Avontus Designer 2018 R1

Feature Release Notes

U-head jacks are now supported and can be added to bays or individual verticals.
Added support for deck adapters at top of verticals for stage platform scaffolding.
Spigotless verticals can now be added at top of scaffold verticals when required.
Added ability to specify brace height individually for each side of bay levels.
Options form has been added to allow users to change various application/drawing default settings.
Added ability to make multiple backups of Material Master and restore previous backups.
A separate metric drawing template has been added to let users customize metric drawings independently from US template.
Extra drawing backups are now created to keep a longer history of file changes and allow a better opportunity to recover corrupted files.

Significant performance and memory usage improvement by reducing the size of scaffold model and its constructing elements.
- Opening large models saved in the previous versions of Avontus Designer may take longer the first time due to model conversion. Performance upgrades on existing drawings will only be seen after the drawing has been opened for the first time.
Plan view Bay shapes have been optimized to increase drawing performance and stability.
Optimized scaffold bays for faster editing, rendering and better load time.
Bay size material drop downs have been converted to grid lookup for enhanced sorting, grouping and filtering.
Reduced drawing file size due to changes in data structure of scaffold models.
Brace type can now be changed in Bay Details window for each side.
Ledger Type can now be changed individually for each side in Bay Details.
Changes to pages size and units in default drawing templates will now be preserved.
Wall scaffolds have been improved for better corner cleanup and stepped wall combinations.
Resetting Material Master to defaults now also deletes the database which helps to free up disk space and improve the performance.

Fixed an issue in which horizontal support tubes in vertical ladders in some scaffold systems were floating above the bay.
Fixed multiple issues that appeared while drawing some boiler structures.
Fixed an issue with creating metric drawings with custom drawing scale or page size.
Fixed a few issues that appeared when drawing wall scaffolds around corners and stepped wall connections.
Fixed an issue in calculating scaffold units in drawings with stair towers.
Kwikstage internal centered ladders will now draw correctly inside.
Fixed an issue in which tube/box beams with draft angles and different start and end elevations would draw twisted.
Date format in drawing title block now follows operating system regional settings.