The CARAT Version - V2026.2.1.2

On the CARAT tab the menu ribbon has been enhanced by the feature Assembly reports. Here you will find the new assembly reports that have been transferred from CARAT cloud to CARAT , displayed in a separate dialogue.

If you have a planning already opened in CARAT and use this feature, the following dialogue will display only those new assembly reports that are related to this planning. Otherwise, you will see all new assembly reports.

The retrieved assembly reports will be stored in PDF The Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) was developed and perfected in the 80's by Adobe Systems. Adobe PDF files contain data from any application, that can be displayed on every computer, and are suitable thereby to be exchanged with users throughout the world. format The format or formatting (Latin, forma) is designated in word processing as the design of the text document. In this case meaning the selection of character fonts and character style such as bold or italics. in the Assembly reports file of the respective commission overview.

In the system options The word option (from Latin: optio = free will) used in computing means a choice. In CARAT it is normally used with a list box. on the Interfaces tab you can also optionally set the dialogue New assembly reports to open automatically with every start of CARAT. This setting will be offered after double-clicking the CARAT service interface.

Within the scope of further technical development, we will be gradually providing you with a new database for CARAT beginning with this version.

The provision will take place in multiple steps. As soon as your environment will be provided for, we will inform you with a separate newsletter timely.

In the system options, interfaces, you can now activate the export of assembly reports by clicking Yes in the settings for the ERP interface under CARAT service.

In the system options, in the interfaces area, you can now activate the CARAT view PDF export by clicking Yes in the settings of the ERP interface under Carat view.

When planning and editing windows with the option Window styles you can now add existing Profile enlargements using 4 new entry fields (top, bottom, left, right).

With the new expansion stage Level 3 of CARAT emotion your kitchen presentation will become way more realistic. You can now open cabinets and drawers simply by clicking on it with the mouse.

In particular, for special cabinet solutions such as LeMans or Apothecary cabinets for example, you can now showcase their advantages in an especially vivid way. Expanding this new display possibility by home appliances has already been prepared and adapted to some articles from the neutral catalogue.

The user interface of CARAT emotion has been enhanced by a new toolbar in the lower right corner.

• By clicking the icon with the three linked circles, the menu Interior will open. Here you can deactivate the new feature Create decorations automatically. This feature usually fills all cabinets and drawers that can be opened in CARAT emotion with decorative articles. In addition, you will find here the activated Interference check which assures the correct opening of the cabinets and drawers. We do not recommend to deactivate this feature.

• By clicking the icon with the Light bulb, the menu Lighting Optimizer will open. With the feature Optimize, an AI-enabled lighting optimization of your CARAT emotion scene will be executed. By clicking the feature Reset you can undo the optimization. In addition, you can activate the feature Detect kitchen automatically if you have added Addition (in Latin: addere) is one of four basic operations in arithmetic. In primary school and in common language it is the expression used for the adding of two or more numbers. artificial light sources to your planned kitchen. By this, the illumination of your kitchen will be improved.

The light of spotlights and area lights can not be edited anymore via the context menu In almost all Windows programs a click with the RIGHT mouse button opens a context menu containing a list of commands that are commonly the next step of a procedure. that appears by right-clicking into the perspective. Alternatively, you can still edit these lights via the menu bar on the perspective tab by clicking on Edit artificial light.

See also: Artificial light

Changes in the partitioned front area of an article will not affect corner covers and handle bars in other front areas anymore.

The required data for an OC transfer will now be created and transferred automatically when synchronizing a notebook with a server A server is a central computer in a designated network structure, from which the resources of the central computer can be accessed by multiple workstations (clients). if the module OC transfer (4 T) is activated.

Light radiations of arbitrarily formed light strips will now be displayed as well.

The display of contour-intensified plannings was optimized.

The setting of the slide control for the manual brightness adjustment in the CARAT emotion scene was optimized.

It is now possible to simultaneously move around in the CARAT emotion scene via a controller and to work in CARAT.

Panoramic backgrounds used in the perspective will now be transferred to the CARAT emotion scene.

You can now edit materials and textures In computer graphics, one uses textures as surfaces of a 3D models. of animated presentation articles. These changes will then also be visible in CARAT emotion.

The new Tradeplace interface in the system options is now available for all countries in CARAT.

See also: e.COM / Tradeplace

See also: Manufacturer overview Tradeplace

For articles with multiple fronts you can now edit each front by its own in the dialogue Edit front partitioning. Thus, you can assign different colors if offered by the manufacturer.

PDF documents with QR code that have been created in CARAT view can now be exported via the ERP interface if it has been activated by clicking Yes in the system options on the interface tab.

Joining outlines of worktops is now always possible as long as it is generally feasible, independent from the order of the highlighting of the worktops.

It is now possible to Edit the quantity of add-on articles without displaying article properties graphically. Thus, the hitherto needed multiple planning of the same article is obsolete.

The features in the user interface for the search results in the neutral catalogue have been enhanced and the usability was opitimzed.

• In the Search field for the Article search you can use either categories, article names or article numbers. As soon as you enter the first one or two letters, a Suggestion for the search term will be displayed as assistance.

• You can now filter the search results for the criteria Latest first, Oldest first, CARAT emotion and Favorites.

• Filtering is possible either based on category or by selecting Show all articles.

• You can switch between a list view with small pictures or a tile view with larger pictures.

• Found articles from the category CARAT emotion are additionally flagged with the identifier Animated article.

• Frequently used articles can be flagged as favorite by clicking on the displayed white star. Afterwards, they can be found by using the filter favorites and show a black star as identifier.

  The storage of the favorites is user-related.

See also: Video Neutral catalogue 2026

The Service date is now also transferred during the export of the Advance payment invoice.

CAD The term CAD stand for Computer Aided Design. All detailed articles from a particular manufacturer, as well as the neutral catalogues in CARAT, are generated with CAD. articles are now displayed with a floor plan cross line.

e.COM order confirmations are now displayed in the folder commission overview sorted by date.

When Changing the subsidiary number, the current subsidiary is now preallocated in the commission overview.

The CARAT laser measuring interface has been enhanced. You can now transfer the following window properties for measured windows together with the measuring file (EGI file), provided that this feature is already used by your measuring service provider.

• Profile enlargements (top, left, right, bottom)

• the quantity and width of the casements for multi-casement windows

• for windows with either overhead lights or lower lights (including a respective height value)

• dimensions for window frame (width and height)

The grace period for the offline operation of CARAT during connection failure to the CARAT cloud or the internet has been extended to 72 hours. Thus, even failures during the weekend are covered.