elecworks 2018 – What’s New in elecworks™ 2018 SP4

By Miles Nicholson 

The following is a list of new features and enhancements added to elecworks™ 2018 Service Pack 4

• A new Microsoft® Excel add-in for Excel Automation

This is an add-in for Microsoft® Excel and not for elecworks™. The Microsoft® Excel add-in improves the workflow when utilising Excel Automation

To install the add-in:

Browse to the directory:               C:\Program Files\elecworks\bin_x64\EwExcelAddIn\

Run EwExcelAddIn.vsto

The add-in will then appear as a new ribbon tab within Microsoft® Excel:

• A message dialogue now appears when loading an elecworks™ add-in if the previous load attempt failed

N.B: The picture above shows an add-in designed specifically for testing purposes only 

• Spanish, French and Simplified Chinese translations have been added to the elecworks™ Welcome page 

• When using the Excel Automation command, the process summary log has been improved to show more in-depth information 

• Double clicking over the formula field within the Wire style properties dialogue now opens the Formula manager

• Align blocks command within a cabinet layout drawing now also works on the Y axis 

• Keyboard hotkeys have been added within the Terminal strip editor

Ctrl + C (copy), Ctrl + X (cut) and Ctrl + V (paste) 

• A new report has been added: Wires tags - one row per tag. This makes it easier to get the information into some wire marking machine software. The report shows all wire tags from a project, using one row for each tag:

• When unarchiving a project which was archived in an older version of elecworks™, the Project Verify dialogue is no longer shown as the verification is done transparently 

• Unnecessary characters are now removed when pasting license numbers from your elecworks™ installation email into the elecworks™ License Manager activation dialogue. Previously, when copying and pasting license numbers into the dialogue all characters were included. Example shown below:

Only the actual license numbers are now copied

• Manufacturers parts that are no longer associated to a component are removed from the project database when the Verify Project command is run 

Select Tools ribbon tab > Tools panel >  

• New symbols for terminals and cross-connections have been added

• Exporting to PDF performance has been improved if temporary folders do not exist.