5.2 Release Notes

5.2.9.8

  • Fixed Inherit tool for Levels
  • Adjusted shock behaviour for ducts connecting to surface entries
  • Made a catch for when adding Contaminant/Dust Injection to airways with no airflow
  • Added check in saving and loading for round airways to have consistent dimensions
  • Fixed input of linear moisture on Edit form heat tab
  • Fixed text toggle, so to not lose previous settings
  • Fixed Presets form for Polish language

5.2.9.7

  • Fixed clone of custom shape type attribute
  • Made Reset of dynamic settings set to default value of graph smoothing
  • Removed loading error warning arising from some Deswik-exported models

5.2.9.6

  • Added Regulator Type and Opening to Clone Attributes | Resistance
  • Fixed issue where saving a VentSim file results in a scrambled Stage description until you reload the file

5.2.9.5

  • Warning now appears when attempting to add a VentLog station to an airway that already has one but is yet to be imported

  • Fixed problem with opening edit of sensor schema in LiveView form

  • Fixed addition of moisture when using fixed dry bulb temperature

  • Fixed problem loading some graphic reference types

  • Fixed problem with Shape not transferring properly when using Clone Attributes – Size

5.2.9.4

  • Fixed reference list position on data manager

5.2.9.3

  • Fixed selecting new preset/fan and updating combobox when a new preset/fan was added via the preset to the new edit form

  • Updated to save user preference for Relative Text
  • Update to display long names on Reference Layer tab of Display manager
  • Fixed spreadsheet to handle grouping columns with same name
  • Made tool tip appear over data cell as well as label in the new Edit form

5.2.9.2

  • Added additional tool tips to the new edit form

  • Updated translations for Russian

5.2.9.1

  • Hidden icons no longer swap the edit form to the corresponding tab on opening

  • Fix for Date Mined date on Edit form
  • Fix for missing OK button on favourites form
  • Updated translations for Russian, Spanish and Chinese

5.2.9.0

  • Added pressure loss to dynamic monitor graph

  • Fixed saving of dynamic monitor data
  • Fix for changing of airway shape in old Edit form
  • Corrected efficiency calculation of static fans with no efficiency curve
  • Improved opening speed of sensor edit form
  • Prevented obstruction and backfill from copying over to duct during build
  • Altered behaviour of Heat On/Off button
  • Fix for Escape Routes to always show at least one route per refuge bay
  • Fix for connect alarm colours

5.2.8.9

  • Fixed bug associated with the interaction of the Fan Off and Reverse Blade options

5.2.8.8

  • Added saving of Combustion fuels for Advanced Licenses 

  • Fixed inheriting of colours for Air Type, Primary Layer and Secondary Layer
  • Fixed saving of interpolation method for fan curves
  • Disabled Stage Manager while Dynamic Simulation running
  • Added friction factor presets to Advanced Find & Select
  • Fixed load of Ventsim file without airways

5.2.8.7

  • Fixed interaction of display of Date Mined and Age fields on Heat Tab of the Edit Form

  • Added airway segment total to Summary form
  • Fixed Stage selection when creating a new message box
  • Removed alphabetical sorting of presets in Edit form dropdowns
  • Fixed export tool from Path Analyser graph
  • Made Import Surpac file tool respect colour choice
  • Improved robustness of Fire Simulation
  • Included combustion fuels presets tab for Ventsim Advanced licenses 

5.2.8.6

  • Fix for updating icon from Fix Flow to Fan

  • Added Shortest Duct option to Select menu
  • Fixed Fan Display tool to estimate all total pressure fan curves
  • Fix for loading of Use Area /Perimeter option of Tunnel Profiles
  • Fix for Tunnel profile saving compatibility 

  • Fix for applying presets to multiple airways
  • Prevented PQ resistance option copying during duct construction

5.2.8.5

  • Fix for loading custom profiles

  • Fix for setting the area for regular shape profiles
  • Fix for changing fix flow to fan when picking a Fan Model directly instead of changing the Type to Fan.

5.2.8.4

  • Improvements to Merge function to retain the original coordinates of the merged file

  • Improvements to Merge function to merge the custom profiles and layers from both source and merged files
  • Fix for when duty point could appear above the Y axis max on fan curve

  • Fix for when restoring to initial conditions after a dynamic simulation could prevent changes being applied to an airway until it was re-selected

5.2.8.3

  • Corrections to Merge function

  • Fixed maintenance of stage when merging files

  • Fix for incorrectly shown Rock Age on Edit form for some year formats

  • Change to saving of Stage Description for backwards compatibility

  • Corrected Jet fan calculation to take proper account of changes of density

  • Implementation of sort ordering for Presets

  • Added resistance total to information after using measuring tool

  • Added support for VentLog when interchanging commas and decimals points

5.2.8.2

  • Fixed Radon Activation option to not turn off with Reset Network

  • Removed Rock Age error from appearing on ducts and duct leakages

  • Fixed issue with Message Boxes not saving in correct position when axis directions are reversed

  • Included velocity pressure in Fan Power calculation for fans using static pressure curves

  • Fixed issue with unit type setting not being correctly saved

  • Fix for VentLog to retain coordinate units setting in offline mode

5.2.8.1

  • Recalculate refuge distance after refuge bay deletion
  • Made recalculation of refuge distances keep colour contour selection
  • Added additional decimal point to length parameters in Edit form
  • Removed some extra alternate escape paths
  • Improved behaviour around Stage Lock and Save functions
  • Fix for adding VentLog stations and for reading connection file

