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Model Validation: Clash Detection
General
Email Notification Improvements
Apartments
Set a Deadline for the Visibility of Announcements and Delete Announcements
Columns for Issues Submissions and Edit Multiple Submission Periods
Close Multiple Issues at the Same Time
Default Meeting Type Added to Apartments
Box
Use Comments without Review Packages
Use Comments in all Dalux Box Projects
Print a Chart Overview of the Comments in the Project
Show Metadata for Files in Dalux Box
Microsoft Office 365 Integration Toggle
Handle Multiple Mails in the Mail Archive at the Same Time
Easier Email Upload to Dalux Mail Archives
Increased the File Size Limit for Uploads to Box to 4GB
Set Required Metadata for File Uploads to Specific Folders
Company Profile
Set Multiple Official Companies at the Same Time
Import File Naming Templates to Project Standards
Field
Export 360° Photos Linked to Overview Drawings and View Panoramic Photos Outside of Dalux
Only Admins Can Delete Data from Capture Photo Albums and 360° Photos
Larger Interface for New Meetings
Show Thumbnails and Print Attachments from Meetings
Improvements to the Meeting Minutes Printed Reports
Keep Track of Who Has Taken Action on Tasks
Better Information Shown for Replies to External Input
Handover
Warnings for Asset Excel Import
Description On Status Change for Assets
Audit Trail on Asset Print and Export
Infrastructure
Zoom to Drawing/Alignment/Model
Improvements to Cross Sections
Location
Improvements to the Use of Measurements
Added a 'Save as' Button when Saving Filters in Locations
Save Colourize on Filters in Locations
Owners Portal
Export Multiple Filters at the Same Time
Model Validation: Clash Detection
In Release 2023.5 we are releasing our brand new feature 'Clash Detection'. With this new feature, you can perform self-assessment on clashes in your model and easily collaborate from Dalux with other project participants. Read more in our article about Model Validation: Clash Detection.
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General
Search for User Groups
Quickly find the user group you are looking for by searching for them in the Users overview.
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Email Notification Improvements
We have improved the email notifications settings by merging the daily mail for Box and Field. To customize the settings as you want them to go the 'Email notifications' tab.
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Apartments
Set a Deadline for the Visibility of Announcements and Delete Announcements
A visibility deadline for announcements can now be set. Announcements will only be visible to residents until the deadline. Announcements can now also be deleted in case they are no longer valid or a mistake was made.
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Columns for Issues Submissions and Edit Multiple Submission Periods
When viewing Units in the list view, it now shows whether issues are enabled and the submission period for each Unit. Setting issue submission periods for different Units is made easier, as multiple units can now be edited.
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Close Multiple Issues at the Same Time
Multiple Issues can now be closed at the same time, by marking multiple issues and clicking the 'Close' button in the top navigation menu.
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Default Meeting Type Added to Apartments
A default meeting type called 'Deficiency review' has been added to Apartments, making it easier to arrange meetings in new units.
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Box
Use Comments without Review Packages
Comments & Review packages are separated, so Comments can be used without Review packages. This allows Comments to be made on all files in the Dalux project and not only files in Review packages.
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Use Comments in all Dalux Box Projects
Comments can be used in all Dalux Box tiers for better communication between coordinating parties. In Dalux Box Standard certain user groups can be assigned access to comments for cross-discipline communication. Dalux Box Standard is limited to one comment type.
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Print a Chart Overview of the Comments in the Project
The customizable chart view in Comments can be printed, for a quick snapshot overview of the Comments in the project.
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Show Metadata for Files in Dalux Box
The 'Show metadata' button has been made more visible and added to the top navigation bar when viewing files in Dalux Box. Clicking the button opens the side menu, which shows the metadata.
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Microsoft Office 365 Integration Toggle
As part of a gradual roll out of Microsoft Office 365 integration, a button has been added to activate or deactivate the integration from the Box settings. By default, this integration is deactivated for all projects.
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Handle Multiple Mails in the Mail Archive at the Same Time
Managing email archives is streamlined with the ability to select multiple emails at the same time so that they can be moved or deleted.
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Easier Email Upload to Dalux Mail Archives
Emails can be archived directly to the different mail archive inboxes by drag-and-drop to the different inboxes from the tree view, rather than having to open each archive separately.
