Clever Suite Updates
The story of the product, release after release: new features, improvements and fixes from 2020 to today.
Quality and stabilization
A steadier release cycle, higher numerical precision in reports and the first automated tests on the component catalogue.
- v5.5.3Quality
Report precision and the first automated tests
- Corrected decimal precision in autotransformer calculation reports.
- Revised the thresholds that drive material choice for clamping elements.
- Changing the conductor material in inductor general data now updates values predictably.
- Introduced an automated test suite over the component catalogue.
- Electrical calculation code cleaned up and documented.
The new user experience
Redesigned interface, workspaces and project status, result pages built with embedded web technology. Coverage extends to inductors, small-size components and autotransformers.
- v5.1.0New feature
Autotransformer support
- Calculation engine and reporting extended to autotransformers.
- v5.0Major release
Redesigned interface and new result pages
- Completely redesigned interface, with a new sidebar, quick project search and navigation organized by work pages.
- The workspace replaces the archive and shows each project's status, draft or final, directly in the list.
- New result pages built with embedded web technology for general data, costs, technical specifications and diagrams, updated the moment the data changes.
- Conductor and winding drawings generated directly inside the result pages.
- Automatic restore of the last open project, with data kept in sync across every view of the application.
- Coverage extended to inductors and small-size components, with dedicated data and reports.
- Consistent number formatting and rounding across interface, calculation and reports.
- Broader localization, with text aligned across all views.
- Updated development platform and fewer external dependencies, for a faster application startup.
- More robust error handling on incomplete data and values that cannot be computed.
Technical drawing and standard components
Drawings are generated straight from the calculation (busbars, outputs, overall dimensions) and flow into the reports as vector graphics. Design on standard components arrives, together with a lighter product mode.
- v4.2Major release
Busbars, standard components and vector drawings
- New busbar sheet, with output busbar calculation, dimensioned drawings for flat, oblique and double-bend versions, and a dedicated report.
- Technical drawings generated as vector graphics and embedded in the reports, with print quality that holds at any scale.
- Design on standard components, with a unified bill of materials and dedicated rules.
- New editor for overall dimension drawings.
- Simplified product mode, switched on from configuration, for lighter design needs.
- Full PDF export reorganized, with page numbering and the new reports included.
- Broader configuration: more construction parameter tables available to authorized users.
- Resizable configuration window, with search and sorting on every grid.
- More precise record selection and positioning in the component pick lists.
- Numerous fixes to layer build-up, weights, overall dimensions and consistency between calculation and reports.
From calculation tool to design platform
The calculation extends downstream: bills of materials, metalwork, documentation, PDF export and test room. Built-in configuration arrives, letting authorized users adapt parameters and rules without touching the code.
- v4.1.1Minor release
Outputs, terminals and strip conductor
- Automatic terminal selection, falling back to the generic component when no specific one exists.
- Terminal and sleeving selection rules unified into a single standard behaviour.
- Full support for strip conductor in both calculation and reporting.
- On small-size components, two parallel conductors can now be chosen automatically.
- Explicit messages replace generic errors when temperature rise or turns per layer cannot be computed.
- Air gap data added to the technical specifications of small-size inductors.
- Embedded fonts and optimized printing in exported PDFs.
- v4.1Major release
Configuration built into the product
- New built-in configuration mode with restricted access: construction parameters and rules can be changed without touching the code.
- Full management of configuration data, from entry, duplication and bulk deletion to copy and paste from spreadsheets, sorting and search.
- Component import from CSV files.
- In-app online help, synchronized with the configuration section currently open.
- New handling of free air gaps.
- Full export no longer stops on errors: it carries on and reports the problems at the end.
- Updated development platform and graphics libraries, with reorganized dependencies.
- Numerous fixes to project copy, search filters and core data consistency.
- v4.0.4Minor release
Forced ventilation, turn distribution and test documents
- Pressure drop calculation for forced ventilation, reported in the calculation sheet.
- Manual distribution of turns across winding sections, from a dedicated window.
- Three-winding calculation available for integrated configurations as well.
- Customizable terminals, with automatic recognition of the output type.
- New core materials available on small-size components too.
- Job number generation and automatic archiving of test room documents.
- Project code editable by hand, under the control of a parameter.
- Embedded fonts in exported PDFs and a full rewrite of the English terminology in reports.
- User-defined additional losses are now distributed correctly across the outputs as well.
- v4.0.3Minor release
Materials, descriptions and cable lugs
- Cable lug selection driven by material, falling back to the generic component in manual mode.
- New core materials, with the related loss and no-load current calculation.
- Insulating material descriptions revised and aligned between winding sheet and bill of materials.
- Fixed the output drawing on large-size components.
- Automatic cleanup of metalwork items no longer foreseen by the configuration.
- v4.0Major release
Clever Suite 4.0
- Product configuration reorganized and installations aligned to a common setup.
- Consolidated the metalwork management introduced during the beta cycle.
- v4.0.1-betaBeta
Output clearances and per-limb air gaps
- Handling of the clearances tied to the outputs.
- New data structure for air gap detail, limb by limb.
- v4.0-betaBeta
Project status, overall dimensions and persistent diagrams
- Project status introduced, with dedicated search and filtering.
- Winding diagrams and data model saved together with the project.
- New overall dimension and fixing data at project level.
- Total costs and weights aligned and rounded consistently.
- Metalwork specifications extended to multi-core management.
The calculation engine takes shape
The product adopts a structured release cycle and investment goes into the physical models: thermal behaviour, core losses, no-load current, gapped transformers. Support for three-phase banks and the metalwork module arrive.
- v3.1.8New feature
Metalwork module completed
- Metalwork management completed, covering specifications, measurements and the kits tied to the project.
- v3.1.7New feature
Configurable metalwork specifications
- New configurable structure for metalwork specifications: each item carries its part, material, rule and notes.
- v3.1.6Major release
Three-phase banks, outputs and busbars
- Full support for three-phase banks of single-phase units, from input data and sizing to exchange surfaces, thermal check and reporting.
- New output management, covering position, orientation, terminals and cable lugs, with a dedicated drawing.
- Busbars and output kits introduced.
- Redesigned winding diagram, showing output type and coil dimensions.
- Reworked thermal model, with a new temperature rise curve and corrected reduction coefficients for three-phase machines.
- Dedicated configuration entries for design rules.
- Fixes to air gaps, the shielded three-winding case and two-sheet diagram printing.
- v3.1.5Fixes
Calculation fixes and translations
- Corrected the no-load current across all core materials.
- Corrected the calculation of gapped transformers.
- Corrected the winding sheet in the three-winding case.
- Reworked the iron loss calculation on one core material.
- English translations updated.
- v3.1.4Minor release
New thermal model and loss review
- Temperature rise calculation reworked, moving to a curve based on specific losses.
- New core loss curve for an additional material.
- Updated building factor.
- Corrected the voltage drop calculation.
- Loss variation with ambient temperature now feeds into the temperature rise calculation.
- Refined the calculation of mean turn lengths and layer build-up.
- v3.0Major release
First distributed release
- First version tracked in the release history.