Release date: 19.05.2020
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Release Notes for Novapoint 2020.
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Novapoint Base as it is known in Novapoint 19 - Novapoint 21 is now rebranded to Quadri for Windows. For release notes related to Quadri for Windows go here.
NEW: Persistant ID on all the features resulting in the features being updated, not deleted and recreating new features. Better consistency to feature ID’s.
ENHANCEMENT: Typical Cross-section dialog now handles all surfaces.
FIXED: Issues in some cases when creating a road task based on IND and GEN files.
NEW: Settings > Chainage: Checkbox to turn OFF cross-section calculations at changepoints on alignments used as surface edges. Performance will improve when using alignment as surface edge that has many points (f.ex. Line tasks generated from survey data).
ENHANCEMENT: Settings > Elements: Checkbox to turn OFF stakeout stringlines for pavement layers. This is now by Default set OFF on new roadmodels. This will improve amount of data produced and shared to server.
ENHANCEMENT: Settings > Elements: When turning ON “Simplify inner slope on terrain” then the solids are turned OFF. This is similar to how it worked before when function was first released. Also affects existing roadmodels. A message will show in Process Info saying that volumes are turned OFF.
NEW: Possibility to remove solids for FillLayer and Cut features in areas of “Bridge” and “Tunnel”. Gives better visualization and correct quantities.
ENHANCEMENT: Alignment as surface edge dialog is wider to easier read alignment names. Hover-over alignment name to see the full pathname.
FIXED: Issues with alignments used as boundary that changes back to the centerline in the dialog.
ENHANCEMENT: Rehab road edge alignment names had to be unique in the first 24 characters.
ENHANCEMENT: Deep blasting now interpolate between depths.
FIXED: Pavement breakpoints in the section could jump back and forth. Better result for 3rd party solutions.
FIXED: Deep blasting didn’t always show for some models.
NEW: Property boundaries are now available as 3D results and are drawn in “Default”, “Sketch”, Basic3D, “Discipline > Road > Draw Road Model”
NEW: Property boundaries are now visible in the Cross-section Viewer.
ENHANCEMENT: Road models exceeding 30000 cross-sections are stopped at 30000 and gives message about it.
ENHANCEMENT: Calculation is now in two (2) steps, instead of 3. Step 1 includes cross-section calculations and updating dynamic alignments.
FIXED: Subsurface layers could take a short cut in some situations.
FIXED: Landscaping surface could shoot out when using LAST mode.
ENHANCEMENT: Better experience when right-click to start dialog if dialogs are already open.
ENHANCEMENT: Landscaping surfaces show on top of road surfaces to see it more easily.
ENHANCEMENT: Grouping of error/warning messages when building model to avoid long lists of messages. Gives less mess and makes it easier to read errors/warnings.
FIXED: When missing rehabilitation road edge alignments as illustration objects.
FIXED: Error/warnings txt-report file didn’t open for models with special characters.
ENHANCEMENT: Generally faster 3D results.
ENHANCEMENT: Pavement triangulation now match the stringlines that are produced.
ENHANCEMENT: Solids are improved with regards to watertightness to easier produce solids in CAD with CAD-functions.
FIXED: Results for roads in loop on itself are improved.
FIXED: Inner slope missing in some sections making strange results in 3rd party software.
FIXED: Multiple issues related to production of 3D results missing or faulty, or experienced crashes.
FIXED: Missing vegetation removal in some cases.
FIXED: Stringline representing the FormationBoundary is back.
ENHANCEMENT: Better results. Better choice of alignments and setting the new created surface on primary road with inherit slope for better results.
ENHANCEMENT: Changing radius of R2 and R5 will change rest of the radiuses based on the ratio that is set. Changing R1, R3, R4, R6 will still work and affect the ratio as before.
ENHANCEMENT: Removing Junction through the wizard does not allow user to continue to make a new junction. User must now reenter the Junction Wizard to make a new junction.
FIXED: Better handling of intersections when recalculating intersection many times. Could cleanup alignments used in other parts of the road descriptions..
FIXED: Possibility of crashing when calculating against roundabout road model.
FIXED: Fixed multiple minor/bigger issues with the results.
ENHANCEMENT: Old build dialog does not show when building. Builds secondary and primary road automatically when pressing Finish on the dialog.
FIXED: Problems with clothoid with approx. fixation in relation with import line, offset etc.
FIXED: Coordinate transformation issues.
NEW: Section-based Novapoint Quantity report type more similar to results found in NP20. Report makes a section, then multiplies with calculation interval. Will give slightly different results than Table View and the regular report based on the solids.
FIXED: The summary sheet was missing the values for “Rock < 1m”.
REMOVED: Quantity/Geometry reports are no longer available from the old road tool.
FIXED: Draw road model: Contour lines are back.
FIXED: Draw road model: Inherit layername not working properly
FIXED: Draw cross sections: Missing the QualityFill hatch for areas below terrain surface when removing subgrade layers.
NEW: Meeting and Passing sight according to calculation methods in Svv handbook V120 (2018).
