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Version 1.2.8688.39685

October 18, 2023

Features 🌄

  • A terrain model can now be built from contours for both existing and proposed contours.
  • Sprinklers and valves are inserted at the elevations set by the terrain model

Improvements 🔝

  • Renumbering interface is now built into the clock palette directly.
  • Users can now specify a path to the drawing holding default settings, sprinklers and valves
  • Lateral sizing now takes elevation into account
  • Mainline Analysis shows hydraulic grade line for nodes and POCs
  • Control valves now show a required pressure based on lateral losses and elevation after sizing.
  • Pipes now show start and end pressure/elevations in properties.

Bugfixes 🐛

- Save as default in settings saves sprinkler assemblies as well as other settings.

Version 1.1.8626.19261

August 18, 2023

Improvements 👍

  • Added application rate and runtimes to runtime schedule
  • Runtime schedule can now be exported to Excel format.
  • Plant Type - Required Depth form now matches app style.
  • Mainline Analysis console provides more information.

Bugfixes 🐛🐛

  • Quantities files no longer get written twice, asking for overwriting existing files.
  • The Mainline Analysis palette doesn't pop up without being asked to. Silly palette. 🤡
  • Fixed a crash on some new drawings opening pipe settings.

Version 1.1.8613.39898

August 1, 2023

Improvements 🙌

  • Various updates and fixes to the mainline analysis form.
  • Editing pipes in the properties palette updates the Mainline Analysis form, and vice versa.
  • Raindrop plants can now be assigned boundaries and added to drip remote control valves.
  • Header updates for quantities reports.
  • Clock Tab now remembers the last selected controller in the drawing.

Bugfixes 🪲

  • Drip Laterals for shrubs, trees and drip supply now show in legend as expected.
  • InlineDripGrids, and sprinkler lateral pipe now show up in quantities report as expected.
  • Text Styles now imported from user custom template and main template.
  • Zooming to an object from paperspace no longer crashes CAD.
  • Controller layer is now thawed when numbering/renumbering valves. Results were confusing when the controller layer was frozen.

Version 1.1.8532.24417

May 12, 2023

Improvements 🙌

  • Installer updates and improvements.
  • Existing sleeves now update their size if the pipe inside them is modified.
  • New commands for inserting notes for planting, irrigation and flag notes. Find these on the Misc. Tab.

Bugfixes 🪲

  • Fixed a bug where pipe labels were not always updating when the pipe was modified.
  • Changes from the settings form now show in the tool palette immediatly.
  • Architectural units
    • Inline drip grids now report their flows/properties properly.
    • Lateral Hydraulics are now calculating correctly.
  • Lateral size labels and flow arrows are now working when sizing zones.

November 28, 2022

Improvements 🙌

  • Easier to add new plants to the database.
  • License status is more clearly stated at the bottom of the

Bugfix 🪲

  • Polydrip tubing no longer disappears when drawing it.
  • Fixed a bug with weighted areas when drawing units are inches.
  • Fixed sprinkler radius being wrong during Layout on Polyline command when drawing units are inches.
  • Fixed a bug where drip valves were showing up twice in the legend.
  • Fixed: Swapping sprinklers while show radius was unchecked was showing the radius circle.
  • Fixed drip remote control valves showing up twice in legend.
  • Fixed incorrect plant properties showing in settings.

Version 1.1.8277.32217

September 1, 2022

Improvements 🙌

  • Easier to add new plants to the database.
  • Plants can be deleted from the project now.
  • Plant quantities can be exported to text or Excel
  • Users can set the text height of plant labels in settings
  • Quantities now include the project title and subtitle
  • Implemented a color ramp for plant layer colors
  • Updates to error reporting
  • Users can search for plants in the plant settings.
  • Added a sample file for importing plants

Bugfix 🪲

  • Fixed links showing bad pressures.