Release notes

CADMATIC Electrical has three main releases annually. The release name identifies the publishing year, tertial (T1–T3), and possible patch update designation (R2 or higher). These release notes describe new features, improvements, and bug fixes made in software version 2024T2.

Release notes for CADMATIC Draw are available here.

Old CADMATIC Electrical release notes:

New features and improvements in 2024T2

This software release contains the following new features and improvements.

Toolset

Category

Description

All

Settings

The following new design languages to be used for symbol descriptions, for example, are available: Chinese, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, and Romanian.

All

Settings

After changing the Shared data files setting, the user will be notified that the change is only applied after restarting the application. See General settings.

All

Product models

In the product model dialog, it is now possible to also add single-line symbols for product models.

All

Product models

In the Product models project tree, you can now

  • Copy the selected product model by right-clicking and selecting Copy product model

  • Access product model management by right-clicking the project name and selecting Product model management

In addition, the Product models function has been renamed as Project product models.

All

Project tree

In the Electrical window, Edit project has been replaced with Open DB Tool both in the right-click menu and the button tooltip.

  

All

Devices

When the Device properties dialog is opened via the project tree or the drawing, it is possible to add a symbol for the device on the Symbols tab before inserting an occurrence in the drawing.

  • You can select the symbol from the toolset symbols, from a file, or from the drawing.

  • You can replace or remove symbols that have not been inserted.

  • The type of the drawing affects replacing: If you are replacing a symbol of the same drawing type as that of the current drawing (single-line symbol / single-line diagram, for example), you have the option to select from the drawing or from a menu. If you are replacing a symbol of a different drawing type (single-line symbol / arrangement drawing, for example), you can only select from the menu.

Single-line, Schematics

Cabinets and feeders

In the Group / feeder properties dialog, it is now possible to select the symbol for a protective device.

  • The selected symbol is shown in the dialog.

  • When the symbol has not been selected, the Single-line symbol drop-down menu shows all single-line protective device symbols in the project.

  • If the desired symbol is not available in the Single-line symbol drop-down menu, you can select it from the Fuses, Circuit breakers or Protection switches menu by clicking the button.

  • The number of poles is automatically taken from the symbol definition, if one exists.

  • If the symbol has been inserted, it cannot be changed.

Single-line, Schematics

Cabinets and feeders

In the project tree, the Insert an occurrence of the protective device of this feeder into drawing and Assign a device in the drawing as a protective device to this feeder functions are now available for feeders in the right-click menu. If the protective device symbol has already been inserted or no symbol has been selected for the protective device, insertion is disabled.

The functions are available in multi-line diagrams and single-line diagrams.

Single-line, Schematics

Frames

When creating a new single-line diagram, load diagram or multi-line diagram, the default frame is automatically inserted.

  • If default frames have been set in the project settings, those are inserted.

  • If default frames have not been set or the drawing is not in a project, the frame is set according to the Drawing frames and logos dialog.

Schematics

References

The Insert object info function is now available in the wiring reference right-click menu. The function allows you to add, for example, reference pair IDs and database descriptions in the drawing.

You can also edit this information in the DB tool, on the new References tab.

Schematics, Layout

Integrations

Azure authentication can now be used in data transfer between Electrical and eShare.

Layout

Product models

It is no longer necessary to regenerate 3D after changing the product model's 3D symbol; the symbol is now updated in the drawing right away.

Electrical DB

Grids

Column names have been changed as follows:

  • Schematics symbol has been changed to Multi-line diagram symbol.

  • Centre layout symbol has been changed to Cabinet layout symbol.

  • Layout symbol and Installation Drawings symbol have been changed to Arrangement drawing symbol.

  • Distribution Board Schema symbol and Centre Schemas symbol have been changed to Distribution board symbol.

  • 3D-symbol has been changed to 3D symbol.

Electrical DB

References

It is now possible to edit reference pair IDs and database descriptions on the new References tab. The tab is hidden by default – you can show the tab by right-clicking any of the tabs and selecting Show tabs and then References.

Electrical DB

Reports

In the reporting tool, column names have been changed as follows:

  • From Space Number has been changed to From Space ID.

  • To Space Number has been changed to To Space ID.

Electrical DB

Reports In the reporting tool, it is now possible to add items to user's selection list and remove them by first selecting the items, right-clicking and selecting either Add items to user's selection list or Remove items from the user's selection list.

Bug fixes in 2024T2

This software release contains the following bug fixes.

Toolset

Category

Description

All

Product models

The project tree did not update when moving channels and I/Os.

Single-line

Markings

Saving user's own cable markings did not work for single-line diagrams or load diagrams.

Single-line

Wiring

It was not possible to draw a cable package for all single-line document types via the Wirings project tree.

Single-line

Frames

It was not possible to replace the drawing frame set for a distribution board drawing.

Single-line

Frames

If there was no drawing frame, the feeders had to be inserted one by one.

Single-line

Distribution boards

Feeder texts 1–4 added to a protective device with the Insert object info function were not shown.

Single-line

Symbols

In load diagrams, power was shown as watts instead of kilowatts.

Single-line, Schematics

Wiring

In single-line diagrams and multi-line diagrams, if Use default cable marking had been selected in the wiring dialog but the value in the settings was empty the marking symbol was not inserted when drawing the cable.

Layout

Symbols

F8 did not rotate symbols in cabinet layout and arrangement drawings when inserting next to another symbol had been activated.

Layout

Cableways

The elevation marking was sometimes h=0 because the reference was generated into the drawing before the cable tray object it referred to.

Layout

Cableways

When a cableway did not have a system, selecting one resulted in the application crashing.

Layout

Cableways

It was not possible to make a gap or make the cableway go under/over if the initial elevation was 0.0.

