============================= AllyCAD 2011 Project Overview ============================= IMPORTANT NOTE: Please regard the files in the ProgramData\Knowledge Base Software\AllyCAD 2011 (Windows Vista/7) or All Users\Application Data\Knowledge Base Software\AllyCAD 2011 (Windows XP) folder as belonging to the program. These files can and will be overwritten during patch installation, losing any modifications that might have been made. To modify the files copy the relevant file into the Users\\AppData\Roaming \Knowledge Base Software\AllyCAD 2011 (Windows Vista/7) or Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Knowledge Base Software\AllyCAD 2011 (Windows XP) folder or into the shared network folder (see the Configuration section in the Help file for details on how AllyCAD 2011 locates files) and make your modifications there. Such files will NOT be overwritten during patch installation, and will be used when the program is run. Builds ------ Release 14 - 2012/10/01 Release 13 - 2012/09/13 Release 12 - 2012/05/02 Release 11 - 2012/03/19 Release 10 - 2012/01/10 Release 9 - 2011/10/21 Release 8 - 2011/10/03 Release 7 - 2011/06/20 Release 6 - 2011/04/20 Release 5 - 2011/03/11 Release 4 - 2011/01/21 Release 3 - 2011/01/18 Release 2 - 2010/12/03 Release 1 - 2010/10/27 General ------- (Release 1) 1. Initial public release (Release 2) 2. Enhancement: The thumbnail image created when saving a drawing file is now limited to the paper extents instead of the drawing extents as previously done. (Release 3) 3. Enhancement: Reimplemented lock files for open drawings to prevent multi-user edit access. (Release 4) 4. Bug fix: Updated handling of network dongles (Release 5) 5. Simplified and updated version checking. (Release 6) 7. Network dongle checking now set via a dialog instead of just toggling the current setting. The dialog also displays the current server IP setting from the NETHASP.INI file. 8. Extensive work carried out on optimising the program for operational speed. (Release 7) (Release 8) 9. Additonal work carried out on optimising the program for operational speed. This has resulted in a 10 fold speed increase in certain areas. (Release 9) 10. Bug fix: Program no longer closes when drawing closed after opening via double-click from Explorer. (Release 10) 11. Enhancement: Added Windows 7 style taskbar button progress replication. 12. Enhancement: Version checking will detect the availability of a hotfix in addition to the normal update or new version check. 13. Bug fix: F10 was not working as an accelerator key as Windows treats it as a system key. [6092] (Release 11) 14. Enhancement: Menu Editor function Check Mnemonics will now suggest non-conflicting mnemonic characters when a conflict is detected, or where there is no mnemonic specified. 15. Enhancement: Improvements made to the external BMP Geo Lo tool include: (5723) - Added UTM as a projection type option. - Merged the two file browse options into one. - Improved the logic of when controls are greyed-out or not. - Changed the formatted output to have fixed point decimals for clarity. - A suggested filename with a sensible extension is offered when saving output from a .tif, .ecw or .jp2. - The saved output wrongly used the original data not the converted data. - A more explanatory reason is given when processing is not possible, typically because the input data is not geographic. - The prime LO value was not initialised when reading a .tif image. 16. Bug fix: The Home version could not recreate font.cache file when the file was detected as being corrupt. This bug affected other file recreation functionality such as for menus, toolbars, etc. 17. Bug fix: The Output bar did not always display correctly when first opened programatically. The background colour would override the display. (Release 12) 18. Bug fix: Corrected a bug in a third-party library which was causing DR4 files to be seen as virus infected by a few anti-virus programs (2 out of 42 tested). This bug resulted in DR4 attachments being removed from email messages by some email servers such as GMail. [6344] (Release 13) 19. Enhancement: Timed dongle security can be renewed on-line via an updated Remote Update System application. Use the Online button to generate update codes. Updating can be carried out from 7 days prior to the current expiry date and will supply a new expiry date 30 days later. (Release 14) CAD --- (Release 1) 1. Initial public release (Release 2) 2. Enhancement: GrabALL dialog icons uses the same icons as the toolbar. 3. Bug fix: The Simple Selection Filter will now toggle the Advanced Selection Filter off as it interfered with the selection process. 4. Bug fix: Fixed a crash caused when deleting a newly added text style in the Text Style dialog. 5. Enhancement: Implemented loading of AllyCAD 3 .lay files in the Layer Settings dialog. 