Introducing Simio Version 17.261 – April 2024

Simio Version 17.261 is here! Check out all you need to know below.

How to get the newest download

The latest public software releases can be found at: www.simio.com/download. Your activation will continue to work with new releases as long as your maintenance is current. Newer releases are often available on the Simio Insiders forum.

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Simio's new features in Simio 17.261

New Desktop Edition Features

• Ability to Watch an Entity from Entity States Spreadsheet: This user requested feature allows you to Watch an entity directly from the Entity States Spreadsheet. Right clicking on the desired entity in the Entity States Spreadsheet and selecting Watch will allow you to easily watch that entity without having to navigate in the Facility Window.


• Path Planner Element: This new Element may be used in conjunction with a Transfer step to find and reserve a deadlock-free shortest network path for an entity from its current node to a destination node.


• Interrupt Step can Check Tokens: This user requested feature allows the Interrupt step to have a better understanding of information on the Token so that you can better control interrupting a Token.


• Data Column Histogram: This user requested feature allows you to create a histogram from a specified column of a data table.


• Generic Element Reference Property: This user requested feature lets User Defined Elements to now have corresponding Element Reference Properties available in the Definitions tab. Simio's default User Defined Elements will appear in the bottom section of the Element Reference Property drop-down. Any additional custom User Defined Elements will also appear automatically.


• Tally Observation Log Enhancement: This feature allows Expression columns in the Tally Observation Log to include expressions referencing table rows referenced by the Tally Statistic element and expressions referencing the Tally step token's associated object or context object, or table rows referenced by that token's associated object or context object or the token itself.


• Counter Element: This new element may be used to track attribute-based counts of entities in the system. The Counter can count either the ‘NumberWaiting’ or the ‘NumberEnroute’.


• Transportation Log and Constraint Log Enhancement: This feature lets Expression columns added to these two logs to have the property Show In Gantt Tooltips. When set to ‘True’, it will display the log expression from the Transport Log or Constraint Log on the corresponding Gantt bar.


• Expression Editor Enhancement: This user requested feature turns off the filtering of the Expression Editor by default. This was implemented to allow you to view more expression segments easier.


• Automatic Bound Table Import Enhancement: This feature enables the Insert Row and Remove Row buttons when a table is automatically bound to an external data source if the Enable Automatic Bound Table Importing toggle is off.


• Auto-created Object Enhancement: This user requested feature allows you to set the auto-created object’s display symbol via the Symbol Index property of the Object Property column of a data table.


• Ability to Add Animation to Node Definitions: This user requested feature allows you to add labels, queues, and animation to custom Node definitions.


• Additional Symbol Animation Support: This feature allows symbols with node animation can now be loaded into Simio.


• About Simio Enhancement: This feature adds an About Simio button to the Support ribbon which will show your Simio Version, License Type, Registered to, Expiration, and .NET Framework version. It also provides a link to the License Terms as well as a direct link to email your important information into Simio.


• Counter Element Enhancement: This feature adds a Value Expression property to the Counter element which allows you to specify a value to increment/decrement the count by.


• Repeating Group Property Editor Enhancement: This feature has two major enhancements that were designed to improve the experience of Simio when using a repeating group property editor. First, you can now continue browsing your Simio model with a repeating group property editor open. Second, you can have multiple repeating group property editors open at the same time.


• Database and Web API Importer and Exporter Enhancement: This user requested feature allows you to hide the database password to the connection string in the Database Importer and Exporter as well as the Web API Importer and Exporter.


• Table Referencing Enhancements: This feature allows tables in other objects to now be referenced in a model when the model has a reference to that object. This allows a top-level model to reference a table inside a submodel. This enhancement is for both Data Table and Output Table referencing. Process Logic steps, such as SetRow and Search can be used with other object's table references. Properties in Repeat Groups can use other object table references too.


• Show Table Schema Viewer: This feature allows you to visually see the relationships between data tables in a zoomable, pan-able diagram.

New SimBits

• Tiebreaker Fewest Turns: This SimBit demonstrates a Network using fewest turns when there are ties for shortest routes.


• Understanding Run Performance With Dashboards: This SimBit includes three models providing examples of using a Search step with corresponding Dashboards displaying the run time of each model. All three models show the same objective with different approaches and how each approach affects the run time.


• Path Planner Element: This SimBit includes five models providing examples of using the Path Planner Element.


• Referencing Tables In Other Objects: This SimBit includes two models providing examples of using other object’s table references.


• Counter Element: This SimBit includes three models providing examples of using the Counter Element.

New Portal Features

• Download Files for Support: This feature allows a Portal Admin to download the Web Config, SAML Log, App Data, Audit Log, and APP Config for a certain time period in order to help debug Simio Portal Edition.


• Data Table Enhancement: This feature keeps filters on data tables when editing, adding or removing a row in order to easily edit tables.


• The Simio Portal administration and experimentation has received a significant upgrade. Visually, we've refactored how you run Experiments and view Results. Some general improvements and optimizations were added in as well to help repeat Experiment Runs, view others’ Runs, permissions management of Users and Models, etc. To enable this in your current Portal or to see a demonstration of our next generation Portal product, please contact sales@simio.com.