5.4 Release Notes

 

5.4.4.4

• Improvement: Added an option to auto-create Primary/Secondary Layers from imported DXF reference split-colours
• Improvement: Made Convert Centrelines inherit Primary/Secondary Layers from reference graphic
• Improvement: Added a shortcut to the Spreadsheet tool from the Activity Track window
• Improvement: Added Activity Track heat to Heat| New Heat Input and Heat | Diesel Power properties
• Improvement: Added buttons to quickly filter spreadsheet by fan or by resistance
• Improvement: Added Unit Settings and Spreadsheet Saved Views to Inherit tool
• Improvement: Stopped Spreadsheet Saved Views saving automatically, now requires a click on the save button.
• Improvement: Added a field to enter a Refuge Bay name
• Bug fix: Made Spreadsheet Saved Views retain all filtering and grouping options
• Bug fix: fixed orientation arrows position when using the View | Copy HiRes tool
• Bug fix: made Utilisation Factor backwards-compatible to older versions of Ventsim
• Bug fix: fix for Stage popup occasionally not saving properly

5.4.4.3

• Improvement: Made Clip Level single click expand to entire level and update the data manager
• Improvement: Added layer name to layers created with the Split by Colour option
• Bug fix: removed report of StageLock results when stage is locked and relocked automatically
• Bug fix: fixed Import DXF Split By Colour option work for subsequent imports
• Bug fix: stopped airway shape change when using Duct Delete button
• Bug fix: corrected Primary Layers merging during File | Merge
• Bug fix: stopped changes to airway shape affecting airway size on Edit Box

5.4.4.2

• Improvement: Allowed Secondary fans to be considered in series for Recommend Fan
• Improvement: Added readonly Z coordinate relative to sea level to Info tab of Edit Box
• Improvement: Added Size Adjustment feature to scale an airway size to match the surveyed Ventlog area
• Improvement: Better user control of Activity Track starting point and preferred direction at junctions
• Bug fix: Fixed maintenance date calculation
• Bug fix: Labels on Activity Track form
• Bug fix: Fixed bug on path determination on branching Activity Tracks
• Bug fix: Fixed Imperial unit conversion error on Fan Installation Resistance form

5.4.4.1

• Improvement: Added Size Area comparison for Ventlog
• Improvement: Added button to Fire Tab of Edit Box to open Dynamic Graph
• Bug fix: Made close of Edit Box also clear airway selection
• Bug fix: Fixed problem when loading larges reference graphics through the Inherit tool
• Bug fix: Corrected counting of heat sources from Activity Tracks on the Summary form
• Bug fix: Stopped perimeter incorrectly updating on change of area on Irregular shape airways
• Bug fix: Fixed load of spreadsheet view on the Fire Events Manager
• Bug fix: Cleared out empty Presets from the Activity Track form
• Bug fix: Automatically turned off Jet Fan option on airways with no fan
• Bug fix: Improved behaviour of changes to Gradient field in the Edit Box

5.4.4.0

• Improvement: Addition of a Convert To Overpass tool
• Improvement: Made Caving Air Blast connections always point away from cave
• Bug fix: fixed reference graphic stage selections when deleting stages
• Bug fix: made new ducts take default temperatures, not parent temperatures

5.4.3.9

• Improvement: Added tool to export all dynamic monitor data
• Improvement: Adding a message box or data box, turns on visibility, if off
• Improvement: Excluded piston effect pressure from Boost TP property, new property for piston effect
• Improvement: Added to group entry feature to Ventlog Add Records from Ventsim
• Improvement: Made staged Message Box visible if the airway(s) it is attached to is unstaged
• Bug fix: fixed determination of some license maintenance dates
• Bug fix: Removed bug where airway at index 0 could not be added to Activity Track
• Bug fix: Howden Fan tool, removed unused fan names, changed labels

5.4.3.8

• Improvement: Added the Howden Fan Lookup tool
• Improvement: Added Tunnel type to Advanced Find & Select
• Improvement: Added Airway Profile as a colour property
• Improvement: Added some default Spreadsheet configurations
• Improvement: Added graph export and camera buttons to the Caving Air Blast Simulation form
• Bug fix: Stopped fan guids and Primary/Secondary option changing on cancel of fan database edits
• Bug fix: Improved error message when Recommend Fan is attempted on a restricting Fixed Flow
• Bug fix: Improved calculation of perimeter on round airways with obstruction or backfill
• Bug fix: Catch for possible loading bug with the ShowAll option
• Bug fix: Better handling of Recommend Airway Size tool when used on airways with Tunnel Type presets

