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Windographer Professional Edition Changelog

What's new in Windographer Professional Edition 4.2.17

Jun 4, 2020
  • Improved Extended Summary report to show 18 sensors in Wind Speed Sensor Summary table.
  • Made MCP algorithm performance test respect the date-range limitation of concurrent data.
  • Fixed bug causing colorless color legends.
  • Fixed bug in Hottel clear sky radiation model that introduced a half-hour time shift.
  • Fixed bug where solar calculations failed to account for the difference between the longitude and the time zone standard meridian.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.2.16 (Apr 28, 2020)

  • Improved appearance of tables in PDF reports.
  • Added legend placement options to graph properties window.
  • Fixed error causing crash in some circumstances when internet communication fails.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.2.15 (Mar 4, 2020)

  • Improved Kintech data file import logic.
  • Configure Data Set window now renames child columns automatically with parent.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.2.14 (Jan 28, 2020)

  • Added mean of monthly means table to Tables tab.
  • Fixed a bug that stopped the process of generating a representative year.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.2.13 (Jan 21, 2020)

  • Added Weibull fit algorithm to Histogram tab legend.
  • Added Weibull parameters to WindogapherMCP speed distribution table.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.2.12 (Jan 16, 2020)

  • Improved import logic to recognize GHI, DNI, DHI, and battery voltage columns.
  • Added button to Configure Data Set window to set time zone from lat/long coords.
  • Fixed bug causing occasional crashes in MCP logic due to time zone differences.
  • Fixed bug that prevented the transfer of some flagged segments when appending a .windog file.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.2.10 (Nov 6, 2019)

  • Improved RLD data import to work with the new v3.8 of SymphoniePRO Desktop.
  • Fixed v4.2.9 bug in mean calculations, especially with pressure columns.
  • Fixed bug in calculation of energy-weighted air density calculated columns.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.2.9 (Nov 1, 2019)

  • Fixed bug in MCP logic causing zero-height columns in the extended data set.
  • Fixed bug causing WindographerMCP speed-vs-direction display to crash.
  • Fixed bug causing TI-by-sector table to include flagged-out direction values.
  • Changed the handling of cutoff wind speed in the MCP logic:
  • Made cutoff speed apply to onsite as well as reference speeds.
  • Forced omnidirectional below-cutoff regression through the origin.
  • Added option to choose columns from which to calculate shear when reconstructing and filling gaps.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.2.8 (Oct 1, 2019)

  • Added ability to cancel the reconstruction process.
  • Fixed a bug that occasionally resulted in duplicate flags.
  • Fixed a bug causing misreading of some favorite flag rules.
  • Added statistics-by-sector-and-year-tables to Tables tab.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.2.7 (Sep 21, 2019)

  • Fixed data misalignment bug in WindographerMCP when onsite and reference time zones differ.
  • Fixed small import logic bug causing misidentification of RH SD columns as RH Mean columns.
  • Improved import logic to interpret Windcube STA files even if they contain a few time steps.
  • Fixed bug causing occasional crash in WindographerMCP speed-vs-direction display.
  • Small improvements to reconstruction text report.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.2.6 (Aug 2, 2019)

  • Fixed bug in the handling of multiple different time zones.
  • Added time zone to the properties shown on the Summary tab.
  • Fixed bug preventing the import of certain data formats.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.2.5 (Aug 2, 2019)

  • Fixed bug in reconstruction logic causing occasional invalid speed SD values.
  • Fixed some bugs in the handling of time zones.
  • Improved import of Ammonit Meteo-40 data files.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.2.4 (Jul 6, 2019)

  • Added Combine Direction Sensors window.
  • Improved time zone detection when reading Kintech, Meteo-40, Windcube, and ZephIR files.
  • Fixed bug causing Representative Year window to produce invalid results.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.2.3 (Jun 26, 2019)

  • Fixed bug that prevented date range filter from applying if time steps did not align with midnight.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.2.2 (Jun 22, 2019)

