WinFACT 2016: English version available

Some of the most important news of WinFACT 2016 compared to WinFACT 8 (also as video):

• Nomenclature equivalent to DIN IEC 60050-351
  All denotations of control engineering parameters and symbols now are equivalent to the current norm DIN IEC 60050-351. In some cases (e. g. PID-controller) additionally the old denotations are specified.
• WinFACT Update Center (Image)
  The new update center helps you to keep you WinFACT installation up-to-date.
• BODE Trainer includes PI-, PD-T1-, PID-, PID-T1-controller
• Express Version (Image)
• Deleting of blocks and connections by the <DEL>-key
• Ripping out of blocks from connections
• Temporary highlighting of connections (Image)
• Integrated plants with visualization (Temperature, Fill level, Speed, Position, Light) (Image)
• Improved characteristic curve plotter (manual/input-controlled adding of points, freezing of previous curve)
• Controllable simulation delay
• Extended start dialog (Image)
• Flexible block comments (Image1, Image2, Image3)
• Fast connect dialog for non-graphical drawing of connections (Image)
• Operation mode depending block bitmaps (e. g. for comparator)
• Separate outputs for P-, I- and D-part in PID-block
• Extended system block: Integrator with alignment and stop
• Adjustable block caption colour (Image)
• Different grid types for worksheet
• Redrawing of connections by context menu
• Direct access to block output window via options toolbar
• Flexible diagram labelling (y-t-plotter, Multi-plotter, …) (Image1, Image2, Image3)
• Mouse-controlled zooming of diagrams (Image1, Image2)
• Slider and rotation knob controllable by cursor keys
• New system block: Characteristic map plotter (Image)
• Tolerance band for Multi-plotter (Image)
• Direct determination of the frequency response of superblocks
• Improved measurement mode for Bode-plotter
• Restoring of block output window by pressing <Shift>- resp. <Ctrl>-key and double-click on block
• Unit delay-block now has the default setting Sample time = Simulation step size (helpful for resolving algebraic loops)
• New zoomable virtual instruments (Image)
• Integrated add-ons (Details in Video (German))
  Some add-ons liable to pay costs so far now are integrated in BORIS:
  • PID Design Center for the design of PID-controllers based on a set of different design methods
  • System Identification Center for the identification of linear plants using miscellaneous techniques
  • VB Script Modul for programming own system blocks based on the VB Script programming language which is part of Windows
• Packer for SIM-Files
  If SIM-files resulting from simulations with a small step size are saved, these typically contain a very large number of pairs of values. Using these files for creating corresponding WMF-files with the graphic module INGO results in large files. This packer tool simply reduces the file size by an assignable factor copying only each n-th pair of values from the original file to the target file.

As usual users of older versions can purchase favorably priced updates of the new versions.