Avontus Designer 2015 R9

New Features

A new boiler scaffold structure has been added. You can now automatically build scaffolds inside V-bottom or flat-bottom boilers.
You can now collapse a connector bay to a single ledger or leg. This will be useful to design raking ties, fences and barrier scaffolds.
New image scaling and editing tool has been added to help with imported graphics (image and PDF files).
New Crop Tool has been added to trim imported images or PDF underlay.
A new export to AutoCAD tool is available to create line drawings suitable for structural analysis.
Plettac Metrix material catalog has been added to the list of available catalogs to directly import to Material Master.

3D view component has been upgraded with new rendering engine, better performance and compatibility with newer graphics cards.
Exterior(right side) of wall shapes now show slightly thicker to avoid confusion.
Side brackets that were added to wall scaffolds now automatically cleanup guardrails facing the working side (even after re-join).
Convert to connector bay now keeps the converted bay in the parent structure(if any) to retain original bay settings.
All dialog boxes now accept a formula which can consist of numbers, units, and basic arithmetic operations.
User can now switch between different display units in most dialog boxes. Values automatically change to reflect new display unit.
Material master dimensions now accept formulas (combination of numbers and various units). User can export formulas in the desired measurement units.
You can now export drawings to a PDF file.
Significant performance enhancements throughout the application especially in drawing save and open.
3D model of building shapes (walls, pipes, tanks, etc.) are now highlighted in conceptual model when selected.
Material custom options are now validated to only allow valid values.
Installer now recognizes Visio 2013 Click-to-Run Office 365 versions.

Fixed an issue with overlapping parts. Now, if legs or ledgers overlap within a small tolerance they will be combined and counted as one.
Fixed an issue where overlapping two wall sections might hang the application when adding wall scaffold.
Vertical ladders now start from the bottom of legs when they are extended below the first level.
Fixed issue where horizontal/plan bracing direction changes didn't reflect correctly on plan view shapes or wireframe model.
Overlapping legs (and horizontals and braces) now behave more consistently when they are close enough to be combined in to one.
Auto-save is now disabled and delayed when scaffold structure (stair-tower, wall scaffold, boiler, etc.) dialogs are open.