  • Fixed bug causing Turbulence Analysis window to display no results.
  • Fixed bug in time series graph navigation by arrow keys in Flag Manually window.
  • Added turbulence-by-hour graph to Onsite Data tab of WindographerMCP.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.1.17 (May 2, 2019)

  • Changed spatial resolution of ERA-5 data to 0.25° in data downloader.
  • Allowed import of WindIris data.
  • Improved export to Meteodyn WT.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.1.16 (Apr 3, 2019)

  • Changed default Weibull fit algorithm to the Openwind algorithm.
  • Added mean of distribution to the Openwind export tab for easier comparison to Openwind.
  • Streamlined import of RWD files.
  • Fixed bug where scale-by-sector logic used flagged-to-exclude direction values when determining sector.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.1.15 (Mar 15, 2019)

  • Improved import of Kintech WND files.
  • Improved rendering of WindographerMCP on high-resolution monitors.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.1.14 (Dec 18, 2018)

  • Improved import of Ammonit Meteo-40 files and Kintech WND files.
  • Fixed bug causing Data Downloader to mishandle European number format.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.1.13 (Nov 17, 2018)

  • Improved import of ZPH files.
  • Improved import of RLD files.
  • New, easier to use Windographer Data Downloader.
  • Fixed bug in WindographerMCP discontinuity analysis graph.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.1.12 (Aug 31, 2018)

  • Improved XML metadata export and added the ability to import such files as templates in Configure Data Set window.
  • Fixed bug in import logic that caused a crash in rare cases.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.1.11 (Jun 21, 2018)

  • Improved import of ZPH files from ZephIR Lidar.
  • Improved import of WND files from Kintech Engineering.
  • Improved gap fill process to synthesize speed SD in every time step containing valid speed.
  • Improved color selection window to remember custom colors.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.1.10 (May 2, 2018)

  • Fixed bug in calibrating appended Kintech data files.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.1.9 (Apr 19, 2018)

  • More improvements to the import of Kintech WND data files.
  • Added UTM coordinates to Config window.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.1.8 (Apr 11, 2018)

  • Improved import of SpiDAR data files.
  • Improved import of Kintech WND data files.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.1.7 (Apr 6, 2018)

  • Expanded control of concurrency in WindographerMCP.
  • Improved Harris1999 Gumbel fit method to make it produce results in a wider range of conditions.
  • Fixed bug where Tower Distortion Analysis window ignored WD column selection.
  • Fixed bug where turbulence window failed to initialize correctly.
  • Fixed bug introduced in v4.1.0 causing incorrect calibration of 'Other' child columns during append process.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.1.6 (Mar 16, 2018)

  • Improved import of C99 files.
  • Improved the appearance of data coverage charts.
  • Fixed bug causing vertical extrapolation process to crash if all speed SD columns were hidden.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.1.5 (Mar 8, 2018)

  • Allowed zero-width shaded sector in Flag Tower Shading window.
  • Fixed bug causing occasional crash when reconstructing data sets.
  • Fixed bug where WindographerMCP failed to refresh fully after some changes to the list of onsite or reference data sets.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.1.4 (Mar 3, 2018)

  • Added concurrency requirement as an option in Turbulence Analysis window.
  • Added ability to read from and write to MySQL databases.
  • Fixed bug causing occasional problems in Configure Data Set window.
  • Fixed bug preventing y-axis from autoscaling in time series graphs.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.1.3 (Feb 15, 2018)

  • Improved WindographerMCP onsite reference periods table to allow concurrency option.
  • Improved WindographerMCP onsite reference periods to report valid concurrent speed and direction data, rather than just speed.
  • Added KML export to WindographerMCP Onsite and Reference tabs.
  • Improved daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual stats tables by highlighting periods with insufficient data coverage.
  • Fixed bug stopping license activation from Initiate Free Trial window in some cases.
  • Fixed bug causing crash under certain Unicode settings if the file path contained Unicode characters.
  • Fixed bug where MCP tables reported incorrect number of time steps for below-cutoff division.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.1.2 (Feb 2, 2018)

