New Features in ALLPLAN 2023 Release Candidate

Setup & installation

• Download selected options and modules from the cloud.
• General improvements in terms of stability and performance.

General

• Improved search in the Actionbar.
• Improved behavior in the object palette for objects.
• Improved support for high-resolution screens.
• Restore drawing files from a project backup in the building structure.
• You can create text leaders immediately after text creation.
• You can create additional text leaders at existing text leaders.
• Text pointers are correctly adjusted when you move and modify the text, and when you change the reference scale.
• You can specify a text wrap for texts.
• With NID export, you can export multiple layouts in one step.
• When exporting with resources, you can also export the drawing files associated with the loaded drawing files if they are not selected.
• You can add layout elements to several layout windows in one step. (in progress)
• We improved processing of plane windows with handles. (in progress)

Displaying and visualizing the model

• Improvements in surface settings for bump, roughness and gloss reflection.
• Selection and flight mode in addition to motion mode as navigation mode
• Improved visualization effects (volumetric fog, lens effect, bloom, depth of field) for Cineware and RT Render.
• Depth of field for animation.
• Cineware R26 for the rendering.
• We have also implemented performance for Cineware by incrementally updating the rendering.
• Tone mapping post process for Cineware.
• Intel Open Image Denoiser for RT Render.

Architecture

• You can now also select pixel, style and surface for the surface representation of the lintel and roller shutter box.
• You can now also display areas as an independent surface for veneers.

Using the Properties palette for modifications 

• Geometry, parapet, reveal, stop, opening object and attributes of corner window openings.
• Geometry, parapet, opening object and type of niches and recesses and polygonal niches and recesses.
• Geometry, opening object and type of ceiling openings and recesses.
• Surface elements and geometry of facings.
• Geometry of rabbets.
• Format, surface elements, geometry and attributes of lintels.

Attributes

• In reports, label styles and attributes, the formulas are now detached from the individual language.
• Imported attributes are now organized in individual attribute groups.
• You can now configure property set templates in ALLPLAN directly in the project settings.
• New dialog for defining user attributes.

Structural framing

• Connection of structural framing beams and braces to lines and edges.
• Free angle input to define the inclination of the cross-section at the beginning and end of the structural framing objects.

Views and Sections

• When you create and modify, the dimensioning adapts automatically.
• Parameters for defining the position and spacing of the label. 
• New options in text parameters for labeling heading and scale.
• You can create views also via a plane or freely.
• Multimodification for the 'Remove/Add elements' tool.
• Multimodification for the 'Show Clipping Path’ tool. (in progress)
• For each view/ section, you can now individually configure the representation of fixtures as a wireframe model.
• Match properties, manage favorites, and reset to default settings in the representation's sub-palettes.
• Improved edit tools.
• Option for passive representation of basic reinforcement in precast elements.

Reinforcement

• Reinforcement views has been replaced by views and sections.
• Tools 'Extrude Bars Along Path' and 'Sweep Bars Along Path' available for PythonPart development.
• 'Join bars' also possible for polygonal placements.
• Switzerland: Reinforcing steel processing guideline.
• U.S.: New default settings.
• U.S.: End processing abbreviations for sleeves and threads.
• U.S.: Modification of the user-defined parameters of sleeves and threads.
• U.S.: For rearranging marks, you can optionally take the 'Rebar Prefix' attribute into account.
• U.S.: Data generation during 'Export aSa' in the new *.rdx format.
• U.S.: 'Export aSa' and 'Export Soule' of multiple drawing files possible.
• U.S.: Release Manager
• Automatic reinforcement: Beam reinforcement for multi-span beams possible.
• Automatic reinforcement: Mesh reinforcement and spacers for walls.
• Automatic reinforcement: Multi-section stirrup reinforcement for columns.
• Automatic reinforcement: Create multiple walls or columns in one step.
• Automatic reinforcement: General improvement of assigning layers and creating sections.

ALLPLAN Share

• Select multiple projects and upload them to Bimplus Cloud.
• Passively selected or referenced drawing files are automatically converted.

Interfaces

• Lumion LiveSync
• Ifc 4.3 - Support for ALLPLAN Road
• Georeferencing - new attributes
• Toolkit was switched from EDM to ODA technology.

Visual Scripting

• New tooltip and watchlist for checking the parameter values of the nodes.
• Better navigation in the application window.
• Copying nodes between scripts.
• Visual display of the status of the nodes. (in progress)
• Highlight the object selected in the tooltip or watchlist. (in progress)

Execution of construction work

• New functions 'Tower crane', 'placement in grid' and 'placement along path' in the 'building site' task area.
• New functions 'bored pile wall' and 'beam and plank wall' in the 'terrain' task area.

ALLPLAN Road

• Localization - country-specific standard testing
• Import and visualization of cadastral data
• Improved terrain display (point clouds)
• IFC 4.3 Standard for road objects
• DE: Axis import in OKSTRA format
• Horizontal geometry - transition arcs according to Bloss
• 3D dimensioning of the road body
• Reports - Output of peg points (x, y, z)
• Quick access to general settings

ALLPLAN Exchange

• Relocation of the ALLPLAN Exchange Online service. We are revising and modernizing the current ALLPLAN Exchange Online service. (in progress)