Release notes 1.54

📢 What's new

New features

Custom stringing pattern creation for a selected area

You can now create a custom stringing pattern and use it to fill a selected area, in just a few steps. The system will fill the designated area using all available strings. However, partial patterns are omitted if insufficient space is available, and strings are not placed if modules are absent. This gives you greater control and flexibility in designing layouts.

How does it work?

1. Define a pattern: Select Custom stringing pattern and click String modules to define a pattern.
2. Select area: Select the specific area where you want to apply the custom pattern.
3. Initiate fill: From a context menu, select the Fill area with pattern command. 

System logic
The system takes the user-defined pattern and begins to repeat it across the selected area, starting from the top-left corner and moving left-to-right, then top-to-bottom.
For each potential placement of the pattern, the system checks for two key conditions:

• All modules present: It verifies that all modules required for the pattern exist in the designated location within the fill area.
• Full pattern space: It ensures there is enough room to place the entire pattern.

If a location passes both checks, the pattern is placed.
If either condition fails (a module is missing or there is only space for a partial pattern), the system skips that placement and does not place any part of the pattern in that location.

Improvements

Improved handling of polyface mesh roofs with holes

This release features an improvement in the handling of polyface mesh roofs, especially those with holes. Polyface mesh roofs that include holes will now be accurately converted into solid roofs. This improvement simplifies the process of designing PV systems on imported designs from platforms such as Revit.

Azimuth deviation notification 

After generating a layout, the system will now notify you if the selected module azimuth deviates slightly from the area's edge azimuth. The notification will show both values and will recommend matching the edge azimuth for better outcomes. It will appear if the edge azimuth is within 3° of your module azimuth input.
 

Minor updates 

• Seamless irradiance analysis with duplicated object IDs.
• Improved geometry for intersecting roof ridges: Adding a horizontal ridge to a roof with an existing vertical ridge will not alter the roof's geometry, regardless of whether the new ridge is lower than the initial one.
• Correct copy-paste of leap frog and daisy-chain stringing types: You can now copy and paste both daisy-chain and leap-frog stringing types, and use them to restrung new modules correctly.
• Improved PV*SOL project import when file is compatible.
• Assign slope functionality now available for any edge.