Below a selection of the new features and improvements of the flixo version 6:
Model and Results
| • | Key values for the calculation of the Psi-value can manually be adjusted in the Properties flyout, the heat flow can be defined as a component key value (e.g. for the Psi-value calculation for base) |
| • | The frame dimension calculation for the Frame U-Value and Joint U-Value can be based on the projection of the colder or the warmer side or on the bigger of the two sides |
| • | Screws according to EN ISO 12631: new 3-dimensional equivalent object with an automatic calculation of the equivalent conductance and air cavities, the 3-dimensional equivalent object can also have a rectangular cross section |
| • | Averaged surface properties of cavities can either be adjusted like before directly to the cavity material or newly be calculated by flixo for the 4 main directions based on the current surface properties |
DXF Import
| • | It's possible to convert only a partial part of a DXF file (cf. Crop tool) |
| • | Accelerated deletion of lines and polylines |
| • | Optionally DXF layers which are marked as hidden in the DXF file can be ignored, if they should be imported they are initially hidden in flixo too and not visible |
| • | Zoom possibilities for layer preview |
| • | The DXF object 3DFACE gets recognized and imported |
User Interface
| • | For tools which create new objects, the Select, Move, Scale tool can temporarily be activated by pressing the key, after releasing the key the previous tool is active again |
| • | The Select, Move, Scale tool inherit additionally all functions of the Edit tool from the previous versions, the Edit Tool is obsolete |
| • | Document flyout in order to search and manage the flixo documents, documents of the version 6 have a preview |
| • | Message bar with comments and contextual commands above the document window, the zoom to conflict tool is replaced by specific message bars |
| • | The commands and are moved to the menu |
| • | The polylines of the set boundary conditions can be displayed optionally as a preview, the display occurs time delayed without influencing the continuation of the work |
Miscellaneous
| • | The applied boundary conditions on Glazing objects remain also after editing the settings in the dialog window |
| • | Display of the total width of the Glazing object in the dialog window |
| • | The calculation of the construction can also be started on the report pages |
| • | When copying an object the surface temperatures of a Min./Max. Temperature object are copied into the clipboard in CSV format and can for example be inserted in a table calculation program with the menu command and additionally be displayed as a diagram |
| • | Beside the orthogonal dimension also coordinate dimension can be created by the Dimension tool |
| • | Components can be displayed filtered similar to the materials in the Component flyout |
| • | Additional key values of surface temperatures can be displayed individually (cf. Min./Max. Temperature style and Temperature style), the places after decimal point can be configured for the fRsi-value if the temperature is not displayed |
| • | The places after decimal point from material and boundary condition entries can be configured in the Table Legends style, optionally instead of the name the use type name can be used in the column legend |
| • | Creating new entries (like materials, boundary conditions etc.) by selecting the entry <New> in the drop-down list |
| • | Several flixo files can be selected and opened with File Open dialog window |
| • | DXF files can be dragged into the application window and imported automatically |
