More data, less typing: With this update, you capture parts, load carriers and attributes faster and more completely, as the basis for your process analyses.
Export Drawings as PDF
For objects from your library, you can now export dimensioned technical drawings as PDF. For all groups in your objects, Halocline generates front, side, top and isometric views, together with a parts list that groups identical parts. The title block follows ISO 7200. This lets you hand your designs directly to your fixture and equipment builders. For the typical aluminum profile systems in particular, there is no more need to redraw the objects in your CAD program. This page explains in more detail how the drawing and parts list are created and what to keep in mind when designing your objects.
Fill Your Library from a CSV File
Instead of loading each file one by one, you now import your parts from CAD in one go with a CSV file, including load carriers, weight and MTM data. This lets you quickly gather all the materials a project needs in a collection of its own. Combined with load carriers, you place them right in the shelves you want in the layout. This is now the most efficient way to create objects with metadata and then generate a process analysis and the material list from them. Ideally, you generate the CSV file from your PLM or ERP system. We describe the steps and the CSV format here.
Your Organization's Library Now on the Desktop
The objects your organization maintains in Halocline Web & XR (Beta) are now also available in Halocline Desktop and in Layout. Your whole team works with the same objects, wherever the planning happens. The collection appears in your library as soon as your organization has content in it. Use it to maintain company-wide standards and share them with each other. Keep creating product data and material for individual projects in your local library. Later, you will manage these object types in dedicated product areas in Halocline Web & XR. We will end the beta phase of Halocline Web & XR soon, which will make this feature even easier to access.
Quantity and Total Weight on Load Carriers
For each load carrier, you now enter how many parts it holds. Halocline calculates the total weight from that and takes it into account in your process analyses.
Edit Multiple Objects at Once
You can now change the key parameters of several selected objects at the same time: name, attribute, weight, part number and MTM values. That saves a lot of clicks and lets you quickly enrich your existing layouts with the new information. It is especially useful for the new PDF drawing export.
Material List with Part Number, Attribute and Weight
The material list now also includes the part number, attribute and weight of each part. Load carrier colors are shown correctly. Changes to these details also show up in the variant comparison.
Extended Process Export
The Excel export of your process recordings now contains the complete recording data, above all tool usage and joining operations. All entries also carry the new part numbers, attributes and source load carriers. We have split the ergonomics sheet into body posture and the Key Indicator Method. These sheets now list all observations clearly.
Fixes and Improvements
We have made many more small improvements. There is a new Cut function, and cut, copy and paste are more efficient to use, for example to move objects within group hierarchies. You can now also import point clouds when a cloud shopfloor is selected. Halocline also respects a configured Windows system proxy now.