  • Updated RLD import logic to work with latest version of SymphoniePRO Desktop.
  • Fixed bug causing instability in Configure Data Set window.
  • Fixed bug causing invalid speeds when extrapolating speeds using log law.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.1.1 (Jan 23, 2018)

  • Fixed bug causing WindographerMCP to crash when reading certain files.
  • Added 'select all' checkbox to Wind Shear Analysis window.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.1 (Jan 19, 2018)

  • Added new MCP module capable of handling multiple onsite and reference data sets. (Full capability available to subscription licensees only.)
  • Added handling of boom orientation.
  • Added boom orientation to Calibration window.
  • Added combine-by-boom-orientation to Combine Anemometers window.
  • Added by-boom-orientation mode to Flag Tower Shading window.
  • Added logic to read boom orientation from RLD and NDF files.
  • Added displacement height to the Configure Data Set window.
  • Improvements to Configure Data Set window:
  • Faster processing
  • New Copy Data Column(s) button
  • New Convert to Static Column(s) button
  • New ability to specify measured TI columns
  • Improved Vertical Extrapolation window:
  • New more flexible and more realistic method of extrapolating speed SD data.
  • Now allows extrapolation from a specific sensor or the line of best fit
  • Now allows user to specify the type of lookup table to be used for backup when in by-time-step mode
  • Now shows a preview of synthesized data columns
  • Added option to compare extrapolated time series with column in another (or same) data set.
  • Improved extrapolation of speed SD data to mimic measured shear patterns much more closely.
  • Added save button to Flag Manually window
  • Improvements to Document History window:
  • Complete reporting of vertical extrapolation, gap filling, and scaling processes
  • Added Reviewers tab
  • Improvements to Tower Distortion Analysis window:
  • Window is now modeless, meaning one can leave it open while using other windows
  • New option to subdivide by year or month
  • Graphs now indicate boom orientation
  • Improved Data Recovery Analysis window
  • New option to display data coverage chart of valid or invalid data
  • New table showing missing data
  • New option to report valid time steps rather than data recovery rate
  • Added 'Openwind' Weibull fit algorithm.
  • Added the ability to choose a Weibull fit algorithm in Tools > Options.
  • Improvements to Combine Anemometers window:
  • Now creates combined max column as well as combined SD column
  • New option to combine by boom orientation
  • New option to use reconstruct-and-average when combining:
  • Added to Fill Gaps window the option to replace data flagged to exclude.
  • Improved gap fill process to reconstruct co-located speed sensors first, using regression-by-sector, before doing shear-based reconstruction.
  • Improved Wind Shear Analysis window
  • Added speed SD shear.
  • Added option to calculate from MoMM or simple mean.
  • Improved Compare Data Sets window:
  • Added option to display sensor nearest X metres in height
  • Added speed frequency graph
  • Added TI-vs-height and TI-vs-speed graphs
  • Added Special Adjustments window to perform NRG TI adjustment.
  • Improvements to the Tables tab:
  • New ‘Data Channel Summary’ table
  • New ‘Quarterly Statistics’ table
  • New ‘Daily Statistics’ table
  • New ‘Calibration History’ table
  • New ‘Combined Wind Speed Sensor’ table
  • New ‘Statistics by day of year and hour of day’ table
  • New ‘Statistics by hour of year’ table
  • Added MoMM to Data Columns table
  • Added MoMM and energy-weighted density to Environmental Summary table.
  • Improvements to calculated column capability:
  • New calculated column type for speed SD shear parameter.
  • New calculated column type ‘Dew point’
  • New calculated column type ‘Inflow angle’
  • New calculated column type ‘First difference’
  • New calculated column type ‘Density-adjusted wind speed’
  • New calculated column type ‘Energy-weighted air density’
  • New option to auto-create a ratio column for co-located speed sensor pairs
  • New option to control whether to use the ISA to synthesize temperature or pressure data for air density calculated column
  • Improvements to data import process:
  • Added separate control of append overwrite settings for numeric data and flag status
  • Improved data column identification (and association) logic
  • Improved import of ASOS files, MM files
  • Windog file now stores folder from which the user most recently imported data. The File > Append process now takes you to that folder by default when appending again.
  • Improvements to Openwind export format:
  • Added gust factor
  • Added ability to specify temperature sensor when exporting single-level file.
  • Added option to use AWST air density assumptions.
  • Improvements to Wind Turbine Output window:
  • New option to display results in 8760 and 365x24 tables
  • New option to disable air density adjustment
  • Improved Representative Year window to encompass multiple data columns.
  • Added 'frequency & energy' display option to the Wind Rose tab.
  • Improved Apply Scale and Offset window to allow scaling by month, hour of day, or sector.
  • Added trend and discontinuity testing to Long Term Analysis window.
  • Improved MTS algorithm:
  • Added option to subdivide by year divisions.
  • Added option to window bins on joint probability distribution.
  • Updated database interface to revision 6 by adding displacement height and boom orientation.
  • Added option to specify different flags for different reconstruction processes.
  • Added user preference to use AWST air density assumptions.
  • Added ability to specify height of RH column.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.28 (Oct 5, 2017)

