Friday, August 7, 2009

Construction cranes

With the new IMPACT 9.0 we have made a total redesign of the database and also a new powerful configuration tool 'IMPACT Adminitrative Tool'. All old superusers will be surprised, no more tables. The new database will be a very good platform for the future development.

The development of version 9.1 is already almost done and the tesing has started. One new component is the Crane. You can add different cranes types with differnt lifting capacities at different radiuses and make restrictions to sectors, max height and max radius. You can then add virtual construction cranes to the 3D model. IMPACT will check the units mass with the crane capacity.



In the example above the green elements are ready for production, the red are not ready and the blue are to hevay for the crane. (You can use your own colors.) The new tooltip will show element information like Type, Name, Id, Phase, Mass etc.

You can also set and show erection sequence in the 3D model. All information will of course be transfered to the planning systems like Betsy and Eliplan.