5.2.8.0

  • Edits to Edit form Fan Tab layout and re-sizing

  • Corrected airway area update on Edit form

  • Fixed Inherit function for Settings

  • Update of Edit form simulation data after Fan tab edit

  • New Refuge Chamber icon

5.2.7.9

  • Fix exporting to Excel from Spreadsheet

  • Fix for calculating area on edit form

  • Removed option to hide fixed resistance icons below threshold

  • Fixed for area calculation from backfill and obstruction

  • Fix for unit conversions in Fire Wizard

  • Allowed movement of refuge chamber and update of distance from refuge calculation

  • Adjusted scale, transparency and range sliders to update while adjusting

5.2.7.8

  • Fixed possible problem when exporting to DXF
  • Fix for renaming Air Type
  • Fixed loading and saving of spreadsheet saved views
  • Removed extra line break when copying and pasting from spreadsheet

  • Fixed issue when loading password-protected files from File Explorer
  • Fix for obstruction and backfill area calculation

5.2.7.7

  • Update to position Recommended Airway button on width or diameter or area as appropriate for the airway shape
  • Update to setting Primary/Secondary fan on Fan Display to update any existing fans where Primary/Secondary fan is not set
  • Fix to for when applying properties to a large number of airway in old version of edit control
  • Fix so that selected airways are not lost when switching between old and new version of edit control
  • Fix for Fixed flow disappearing when other changes applied to multiple airways
  • Fix for selecting Static or Total fan curve when either not available for specific fan
  • Added export to Excel to spreadsheet
  • Fix for adding VentLog records in the new edit control when connected to an SQL Server based VentLog database
  • Improvement - Adding new stations to VentLog has new configuration options for Mine Name and Stope

5.2.7.6

  • Improvement - Primary/Secondary Fan option can be set at each fan location
  • Improvement - Using Tools - Calculate Distance to Surface/Refuge will now display the results automatically 

5.2.7.5

  • Fix for duplicating fans in the fan database
  • Fix for Text view toggle shortcut key
  • Fix issue where fan curve data could be lost when editing presets 
  • Improvement - Added Primary/Secondary Fan option
  • Fix for Defaults - Restore 
  • Fix for Max and Min temperatures in Imperial in waterway form
  • Fix for Vertical and Horizontal windows
  • Fix for issue saving changes to fan curve densities 

5.2.7.4

  • Fix for configuring Connect to Data Source with multiple sensors per row
  • Fix on new models for when only one Primary or Secondary Layer had been configured

5.2.7.3

  • Fix saving explosives types
  • Fix spreadsheet can now select column (s)
  • Improve progress feedback on explosive simulation
  • Select All (Ctrl + A) selects only current stage
  • Fix - R for resistance is blank until you simulate

5.2.7.2

  • Minor Fix - irregular shape area calculation fix error introduced in patch 5.2.7.1
  • Minor Fix - creating a new airway won't copy refuge bay or no-thorough fare settings to new airway

5.2.7.1

  • Fixed bug with Paste airways which can remove an airway when pasted into a blank model
  • Fix import issues (fan import)
  • Fixed Old Edit Properties Box to update after simulation
  • Fixed Old Edit Properties Box to resize fan graph correctly
  • Improvement on Profile Custom Shape Builder, allowing edit of points, added left & right center point
  • Fix irregular selection tool prevent starting on r-click
  • Improvement - Spanish translation updated
  • Minor fix to contaminant property changing after simulation run
  • Improvement - Remove Message box confirmation when pasting cloned airways

5.2.6.9

  • Fix - several corrections to new edit properties editor
  • Improvement - Can now inherit Favourites from another model
  • Fix - updated license manager to check for new licensing server
  • Fix - save a new view will jump to previous view
  • Fix - saving of comments on Heat Moisture Diesel preset

5.2.6.7

  • Fix - Crash saving presets

5.2.6.6

  • Fix - unlocking stages, incorrectly reports number of airways changed
  • Fix - turning off data boxes
  • Fix - finding data boxes using find & select
  • Improvement - added fan name, fan curve name, fan speed, regulator opening to color and text attributes

5.2.6.5

  • Fix to show friction factor preset correctly in edit box

5.2.6.4

  • Fix to activity tracks
  • Improvement selecting resistances from airway properties
  • Fix to custom friction factors being applied to multiple airways
  • Minor fix to reading sensors information remove unnecessary spaces from column names

5.2.6.3

  • Correctly update saved Views on inherit
  • Added Vertical scroll to fan tab, when display is small
  • Intermittent crash turning on and off icons
  • Modify sorting of preset values to follow sorting in preset table
  • Fix to fire simulation density setting with extreme temperatures

5.2.6.2

  • Fix inherit 3D graphics not working, refresh saved views after inheriting
  • Add Parallel airways option to new property grid
  • Fix out of memory exception with very large co-ordinates creating huge grid
  • Fix issue with Spanish language and saving airway shapes
  • Fix airway name not showing correctly in spreadsheet tool
  • Add ? button to easily access recommend airway size tool

5.2.6.1

  • Correction for threading compilation error

5.2.6.0

  • Fixes for edit form simulated data unit conversion

5.2.5.9

  • Fixes for unit conversion

5.2.5.8

  • Improvements to dynamic gas calculations

5.2.5.7

  • Continue Dynamic simulation prompt correctly respond to user
  • Added two more rows in unit setting to fix in missing unit options