BEXEL Manager – February 2024

Version 24.2

BEXEL CDE Publisher

• Resolved issue with crashing QTO publishing process when there was duplicated quantity for a part of the QTO structure.

Cost

• Within the Cost Estimate window, the capability to create new Text Custom Properties (User Defined) and input their values has been enabled. Simply right-click, choose “New Column,” then “Text,” and right-click on the cell to enter the desired value (Right-click -> New Column -> Text; right-click on the cell where you want to enter the value -> Edit Property).
• Within the Cost Estimate window, the export and import of Text Custom Properties (User Defined) have been facilitated through an Excel template (Export -> Export User Defined Properties; Import -> Import User Defined Properties).
• The auto-assign process is optimized so now the process takes 50% less time.
• Introduced an option to export Cost Item Descriptions when exporting Cost Versions to Excel (Cost Estimate -> Export).
• Added options within the Cost Estimate window for “Select All Children (Including Self)” and “Select Cost Assignments” (Right-click on a row -> Select -> All Children (Including Self); Right-click on a row -> Select -> Cost Assignments).
• In the Cost Editor, users now have the ability to choose whether the “Wrap Text” option is active at the column level.(Previously, this option was enabled by default, and users couldn’t modify it). To access the option, right-click on the column header and select the “Wrap Text” option.
• Added the option to adjust all column widths to the column content width for display in both Cost Editor and Cost Estimate windows. To access this option, right-click on the column header and choose “Best Fit All.”
• When adding a User Defined column in the Cost Estimate window, the column is now added next to the column on which the user performed right-click and add (link) and as the last column in the Cost Editor window.
• When performing Auto-Assign Cost Items to Selected Elements, the message “Some Element(s) could not be Assigned” appears unnecessarily in some situations.

Clash Detection

• Fixed an issue that caused an error window to appear when trying to create new relations from clash pairs obtained by running constraint conflict analysis.

IFC Exporter

• Implemented the ability to export only necessary buildings when exporting part of model to IFC (BEX Logo -> Export to IFC -> Filter: Selected Elements, Visible Elements), eliminating unnecessary export of all buildings from model.

Portfolio Manager Publisher

• Fixed an issue that was causing the Portfolio Manager Publisher to crash when the Super Project Name was empty.
• The latest version of this add-in will be automatically pre-installed within BEXEL Manager starting from version 23.0.0.0. A check for a newer version of this plugin will be performed every time BEXEL Manager is started. You can download the user manual in Bexel User Area.

Power BI

• Introduced the Schedule Integrity Check PBI Report (according to DCMA14 standards) accessible through the Manage card -> Power BI group -> Publish Report with BEXEL CDE -> Schedule Integrity Check.
• Introduced the Look-Ahead PBI Report accessible through Manage card -> Power BI group -> Publish Report with BEXEL CDE -> Look-Ahead Plan – Weekly

Property Manager

• Enabled option for saving and loading of created rules through the addition of “Save” and “Load” buttons for enhanced user convenience. The newest version of the Property Manager will be automatically installed when launching BEXEL Manager. [LINK]

Properties

• Improved export/import of element properties from Excel by adding support for Imperial units.

CBS/QTO

• Fixed wrong calculation of the Average (AVG) function within QTO trees.
• Resolved the issue within the window for creating or editing QTO/CBS causing not retaining selection when moving.
• Resolved the issue with the newly created or edited not being selected/displayed inside the Quantity Takeoff window.
• Resolved the issue that was causing the deletion of the last rule when deleting any other rule within the QTO/CBS editor.
• Fixed an issue that caused an error when importing QTOs over the exchange process in some cases.

Revit Publisher

• Resolved the issue with the inaccurate movement of models at distances exceeding 10,000 meters from the zero point. [LINK]
• Changed the flow of the publishing process, allowing users to first choose the file storage location and then initiate the file publishing to the selected location. Also, after the process is finished, the publisher window will remain open. [LINK]

Schedule

• Enabled the export of Cost Version Custom Properties (User Defined) into the existing Payment Certificate (Schedule Editor -> Export -> Export Payment Certificate).
• Inline editing of Task Names in the Gantt chart is now enabled making the process more efficient.
• Resolved the issue that was causing the update of the project crashes if some elements contained in Schedule Tasks were deleted during the update.

General

• Enabled the ability to select the number of decimal places for numeric type element properties via units settings, which affects all element counts within the tree and other forms (Settings tab -> Units -> Numeric).
• Introduced a thousand separators for all displays of Numeric/Count values within QTO/CBS/Properties.
• The options previously called “Regime” have been renamed to “Mode” in the Settings card -> Viewport Settings -> Assignment -> Viewport-specific.
• General updates and improvements of translations of the BEXEL Manager interface in all languages.

BC3 Addin

• Enabled the creation of user classification based on the imported BC3 file.
• Introduced the ability to create element queries based on cost item codes imported from the BC3 file. Element query searches for cost item code in the BIM model property that is specified during the import.
• Introduced the capability to create Quantity Formulas for each Cost Item, allowing the definition of formulas for the following Quantity Types: Area, Volume, Length, Mass, and Numeric.
• This add-in is available for download under the Materials -> Add-ins section within the Bexel User Area portal.