Release notes

In the Enterprise solution, it is now possible to define an integration between CADMATIC Electrical and CADMATIC Wave.

A document request for Electrical can be created in Wave to predefine the required documentation that needs to be sent to Wave. Electrical receives the request, and a document can be linked to the request with its metadata. When the document is ready, it can be sent to the Wave document management system. New document revisions can also be requested, and they are automatically linked to the previous versions. After the required changes are done, a new document revision can be sent back to Wave.

This feature requires a license.

A technical upgrade in the background enables better support for multiple languages that are now available in the application. Due to a new translation management tool, it is now possible to add translations to the database and then easily share them with other projects and users.

The locale and language settings affect as follows:

• Locale is a project setting that possibly affects the contents of symbol menus and how management definitions are shown. Currently, the setting only has an effect when Finland, Estonia, or Sweden has been selected as the locale. For other locales, the contents are standard but changes might be applied in the future.

• Design language is assumed to be the language the user enters information in and it also works as the default for reports and saving customer drawings. If the user enters values in some other than the selected language, the translation functions might not work as should.

  By default, the tree structure and symbol descriptions in the Symbols window and in the Symbol selection dialog, the header in the information box and wire colors are based on the design language. However, there are settings to change these.

• The Language of symbol dialogs and info box header setting can be used to override the design language values in the tree structure and symbol descriptions in the Symbols window and in the Symbol selection dialog, and the header in the information box. This user-specific setting allows showing the aforementioned information in different languages in one project – this is useful when the project is designed in a specific language but all designers are not fluent in that language.

  When a device is inserted, the symbol descriptions will be shown in the design language, regardless of the language selected in the Electrical settings.

The user interface changes related to languages are explained in detail in these release notes.

Several new languages are available in all the functions (such as drawing frame and label management, drawing frame change, saving customer drawings, reports) where it is possible to select the language. The five previously used languages are shown first.

In the Product models tree, you can now see the number of product model devices in the active drawing and the number of all product model devices (1/2, for example).

When inserting a product model via the project tree (with the Insert one by one function, for example), it is now possible to add a symbol suitable for the active drawing type if it is missing.

The missing product model information is then filled with information coming from the selected symbol after which the symbol can be inserted.

In the product model property dialog, it is now possible to copy product model pins via the Pins tab by right-clicking the desired pin and selecting Copy. The number and attribute values get running numbers; for example, if the attribute of the pin is E_PINB001, the copied pin attribute will be E_PINB002.

In device properties, on the Additional information tab, the Copy additional information to object function has been changed as follows:

• When a device has additional information originating from a product model (blue row), the Change additional information to be device-specific function is available. This function changes the selected piece of additional information device-specific in which case it can be edited.

  

• When a device has device-specific additional information (i.e. not originating from a product model), the Change additional information to be product-model-specific function is available. This function changes the selected piece of additional information product-model-specific in which case it can no longer be edited device-specifically.

  

• When a device has additional information not included in its product model (or the device has not been assigned a product model at all), you can remove the information with Remove.

  

The Change additional information to be device-specific and Remove functions are also available in the product model properties. In both cases, the piece of additional information is removed from the product model.

In Product model management, on the Project product models tab, you can now see the icon of the first symbol in the product model. When hovering over the icon, a bigger image of the symbol is shown.

It is now possible to insert a symbol into a drawing in Product model management.

• The function is available on the Project product models tab when Product model management is opened via the Electrical application; in DB tool the button is not shown.

• The options in the drop-down menu depend on the drawing type; arrangement drawings have more options than the other drawing types.

• Clicking the button executes the Insert one by one function.

EDZ import has been improved: The application now checks that the macro to be imported is supported. If it is not supported or import fails for some other reason, the user is notified.

If something else than the design language is selected as the report language, it is possible to show two different columns – design language and report language – for the translated columns. The status section shows how many translations were found.

In the Common section of project settings, the following new options are available:

• Wire color language – This determines the wire color language. If nothing is selected, design language is used.

• Wire color code separator – This determines the character between wire color abbreviations. It can also be left empty.

In the general Electrical settings, the Symbol descriptions in user interfaces settings has been changed as follows:

• The setting is now called Language of symbol dialogs and info box header.

• Instead of selecting either the user interface language or the design language, you can select from all the supported languages. By default, the design language is used.



• If no translation is found in the selected language, the design or application language is used.

• This setting affects

  • The tree structure and symbol descriptions in the Symbols window

  • The tree structure and symbol descriptions in the Symbol selection dialog

  • The header in the information box

The order of the tabs in the Symbol selection dialog has been changed. The order is now the following:

	Electrical symbols
	User's own symbols
	Symbols marked as favorites
	Symbols in the current project
	Symbols in the current drawing

The order of the tabs in the Symbols window has been changed. The order is now the following:

	Electrical symbols
	User's own symbols
	Symbols marked as favorites
	Symbols in the current project
	Symbols in the current drawing
	Symbols in another drawing
	Settings

In the Symbols window, it is now possible to create a product model based on the selected symbol (except for distribution board tables).

