Learn about new features in this release of the software. For technical details, see the release notes.
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GENERAL APPLICATION
- Fixed an issue that caused nut and washer reversal in anchors when duplicating specific anchor types in Management Tool.
- Fixed an issue to correct the display of content from cells in column Table from Rule_Turnbuckle_SupplierSystem in AstorRules database when opened in Management Tools - Edit Table.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when saving an Advance Steel model after importing additional Advance Steel files into it.
- Fixed an issue related to the insertion of blocks from drawings saved in previous Advance Steel versions.
- Fixed an issue related to Gizmo UCS relocation for Advance Steel objects.
- Fixed an issue with the Migration Tool during the first launch of Advance Steel.
- Fixed an issue with opening older AS 2015 models in latest AutoCAD with AS OE version.
- Fixed an issue where old Advance Steel models were not drawn and, in some cases, caused a crash.
- Fixed an issue that would cause a large offset between the point of insertion and pasted objects using Copy/Paste (Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V).
- Fixed an issue where the dwg table StdPartFiles could grow exponentially on wblock-insert, in AdvanceSteel versions prior to 2021.
- Fixed an issue with the migration process that caused duplicated records in JointGUIAllowedSections table.
- Upgraded RegEx to the recommended version. The Whitesource scan should not detect this issue after the fix was committed.
- Added a message at the end of content migration to indicate if there were errors or not.
- Fixed an issue where the model database would remain locked and blocked the Vault publish command.
MODELING
- Fixed an issue that sometimes caused Advance Steel to terminate when using the contextual menu for a connection.
- Fixed an issue with structural elements 2d frames that will now appear correctly when inside active model views.
- Fixed an issue where the Override settings in NC option of the corner cope was disabled when it was created by the Parametric Notch joint.
- Fixed the usage of special characters in special part names and part prefixes that was not working properly and was causing malfunctions of the Data Panel.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Show only selected objects command to be very slow if used consecutively, after changing the view direction using the View Cube.
- Mirrored edge processing is now displayed correctly inside active model views.
- Fixed an issue where the system axis of a mirrored curved beam was drawn incorrectly.
- Fixed an issue with generating user sections containing special characters within the section class and section name.
- Fixed an issue where special parts created by the Monowills connection changed size at orbit in an imperial created model.
- Fixed an issue related to hole multiplication in the bolted element caused by the change of the shim plate position.
- Fixed an issue where placing the shim plate for bolts overlapped the connection part.
- Fixed an issue which affected custom connections during the multi-user workflows.
- Fixed an issue related to the copy of the corner cut feature from one element to another.
- Fixed an issue with the clip angle connection concerning handling cleat clearance to sec referencing to angle back.
- Fixed an issue with the Tube connections with sandwich plates - 2 diagonals connections where the Center sandwich plate option was not working when the main beam was perpendicular or sloped related to diagonal beams.
- Fixed an issue where the bolts on a monowills connection with kickplate were created on an incorrect direction.
- Fixed an issue related to the slotted hole tolerance for Double eaves beam bracket from the section connection.
- Fixed a crash that occurred when selecting invalid contours from Advance Steel models.
- Fixed an issue where model object layer assignment was not working on Russian and Czech installations.
- Fixed an issue in the Model Browser menu where the columns that contained numerical values could not be sorted.
- Fixed an issue related to weld properties in wall rail.
- Fixed an issue where in some situations, copied special parts that referenced solids would not be numbered identically by Advance Steel Numbering.
- The grid information on detail titles will now show the correct position of the element for cases where the grids have multiple groups, or secondary axes.
- Solved an issue with Cyrillic characters that could not be used in defining User Sections.
- Solved an issue with compound beams that could not be created on Windows 10 with Current language for non-Unicode programs set to Thai.
- Fixed an issue regarding the shear studs' visibility when creating a manual cut view.
- Added verification for top handrail distance to be bigger than middle handrail distances for the sloped railing.
- Corrected the thickness of several UK Rainham standard gratings.
- Fixed an issue where the slotted holes within the custom connection were not positioned correctly during copying the connection copy commands.
- Fixed an issue where the Grid Reference information was incorrect for elements created at grids defined using grid groups.
- Fixed an issue that occurred when welds created by the Monowills connection, could not have their parameters changed from the connection dialog.
- Fixed an issue where the program became unresponsive on detail creation that included particular grating elements.
- Fixed an issue with identical round beams created using copy, which sometimes got different part marks during Numbering.
- Fixed some issues related with Adaptor Bracket positioning on Stramit profiles.
