PCAN-FMS Simulator 2 Version History

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18.04.2013 - Version 2.5.1.77

Bug fixes:

  • After installation of version 2.5.0.70, the PCAN-FMS Simulator could not be started if a trial license was chosen and there was an installation without license before. The number of left days was then 0
  • If the PCAN-FMS Simulator had been installed with a trial license and another license was chosen in the program, an unhandled exception could occur during copying of the license file
  • Corrections in some notes in the "Select Existing License" dialog box
  • In the "Select Existing License" dialog box, if a new license file name was directly entered in the input field, the error message "You have to select the License File Location." was shown
  • In the "Select Existing License" dialog box, an unhandled exception could occur if a incompatible UNC path was selected, e.g. "\\servername"
  • Under Windows 8, the software protection dongle wasn't detected when being plugged in if it had not been connected at startup or if it had been disconnected during a running program
  • Under certain circumstances, the window "Please insert the Software Protection Dongle" was shown, although a dongle for the PCAN-FMS Simulator was connected. This especially occured if a PCAN-Explorer 5 instance ran with plugged in dongle
  • At startup it wasn't checked if the window position was out of the visible desktop bounds

Improvement:

  • Support for Windows 8

 

01.08.2012 - Version 2.5.0.70

Improvements:

  • The program can now be started in Tour Mode where data of several types is recorded, analyzed, and saved. The behavior of the Tour Mode is determined by command line parameters on startup of the PCAN-FMS Simulator. Thus, the program can be controlled from outside
  • The new PCAN-FMS Tour Starter is used to start and control the PCAN-FMS Simulator in Tour Mode. It is accessible via the Windows Start menu
  • New automatic update function with two commands in the Help menu: "Update options", "Check for updates"
  • New "Settings" dialog box (accessible via the "File" menu) for adjusting the output format of the log file and the Tour file, and for optimizing the processor load during simulation
  • New "Change Sections" dialog box (accessible via the context menu of the "Monitor" window) for adjusting the section colors of the analog instruments
  • PCAN-Trace files with format versions 1.2 and 1.3 can be loaded
  • Program help available in languages German and English (display depends on setting during installation). Help in the alternative language can be accessed via the Windows Start menu

Changes:

  • Mandatory use of a USB copy protection dongle. Allows to install the PCAN-FMS Simulator on several computers. In order to unlock and use the software, you must plug the copy protection dongle into a free USB port
  • At first start of the program the size of the main window is set to 4/5 of the main screen size, and the window is centered

Bug fixes:

  • In the "Configuration" window's context menu, the "Loop playback" entry was not updated correctly when the menu command itself had been executed
  • In some situations, the dialog box for editing the axle weight was shown a second time after clicking on "OK" or "Cancel"
  • In the "Options" dialog box, the label of the "EEC1" message was wrong
  • On manual simulation of the Bus-FMS Standard 00.02, the messages of the PGNs "Vehicle ID" and "Driver ID" could overlap if a VID was defined with 200 characters. Now the "Driver ID" PGN is transmitted with an offset of 2 seconds
  • When the main window was in minimized state at quitting the program, at the next program startup the window was again in minimized state

 

17.01.2012 - Version 2.0.2.48

Bug fixes: 

  • When recording a trace file, the data was recorded circulatory and sorted incorrectly on saving the file. The data will now be recorded linearly until the data buffer is full 
  • In the Options dialog box, if messages were activated that are only present in FMS 02.00 and bus FMS 00.02 (e.g. DI and LFE), and the standard was only set to FMS 02.00, an error was always displayed at startup of the simulation that no messages are selected for simulation 
  • The "Vehicle Weight" PGN was not transmitted during manual simulation of FMS standard 02.00 
  • During manual simulation of the FMS standard 02.00, messages of PGNs "Vehicle ID" and "Driver ID" could overlap if a VID was defined with 200 characters. Now the "Driver ID" PGN is transmitted with an offset of 2 seconds to the start of the simulation. Thus the VID is transmitted 10 seconds and the DID 12 seconds after the start of the simulation and then every 10 seconds each 
  • If a manual simulation first was started with the standard "FMS 01.00" and then anotherone was started with the standard "FMS 2.00", the signal value "Engine Per. Load" in the "Simulation" window could be changed, but the value was not updated in the "EEC2" message and not displayed in the "Monitor" window. 0xFF was always transmitted and the value 125 was always displayed in the "Monitor" window 
  • The error conditions for the signals "Engine Percent Load", "Fuel Rate", "Instantaneous Fuel Economy", "High Resolution Engine Total Fuel Used", and "PTO Engaged" were not or not properly displayed in the "Monitor" window 
  • On manual simulation sometimes data from a previous simulation was used if a manual simulation had been once started and stopped before. This showed up especially at recording of trace files that afterwards had many messages at the beginning with the time stamp of 0 
  • On manual simulation the unused data bytes of all messages (except VI and DI) were not set to 0xFF. This only occurred at first transmission of the messages; afterwards the unused data bytes were transmitted correctly 
  • The relative directory paths of trace files were faulty after saving project files. Thus, at loading of those projects and with them the trace files an error occurred 

 

28.02.2011 - Version 2.0.1.46

Bug fixes:

  • When a project file was opened with a double click in Windows Explorer, an exception occurred and the program was closed again. If the program was running as trial version, the trial dialog was previously displayed; after proceeding by starting the program (Try PCAN-FMS Simulator 2) an exception occured, too
  • In the Bus-FMS standard, the "Parking Brake Switch" signal was placed on the wrong bit position (bits 5-6) in the CAN message. Correct according to the specification however are bits 3-4
  • If a CAN connection was defined in the hardware input or hardware output and if it was not active (gray), an exception occured when running the command "Change Hardware"
  • If the simulation was started with hardware as input and no incoming data occured on the CAN bus, the program utilized a processor core 100 % until data was received or the simulation was terminated

 

24.11.2010 - Version 2.0.0.43

New features:

  • Completely revised user interface
  • Graphical representation of the FMS output data with ISO-7000-compliant symbolic display of signal values and optional full-screen function
  • Support of the standards FMS 02.00 and Bus-FMS 00.02
  • Enabling and disabling the different standards in the program; FMS and Bus-FMS can be used simultaneously
  • Expansion of the optional switchable automatic calculation of different signal values
  • Playback of custom areas from a trace file
  • Recording the data as a CSV log file, for example for further processing in Excel
  • Project file version 2.0 introduced; loading and saving the whole simulation environment in project files (upward and downward compatible with version 1 of the PCAN-FMS Simulator)