The new product model will get the 2D and 3D symbols and the device type from the selected symbol.

When the program finds a conflict which prevents using a symbol although it exists in the application and the database, there is a new right-click menu function, Clean database symbols with faulty path information, available in the Symbols window, on the (User's symbols) tab, for fixing the situation.

Saving your own symbols has been changed as follows:

• When User is selected as the database type, the symbol file will be saved under the user profile, in the Electrical\Symbols directory.

• Folder where the symbols will be saved has been changed to Symbol tree path.

The user is now notified if more than one feeder feeds a device as that is not yet supported in electrotechnical calculations.

The Insert an occurrence of this device into drawing and Insert device text to the drawing functions are now available in the Product models and Storeys and spaces project trees.

Network calculation has been changed as follows:

• If the selection mode is Drawing, it is now possible to also select cables in addition to devices.

• The size of the cable chamfer has been changed to a more suitable one.

• A distribution board symbol is inserted and a cable is generated instead of a multi-line.

Drawing cableways has been changed as follows:

• Several new geometry patterns are available when drawing cableways.



• You can now select any pattern regardless of the cableway type.

When defining or editing holes, you can now select the elevation to be absolute top, center or bottom elevation.

You can now define the 3D hole color.

Cables are now supported in IFC export. Cable types provide a default value for a new setting that determines whether cables are exported to the IFC file, but users can change the setting for individual cables later.

• In cable and cable type properties, in the Wiring window and in the Wiring properties dialog, there is a new Generate 3D option with which you can enable 3D generation.

• In Cable type management, the new Generate 3D column shows whether 3D generation has been enabled for the cable type.

• In the Generate 3D parts function, it is now possible to select whether to generate all cables and tubes or only those with 3D generation enabled.

• In the IFC export dialog, on the Objects to export to IFC tab, there is a new Cables section where you can select to export all objects or only those with 3D generation enabled.

  

• In cable reports, you can see the 3D generation status in the Generate 3D column.

• On the Cables tab in DB tool, you can enable and disable 3D generation in the Generate 3D column (not shown by default).

There is now support for creating custom property sets for cables, allowing users to include any cable data they wish in the generated IFC file.

The DIALux functions have been changed as follows:

• If DIALux export is started from a drawing that includes storey boundaries, the desired storey boundary is selected instead of the spaces. After selecting the storey boundary, the user has the option to export either all spaces inside that storey boundary or the selected spaces.

• In DIALux import, if you select a storey and the active drawing includes storey boundaries, the application prompts to indicate a storey boundary. When inserting the light fixtures, the origo of the selected storey boundary is added to the coordinates.

When re-importing light fixtures from DIALux, new product models are created only when required i.e. if the product code has changed.

A scalable symbol, two new heater symbols and definition of a light fixture and linear light fixture are now available in the Symbol selection dialog to be used with product models. You can define the information in the same way as when inserting the symbols. The information defined will be saved as product model properties.

• The Define light fixture function can be found by selecting Electric > Light fixtures > Common.

  

  The information is defined in the Light fixture dialog.

• The Define linear light fixture function can be found by selecting Electric > Light fixtures > Linear light fixtures.

  

  The information is defined in the Linear light fixture dialog.

• The new heater symbols can be found by selecting Electric > Heaters:

  

  • Radiator information is defined in the Heater definition dialog.

  • Ceiling heating information is defined in the Ceiling heating dialog.

• The scalable symbol can be found by selecting Electric > Others:

  

  The information is defined in the Scalable symbol dialog.

The Product models and Positions project tree functions List of project's product models into drawing and List of folder's product models into drawing have been changed: In the Product model list dialog, it is now possible to select the language into which Name / type and Default device text 1 are translated. By default, the design language is used. If no translation is found, the original value is used.

The Space dialog has been changed as follows:

• The general space information now includes the following new fields:

  • Publicly accessible

  • Handicap accessible

  • External

  In addition, when the locale of the project is Finland, the Space purpose and Space type fields are also available. The options in these drop-down menus are available only in Finnish.

• On the Settings tab, the Text style and Text size  fields are available. In addition, the Draw HVAC application texts  settings has a new option, + W/m².

Editing the general data of several spaces has been changed as follows:

• Heat loss information are now in one group instead of two separate sections.

• The Supply air (l/s) field has been moved to a separte Air section, allowing users to define it without heat loss information.

It is now possible to define storey boundaries to include more than one storey in one arrangement document.

