New editions of Renga with new functionalities
We are thrilled to share with you two important news of this fall.
Renga Standard and Renga Professional
The latest release has come out recently with not one, but two versions of Renga. The Renga Professional and Renga Standard editions are designed to automate problem solving for different target audiences. Renga Standard is intended primarily for companies engaged in individual commercial design (sole proprietors, freelancers, private studios engaged in the design of low-rise buildings). Renga Professional is a reliable and efficient BIM tool for design companies, corporations, holdings designing buildings and structures, as well as for individual users and small teams that engage in co-executioning complex projects that require collaboration in real time. We tried to deliver tools for all possible tasks that may occur during design process, and combined Renga functionality into two software editions specifically for each of you.
Products differ in functionality, cost and licensing policies. We hope that every Renga user will be able to choose the edition that is suitable for achieving their goals. You can learn more about the editions and how they differ from each other by visiting our website.
Creating new types of parametric engineering equipment
The second news: we added the long-awaited opportunity to expand the variety of parametric engineering equipment in Renga. If previously structural engineer could use only 102 types of parametric equipment, the latest version doesn't has this limit. Users now have the opportunity to work with new types of equipment; this could be, for example, air conditioners, split systems, video surveillance equipment and much more. And most importantly, the equipment will be parametric and with ports for connecting to utility lines. Overall, you can create any engineering equipment, not limited to what comes with the Renga distribution kit.
All this thanks to the new, unique, object-oriented STDL language (Style Template Description Language), developed by our team specifically for this task, which has no analogues in the whole world.
For reference: Renga STDL is owned by Renga Software and is based on the LUA scripting language, additionally using the JSON format to define a set of object style parameters, and also providing a set of Style Template API functions for interacting with Renga.
Managing equipment categories
Renga Professional users have now the ability to import, rename and delete any categories of equipment in projects. The new category editor allows customizing project templates for specific tasks depending on the company design profile (Fig. 1).
Fig.1 New “Manage Styles” editor
Collaboration functionality development
Renga Professional users may also notice improvements when collaborating in real time designing windows, doors and openings in some scenarios. In particular, this concerns the object offset when working with enclosing structures (Figure 2).
Fig. 2. Better collaboration in real time mode
Improved work with model line
Our users have repeatedly asked to improve the work with the model line. It relates to:
- model line export to CSV;
- ability to manage the properties of model lines, as well as display and use parameters and properties of model lines in filters, schedules, legends and markers.
Assigning properties to a model line like any other element in a 3D view allows, for example, representing the model line as a fitting element, which allows adding the line to the schedule and, if necessary, exporting the data to CSV. When creating drawings, it now becomes possible to create an automatic legend or use filters based on properties assigned to a model line. The use of filters in this case is also relevant in 3D view (Fig. 3).
Fig.3. Using properties in model line for schedules and drawings
You are welcome to download our full trial version of Renga right now and experience all tools and functionality that will lead you to improved project outcomes.
Author: Irina Bryleva, Renga Software product manager