6.0 Release Notes

6.0.2.7

  • Improvement: Speed up of model loading by improving icon setup
  • Improvement: Improvements in Fire Event form UI
  • Improvement: Added Stages as a Clone Attributes option
  • Improvement: Redid Explosion Dispersion Factor presets
  • Improvement: Added Date Mined to Find & Select Attributes
  • Improvement: Stopped showing irrelevant rock property data on ducts
  • Bug fix: Fixed bug in applying the Enforce Pressure Curve setting
  • Bug fix: Fixed problem with dynamic sim replay file setup when running in batch mode
  • Bug fix: Limit transfer of stage and layer edits to duct connected duct leakages

6.0.2.6

  • Improvement: Added waterway flow rate and temperature to graphing options
  • Bug fix: Stop autoregulator fail triggering on autoregulators with small target flow rates

6.0.2.5

  • Bug fix: fixed incoming tunnel type friction factors and heat dust sources when merging Presets

6.0.2.4

  • Feature: Distribute VRT and Rock Age by Airway Elevation (Edit Box Tools menu)
  • Improvement: Added option to Export DXF to limit to selected airways
  • Improvement: Some updates to Ventsim 6 manual

6.0.2.3

  • Improvement: Enabled new graphing options and statistics on Stage Graph
  • Improvement: Added an error for autoregulator simulation failure
  • Improvement: Made property Attributes | Fan Configuration On report for all fan and fix types
  • Bug fix: Prevented dynamic simulation from failing for very low airflows
  • Bug fix: Corrected report of Heat Manual Input property for BEV’s on Activity Tracks
  • Bug fix: Removed Icon refresh from the ‘R’ key shortcut
  • Bug fix: Stopped Ventlog stations copying over during duct construction
  • Bug fix: Removed redundant .sim file load option
  • Bug fix: Fixed enabling of first time connection to Ventlog SQL database
  • Bug fix: Fixed bug limiting grid spacing sizing

6.0.2.2

  • Feature: Time since last edit as property (Descriptors | Time Since Last Edit)
  • Feature: Added option to add a value to fan curve variations and have usage interpolate to any value
  • Improvement: Added a warning for incorrect use of Air Type Flow Exponent = 1 on turbulent airways
  • Improvement: Added a warning and prompt for deletion of airway duplicates when simulating
  • Improvement: Made version number visible on Digital License Manager, to help with license trouble-shooting
  • Improvement: Added group counts and an indent to spreadsheet groups
  • Improvement: Made new airways from the Import form option to Convert Centrelines always visible
  • Improvement: Made duct heat transfer recalculate every iteration, for more robustness
  • Improvement: Improvement to file loading speeds
  • Bug fix: Fixed Favourites Inherit, which was bringing in all favourites
  • Bug fix: Updated and fixed Copy and Paste Airways shortcuts
  • Bug fix: Duct Calculator: removed attempt to calculate for negative duct pressure, instead just warning
  • Bug fix: Made Environment Settings update straight away when changed through Stage form, rather than on simulation
  • Bug fix: Fixed prompt about stage relocking, which was not always appearing
  • Bug fix: Stopped Gas Simulation being affect by intersection with zero airflow airways
  • Bug fix: Fixed Layer merging when using File | Merge
  • Bug fix: Re-exposed setting for running a steady-state Gas Simulation on launch of Dynamic Gas Simulation
  • Bug fix: Stopped heat convergence errors being reported on duct leakages
  • Bug fix: Fixed display of airway textures in the picker
  • Bug fix: Made Descriptors | Stages always show distinct colours on the airways

