After nearly a year of effort, our new application suite
Process Plant Design 7.0
has been released.
The release includes the following new features:
General
- Support for Oracle® 11g
- Support for Windows7, including 64-bit systems
- Double-click functions in Drafting, IPID and Vectorpipe
- Mouse zoom improvements
- Dynamic mouse viewport rotation
- Support for Open Type Text Fonts, for example, Arial
- 3-D Import and Export
- Revamped shading and hidden line removal
- New License Manager
- Extended region selection via mouse
- Easier setting of layer, class, and pen
- New Commands for Sorting and aligning graphics
- New X-, Y- and Z-axis-parallel SPIMS
Drafting
- 3-D Import of AutoCAD® DWG and ACIS® SAT files. Additional Formats (CATIA V4, V5, V6, Creo, Pro/ENGINEER, NX UG, Inventor, SolidWorks, IGES, DWG, STEP, Parasolid, ACIS, TransMagic) are made possible with optional modules from our partner TransMagic
- A simple double-click on a graphic element allows attributes such as layer, class, pen, text font and size, line weight, crosshatch type and scaling to be viewed and changed
- Extended Redo Function
- The Edit toolbar is enhanced with a "Repeat last selection" function
- Reworked parametric nuts and bolts symbols
- New freehand sketch function
IPID
- User-level drawing locking
- Double-click on components provides direct access to component data
- Improved stability
- Improved performance
- New "Select by ID" function
- Line break function corrections
Vectorpipe®
- Easier 3-D point input via new X-, Y- and Z-axis-parallel SPIMS
- CTRL-Right-Mouse can be used to rotate the model about the last point input (LPI) in 3-D. CTRL-SHIFT-Right-Mouse constrains the rotation about the Z axis
- Double-click on components provides direct access to component data
- Direct 3-D Export to AutoCAD® DWG and ACIS® SAT files. Additional formats (CATIA V4, V5, V6, Creo, Pro/ENGINEER, NX UG, Inventor, SolidWorks, IGES, DWG, STEP, Parasolid, ACIS, TransMagic) are made possible using optional Add-On software from our partner TransMagic
- Improved selection in 3-D viewports
- Automatic piping along 3-D guidelines
DBTools
- Project Synchronization Tool allows Project databases on physically separate systems to be synchronized
- New VectorAdmin (Database Administration Tool) interface
Trademark Notices
ACIS is a registered trademark of SPATIAL CORP
AutoCAD is a registered trademark of Autodesk, Inc.
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle
Vectorpipe is a trademark of Ingradata GmbH