eleFront Bug Fixes

Hi everyone,
We’ve been working through a number of the bugs that were uncovered during the first beta release. It’s now available in the PackageManager as version 5.0.4.

We are still working through the complete list of bugs, and unfortunately several of the missing features (such as Materials, more parameters for defining Layers, etc.), are still missing, but we are working on it.

In the mean time, we prioritized what we consider eleFront’s core functions: Referencing, Filtering, Baking, Blocks, and so on. These features should be working nicely now, and have also seen significant performance improvements as well.

We’ve also made an effort to make eleFront more compatible to use with Hops. Part of this is the addition of a new component: AttributesToJSON and AttributesFromJSON:

If you have tried to use eleFront in Hops previously, you will probably have encountered the fact that Referenced Objects cannot access their attributes from within a Hops component, because a Hops definition is executed in a different environment than the active document. Now you can turn the attributes into a JSON string that can be passed into the Hops definition, and reconstituted as an Attribute object, and even re-attached to the geometry. Of course, there are plenty of other possible use cases for JSON-ing your attributes as well.

This is still very much a beta release, so please take the same precautions, and do not rely on this for production work. Please also continue to send us any bugs you uncover or features you find missing.

If you haven’t installed the Beta, and would like to, you can find instructions here: Test the Beta - eleFront

Thanks again everyone, we hope to have another update in a few weeks as we work toward a full proper release early next year.

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Hi @krahimzadeh ,

Excited to hear the news and soon tested. :grin:

2 bugs in my computer are founded,

1, “Push Block Definition” seems not working (laterly I figured out it only appears with clicking the push until using the “Activate” input param.)

2, Dimension Style input param of “Define Leader” will get error and turn red if selecting the newly added annotation style.

Please check for both bugs.