5.4.3.7

• Bug fix: Added fix for graphics lag with large models and large Track airway count

5.4.3.6

• Improvement: Made switching Tunnel type apply all tunnel property changes straight away
• Improvement: Howden Recommend Fan, now imports the maximum power
• Improvement: Made warnings, such as Fan Motor Power Exceeded clear straight away, when resolved
• Improvement: Added setting option for Escape Route calculations to be performed using Russian standard calculation
• Improvement: Made Dynamic Message Box “Show All” options carry over in detached stage creation
• Bug fix: corrected Profile builder copy-paste for all languages
• Bug fix: replaced Recommend Size button for Diameter property on Edit Box
• Bug fix: fixed possible track simulation failure after continuing Fire Simulation after Escape Route calculation
• Bug fix: corrected error in interaction of Undo and new track graphics
• Bug fix: added horizontal airway friction and duct losses to Energy Summary, corrected Shock Loss summation
• Bug fix: fixed Edit Box Stage selection tool
• Bug fix: fixed load of Ventlog compare tool for stations without a mapping to an airway
• Bug fix: fixed bug with Stage popup tool that allowed first stage to sometimes be automatically selected

5.4.3.5

• Improvement: Added Ventsim humidity comparisons as airway property
• Improvement: Allowed user control of airway shape rotation
• Improvement: Added total Duct Heat Transfer output to the Construct Duct Form
• Bug fix: Fixed slowness when using Build Ramp
• Bug fix: Fixed issue with graphing tools in the Duct form
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where No Thoroughfare could not be changed after dynamic simulation restore.

5.4.3.4

• Improvement: Added toggle for different layouts of the Visibility Manager
• Improvement: Added a Remove Selection button to Message Box Editor. Improved stage handling for airways
• Improvement: Added option to switch whether Edit Box updates on changed selection
• Improvement: Made un-excluding an airway set off the Heat Sim out of date warning
• Improvement: Made Light On button on Reference Manager turn on the global Reference Visibility toggle
• Improvement: Added option to set an automatic shock loss to fans when installed underground
• Improvement: Added a Fan Losses output to the Fan Info Box
• Improvement: Added a tool to graph the variation of parameters across stages, on individual airways
• Improvement: Made Message Box Inherit option to search for corresponding airways
• Bug fix: fixed crash with interaction of Piston Effect and Annual Thermal Flywheel
• Bug fix: various fixes for new arrows graphic
• Bug fix: fixed power output for low pressure fans with different length pressure and power curves
• Bug fix: corrected row spacing on Fan tab of the Edit Box
• Bug fix: made Profile Draw Tool update on edit of grid values
• Bug fix: fix for history view of Ventlog records where single reading could be split into separate rows

5.4.3.3

• Improvement: Added configurable Maximum Icon Size
• Improvement: Added a Utilisation Factor to the Heat Moisture Diesel Presets
• Improvement: Added Cost output to Coolers, standard and flywheel simulations
• Improvement: Made Graphs refresh on Dynamic Simulation Pause, and made Path Graphs old after simulation
• Improvement: Added conveyor and waterway heat to path graphs
• Improvement: Made Activity Track offsets in the graphics better for models with many Tracks
• Improvement: Made a lower upper limit for Heat Simulation Accuracy of 0.1 degrees Celsius
• Improvement: Made double-click with Move and Duplicate tools on Message Boxes open the Editor
• Improvement: Made the Stage selection dropdown menu wider
• Improvement: Added Unique Number and Airway Name to export of Path Graph data
• Improvement: Added option to add an orientation axis to bottom right of viewer
• Bug fix: Stopped Fix Flow icon deletion wiping the fixed flow value
• Bug fix: Fixed out of shape Fan Graph on old Edit Box
• Bug fix: Fixed occasional display of incorrect density on airways during Dynamic Simulation
• Bug fix: Fixed Fixed Heat Cooling Icon colour
• Bug fix: Fix for LiveView import of .csv files
• Bug fix: Made Track editor work when switching Stages and switching Show Staged Tracks option

5.4.3.2

• Bug fix: fix for some Edit Box fields not saving properly after Heat Preset change