Layout

Cableways

Cableway did not use the defined color if the 3D layer was not found when first generating 3D.

Layout

Calculations

Spare amount was not taken into account for every cable.

Layout

3D

When generating 3D symbols, Z offset was unnecessarily defined.

Layout

Printing

Printing did not work correctly for arrangement drawings.

Layout

Product models

In the Project product models dialog, symbols were not shown for product models imported from an older version.

Layout

Product models

When a product model was added via the Project information / settings dialog, symbol icons were not updated when imported to project product models.

Layout, Schematics

Cabinets and feeders

If free text had been selected for a feeder, short circuit current was not calculated.

Schematics

Sheets

Adding a new sheet between existing ones was not correctly updated in the properties dialog nor on the Schematics tab.

Schematics

Symbols

Wire cutting did not always cut the wiring of all wires.

Schematics

Wiring

When using the Draw cable function from the right-click menu, the cable marking disappeared from the selected cable.

Schematics

Wiring

After drawing a cable wire, when the wiring window was called again by right-clicking it was not up-to-date.

Schematics

Markings

Copying markings added with the Insert object info to drawing function from one distribution board to another did not work correctly.

Schematics

Markings

The text size set in the Insert object info to drawing dialog was not used when inserting.

Schematics

Terminal blocks

When inserting a terminal strip via the project tree, it was possible to select plug connector or device connector as the type.

Schematics

Terminal blocks

Removing a terminal block created in the database from the drawing also deleted it from the database even though automatic removal was not allowed.

Schematics

Boundaries

A new location boundary was added to the project tree when the user started to edit a location boundary in the drawing but closed the editing dialog without making any changes.

Schematics

Boundaries

The Occurrences of the location function also listed frames of drawings that were not open.

Schematics

IDs

System information was not shown in the drawing for dynamic customer IDs.

Cabinet Layout

Symbols

When inserting symbols as mass, ortho was not disabled.

Cabinet Layout

Symbols

Mass insertion was sometimes interrupted because of missing symbol information.

Cabinet Layout

Symbols

Plate texts did not update in the drawing when inserting plates.

Cabinet Layout

Symbols

When terminal blocks got size information from the device, it was possible to change the size in terminal block drawing settings without it having any effect.

Cabinet Layout

Product models

If a default symbol had been defined in terminal strip settings, it was used for multi-level terminal blocks instead of the product model symbol.

Cabinet Layout

Product models

When a symbol with several pins was added for a product model, only one of the pins was included.

Electrical DB

Locations

It was not possible to change the system for a location on the Locations tab.

Electrical DB

Product information

It was not possible to download product information databases without a license to the previous version.

Electrical DB

Import

Importing cable types from another project resulted in an error.

Electrical DB

Import

Importing user databases from an older version resulted in an error.

Electrical DB

Reports

The device list by occurrences did not show the X, Y, and Z locations.

Electrical DB

Reports

When a report was updated via the Documents project tree, the filters originally used were not taken into account.

Electrical DB

Reports

When editing a previously saved report, changes to filtering were not taken into account when saving.

Electrical DB

Modular generation

Opening modular generation on the drawing side resulted in an error when new devices with new device types had been added to the source database.

Electrical DB

Project

It was not possible to delete an SQL project from the project management when there was no longer a database connection to that project.

Bug fixes in 2024T2R2

This software release contains the following bug fixes.

Toolset

Category

Description

Layout

Holes

Copying a hole did not work as should.

Schematics

Sheets

Saving a customer drawing resulted in an error because of an empty storey in storey settings.

Electrical DB

Reports

The Terminal strip connections report did not include unconnected terminal blocks.

Electrical DB

Reports

Entering decimals for a plate definition did not work as should.

Bug fixes in 2024T2R3

This software release contains the following bug fixes.

Toolset

Category

Description

All

Documents

Updating the tabs in the Electrical window in connection with changing the drawing type resulted in the application crashing.

Single-line

Symbols

Users' own distribution board symbols were saved into the wrong menu.

Layout

Symbols

Using Undo before the Assign symbols in drawing to this device function resulted in the application crashing.

Layout

Markings

Inserting object information sometimes resulted in the application crashing.

Layout

Markings

A leader added with the Mark a location ID into drawing  function was not updated if the visibility of the location customer ID was based on the default setting.

Layout

Cableways

Higher elevation was shown incorrectly for a vertical cable tray.

Layout

Cabinets and feeders

Defining 3D symbols for distribution boards was not possible.

Layout

Cabinets and feeders

Copying feeders created multiple devices with the same full ID.

Layout

Cabinets and feeders

Replacing symbols via the Symbols tab did not work.

Layout

Storeys

When moving from a storey to another with a different planning area, an uninformative error message was shown.

Schematics

Symbols

Contact pack generation did not find the correct symbols.

Schematics

Wiring

Running numbering did not work for internal wires.

Schematics

References

When drawing an undefined wire, the reference description given for the target sheet in the Wiring reference dialog was not shown in the drawing.

Electrical DB

Symbols

For devices, distribution boards and groups, adding and replacing functions were incorrectly shown on the Symbols tab.

Electrical DB

Product information

Adding product information with additional information for a device created an extra row in the additional information table.

Electrical DB

Cabinets and feeders

Cable type was shown as feeder's protective device type even though protective device type had also been defined for the device.

Electrical DB

Import

In SQL, importing another project as a temporary project resulted in an error.

Electrical DB

I/Os

Opening the I/O and I/O channels tabs resulted in multiple errors.

Electrical DB

Modular generation

It was not possible to use product information that was found in the shared database but not included in the project.

Electrical DB

SQL

When opening the project, user right check resulted in an error.

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