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:
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.
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.
The button, Configure Gantt chart display options, has been added in the Gantt chart dialogue box (Show > Gantt chart). This button opens a dialogue box with the same name, where users can activate or deactivate the following columns: duration of the task, start and end dates of the task and value of the tasks, so they can be viewed in the chart.
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.
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.
The following report templates have been implemented:
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.
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.
A new option has been implemented for when users wish to obtain a new concept as a duplicate of another existing concept: Paste duplicate, included in the contextual menu that appears by right clicking with the mouse button on the original concept. This option appears if the original concept has been copied previously (right click with the mouse button on the concept to be duplicated > Copy).
Once the Paste duplicate option has been selected, the Duplicate of the concept dialogue box appears, where the program proposes a new code for which users can then modify the measurement units, date, summary and description of the original concept. The quantity of the original concept is not copied during the duplication process.
The ExecQuant and ExecPrice columns contain new data at unit price level.
The tool used to import concepts in CSV format to Arquimedes has been improved (Decomposition tree menu > Tree > Import from CSV format). In previous versions, this option was called “Import decomposition from CSV format” and allowed for a CSV file to be imported to be added as the decomposition of a chapter.
As of the 2013.k version, this option is now called Import from CSV format and allows for information to be imported from:
The option, Import from CSV format, has also been included in the contextual menu that appears when users click, using the right mouse button, on a “Chapter” or “Job item” type concept (with or without decomposition) in the “Decomposition tree” window of Arquimedes.
Additionally, the program offers several import possibilities, depending on the concept that has been selected in the Decomposition tree window of Arquimedes. These possibilities are displayed in a dialogue box before importing, when the option to Import from CSV format is selected. These are:
Once the option has been chosen, the program opens another dialogue box to edit the data import process.
