The update from R36.0.1.0 to R36.0.1.2 contains a number of new features, important bug fixes and other improvements, among them the following:
Features only available in cadett ELSA Enterprise
Thin Clients
- Support for dynamic workstations in thin client environments has been introduced. This enables the number of workstations to exceed the otherwise persistent limitation of a maximum of 59 workstations (a-z, 1-9, A-Z except N and M). Another important advantage is that only one workstation need to be installed for each Citrix Server, instead of one workstation for each user. In installations with a large number of users, this can be a substantial difference.
This new functionality is available in cadett ELSA Enterprise only.
Dynamic workstations do not have a fixed workstation code. Instead they are assigned a workstation code when cadett ELSA is started. If the last workstation code used is still free, it will be reused. If not, a new free workstation code will be automatically assigned. If no free workstation code exists, an occupied but currently not used workstation code will be reassigned.
Replicator (distributed servers)
- An extended replicator has been added for cadett ELSA Enterprise. The list of new features in it includes support for project replication and functions to detect and replicate changes that have taken place while the replicator has not been running, for one reason or the other.
Features available for all cadett ELSA product levels
General
- An improved support for multiple displays and very large displays has been introduced. The new feature makes it possible to have the Drawing Environment and the Frame-based modules displayed simultaneously in parallel. Previously only one of them was displayed at a time. With only one screen, that is the only practical solution, but with two, having both concurrently displayed may sometimes be an advantage.
Documentation
- The Installation Guide has been completely updated for cadett ELSA R36.
- Two documents with advice how to avoid performance and stability issues in AutoCAD have been added. One covers AutoCAD 2014 and 2015, one covers AutoCAD 2016 and 2017.
Catalogue Import
- The ABB01.MLL sample import mask has been corrected. An error made symbol assignments sometimes ending up incorrectly.
- A new text file with raw data from ABB Control has been added. Using the ABB01.MLL about 6000 resources can be imported, complete with cabinet layout data and circuit diagram symbol assignments.
Terminal Handling
- The sequence editor for terminals did previously not work properly in AutoCAD 2016 and 2017. In AutoCAD 2014 and 2015 it however worked fine. Now it works fine in all supported AutoCAD versions.
Drawing Environment
- Changes in the behaviour of AutoCAD had made cancelling some commands not working as intended in AutoCAD versions newer than 2014. The result could for example be that snap was not set back to its original value after some features were used. This problem has now been resolved.
- The Object Snap command (OSNAP) was incorrect in the Ribbon menu. This has been corrected.
- The COPY/EDIT Edit command in the ribbon menu has been corrected. Previously only "COPY/EDIT" in itself was executed, leaving the user to specify "Edit".
Drawing Manager
- The cadettViewer has been improved to better handle objects like blocks with no attributes, which previously in some cases could cause problems like lines being displayed in the wrong colour or similar.
Symbol Update Feature
- The feature that is used to update symbols from before cadett ELSA 7.7 to the current format in order to support functionality added thereafter, previously contained an error that has now been corrected.
Report Generator
- The TARGET Database Generation function has been improved to better support long item designations. The consequence of this improvement is that the TARGET database generation now does not in itself create any limitations for the maximum length of item designations or parts thereof. The limitations that nevertheless exist come from the OnLine Engine and the Dynamic OnLine.
In many cases the longest item designations of a project belongs to terminals, since the terminal number is a part of the item designation for terminals, while the connection numbers are not for devices.
In practical terms this means that longer item designations, even somewhat exceeding the 40 character limit, can be used without causing problems when generating reports.
The Super Project Report Generation feature of the cadett ELSA Enterprise has been improved to increase performance. - The Excel Report Generation feature has been improved to better handle situations where multiple versions of Microsoft Excel have been installed.
Translator III
- A completely new feature has been added to the Translator III. It is now possible to ignore the original state of translated drawing sheets and instead translate them from their current state. (Normally all translations are made from the original state, meaning that when running the Translator multiple times on the same set of drawing sheets, only the last run matters).
- DXF files containing attribute values exceeding 1024 characters in length previously caused problems for the Translator. This limitation has now been eliminated.
- A translation affecting the title field will now automatically trigger an update of the information in the Drawing Manager, so that the correct current information is displayed there.
- Blocks without any attributes previously caused problems for the Translator, which could result in some texts being left without a proper translation. This problem has been resolved.
- DXF files containing an old type of polylines, which can no longer be created in contemporary versions of AutoCAD, previously caused problems for the Translator. This problem has been resolved.
Symbol Insert Tool
- In recent versions the Symbol Insert Tool displayed Swedish descriptions for standard symbols even when the language was set to English or German. This error has been resolved.
Installation
- A new version (7.6.8) of the driver package for hardware locks is included.
- The Hardware Lock Server option in the installation program previously did not work as intended. Now it does.
Import from other cadett ELSA
- In previous versions user defined menu files (CUIX files) could end up in the wrong location during “Import from other cadett ELSA”. Now they are correctly placed in the symbol library where they belong.
