Release notes 3.8.0

Update Date: 2025-08-01

Update highlights:

1. User-defined Slope and Aspect Range for Terrain Coloring

2. The phalanx has been equipped with a brand-new interface and undergone relevant functional improvements

3. Terrace layout features comprehensive functions

4. New Combine Divide function

5. Brand-new Medium voltage cable connection function

6. The Cable list is layered to set the burial depth, ensuring a more accurate calculation of cable quantities

7. Brand-new Find Pile Length function

8. Exporting to PVsyst automatically simplifies mountains and elevates arrays, speeding up the import of DAE

9. New interface and related functional improvements for Cable laying material selection

10. Add the function of generating cable bridge piles

11. Adjust arrays and generate site leveling general plan to support setting earthwork balance

12. Added the function of importing and exporting setting parameters, facilitating collaboration and unified settings

13. Improvement of automatic chamfering on roads

Update Description:

1. Generate terrain

Supports selecting a txt file to generate

Add inspection of contours, elevation points, and dmtz-dgx anomalies

Add the button to import contour lines, and set the default color for importing polylines

Add the function of coloring contour lines according to elevation

Add relevant usage tips

2. Slope analysis

Add the function of coloring slope angles and aspect based on a user-defined range, and generate corresponding layers.

Add the function of utilizing the last cached data

Increase the area and Ratio in the legend at the top left corner

3. Hill-shading analysis

Add the function of analyzing based on the summer solstice (southern hemisphere)

Increase the area and Ratio in the legend at the top left corner

4. Create zones

Associated arrays: Add User-defined Ratio function

5. Array layout

Fill layout: If the filling array overlaps with an existing array, the corresponding filling array will be automatically deleted

Fill layout: If the front and back rows of filled arrays overlap with each other, the corresponding filled array in the back row will be automatically deleted

Terrace layout: Add the function of drawing centerlines, and the orientation of arrays can be chosen between priority for the back ridge or priority for facing south

Import: Optimization of the performance of Pairing half string arrays

Follow terrain aspect: Prompt the user to choose whether to automatically rotate the PV array from facing north to facing south

Following face and aspect arrangement: Before arranging, check and prompt the user to choose the corresponding operation in advance

Interface: A newly designed interface with added parameters: Minimal N-S pitch and Maximal N-S pitch

Variable pitch - Optimize pitch adjustment: to adapt to flat ground and achieve a more orderly layout

Horizontal gap: When placing arrays, draw the center entity line even if the horizontal gap is less than the pitch

User-defined pitch: Consider the impact of the minimum gap

6. Review shading

When there is a locked array, the "Delete shaded arrays" function will also select all arrays that are blocking the locked array

7. Create road

When creating, editing, or modifying the centerline of a road, the intersections of the road's outer contour will automatically be chamfered

When creating roads (centerlines, contour lines), circular roads are supported

Draw central line of the road: Chamfering can be automatically applied when importing from layer

When editing the central line of the road, frame selection, multiple selection, and inverse selection are supported

When drawing and editing centerlines, add relevant alignment and adsorption functions

8. Half-string pairing

The quantity of PV modules in each PV array can be specified

Increase the frame selection/set clear half-string pairing function

Optimization of related interactive display

9. The array is combined according to the PV modules

Add menu items to Other strings and remove them from strings in the right-click menu

Revoke related operations and improve

Utilize the interactive correlation function for optimization

10. Divide power block

Auto create power block: When the number of arrays is small, fix the issue of not dividing according to the preset uneven division plan

Optimize the rendering effect of the flat single axis

Modify transformer locations or import new transformer functions in batch, add transformer orientation parameters, and update templates

11. Electrical connection

Cancel the Continuous partition mode, and add the functions of "Create multiple Combine Areas - By Plan" and "Create multiple Combine Areas - Redesign Plan"

Optimize menu options and interaction operations to facilitate users in quickly completing electrical connection

12. View cable tool

Combine devices can be vertically projected onto cable routes, but they are still preferably projected horizontally onto cable routes

When calculating the output cable of Combine device, it is no longer directly connected to the edge of the array through the device

Cables that are not excessively long in the Cable list are displayed as issues requiring handling for excessively long cables in this tool

When calculating the routing of cables in strings along the back of the PV array, the endpoints of the cable paths on the array surface should be connected to the midline of the array

When calculating cable routes, the burial depth of the cables should be taken into consideration

Strings can be projected through specified cable routes

When calculating cables, the performance of determining whether a line segment passes through a road is improved by using a box to obtain the road polygon part within the range

13. MV cable connection

Brand-new Medium voltage cable connection function

14. Array analysis

Azimuth and Aspect support input within the range of 135-225°, which will be automatically recognized as 135-180° and -180 to -135°

Add the function of Real tilt/azimuth statistics

When exporting to Excel, check whether the actual range of the mountains is the same as the calculated range and provide a prompt

Add a check box option on the Real tilt/azimuth and Nominal/tilt/azimuth interfaces to filter only specified items

15. Export dwg

The laying type, cable specifications, and quantity of each cable route can be displayed (currently only supports thick cables buried directly, as well as marking for cables passing through pipes)

Electrical System Diagram - Add CT and PT Markings

Support the export of results from mountain and hill-shading analysis to CAD, and mark the legend

Export Layout Area supports exporting internal holes

16. Export cable list

The cable burial depth can be set hierarchically

17. Post coordinate

New Pile length Find function

18. Export to PVsyst

When exporting DAE and H2P files, it supports simplifying mountains and allows for the simultaneous selection and elevation of the entire opposing formation to prevent it from getting stuck in the mountains

When the size of the exported DAE scene exceeds 7 kilometers, add corresponding prompts

Export the DAE file, addressing the issue of a 180-degree difference in the southern hemisphere project

When accelerating the import of terrain faces into PVsyst

When exporting a DAE, the SKP file will no longer be automatically saved first

Export range is newly added by power block

19. Candela3D shading object

When placing obstructions, pressing Enter will pop up a window for entering geodetic coordinates, which supports preset dimensions and other related parameters;

Shading object: Add the function of deleting all shadow range lines in the right-click menu

Object shadow range: Right-click menu to increase the selected shading object range

Add a rectangular prism as a shading object

20. Trench Statistics

Add the function of automatically generating support piles for cable trays

New interface for Cable laying material selection

Add AC/DC big cables laying in cable conduit, and add strings laying vertically buried

Increase the limit of the maximum number of cables per pipe for all types of cable laying

When the laying type is Buried, the vertical segment to the horizontal segment of the cable route is set to be laid in a buried manner

Cable laying material statistics increase summary sheet

21. Adjust arrays and generate site leveling general plan

Support setting earthwork balance for Selected PV zones

After the site leveling is completed, an Excel sheet containing all the site leveling parcel information will be automatically exported

Support the site leveling for arranging arrays facing north

22. Create fence

Enhance the Create performance and fix related bugs

23. Import and Export of Interface Parameters

New features facilitate collaboration and unified parameter settings

24. English support

Export feasibility study report, production calculation report, and voltage drop calculation report, all of which support English

25. Other

Fixed other known bugs