FormIt 2022.1 – Bug Fixes

By Garry Stockton

FormIt Bug Fixes - Finally

Autodesk has been busy fixing nearly all bugs in previous releases (and many will say about time), especially when working with Dynamo. This release (20.22.1) should make the use of Dynamo that much slicker. I’ve highlighted just a few below, but you can read the full list of fixes in the release notes for Windows, Web and iPadOS, on Autodesk’s website.

Revit:

• Unexpected errors have been fixed when launching FormIt via 3D Sketch with nothing selected, or with no objects present in the Revit project.

Dynamo:

• Autodesk has fixed hangs, unexpected results or no results at all when running Dynamo samples in non-imperial units. Also, they fixed an issue where the SelectFromFormIt node would be missing its button when the operating system was set to a non-English language.
• Issues with the ‘FormItGroupOptions’ nodes have been fixed, including where disconnecting the node from the ‘SendToFormIt’ node would not reset to default settings, and where the ‘FormItGroupOptions’ port on the ‘SendToFormIt’ node was not marked as optional.

Energy Analysis:

• Several issues that could cause Energy Analysis to fail when generating results have been addressed.
• There was an issue where unsaved layer visibility states would not be considered when launching Energy Analysis, this has now been corrected

Solar Analysis:

• A common issue where tooltips would fail to show solar gain values on narrow, vertical surfaces.
• Several issues have been fixed in FormIt for Windows relating to the user interface, including palettes disappearing unexpectedly, interface elements being disabled unnecessarily, and interface elements appearing in the wrong location in some scenarios.

Modelling engine:

• Fixed, several issues that could cause failures during certain modelling operations, including splitting faces with new or pasted edges causing graphical artifacts, texture distortions or unexpected errors.

Inferencing/snapping engine:

• A big issue now fixed where inferencing or snapping would fail unexpectedly.

Graphics:

• Several issues have been fixed that addressed:
  Edge rendering, including edges disappearing when viewed head-on via Section Plane, edges in close proximity cancelling each other out, edges not drawing at all, and edges appearing in stale locations during move operations.
• Ground plane, including selected edges and faces not appearing selected when viewed through the ground plane.
• Group instance graphics, including Ctrl-copy graphics appearing in the wrong location or displaying an outdated state, and highlight inconsistencies during Cut and Join operations.

Levels:

• At times, although inconsistent, issues rose with level line graphics, including cases where level line visibility was incorrect, and cases where the lines would disappear or move unexpectedly during geometry editing operations.
• Fixed issues where levels would fail to cut through objects in certain scenarios, resulting in 0 area unexpectedly.

Tools:

• Lots of tool fixes including:
• Customer-reported issues with Move tool with Touch Mode, including where holding Shift and Ctrl during Move would cause unexpected results.
• Navigation tools, including an issue where switching from Pan to Orbit via Shift key would result in an unexpected view change.
• Selection tool, including where geometry near other geometry would be difficult to select, and where the tip of the cursor was not always aligned properly with the resulting selection.

General interface:

• Autodesk has sorted customer-reported issues where FormIt would launch with a white screen on secondary monitors, or where the Set Location dialog would fail to render on secondary monitors.

Please note: All the enclosed information has been offered by Autodesk and is available for download from Autodesk.com