What's New in Adept SPRING '23
Adept SPRING ’23 (11.0.6) provides suite-wide support for Autodesk 2023 and SOLIDWORKS 2023, along with some other fixes and enhancements. SPRING '23 follows the Adept FALL ’22 release (11.0.5), where an all-new, integrated view and markup solution was launched.
NEW FEATURES & ENHANCEMENTS IN THE CAD INTEGRATIONS
Support for Autodesk 2023 Products
This release provides complete Adept CAD integration support for AutoCAD 2023, AutoCAD Electrical 2023, AutoCAD Mechanical 2023, Inventor 2023, Navisworks 2023, and RealDWG 2023. Supporting the latest versions of Autodesk products allows you to upgrade your CAD software while maintaining compatibility with Adept.
Support for SOLIDWORKS 2023
This release provides complete Adept CAD integration support for Dassault Systemes SOLIDWORKS 2023. Supporting the latest SOLIDWORKS products allows users to upgrade their CAD versions while maintaining compatibility with Adept.
NOTE: Requirements for applications that support the Viewer have been updated. For more information, please refer to the Adept SPRING ’23 System Requirements.
NEW FEATURES & ENHANCEMENTS FOR ADEPT PUBLISHWAVE
Updated Features in Adept PublishWave.
Support for Autodesk 2023 Products
Adept PublishWave SPRING ‘23 provides support for AutoCAD 2023 and Inventor 2023. Supporting the latest versions of Autodesk products allows users to upgrade their CAD versions while maintaining compatibility with Adept PublishWave.
Support for SOLIDWORKS 2023
Adept PublishWave SPRING ‘23 provides support for Dassault Systemes SOLIDWORKS 2023. Supporting the latest versions of SOLIDWORKS allows your users to upgrade their CAD versions while maintaining compatibility with Adept PublishWave.
NEW FEATURES & ENHANCEMENTS FOR ALL ADEPT CLIENTS
The following features apply to all Adept Clients
(Desktop, Web, Task Pane/CAD Integrations).
Fixes, Enhancements, and Polishes
This release includes 89 enhancements addressing customer-reported issues and requests, all of which increase Adept stability, reliability, and overall user experience.
Adept Licensing Enhancements
Please note that the licensing mechanism changed significantly in 11.0.4, which requires a new Authorization Code. A new authorization code is required if you are upgrading to this release from an Adept version older than Adept FALL ’21 (11.0.4). If you are upgrading from Adept FALL ’21 (11.0.4) or Adept FALL ’22 (11.0.5), you are not required to update your authorization code.
Adept FALL '22
Adept FALL '22 is a momentous release that includes an all-new, Synergis-developed visualization and markup solution, replacing the OEM viewer previously offered. The release also includes support for Autodesk 2022, SOLIDWORKS 2022 and hundreds of customer-requested enhancements and fixes.
We developed this solution because the Viewer is a primary and essential interface and collaboration medium between users and their documents in Adept. We wanted to take control of your experience including usability, performance, quality, features, and timely support for new versions of CAD software.
All New Adept Viewer
The new Adept Viewer is feature rich and will help you be more productive out of the gate. Here are a few highlights, with more details below:
- Absolutely no Java required!
- Support for the formats you require, from Office documents to 2D and 3D CAD
- Improved user experience, fidelity, and performance
- Multi-user markup creation and management
- PDF creation & viewing
Visualization and Markup
Game-changing design visualization for everyone
The new viewer includes support for more recent versions of CAD that are integrated with Adept, including AutoCAD 2022, Inventor 2022, and SOLIDWORKS 2022. Most file formats previously supported in the OEM Viewer are supported in the Adept Viewer, including those mentioned above as well as MicroStation, PTC Creo, Siemens Solid Edge, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, ZIP, and more.
The New Adept Viewer is loaded with features users have come to expect in previous Adept Viewing solutions, and there are many new capabilities. Here are some of the highlights of the new Viewer:
SECURITY ENHANCEMENTS
Increased security to keep your data safe.
This Adept version includes specific improvements and enhancements designed to increase overall solution security. These improvements further harden Adept against malicious attacks solution-wide across all platform components including the Desktop Client and Adept Server, Web Server, Desktop Client, Web Clients, and PublishWave. Solution security has been tested and validated by an independent, third-party security agency.
- Option to enable FIPS approved encryption
- TLS1.2 (Transport Layer Security) support
- MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) login via SSO (OpenID connect supported; SAML 2.0 not currently supported)
FIXES, ENHANCEMENTS, & POLISHES
Addressing the needs of the Adept Community.
This release includes more than 400 enhancements addressing customer-reported issues and requests, all of which increase Adept stability, reliability, and overall user experience.
ADEPT LICENSING ENHANCEMENTS
Adept has a new licensing mechanism.
Please note that the licensing mechanism changed significantly in 11.0.4 which requires a new Authorization Code. If you are upgrading to this release from an Adept version older than Adept Fall ’21 (11.0.4), a new authorization code is required. If you are upgrading from Adept Fall ’21 (11.0.4), you are not required to update your authorization code.
NEW FEATURES & ENHANCEMENTS IN THE WEB CLIENTS
Web Clients can now view multiple documents.
The new Adept Viewer allows users to view multiple documents in a single session.
Adept Creator can now view local documents.
The new Adept Viewer allows users to view multiple documents in a single session.The new Adept Viewer enables users to view local Work Area documents.
NEW FEATURES & ENHANCEMENTS IN THE DESKTOP CLIENT
User, Group, Library Administration dialog.
We have added a few key enhancements to enable changes to a selection set of Users, which will aid in tasks such as when using Active Directory Bulk Import. You can now assign the appropriate Adept client to more than one user at a time to complete necessary deployment settings more efficiently.
AFS can now send error state email notifications to Admins.
AFS can now be configured to automatically send messages to one or more designated Adept administrators when an error occurs, either within AFS, as in the case of a file size mismatch, or from the operating system.
NEW FEATURES COMMON TO ALL ADEPT SERVERS
Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Support.
This release adds support for the Microsoft Windows Server 2022 server operating system. Please review the Adept System Requirements for more details regarding this and other System Requirements changes.
Apache Tomcat no longer required.
Apache Tomcat is no longer required on the Web Server to run the web version of the viewer.
Enabling SSL on the web server is required.
Since the new Adept Viewer no longer requires Java or Apache Tomcat, configuring the Adept Web server to use SSL is significantly easier than previous versions, and no longer requires Synergis assistance. Synergis recommends commercial SSL certificates obtained from a trustworthy certificate authority
NEW FEATURES & ENHANCEMENTS IN ADEPT PUBLISHWAVE
Support for Autodesk 2022 products.
Adept PublishWave FALL ‘22 provides support for AutoCAD 2022 and Inventor 2022. Supporting the latest versions of the Autodesk products allows your users to upgrade their CAD versions while maintaining compatibility with Adept PublishWave.
Support for SOLIDWORKS 2022.
Adept PublishWave FALL ‘22 provides support for Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS 2022. Supporting the latest versions of SOLIDWORKS allows your users to upgrade their CAD versions while maintaining compatibility with Adept PublishWave.
Support for Microsoft Office 365 Word and Excel.
Adept PublishWave FALL ’22 provides support for Office 365 Word and Excel. Supporting the latest versions of Microsoft products allows your users to upgrade their Office versions while maintaining compatibility with Adept PublishWave.
