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The Latest from AI MAXTools / Re: Code availability announcements (with detailed history information)

« Last post by admin on March 12, 2019, 05:39:10 PM »

A new version of the AI MAXTools suite is available! The latest build (20.10.0657.00, 2019-03-05) has the following improvements/fixes/changes (see below for download link):

New Features/Functions:

• New Functionality: AI MAX Share, 2 Points in Direction method: Added option "Total Distance" to allow multiple instances to be shared *between* source and destination points rather than just extending beyond.
• New Functionality: AI MAX Share, 2 Points in Direction method: Added option "Skip Pos #s" to skip specified position numbers when using the "Count" option (both with and without the new "Total Distance" option). Positions may be separated by spaces or commas, and lists are denoted with a dash i.e. "1-3" or even "4-" (skip positions 4 and higher). Skipped points are shown with a red dot rather than a cyan dot along the vector.
  
• AI MAX Export: Modeling would not allow exporting any object in a container to IGES or any of the Parasolid formats. AI MAX Export now works around the PTC limitation. With AI MAX Export, all objects can be exported to these formats, even if they are located in containers.
• AI BOM Generator: BOM identifier style can now be specified. Options are Line #,  1.1.1 (numbered at each level), A.1.1 (similar to 1.1.1, but with the top level using A, B, C), and A.a.a (each level uses alpha, with the top level using capital letters). These identifiers are also used in the BOM Flags on Annotation drawings.
• New Function: AI Delete BOM Flags User can select leader, frame, or flag ID, and all portions of that flag will be deleted.
• New Functionality: AI BOM Generator Added ability to Skip or NoExpand objects.  "NoExpand" prevents an assembly from being expanded. NOTE: When an object is set to skip or not expand, a Status column will be shown in the second position in the on-screen table ("Show BOM"), but the Status column will NOT be sent to Annotation or to the exported file. If the skip/NoExpand status is cleared for all objects, the column will disappear.

Bug Fixes:

• AI BOM Flags: When using Box-style frames, lines were not always coming off the sides are the correct angle. Fixed.
  

Changed Functionality:

• AI BOM Generator: in 3D mode, when highlighting an item to show the view direction, if the "AI View" viewport direction has been changed, selecting a new item will not reset the view direction.
• AI BOM Generator: on-screen table is now larger -- 80% of the screen width and 50% of the screen height.
• AI BOM Generator: now only a single assembly can be selected as the top-level object.
• AI BOM Generator and AI BOM Flags: many internal changes and improvements, especially related to parts in shared assemblies.
• AI BOM Flags: now automatically updates all BOM flags when it start

To download the latest version, please Click Here.

Note that in addition to new behavior, new versions may also introduce occasional bugs -- please notify us if you experience anything unexpected!

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The Latest from AI MAXTools / Re: Code availability announcements (with detailed history information)

« Last post by admin on January 22, 2019, 02:08:00 AM »

A new version of the AI MAXTools suite is available! The latest build (20.10.0642.00, 2019-01-21) has the following improvements/fixes/changes (see below for download link):

New Features/Functions:

• New Functionality: AI BOM for Annotation! Allows pushing the AI BOM table over to Annotation with immediate updates when the BOM parameters are changed. BOM parameters are stored with the drawing BOM, so when a drawing with an AI BOM table is loaded, AI BOM knows which parameters were used to generate the table.
• New Functionality: AI BOM Flags for Annotation! When flags are assigned to objects and the BOM parameters are updated, the flag numbers are also updated -- no need to re-generate the BOM!
• AI BOM for Annotation provides for auto-wrapping of text when a parameter is too wide for its assigned width. When the BOM is scaled or the text size is changed, the BOM will automatically re-wrap the text.
• AI BOM Generator now has option to change the separator when writing a CSV file. Options are comma, semicolon, and tab.
• New Functionality: AI Text Functions for Annotation! Available functions include AI New Text, AI Edit Text, and AI Align Text. AI New Text is very similar to the regular New Text function, but adds the ability to set text alignment to left, center, or right (Only applies to multi-line texts -- single line texts always have left alignment). AI Edit Text is similar to a combination of the regular Edit Text and Text Properties functions, but also adds the alignment functionality. The alignment functions are used to simply set the alignment of existing texts.

Bug Fixes:

• AI MAX ViewHQ browser scale wasn't being remembered between sessions. Fixed.
• AI MAX Export: Visibility for options related to inseparable objects was not always updating correctly. Fixed.

Changed Functionality:

• AI BOM Generator now automatically scans both standard Model Manager attributes for a Description (when the Description column is selected).

