Release Notes

The WSCAD SUITE X PLUS SP2 offers many new features and improvements. These are listed on this page and linked to the relevant topics when possible.

Note: The updates described here depend on the discipline and upgrade level!

General
Explorer & Editors
Managers & Browsers
Import & export
Part management
Interfaces
BA module (Building Automation)
EI module (Electrical Installation)
CE module (Cabinet Engineering)

General

• The performance when creating and editing terminal strips with many terminals (>50) has been improved.
• Color background and text alignment of BMK fields with structure identifier are displayed correctly, even during and after moving.
• If the size of a structure area is changed, the STKZ is correctly set to the position defined in the settings.
• When copying a coil, the contacts of the old coil are correctly not transferred to the new coil.
• If you assign a part to an already placed coil and make the part and the manufacturer visible, the texts are displayed on the coil and the two settings remain activated.
• When creating the multiline name of a project group (e.g. New\aProject\aGroup), the name is displayed without the separators \a in the Project Explorer.
• If a network path is specified in the WSCAD settings for the backup, the path will be correctly taken over when creating the project backup, also including the two required backslashes at the beginning of the path.
• Docked windows that are displayed on a second screen in full screen mode (e.g. the preview window) remain in full screen mode after a restart of the WSCAD software.
• When moving one or more WSCAD windows to a second monitor, the content of the windows will be displayed correctly there, even if the WSCAD software has been restarted.
• When copying text containers, the alignment of the texts is taken over correctly.

Explorer & Editors

• When adding a channel group to a newly created PLC parent element in the Symbol Editor, selecting a template for the channel group is possible without errors.

Managers & Browsers

• After rebuilding the central database, the Cable Manager correctly displays the wires of cables with cable duplicates.
• If you first define a sequence for distributed terminals in the Browser of the Terminal Manager and then convert the distributed terminals to multi-level terminals, the previously defined sequence of terminals is still displayed but is no longer taken into account.
• If all pages on which contactor contacts have been placed are deleted, these contacts are again displayed as free in the Contactor Manager.
• If terminals are placed via the Terminal Manager, existing structure identifiers are correctly adopted.

Import & export

• The import of WMF files works correctly via Insert | Graphic | Image.
• If a line width factor is specified during PDF export, dashed lines will be displayed correctly in the PDF file.
• After changing the project language, when exporting to PDF with the Output with symbol parameters check box activated, the symbol parameters displayed in the popups are also correctly displayed in the selected project language.
• When exporting to DXF/DWG, the older AutoCad versions R13, R14 and R15 are no longer supported, due to problems with displaying colors.

Part management

• For contactor parts, the contact comb can be changed correctly in the Part Management via the Edit/expand contactor dialog.
• In the Combi element dialog, you can use the + and – keys to increase or decrease the number of the additional part if a cell of the additional part is selected. If the cursor is placed directly in the Part field, the + and – characters can be entered there as text. In both cases it does not matter whether + and – are used from the letter block or from the number block of the keyboard.
• Part data from connection attributes are correctly displayed in the reports at the associated connections.
• If you create a new part via the part management, the current date is automatically entered in the WSCAD field Creation date in the following form: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM
• Importing parts into a newly created SQL part database works fine.
• If you filter for parts in a SQL part database and then select and delete the filtered parts with CTRL+A, only these parts are deleted.

Interfaces

• During Phoenix PROJECT complete marking export, the aspects defined as output fields are exported correctly. In addition all output fields that were taken over from the “Cable chart” placeholder list are exported correctly.
• Phoenix PROJECT complete planning import and export of terminal strips and DIN rails has been improved. Terminal strip ref. names, terminal accessories, levels and terminal position numbers (KPN) of multilevel terminals, wire jumpers and plug-in jumpers as well as height, width and depth of the elements on a DIN rail are output and imported correctly.
• Via Interfaces | Production | Steinhauer PWA, all rotated elements are output correctly.

BA module (Building Automation)

• If the function text of a symbol is changed in the Data Point Browser, the function text is also changed in all other disciplines.
• When inserting a symbol into the plan via the Material Explorer, the data points of the symbol are displayed correctly in Data Point Browser.
• When linking an EE symbol to a BA symbol via the BMK in the Enter reference designation dialog, the data points of the BA symbol are displayed correctly in the EE symbol via the Data Point Browser.
• In the Plugin Manager, only one datapoint key plugin can be activated at a time, not several at once.

EI module (Electrical Installation)

• Risers can be placed over several floors from top to bottom as well as from bottom to top with the associated cables and displayed correctly in the 3D view.
• Generating a material list with the output type “3. Together + Ref. name” and activated “Additional parts” check box works correctly for the discipline EI.

CE module (Cabinet Engineering)

• If you activate the Use parent check box for a CE element in the properties dialog under Cabinet part, the coordinates of the CE element are correctly adjusted to the specified reference point of the parent element.
• CE pages that contain cabinet elements with cutouts are imported correctly.