Stopped the program from crashing when it runs out of memory when loading a large DTM.
Fixed a crash that happened when one tried to create an array of text objects.
Build 2022. February 13 2007
Support for DWG/DXF version 2007.
Map Grids can now be printed directly from the Map Grid window- removing the need to generate thousands of paper space layouts.
GIS: Select By Expression.
GIS: Added a function to create unique indices on fields, that respects groups of similarly named objects.
DWG/DXF control characters in text (such as %%d for degrees) are imported correctly.
Altered the mechanism of the 'Done' button when editing a viewport inline in paper space.
Unified the handling of line endings in multiline text, which fixed a long-standing bug that would cause sporadic crashes when printing to PDF.
GIS: Improves GIS-2-GIS spatial field correlation.
Fixed a bug that caused the printer setup mechanism to run out of memory.
Fixed a bug in the selection filter dialog that caused it to crash when one did not have a layer '0'.
Fixed a DWG/DXF output bug that caused us to crash when writing Inserts with non-empty brushes.
Fixed a DWG/DXF Paper Space import scaling issue.
Fixed a text positioning bug that would place all text objects at 0,0.
Fixed a bug in the Explode function, when exploding text inside an Insert object.
Command Bar at top of CAD window no longer gets left behind if the main window is moved.
Numerous usability fixes for the new context-less selection mechanism.
GIS: Fixed an issue that caused shapefiles to be rendered in the middle of nowhere if one clicked on the Projection setup, and then clicked Cancel.
Build 1867. November 21 2006
Added Cleanup > Delete Empty Text command.
Block Insert has a new mode that allows the angle of the block to be fetched from a line or polyline underneath the inserted symbol.
One can now select a filled object by clicking inside its interior (this can be turned off from the Snaps configuration).
Right-Clicking an object no longer requires that you select it first.
Select Inside Existing Polygon now has the ability to add to and remove from the existing selection.
The status bar now informs you what type of object you have selected.
Workaround to a Windows bug that in rare cases caused a viewport's border to be too thick.
Holding down Ctrl while rotation now forces rotation snap.
The Map Grid Generator can now select pages based on model space layer coverage.
Block Insert does not popup the block detail window when one uses the Enter key to repeat the last command.
Live Select draws a filled object with transparency, thereby avoiding the obscurity problem.
GIS: Improved selection mechanisms in the Data Grid.
Fixed a frequent crash that would occur when pasting text into numerous text boxes inside the program.
Fixed bad point entering when Ctrl key was held down.
Pen 7 (black/white) now works properly when using a dark background, and performing model edits from paper space.
Layer Group visibility states are now saved inside Named Views.
GIS: Fill Data mechanism had a text field that was blanked out.
Build 1785. October 31 2006
Added Automatic Updates of the program via the internet.
Added the polygon extractor and cutter (on Modify and Cleanup menu).
GIS: Added Fill Unique command to database editor.
Ctrl+Click when in Polyline Edit -> Insert causes the new vertex to be inserted immediately at the current location, splitting the nearest segment.
Added Cancel button to layer control box.
Moved user configuration out of Program Files directory and into user's Documents and Settings folder.
Measure distance can now measure a line sequence.
Ruby scripting environment improved. Help file is available, but very sparse.
Removed legacy color stratification (ie colors are now more accurate).
Every character of text is now positioned more accurately, so that one doesn't have to zoom in to see what the final result will be.
Reduced memory usage for systems with a large number of fonts installed.
Color picker's text display is now much more useful. One can copy/paste a textual color value (such as ff0000ff, which is bright red).
Various improvements in quality to circle and line rendering.
Fixed many small and rare bugs.
Fixed an Out of Memory error when creating a large number of PDFs.
Fixed an Out of Memory error when closing a large drawing.
Scale Bar no longer draws big black boxes when printing.
Text did not rotate with it's viewport, when printing as bitmap.
Selection Filter no longer pops up when switching between paper and model space.
Pasting a bitmap from the clipboard was broken.
Build 1480. July 21 2006
Fixed a bug that caused the linetype dropdown box to occasionally crash.
Fixed a bug that caused a viewport's layers to be messed up if one copied+pasted while doing an in-place edit in paper space.
Fixed a few bugs in the Recent Drawings menu.
Fixed various errors in the Modify > Offset command.
Map Grid Generator: One can now use Ctrl and Alt to select/deselect non-rectangular regions. Region presets can be saved with the grid.
Batch Printer now has a Sort button for the pages that are going to be printed.
Added Hatch Explode.
Accuracy of Text, when Printing As Bitmap, is improved.