To download the latest version, please Click Here.


Note that in addition to new behavior, new versions may also introduce occasional bugs -- please notify us if you experience anything unexpected!

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The Latest from AI MAXTools / Re: Code availability announcements (with detailed history information)

« Last post by admin on October 11, 2018, 01:04:49 PM »

A new version of the AI MAXTools suite is available! The latest build (20.10.0628.00, 2018-10-10) has the following improvements/fixes/changes (see below for download link):

New Features/Functions:

• New Function: AI Modify Owner: Improves on the default Modify Owner commands: 1) Can move parts, assemblies and workplanes all in the same operation, 2) Select objects first, then the owner (more natural flow), 3) integrated with right-click structure browser "AI MAXTools" menu. Simple, but much more natural than the default command.
• AI Bill of Materials Generator now includes a default Model Manager Description attribute for the BOM columns (wasn't always showing up on some systems)

Bug Fixes:

• N/A

Changed Functionality:

• Misc functions to highlight objects in the structure browser (such as AI Info) now scroll at least one of the selected items into view
• AI MAX Export: UI item changed from "Top Assy(s)" to "Selected Objects" (functionality unchanged)

To download the latest version, please Click Here.


Note that in addition to new behavior, new versions may also introduce occasional bugs -- please notify us if you experience anything unexpected!

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The Latest from AI MAXTools / Re: Code availability announcements (with detailed history information)

« Last post by admin on September 27, 2018, 07:40:11 PM »

A new version of the AI MAXTools suite is available! The latest build (20.10.0625.00, 2018-09-27) has the following improvements/fixes/changes (see below for download link):

New Features/Functions:

• AI Bill of Materials Generator now allows using Model Manager attributes in the BOM columns
• AI Set VP Up Direction now works in the "AI View" viewport, such as when specifying an image direction for AI BOM Generator

Bug Fixes:

• AI MAX Export: In some cases, inseparable assemblies were being listed for export even when the option to export subassemblies was turned off. Fixed.

Changed Functionality:

• N/A

To download the latest version, please Click Here.


Note that in addition to new behavior, new versions may also introduce occasional bugs -- please notify us if you experience anything unexpected!

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The Latest from AI MAXTools / Re: Code availability announcements (with detailed history information)

« Last post by admin on September 03, 2018, 07:50:00 PM »

A new version of the AI MAXTools suite is available! The latest build (20.10.0622.00, 2018-09-03) has the following improvements/fixes/changes (see below for download link):

New Features/Functions:

• N/A

Bug Fixes:

• AI Duplicate Assembly: New name specified on auto-unshared assemblies would not always be applied correctly. Fixed.
• AI Duplicate Assembly: Highlighting of auto-unshared assemblies was showing green even if the names were the same (should be yellow). Fixed.
• AI MAX Share: In some cases, part transparency wasn't getting reset correctly after duplicating a feature. Fixed.
• AI MAX Share: When using using the Circular Elements method, the axis direction was flipped 180 degrees in some unusual cases. Fixed.
• AI Bill of Materials Generator: When showing the BOM table, selecting a row would throw an error rather than showing the view angle to display for the selected object. Fixed.
  

Changed Functionality:

• N/A

To download the latest version, please Click Here.


Note that in addition to new behavior, new versions may also introduce occasional bugs -- please notify us if you experience anything unexpected!

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The Latest from AI MAXTools / Re: Code availability announcements (with detailed history information)

« Last post by admin on August 22, 2018, 06:59:50 PM »

A new version of the AI MAXTools suite is available! The latest build (20.10.0620.00, 2018-08-22) has the following improvements/fixes/changes (see below for download link):

New Features/Functions:

• N/A

Bug Fixes:

• AI Duplicate Assembly: Selected objects to unshare were not always being correctly unshared. Fixed.

Changed Functionality:

• N/A

To download the latest version, please Click Here.


Note that in addition to new behavior, new versions may also introduce occasional bugs -- please notify us if you experience anything unexpected!

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The Latest from AI MAXTools / Re: Code availability announcements (with detailed history information)

« Last post by admin on July 26, 2018, 08:05:05 PM »

A new version of the AI MAXTools suite is available! The latest build (20.10.0617.00, 2018-07-26) has the following improvements/fixes/changes (see below for download link):

New Features/Functions:

• AI Duplicate Assembly: Added options to choose whether a new Model Name is generated for objects to be unshared where the source (to be unshared) already has a Model Name assigned.
• AI Duplicate Assembly: After selecting objects in the structure browser, the selection highlight is removed, allowing the color coding to show. Much easier to see what's going on from a user's perspective.

