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On small jobs, Job Tracking could ask you to inspect more parts than the job had. A 2-piece job with a 2-piece sample plan and First Article turned on asked for the First Article plus two samples. Now, when the sample plan already covers the whole lot, the First Article counts as one of those samples.
This applies to in-process checkpoints, on new jobs and on jobs whose quantities change.
When your customer sends an inch STEP file but your machines want millimeters, you no longer need a conversion step. The flat pattern view now has two download buttons, .dxf (in) and .dxf (mm).
2D drawings in the CAD viewer now open with the Pan tool selected, so your first drag moves the drawing instead of tilting it. Orbit is still in the toolbar.
The Materials grid toolbar now has one Actions menu (Mark Active, Mark Inactive, Add Vendor, Add Sizing). Options that don't fit your selection stay visible but greyed out.
A material's size list can get long once remnants pile up. The size list in the material panel now has an All sizes / In stock / Stock sizes filter, wherever that panel opens, including the Items grid, the bill of materials (BOM) material editor and purchasing planning.
When one vendor quotes by the pound and another by the piece, comparing them in the item's Vendors grid was guesswork. Every price column now shows the price per the item's own inventory unit, with the vendor's original unit price in smaller text underneath, so the numbers line up and match what the bill of materials (BOM) charges.
Saving or printing a drawing from an Item or Job page used to mean opening it in a new tab first. Now each attachment's ... menu has Download, and Print for PDFs, right where you're looking at the file.
The Time Clock showed the time in 24-hour format only. A new switch shows it as 2:20 PM instead of 14:20. Turn on System Data → Jobs → Job Tracking Setup → Show 12-hour time on the Time Clock, then refresh your Time Clock screens.
When you nestimate jobs, a drawing that can't be converted used to drop its parts from the nest without a word. The Nestimation panel now shows a "This nest is missing parts" box listing each job, item and file it left out, and tags any drawing with no unit as "Unit unknown". Set the drawing's unit from the DXF Units dropdown on the routing step's Attachments tab, and it nests at the right size.
The Work In Progress report now ends with a Customer column, so you can see whose job each line is without looking it up. It's blank for jobs with no customer, in both the on-demand download and the monthly snapshot.
The search bar on Create A Work Order now also matches the description of the item being made, so you can find operations by what a part is, not just its number.
When a job has parts cut from different materials, such as a steel top assembly with an aluminum subcomponent, creating a work order from Nest Planning used to pull in every part of the job, whatever material it was cut from. Now, in the Jobs to Nest panel, tick the parts you want and click the new WO Creation Rule button next to Create Nest. The work order gets only those parts, and the rest of the job stays in Nest Planning, ready to nest on its own material.
You need the Edit Job permission to see the button.
Approving or scheduling a nest used to be blocked outright when part quantities didn't line up, which could leave you stuck going around in circles. Now you get a clear warning and can confirm to carry on. Over-assigned parts show in red and ask you to confirm; parts with no job or only partly assigned show in amber as a heads-up.
If your operators write actual setup and run times by hand, the estimates printed on the traveler just get in the way. A new Job Tracking setting, off by default, removes the estimated time columns from every operation on the printed traveler and leaves that space blank for writing in.
To turn on: System Data → Jobs → Job Tracking Setup → Hide estimated times on the job traveler
On a job that makes sub-assemblies, the Make Items Required (Rollup) table shows a Demand number for each item while the job is in Needs Review or Engineering. Click it to see where that demand comes from. The Jobs table in that window now has a Quantity In Production column, so you can see how many each open job is already making before you decide how many more to build.
