IDA ICE 4.8 SP1 changelog

Changes in ICE 4.8 SP1 (rel. to ICE 4.8)

• "Fans off" in Heating Load calculation now does not switches off fan coils

• Added support for es-so extension

• Trying to minimize diff scripts

• Removed MaxHeatRem from summer-peak-summary in ESBO

• Added support of field “Label” in data supplier forms

• Added messages before exit due to license problems

• Using Purchased energy for calculating cost, CO2 and primary energy
  (instead of Used energy)

• The thermal bridge coefficient "External slab / external walls"
  is not changed when switching envelope area definition

• The accuracy of zone orientation changed to 0.001 deg

• ESBO 2.2.1

• Show report after ESBO simulation

• Removed schedule smoothing in ESBO and in ICE cases imported from ESBO

• Using PI controller with radiators in ESBO

• Changes in ESBO forms

• Following ISO 13370 recommendation for a basements under a part of the building

• Support for MB18

• Possibility to hide obsolete objects in database

• New categories of materials

• Possibility to read a file while it is written by another program

• Support DGF in daylight/radiance

• Export to Excel summary tables of version projects (text only)
  and Parametric runs

• Accept IFCFLOWTERMINAL in IFC import

• New template for IFC export

• New version of climate file convertor (new supported formats)

• For "advanced-level only", support simulation without startup phase.

• Changed default Radiance parameters Limit reflections (lr) and Limit weight of each ray (lw)

• Support z-coordinate of occupant in zone template

• When opening an IFC file in ICE viewer, all IFC spaces are converted to zones

• New version of German online help

• The error message "simulation failed" is now shows in interactive mode (was only in batch mode).
  The simulation-time messages do not prevent preparing the results (the message "simulation failed"
  does it instead)

Changes in models

DetWind Fixed bug of division with zero in Jacobian for
59 < SLOPEWIND < 89 by min(Ra)=1.

DetWind Fixed Jacobian for dynamic tables

CEWind Fixed QTransm

DetWind Correction of QSolar for internal windows with new
parameter aOutside

Evhumctr Improved numeric performance.
pcmwallH

Enthalpy_Wheel Corrected Fqx to become 1 att equal mass flow rates
Corrected Fdxx to become 1 att nominal condensation potential

TQFace Possibility to set explicit thermal radiation coefficient
TQWin

TQFace Changed meaning of hSky and hGround (multiplied by epsFace)
TQWin

WatSplit LINEARIZE in IV computation

TimeDevelop Enhanced

CeDetZon Enhanced stability
CeSimZon Changed QCvLocUnit so it does not contain condensation,only convection
Fixed linearization

CondIntegrator Added a variable that counts the number of intervals

Fixed bugs

• Fixes calculation of edge length for rooms with small details

• Fixed "HC floors" in walls with multiple adjacent zones on the opposite side

• Fixed error in the drawing of magnified floor plan. The error was observed
  in case when there are parts of the building outside of the plan area

• Fixed list of surfaces for table "Optical properties"

• Fixed bugs in building load estimator

• Fixed scaling along x-axis in duration diagrams with weight schedule

• Fixed description of operative temperature in the legend of the diagram
  "Main temperatures" for zones with climate model and a single occupant

• The switching or result pages made faster (it was extremely slow for big systems)

• Fixed bug in upgrading documents from ICE 4.7.1 and older.
  The bug was detected in upgrading water radiators and cooling devices.

• Fixed loosing dialog boxes when moving them on a dual monitor in case then
  the dual monitor is placed on the left or on the top of the main monitor.

• Fixed decoding Unicode strings in IFC import

• Fixed selection of wall/slabs to ground. Now it is possible to define and
  to use both the special constructions "to ground" and the external constructions.

• Fixes connectors in icons HystCtr and Max.

• Fixed error in importing elliptic shape from IFC

• Fixed error in modal forms with multiple tabs

• Fixed API function ida-dom-close-document

• Fixed checking of external run licence

• Fixed calculation of multi-year diagram from schedules

• Fixed duration-below for multi-year simulations

• Disabled pasting shapes to non-ediatble forms

• Fixed adding Percentage of internal gains to the input of parametric runs

• Fixed error message for missing design power in water radiators and
  cooling devices

• After a simulation the old results in non-connected AHUs (that was not simulated)
  are now removed

• Fixed selecting AHU in zone templates

• Fixed column header "Rv_B" in the table of glass panes

• Fixed imported CAD and bitmaps in rotated editor views.

• Fixed invoking double-glass facade in zones with light sensor when the
  light level is not logged

• General web links in portal are opened in external browser

• Fixed Autosave before simulating “advanced only” systems

• Fixed bugs in some functions (some required for ICE extensions):
  temp-user-registered
  object-choice-fn
  db-read-index-file
  sf-check-for-new-db
  open-view-noform (support custom title bar)
  get-update-data
  feature-number-to-symbol
  symbol-to-name

• Fixed crash in shading calculation (affected daylight calculation
  and shading animation)

• Fixed bug in calculating building envelope from ESBO zones

• Ignore erroneous IFC data with missing z-position when selecting
  data for floor plan view (to avoid crash)

• Fixed moving rectangles on screen when offset >= 2^15

• Fixed option "Keep CAD mapping"

• More place for translated texts in forms

• Fixed writing .mtl files in Daylight calculation

• Fixed erroneous usage of closed form documents

• Fixed displaying diagrams with option "Show as points"

• Fixed option "Clear old results" when running optimization

• Fixed error when pasting building body part at different level

• Fixed mapping of "Numerical air mass"

• Fixed assertion of presence of referenced user-defined control macro

• Fixed bug in calculating the geometry of zones with complex ceiling

• Solved conflict between Localization Sweden and ESBO

• Fixed grid in scaled diagrams

• Avoid automatical replacing of a resource with an identical duplicate (when
  the database has identical records)

• Show features in faces in outline view

• Fixed crash of monthly average for diagrams with time range shorter than one year

• Fixed connection of windows placed inside explicitly connected wall parts

• Fixed function grid-features. Crashed if a feature position or size was
  mapped NOT to grid (e.g., to a graphical script)

• Fixed reading elements with broken mapping in calculated array parameters.
  Required for ASHRAE 90.1 extension.