  • Improved import of WindSim and Kintech data files.
  • Fixed bug causing some wind rose diagrams to display incorrect units.
  • Fixed bug preventing change of colors on the diurnal profile and histogram graphs.
  • Fixed bug preventing template from setting temperature and pressure units

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.27 (Jul 18, 2017)

  • ◦Improved filter logic to handle direction ranges that span true north.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.26 (Jun 19, 2017)

  • Fixed bug in Time Series tab of Export Data window where invisible columns confused the checkbox list of columns.
  • Fixed small bug where calculation of air pressure at each height of MM2 export file failed to account for height above ground.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.25 (Jun 19, 2017)

  • Fixed display problems on ultra-high-resolution monitors.
  • Fixed bug in the calibration of SD data columns imported from NSD files.
  • Solved bug causing Windographer to detect incorrect time step in NSD files in rare circumstances.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.23 (Jan 18, 2017)

  • Fixed bug in Openwind MM1 file export logic that caused problems in time steps missing temperature or standard deviation data.
  • Fixed bug causing calibration problems when appending RLD files.
  • Small change to import logic to improve identification of columns in Triton data files.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.22 (Jan 6, 2017)

  • Added option to export XML metadata.
  • Made 'append folder' process work through subfolders recursively.
  • Fixed bug in MTS algorithm that caused it to add excessive variability on occasion.
  • Fixed bug where Openwind export scaling worked in the preview window, but not in the exported file.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.21 (Dec 7, 2016)

  • Improved stability and usability of Windographer Data Downloader.
  • Fixed bug on MCP import page preventing some changes to inputs.
  • Fixed bug preventing novaPDF from installing correctly in some cases.
  • Added automatic color assignment to database import if database does not specify colors.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.20 (Nov 11, 2016)

  • Added option to scale time series data exported to Openwind.
  • Changed the way the user specifies the amount of time to offset MCP reference data.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.19 (Sep 13, 2016)

  • Added option to download MERRA-2 data from Windnavigator.
  • Improved append process by flagging invalid value specified in Configure window.
  • Fixed bug where Extreme Wind Analysis window always used Weibull k from the first speed sensor, not the selected speed sensor. This affected the EWTS method directly, but also the other methods if you were preconditioning using the Weibull k.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.18 (Aug 17, 2016)

  • Added check for valid pressure units in Configure Data Set window.
  • Solved bug causing possibility of incorrect units after appending data to an empty data set.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.17 (Aug 11, 2016)

