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AceViewer 3.3 – 3.9 Updates

This article rolls up the incremental improvements between 3.3 and 3.9.1. The headline change is the removal of the 32-bit Microsoft Access Database Engine dependency in 3.8 — older AceViewer installations had to track Access-driver bitness carefully, and this is no longer necessary.

v3.3 — Excel output and fast loading

  • Excel (.xlsx) export added to the Export Grid function (alongside the existing CSV and tab-delimited).
  • The grid now shows the first 100 applications immediately while loading continues in the background, with a Cancel button if you change your mind.
  • Performance enhancements when loading ACES files.
  • New setting to skip the model-name uniqueness check (avoids a database-write requirement in some environments).
  • Fix: TransBase was overwriting other attributes in combined view.

v3.6 — Remove N/A positions

Added a setting to remove N/A positions from the display, cleaning up grids for files that emit N/A as a default position value.

v3.7 — UTF-8 file support

Reading UTF-8 encoded ACES XML files is now supported. (See the 3.10 release for a follow-up that fixes the display of multibyte characters in the Row Source viewer.)

v3.8 — No more 32-bit Access driver requirement

This is the most impactful change in the 3.x line for installation. AceViewer no longer depends on the 32-bit Microsoft Access Database Engine being installed. You can run AceViewer on a machine with the 64-bit Office runtime — or no Office runtime at all — and it will still open VCdb and PCdb .mdb / .accdb files.

Other 3.8 improvements:

  • New option to load only <App> elements (skips Asset and other elements) for faster open of files where you only need the application data.
  • Pivot Report — include all part types in a part column using an asterisk (*).
  • Pivot Report — display four-digit years for combined years (YYYY-YYYY).
  • Pivot Report — option to include Engine before Years when combining years.
  • Fix: footnote sort on part number in pivot report.

v3.9 — EngineBlock

Added support for the EngineBlock element.

v3.9.1 — AssetName in Pivot Report

Added an optional AssetName column to the Pivot Report.

Revised: 2025-01-11
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