Carefully developed further, ATHENA 2010 now boasts numerous innovations to increase productivity. We have again taken the wishes of customers into account and more practical and useful functions have been added, enabling you to solve every-day design tasks more efficiently. With many dialog boxes, under ergonomic aspects the modifications that have been carried out lead to even better clarity and an increase in the ease of operation.
In view of the significant increase in international planning, in ATHENA 20010 we have further optimized the compatibility of the drawing data between the metric and imperial (inch) systems.

Sheet metal processing

This dialog box now has new tabs:

• Under "Coating" you can now define coating lines on both sides and on the face side of the sheet metal.
• Under "Termination" terminating folds can be attached to the start and finish of the sheet metal.
• Familiar from other ATHENA dialog boxes, "Manager" offers you the option of saving sheet metal sections in a dedicated library

Standard parts The dialog box has been reorganized with new register buttons. About 10,000 standard parts have been added so that a total of approx. 72,000 parts is now available. The following important standard and manufacturers' parts, for example, have been supplemented: Precision steel tube DIN EN 10305-1, -2 and -3; Setscrews DIN 915 and DIN 916; Thumbscrew DIN 316; Straight grooved pin DIN EN ISO 8740; Dowel pin DIN EN ISO 8752; Single screws for Fischer frame fastening dowel; EJOT countersunk timber ; EJOT self-drilling and sealed screws have been supplemented.

MFC dialog boxes Now even more commands in ATHENA are controlled via MFC dialog boxes. The MFC boxes are more flexible and react more quickly than the classical AutoCAD DCL boxes.

Facade Elevation

The dialogue for producing facade elevations has been completely revised and now has new functions.

• It is now possible to optionally specify a raw shell size.
• The mullion and transom spacing can now be automatically apportioned. Additionally, you can specify the spacing optionally as unit spacing, as clearance dimensions or as absolute dimensions.
• For exterior and interior profiles you can specify different properties (e.g. profile facing widths).
• With the optional entry of a mullion supplied length ATHENA automatically produces butt joints if the supplied length is less than the mullion total length.
• You can insert infills.
• The facade elevation can be provided with sections and symbols for the section and profile joints.

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2D Interface to Logical

Apart from the well-known 3D interface, there is now a new 2D interface to LogiKal. Using a LogiKal dialog box, positions such as for example, facade elements, windows or doors, can be input directly in ATHENA. The LogiKal master data represent the basis here. The finished position is inserted as an intelligent view, so a double click is sufficient to carry out modifications, which, for example, may affect the geometry, infills, profiles, etc. Any sections can then be generated from the finished view.
The big advantage of this interface is that the user remains in his familiar CAD environment and his generated views or sections can be processed further using ATHENA (e.g. designing wall joints or calculating isothermals).

Our brochure Innovations in ATHENA 2008 (PDF 1,0 MB) wil give you an extensive overview.