Structural Material Manager

Software Upgrades

Structural Material Manager is constantly being updated via two different types of upgrades: maintenance releases and feature-adding upgrades.

Maintenance releases - or "patches" as they are typically called - are included with your purchase as part of our free technical support policy; they are provided at no charge on our FTP site. Patches are constantly being released during the active lifetime of a major version. Eventually, as a version becomes obsolete, new patches are no longer offered for it, but the final maintenance release remains available on our Web site. For instance, Version 7.1 was discontinued many years ago, but registered Version 7.1 customers who never upgraded to newer major versins can still download the Version 7.1p patch at no charge.

Feature-adding upgrades are released less frequently than patches. As these upgrades become available, registered customers are notified that a new version is available. As a registered customer, you may elect to receive the upgrade by submitting payment in the amount specified in the upgrade notice. Your investment is thus protected by having access to inexpensive upgrades as new program versions are released.

Click the appropriate link below to learn about the changes that were implemented in a particular upgrade version.

Version 12.4 Upgrade - Piece Marks can now be up to 19 characters long, and performance under Windows 7 has been increased.

Version 12.3 Upgrade - The "Edit Plate-Nesting Stocks" screen has been modernized to look and operate very much like the Material Entry Screen at which regular material items are entered.

Version 12.2 Upgrade - A Graphical User Interface has replaced the screens at which "Extended Estimating" values (paint coats, welding electrodes, etc.) are entered. Such values are now saved between sessions, and you have the option to define a set of default values.

Version 12.1 Upgrade - The screen at which items are priced is now implemented in a Graphical User Interface, and a button for stepping back to the previously-priced item has been added. The improvements benefit both modes of pricing items: automatically against a Master Price File and manually without the aid of such a file.

Version 12.0 Upgrade - Plates and Bars in a Structural Material Manager job can be made to follow a consistent Thickness x Width or Width x Thickness format via the new "Standardize Plate Descriptions" and "Standardize Bar Descriptions" functions.

Version 11.4 Upgrade - Gross material pricing instead of net pricing is achieved via a new "Build Buy List" dialog that exports stock items from a job's nested summary to a separate Structural Material Manager job.

Version 11.3 Upgrade - Easy switching between Plates and Bars is provided by a pair of new conversion dialogs.

Version 11.2 Upgrade - Windows 7 is now supported.

Version 11.1 Upgrade - The External Data Interface can now import ASCII-delimited files. The Length and Width fields can now be entered in a decimal format, and digital plan measure tools are now supported.

Version 11.0 Upgrade - The Graphical User Interface (GUI) concept has been brought to the External Data Interface. New steel sizes have been added, and system capacity has increased by over 500 jobs. Also, full-screen mode is now available for those still using the "classic" material entry screen.

Version 10.1 Upgrade - Click this link to see screen shots of the new Graphical User Interface (GUI) that has replaced the old material entry screen in Version 10.1.

Version 10.0 Upgrade - Our first Windows Vista-compatible system was Version 10.0.

Whereas the links above provide descriptions of some different upgrade versions, keep in mind that only the newest upgrade is ever actually available for purchase. That's not a problem since the latest upgrade always contains the features implemented by its predecessors. For example, suppose you own Structural Material Manager Version 9.2 and would like to upgrade to Version 12.0. Also suppose that you did not purchase the Version 10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3 and 11.4 upgrades that came between 9.2 and 12.0. There is no need to order those intermim upgrades, as 12.0 contains all of their features. Of course your Version 12.0 upgrade price will be higher than for another customer who who did indeed purchase interim upgrades as they were released, as there is no financial incentive to skip an upgrade version. Still, the fact remains that you do not need to or install one or more "intermim" CD's (Versions 10.0 through 11.4 in this example) in order to upgrade to the latest system. One upgrade CD - the latest version - is all you need.

Customers with older versions can e-mail us at Sales@ejeindustries.com to obtain a price quote on the latest upgrade.

Use the Online Upgrade Order Form to conveniently place the order for the latest Structural Material Manager upgrade.

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