- Fixed an issue where the holes on the Monowills base plate did not go all the way through the plate.
- Enabled the Mark loose parts command to work on a selected set of elements.
- Fixed an issue related to the beam Lengthen functionality run past grip position change.
- Fixed an issue where the folded beam could not be created from a mirrored polyline.
- Fixed an issue where Hole tolerance for bolts could not be set on the first try.
- Fixed an issue where identical tapered beams with the Behavior set to Split beams got different part numbers.
- Fixed an issue where folded plates could not be created in a specific scenario, because of an error.
- Fixed an issue with handling slotted holes during copy for the railing post connection.
- Fixed an issue where Xrefs disappeared or could not be selected when Work Area was used.
- Improved the Wall Rail connection to support anchor pattern rotation when the wall rail is created from a polybeam.
- Fixed an issue where the bolt length in the Wall Rail joint could not be changed.
- Fixed an issue that caused the post to not be cut in the Railing joint when the Knee option for the end of handrail was used.
- Fixed an issue where the input format of some Bolt Cage parameters was incorrect for imperial templates.
- Fixed an issue where the Edge distance and Hole tolerance parameters were reversed in the ANZ Purlin Acc properties dialog.
- Fixed an issue with the Platform Plate steel connection, where the bolts were not placed at the correct position when the secondary beam is a channel.
- Fixed a misspelled word on the Monowills Panelized properties dialog.
DETAILING
- Fixed a crash that occurred when creating successive model extracts.
- Fixed an issue with the user moved compass label pointing to the column axis after update.
- Fixed an issue related to assigning dimension styles for multiple dimension selection.
- Improved the mechanism for checking the drawing status in Document Manager.
- Fixed an issue that caused hole/bolt symbols and labels from external reference files to be rotated in detail drawings created in the host model if the objects from the external reference were rotated after being linked into the host model.
- Improved BOM part lists in case of numbering with preliminary marks.
- Fixed a crash when reading corrupted objects after detail update.
- Fixed the model object filter behavior in case of applying filters to detailed objects coming from external references.
- Fixed an issue which caused the scale of views to be wrong in details when this was defined as being dependent on the main view scale.
- Fixed an issue concerning changing the drawing number after renaming a drawing.
- Improved the description of the Exact paint area token for BOM.
- Fixed an issue where an invalid arc dimension caused the program to crash at save, by not allowing the creation of the invalid dimension.
- Fixed an issue where the rotation angle of a circular pattern of anchors in a Wall Rail connection was not set correctly in imperial template drawings.
- Fixed an issue by providing data stability for model and detail drawings during unsupported Advance Steel objects block workflows.
- Fixed an issue that caused the program to crash when moving a dimension grip point.
- Fixed an issue that caused dimensions from a detail drawing created using a process to disappear at detail update, if that detail drawing was created by adding it to an existing opened detail drawing.
- Fixed an issue with handling User attributes for BOM on drawing.
- Fixed an issue related to formula functionality in BOM on drawing.
- Addressed a speed issue with drawing process creation.
- Fixed an issue for folded plates that, in some situations, led to a scattered representation in detail drawings.
- Fixed an issue that caused a wrong representation of hole patterns in detail drawings when the holes were applied on cambered beams.
- Modifying the grid balloon gap value in the Management Tools/Default is not taken into account during drawing update.
- Fixed an issue that caused unnecessary empty space in detail drawings because of the incorrect calculation of extents needed for weld symbols.
- Fixed an issue where dimension points placed on holes were lost when changing the number of holes in the pattern.
- Enhanced Australian Bridging BOM lists to handle Lot/Phase properly.
- Fixed the spacing between relative and absolute dimension lines that was previously causing overlaps between absolute dimension texts and the dimension lines that were positioned close to them.
- Fixed an issue with wrong quantities in the BOM Material list summary if anchors on site were included.
- Fixed an issue for the VB script option available for drawing labels.
- Fixed an issue related to preview during the change of prototype for drawings within the Document Manager.
- Fixed an issue where the generated wrap template view for tubes was incorrect.
- Fixed an issue related to updating the camera detail of a beam obtained through an extension.
- Fixed the spacing in multi-line labels from detail drawings when the labels were using variously shaped frames.
- Fixed the behavior of deleted combined labels from detail drawings that re-appeared when updating the detail.
- Corrected the Alternate units' position in Advance Steel dimensions when using the Below primary value option, for cases where the dimension is not using the Avoid overlapping and Centered dimension label options.
- Enabled drawing a revision cloud in details around objects for which a feature cut or a hole pattern had been deleted with that revision change.
