What's New

Stay up to date with the latest improvements to AseptSoft. This page highlights recent changes, with links to the full documentation for each feature.

🗓️ March 2026

🚪 Close & Quit Split Button

Previously, there was no way to close individual drawings, the project, or shut down AseptSoft independently from AutoCAD. Closing AutoCAD was the only way to end an AseptSoft session and release your license.

Now, the 🏠 Home Ribbon includes a new Session panel with a Close split button offering four graduated options:

These actions are independent from AutoCAD — closing a PID in AseptSoft does not close the AutoCAD drawing, and quitting AseptSoft does not close AutoCAD. This is especially useful for releasing your license so a colleague can use it, without having to close your AutoCAD session.

👉 Full documentation: Home Ribbon — Session Panel

📄 Export Module Data to Word (.docx)

Previously, module data (States, Fluids, Parameters, Variables, Alarms, Interlocks, Control Loops, Dialogs) could only be exported to Excel or shared via templates. To create a formatted functional specification document, you had to manually copy data from Excel into Word.

Now, AseptSoft includes a dedicated Word export that generates a professional, ready-to-share .docx document directly from the Module Ribbon. The export dialog lets you:

• Choose which data types to include or exclude

• Reorder and filter individual fields per table by dragging them

• Transpose tables (swap rows and columns)

• Group data by category (e.g., group Parameters by Phenomenon)

• Add an export comment embedded in the document properties

The exported document includes a title page, document metadata, and one formatted table per data type — with blue headers, clean borders, and actual color previews in color columns. Like all AseptSoft exports, it is cumulative — re-exporting updates the data while preserving your manual edits and formatting.

👉 Full documentation: Export Module Data to Word

🖱️ Valve Hover Inspector

Previously, inspecting a valve's state required selecting it and opening the Status Editor or Live Edit panel. Checking how a valve behaves across multiple process steps meant navigating step by step.

Now, simply hover your mouse over any valve on the P&ID drawing to see a rich, interactive popup showing:

The feature supports three modes: Auto (always on), Ctrl+Hover (shows only when holding Ctrl/Alt), or Disabled. Colored bullet overlays appear at each valve position, giving a bird's-eye view of all valve states across the drawing.

👉 Full documentation: Valve Hover Inspector

🔀 Off-Page Connector Hover and Connectivity Bullets

Previously, checking whether Off-Page Connectors were correctly paired required running a simulation or manually comparing Tag/Bind values across drawings. There was no visual indicator of connection status.

Now, AseptSoft displays colored connectivity bullets at each OPC's position:

Hovering over any OPC bullet shows a popup with full connectivity details — the current OPC's Tag, Bind, and PID, plus the partner's information if connected. For connected OPCs, a Navigate to Pair button lets you jump directly to the paired connector on the destination P&ID in one click.

For unconnected OPCs, the popup lists all other unconnected OPCs across open PIDs, helping you identify potential matches or spot misspelled Tag/Bind values.

The feature uses the same three modes as the Valve Hover Inspector: Auto, Ctrl+Hover, or Disabled.

👉 Full documentation: Off-Page Connector