6.0.2.1

  • Feature: Added Howden Global Fan Search options to Recommend Fan and Add Howden Fan tools
  • Improvement: Added warnings for incorrect use of total and static pressure fan curves
  • Improvement: Added a simulate date column to the Stage Manager
  • Improvement: Made Heat Imbalance error message also appear in the error box
  • Improvement: Graphics rendering improvements for icon moving and airway profile drawing
  • Improvement: Fan form, made Estimate | All work only on current fan, rather than all fans
  • Bug fix: Made Heat | Moisture Content a numerical property
  • Bug fix: Repaired ability to edit multiple message boxes at once
  • Bug fix: Fixed max and min values of area and diameter on Fan configuration
  • Bug fix: Fixed some headers for graph copy to clipboard button
  • Bug fix: Fixed edit form report of fan losses when using underground fan exit shock on a static fan
  • Bug fix: Fixed save of fuel portions on dynamic event form
  • Bug fix: Fixed unit conversions on Properties RH tab of Heat Calculator
  • Bug fix: Made Duct Edit form always open when only a duct is selected

6.0.2.0

  • Improvement: Added a simulation in progress window for the Goal Seek tool
  • Improvement: Added Favourite Databox option to the Data Display Clone property
  • Bug fix: Made it impossible for off fixed flow to trigger restricted fix warning
  • Bug fix: Made a new regulator launched from the Presets form take the entered name

6.0.1.9

  • Improvement: Added a new warning, indicating airways with neither an entry or exit connection
  • Improvement: Added a Level Name property
  • Improvement: Added a Groups property
  • Improvement: Added Roughness – Absolute and Roughness – Relative properties
  • Improvement: Goal Seek: added Moisture, Diesel Air Surplus and Radon Concentration.
  • Improvement: Improved running and reporting of simulations resulting from a stage change
  • Improvement: Added options to tick all simulation options on or off in Stage Manager
  • Improvement: Added an Apply button to the Message Box editor
  • Bug fix: For stage insertion, made existing Message Boxes and Activity Tracks extend across it
  • Bug fix: Fixed bugs around use of refuge bays with stage lock enabled
  • Bug fix: Made Goal Seek fan speed work for jet fans
  • Bug fix: Fixed possibility of invisible secondary axis label on Stage Graph
  • Bug fix: Made Time to Refuge Bay property properly update on refuge bay changes
  • Bug fix: Made Delete tool work on Contaminant Find a Source flags
  • Bug fix: Corrected fan peak capacity properties for variable operating density
  • Bug fix: Fixed possible incorrect addition of airways to stage 1, when editing stages through the Edit Box
  • Bug fix: Corrected Refrigeration property to report result for Coolers operating at minimum temperature
  • Bug fix: Stopped Auto Exit Loss Underground being applied to jet fans and regular fans as jet fans
  • Bug fix: Made orifice area carry over with Duplicate tool
  • Bug fix: Disabled Apply to Specific Stages when stage is locked
  • Bug fix: Stopped possible bad interaction of jet fans and piston effect in Dynamic Simulation
  • Bug fix: Corrected heat addition from BEV fires
  • Bug fix: Stopped Fire Battery preset from being lost with Presets form close

6.0.1.8

  • Improvement: Add setting to freeze animated icons
  • Improvement: Added dynamic max and average DPM, NO2, CO properties
  • Improvement: Added setting to disable Radon decay
  • Improvement: Refreshed all icons
  • Bug fix: Fixed graph resizing problem in Dust Profile editor
  • Bug fix: Allowed negative static pressures in Duct Calculator and its graphs
  • Bug fix: Fixed fields updating in Jet Fan configuration
  • Bug fix: Fixed empty column reading bug in static scripts
  • Bug fix: Fixed error saving NOx yield rate in heat presets
  • Bug fix: Fixed all missing superscript symbols on default unit settings
  • Bug fix: Fixed bad interaction of Autoclose option with dynamic events
  • Bug fix: Added unit conversions to Set Lock Offset Tool
  • Bug fix: Made Heat Status active on setting fixed temperature

