BISCO upgrade info

Version 9.0w

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• BiscoDxf: conversion of DXF file to BMP file
  - Bitmap size, placement and resolution can be modified at any time
  - Load layer definition file of other data
• Read/write compressed 256-colours BMP files
• Faster response times when using drawing tools
• New bitmap editing functions:
  - Crop bitmap borders to remove border margin around drawing
  - Import BMP file into current bitmap
  - Delete colour preserves adjacent hard materials and expands adjacent soft materials (based on thermal conductivity)
• View/impose U values at bitmap borders
• Calculation of equivalent thermal conductivities of air cavities:
  - Optimisation of air cavities by detecting grooves and interconnections (smaller than 2 mm or 10 mm)
  - Editable surface emissivities
  - Automatic adjustment of heat flow direction
  - Use solution temperatures or default temperatures
  - Cavity at bitmap border mirrored or not (i.e. bitmap border is axis of symmetry or not)
• Thermal transmittance of window frame:
  - Frame with two glazings (i.e. two insulation panels)
  - Detect zones of reduced heat transfer (at internal boundary condition)
  - Initialisation of distances (based on window frame colour number)
  - Adjustment of distances with resize of bitmap or pixel
• Additional BISCO data template with more colour numbers for air cavities
• Text output: relative humidity for surface condensation
• Report generation:
  - Free definition of graphic report files (PNG or BMP)
  - Function "Make Report" generates text files and graphic files
  - MS Word template document with macro to import report files at bookmark locations

Version 8.0w

• More bitmap functions:
  - Insert/delete pixel band (e.g. to modify the width of a material layer)
  - Resize pixel without modifying the bitmap size (e.g. to get a rounded pixel size)
  - Delete colour in bitmap (e.g. to clean up the bitmap)
  - Merge colours (to reduce the number of colours having the same thermal properties)
  - Zoom in/out via mouse wheel
• More graphic output functions:
  - Automatic labelling of colour numbers in bitmap
  - Fill heat fluxes (to show the magnitudes of the local heat flow vectors)
• BiscoDxf: tool for fast conversion of DXF drawing (R14) to BISCO bitmap
  - Benefits: free definition of pixel size and bitmap size
  - Interesting for productive input of large amounts of well prepared DXF drawings
  - BiscoDxf only supports a limited set of DXF commands (e.g. 2D polyline)
  - No support is given (only resources are BiscoDxf manual and R14 DXF Reference)

Version 7.1w

• Transparent material (in RADCON module):
  for gas cavity with conductive and radiative heat transfer.

Version 7.0w

• Bitmap editing in BISCO:
  - View pixel coordinates
  - Draw pixels and lines
  - Colour pixel zones
  - Edit colour palette
  - Enlarge/reduce/rotate bitmap
• Undo/redo
• Easier use of BISCO template data file
• More info in Measures window
• Graphic output of calculation results:
  - Show temperature at cursor location
• Documentation:
  - Tutorial
  - Upgrade info for users of BISCO v6.0w
  - Excel sheet for special calculation of equivalent thermal conductivity in cavities

Version 6.0w

• BiscoPrep auxiliary program to edit colour numbers of a BISCO bitmap file.

• The zoom functions in the main window are made identical to the zoom functions in the Graphic Output window.

• The CEN rules in the Thermal Properties window are renamed (to make them conformable to the nomenclature in the Physibel program TRISCO).

• Two new types of boundary conditions have been introduced:
  1. Enclosures with unknown temperature and global surface heat transfer coefficient
      (type BC_FRE_S).
  2. Borderlines between colours having a fixed temperature or heat flux (“borderline BCs”).

• Line measures parallel to X and Y can be defined to get dimensional information and to be used in thermal transmittance definitions.

• Thermal quantities in line with European standards can be reported in the Text Output window: temperature factor (EN ISO 10211-2), linear thermal transmittance (EN ISO 10211-2), thermal transmittance of a window frame (prEN ISO 10077-2).

Version 5.0w

• Developed for Windows 95 / 98 / Windows NT.

• Easy switching between program languages (English, Dutch, French, German).

• Extensive material patterns.

• A preview of the geometry (bitmap figure) during the project selection.

• A highlighted preview of the current object colour clarifies the input of measurements and thermal properties.

• A preview of material properties during the material selection.

• A zoom function.

• An improved calculation method.  The calculation is about 50 times faster.

• Graphs can be stored as bitmaps with a user defined resolution.

• Built-in batch procedure to execute several calculations without any intervention of the operator.

• Built-in converter for data from previous BISCO versions.