Rapid Details & 3D Profiler Interim Release is Online Now

The Interim Release for 3D Profiler and Rapid Detailer mentioned last week (here) is now online.

Just login and go to My Account – Downloads – Interim Releases to grab the 208 builds.

Please Note: If you own both 3D Profiler and Rapid Details, you will need to install both of the Build 208 interim releases, as they make changes to each other. If you only own one tool which has a build 208 release, then you’ll be fine with just that release.

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Interim Release – Rapid Details & 3D Profiler

We’re just finishing work on a pair of new Interim Releases for the Rapid Detailer and 3D Profiler Tools. We’ve brought the Rapid Detailer up to speed with the enhanced Preset/Profile Management system that we integrated into the Wall Framing and 3D Profiler tools a month or so ago.

Major changes are:

• Presets are Embedded in Detail Elements

• Link to relevent Help articles firectly from within the tool’s interface

• All available presets are loaded in the Preset Files list.

• No need to browse for presets anymore!

• You will, however, need to import presets before you start working with the new system.

• Always save presets to the correct folder (ie. you can’t forget where you saved a preset)

We are planning to have the new releases out early next week, so keep watching the Blog, FaceBook Page, or Twitter to find out as soon as it goes live.

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Interim Releases

As we go through support tickets and emails, we often get reports of ‘issues’ in the tools that we need to patch up. Often this doesn’t take very long, but the process of fixing everything that has been reported takes time, as does getting the completed package properly tested and ready for release. We appreciate that in some cases, having to wait a month or two is just too long though, so that’s why we’ve introduced Interim Releases.

The Interim Releases will be issued much more frequently than the Official Releases so that you can get your ‘fix’ as soon as humanly possible. The interim releases will be given a basic check-over to make sure that they don’t do anything horrid to your ArchiCAD setup or your projects, so you can be confident in using them on production computers.

We’ll be working to get issues you report into an interim release as soon as possible, but sometimes we may not be able to fit all the fixes in before we make an interim release. You’ll be able to see which things are fixed in the Release Reports (in the Help Centre), and which are still outstanding. If in doubt, you can always just contact us (via support ticket, email, facebook, twitter, skype etc). At the moment, you can only download the latest available Interim Release for each tool, but we will be allowing access to the full history of all Interim Releases shortly.

To get an Interim Release, go to the Downloads page and click on Interim Releases from the sidebar on the left.

You’ll then see a grid of all the available Interim Releases. Simply click on the Windows or Apple logo to download the Windows or OSX files, and once the download is finished, you can install as normal (follow the instructions here if you’re unsure).

If you do encounter any problems while using an interim release, please let us know which one/s you are using when reporting issues.

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Revision Manager v13 Released!

We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Revision Manager Tool for ArchiCAD 13! You can download it right now from the downloads section on our website. Documentation Suite owners, this means you too.

Remember to check our fancy new Online Help System where you can read the Release Report for this version, and of course, get access to the full set of documentation for the Revision Manager.

And finally, today being the 12th means that there’s just 1 day left to get 13% off the upgrade to version 13, so be in quick! Click here to go directly to the upgrade page, or login and go to My Account -> Upgrade My Products.

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Day 13 – They’re Here!

The Team here at CadimageTools are very pleased to announce that we’ve just released the Tools for ArchiCAD 13!

They are available for download from our website immediately, just login and go to My Account – Downloads, or follow the link below:

http://www.cadimagetools.com/myAccount/downloads.aspx

At this stage, all tools are available except Revision Manager(and, by extension, the Documentation Suite), which is getting a bit of ‘extra care’ to make sure that it plays nice with the new Teamwork. It’ll be released in about a week.

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The 13 days of Cadimage Tools!

So ArchiCAD 13 has been announced & Graphisoft are not the only developers who have been busy.

To celebrate the upcoming release of ArchiCAD and the Cadimage Tools, we’re going to be counting down the 13 days from now until the tools arrive by offering you a daily glimpse of what we’ve been doing for the last few months.

As of right now, you can buy or upgrade the version 13 Cadimage Tools from our website. Anybody who has purchased the tools since the start of August will receive a free upgrade of those tools to version 13, and anybody upgrading their tools before the 13th of October will get 13% off the upgrade price!

Be sure to check in each day on our Blog, Twitter, or Facebook pages.

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Cadimage Tools – Now 100% more Social!

Cadimage Tools are very pleased to announce our presence on Twitter and Facebook!

Various members of the Cadimage Tools team will be tweeting to let you know about what kind of things we are doing with the tools, related news that may be of interest to you, or just general comments to help you get to know who we are and what we do. Feel free to follow us and send @replies whenever you want.

We’ve also set up a page on Facebook so we can share information about us and what we’re doing. We’ll be publishing photos, videos and links from time to time, plus activity updates when we do things that you might be interested in. You can ‘Become a Fan’ of ours to keep track of us, and you can also leave messages on our wall or in our discussion area.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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CadimageTools Hotfix 5 Released!

Hotfix 5 for the CadimageTools has just been released.

This addresses a number of  issues reported by users. You can download it right away from here, and view the complete release report here.

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Free Tracking Curve Tool

We are very pleased to announce the release of our new Tracking Curve tool. The Tracking Curve tool is completely free and is available for immediate download. Follow the link below to check it out and start downloading:

http://www.cadimagetools.com/trackingcurves.aspx

The Tracking curve tool allows you to produce forward tracking curves for 3 different vehicles(Articulated Truck, Rigid Truck, and Car). The objects are fully parametric and can be easily setup using our Icon-based interface.

Once you have the tracking Curve Tool, follow our quick tutorial video to see how to use it. This is available below, as well as in the Tutorials section of CadimageTools.com.

Registration with CadimageTools is free, and is the only requirement to download the Tracking Curve Tool.

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Steel Wall Framing

Over the past few years a number of people have requested that the Wall Framing tool be extended to allow for steel wall framing.

The main requirements for a steel framing system are:

• Display C-section members in 3D, plan and elevated frame views.
• Orientate members within the wall
• Allow the design of custom solutions for sills, plates, lintels, etc.
• Extend the member ends into the steel channels.

The recent hotfix provides all of this functionality.

You can now define three types of member: timber, steel (C-section) and generic.

The Partial Structures presets now include trimmer studs and sills.

This means you can now design custom solutions for sills and jambs, in which the members are positioned and oriented within the wall.

As you can see, each steel member allows all other members to automatically extend into its channel.

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