Bug Fixes:

• AI Duplicate Assembly: After closing the dialog, highlighting of active objects wasn't being done correctly. Fixed.

Changed Functionality:

• AI Duplicate Assembly: When re-selecting objects to un-share, any existing objects are highlighted in the structure browser, making it easier to add and remove objects.
• AI Duplicate Assembly: "Unshare" column is no longer editable to reduce confusion. Adding/subtracting elements from the objects to be unshared is done by selecting "Unshare Obj(s)" and adding to or removing from the list.
  

To download the latest version, please Click Here.


Note that in addition to new behavior, new versions may also introduce occasional bugs -- please notify us if you experience anything unexpected!

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The Latest from AI MAXTools / Re: Code availability announcements (with detailed history information)

« Last post by admin on July 19, 2018, 08:24:05 PM »

A new version of the AI MAXTools suite is available! The latest build (20.10.0612.00, 2018-07-19) has the following improvements/fixes/changes (see below for download link):
 
NOTE: This post and version replace build 0611, which had a bug. Quickly fixed, new version and post).

New Features/Functions:

• N/A

Bug Fixes:

• AI Duplicate Assembly: editing status didn't work in some cases. Fixed.
• AI Duplicate Assembly: would crash when an assembly without a number suffix was selected. Fixed.
• AI MAX Export2D: A change in build 0606 to deal with some types of drawings broke conversion for many other drawings. Oops. Fixed.

Changed Functionality:

• N/A

To download the latest version, please Click Here.


Note that in addition to new behavior, new versions may also introduce occasional bugs -- please notify us if you experience anything unexpected!

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The Latest from AI MAXTools / Re: Code availability announcements (with detailed history information)

« Last post by admin on July 13, 2018, 11:03:43 PM »

A new version of the AI MAXTools suite is available! The latest build (20.10.0608.00, 2018-07-13) has the following improvements/fixes/changes (see below for download link):
 
New Features/Functions:

• New Function: AI Duplicate Assembly: Duplicate an assembly with full control over which objects will be unshared, as well as what the instance and model names will be for those objects. Incredibly powerful function to leverage existing assemblies!

Bug Fixes:

• AI MAX Export2D: could throw an error when starting up in some cases. Fixed.

Changed Functionality:

• AI MAX Export: more robust exporting of objects with unusual characters in their names (from imported data).
• Updated help file.

To download the latest version, please Click Here.


Note that in addition to new behavior, new versions may also introduce occasional bugs -- please notify us if you experience anything unexpected!

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The Latest from AI MAXTools / Re: Code availability announcements (with detailed history information)

« Last post by admin on June 01, 2018, 02:37:27 AM »

A new version of the AI MAXTools suite is available! The latest build (20.10.0606.00, 2018-05-31) has the following improvements/fixes/changes (see below for download link):
 
New Features/Functions:

• AI MAX Share: when duplicating a feature (including when duplicating a part and a feature), the owner of the feature is now shown semi-transparent to improve visualization of the changes.
• AI MAX Share: In 2 Points in Direction Mode, a feedback line from point 1 is now shown when selecting point 2.
• AI Multi-Cut Faces: The faces to be cut (selected by user) are now shown in red, and the parts containing the selected faces are now shown semi-transparent to improve visualization.
• AI Find Object now has an option to search attributes attached to parts (including ModelManager attributes). Searching was previously limited to Instance Names and Model Names.

Bug Fixes:

• AI Universal Move: Object status was not always being reset properly when the user canceled the operation. Fixed.
• AI MAX ViewHQ: Deleting multiple drawlists from the graphical Drawlist browser would sometimes delete the wrong drawlist. Fixed.
• AI Find Object could throw an error when highlighting objects in the structure browser under certain (somewhat odd) circumstances. Fixed.

Changed Functionality:

• AI Universal Move: Method for allowing edit on read-only objects is now more robust.
• AI MAX Share: Transparency wouldn't always show correctly if instance transparency was set. Now it works either way.
• AI Multi-Cut Faces: Transparency wouldn't always show correctly if instance transparency was set. Now it works either way.
• AI MAX ViewHQ: Green now indicates active drawlist or view, and red now indicates defined but not active views.
• AI MAX ViewHQ: The Drawlist browser indicators for "current" and "current but not matching" are now full highlight of the item rather than an underline.
• AI MAX ViewHQ: when loading drawlists from an object and double-clicking on an item in the object selection browser to select it, the browser window is now hidden.
• Updated help file.

To download the latest version, please Click Here.


Note that in addition to new behavior, new versions may also introduce occasional bugs -- please notify us if you experience anything unexpected!