FIXED: Sight distance correction for incline/decline are now linear from 0 to maximum correction according to Svv handbook V120 (2018).
FIXED: Rock cut area was missing. “Bergets överyta” and “Bergschaktdjup > 1.0m”.
In addition to the relevant changes to Novapoint Road, these are release notes specific for Novapoint Railway.
FIXED: Wrong calculation of “dl/dt”
FIXED: Import of LandXML didn’t add CANT/SPEED correctly.
FIXED: Recalculation issues when entering KM stationing.
FIXED: Geometry report gave wrong elevation on the rail
NEW: Branch Pipe Node
NEW: Quadri: GML support (support for “Norsk Vann dataflytprosjekt”)
NEW: Plan presentation: Added setting in WS Config for enable/disable Global Width to LineWeight
NEW: Quadri export - LandXML conversion file for “Alignment” type
ENHANCEMENT: Trench geometry calculation improved in breakpoints
ENHANCEMENT: Trench Cross section behavior - interpretation of Cut in Fill
ENHANCEMENT: Added setting in WS Config for enable/disable Trim pipes to manhole
ENHANCEMENT: TableView (Quadri) - possible to extract point/line geometry info
ENHANCEMENT: Possibility in configuration to assign lineweight instead of global width on polylines generated from pipes.
FIXED: Removed number of characters limitation in Trench name in design
ENHANCEMENT: Added many new objects in the configuration
ENHANCEMENT: New WS DWT Template
ENHANCEMENT: New connection symbols added
FIXED: 3D-drawing: The performance is improved. Sometimes it used to hang, but all known issues causing the 3D-drawing to hang is fixed.
FIXED: The triangulation functionality failed for some projects. This is corrected.
FIXED: The low performance when making geologi- and rock support drawing is fixed, including some situations when the drawing functionality stopped.
FIXED: The scanner data was not shown correctly at the start/end of the tunnel in the Tunnel Design dialog if the road/reference line ended at about the same chainage value as the perimeter. This is fixed now.
To the Novapoint 2020 release, a number of improvements have been made to the functionality we find in the 3DSIGN command. In the points below, we have tried to summarize some of the improvements that have been made.
The functionality has been expanded so that there is now support for several sign positions to share the same foundation and mast. This makes it easier to define sign positions with signs on both sides of a mast.
It is now possible to control the vertical distance between the signs in a sign layout.
It is now possible to rotate individual signs at different angles in a sign layout. This enables signage for multiple roads on the same sign layout.
3DSIGN - Improved the GUI to handle more complex sign configurations (#HAN-1963)
3DSIGN - Added support for more “AssemblyEquipment” (#HAN-2289)
CUIX - Added a icon for “TSLINE SETTINGS “in the settings section (#HAN-2040)
3DSIGN - The attributes was removed from blocks when inserted (#HAN-2211)
Store to Quadri - Sign for pedestrian crossing should automatically store a “mirror version” on the other side of the plate (#HAN-1967)
Store To Quadri - The property “Note” is now stored under the “genericPropertyList” (#HAN-2258)
IFC export - Updated the conversion rule for RS to export “Note” using “genericPropertyList” (#HAN-2299)
Display mode - User defined signs did not remember the setting for display mode “Grey scale” on save (#HAN-2527)
TSTABLE - Update to support new sign combinations in 3DSIGN (#HAN-2483)
Custom Sign - Added a check so “sign name” is mandatory to fill out (#HAN-1948)
Custom Sign - There was a mismatch between the data stored on the “custom sign” and TSINFORMATION (#HAN-1516)
Custom Sign - Information about “std. signs” was not ok in the “TSTABLE” (#HAN-2041)
Custom Sign - Program forced a FATAL ERROR on store to Quadri if no value for “SIZE” (#HAN-2078)
General - Program forced a FATAL ERROR when typing sign number from another GROUP (#HAN-2198)
611MA - The sign was in some combinations crashing when editing (#HAN-2221)
General - Added support for Sami characters in the standard edit text dialogue (#HAN-1646, #HAN-1686)
526.2 - Added a version of the sign pointing to the right… 526.2H (#HAN-1963)
3DSIGN - Improved the GUI to handle more complex sign configurations (#HAN-1963)
3DSIGN - Added support for one new foundation type for pole ø89 (#HAN-1897)
TSLINE - Added support for “Zoom to” number in dialogue (#HAN-1672)
Lamella Editor - The setting file is relocated to the folder for “Novapoint User Settings” (#HAN-1902)
590 - Added information so program will automatically fill in the name if added as “user defined sign” (#HAN-1901)
723.13-16 - Added support for more than three numbers in road number (#HAN-1803, #HAN-1813)
727.1 & 727.3 - Added support for multiple text line (#HAN-1192)
