Service Release 5 for Studio 8 released

Service Release 5 for Powersim Studio 8 is now ready for download.

This service release introduces Australian and New Zealand Dollars as built-in currency units as well as other improvements and bug fixes.

Download the latest Service Release / Feature Pack for Studio 8 here.

Improvements:

• Improved the 'Connect Submodels' dialog. The dialog now recognizes existing connections from the source submodel and suggests the 'Create link only' alternative when the suggested bindings are identical to the existing bindings.

• Improved tooltip/error text for submodels having invalid children. It now lists the names of the public children that probably need to be connected.

• Added new currency units: AUD, CAD, NZD (Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Dollar), and CHF (Swiss Franc).

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a problem that in some cases could cause Powersim Studio to terminate unexpectedly when running simulations with series variables on multi-core computers.

• Fixed a problem that caused incorrect calculation of delay functions and other state functions using delayed input from levels.

• Fixed a problem that sometimes caused Powersim Studio to terminate unexpectedly when selecting <No Referance Data> in the Reference Data dropdown list.

• Fixed a problem that sometimes caused Powersim Studio to terminate unexpectedly when using combo boxes in certain listviews, for example in the Database Dataset wizards.

• Fixed a problem that could cause a connection to be temporarily invalid when updating a submodel by replacing it with a newer version of the original component. The problem occurred only when a variable in the updated submodel had explicit type, unit and dimensions and this variable was referred by a variable outside the submodel.

• Fixed a problem that sometimes caused Powersim Studio to terminate unexpectedly when a submodel was deleted after a control with an indexed parameter was copied from the submodel to one of its parent diagrams.

• Fixed a problem that occurred in paste/drag-and-drop operations involving a variable with the same name in two or more related languages, e.g. US English and UK English. The problem also occurred when copying a component as a submodel if the component contained one or more such variables. This problem caused the new variable to be prefixed with "Copy of" in one of the languages only.

• Fixed a problem that could cause you to loose changes in a Database Dataset after a Change Source or a Synchronize operation.

• Fixed a problem that sometimes caused recurring identical values to appear in the tick labels of the time axis of the Time Graph control.

• Fixed a problem that caused the Samples and Tutorials entries of the Help menu to be disabled while the Task Assistant window was not visible.