDF import that could in some cases make the picture disappear. Fixed problem with printing of floor plans that contained a PDF image, this could cause the image to wind up at a different location in the printed document. Fixed problem with PDF export that could cause parts of the export to become blurry when image files were present in the floor plan. Fixed problem with resizing of imported PDF file that could cause it to turn red. Fixed issue with loading of drawings with imported PDF, that could cause a crash. Fixed problem with Drag & Drop PDF import onto images placed on architectural walls. Fixed problem with imported PDF files that could cause them to look blurry in the 2D view. Fixed problem with loading of drawings that contained imported PDF images, that could cause the imported PDF image to not load. Fixed problem with resizing of imported PDF that could cause the image to be lost and replaced by the red X placeholder. Fixed problem with replacing imported PDF that could cause the image to become mirrored. Fixed problem with Part Tagging dialog that would cause all categories to always expand when the dialog is opened. Fixed problem with creation of Favorites that could sometimes cause unwanted objects to be included. Fixed problem with renaming Levels through the Level overview, that could cause the cursor to keep jumping to the end of the field. Fixed problem with View Ports that could cause text in the view to move when locking/unlocking viewports. Fixed problem that could cause the order of the View Mode buttons in Paper View to change. Fixed problem that could cause dropdowns from Quick Properties to get misaligned when using multiple monitors. Improvements to DWG handling means importing and handling of some DWG files will now be faster (better handling for lots of Splines). Fixed problem with CAD import that caused load of drawings, containing multiple references to the same DWG file, to be very slow. Fixed problem with architectural doors and windows that could cause them to be filled with wall. Fixed issue with creation of Editable Articles that could cause a crash. Fixed problem that could cause architectural windows to get flipped when moved using Single Select. Fixed problem with copy/paste of objects, such as architectural windows, that could cause attached objects such as blinds or window sills to go missing. Fixed problem that could prevent the color picker tool from working with Custom Shape objects. 7

8 Fixed problem with the Replicate tools that would not correctly include the original object in the total count, causing overlapping objects. Fixed problem that could cause Edit Graphics objects to become invisible when selecting multiple. Fixed problem that could cause the Radius Dimension to not correctly snap to custom Levels. Fixed problem with Calculation that would cause line count to skip a number when ignoring a line that has a zero item count. Fixed problem with Carpets that could cause them to hide lower parts of some objects near floor level, and caused flickering when viewed from far away. Fixed problem with Calculation that could cause sorting by the Comment column to not work. Fixed problem with the Image on wall object, that would make it not accept material changes to the image frame. Fixed problem with the Image on wall object that could cause it to be invisible when viewed from the back. Fixed problem with pinned tabs that could in rare cases cause them to lose pin status, or come in the wrong order when CET Designer is restarted. Improved 3D performance for Industrial Stairs. Fixed problem with SketchUp Extension that could cause models to repeat more than once in the recent section. It should now be faster to place objects from the recent section in the SketchUp Extension. Fixed several issues with the Render Accelerator that could cause a crash. Fixed problem that could cause the Render Accelerator to get stuck trying to assign jobs to machines that had gone offline. Fixed problem with rendering 360 movies, that could cause an incorrect percentage progress to show when resuming rendering. Fixed issue that could cause Movie Studio to crash if a finished frame got corrupted for any reason. Fixed problem with IFC and RevLink export that could cause minor details to go missing due to Level of Detail dropping parts that would normally be hard to see. Dropped support for Zoho from the CRM Connect Extension. Fixed issue with CRM Connect that could cause a crash when removing certain keys. Fixed problem with Office Accessories, where one of the presentation screens and one of the laptops had incorrect rotation for some of their contents. Fixed problem with Kitchen Accessories glass candle holders that made the glass distort the candles too much during render. Fixed problem with some Kitchen Accessories not being Categorized as Accessories. Fixed problem with some Home Extension beds incorrectly indicating that they belonged to a price list. General speed improvements for DWG and SketchUp import. 8