Whats New in Cube 5.

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Whats New in Cube 5.0

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Whats New in Cube 5.0

This document describes features that Cube 5.0 introduces in

different Cube modules and extensions. Sections include:
Release overview
Cube Base features
Cube Voyager features

In addition, this document discusses Technical support and

software updates on page 7.

See the product documentation for more detailed information:

Refer to a products release summary for a complete list of
features added in previous releases.
Refer to a products Reference Guide for a discussion of available
features.
Refer to product tutorials for exercises that demonstrate some
capabilities of modules and extensions

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Release overview

Release overview
Cube version 5.0 introduces new GIS capabilities that allow you to
integrate your transportation modeling data with other GIS data.
Specifically, this release introduces:
An ESRI-compliant geodatabase with a Cube transportation
data model for road and public transport data
A new GIS window
This window provides selected ArcGIS functions and many of
the editing and mapping features from Cubes existing graphics
window.
A Cube Voyager update to read from and write to the
geodatabase in model applications

Cube 5.0 enhances the familiar Cube interface with ArcGIS

functionality for working with road data. With Cube 5.0, you can
work with maps in Cube Bases new GIS window to edit and analyze
data, including road networks, polygon, polyline, point, and raster
data. Cube stores the data in a geodatabase, following
Cube-specific topology rules.

Cube 5.0 establishes a common data-storage format that allows

you to share data and maps between Cube and ArcGIS. You can
open and map, but not edit, this geodatabase data in ArcGIS.
Similarly, you can open any maps created in ArcGIS (MXD files) with
Cube 5.0.

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 Cube Base features

Cube Base features

This section lists the new Cube Base features grouped into several
categories:
Data
Projections
Mapping
Interoperability
Data editing & analysis

Data
New geodatabase for road data and public transport data,
including support for multiple networks
DBF-formatted data, polygons, polylines, points, and images
New custom data model for transportation planning
Importing and exporting road networks to and from
geodatabase
Importing and exporting public transport lines files and
nontransit legs files
Shape points in road networks
New image formats: MrSID, ECW
New vector formats: DXF and other CAD formats

Projections
Projection definitions
On-the-fly geographic projections

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Cube Base features

Mapping
What-you-see-is-what-you-get page layout
ESRI scale bars
ESRI north arrows
Access to ESRI symbology library in mapping
Improved posting

Interoperability
Read and write ESRI map documents (.MXD files)

Data editing & analysis

ESRI table of contents
Opening attributes from table of contents
New custom editor for transportation planning data
Multiple selection of features
Selection by attribute
Spatial selection
Graphical selection
On-screen selection
Group editing of selected features
Editing of geodatabase and shapefile data
Map searches
Measuring tools
Zooming to selected features
Scroll-wheel zoom and pan

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 Cube Voyager features

Cube Voyager features

This section lists the new Cube Voyager features grouped into
several categories.

General
Includes all cumulative minor bug fixes since the release of
version 4.2.

Highway program
Adds support for storing and maintaining highway network
data in the geodatabase file format. You can link input and
output networks from the Highway program directly to a
network feature class in a geodatabase.

Network program
Adds support for storing and maintaining highway network
data in the geodatabase file format. You can link input and
output networks from the Network program directly to a
network feature class in a geodatabase. You can also link input
and output link and node data directly to feature data classes in
a geodatabase.

Matrix program
Adds support for storing and maintaining data tables in the
geodatabase file format. Specifically, the Matrix program can
read geodatabase data tables with the FILEI DBI or FILEI RECI
control statements. The Matrix program can write to
geodatabase data tables with the FILEO RECO control
statement.

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Cube Voyager features

Adds support for reading from and writing to EMME/2 data

banks. The Matrix program can now write matrices, zonal data,
and constants to an existing EMME/2 data bank, and the Matrix
program can read existing data in an EMME/2 data bank and
save in Cube Voyager binary or DBF formats.

Public Transport program

Adds support for storing and maintaining transit data in the
geodatabase file format. You can directly link input and output
transit line, link, and node data from the Public Transport
program to line, link, and node special feature classes in a
geodatabase.

Cube Avenue program

Optimization improvements to the ILOOP phase improve
run-time performance.

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 Technical support and software updates

Technical support and software updates

This section describes technical support and software update
options. Topics include:
Annual maintenance contract
Technical support
Software updates

Annual maintenance contract

Citilabs combines the services of technical support and software
updates into one software maintenance service contract. Clients
wishing to receive software maintenance services are encouraged
to purchase an annual contract. These contracts may be purchased
at any time. However, an update fee will be charged if a client
wishes to resume the maintenance service that has been
discontinued for a period of time. Please contact your local
distributor or Citilabs for more information about the annual
maintenance contract.

Technical support
Citilabs attempts to provide timely answers to questions about the
behavior and performance of our software products covered under
a software maintenance contract. You can contact Citilabs using:
World Wide Web support
Submit your support query directly through our user support
form at:
http://www.citilabs.com/supportform.html
Submitting your support query through our Web-based
support form allows your support request to enter our support
request tracking and response system, where we assign it a
tracking number and a support staff member for response.

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Technical support and software updates

Citilabs maintains a World Wide Web site (www.citilabs.com)

that hosts a variety of pages with up-to-date information about
our products. Answers to general technical support questions
will be posted on the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) pages
as well. A direct link to the Citilabs home page is provided
under the Help menu.
Citilabs maintains and monitors a user group site at Yahoo
Groups (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citilabs/). This site
provides a forum for product users to post questions and get
answers and information from other users as well as Citilabs
staff. Notices for training and workshop events or other special
Citilabs events are also posted to the user group. There is a Files
area for the group to post examples and share information.
Citilabs staff and clients have posted a number of useful
example scripts to the files area of the group.
E-mail support
Clients who licensed Citilabs software through a local
distributor should e-mail support questions to the distributor.
A current list of distributors can be found at http://
www.citilabs.com/contact.html
Clients who licensed Citilabs software directly from Citilabs
should submit support queries using the web based support
form described above. If you have problems accessing the Web
submission form, then you may e-mail support questions
including license number to the appropriate address.

Client location E-mail contact address

U.S., Canada, Mexico, Central America, or Support_US@citilabs.com
South America
UK, Europe, Africa, or the Middle East Support_UK@citilabs.com
Asia, Australia, or New Zealand Support_Asia@citilabs.com

Please do not send e-mail with large attachments (greater than

3MB). Large attachments that need to be transmitted to Citilabs
as part of a technical support issue should be uploaded to the

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 Technical support and software updates

Citilabs File Transfer Site (FTP). Detailed instructions for

accessing the company FTP site are available at http://
www.citilabs.com/ftp.html.

Software updates
You can update Cube in one of two ways:
Replacement CD
Citilabs Web site

A replacement CD, with the latest version of Cube, will be sent to a

client upon the renewal of the annual maintenance contract.
Clients should reinstall Cube from the replacement CD to update
the software as well as the maintenance contract expiration date.

Software updates can also be done from the Citilabs Web site
(www.citilabs.com). Detailed instructions for Web-updating Cube
are available at www.citilabs.com. A current maintenance contract
is required for Web update.
WARNING: Do not attempt to update your software if your
maintenance contract has expired, or you did not update the
maintenance contract expiration date by re-installing from the
replacement CD. It will render your system inoperable.

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