General - The DEFAULT drawing rule in Quadri for Windows is updated to use different drawing rule for signs based on “material” (#HAN-2260)
Drawing Rule - The DEFAULT drawing rule in Quadri for Windows is updated for the definition for “SignPlate” so it's visible in Quadri for Browser (#HAN-2455)
TSTABLE - Update to support new sign combinations in 3DSIGN (#HAN-2483)
TSLINE - Program forced a FATAL ERROR if the pole symbol “SY-2SBOYLE” was used as a reference (#HAN-2425)
3DSIGN - The Sign plate was getting wrong location when using mast “NM 290-100” (#HAN-2039)
3DSIGN - The distance from mast to pole was not ok for the poles “Oppland 2 rør ø60mm” and “Oppland 2 rør ø89mm” (#HAN-2588)
3DSIGN - The attributes was removed from blocks when inserted (#HAN-2211)
Store to Quadri - 516.x should automatically store a “mirror version” on the other side of the plate (#HAN-1967)
Store To Quadri - The property “Note” is now stored under the “genericPropertyList” (#HAN-2258)
IFC export - Updated the conversion rule for RS to export “Note” using “genericPropertyList” (#HAN-2299)
Display mode - User defined signs did not remember the setting for display mode “Grey scale” on save (#HAN-2527)
Pole symbol - Symbol for curved sign plate was missing (#HAN-2214)
Custom Sign - Added a check so “sign name” is mandatory to fill out (#HAN-1948)
Custom Sign - There was a mismatch between the data stored on the “custom sign” and TSINFORMATION (#HAN-1516)
Custom Sign - Information about “std. signs” was not ok in the “TSTABLE” (#HAN-2041)
Custom Sign - Program forced a FATAL ERROR on store to Quadri if no value for “SIZE” (#HAN-2078)
703.1-2 - Program forced a FATAL ERROR when inserting sign 316 in a “color field” (#HAN-1802)
709.11 - The content was moved outside plate if using a circular mini in a two line combination (#HAN-2467)
711 - Vertical position of arrow was not ok in combination with number (#HAN-1801)
727.3 - The distance between text lines was not correct (#HAN-2381)
751 - Changed the alignment of text when two rows (#HAN-1964)
753.2 - Improved the support for mini in front of text (#HAN-2050)
834.1 - Sign 807.7 was missing as mini (#HAN-2141)
C46 - Added support for new sign (#HAN-1750)
3DSIGN - Improved the GUI to handle more complex sign configurations (#HAN-1963)
Lamella Editor - The setting file is relocated to the folder for “Novapoint User Settings” (#HAN-1902)
TH - Added support for more text height in a few signs (#HAN-2021)
New signs - Added support for new combination of E20 and E21 (#HAN-2109)
F5 - Length of sign was not correct as user defined if no distance was added (#HAN-1908)
F8-x - Added support for TH=250 (#HAN-2107)
H4 - Added support for two new combinations.. LNG and H2 (#HAN-2110)
3DSIGN - The attributes was removed from blocks when inserted (#HAN-2211)
Store to Quadri - Sign for pedestrian crossing should automatically store a “mirror version” on the other side of the plate (#HAN-1967)
Store To Quadri - The property “Note” is now stored under the “genericPropertyList” (#HAN-2258)
IFC export - Updated the conversion rule for RS to export “Note” using “genericPropertyList” (#HAN-2299)
Display mode - User defined signs did not remember the setting for display mode “Grey scale” on save (#HAN-2527)
TSTABLE - Update to support new sign combinations in 3DSIGN (#HAN-2483)
Custom Sign - Added a check so “sign name” is mandatory to fill out (#HAN-1948)
Custom Sign - There was a mismatch between the data stored on the “custom sign” and TSINFORMATION (#HAN-1516)
Custom Sign - Information about “std. signs” was not ok in the “TSTABLE” (#HAN-2041)
Custom Sign - Program forced a FATAL ERROR on store to Quadri if no value for “SIZE” (#HAN-2078)
General - Added better support for copy road marking objects like NMLINE (#HAN-1943, #HAN-2047)
Display Mode - Program forced a FATAL ERROR if user try to change rod marking data on a “locked layer” (#HAN-2111)
Store To Quadri - The property “Note” is now stored under the “genericPropertyList” (#HAN-2290)
IFC export - Updated the conversion rule for RM to export “Note” using “genericPropertyList” (#HAN-2291)
General - Added support for pedestrian and bicycle lane in combination (#HAN-1914)
Linetype - Added support for linetype “Sykkelkryssing” (#HAN-1836)
Linetype - The linetype “1027 Fartshump” was missing (#HAN-2329)
Linetype - The linetype “1028 Parkeringsfelt” was missing (#HAN-1927)
Arrow - Added support for arrow “M19a” (#HAN-2056)
Properties - The description text was on top of each other if multiple segments (#HAN-2294)
NEW: Added support for PblMidlByggAnleggOmråde/Grense in SOSI 4.5.2
CHANGED: Blågrønnstruktur code from 3001 to 3002
CHANGED: New municipality numbers
PVC og PP Grunnavløpsrør og deler
PRO 630 Kummer
PRO 1000 Sandfang
Glatte svarte overvannsrør
Pragma grunnavløp og deler
Pragma kummer
Pragma infra
PE Trykkrør og deler
Possibility to cut raisers and other none pipe products with straight cut
