Positioning with "Only empty" Filter Positions

A new Filter option Only empty is added to the Positionflags and Positioning - Steel Positioning tab to allow you to filter positions of all empty groups with the first group number.

Imperial Fraction Dimensions and Annotations

DetailCenter enhancements now allow for fraction dimensions and annotations to comply with the Imperial formatting convention.

• Conversion from user distance input style (e.g. 2:6) to an Imperial distance display (e.g. 2’-6”)
• Support for stacked fractions
• Display styles can be differ between annotation elements

[Technology Preview] NC Information for ZEMAN® Robotics Machines

ProStructures can now extract NC information for ZEMAN® Robotics machines. The new ZEMAN® XML functionality converts group data from the ProStructures to XML format. This XML describes Information such as Length, Weight, Position number of groups etc. as well as location and rotation of subparts attached as references to main part.

A new ZEMAN® Assembler Output type is added to the NC Data - General tab. To access the option, you must first create the configuration variable PS_ENABLE_ZEMANASSEMBLER and set its value to 1.

Also added, a new configuration variable PS_ZEMANASSEMBLER_SHOWSUBPARTAXIS enables the creation of ACS symbols containing the “X, Y & Z” main part and subpart directions used to create the XML files for Zeman.

ZEMAN® is a machine manufacturer for structural steel. They have separate XML format for creation of assemblies specially welded assemblies. The ZEMAN® XML utility added to NC-DSTV engine provides user of having Zeman Steel Beam Assembler with high-precision welding robots to automat manufacturing process. It is used to generate xml files and set of NC files for ZEMAN® robotic assembler. It gives any group data consisting various subparts from the ProStructures in form of XML format. This XML describes simple Information such as Length, Weight, Position number of groups etc. as well as it provides location and rotation of subparts attached with reference to main part.

Attention: This XML created for Beam/Column Group is used as Input for Steel Beam Assembler(SBA) machine from ZEMAN® Bauelemente Company.

This utility provides combined result of NC+XML for Beam Group or Column Group from ProStructures at single place, from where it can be read by the SBA (Steel Beam Assembler) and perform operation of attaching sub parts of Beam/Column to the main part of the groups.

The following output files can be expected from utility:

• XML file (for the selected groups)
• NC file (All NC file required and correspondent to XML file)

Prerequisite: The only prerequisites required to generate Output for ZEMAN® i.e. NC and XML is that a valid Column/Beam group must have “Group Position Number” and their sub parts must have “Part Position Number”.

Note: When a group contains only main part and no sub parts attached to, then the Group is eliminated when generating an XML file.

In absence of group or part position number to the selected members,ProStructures prompts appropriate message of "No position numbers".

The XML generated for ZEMAN® SBA consists of two parts:

1. Group Related Information, e.g. Length, Name, Material etc.
   • Written in the HEAD tags.
2. Part Related Information, e.g. Location, Rotation & relation with respect to Main part of group. The part information is grouped in four sections:
   • Part description
   • Part location, and
   • Part rotation with reference to global co-ordinate system of Zeman SBA.
   • NC file reference of the part.

Note: When configuration variable"PS_ZEMANASSEMBLER_SHOWSUBPARTAXIS" is set, the output draws UCS.

The generated Zeman robotic assembler output is also monitored into our log file.

Dowels, Anchors and ReidBrace Catalogs for New Zealand Workspace

New dowels, anchors and ReidBrace catalogs are added to the "User Part Center" for the New Zealand workspace.

• Dowels that work with the native baseplate command
• Anchors and ReidBrace converted to ProStructures elements
• Anchors and ReidBrace added to the User Part Center

ISO 2553 Weldflag Designations

New ISO 2553 weldflag designations are added to the Welding Symbol Definition dialog.

Weldflag Vertices

New weldflag capability to add/remove up to 2 vertexes to weld flag leaders. Two new options Insert vertex... and Remove vertex... are added to Weld Styles for ISO weldflag designations.