- Fixed an issue where "Level, Absolute" or "Level, Absolute and Relative" dimensions showed wrong values before detail update.
- Fixed an issue with moving detail labels after update for objects coming from attached xref in the model.
NUMBERING
- Fixed a crash when setting an empty prefix to an element that was never numbered before.
- Fixed an issue where the Main Part of an Assembly received an additional letter inside the number, when numbering using the With Drawing Number method.
- Fixed an issue where the audit command affected the reuse of unused marks during the numbering of model parts.
- Fixed an issue that caused elements to be numbered incorrectly when using the With Drawing Number numbering method and the SP No (for main part) = Assembly No post numbering method.
- Fixed an issue where the text from the Numbering dialog was blurry at 125% DPI and higher.
- Fixed an issue that caused main parts to not receive single part numbering when using the SP No (for main part) = Assembly No and With Drawing Number post numbering methods.
COLLABORATION
- Fixed an issue in the KISS export where objects were reported on different drawings than the ones in which they were detailed.
- Fixed an issue where the user had to manually map the same section several times, when exporting a model to STD file format.
- Fixed an issue causing punch marks to not be present on user section NC files.
- Fixed an issue where the manual mapping dialog did not open, causing the respective beams to be imported using the generic triangular section when importing a SDNF file.
- Fixed an issue where the manual mapping dialog would not display the profile name that needed to be mapped.
- Fixed a SFR export issue that caused an incomplete Drawing Revision list export for a particular model.
- Fixed an issue where AK radius contour was missing from the NC file of a circular plate with features.
- Fixed an issue where different NC files were obtained when created twice.
- Fixed an issue where IFC files were not imported in Advance Steel due to non-English characters instf the file name.
- Fixed an issue where the holes that were not used for numbering were shown in NC and Dxf files.
- Fixed an issue where an error message was incorrectly shown when creating NC files for a plate with slotted holes.
- Fixed an issue where the scribing text was written even when the contour of the corresponding attached part did not appear in the NC/Dxf file.
- Fixed an issue where certain profile sections would not be drawn in NavisWorks, with certain regional settings.
API
- Enhanced audit to fix inconsistencies in library data in dwg.
- Removed Autodesk.AdvanceSteel.Utils.JSONUtils from API.
- Removed MailAlias::ASID() fromAPI.
- Removed modelName parameter from KernelServices.RunBOMProcess method.++.
- Improved Advance Steel .NET TextBoxWithUnits Control to properly take into account the assigned Units Setting.
- Removed eUnitOfDistanceM from eUnit.
- Corrected an issue in the Advance Steel API that prevented the grid axis frame type from being set correctly.
- For class Autodesk.AdvanceSteel.Modelling.HoleDefinition, the Direction property's type was changed to Autodesk.AdvanceSteel.Contours.Hole.eSlottedHoleOrientation with possible values being one of kXAxis, kYAxis.
- Exposed the Polyline3d.Deviation property in the AS .NET API.
CONTENT/COUNTRIFICATION
- Enhanced the automatic dimension of clip angles in the US version of beam drawing styles.
- Optimized the plate drawing styles settings in the US version into a single drawing style.
- Set the weld cuts/preparations in the drawing styles definition of the Australia installation.
- Created a new drawing style dedicated to trusses in the Australian installation.
- Fixed the weight value for Hi-Span WCP profile.
- Updated the lateral surface area values for South African hollow profiles.
- Enhanced the settings for better automatic assignment of polybeams to detail styles in the US environment.
- Enhanced the cut and hole automatic dimensions of singleparts in the Australian installation.
- Enhanced the automatic dimensions of gussets in assemblies' drawings for the Australian installation.
- Enhanced the automatic dimensions for parts in assemblies' drawings for the Australian installation.
- Corrected the weight for several European rectangular hollow shapes.
- Fixed nut and washer definitions for anchors with A4 as material.
- Updated Stramit Z and C profiles according to the latest manufacturer catalogue.
- Renamed Muermann Tension Rod systems according to the manufacturer types.
- Corrected the weights for Baldassar standard gratings.
- Corrected several dimension definitions for the French installation.
- Updated European steel profiles to the latest gauge values.
- Filled missing Page Size property in UK prototypes.
- Localized token preview samples for the US installation.
- Fixed weight values for Dimond DHS Purlins profiles.
- Fixed UK unequal angles with wrong values for EX and EY parameters.
- Fixed a wrong prototype sheet size assignment for the German installation which occurred in PDF plotted file names.
- Fixed duplicated token issues found in BOM Editor for the French installation.