30/05/2013 – This new release brings enhancements to electrical calculations, in particular on the following points:

• Improved management of 1 pole breaking capacity in IT.
• Optimization of external LV power supply management.
• Taking into account single-phase alternators.
• Development of protection capabilities with regards to inverters.
• Improved management of equipotential wire when the circuit has multiple cables.

This version is available for all our customers with a subscription for download on our website with your license number (click here for direct access).

Elec Calc™ works also with additional modules, do not hesitate to contact us:
• A selectivity by curves module for a dynamic multi-manufacturer study.
• A discrimination module for an economical breakers choice.
• An export module to Excel for an easy use of your data.
• An export module to elecworks™ / SolidWorks Electrical to automatically multi-line diagrams and to integrate the control part of your projects.

11/04/2013 – elecworks™ 2013 R2 brings many improvements to speed up the design process. There are new filters to accelerate search and new entities or symbols to adapt to specific in-house processes.

elecworks 2013 release for optimized electrical design

Special copy – paste and renumbering of the terminals in the terminal strip

The design is accelerated by the introduction of a copy – paste special command, to paste in the same project or in another one, all that is present inside the selection box. A dialog box proposes to define the action to be taken for each type of object in this context (to create or not a new  location mark, to delete or not the wire numbers, etc.). This copy-paste special command can be applied to a folio or an entire project. The user can of course check technical features to change them at any time. With this feature, you can copy an entire panel layout in a few clicks!

Another unique time saving tool to use for an optimized design is a new command in the terminal strip management that allows you to sort the terminals then to renumber the selected terminals according to 3 criteria of your choice (positioning, tracking or connection).

Search filters for direct access

New filters have been developed to facilitate the search:

• A search function of a component in the component tree on the left allows you to quickly find what you are looking for.
• In the Project Manager, the introduction of search criteria, for example part of the project name to reduce the list of projects displayed and quickly find that we are looking for.
• A “find and replace” command in the translation of texts helps you quickly find a text and possibly replace it wherever you want.

Respecting in-house standards

With the introduction of new entities or symbols and a greater flexibility in project documents, import-export, internal company standards can be easily respected. For example, the new object “mask” removes certain schematic entities without cutting lines to obtain an aerospace-type drawing. A mask can be inserted together with the 2D panel thumbnail, to hide the rail, and still count the rail in your BOM. elecworks™ 2013 R2 version also introduces a new type of symbol called “passive symbol”. Without electrical characteristics, such as a ground symbol, it is stored in the library to be inserted in a drawing.

Management of project documents and import-export also changes with this new version. Generated files (BOM, text and excel export) can be added to the project as data files by the “add file created project” that allows you to select the directory in which the user wants to save. Export in PDF format changes: the project tree is stored as bookmarks. When importing DWG file, it is now possible to add to the library the templates and symbols that are not yet present.

Onboard elecworks for embedded systems and Elecworks Education

Finally, elecworks 2013 R2 version brings the following changes:

• The introduction of an educational version with a specific offer, exclusively for the world of education.
• Elecworks interface is now available in Japanese (the 11th language available).
• The release of a version elecworks Onboard for the design of embedded systems in the aerospace, automotive, rail and naval sectors : introduction of wire labels and equipotential labels, data can assigned on lines, option on contours location to meet the need for labels, etc.