5.4.3.1

• Improvement: Stopped flashing airways triggering full graphics update
• Improvement: Improved speed of Calculate VRT Tool
• Improvement: Added separate Strict Modes, one for Friction Factor and one for Fixed Flows
• Improvement: Added Message Boxes to the Inherit function
• Improvement: Added a property, Attributes | Parallel Airways
• Bug fix: Fixed Equivalent Orifice property
• Bug fix: Fixed issue where changing tunnel type dirtied the resistance type, for multiple airways
• Bug fix: Fixed UI unit conversion problem in the Edit form
• Bug fix: Fixed problem with messages and tracks when merging file of multiple stages

5.4.3.0

• Improvement: Update to Ventsim Manual 5.4 Spanish
• Improvement: Added piston effect pressure total to Track Editor and path graph
• Improvement: Removed changing of cursor with Advanced Find & Select
• Bug fix: Forced graphic shape update on Stage change
• Bug fix: Included save of the Overpass user Settings

5.4.2.4

• Improvement: Addition of link in Help menu to Ventsim Webinars
• Improvement: Added the ability to edit a Ventlog Station from Ventsim
• Improvement: Added fixed temperature heating and refrigeration information to Heat Summary
• Improvement: Updated translations
• Bug fix: fixed incorrect image on Edit form simulation button for Dust
• Bug fix: fixed tool for clearing Custom Icons
• Bug fix: fix for Heat sources in ducts during Dynamic Simulation
• Bug fix: Fixed backwards compatibility for fixed temperatures in heat events

5.4.2.3

• Improvement: Addition of icon, progress window, configurable settings and graph for the Caving Air Blast Simulation
• Bug fix: Issue with Fix Temperatures turning on on Heat Event form
• Bug fix: Correction to NVP and Shock pressure losses reporting to the Edit form Info tab

5.4.2.2

• Improvement: Allowed up to 32 Stages to be used
• Improvement: Further improvements to Parallel Fan Stall Predictor
• Improvement: Improved System R and Peak capacity fan output info for single and combined fan graphs
• Improvement: Allowed 0 degrees fixed temperatures to be set
• Bug fix: fixed bug with Rock preset for Conveyors
• Bug fix: fixed bug where Regulator points sometimes could not be saved
• Bug fix: fixed some problems around unique airways being wrongly identified on Stage unlock

5.4.2.1

• Improvement: Added Activity Track Duplicate button on Track Editor
• Improvement: Added button to Track Editor to search for airways on current stage that correspond to airways on the track on other stages
• Improvement: Added a Remove Selection button to Track Editor
• Improvement: Made extension of existing Tracks to new stages optional
• Improvement: Added option to only show staged Tracks
• Improvement: Made copy to clipboard message temporary
• Improvement: Excluded excluded airways from some warning messages
• Improvement: Added Fog to available thermal flywheel results
• Improvement: Improvements to Fan Interaction Stall Predictor, including single fans in parallel in separate airways
• Improvement: Allowed blank input of model title
• Improvement: Added Contaminant Mass property
• Improvement: Added property Energy: Fan Shaft Power
• Bug fix: Added prompts to file save from Track Editor
• Bug fix: Corrected Restore Defaults
• Bug fix: Forced Heat Sim to occur on stage change when option selected
• Bug fix: Fix for Ventlog stations with no data values
• Bug fix: Corrected default name of detached Stage
• Bug fix: Fixed save of Rock Ages for multiple airways
• Bug fix: Fixed diesel emission for vehicles per length option on Activity Tracks
• Bug fix: Fixed muckpile resistance calculation for Caving Blast Simulation

5.4.2.0

• Improvement: Added new Fan Interaction Stall Predictor tool
• Improvement: Added ability to view Activity Tracks from Heat tab of the Edit Form
• Improvement: Added Pass/Fail to audit report Word export
• Improvement: Updated translations for Spanish, Russian and Chinese
• Improvement: Added Radon to goal seek tool and fixed progeny setting
• Improvement: Now saves option to always reset network after dynamic sim
• Improvement: Simplified Annual Flywheel settings
• Improvement: Background colour for references listed in Data Manager now matches the colour of the reference
• Bug fix: Fix for minimum temperature being overridden by lower regular temperatures in Annual Flywheel
• Bug fix: Fix for when adding fans from the Fan Select tool so that fans with the same name are grouped together instead of replaced
• Bug fix: Fix for Static Scripting tool
• Bug fix: Fix for issue when rendering text offset from icon position when the text size is too small

5.4.1.9

• Improvement: Searchable drop-down menu in the Advanced Find Select
• Improvement: Added a refresh to Advanced Message Boxes every 2 seconds during Dynamic Simulation
• Bug fix: Fixed to make LiveView refresh sensor data according to the set refresh interval
• Bug fix: Fixed Gas Injection and Linear Emission to work with Dynamic Simulation when using large relative injection amounts
• Bug fix: Added a catch for crash in Edit Box when no Regulators are available in Presets.

