Steel Engineering
Connections dialogues
Opening the dialogues of steel engineering connections and scrolling through the dialogues has been speeded up.
Circumferential welds for stiffeners
In practice, circumferential weld seams are often used for stiffeners, which makes the drawing much clearer. For this reason, the corresponding tabs of the following design variants have been extended: Stiffener (2401), Strap joint (2310), Beam to web with 2 plates + stiffener (1211), Frame corner (2203) and Frame corner (2204).
Beam to web with 2 plates + stiffener - optional 2nd stiffener
When connecting a Beam to web with 2 sheets + stiffener (1211), an optional second stiffener can now be inserted - aligned with the first stiffener.
Bar configurator - profile bars on free sketch
With the Bar configurator, the area between the edges of a "free" sketch can now be filled with profile bars. Previously, only square sketches were permitted here.
Railing Configurator - elbows at handrail ends
In the Railing Configurator, elbows with/without end cap or steel plate are now also available as handrail terminations on the Handrail tab.
Metal Engineering
Omission of the LogiKal login window
Until now, a login window was displayed the first time a LogiKal function was called up. This window is no longer needed and will therefore be omitted from HiCAD 2023.
Configuration of the article number of LogiKal items
Up to now, when importing LogiKal items into HiCAD, the fixed setting Project name + Item was always used as the name of the top-level assembly, both separated by commas and with the character # in front of the item number (e.g. glass with rounding, #001). As of HiCAD 2300, only the item, the project name or the short description can now be used as the name of the assembly.
LogiKal interface - transfer of text attributes to HiCAD
When importing LogiKal items, certain LogiKal text attributes can be specifically assigned to certain HiCAD attributes. The setting is made in the Configuration Editor at Interfaces > LogiKal.
Drawing Management
Check, release and index models
To change the workflow status and to index models (SZA files) that were not automatically created with the Drawing Management, it was previously necessary to switch to the HELiOS Desktop and to call the corresponding function there via the context menu for articles/documents. From HiCAD 2023 onwards, these options are available directly in the Drawing Management Ribbon.
Output of PDF data in black and white
The creation of PDF files can now alternatively be done in black and white. For this purpose, the settings for external production documents in Configuration Editor have been extended accordingly.
Workflow when creating general documents
As with production drawings, mounting drawings and customer drawings, it is also possible to select when general documents in DXF, DWG and PDF format are to be created. For this purpose, the settings for external production documents in the Configuration Editor have been extended accordingly.