GIS: Improved interactiveness of labels.
GIS: Categories can now be moved around. Expressions higher up take precedence.
Added Layer Groups.
GIS: Added Range Queries.
All the other changes since March 13 have been omitted, due simply to lack of time for producing the update list.
Build 1144. March 13 2006
Bitmap path relative to drawing location was not working.
Fixed a bug that caused an occasional crash.
Fixed a bug that caused the system to become unstable if one closed a polyline by dragging its two end grips together.
Fixed a bug that caused a crash when printing to PDF.
Fixed a bug that caused the texture picker to crash.
One can no longer change layers via the quickbar (at the top).
Property editor remembers its scroll position.
Single-segment polylines return their angle upon Query.
Improved handling of commands inside a paper space drawing edit.
Scale Bar has configurable units.
Improved quality of thin dashed lines (when working in paper space only).
The Printable attribute is now respected in paper space.
Added a new text creation mode, and made the text parameters window sizeable.
Added advanced options for Hardware Accelerated rendering mode.
Build 1096. February 10 2006
Prevented the property editor from auto-hiding itself when one is busy editing an item.
Viewport scales were being saved with low precision, causing scales to become for eg 49999.99.
Prevents the layer dropdown list from auto-hiding itself when not appropriate.
Selected objects would print out red (or whatever the selection color is).
Layout pages would sometimes lose their paper settings.
Batch Printer is much improved. It can now print to PDF, can send as Bitmap to regular printer, and more.
During Block Insert, using a reference angle when specifying rotation is now easier.
Build 1084. February 7 2006
Fixed the bug that caused the Select All button not to work in the layer control box.
Fixed a bug in the text importer that caused it to misread the requested line range.
Disabled the low memory warning, that was slowing the system down.
Fixed a bug that would cause thick dashed lines to cause an Out Of Memory error.
Fixed a bug that prevented one from using Bitmaps and Text objects on a paper space template (for map grid generation).
Named views saved from Model Space now save the layer visibility state.
Improved the way real numbers are formatted.
Improved the Block Insert box so that one can now choose whether to maintain an xref link to the original block drawing.
Added resolution options to the inline PDF writer.
Build 1067. January 23 2006
Fixed Text Rotate bug introduced c. Jan 15 2006.
Fixed Copy/Paste inside Vector Texture Editor.
Removed crash possibility origining in dashed Arcs and Circle.
Fixed a bug in the hardware accelerated renderer that caused arcs to be rendered as little squares, when zoomed far out.
Fixed a bug in the hardware accelerated renderer that caused thick lines to remain thin when zooming in.
Fixed rendering of Bitmap Textures to PDF.
Fixed a bug that prevented ESC from working when one was entering values into the command line.
Build 1061. January 18 2006
Fixed a bug that caused ByLayer line widths to be incorrectly displayed when hardware acceleration was turned on.
Fixed a bug in the Property Editor that made it refuse to change properties when multiple objects are selected.
Fixed an issue that caused snap settings to revert to their defaults when one swapped drawings, or went to paper space.
Fixed an issue that caused Pan to continue flashing the screen if the mouse was moved after the pan button had been released.
Fixed a bug that caused ByLayer lines to be drawn solid when they had transparent color.
Extended Join Lines to be able to join multiple line segments at once into multiple polylines.
Extended Named Views so that they can now also store Layer Visibility.
Implemented a type of Viewport Coordinate Label that displays the map grid cell that lies underneath it.
Added a delay grace to the key combination mechanism, so that shortcut keys will work better.
Added configuration option of custom text editor.
Build 1003. December 19 2005
PDF size reduced when using the inline PDF printer.
Draw order within a layer can now be altered in certain cases. Access it from the Modify menu.
Fixed text unit display in paper space.
Build 984. December 8 2005
Linetype quality for thin lines has been reduced in favour of speed.
Improved speed of property changes for the following properties: [Color, Brush, LineType, LineWidth].
Build 926. November 28 2005
Dynamic text (specified in paper units) is available for testing.
Wildcards are available in replace text.
Fixed the periodic autobackup so that its interval is correct (it was unusable).
Solid fills get saved to DWG.
Reduced memory usage slightly (about 5%).
There is a projection adjuster for CAD objects. Use the command Modify.AdjustProjection to access it. No Cape1880 support yet.
Native ABD file version upped to 1050.
Build 907. November 17 2005
Fixed a bug that caused Polygon2D objects to report incorrect boundaries, which resulted in very slow drawings.
Added Line Width Preview Scale to Model Space. This allows you to preview Point Line Widths while working in model space.