5.4.1.8

• Improvement: Made Conveyors and Waterways ignore source temperatures connected upstream
• Improvement: New Tool to reset text positions on airways
• Improvement: Added a Fixed Flow category to Advanced Find and Select
• Bug fix: Fixed dust sensors in Dynamic simulation
• Bug fix: Fix for horizontal round airways in Airway Optimizer
• Bug fix: Corrected unit conversions on display of Shock Equivalent Length in Edit Box
• Bug fix: Fixed Gas check boxes to allow specification of unfixed gas concentrations in Edit Box

5.4.1.7

• Improvement: Adjusted data placement for inlet/outlet values, added Text Settings to toggle effect and adjust
• Improvement: Made Summary Form for Activity Tracks limit to selected airways and only show staged Activity Tracks
• Improvement: Added Fixed Temperature refrigeration to summary tabs Graphs and Energy
• Improvement: Added warning on new Edit Box when saving a Fan or Fix edit on multiple airways
• Bug fix: Fixed loading of Message text with special characters
• Bug fix: Scroll wheel on Scale Manager fixed, now always updates, regardless of model size
• Bug fix: Added text refreshes after moving airways and moving or adding icons
• Bug fix: Stopped reload of Advanced Find and Select when not visible
• Bug fix: Fixed slow to run Convert Centrelines
• Bug fix: Fixed PQ survey for Advanced Find Select, added reload when opening
• Bug fix: Forced Heat Active when using heat Presets, fixed bug when deleting heat presets from multiple airways
• Bug fix: Fixed Dynamic Messages for negative values
• Bug fix: Removed extra tab indent that was appearing in message boxes
• Bug fix: Fix for importing dust sensor values when running dynamic sensor or dynamic script simulations

5.4.1.6

• Improvement: Increased maximum allowable resolution of imported textures to 2K
• Improvement: Made Activity Track and Message Box airway selections respond correctly to addition of detached stage
• Improvement: Added additional checks to remove existing airways, tracks and messages from blank and detached stages
• Bug fix: fixed Waterway toggle affecting Conveyor Heat
• Bug fix: made a catch in Heat Simulation when encountering multiple fixed zero length Duct
• Bug fix: fixed link to Reset Default Presets for Combustion fuels
• Bug fix: made Activity Track stage selection react correctly to Stage reordering
• Bug fix: fixed Activity Track form layout

5.4.1.5

• Improvement: Limited Distance to surface and refuge calculation to current stage
• Improvement: Forced update of Advanced Find and Select after icon deletion, moving and duplicating
• Improvement: Added warning for deletion of Presets used on Activity Tracks
• Improvement: Made it so leakage paths are always added with ducts
• Bug fix: Made fix for invalid Favourites setting
• Bug fix: Fix for creation of multiple windows
• Bug fix: Made Gas properties always available in colours
• Bug fix: Added catch for Data Entry errors in Activity Track grid

5.4.1.4

• Improvement: Made count of Heat and Vehicle in use on Presets form include use on Activity Tracks
• Improvement: Made messages jump to first unread message
• Improvement: Added Gas/Contaminant/Dust Injection option, steady and dynamic
• Improvement: Prevented Conveyor and Waterway temperatures automatically resetting
• Improvement: Added PQ Survey and Airway Notes icons to Visibility Manager
• Bug fix: Fixed Recirculation Simulation to limit to only current stage, improved Cancel button responsiveness
• Bug fix: Made Fire Wizard handle fuel with zero density specified
• Bug fix: Fixed operation of No Thoroughfare option on surface-connected airways
• Bug fix: Disable Stage changing and editing while simulation running
• Bug fix: Made Advanced Find and Select work for Data Boxes

