Changes in WindPRO 2.5 Hotfix 7a ERROR CORRECTIONS - Adjustments in French noise calculation IMPROVEMENTS - Updated French translations Changes in WindPRO 2.5 Hotfix 7 ERROR CORRECTIONS - Photomontage. Solved problem with black images with some 8-bit bitmaps - WTGAreas spanning over more UTM zones could cause problems - SHADOW shadow receptors partly invisible is now always considered fully visible - Error using Map composer and following change of coordinate system. - User defined colors for WTG symbols in reports did not work - STATGEN Sometimes error in selecting the right height from a Meteo object when using second decimal - PARK design realize didn't respect the new Exclusive area propery on a WTG area IMPROVEMENTS - NOISE New spectral distribution on noise demands. - NOISE Predefined country specific demands on NSA objects - NOISE Improved inter/extrapolation of WTG noise - NOISE In manual noise data input, fields are now pre filled with same values as used in auto calculation - Improved interpration of map file header to recognise coordinate system - DXF files now read DXF files with points - Much improved speed when importing shape files located on LAN - Max distance for use of Wind statistic in RESGEN calculation - WINDBANK New company owned project type, more flexible use of currency - EGrid now generates a bitmap file with the grid layout - New North American UTM NAD27 with enhanced precision - Country names in German - ZVI Standard ZVI and cumulative ZVI are now mutual exclusive Changes in WindPRO 2.5 Hotfix 6 ERROR CORRECTIONS - Error in energy calculation when coordinate system changed in projects using optimized *.map files - Shape export from Result Layer - PARK Eddy Viscosity Model: Corrected problem with wake results when inflow wind speeds exceeded the cut-out winds speed - Fixed problem setting hub-height with wrong decimal separator - OPTIMIZE deviation between result from optimize and park calculation - Terrain report very time consuming when using new Danish IT maps - MCP Advanced disabled/enable did not work - MCP Date interval filter setup fixed - DECIBEL octave data was sometimes lost in calculations using more wind speeds - Detection of zone in coordinate system could fail when map file header was written from WAsP Map Editor - Wrong air density was some times used for Wind energy in result for key hub height in Park main report and others IMPROVEMENTS - Meteo Object: When editing turbulence in the meteo object (mean + standard deviation tables only), then the table must be put into edit mode. When this mode is enabled, automatic update of the sample statistics (omnidirectional and sectorwise statistics) is enabled. Previously these value was based on time series data only. - Line Object: When import xyz files, then if the file contains consecutive delimiters then these are now treated as one. - WINDCAT More digits in hub height for noise data - Roughness class increased from 4 to 5 (roughness length 6 m) - Cuban coordinate systems added - Prepared for running Windows Vista - Missing translated text in report languages added - New Danish noise calculation - eGrid calculation speed up (new dll version) - eGrid map setup for maps on main reports. - DECIBEL octave data from other wind speed are now used as basis for calcualtion of missing octave data - Better reports and result layer legend for Cumulative impact - ZVI better legend for graph in main report - New Swedish coordinate system Changes in WindPRO 2.5 Hotfix 5 ERROR CORRECTIONS - Displacement of height contours after using "Limit" utility - Meteo: Checkmark when enabling or disabling the individual WTG air density calculation was erroneously saved when cancel button pressed. - Hopefully removed access violations when starting calculation - Adjusted air density correction for power curves - DECIBEL Error when custom Air abs opened and Ok pressed, no air attenuation was used in calculation afterwards - MAP Error in using dynamic noise lines - Corners could miss in height grid used in DECIBEL, SHADOW and ZVI - "Invalid translation parameters" error while painting Area-object fixed. - Visual. Fixed problem rendering tiny rotors. - New Zealand coordinate system corrected - Vertical scaling of ambient turbulence: When using meteo data, then the scaling was based on the omnidirectional mean wind speeds rather than the sectorwise data - WINDBANK fixed a problem for Danish møllelaug - PARK calculation with Resource file, interpolation between different heights didn't work, lower height was always used. - Areas was moved when performing the EMD Editor "Merge contours" - METEO calculation wind energy in measure height were not air density corrected - Portugese D73 coordinate system corrected a) - Basis module was in demo mode when more basis licenses was present - No Wind data analysis in STATGEN and METEO calculation - Problems with shape export of huge result layers - Optimize error when using NSA points - No projetcs in Project Explorer IMPROVEMENTS - Cumulative impact in ZVI - Information on arrows about time limitation and no activation - Enabled drawing lines from objects on map, to objects in a visualization - Enabled setting colors on WTG symbols on the map, and in visualizations - OPTIMIZE Elliptical distance demands Explicit exclusion area check in WTG area Buffer zones in WTG area New Auto fill feature just filling in turbines based on distance demands with no energy optimizing Full NSA now used as exclusion area - not only Points - PARK Calculation speed up when using old NO Jensen model, a double calculation only needed for turbulence calculations - Now possible to show Z coordinate and slope on symbol label on the map - Enabled import of binary Surfer6 and Surfer7 height contour data - Vertical scaling of ambient turbulence: When missing data in the turbulence specification height (typically when using rsf-files) - then the user is now prompted if data could be used without vertical scaling - Show detailed TIN using solid colors, now uses the advanced color setup from the symbol - Polish coordinate systems added - Japanese coordinate systems generalized Changes in WindPRO 2.5 