  • Changed MGM export to make the RH column appear at the height of the lowest temperature or pressure column, and to extract the station number from the site name or file name.
  • Removed option to download MERRA and MERRA-2 data from NASA due to a change in their download mechanism.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.16 (Jun 30, 2016)

  • Fixed bug preventing data coverage chart from showing gap at the end of the period of record.
  • Improved import of data files with European number formatting.
  • Improved import of WindSim TWS format.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.15 (Jun 8, 2016)

  • Fixed bugs introduced in v4.0.14 related to graphs remembering their settings.
  • Fixed bug preventing a direction column’s associated speed column from being set to .
  • Fixed bug causing data coverage chart to display incorrectly when showing data sets with different start times and different lengths.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.14 (May 18, 2016)

  • Added option to download MERRA-2 data for free from NASA.
  • Added ability to export to Turkish MGM format.
  • Small improvements to data import logic.
  • Small changes to calibration logic.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.13 (Mar 14, 2016)

  • Small change to import logic to improve handling of Ammonit data files.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.12 (Mar 2, 2016)

  • Added option to download solar radiation data with NASA MERRA data.
  • Improved stability of Windographer Data Downloader.
  • Added ability to open RLD files from the new SymphoniePRO data logger.
  • Improved RWD file import process, added option to ignore site files.
  • Added ability to specify PIN number when opening encrypted RWD files.
  • Improved NSD import process to read calibration constants and serial numbers.
  • Added ability to read instrument serial numbers when importing NDF files.
  • Added ‘swap axes’ button to Scatter Plot tab.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.11 (Dec 9, 2015)

  • Added indication of when calibration changes occur during multi-file append.
  • Fixed bug causing turbulence rose to appear incorrectly in summary report.
  • Fixed bug that slowed the multi-file append process.
  • Fixed bug causing MCP process to overwrite measured direction values even if user requests otherwise.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.10 (Nov 10, 2015)

  • Added ability to read Fulcrum 3D SODAR files.
  • Fixed bug causing occasional crash during MCP performance test.
  • Changed wind veer calculated column to report positive and negative wind veer rates

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.9 (Oct 22, 2015)

  • Fixed bug causing incorrect air density in Openwind MM2 export files if pressure units are not kPa.
  • Additional improvement to efficiency of MCP performance test process.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.8 (Oct 20, 2015)

  • Improved efficiency of MCP performance test process to avoid out-of-memory errors..

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.7 (Oct 7, 2015)

  • Fixed bug (dating from v4.0.5) in Maximum Likelihood Method Weibull fit algorithm.
  • Added tabular display option to the rotor-equivalent wind speed window.
  • Added option to perform two-step file save process.
  • Small changes to data import process to improve interpretation of ASC and WRF files.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.6 (Sep 15, 2015)

  • Fixed bug occasionally causing erroneously high extrapolated wind speed standard deviations.
  • Added randomness to extrapolated turbulence for more realistic representative TI.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.5 (Sep 4, 2015)

  • Added option to include solar radiation data when downloading MERRA data from NASA.
  • Made all mean direction calculations report vector means.
  • Switched to Yamartino method for calculating standard deviation of directional data.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.4 (Aug 13, 2015)

  • Added a diagram to clarify rotor-equivalent wind speed inputs.
  • Fixed bug that always set elevation units to metres above sea level when reading pre-v4 windog files, even if the elevation were in feet.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.3 (Jul 25, 2015)

  • Fixed bug causing calibration errors during some append processes.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.2 (Jul 13, 2015)

  • Restored the ability to save and apply templates.
  • Fixed bug in vertical extrapolation process causing incorrect results when extrapolating to multiple heights from calculated columns.
  • Fixed bug preventing favorite flag rules from working with database import.
  • Tiny fixes to header of Brazilian EPE export format.
  • Restored Windows XP compatibility.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.1 (Jun 6, 2015)