• You can define one storey boundary for each planning area.

• All the elements inside the boundary receive the same storey information.

• You can draw a storey boundary via the Storeys and spaces project tree by right-clicking the storey and selecting Draw storey boundary.

• You can create a storey boundary for the whole building via the ribbon, by selecting the Electrical tab > Settings group > Storeys menu > Storey boundary.

• The location of the storey boundary origo defines the offset to real coordinates, and ensures that cable calculations, wiring, IFC export, and other functions work seamlessly with storey boundaries.

In the Insert symbols on element, Insert symbols in area, Insert symbols in series with wiring, and Insert symbol in operating sector functions, you can now also select the symbol by indicating it in the drawing.

Instead of the old icon menus, the following functions now also use the Symbol selection dialog for selecting the symbols:

• 3D functions > 3D symbol functions > 3D-symbols

• 3D functions > 3D symbol functions > User 3D symbols

When a device symbol has the 3D equivalence defined and the device is assigned to a product model, the 3D information is removed from the symbol.

IDs given to cable package cables in different functions were not properly checked which resulted in the same ID assigned for multiple cables.

Instead of the old icon menu, the Wire > User wire markings function now also uses the Symbol selection dialog for selecting the symbol.

ID attributes starting with E_PIN and F_PIN have been reserved for system use and they cannot be defined as additional information attributes.

The ETIM database has been updated.

In Cable type properties, the language drop-down menu next to the Class field has been removed. Instead, the button next to the Class field now opens the Term selection dialog where you can create or select a translation for the cable type class. Furthermore, you can clear the cable type class, which is not possible in the Cable type properties dialog.

The IFC type column is now available on the Distribution boards tab.

Instead of a color code, wire colors are now shown in full in the various grids. The change affects, for example, the Wires and Cables tabs and cable type management.

Import functions have been moved from the Functions tab to the Management tab:

• Product information properties have been changed as follows:

  • The Name field is now Name 1.

  • To the left of the Name 1 and Name 2 fields, there is the button which allows you to select the language:

    

    By selecting Generic, you can define the name not to be translated even when a translation is found.

  • To the right of the Name 1 and Name 2 fields, there is another button which allows you to open the Term selection dialog where you can create or select a translation for the product information.

It is now possible to create product models via the Devices grid.

• The Create new product model from device function is available in the right-click menu on the Devices tab.

• You can select one or more devices – product models will be created from the devices that do not already have one.

• If you only select devices that already have a product model, the function is not available in the menu.

• Creating a 3D symbol from the $3DSYMBOL$ attribute and searching by position or device type (E_POSID) are not possible via the DB tool as on the drawing side.

The settings have been changed as follows:

• The Select language headers function has been changed so that you can now select the primary and secondary language for product information fields Name 1 and Name 2.

• There is a new Wire color combinations option which allows you to define your own wire color combinations.

• The language translation settings have been removed from the DB tool settings.

When creating a new drawing, the application suggested a drawing type not included in the user's license.

Despite the Update devices automatically option being enabled, pins were not updated when several devices were inserted.

When a symbol included in a product model was replaced with another symbol by the same name and also replaced in the drawing, it was not replaced in the product model.

In product model properties, it was no longer possible to add ETIM data.

When a device was copied, the ID format used was taken from the device instead of the product model.

When default folders were used for product models, the folder and the device type changed when the symbol was replaced with another.

In Electrical settings, on the DB tab, the Use project database setting did not work. The setting is unnecessary and has been removed.

In device and product model properties, it was not possible to replace symbols on the Symbols tab.

The Symbols window and Symbol selection dialog did not always show symbols correctly.

Symbol packages were not always saved correctly.

Sometimes the drawing did not match the database.

Wiring references did not work as should in distribution board drawings.

The Assign symbols in drawing to this device function did not work correctly when an occurrence with a symbol package was selected.

In load diagrams, unnecessary feeders were sometimes created when inserting symbols.

The update function in the External references window did not take into account the space information of modified space boundaries.

When creating an additional information boundary, the default system was always used instead of the system user had selected.

When updating reference drawings, additional information was only updated for devices with no product model.

Some cables were removed when the drawing was opened.

In the Insert object info to drawing dialog, Input, Cable and Cable package were not shown for distribution boards.

When the distribution board's insertion elevation was changed, the elevation in the drawing was changed to 0. Furthermore, moving the distribution board sometimes changed the insertion elevation to 0.

Checking of symbol type and generation of icons for the symbols resulted in slowness when opening the drawing.

Exporting more than project simultaneously in different instances resulted in an error.

Selecting Alignment cube when exporting IFC resulted in an error.

Additional information defined for distribution boards was not exported.

Some elements in an inactive drawing were not included in the export.