Hotfix 4b ERROR CORRECTIONS - DECIBEL Error when custom air absorbtion is called and ok pressed - no air attenuation was applied Changes in WindPRO 2.5 Hotfix 4 ERROR CORRECTIONS - RESOURCE Calculation based on WTG areas could miss edge points - eGrid could only make transformation to lower voltage levels - Error in shape file import introduced in hot fix 3 - ESRI Shape file reading (GIS): Erroneous reading height contours fixed (a problem introduced with an earlier build of this hotfix). - IT maps, color problem on new IT maps - UMBRA reports are now selected as default - Terrain Profile. Problem with false "No TIN available" error message fixed - UMBRA ZVI was not used in some cases. IMPROVEMENTS - Extreme Wind Speed Estimation: A WindPRO report has been added to this tool. - Meteo Object: Detailed WindPRO reporting of IEC 61400-1 (ed. 2 and ed. 3) characteristic turbulence intensities is now available. Go to the Setup of the Meteo Object to select which IEC code to use. - Reading ESRI Shape Files (GIS): Support of more dbase databasefile formats. Also nordic characters are now supported within the database fields. - Line Object: Support for gridded height data in Surfer and ArcGIS grid format (.grd and .asc file extensions). Data must be in ASCII format. - EGrid: Taking apparent power of loads into account, calculating aimed capacity - EGrid: Now updates To/From fields of cable editor "on the fly", thus preventing circular connections - EGrid: Now updates length and aimed capacity fields in cable-editor when to/from fields are changed - EGrid: Simplifyed EGrid table, to eliminate problems and speed up program (removed drop-downs) - EGrid: Added double-click events to EGrid table, to ease the access to the cable/object editor - EGrid: Now shows the Cable-editor when a cable is automatically created from a transformer to a WTG - EGrid: Added new Short Circuit Power criteria for the cable cross-section calculation - EGrid: Updates all cables and transformers after closing the EGrid data editor - EGrid: Checking/Unchecking cables is updated in cable-table - Photo montage: Faster "Surface as validation" and grid surface rendering - Photo montage: Problems with "holes" in grid surface near camera fixed - DATA: Enabled import of Grid data from Surfer and Arc GIS format. Can now import area roughness data from *.grd format from http://www.dataforwind.com/ - New WAsP dll with capacity of 1.000.000 points in map file - Swiss and Estonian coordinate system - Elleptical distance "circles" on WTGs - Background map quality in report setup Changes in WindPRO 2.5 Hotfix 3 ERROR CORRECTIONS - UMBRA always calculated for all WTGs - UMBRA general error in taking ZVI calculation into account - RIX required contour file to be linked to object - not file - in Site data object - RIX required TIN in all area for RIX calculation - DECIBEL did not recognize pure tone penalty when put in be user during calculation - WINDBANK handling annual tax percents in none Danish projects - OBJETCS hidden objects created in connection with Terrain profile is now deleted - AIR DENSITY REPORTING: When not using the individual WTG air density correction, the hub height temperature was reported erroneously. - PARK / Turbulence: Reports of reduced wind speeds and turbulence overview was swapped. Error now corrected. - UMBRA area objects can now be deselected IMPROVEMENTS - Bezier smoothing of contour lines from the EMD Editor - NOISE Generalized input of air absoption coefficients when the General ISO9613 method is used - Extreme Wind Estimator: An additional method for determining independent samples has been added - Turbulence calculation: Added direction weighted wake generated turbulence table to the WTG results page - METEO DATA speed improvement when reading raw data files with many errors - Support for newest KMS IT-files Changes in WindPRO 2.5 Hotfix 2 Mar 2006 ERROR CORRECTIONS - Results from Swedish noise calculations from WindPRO 2.4 can now be shown - Sometimes error when deleting objects - Updating object list after adding/deleting default height contour object - Repaint problem after inserting new height contour object - Error using zoom tool in Maps and Objects - Error when creating profile without sufficient TIN data - In sector wise wind profiles the wind speed for no ororgraphy and no obstacles were not shown - In shadow reports WTGs in a row were handled as one WTG - Zoom in out in maps and objects. Error fixed. - Error in ZVI main report when existing WTGs are used - In map composer restricted areas for NSA object were not shown - Disabled "optimize for TIN" prompt while performing calculation IMPROVEMENTS - Bezier smoothing of contour lines from the EMD Editor - Allow 3dalone to run same time as WindPRO - 3DA projects can now be burned to CD from WindPRO - Remember "Don't ask me again" selection in "Optimize data for TIN calculation, even if file not saved - Chinese and Korean coordinate systems - Japanese coordinate systems - Cleaned up in error log messages Changes in WindPRO 2.5 Hotfix 1 Jan 2006 ERROR CORRECTIONS - Air density setup changed the temperature when edit form was entered - WTG search paths on network drives caused problems during startup. - Profile - Fixed problem when using 3D-Objects in profile - EGrid - Updated validation of voltage-levels on External Grid object - Fixed deadlock situation when error-message is hidden behind open dialog - Fixed error when using text/line tools in visual and profile - Extreme wind estimator - License language was wrong - Shadow - wrong shaped calculation area in first calculation with geographic coordinate system - Windbank - error when linked to park calculation - Extreme wind - license handling corrected - eGrid - license key in French and Spanish - Error when loading project with missing default hightcontour file. - Holes in wiregrid in front of cameras in Photomontage, when rendering rectangular wiregrids IMPROVEMENTS - Faster z-value, when pre-calculated TIN on large areas. - Profile - Brighter colors - Wind speed range for Dutch noise calculations - Enabled CD burning of 3DA projects directly from WindPRO - Includes updated WTGs