New Features

ARCHLine.XP 2018 New features 3 ARCHLine.XP ® Content 1. User interface developments .................................................................................................................................. 5 1.1. Renewed professional user interface:........................................................................................................... 5 1.2. Start Up dialog.............................................................................................................................................. 8 2. New functions ............................................................................................................................................................. 10 2.1. Insulation renovation for walls .................................................................................................................... 10 2.2. Luminous Text ............................................................................................................................................ 10 2.2.1. Drawing luminous text ................................................................................................................................ 11 2.2.2. Fast editing luminous text ........................................................................................................................... 11 2.2.3. Properties of lighting 3D text....................................................................................................................... 12 2.3. New parameters can be assigned to lamps................................................................................................ 13 2.4. Lighting plan – Manage lamp elevations..................................................................................................... 14 2.5. Recessed spot lamps ................................................................................................................................. 14 2.6. Rendering with IES based spot lights ......................................................................................................... 15 2.7. Wall component bounding .......................................................................................................................... 16 2.8. Rule for Column-Slab, Wall-Slab intersection............................................................................................. 16 2.9. Reshaping individual wall layers ................................................................................................................. 17 2.10. Point clouds ................................................................................................................................................ 17 2.11. Elevations ................................................................................................................................................... 18 2.12. Dynamic drawing comparison..................................................................................................................... 21 2.13. Enhanced printing queue............................................................................................................................ 22 2.14. Wipe out – Blank area to mask objects....................................................................................................... 22 2.15. New international object libraries: BIMObject, Cadenas, Syncronia ........................................................... 23 2.16. New ARCHLine Sketch Mode..................................................................................................................... 24 2.17. Add floor plan in 3D view ............................................................................................................................ 24 2.18. Problem report............................................................................................................................................ 25 3. Styles in ARCHLine.XP 2018 .......................................................................................................................................... 26 3.1. Working with Styles .................................................................................................................................... 26 3.2. Using styles in the property dialog .............................................................................................................. 27 3.2.1. Create new style ......................................................................................................................................... 28 3.2.2. Activate style .............................................................................................................................................. 29 3.2.3. Modify, rename, delete style....................................................................................................................... 29 3.3. Managing styles in the Properties toolbar................................................................................................... 30 3.4. How to relocate styles from Project to My level .......................................................................................... 30 3.5. How to exchange Styles one by one to another computer?........................................................................ 31 3.6. How to export all the styles stored in the My .............................................................................................. 32 3.7. How to import My styles.............................................................................................................................. 33 3.8. Operations with loadable package of styles................................................................................................ 35 3.9. Importing Objects, Materials, Settings from previous versions ................................................................... 36 3.10. Save current settings .................................................................................................................................. 36 3.11. Restore factory default settings .................................................................................................................. 37 3.12. Delete layers from current settings ............................................................................................................. 38 4. Others ............................................................................................................................................................................. 39 4.1. Marker developments ................................................................................................................................. 39 4.2. Marker locations ......................................................................................................................................... 39 4.3. Tiling layout display with coloured tiles or contour lines.............................................................................. 39 4.4. Model complexity display in the Design Center .......................................................................................... 39 4.5. Enhanced teamwork ................................................................................................................................... 41 4.6. 4K scalable user interface .......................................................................................................................... 42 4.7. Plot layout scale 1: 25................................................................................................................................. 42 4.8. Relocating the whole work environment ..................................................................................................... 42 4.8.1. Creating an environment package .............................................................................................................. 42 4.8.2. Importing an environment package............................................................................................................. 43 4.9. Editing the 2D stair symbol ......................................................................................................................... 43 4.10. Restoring the 2D of the stair ....................................................................................................................... 43 4.11. Styles directly available from the Property manager................................................................................... 43 4.12. Editing the front view profile of a curtain wall.............................................................................................. 44 4.13. Curtain wall division spacing....................................................................................................................... 45 4.14. Virtual tour animation by capturing the walkthrough ................................................................................... 45 4.15. Heliodon: moving the direction of the Sun arbitrarily................................................................................... 46 4.16. Changing the default settings of the program ............................................................................................. 46 4.17. Drawing window header: window magnifier command ............................................................................... 46 4.18. Multiplication of frame elements of frame wall structures ........................................................................... 46 4.19. Creating roof shapes with a direct command.............................................................................................. 47