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What's New in STHENO/PRO® Version 4.0?

Many of the enhancements introduced in version 4.0 of STHENO/PRO focus on productivity gains through advanced data integration and an even quicker design process. Some of the highlights are listed below:

	New in STHENO/PRO PLUS™
	New in STHENO/PRO ADVANCED™
	New in STHENO/PRO Add-On Products
	Changes in Platforms and Configurations Supported

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New in STHENO/PRO PLUS

Smart Drafting Tool – Explicit Value Option
In response to customer requests, the Smart Drafting tool (now also included in the STHENO/PRO PLUS package) has been enhanced so that users can now enter explicit values for length, angle or radius, making its use even more efficient. Keyboard accelerators are also provided.

Support for URLs in Drawings
Users can now add a URL to a text element in their drawing, creating clickable links to external documents or sites, including, for example, corresponding detail drawings or model files, relevant ISO standards, or zip files with released designs. Links in TrueType text persist in any PDF documents created with QTPlot from the drawing, as well as in any DXF/DWG files created or imported with CADConvert.

Dimensioning Enhancements
To ensure support for the latest ISO dimensioning standard (and in preparation for the EN standard update) there have been a number of enhancements in relation to creating and editing dimensions, including improved control over text and scalability.

Enhanced Open Database Connectivity
STHENO/PRO now benefits from enhanced JDBC connectivity options for reading in data from, or interfacing with, a multitude of databases, making it even easier to integrate with other systems.

CADConvert DXF/DWG (AutoCAD®) Interface Enhancements
STHENO/PRO’s CADConvert DXF/DWG interface has been further enhanced to support TrueType text URLs and True Colour RGB values in exported and imported designs. There have been further enhancements to mapping tables, as well as the loop translation process (STHENO/PRO -> AutoCAD ->STHENO/PRO). From STHENO/PRO version 4.01 CADConvert offers full support for the AutoCAD DWG/DXF format up to AutoCAD 2010.


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New in STHENO/PRO ADVANCED™

SMART Edit – Visual Display of Relationships Between Elements
The SMART Edit (“parametrics on demand”) tool now colour-codes the defining and dependent relationships between elements. This means that users now get a visual pointer as to how a change will affect their geometry, e.g. whether changing the radius of an arc in tangency with another arc will cause its centre to move or the other arc’s tangential arc and line to move.


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New in STHENO/PRO Add-On Products

STHENO/PARAMETRICS™ - Automatically Generated Parametric Variable Dialog
Users of the Parametrics module can now define and add a description to different variables stored as defaults in a parametric definition sheet. This automatically generates a user-friendly input and value validation dialog for downstream use. In order to make it easy for users to identify the parametric component, a link to an image or a macro can be inserted, which is displayed at the top of the Parametric Variable Dialog.


STHENO/IGES Interface – Significant Enhancements
The performance and scope of the STHENO/IGES interface has been greatly enhanced. In addition to significantly quicker export to and smaller file sizes for the exported drawings, a new mapping interface gives users control over the representation of different STHENO/PRO elements in the IGES format.


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Changes in Platforms and Configurations Supported

Pro/ENGINEER® Wildfire Support
From version 4.0.1 STHENO/PRO offers full support for Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3, 4 and 5 (for the 64bit as well as 32bit versions under Windows® XP Professional, Vista Business and Windows 7 Professional).

Windchill® PDMLink™ 9 Support
From version 4.0 the STHENO/LINK™ Windchill PDMLink integration offers full support for Windchill PDMLink 9.

Windows® 7 Professional Support
From version 4.01 STHENO/PRO offers full support for Windows 7 Professional.

Windows® 2000 Support Ends
As previously announced, Microsoft® has dropped its support for Windows 2000. The platform is therefore no longer supported with this release.


For more detailed information, please consult the product release notes and documentation.