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Increased the File Size Limit for Uploads to Box to 4GB
The file size limit has been raised from 2GB to 4GB when uploading files to Box.
Set Required Metadata for File Uploads to Specific Folders
Metadata requirements for each file type (drawings, models and documents) can be individually configured. Folders can be set to have specific metadata requirements and files much match the requirement to be uploaded in the folder.
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Company Profile
Set Multiple Official Companies at the Same Time
On the Company profile, in 'Companies on projects', multiple companies can be assigned to an official company at the same time.
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Import File Naming Templates to Project Standards
File Naming Templates from other Projects or Project Standards can now be imported into the Project Standards.
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Field
Export 360° Photos Linked to Overview Drawings and View Panoramic Photos Outside of Dalux
When exporting 360° photos, an overview drawing can be exported along with a panoramic viewer. This makes it possible to open and view 360° photos directly from the overview drawing. 360° photos can then be shared and viewed outside of Dalux.
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Only Admins Can Delete Data from Capture Photo Albums and 360° Photos
Only Project or Field administrators can delete Photo Albums or 360° from the project. Permissions to view and upload are still available, but deletion is restricted to administrators.
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Larger Interface for New Meetings
When creating new meetings the interface scales to the height of the screen to offer a larger interface for setting up the agenda and meeting items.
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Show Thumbnails and Print Attachments from Meetings
Thumbnails of attachments such as drawings and pictures can now be seen in Meetings.
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Improvements to the Meeting Minutes Printed Reports
Attachments and large photos can be printed as a part of Meeting minutes, and the report layout has been changed to better separate the meeting items.
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Export Daily Log Data to Excel
The data from Daily logs can be exported to Excel. The export contains the data from the list view in a simple Excel table.
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Keep Track of Who Has Taken Action on Tasks
A new metadata field has been added to the list view in Tasks and Approvals. This shows the people who have taken an action the Task/Approval.
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Better Information Shown for Replies to External Input
When requesting input from external parties, it is now better logged on the task metadata who replied to the request. It is shown from what link the external input was answered.
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Handover
Warnings for Asset Excel Import
When importing Assets from an Excel import, a warning will be displayed for the data that will not be imported (like 2D/3D object group, room, location etc.). These fields will also be greyed out in the export Excel table:
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Description On Status Change for Assets
In changing an Assets status a pop-up will now follow allowing you to add a description to the status change, which will be visible in the History of the asset:
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Audit Trail on Asset Print and Export
An audit trail for the history has been added to printed and exported reports for Assets:
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See Assets on 2D Floor Plans
You can see Assets on 2D floor plans by clicking 'Show on drawing':
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Infrastructure
Zoom to Zone Button
With the 'Zoom to zone' button for each individual zone, you have more control over navigating the model:
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Zoom to Drawing/Alignment/Model
When a drawing, alignment, model etc. is selected on the map it will zoom you to the selected element. This should help if either the GIS data, model or drawing are deviating from the project coordinates.
Set Map View as Default
Map views and imported custom map layers can be set as the default view for the map in Locations:
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Improvements to Cross Sections
Cross sections are getting quality of life improvements. Point clouds can be turned on/off in cross sections. When scrolling with 'Ctrl + Mouse scroll' it will now move along the alignment and the camera will follow the scroll for easier navigation:
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The position of the cross-section is shown in the toolbar and will be updated as you are scrolling along the cut. You can also adjust the position by changing the numbers in the toolbar.
More Detailed Alignments/Center Lines
Alignments can now have station increments added to them:
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Locations
Improvements to the Use of Measurements
We have made some quality-of-life improvements to the 'Measure' part of the toolbar in the Locations tab and the use of the measurement tools by adding new hotkeys:
- You can exit measure mode by pressing 'Esc'
- Press the spacebar in a 2D cut to set the view to perpendicular
- Press Ctrl + Z to undo your most recent measurement
- Press 'Enter' to activate the most recently used measurement tool
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Added a 'Save as' Button when Saving Filters in Locations
Added a 'Save as' button to Locations in filters so multiple filters can be saved without overwriting an existing filter.
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Save Colourize on Filters in Locations
Filters can now be saved with the 'Colourize' option so colourization is automatically applied, when using the filter. Also works on the Dalux Mobile App.
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Owners Portal
Export Multiple Filters at the Same Time
From the Owner Portal, multiple export filters can be exported at the same time.
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