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Measure quantities using DXF (Restored)

The option which allowed Arquimedes to measure the job units on DXF file formats, which ceased to work in the 2014.d version, has been restored. Please recall that this option is part of the “Automatic quantity import from drawings and link with CAD programs” module.

Users to whom CYPE provided a file to be able to carry out the quantity measurements using the 2014.d version (medilib.dll), must bear in mind that to update form the 2014.d version to the 2014.e version, using the file (update patch) which can be downloaded on this webpage, must first replace the original file that was substituted.

Alternatively, to update to the 2014.e version or the latest version (regardless of the previous version that is currently installed), users can download the complete version from the CYPE program Downloads page, in which case, the file does not have to be substituted to install the program version.

Import quantities from ArchiCAD 17 (64-bit)

The 2014.d version of Arquimedes has been updated to adapt the quantities imported from ArchiCAD’s new version “ArchiCAD 17 (64-bit)”.

Gantt chart task updating

The tasks included in the Gantt diagram can now be updated using the button, located in the window in which the Gantt diagram is generated and managed (Show > Gantt chart). By pressing this button, the Update tasks dialogue appears, allowing users to mark the data of the related job units which are to be updated: Name, Unit, Amount and Quantity. In previous versions, when the Quantity was updated, the program automatically modified the performance or yield of the updated task, keeping its duration invariable. If users wished to update the Quantity by modifying the duration of the task and keep the yield or performance fixed, it had to be done manually (by pressing on the task of the diagram with the right mouse button and selecting the ‘Information on the task’ option).

Now, in the 2013.o version, when the button is selected, the Update tasks dialogue box appears, which includes two new options which can be selected if the Quantity updating is activated:

Update the task performance
Updates the quantity by maintaining its duration fixed and modifying its performance or yield.
Update the task duration
Updates the quantity of the task by maintaining the performance or yield fixed and modifying its duration.

Connection with Allplan 2013 (64-bit) and ArchiCAD 16 (64-bit)

As of the 2013.n version, the connection of Arquimedes with Allplan 2013 (64-bit) and ArchiCAD 16 (64-bit) can be installed. The connection with the 32-bit version of these CAD programs was already possible as of previous versions. The connection of Arquimedes with Allplan, ArchiCAD and +Extended belongs to the Automatic quantity import from drawings and link with CAD programs module.

Export to Excel of the bill of sale quantities and bill of study quantities

Two new options: Bill of sale quantities and Bill of study quantities, have been added to the Export type section, located in the Export to Excel dialogue box (File > Export > Export to Excel). The following types of export to Excel can now be carried out:

Budget
Bill of sale quantities
Bill of study quantities
Certification-to-origin

Warning of incorrect steel section quantities

As of previous versions, users can select the type of subtable to create from a list of subtable models included with the program. Amongst these models are the "Weight of IPE type steel sections", "Weight of IPN type steel sections", "Weight of IPN type steel sections", "Weight of HEB type steel sections", etc. These subtables include a formula that calculates the weight of the section based on the data, provided by users, in the table (Depth in millimetres, Length in metres and Number of sections). Arquimedes checks that the depth of the sections that have been introduced by users coincides with a standard value located within the internal tables of the program. Before the 2013.m version, if the depth did not coincide, the program rejected the value that had been introduced leaving the Depth column empty.

As of the 2013.m version, if the value does not coincide with that contained in the table, the program displays the corresponding section table, so users can select the section to be used.

Unlink the reference of a column from a quantities table

As of previous versions, users could link quantity tables or subtables belonging to the same price structure. As of the 2013.m version, one or several columns can be unlinked between the linked tables.

To do so, the option: Unlink this column from the reference, has been implemented and is contained in the contextual menu that appears on-screen upon clicking on the cell belonging to the header line of the reference and the column to be unlinked. This option has to be executed at the table at which the column to be unlinked is located, as it may occur that there may be more than two job units that have the same reference, and the user only wishes to unlink the column corresponding to one of the job units with linked tables.

This new option allows for the possibility of having two tables that are identical to one another except the contents of one (or more) of its columns.

Improved concept image management in report templates

A new option has been implemented: The one which occupies the position given by the variable, located in the Attributes of image type object dialogue box of the Report template editor (File > Print > Print report > Select a template with graphical concepts –for example Price justification annex in the Images group- > Edit template button > click on a drawing type object using the right mouse button and select, from the menu that appears, Edit object).

This option allows for the selection of a whole variable (which must previously be created – Data menu of the Reports template editor > Template variables), that will contain the index of the drawing to be printed. The value of the variable is evaluated before proceeding to print the zone containing the drawing type object, so the image that occupies the order number to which the variable refers to can be printed.

Improved onscreen concept image management

New buttons have been added in the Graphical information of the concept dialogue box (select the code of a concept or the icon representing the concept in the Decomposition tree window > press the graphical information of the concept icon located in the top left-hand corner of the screen). These buttons are used to move one place up or down from the selected element and so help users to organise the graphical information that a concept (chapter, job unit...) may have.

New report templates

The following report templates have been implemented:

Multi-language templates:
- Valuation report with indication of the partial certification of each job item
  Template file: pl_00229.pla
  Type: Certification
  
  Within this template, the certified quantity lines are identified in the job items with their corresponding closed certification.
Valuation report summary
Template file: pl_00230.pla
Type: Summary certif.

Prints the valuation report summary.
Templates in Portuguese for Brazil:
Curva ABC de materiais
Template file: pl_br002.pla
Type: ZG Brasil
Orçamento – Planilha Mo+Mat 6 colunas
Template file: pl_br004.pla
Type: ZG Brasil
Orçamento com Quantidades por insumo
Template file: pl_br003.pla
Type: ZG Brasil
Orçamento de materiais e mão de obra
Template file: pl_br001.pla
Type: ZG Brasil
Templates in French
Devis estimatif
Template file: pl_afrf001.pla
Type: ZG Afrique Francophone

More options in contextual menus

Two new options have been implemented in the contextual menu that appears in the “Decomposition tree” window when a concept is selected using the right mouse button: Change unit price to auxiliary item and Change the nature of the concept.

These options simplify the creation process of a bill of quantities or a price database by reusing existing concepts and adapting their nature or changing them to auxiliary prices if necessary. As of previous versions, a job unit with decomposition can be changed to a unit concept using the option Delete the decomposition of the concept.

Improvements in concept organisation

To help organise the concepts at the same level, new options have been included in the contextual menu of the “Decomposition tree” window, which are used to move the selected concept upwards or downwards.

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