BEXEL Manager – August 2023

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Version: 23.8

Major Features

Power BI + BEXEL CDE

Improved layout to display the entire CDE project page instead of displaying only the viewer. This improvement enables users to play construction simulation directly from Power BI.
The following new Power BI reports have been introduced:
- Cost Comparison Power BI report.
- Schedule Planned vs Actual Power BI report.
The option to select desired Tasks for export in Power BI reports has been enabled for Cash Flow report. Previously, all Tasks within one Schedule were exported.
New screen has been added for selecting individual cost assignments to be exported to PBI for:
- Cost Comparison Power BI report.
- Model explorer with cost.
- 5D Estimation.

BEXEL CDE Publisher

Revit publisher

Added support for the following element categories:
- Fabrication Ductwork Stiffener
- Structural Beam System
- Structural Fabric Area
- Structural Fabric Reinforcement
- Structural Framing
- Toposolid
- Truss
Increased performance of the Revit Publisher for cases when the model contains a large number of Electrical System elements. [LINK]

User Interface

The option to choose the background color of tooltips, as well as the size, color, and font of the text in tooltips, has been enabled in all Viewers.
Grid lines and coordinate axis labels have been added to all Viewers.
By default, the display of the World Coordinate System now is turned off in all Viewers.

General

Fixed a bug that occurred when selecting an element that contains Part elements from Revit. Also, fixed a bug that caused users to be disabled from turning off the option for selecting sub-elements on selection of the parent element (Settings -> General Settings -> General -> Select Sub Elements on Selection).
Fixed a bug with unsuccessful creation or update of a project when the project contains elements with Constrained By Level relationships.

Other Features

BEXEL CDE Importer

During the import of Selection Sets, the Selection Sets that exist in the BEXEL CDE but not in the active project are now preselected.

Cost

A property system has been introduced in Cost, similar to the existing system in Schedule. Custom (Cost and Text) properties can be created on Classification Items and Cost Items.
Modified the behavior of the Replace option that appears when there is a conflict in assigning cost items. The option now removes all assignments made from that cost item and creates a new assignment instead of replacing assignments just on elements that are passing current element query.
Modified the behavior of the Assign option in the Cost Editor tab. The option now creates a new assignment for the selected elements for the chosen cost item.

Schedule

Enabled selection of font and text color in Schedule legend within Schedule Viewer.
Fixed a bug in Task Editor form, where in the Cost tab were displayed Other Cost instead of the total Equipment Cost.
Fixed a bug when importing Schedule from Primavera via Legacy XML importer, Tasks are now matched first based on Activity ID and then by WBS.
In the Schedule viewer legend, when running an animation, root tasks will not be shown when the “Show All Tasks” option is checked.
Fixed a bug where obtaining incorrect Total Cost during the import of the schedule using Legacy Primavera P6 (xml) importer. Expenses cost defined in Primavera was not able to import.
Fixed a bug in Schedule, where was created a task for WBS without activities if it is imported from Primavera.
Fixed a bug where tasks imported from Primavera for activities that are “in progress” had incorrect start and finish dates.
Fixed a bug were during import from Primavera – task relation lag type was not imported.
Fixed a bug where poroperty IsCompleted in schedule Gantt did not have the correct value on parent tasks.
Fixed a bug with obtained incorrect duration progress when importing Primavera XER or XML files and Activity Percent Complete is set to 0%.
Fixed a bug where non-checked tasks were imported in the import wizard when using XER and XML importers.

Data Enrichment Addin

Added an option to enrich only selected elements that pass rules. This enables users to do enrichment in a more flexible way on just a part of the model.

Knowledge base

Updated some old and added new templates for Selection Sets, QTO, Methodology, and Data Enrichment.

IFC

Improved mapping of the following IFC entities to BEXEL Manager: IfcPipeSegment, IfcWall, IfcWallStandardCase, IfcBuildingElementPart, IfcBuildingElementProxy, IfcFooting, IfcPile, and IfcBeam.

Cost

A property system has been introduced in Cost, similar to the existing system in Schedule. Custom (Cost and Text) properties can be created on Classification Items and Cost Items.
Modified the behavior of the Replace option that appears when there is a conflict in assigning cost items. The option now removes all assignments made from that cost item and creates a new assignment instead of replacing assignments just on elements that are passing current element query.
Modified the behavior of the Assign option in the Cost Editor tab. The option now creates a new assignment for the selected elements for the chosen cost item.