  • Improved RWD file import to handle European-style number formatting of calibration constants.
  • Several user interface improvements to Windographer Data Downloader.
  • Several small bug fixes and stability improvements.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 4.0.0 (Jun 6, 2015)

  • New Calibration window.
  • Expanded calculated column capability with many new options.
  • Ability to import much larger text files.
  • New ability to hide data columns from graphs and drop-down boxes.
  • Document History window now displays a complete list of configuration changes.
  • New Combine Anemometers window for combining co-located anemometers.
  • Easier sharing of favorite flags and flag rules within a team.
  • New ability to scale (rather than lengthen) the target data set in MCP module.
  • MCP performance test now compares different settings as well as different algorithms.
  • MCP performance test now allows multiple iterations to help determine uncertainty.
  • Vertical Extrapolation window now includes turbulence, directions, and temperatures.
  • New ability to export multiple-height data to Openwind in the form of an MM2 file.
  • Gap fill process now offers option of shear-based reconstruction only.
  • Gap fill process now generates more realistic turbulence data.
  • Turbulence Analysis window now shows data for all heights at once.
  • New Representative Year module for creating 'typical year' of data.
  • New Forecast Error Analysis module.
  • New concurrency option on Diurnal Pattern tab.
  • New ability to open ZPH files from ZephIR.
  • New ability to offset direction values in TAB files.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.3.8 (Feb 27, 2015)

  • Improved processing speed.
  • Improved support for Unicode files in the import process.
  • Changed TAB file export to report latitude and longitude to more decimals.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.3.7 (Feb 10, 2015)

  • Improved gap fill algorithm's handling of long gaps.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.3.6 (Jan 9, 2015)

  • Added ability to import Turkish MGM file format.
  • Fixed bug causing occasional crash on Synthesis tab of MCP window.
  • Added included and excluded flags to the header of exported time series text files.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.3.5 (Oct 10, 2014)

  • Added Brazilian EPE export format.
  • Improved flag rules to handle direction ranges spanning true north.
  • Improved handling of non-Unicode language settings.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.3.4 (Sep 20, 2014)

  • Improved Mean by Month table to show vector mean directions.
  • Improved Monthly Statistics and Annual Statistics tables to show, for wind direction columns, the number of time steps from which the vector mean direction is calculated.
  • Improved text export from monthly and annual time series graphs.
  • Improved import of time series data exported from WindSim.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.3.3 (Jun 30, 2014)

  • Added Weibull Statistics by Month table to the Tables tab.
  • Fixed bug causing incorrect normalization in TAB files with seasonal bias removed in rare cases.
  • Modified delimiter detection logic to improve handling of files with many blank elements.
  • Improved import of Vortex data files.
  • Changed WindSim TWS file export to use European data format in header.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.3.2 (Jun 17, 2014)

  • Fixed bug causing Wind Turbine Output window to crash occasionally.
  • Improved data import logic for more reliable import of Ammonit Meteo-40 data files.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.3.1 (May 31, 2014)

  • Fixed bug preventing v3.3 windog files from distinguishing themselves from v3.2 files.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.3 (May 28, 2014)

  • Added new Append Status window and made multi-file append process more robust.
  • Enabled multiple-file import by dragging and dropping a folder into Windographer.
  • Added menu items for Open Folder and Append Folder.
  • Improved data import logic to increase robustness.
  • Improved ability to handle files containing thousands of data columns.
  • Improved detection of first and last line of data.
  • Improved time step detection when reading NSD files.
  • Improved data column type detection when reading Campbell Scientific files.
  • Allowed multiple selection of flags in Define Flags and Define Favorite Flags windows.
  • Fixed bug causing min and max direction values to escape the valid 0-360° range after applying an offset or scale factor.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.2.5 (Apr 1, 2014)

  • Improved detailed status messages during database import process.
  • Added target and reference concurrent mean speeds to MCP Compare Sites tab.
  • Improved data downloader’s handling of slow response from NASA webserver.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.2.4 (Feb 27, 2014)