Logo was only shown correctly in a label when the scale of the drawing was 1:1.

If a custom label was used, revisions were not handled correctly.

It was possible to define customer location in a drawing that was not in a project.

After changing the product model 3D symbol, 3D generation did not take the change into account.

If product information's 3D symbol was changed on a product model, 3D generation was only done after synching the drawing and the database.

The Unpaired references project setting did not work as should.

Cableways did not always receive storey information.

In IFC export, values were rounded when the site was far from the origo.

In the System selection dialog, it was not possible to select the system by picking it from the drawing.

If a cable was removed before removing the last occurrence, the cable was not removed from the feeder.

When inserting device connectors, filtering the available ones did not work as should.

When copying elements, some temporary attributes were saved.

Incorrect IDs were used when copying multilayer terminal blocks.

When saving customer drawings, wrong information was saved instead of the drawing name.

The drawing frame with columns by sheets was scaled correctly only in size A3.

User's own frames were not saved into the symbol directory defined in the general settings.

When creating I/O cards, the handling of channels was not taken into account.

Wiring references were generated for I/O card symbols.

Internal wire number was not shown in the drawing if the Cable Customer ID visibility in drawing project setting was set to Visible.

When changing the wire color while wiring and then continuing in another drawing, the color in the other drawing did not change accordingly.

Pins were not moved with cable termination wires.

The Draw wire of the cable function started to draw wires for a new cable instead of the selected one.

Right-clicking in the project tree caused the mode to change from print to layout.

On the Devices tab, it was not possible to edit product model device's description.

The feeding distribution board and/or group were not always shown correctly for distribution boards.

When sorting documents, Cabinet layout and Cabinet Layout were handled as different directories and the sorting was done incorrectly.

Some of the functions were sometimes hidden when the size of different sections in the import definition dialog were changed.

When importing product information, the column headers were not always shown in the application language.

EDZ import failed without error messages or warnings.

Importing product models from SQL resulted in an error.

When Use prefix visibility settings in reports had been enabled in project settings, the prefix was sometimes shown incorrectly in some reports.

In SQLite projects, some circuit IDs were handled incorrectly, resulting in an error when creating reports.

In some reports, the name of additional information was shown instead of the additional information value.

Sums were not calculated correctly in heater and lighting fixture reports.

Adding product information from the standard database to the shared database via the right-click menu resulted in an error.

After visiting the project default settings without making any changes, editing the drawing resulted in an error.

The ID format defined for type definitions and product models required using prefixes and suffixes.

A missing hollow subtype caused an error in IFC export and resulted in a faulty IFC file.

The absolute elevation preview did not take storey boundaries into account.

In the Symbols window, the Import symbols from user icon menus function did not show the OK and Cancel buttons in the selection dialog and it was not possible to import any menus.

Moving an occurrence sometimes crashed the application.

Importing user's own symbols from icon menus sometimes resulted in an error if there were symbols with the same name.

It was not possible to define 3D equivalence for a product model occurrence in a drawing not included in a project.

Inserting terminal strips and terminal blocks via the Devices tree did not always work as should.

The address prefix column did not update automatically in product model properties.

In sheet management, copying and pasting information from one sheet to another sometimes resulted in an error.

In the Draw busbars dialog, the Crossing wires option did not work as should. The option has been removed, and wire crossing is now always set on.

It was not always possible to insert devices because of missing default symbols.

Running IDs did not work properly when inserting several scalable symbols.

Checking the location of the EDBUserCommon database at startup did not work as should. In addition, if the database was not found, the default location database was not taken into use.

Converting the database when opening a drawing not in a project sometimes resulted in an error.

When copying previous version's files, the SQLite database file was not created if the user's operating system did not recognize the file extension. As a result, the EDBUserData file was not created either.

In product model management, importing information from older versions was not always possible.

In shared databases, editing I/O product model's pins resulted in an error.

In the Device properties dialog, selecting a plate sometimes resulted in an error.

The ID was incorrectly assigned in the symbol insertion dialog.

When adding several revision markings, the function did not remember the given initials.

It was not possible to insert distribution board symbol packages via the Symbol selection dialog.

When adding an additional information boundary, it was not always possible to create a new boundary type.

Cableway length was sometimes calculated wrong for the marking.

Some heater and lighting fixture types were left out when calculating heater and light fixture positions.

The Extend wire function cleared user's snap definitions.

When defining wiring references, the Stay on target sheet option did not work.

Cable termination shield was drawn incorrectly.

On the Devices tab, an additional information value entered in a cell was replaced with the default value defined in the additional information definition.

Cable classes were not shown correctly.

Grouping did not work because the selected column header was added to the grouping row twice.

When creating IFC property selection definitions to a shared database, it was not possible to select IFC property sets.

Importing a template project resulted in an error.