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===[[image:Check.jpg|25px]] UPDATED:  View Orientation Control===
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===[[image:Check.jpg|25px]] ENHANCED:  View Orientation Control Redesigned===
 
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The View Orientation Control has new choices with graphics icons of each axes orientation. You can click on the button or the image to find a new orientation.</td>
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[[image:vtube_1.77.3_vieworientation_closeup.jpg|250px]]<br><br>
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The View Orientation Control has new choices with graphics icons of each axes orientation.<br><br>
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You can click on the button or the image to find a new orientation.</td>
 
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===[[image:Check.jpg|25px]] NEW: Special Features Calculator - SUM Calculations===
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===[[image:Check.jpg|25px]] NEW: Diameter Model End Lengths Change Based on New "End Adjustment Length" Values in Part Setup===
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[[image:vtube_1.77.3_EndLengthShortened_Closeup.jpg]]
 
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Right click on any cell in the MASTER XYZ grid, and choose Special Features Calculator to use a calculator that lets you quickly sum coordinates on prints when you must accumulate Cartesian XYZ values.</td>
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When the A-End or B-End Adjustment Lengths change, then the diameter model lengths change automatically at the next redraw. This does not change the centerline end point location.</td>
 
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===[[image:Check.jpg|25px]] NEW:  Special Features Calculator - STORE Values===
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Right click on any cell in the MASTER XYZ grid, and choose Special Features Calculator to store values for copying to other cells in VTube. For example, you could quickly copy a value to the cells below the current cell.</td>
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===[[image:Check.jpg|25px]] NEW:  Adjustable Import/Export Interface with New Choices===
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The Import/Export interface is now expandable/compressible.<br><br>
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You can display or hide protocol choices in the interface.<br><br>
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New imports and exports were added:
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* Example of a new IMPORT: Solid Edge XpresRoute bender files in the TXT format<br><br>
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* Example of a new EXPORT: [[SMI]] bender format
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(Note about the XpresRoute import: This file format uses bender LRA data to define the tube shape, therefore the original orientation of the part is lost during export from Solid Edge.  Also this file does not contain the tube diameter.  However, it does bring in the part name, the linear display unit, the cut length, and the LRA bender data.)
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===[[image:Check.jpg|25px]] NEWAdded Several New fields in Part Setup===
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===[[image:Check.jpg|25px]] REPAIRThe Cut Length Calculation with Non Zero End Adjustments Is Repaired===
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Customers requested several new fields in the Part Setup menu - so we added them:<br><br>
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The End Length Adjustments values are no longer doubled in the Cut Length calculation.</td>
These new fields are available for the reports templates, and they are saved the VTP project file.
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[[image:vtube-pro_1_76.4_PartSetup.jpg|300px]]
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===[[image:Check.jpg|25px]] NEW:  New End Length Adjustment Fields===
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These new fields allow you to dynamically adjust the end lengths during calculation of the bender data LENGTH columns.<br><br>
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These values act like the TubeCalc material end length fields - and allows that data to be imported.
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===[[image:Check.jpg|25px]] ENHANCED:  Changed End Trim Offset Field Names===
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The original End Trim Offset field names were changed by default to "Solid Model Offset" to reflect how these values are used in VTube.<br><br>
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These values adjust the end point location relative to the solid model when the centerline is calculated from the solid model.
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[[image:vtube-step_end_solid_model_offsets.jpg|300px]]
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===[[image:Check.jpg|25px]] NEW:  Reset Origin to Zero in XYZ Data===
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Now you can reset the origin in the XYZ data to ZERO in VTube-STEP.<br><br>
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[[image:vtube-step_reset_origin.jpg|300px]]
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===[[image:Check.jpg|25px]] REPAIR:  TubeCalc Project File Linear Units Import Properly===
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Linear units are now always properly imported into VTube from TubeCalc files.<br><br>
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Previous versions would sometimes improperly interpret the Inch or Millimeter setting in the TubeCalc file.
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===[[image:Check.jpg|25px]] ENHANCED:  The Linear Units Switches to the Import File Units===
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VTube now always switches to the linear units used in the imported TubeCalc, Solid Edge, or Supravision file.<br><br>
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===[[image:Check.jpg|25px]] ENHANCED:  TubeCalc Project Imports Include More Values===
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The following values were added to TubeCalc imports in this version:<br><br>
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<td><b>From TubeCalc</b></td><td></td><td><b>To VTube</b></td>
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<td>Customer Name</td><td>[[image:small_right_green_arrow.png]]</td><td>Customer</td>
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<td>Material Name</td><td>[[image:small_right_green_arrow.png]]</td><td>Material Spec</td>
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<td>User</td><td>[[image:small_right_green_arrow.png]]</td><td>Author</td>
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<td>Material Offset 1</td><td>[[image:small_right_green_arrow.png]]</td><td>A-End Length Adjust</td>
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<td>Material Offset 2</td><td>[[image:small_right_green_arrow.png]]</td><td>B-End Length Adjust</td>
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<td>Measuring Center Offset A</td><td>[[image:small_right_green_arrow.png]]</td><td>A-End Measured Offset</td>
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<td>Measuring Center Offset B</td><td>[[image:small_right_green_arrow.png]]</td><td>B-End Measured Offset</td>
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===[[image:Check.jpg|25px]] FIXED:  Projection Tolerances Now Change Units Properly ===
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The projection tolerance now handles a change in linear units properly.<br><br>
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Projection tolerances allow VTube to know how precise it must be to qualify a projection intersection as successful.  Some models have less precise surfaces - so the tolerance needs to be increased for a successful calculation of centerline.<br><br>
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===[[image:Check.jpg|25px]] ENHANCED:  Report Formatting Updated ===
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The report formatting is updated with larger and bolder tiles.<br><br>
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Latest revision as of 03:26, 8 August 2012

Vtube-step logo.jpg

Revision 1.77.3

Vtube-step 1.77.3a.jpg



Check.jpg ENHANCED: View Orientation Control Redesigned

Vtube 1.77.3 vieworientation closeup.jpg

The View Orientation Control has new choices with graphics icons of each axes orientation.

You can click on the button or the image to find a new orientation.

Vtube 1.77.3 vieworientation.jpg

Check.jpg NEW: Diameter Model End Lengths Change Based on New "End Adjustment Length" Values in Part Setup

Vtube 1.77.3 EndLengthShortened Closeup.jpg

When the A-End or B-End Adjustment Lengths change, then the diameter model lengths change automatically at the next redraw. This does not change the centerline end point location.

Vtube 1.77.3 EndLengthShortened.jpg

Check.jpg REPAIR: The Cut Length Calculation with Non Zero End Adjustments Is Repaired

Vtube endlength cutlength partsetup.jpg

The End Length Adjustments values are no longer doubled in the Cut Length calculation.

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