The latest version of Cadmatic software (2024T3) is absolutely packed with exciting new features. We've made designers' lives easier and elevated the user experience to a whole new level!
Top Picks – what we are most excited about in 2024T3!
Outfitting/3D Plant Design
- Circular ducts made easy: Circular ducts manufactured from plates can now be modeled using duct design rules, with an improved interface for routing both circular and rectangular ducts. You can resize entire duct runs and equip flanges with gaskets, making duct design smoother and more efficient.
- Hull markings for outfitting: Outfitting steels and plates can now be displayed in Plate Cutting Data Drawings. This enhancement marks outfitting parts on hull plates during cutting, simplifying the installation of outfitting parts on the hull without needing detailed drawings.
- Aligned pipe support: The follow pipe feature now aligns pipes with primary supports, ensuring the supporting plane remains consistent across varying pipe sizes and support types, streamlining support alignment across projects.
- Cable router flexibility: We’re making cable routing more versatile than ever! Now, you can set cable stacking heights beyond the width of the stack – ideal for situations where a single tray accommodates multiple interference classes. This added flexibility simplifies complex cabling scenarios, ensuring that your design aligns with real-world requirements.
- External valve data support: Integrate with ease! With enhanced Web API and XML import capabilities, external valve data for ducts is now fully supported. This update streamlines data import processes and enriches your models with accurate valve data from external sources, saving time and reducing potential errors.
Hull
- View cube for enhanced navigation: Hull Viewer is getting a sleek new View Cube that replaces the sidebar, giving users an intuitive way to manipulate 3D models and enhancing the overall user experience – another step forward in modernizing Hull Viewer.
- Outfitting object markings on hull plates: Streamline installation with semi-automatic markings for outfitting objects on hull plate cutting data. Parts modeled in the Outfitting application that need to be welded to hull structures are now marked directly in the hull plate DXF contours.
- Jumbo Panels (beta): Simplify complex plate designs with Jumbo Panels. Create large plates and split them into sub-plates with varied thicknesses and materials, perfect for connected plates on the same plane that need to be differentiated.
Information Management
- Collision detection reporting: eShare’s collision detection just got an upgrade! Now, you can save test setups, view results in a table format, and share findings with other users, making collaboration on collision checks easier than ever.
- Automatic label detection: AI-driven label detection lets you identify relevant labels from point clouds, configure what’s valuable to your project, and create Smart Points automatically – bringing intelligence to your laser-scanned models.
Electrical
- LED strip tool for 2D and 3D: Add LED strips to your design with our new LED Strip tool, now available in both 2D and 3D layouts. Define width, height, and other properties, and assign device IDs, making LED strips function like any other light fixture with dedicated controls.
- EDZ import for EPLAN macros: Creating product models just got easier! Now you can import EDZ files directly, adding product details, symbols, images, and manuals into CADMATIC Electrical. Customize what you import, focusing only on the data you need.
- DIALux evo import and export: Simplify light calculations by exporting spaces directly from CADMATIC Electrical into DIALux evo. Once lighting calculations are complete, export the IFC file back into Electrical to insert fixtures at the correct coordinates, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.
Draw
- Customizable ribbon: Personalize your workflow by creating custom tabs on the ribbon! Add your favorite tools from other tabs or design entirely new functions. Tabs are saved per user but can easily be shared with others, enhancing collaboration and efficiency.
