Simplebim 8.0 SR5 (30.8.2019)

Enhancements

Properties Palette: Sort By -functionality now works with all numeric properties (previously only measure values) and with any object selection (previously only object class).

Table Palette: Bug fixed in selecting all rows with Ctrl+A. There was an exception if a summary row was selected when pressing Ctrl+A.
IFC Export: Bug fixed in exporting the colors of some clipped geometries
IFC Export: Bug fixed in exporting the colors of objects that were opened from a .cube file created with previous versions of Simplebim and colorized in Simplebim 8.
Group Editor: Editing of group property values re-enabled.
Table Palette: Bug fixed in maintaining layout when applying templates. Previously the layout was lost if 'Keep Layout' was not turned on. Now the layout is always kept when applying templates.
IFC Export: Bug fixed in writing IfcDate values to IFC2x3. Because IFC2x3 does not have IfcDate, date values are now exported to IFC2x3 as IfcText.
3D Window: Bug fixed in displaying objects that have a special kind of transformation in their geometry. As a result some geometry was missing in the 3D window, but all geometry was still exported back to IFC. Now all geometry is shown also in the 3D window.

IFC Import: Bug fixed handling IfcCompositeProfileDef. Some geometry was missing in the 3D window, but all geometry was still exported back to IFC. Now all geometry is shown also in the 3D window.
Model Open: Bug fixed in opening .cube files created in Simplebim 7, where resolving some geometry during IFC import into Simplebim 7 had previously failed.
Location Tools: Bug fixed in splitting models that are opened from a .cube file.
Placement Editor: Bug fixed in fitting models to viewports if objects are very far from each other.
Model Merge: Bug fixed in preserving color/transparency of objects from merged models when exporting to IFC.
Basic Quantities: Bug fixed that caused the calculation to fail for certain special geometries.

Objects palette: Option added for generating rule based type objects.
Properties Palette: Functionality added (in context menu) for setting the default property for an object class. The default property provides the name of an object and is shown for example in the 3D tooltip and can be used for organizing the Containment palette.

Table Palette: Some localizations caused unnecessary texts to appear in the palette menu.
Properties Palette: The Quick Filter Help tooltip was sometimes partially outside the screen.
Template: Bug fixed in handling case insensitive option when generating groups.
3D Window: previously the only way to remove measure lines after changing to a different workspace was to reload the 3D window. Now the measure lines are automatically removed when changing to a different workspace.
3D Window: bug fixed in settings the transparency of objects using the Set Color tool.
IFC Import: Bug fixed in importing some IFC models with special geometry constructs.
IFC Import: Bug fixed in importing the geometry of some grids.

Support for adding container groups through templates added. See the Template Guide for details.
IFC Import: Support added for (illegal) cases where an objects is defined by more than one type object. The first type object is used and the other definitions are ignored and logged.

Templates: Links to the Template documentation on the Simplebim support site fixed in the Excel template
IFC Import: Bug fixed in importing models that have geometry where one of the nodes in the geometry tree defines neither geometry nor transformation.
License: Bug fixed in defining proxy credentials and transferring proxy credentials from previous versions.
Containment Palette: Default configuration changed back to the same functionality we had in Simplebim 7. In Simplebim 8 the contaiment palette can also be configured to use the default property value (instead of the object class name) as the criteria for creating the hierarchy.
Startup Screen: News panel layout issues fixed.
Group Editor: Minor layout issues fixed in the rule editor section of the Group Editor.
Visualizer Palette: Bug fixed in resetting colors.

Properties Palette: Keyboard shortcuts added for Clear (Ctrl+Del), Expand All (Ctrl+Down) and Collapse All (Ctrl+Up)
Translation: minor translation improvements

3D Palette: bug fixed in displaying some models that contain grids. Under special circumstances some objects were missing from the 3D view, but this had no effect on the data exported from Simplebim.
Startup Screen: bug fixed in installing templates by dragging & dropping them on the + icon in the IFC Import toolbar.
License: bug fixed activating a rental license where the original expiry date had passed, but the rental had been renewed.
IFC Export: The 'Optimized Shared Geometries' IFC export option is temporarily disabled, because using this option could lead to the geometry of some objects missing from the exported IFC file. This option will be enabled again when the bug is fixed.

New professional look and feel with re-designed icons and colors. The layout and logic of palettes has also been unified to make it easier to learn and use Simplebim.
Support for multi color objects. The full IFC color information is now displayed in Simplebim and maintained during IFC export.
Supports for 2D grids
Support for 2D annotations
New measure tool in the 3D window for measuring the distance between two points
Rule based groups can now be created from the user interface. These groups can now have complex AND/OR rules and use expressions (formulas)
News system for bringing you relevant notifications inside Simplebim in the startup screen

Drag and drop from the 3D window can now be started also in the Viewer navigation mode by holding down the left mouse button shortly while not moving the mouse and then moving the mouse.
The quantity calculation by the Calculate Basic Quantities tool has been improved
Creating groups for each unique value of a property from templates.
Improved startup view with template filtering
Faster model splitting
Faster model merge
More reliable release of network licenses
Improved table palette