Build 895. November 15 2005
Fixed a bug that caused severe slowdowns in drawings with a great number of duplicate (or very bunched) objects.
Added Save/Load layer preset to disk.
Build 866. November 08 2005
Large BCFs generated using this build will load much faster and use less memory. This makes it more practical to use a large number of images in your background.
Fixed a nasty bug in the Text Editor box that would cause a crash after clicking OK.
Build 863. November 07 2005
GIS: General editability improvements to the database editor. Copy / Paste works (including to and from Excel).
Fixed an error that caused drawings containing certain combinations of 3D objects to cause severe slowdowns.
Fixed an error in importing solid DWG hatches.
Fixed an error that caused a crash while the GIS database window was open.
Build 848. October 28 2005
Added Polyline Cleanup tool (accessible from the Tools > Cleanup menu).
Build 844. October 25 2005
Updated ABD file version to 1048.
Fixed crash related to viewport objects.
Fixed crash related to text objects.
Fixed crash related to moving grips.
Improved Live Select behaviour to make it faster.
Improved Hardware Acceleration memory management.
Build 833. October 18 2005
Undo works while creating a polyline.
Bitmaps have Contrast/Brightness/Saturation applied when rendered to PDF via the native driver.
There is a Live Select option similar to AutoCAD 2006, that highlights the object underneath the cursor. You can enable/disable it from the Snaps configuration box.
Build 824. October 15, 2005
Fixed a bug that was causing large hatch objects to crash the system.
Fixed a bug that sometimes caused polygons to disappear when in Hardware Acceleration mode.
Hardware Acceleration mode will now work with limited functionality on a lot of older hardware (ie laptops).
Build 811. October 10, 2005
Internal workings of the Hatch object have been changed.
New ABD file version: 1046.
Improved speed and linewidth precision in Hardware Acceleration mode.
Build 804. October 5, 2005
Fixed rotated bitmap printing in native PDF driver.
GIS: Fixed text rendering.
Added per-viewport Quad property for MapGrid generation.
Build 783. September 23, 2005
Added some margin printing options (accessible from the main Print window from the 'Margin Detail' button).
View regeneration with Hardware Acceleration is much faster than it was.
Build 781. September 22, 2005
The top Edit Bar can be used as a property editor (finally!).
Fixed Blowup Scale so that it works when printing from Model Space.
DWG/DXF Line Weights are imported, as well as polyline widths being respected.
Build 780. September 21, 2005
Text angles were wrong when printing a rotated viewport to PDF.
Added option of showing layers top-to-bottom.
Build 777. September 20, 2005
Warning about the GIS : The interface between the
CAD and the GIS is very fragile right now. Do not modify GIS objects in the
CAD, unless you are performing one of the following operations:
Move, Scale, Rotate objects.
Move grips.
Be aware that all operations on the CAD layer onto which the shapefile is
rendered are interpreted as GIS operations, and this is the mechanism that is
fragile. Do not copy and paste on the GIS layer. In order to import CAD objects
into a shapefile, move them onto the layer that the shapefile is rendered on
(usually named Shape: xxxx). Be aware though, that there is no neat spatial ordering
on imported objects, so adjacent records in the database will not be close to each
other. Their ordering will be completely random, but this will be fixed.
Many GIS-CAD operations are not undoable. That said, the undo mechanism is
synchronized for the CAD and the GIS. Thus, in order to undo changes that you have
made to the database, click the undo on the main CAD window.
Chamfer now works.
Hatch objects can be created in the CAD (but not extensively modified)
Build 762. September 9, 2005
Layer draw order is now shown bottom-to-top. Layers can be dragged into position in the layer control box (instead of clicking move up/down).
Fixed a bug in the PDF renderer that caused incorrect colors when printing from paper space.
Build 755. September 6, 2005
Fixed a crash related to the use of the Map Books.
GIS: Shape area is computed correctly for complex hatches.
Build 746. August 31, 2005
Fixed another complex linetype related crash.
Build 745. August 30, 2005
The Rectangle command creates a proper rectangle (not a polygon).
GIS: Database editor is working better.
GIS: Categorization Rule is working again.
Build 735. August 29, 2005
Texture libraries. Sets of textures can now be saved and loaded. They function much like XRefs, in the sense that if one attaches a library to a drawing then the library is reloaded every time the drawing is loaded. They are managed from the normal Brush Editor tool.
New native file version 1044. Adds texture library management.
GIS: Shapefile geometry is no longer stored in memory. This will slow down the rendering of features, but it also lowers memory usage.