• Fixed bugs in calculating wall edges in buildings with inner angles

• Fixed control of slat angle from zone control macro

• Added check for if MessageBroker has crashed. In that case, try to reconnect if it is restarted.

• Fixed bugs in VELUX EIC Viz

• Avoid running before restoring parameters after previous simulation

• Keep selection of IFC spaces when zooming floor plan

• Check adjacent constructions (skipped by mistake in ICE 4.8)

• Avoid crash on division by zero when calculating field values

• Avoid folder names ending with dot or blank space

• Avoid crash on clicking invalid listview icon

• Fixed diagnostic messages for water coolers and heaters

• Fixed Daylight calculation with micro lamellas. The path to the .cal file was not
  always transferred to Radiance.

• Fixed context menu on property pages

• Copy bitmap files at "save as"

• Fixed merge-snapminmax (required for MB)

• Fixed updating parameters mapped to elements of an array

• Fixed shading layer position in windows with both air and non-air cavities

• Fixed recalculation of floor area after moving (or pasting) zones (when non-net area is used)

• Avoid crash when the user closes the document being processed

• Zone splitting: fixed redisplaying the cut line when it is edited (e.g. when scaling)

• Avoid scrolling summary tables on changing setpoint for cooling or heating

• Avoid memory leak due to hidden views

• Fixed condition for logging of gsyst

• Fixed PCM layer above HC-floor layer

• Avoid unresponding state during time-consuming operations (like reading database)

• Show correct version of Windows in Mail support

• Avoid parallel running multiple API functions

• Fixed saving simple-screen (as part of custom external shading) to database

• Fixed converting SupSetpoint to resource

• Avoid crash when calculating size for new editor view

• Avoid crash when the user cleans a field that has no default value

• Fix bugs in files used for threephase calculations

• Fixed bug that made updating of building’s 3D-view very slow in some cases

• Fixed surface properties of constructions with single layer for daylight simulation

• Fixed crach in "paint construction" for zones selected in 3D before the painting started

• Daylight added to "About" box

• Fixed translating of symbolic attributes in database

• Avoid reentry to "paint construction" mode

• Fixed updating default values after changing type resources by script
  command :update (e.g., in version projects)

• Fixed crash when reading a building with openings

• Fixed access to output files in saved copies (e.g., in autosaved systems)

• Fixed reporting u-values of floor and walls toward ground in case of multiple
  constructions (the distribution of virtual layer was changed in 4.8 but the change
  was not reflected in tables and in input date report). The total UA also fixed

• Fixed reporting of u-value of ceiling toward ground (the “external” construction was used)

• Fixed VTK crash when moving balconies with zero depth.

• Allow ';' in zone names in Radiance calculation.

• Fixed windows in walls with zero net area

• Fixed (:for ..) script expression

• Fixed link to help topics for HC floor and panels

• Autosave before and after Daylight/Radiance calculation

• Fixed problem with openings in construction list in the input data report

• When using ESBO plant, the DHW circuit losses was not added to "Total and cooling report"

• Merge lists of space ids when merging zones

• Fixed calculation of the area fraction of external parts of walls with
  option "Ignore adjacency to faces"

• Fixed updating comparative report when some of documents are closed

• Fixed opening Swegon units in ICE

• Using appropriate side-bar form for zones with protected shape

• Fixed cleaning adjacency of shades on faces before (re)moving zones

• Fixed references to closed objects in diagnostic messages (empty names was used)

• Fixed bug with offline mode for location files

• Fixed Polygonset-of-BRep

• Removed fake thermal bridge in case when an edge of wall part or a
  floor heat is close to an edge of a face

• Parametric runs: accept empty (NIL) values in results

• Fixed crash when opening input data report created in ICE 4.7.x

• In convective heat report, excluded condensation from local units

• Eliminated reloading holiday resources in case of change of language

• Fixed "run all"

• Added error message when zone merging failed

• Fixed reducing wall size near inner angles (did not depend on the distance from inner angle)

• Unpack when dragging a system to version project (version projects do not work with
  packed systems)

• Fixed form for electric heating coil in ESBO

• Fixed pop-up help topics in documentation

• Blocked erroneous removing pressure coefficients in case of fixed infiltration
  (bug in Miljöbyggnad)

• Fixed daylight calculation after renaming zone

• The "waiting" message shows long text in multiple lines

• Fixed default size on scaled pane (e.g., of zones and body parts)

• Fixed problem with Daylight measuring plane geometry after editing zone

• Fixed using z-coordinate of light in detailed zone model

• Fixed reported sign in cooling power from AC in central AHU

• Fixed problem with unresponsive 3D view when opening model saved with
  Set view > Top or Set view > Bottom

• Fixed crash after failing time-split simulation

• Fixed daylight calculation after renaming zone