DriveWorks Pro 22

Enhancements

Continuous improvements, to our usability and user experience, making DriveWorks even more interactive and intuitive

• Generation and Specification reports updated with:

  • Functional color coding
  • Error count displayed on delete reports dialog
  • Improved error count status indicators
  • Improved scrolling, column re-sizing behavior
  • Indented items
  • Expand/collapse buttons on both the report viewer and the context menu
  • Expand/collapse icons moved to the left of each report entry
  • Start/end dates displayed
  • Timings displayed in milliseconds
  • Verbosity level displayed in report header

• Launch the Delete reports dialog in Data Management by right clicking on the report

• Preset and personal filters in reports can be modified to filter specific keywords

• Status bars in Generation Tasks and Specification Macros display more detailed information

• Save Configuration available from the Summary screen (Pack and Go/Copy Group)

• Archive a specification straight from Data Management

• Autopilot performance improvements for logging, sorting, buttons, sizing, filtering, exporting and categorized tagging

• Verbose Logging available for Autopilot Log

• An Autopilot machines Triggered Actions function can be adjusted remotely from a DriveWorks Administrator machine

• Model Explorer displays Master Path, Released Date and any Flags applied to a model that is being generated

• Emails have been modified to include; quick filters, updated tags, new buttons, options, sorting and queuing

• Repositioned Project Open/Close options to top of Project drop down

• Sorting of columns in the Rule Builder have been improved

• Initial States are labeled (bottom right corner) with the state they are currently running

• Login dialog will prompt for credentials again if invalid ones are entered, when extracting a .drivepkg file in Data Management (incorrect login used to force stop .drivepkg extractions)

• Nodes have been updated, categorized and reorganized

• Tool tip added to display node type when hovering over a node

• Macros created in DriveWorks pre version 16 will offset any nodes where the connections overlap

• Sorting applied can be used for any list view until the application is closed

• Pro servers performance updated when Forcing Ownership of a Group

• Table data mode is enabled

• Calculation tables and special variables are organized alphabetically

• Character limit length increased to 245 for tables

• Status Outputs applied to more Specification Macro tasks

• Specification macro warning dialogs provides more specific details for troubleshooting elapsed model generation time

• Invalid connection points are dimmed when using a specification macro

• Initial state in specification flow will automatically default to running

• Specification flow will dismiss attempts to add initial states to automatic or paused states

• Read only projects are prevented from opening in DriveWorks

• New Specification Flow Templates added.

• DriveWorks Today can now switch to and from a Tree View mode, this provides a hierarchical view of recent groups and their projects. Any project images will be displayed

• ListGetItems function added, returns the specified items from a list of items

• Add/delete forms from the form designer context menu

• Edit a variable from the Rule drill down

Automated animation, improved optimization and further customization available for 3D models

• Bring your 3D models to life in the 3D Document with 5 new animation entities:

  • Animate Translation
  • Animate Scale
  • Animate Rotation
  • Smooth Rotate
  • Smooth Translate

  Visually demonstrate your model’s abilities and interactivity in various 3D environments

• Beta feature: VR can be set up with the XR Orientation and Raycast entities for an immersive DriveWorks 3D experience

• Added the LookAt entity which forces a model to rotate to look at a target position or node. Can be used for smoothly following animated nodes

• Apply Decals to DriveWorks 3D models

• Sprites allow 2D images to be rendered in a 3D scene for guiding user interaction

• Screen Space Reflections (SSR) is a new camera effect that adds local reflections to a reflective surface

• DriveWorks 3D now has HDR and HDRI support with additional control over brightness and contrast applied in Environment settings

• Improved loading times for the 3D Document and Preview Control

• Improved rendering speeds to increase frame rate for a smoother experience

• Node positions in the scene hierarchy can be quickly adjusted by dragging and dropping within a 3D Document’s Node tree

• Easily copy a Node’s address with right-click

• Get Document Node Transform task added for retrieving up to date positions/rotations/scales from the scene

• Set Document Node Transform task includes new properties - Set World Position/Rotation and Include Transform Rules

• Adding Entities is now easier with a new categorized list

• You can now apply any changes made without closing the 3D Document editor

• New tasks added to the Toolbox :

  • Calculate Bounding Box Data
  • Calculate Estimated Volume Data

• Suffix 3D Asset Names task will uniformly add suffixes to assets in a 3D model.

