Windowmaker Technical Bulletin

Windowmaker Technical Bulletin – March 2011

Dear Customer,

We are delighted to announce the release of Windowmaker 5.950. It is an enhanced version with lots of exciting and eagerly awaited features and functionality. If you have not seen this latest release and would like to learn more – nothing could be easier. The important enhancements of Windowmaker 5.950 are summarised below.

As always, please email us with your feedback.

Technical Support Team at Windowmaker
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What’s New in Windowmaker 5.950

Some of the important new features/enhancements in Windowmaker 5.950 are:

Multiple Profile and Fittings Modules
Windowmaker now supports set-up of Multiple Modules (3 each) of Profile and Fittings data. This is expected to be useful to fabricators who use multiple materials or have multiple suppliers within a single material. For more information, click here.

Windload
The set-up of required Rigidity (EIx) calculations is now also available for French mullions, slider interlocks, folding features and 180 degree bay-poles.

The calculations for these are on the same lines as for the frame transom/mullion and coupler features.
This helps ensure that the profiles used as these features in sliders, bi-fold doors, French doors, combination pane types and flat bays have the required rigidity to withstand possible deflections under given wind pressure.

Windowseller product: Create unlimited sales orders
There is now no limit to the number of sales quotes/sales orders that can be created in the Windowseller program irrespective of whether using the:

Free base level program.
Program level limiting sales order storage to 50 or 250 sales quotes/sales orders.

Export Glass XML

Glass Purchase Orders can now also be generated in the ‘XML (XSD)’ format for transmitting electronically to the glass supplier. The earlier XML format was based on DTD. The new XSD based format is better in the following ways:

While DTD lacks expressiveness and readability, XSDs are far more powerful in describing XML languages. It makes the XML more readable and easily editable.
XSDs also use an XML-based format which makes it easier to access and post-process.
The earlier format required the Glazing.DTD file, of the correct version, to be present in the same folder when accessing the XML file. The XSD format remove this dependency.
The XSD format is more generic and not specific to Glass purchase orders. In future, this may be extended to generate Purchase orders for other products (e.g. Profiles, Fittings, Frames).

Sales Order Imports (Click on the image for an enlarged view) The Glass Purchase Orders generated (as above) can be automatically imported as sales quotes/sales orders in the Windowmaker program, if present, at the supplier’s end.
Standard Products (Click on the image for an enlarged view) The prices of Standard Products can now be quickly updated to reflect changes in, e.g. costs of components or product specification.

Links to Machinery

Windowmaker Links to Machinery are now also available for:

Urban AKS 6250 Welder
RAPID PCE 5000 Saw
Thorwestern DGS/PBZ Machining Centre

In addition to the above list there are several other enhancements in different functional areas. The full list of what’s new in Windowmaker 5.950 is available here. The Release Notes are available here. Check out the What’s New page to get a comprehensive list of enhancements to the product since your existing version.

Important notes

The program now supports SQL Server 2008 R2. The program will continue to support SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 (for SQL Server based Windowmaker products) and SQL Express 2008 SP1 (for SQL Express edition based Windowmaker products).

Please refer to the Windowmaker SQL Express Installation Guide if you want to upgrade your current Express Edition to SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Edition. Please contact your database administrator to upgrade your current SQL Server (non-Express) Edition to SQL Server 2008 R2.

Please refer to the Wm5.9 Upgrade Advisor for instructions on how to upgrade your existing product to Wm5.900 or higher.

Upgrade to Windowmaker 5.950 Now!

If you have a valid WUP, please contact us for a new license file to start using the program.
If you do not have a valid WUP, please contact your Account Manager or email us.
Please email us if you would like a trial of this version.

Should you have any further queries on Windowmaker 5.950, please email help@windowmaker.com.

We would be pleased to answer your questions, show you a hands-on demo, send you brochures or a preliminary quotation.

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