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title: "Avontus Designer 2015 R9"
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# Avontus Designer 2015 R9

### **Version: 3.4.160.0 Release Date: October 12, 2015**

## 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.

## Enhancements

- 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.

## Issues Resolved

- 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.