• 20 new Vector functions added for easier 3D control

  • EulerCombine
  • VectorAbs
  • VectorAdd
  • VectorAngle
  • VectorClamp
  • VectorCross
  • VectorDivide
  • VectorDot
  • VectorLength
  • VectorLerp
  • VectorLookAt
  • VectorMax
  • VectorMin
  • VectorMultiply
  • VectorNegate
  • VectorNormalize
  • VectorRotateAroundAxis
  • VectorRotateAroundPoint
  • VectorScale
  • VectorSubtract

• Create Preview Image task added for saving out screenshots from a 3D Preview

• Convert OBJ, gITF and STL files for importing into a 3D Document with new Import tasks.

• Export your 3D document as OBJ, glTF and STL files with new export tasks

• GetLookAtRotation calculates the lookat rotation from one position to another, allowing it to be used in conjunction with rules and other tasks

Automate your designs with new PDM tasks and functions

• Zoom to Fit properties added to generation tasks

• Save images of multiple drawing sheets

• Set the positions of multiple annotations driven from a table

• Set Instance State can be hidden/shown/suppressed/unsuppressed

• Rescale And Position View accepts a list of preferred scales for generated drawings

• Delete configurations and Delete features tasks added

• Enhanced PDM support and integration, including:

  • Function added to return serial number generators for the PDM vault in use

  • Task added to create an empty folder in a PDM vault

  • Task added to assign and return the next available serial number for a given serial number generator

  • Function to search a PDM vault for files based on search criteria

  • New additions to tasks enable specified sub-folders to be checked in/out of a PDM vault

  • Tasks and functions can be stalled by disabling the PDM plugin

  • Get Latest on a project if it's located in a PDM vault prior to running a specification

  • Option added to Get Latest on overwrite

  • The PDM plugin can be set up to check folder watcher files providing the file path is in the specified PDM vault

  • Populate folders data cards

  • Retrieve data card properties from files

  • Group specific settings can be saved for multiple users when setting up PDM

  • Check In comments available for files

  • Check in/out .driveprojx and .drivegroup files from the Administrator interface

New tools and features simplify enterprise wide deployment and management of DriveWorks.

• Extensive properties added to the Data Table control, allows greater control of its appearance, including:

  • Click Selected Row To Deselect
  • Grid Line Color
  • Enable Sorting
  • Header TextHorizontal Alignment
  • Header Text Vertical Alignment
  • Row Text Horizontal Alignment accepts a pipe delimited list of values
  • Row Background Colors accepts a pipe delimited list of colors that will be applied to rows in a repeating pattern
  • Header Row Height
  • Hidden Fields can now be dynamic
  • Border Style

• Placeholder text added to the Text box control

• Insert multiple rows and columns in between existing rows of data in Tables.

• Advanced XML Document successfully converts to HTML

• Meta-data property added to all controls

• SQL Server Export able to send NULL values

• Default height and width for controls requiring a larger size has been increased.

• IfErrorString function added

• Hide On Date Selection property added to the DatePicker control allows the control to be hidden once a date has been selected

• Check Box, Combo Box and List Box have had On Change events properties added. This allows macros to be triggered based on the control value changing

• XML refactoring has seen significant Project file size reduction

• Sort Ascending parameter added to the ListAll function

• Drag .drivegroup and .driveprojx files, from Windows Explorer, into the application to open

• Read only projects are prevented from being opened

• Specification Macros that have been running longer than expected have their name surfaced

• Update Form UI Specification Task allows feedback mechanism when macros with multiple tasks are run

• Integration Theme - Example Sites have been added, accessible from the Integration Theme landing page