To prevent against notification spam and to ensure a smooth launch new behavior or changes to existing behavior can be rolled out gruadually and without notice.
Those that notice changes in behavior of a part of a page they use frequently or those that wonder what is new can consult these articles for updates on recent changes in behavior for all users.
This article contains information about the following topics:
New features
Each user uses the platform diffrently.
Notifications made on Even if new feature are released or changes it could be that
are made users might not be using that part of the feature.
For those that are curious what "that new button" or "that new page" is on the platform this article contains an introduction of what the change is about.
For these features often only basic or slightly outdated support material is available as this gets updated as we go.
Along with helping people out in support the articles often get updated and if questions that were asked can quickly be found explained in an article the next week.
Objects page
The objects page no longer has to be requested and is now available in every project.
Search on any content from your IFC with logic.
For example all "Door entities" from "Model A" that are taller than 2 meters.
Configure columns to display the relevant properties for each row element in the table.
If filter results have an object in the 3D viewer this object can be selected in 3D.
Export selected elements with the configured property columns that are displayed to excel.
Similar to the QTO feature objects that are selected in 3D can be filtered as well.
Compared to the QTO feature it is not a problem to load thousands of rows in the table.
Updated features
3D viewer settings
The 3D viewer settings menu has been updated.
It is now possible to find three new menus when clicking on the gear icon in the top right.
Here menus rendering, navigation and environment can be found.
Rendering
Two new options, display quality and ambient shadows.
Navigation
All 3D camera and navigation related options are used to this menu
Environment
An entirely new menu that where a skybox and a ground plane that recevies shadows from objects can be configured.
Consistent column naming across Documents & Models
The "Name" column meant different things in Documents vs. Models — which was confusing for users! Now both use the same document name. The "Model Name" field sticks around, just relabeled "Short Name". Downloading from Models also now produces the same filename as downloading from Documents.
Before/After comparison
Documents section (Before) | Models section (Before) | Documents section | Models section |
Name (the name of the document) | Name (the name of the model) | Name (same for both the model and the document) | Name (same for both the model and the document) |
Model Name (used in the model viewer) | Model Name (used in the model viewer) | Short Name (used in the model viewer) | Short Name (used in the model viewer) |
Revision Name | Revision Name | Revision Name | Revision Name |
Current situation, comparing the Document section and the Model section
Enabling on-demand features
Each on-demand feature is production-grade and ready for real project use.
While these features have been tested to work as they should there can be varying degrees as to how many projects have started using these features so unknown edge-cases might be found.
While changes might happen as we work to make these features available to all users data that is submitted in these features will not be deleted.
Requesting for on-demand features to be enabled
Some features can be requested to be enabled for existing projects by the contact person for your Catenda license while others can be enabled with a setting in the project.
When an on-demand feature is requested to be enabled, a meeting will be set up with a support representative to discuss the current status of the feature.
If a project is not already available where the on-demand feature can be tested a dummy project can becreated for a limited time where the on-demand feature can be tested to consider if the feature is ready to be used.
Report editor
Create report templates for topics and documents so project members can select topics or documents from the table and use the report action to generate a report.
The reports page is an on-demand feature that can be requested to be enabled for ongoing projects.
New projects that are created based on a template project where this feature is enabled do not have this feature enabled.
Separate templates can be created for topics and documents.
When a template is available in a project the report action can be used with selected topics and documents to generate a report based on the selected template.
Support for how different values can be displayed on the page is offered by Catenda.
If you would like a custom report tailored to your company we can get you in contact with a consultant that can help with this.