Releases

12th Mar 2024

Hero v4.0 Released – What’s New

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We are thrilled to announce our latest release, including our NatHERS accredited Whole of Home (WoH) module. But we’ve also packed it out with a range of other exciting new features such as Site Analysis, Drawing Stamper, DTS WoH and many more enhancements! We can’t wait for you to explore the innovative additions and improvements we’ve made to our platform!
 
Regulatory Updates
  • NatHERS Accredited NCC 2022 Whole of Home (WoH) Release view.
  • NatHERS 2022 WoH Certificates are ready for creation on the Hero web-portal view
  • Hero V4 is fully supported for Mac OS with cloud simulations view
  • Hero is now officially approved for use in the ACT view
 
   New     Hero Whole of Home (WoH)
  • WoH has been added to the Appliances tab of the Summary View, allowing you to quickly create, edit and analyse various systems
  • Analyse the WoH results in the Hourly Results Viewer
  • Your WoH simulations are run in parallel with your star-rating simulation to minimise downtime
  • Editing Appliances provide an almost instantaneous result update, making Hero WoH the fastest NatHERS WoH assessment tool on the market
  • Hero WoH also calculates ABCB WoH DTS compliance and allows export to the ABCB WoH DTS Excel calculator.
  • WoH Templates allows you save and load pre-created templates
  • Add comments, Export to PDF and View WoH in Presentation mode
  • Create NCC2022 NatHERS WoH certificates on the Hero web-portal
  New   Site Analysis & Future Weather Files
  • A new Site Analysis view has been added that provides local climate and weather conditions and analysis
  • CSIRO Future Weather files are now supported to allow climate resilient design analysis
  • Model alternative weather files in non-regulatory mode
  • Export readable Weather data to various external formats
  New   Drawing Stamper
  • A super handy Drawing Stamper tool has been added to automate NatHERS stamping of plans and specifications View in detail
Minor updates
  • Chenath V3.23 engine has been incorporated with the Airtightness ACH now reported even for Regulatory mode simulations view in detail
  • The Summary View now has a powerful filter button that facilitates better client reporting, and export for third-party purposes such as BASIX reports view in detail
Other updates
  • Drawing Utilities: New Drawing Mode functionality including Merge Zone, Background send-to-back, and Copy/Paste functionality added for Windows, Doors, Skylights and all other minor objects view in detail
  • Data Grid: Structural columns hidden when not using thermal-bridging; alternative weather files; missing post-codes now have a useable workaround; and user-selectable ABCB Climate Zone
  • Construction Library: New materials including new Earth, Cob and Light Straw types along with several new custom floor assemblies view in detail
Upcoming Events
Hero is a free to download and use NatHERS Accredited software package that is used by hundreds of assessors, designers, architects, engineers & building professionals Australia wide.Contact us at admin@hero-software.com.au for assistance in making the switch to Hero today!

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