elecworks 2018 – New Features of elecworks™ Service Pack 3

Miles Nicholson 

elecworks™ Service Pack 3 is now available for download. When starting elecworks you will be prompted to download. If you have a network deployment, please remember that the server deployment needs updating first and then the clients from the deployment.

Enhancements:

• Symbol and circuit association has been improved and now depends on a combination of circuit type, number of terminals and terminal mark
  Previously, if you had assigned pin values prior to assigning manufacturer part e.g.

…and then subsequently assigned a manufacturer part, the manually entered pin numbers would only be updated with the first available contact that matched its contact type e.g.

With elecworks™ Service Pack 3,  the manually entered pin numbers are retained if they exist within the manufacturer part and they match the contact type:

• A short translatable description for standard wire colours has been added. The short code is available as an attribute inside of the wire, cable and core information inside of symbols:

It’s also available as a variable within the Formula Manager for wire, cable & cores numbering.

• The automatic insertion of origin-destination arrows can now be run from the command line without an interface dialogue.

Type EWDOAUTOMATICLINK and enter 1 to show the dialogue, 0 to not show the dialogue (below):

If the dialogue is not shown, parameters selected on the latest execution will be used.

• The Classification Manager list content can be copied to the clipboard. This facilitates being able to quickly edit existing and create new classes using cut, copy & paste to duplicate and edit.
• Help has been added for importing title block and assigning revision attributes.
• You can now change the colour of a multiple selection of CAD entities to  “by layer”.
• Opened macros can be deleted from the Macro palette.
• Enhanced workflow of the PDF Export command with a modal dialogue.

• Encryption of login and password details when connecting to an ERP system.
• An error message is shown when exporting a project to PDF if a page is missing or corrupted.
• When deleting multiple connection labels for manufacturer parts, confirmation is asked only once instead of for each occurrence.