5.4.1.3

• Improvement: Updated demonstration model
• Improvement: If duplicating a group of airways, put new airways in a new group
• Improvement: Edit Box updates after use of Invert Selection
• Improvement: Fixed Temperature icon becomes blue if cooling
• Improvement: Made Modify Duct save to the Undo loop
• Improvement: Made Overpass builder ignore the Intersection Lock Setting
• Improvement: Made Heat Calculator Accept button always update Edit Box, if available
• Improvement: Clearer user interface around Rock Age on the Edit Box
• Bug fix: Fixed UI update of Rock Date Mined when entering a year (eg. 2005) in the Rock Age field
• Bug fix: Corrected calculation of variable mass flow rates in Conveyor builder
• Bug fix: Made perspective toggle update text
• Bug fix: Fixed missing stage on creation of Message Box on first stage
• Bug fix: Made dimensions update on change of shape in old Edit Box

5.4.1.2

• Improvement: Added a button to Filter form to reset to installation settings
• Improvement: Heaters, added moisture from fuel combustion to the heat added by the heater
• Bug Fix: Corrected humidity correction when using fixed dry bulb and floating wet bub temperatures
• Bug Fix: Fixed saving of Primary/Secondary Option on Fan Editor
• Bug Fix: Fixed Export to Word from Audit Tool
• Bug Fix: Corrected input of Gas Linear Emission on new Edit Box
• Bug Fix: Made text refresh when Relative Text option is toggled via Settings
• Bug Fix: Made reference text refresh when Reference Layer visibility is changed
• Bug Fix: Made fixed temperatures work in Dynamic Simulation, when either dry or wet bulb is not specified
• Bug Fix: Fixed loss of Unit Settings when using the Inherit Tool
• Bug Fix: Allowed for smaller fan charts in old Edit Box

5.4.1.1

• Improvement: Added Heater information to the Annual Thermal Flywheel
• Bug Fix: Prevented Stage list growing with blank stage name

5.4.1.0

• Improvement: Fix for calculation of oval perimeter in Duct Calculator
• Improvement: Updated translations for Spanish and Russian

5.4.0.9

• New Feature: Language options in stand-alone Duct Calculator installer.
• New Feature: Added option to take a snapshot of Duct Calculator
• Improvement: Updated translations
• Improvement: Heat Simulation, made fixed temperature setting treat air moisture more realistically for cooling and heating scenarios
• Fix for problem with saving of spreadsheet view
• Fixed Estimate Fan Static Pressure Curve tool to use fan density, not standard density
• Fixed potential crash in some Heat Calculator options with non-numerical inputs
• Fixed potential incorrect Heat Added result reported in final month of airway flywheel graph results
• Fixed issues that could occur when using both LiveView and Dynamic Scripts in the same model

5.4.0.8

• New Feature: Text rendering engine allowing for text borders for improved readability and text displayed while rotating.
• New Feature: Heaters now configurable on the Heat tab
• Improvement: Fixed Flow (Fan) and Fixed Flow (Regulator) categories in Advanced Find & Select
• Improvement: Addition of a new Safety category to the properties
• Improvement: Duct Calculator graph improvements; addition of Fan Curve graph.
• Fix for loading models saved in excel file format
• Fix for issue that could occur when saving non-advanced message boxes
• Fix for backup files saving with special characters in the name
• Fix for efficient saving of Fan images

5.4.0.7

• Fixed Multi Windows not being able to leave the main form
• Fix for when multi windows could crash if first window was closed before making a new one
• Fix for Translations in Duct Calculator
• Fix for resistance icons not showing
• Fixed monitor graph not loading on the previously open data type

5.4.0.6

• New Feature: Add custom icons for Regulators
• Improvement to VentFire scripting to allow transitions curve of less than 1m
• Fix for importing live view sensors where multiple sensors are on one row
• Fix to allow live view update to refresh comments as well as data values direct from the source
• Change to dynamic messages to update less frequently
• Fix for Escape key to un-select message boxes
• Added Gradient as an attribute for airway text
• Fix for some situations where Rock Preset Temp had deviated from Environment settings
• Fix for Airway Diameter showing the effective diameter on circular airways instead of the full diameter
• Fix for cases where Perimeter could be calculated incorrectly when changing shape and dimensions in the same edit
• Adjusted Duct Calculator label sizes to better accommodate Spanish
• Updated Manual for 5.4