  • Added number of time steps to the TAB file export module.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.2.3 (Feb 15, 2014)

  • Improved recognition of date/time data during raw data import.
  • Fixed bug in Data Downloader preventing it from working under a trial license.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.2.2 (Feb 15, 2014)

  • Fixed bug causing occasional crash after appending new data columns.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.2.1 (Jan 31, 2014)

  • Fixed bug causing occasional crash in Flag Manually window.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.2 (Jan 31, 2014)

  • Allows free download of MERRA data via Windographer Data Downloader beta.
  • Allows scaling of TAB files to a particular wind speed.
  • MCP window now allows up to twelve yearly divisions.
  • Compare Data Sets window now offers option to filter for the overlap period.
  • Now stack up to three time series graphs. Watch Video
  • Tower Distortion Analysis window now shows differences as well as ratios.
  • When re-opened, the Flag Manually window now restores the state in which you left it.
  • Made flag rules obey default flag filtering in search columns.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.1.12 (Jan 9, 2014)

  • Added several turbines to library, including Nordex N131/3000, Repower 6.2M152, W2E120.
  • Made database import logic more forgiving of unrecognized data column type codes.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.1.11 (Dec 3, 2013)

  • Fixed bug causing occasional crashes in Tables tab.
  • Changed WindFarmer WTI export to calculate the correct numbers for the Sigma Sigma table.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.1.10 (Nov 5, 2013)

  • Made Append window re-appear during the multi-file append process whenever column labels change.
  • Added the new Vestas V105 - 3.3 MW to the wind turbine library.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.1.9 (Oct 2, 2013)

  • Improved data import logic in several ways to enable it to read more file formats.
  • Made the Flag Manually table obey the decimal place settings the user enters in Tools > Options > Formatting.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.1.8 (Sep 9, 2013)

  • Added option to export transposed tables.
  • Added tool tips to drop-down boxes to show long strings.
  • Added up and down arrow keys as zoom shortcuts on time series graphs.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.1.7 (Jul 27, 2013)

  • Fixed bug causing occasional miscalculation of mean wind speed of TAB files.
  • Added subtle background colors to indicate data column type in some tables.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.1.6 (Jun 28, 2013)

  • Fixed bug causing Turbulence Analysis window to initialize incorrectly in some files.
  • Added occurrences, min, max, and standard deviation by month tables to Tables tab.
  • Changed append process to import all data columns, even empty ones.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.1.5 (Jun 26, 2013)

  • Improved the Append window to simplify the mapping of new columns to existing columns.
  • Added the ability to specify marker type in graphs (diamond, circle, triangle, X)
  • Added shortcut keys to time series graph: -/+ for zoom and arrow keys for scroll.
  • Added 24 and 36 to the allowable number of direction sector subdivisions in the MCP window.
  • Changed WindFarmer WTI file export logic to center bins on integer wind speeds.
  • Added another column to the openWind export file (for Monin-Obukhov length, currently just zeroes).
  • Improved Vortex data file import to recognize temperature and pressure columns and to set their heights correctly.
  • Allowed multi-select of flag rules in Flag With Rules and Define Favorite Flag Rules windows.
  • Fixed bug preventing favorite flags from being saved in some situations.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.1.4 (May 14, 2013)

  • Added hotkeys to speed flagging in Flag Manually and Flag by Scatter Plot windows.
  • Added mouse wheel shortcut for zooming in and out of time series graphs.
  • Added speed-versus-direction display option in MCP window.
  • Improved data import logic to ignore the checksum column in new ZephIR data files.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.1.3 (May 14, 2013)

  • Added to the Wind Rose tab the option to display total energy by direction and month.
  • Fixed bug preventing total energy by direction rose from appearing on the Wind Rose tab.
  • Made the labeling of the angular axis optional for polar graphs.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.1.2 (May 14, 2013)

