BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise 2017 Release Notes

What's New in Publisher Release 2014 SP1

BlueCielo Publisher 2014 SP1 adds the following new fixes and improvements:

• A new rendering module based on Revit is now available for rendering Revit project and family files to DWF, DWFx, IFC, BMP, JPG, PNG, TGA, and TIFF formats.
• New publishing options for the MeridianQueue.RegisterDocument method have been added to support rendering multiple layouts in the same AutoCAD drawing to separate renditions. The _RenderLayouts_ option can be used to specify which layouts to render. A new VBScript property Document.LayoutsNames can be used to present the layout names to the user for selection. The _LayoutFilenameFormat_ option can be used to specify the names of the layout renditions. That option supports pre-defined placeholders for the source file name and the name of each layout. This feature is supported by the AutoCAD, AutoVue, and Acme rendering modules.
• A new rendering module based on the Acme CAD Converter is now available for rendering DWG and DWF files to Adobe PDF format.
• SolidWorks 2015 is supported as a rendering application.
• Communications with the source system now only occur during publishing and not when registering a document for publishing.
• A new setting Publish action for file extension not assigned in any rendering profile has been added to the rendering options of a publishing job. This setting has two options: Publish unrendered and Do not publish.
• The Use existing renditions option was not available for publishing jobs that were configured for a Meridian Enterprise vault as the destination.
• Rendition merging options are now available for rendition type publishing jobs (same source and destination vault) . We recommend that the business ramifications of these options be carefully considered before use because they can result in content appearing in the rendition (from related documents) that does not exist in the source document.
• Creating a new rendering profile with the Autodesk Inventor rendering module and the AutoVue Document Converter printer driver could produce the error System.ArgumentException: The parameter is incorrect and has been fixed.
• The MicroStation rendering module has been discontinued due to license restrictions. The alternative is to use the new Teigha rendering module.
• The Use view from rendering profile option of the job option now works correctly.
• New options Color, Data fields, and Text nodes have been added to the Teigha rendering module to support those MicroStation features. The module also now supports system-defined page sizes. These improvements make the rendering module more similar to the discontinued MicroStation rendering module.
• The positioning of electronic signature information by the Use exact location option has been improved.
• The file name of documents in a destination system may now be calculated by a simple expression similar to property mapping expressions. The expression can include AutoCAD layout properties (__LayoutProperties property set) and layout names (__LayoutProperties._NAME).
• New options Publish template, Input extensions, Use for empty extensions, and Template PDF file have been added to the rendering options of publishing jobs. They allow a template file to be published for documents that have no file content to render.
• The BlueCielo Project Portal system link was missing from the Meridian Enterprise 2014 setup package and has been replaced.
• A warning will now be added to the publishing log if rendering revisions of a document fails due to mismatched file formats between the source document and the rendition. Previously, the job would fail and an error would be logged.