6.0.1.7

  • Improvement: New and improved icons
  • Improvement: Added an automatic clean up of excluded flag on Duct Leakage paths
  • Improvement: Added field to edit Databox position on the old Edit box
  • Improvement: Corrected Radon Simulation to work for long residence times (>70 minutes)
  • Improvement: More accurate calculation of radon progeny growth and decay
  • Bug fix: Fixed Goal Seek interaction with selecting ducts
  • Bug fix: Corrected report of differential pressure on Ventlog comparison form
  • Bug fix: Fixed Merge operation for merging Layer lists with gaps in source and target models, and removed gaps
  • Bug fix: Duct Calculator, corrected leakage resistance calculation from porosity
  • Bug fix: Stopped Convert to Overpass tool from running slowly on large models.
  • Bug fix: Corrected update of jet fan thrust, quantity and velocity when changing jet fan diameter on Fan form
  • Bug fix: Fixed bad saving of custom profiles with 1 point
  • Bug fix: Corrected incorrect midpoint calculation for the Coordinate display property
  • Bug fix: Fix for license number entry on USB license request form

6.0.1.6

  • Improvement: Added a Safety | Time to Refuge Bay property
  • Improvement: Updated translations
  • Improvement: Made time/distance to refuge update on resistance change
  • Bug fix: Fixed airway textures going grainy
  • Bug fix: Fixed and added missing units for blast properties
  • Bug fix: Fixed unit conversion problem for waterflow on waterway builder

6.0.1.5

  • Feature: Added a tool to reduce Profile Presets, by removing duplicates and recategorizing as Square or Round
  • Improvement: Made an open select all Spreadsheet refresh on stage change
  • Improvement: Stopped Spreadsheet from showing any duct leakages
  • Improvement: Made reset of Units update form straight away
  • Bug fix: Made Calculate VRT tool work with textured surfaces
  • Bug fix: Made List option for Filter Bind and Duplicate work again
  • Bug fix: Fixed DPM emissions for discrete moving source in Dynamic Simulation
  • Bug fix: Forced recalculation for airway length for every UI display of length
  • Bug fix: Made Dynamic Replay work again
  • Bug fix: Fixed text properties for Copy to Clipboard from Stage graph and Message Box forms
  • Bug fix: Fixed possibility for Caving Air Blast simulation to stall in Imperial Units
  • Bug fix: Made completely sealed caves in Caving Air Blast simulation keep simulating, rather than throwing an error
  • Bug fix: Fixed crash occurring when resetting Heat Presets to default values

6.0.1.4.

  • Feature: Added a Follow Airflow option for Path Analyser (follows maximum airflow quantity, including through ducts)
  • Improvement: Made spreadsheet view saving save group expansions as well
  • Improvement: Made duct edits pass any new stage or layer edits to duct leakages as well, and stopped selection of invisible duct leakages
  • Improvement: Implemented discrete piston effects for dynamic simulation
  • Improvement: Made PgUp PgDown immediately clip at present level, rather than having to activate clip level tool first
  • Improvement: Added a Size Area Unobstructed property
  • Bug fix: Fixed display of Size Dimensions in Spreadsheet tool
  • Bug fix: Repaired hotkeys: Ctrl + I Inherit, L Limit, F9 Transparency, stopped Ctrl+PgUp from changing level too
  • Bug fix: Stopped autoregulator opening and cooler outputs from triggering compare differences
  • Bug fix: Fixed crash when airways are painted with a Gas colour from Favourites
  • Bug fix: Forced icon index remap before repopulating of Block tool menu

6.0.1.3

  • Feature: Made Add Node cursor guide with holding down of mouse button
  • Feature: Added new measurement tool: Shortest Path - Follow Airflow
  • Improvement: Added option to relock the stage automatically when changing stage
  • Improvement: Added a warning for when Paste Airways creates invalid Presets
  • Bug fix: Fixed text representation in Spreadsheet tool
  • Bug fix: Made Message Box copy work for all message boxes
  • Bug fix: Fixed unit conversion and range finding on the Find Select tool
  • Bug fix: Fixed Dynamic Simulation mixing for duct leakages
  • Bug fix: Made Apply to Specific Stages Undo also undo the stage splitting
  • Bug fix: Fixed crash with interaction of Block Tool and icon drag-drop
  • Bug fix: Stopped the display manager turning on the Error Box colours