  • Fixed bug in MCP window that caused a crash after import of hourly target data.
  • Fixed bug in gap fill logic causing a crash if the data column ended with a gap.
  • Fixed bug causing Wind Rose tab to crash in the absence of direction data.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.1.1 (May 14, 2013)

  • Fixed bug in MCP window that incorrectly disabled the Export Final Data Set button.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.1.0 (May 14, 2013)

  • Added tabular display to the Flag Manually window.
  • Added to the Flag by Scatter Plot window triangular and free-form selection options.
  • Added the ability to test flag rules before executing them.
  • Added the Inspect and Remove Flags window.
  • Added to Wind Rose tab the option to plot twelve monthly wind roses.
  • Added ‘stacked bars’ wind rose style to Wind Rose tab.
  • Added Export Image window.
  • Added to Compare Sites tab of MCP window the summary tables option, the option to show only concurrent data, and the target/reference speed ratio data column.
  • Added Fix Quantization window, which randomizes quantized data to improve the performance of extreme wind or MCP analyses.
  • Improved layout of tables in formatted reports, especially those with merged cells.
  • Improved Document History window: a double click now brings up a new window showing additional details.
  • User-defined calculated columns now calculate vector mean direction if both source data columns are directional.
  • Added coefficient of power to the power curve graph in the Wind Turbine Details window.
  • Added display variables 'net energy' and 'proportion of net energy' to Wind Turbine Output window.
  • Added 'by month of data set' display option to Wind Turbine Output window.
  • Improved TAB file export by reporting mean of time series and of TAB file, and by adding the ability to make the first bin half-sized.
  • Added ability to export Windfarmer WTI files.
  • Added the ability to export to SAM, the Solar Advisor Model.
  • Added option to time series export tab to skip empty lines.
  • Added to the Delete Data window the ability to delete data points not flagged with specified flags.
  • Improved import of NCDC Global Summary of the Day data files.
  • Fixed screen flicker problem in Flag by Scatter Plot window.
  • Fixed bug in gap fill process that occasionally left some gaps unfilled.
  • Fixed bug on Wind Rose tab causing by-month and by-hour results not to recalculate after a data modification.
  • Fixed bug on Wind Rose tab that caused settings and graph to get out of sync after a data modification.
  • Fixed bug in Flag Manually window where time series would forget your flag visibility settings whenever you flagged or unflagged a segment.
  • Fixed bug causing turbulence-by-speed table to appear blank in certain circumstances.
  • Fixed bug that occasionally prevented Delete Data window from resetting start or end date of data set.
  • Made all flag windows warn on cancel if it will result in lost changes.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.0.12 (May 14, 2013)

  • Added support for Excel 2013.
  • Fixed bug causing occasional crash when generating Extended Summary report.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.0.11 (May 14, 2013)

  • Improved identification of hour/minutes/seconds columns during data import process.
  • Fixed bug in NSD file import logic causing it to skip some time steps and leave gaps.
  • Fixed bug sometimes causing favorite flag rules to lose the name of the flag that they apply.
  • Fixed bug where user-created wind turbines did not appear in the MCP window.

New in Windographer Professional Edition 3.0.10 (May 14, 2013)

  • Changed air density calculations to account for the height of the temperature and pressure sensors.
  • Improved import of WindCollector2 data files.
  • Improved import of AQ500 data files.
  • Improved import of Campbell Scientific data files.
  • Improved import of data files with French number formatting and lots of blank elements..
  • Fixed bug causing Windographer to ignore gaps when importing NSD files.
  • Fixed bug where flag rules searching for differences between direction sensors did not account for the fact that 360° = 0°.
  • Fixed bug where user-defined calculated columns defined as the difference between two directional columns did not account for the fact that 360° = 0°.
  • Fixed bug preventing calculated data column recalculation when flag properties are changed.
  • Fixed bug preventing final column of Monthly Statistics and Annual Statistics tables from appearing.