6. Bug fix: Angular input in the Survey Toolkit COGO routines now aware of current angular settings. [4618] 7. Bug fix: Chamfer bar angle edit box uses linear decimal places (should use angular decimal places) [5029] 8. Enhancement: Annotative Scaling implemented. [4507] 9. Bug fix: Control Centre blocks list incorrectly also showed XRefs. [5026] 10. Table Styles: Text height values now have fixed number of decimal places. [5028] 11. Enhancement: List blocks in alphabetical order (in Block Insert Bar and Blocks dialog). [5060] 12. Enhancement: Add "Add Viewport" context menu option to the Layout tabs. [5070] 13. Enhancement: Always create legacy text as multiline text. [5072] 14. Enhancement: Fixes to the the appearance of entities in paperspace viewports, and the speed of viewport redraw. [4495] 15. Enhancement: Added "Align To Existing" option when drawing multiline text, as per single-line text. [4055] 16. Bug fix: Multiline Text Editor: Problem selecting text size from the text height drop down box. [4967] 17. Enhancement: If text height is set to zero in the properties bar, then set text height to the relevant text style height (if not zero). [4940] 18. Enhancement: While drawing arrow/leader you can now change the style being used. [4843] 19. Enhancement: Group entity properties now supports cycling through, and changing sub-entity properties. [5096] 20. Enhancement: Added a new function, SHPEXPORT, which will export points, lines, lightweight and 3D polylines as 3D ArcInfo Shape files. 21. Bug fix: Fixed handling of ellipsis buttons in Grid cells which did not function at all in the x64 build. 22. Enhancement: Added two new functions, TEXTIMPORT and TEXTEXPORT, to import and export text files in a similar fashion to AllyCAD 3.x. (Release 3) 23. Bug fix: OpenGL rendering was being initialised for every layout, not just the drawing. [5247] 24. Bug fix: Sanitise block names with '*' character properly. [5241] 25. Bug fix: "Cracks" may appear in bitmap at certain zoom levels. [5255] 26. Bug fix: Stack overflow crash while inserting a layout viewport. [5192] 27. Bug fix: OLE Frame scaled incorrectly when inserting an OLE Frame, or when "Activating" it. [5259] 28. Enhancement: New unsaved drawings now also participate in auto backup. (Release 4) 29. Enhancement: Survey dimensions now feature overridable bearing and distance text. (Release 5) 30. Fixes and enhancements to "Publish Layout" function. XRefs are now exploded or converted to blocks. Fix to snipping of block inserts to viewports. Viewport layer visibility used when publishing. [5315] 31. Bug fix: Save Selected/Visible - Fix to saving of unknown/proxy entities (saved DR4 would not open). [5330] 32. Bug fix: User incorrectly prompted to indicate XRef insert point when inserting survey xref in a survey drawing [5327]. 33. Bug fix: Bypassed lock file creation on Save Visible, Save Selected and auto-backup. 34. Bug fix: Coordinate bar not displaying values greater than 1 billion. [5334] 35. Bug fix: Status bar not displaying coordinate values greate than INT_MAX. [5333] 36. Bug fix: Advanced select filter does not generate correct filter string for lightweight polyline elevation property. [5335] 37. Enhancement: Added a new function, DIMARCLENGTH3POINT, for Arc length dimension by three points. [5350] 38. Bug fix: Batch import images was importing the images twice if an image which had georeferencing information also had a world file (ie. GeoTIFF with tfw). [5353] 39. Bug fix: Image clip boundary always drawn in orange. [5347] 40. Bug fix: DWG export of images did not handle the same image inserted multiple times in the drawing. [5349] 41. Bug fix: LWPolyline with smoothing caused hang when exporting to DWG. [5354] 42 Bug fix: Fixes to scroll bar in properties bar dropdown lists. [5361] 43. Bug fix: Merging a DR4 with an OLE Frame entity causes a crash. [5363] 44. Bug fix: Fix to DWG export of entities with annotation scales. [5311] (Release 6) 45. Bug fix: Fixes to auto-tracking. 46. Enhancement: DWG import now uses the DWG's "Insert units" to better guess the DWG units and scale. [5351]. 47. Enhancement: DWG Export has option to automatically converts DR4 XRefs to DWG's. [5316] 48. Bug fix: Save Selected: Line in group was not saved with correct linestyle index. [5379] 49. Bug fix: Circle centre snap does not work if arc centre is outside arc extents rect. [5382] 50. Bug fix: Cancelling in the colour selection dialog prevents functions from starting. [5302] 51. Bug fix: DRG Import - some text displayed as very long line when zoomed out. [5393] 58. Bug fix: DRG Import - current layer incorrect if the DRG does not have a layer "0". [5396] 59. Bug fix: Tables with cell text longer than 260 characters will cause DR4 open/load to fail. [5403] 60. Bug fix: Enabled editing of attribute tag/name. [5401] 61. Bug fix: Extruded arc does not snip correctly. [5409] 62. Bug fix: MText in a group is not highlighted correctly when selected. [5416] 63. Bug fix: Images drawn at wrong (lower) detail level in a layout viewport. [5414] 64. Bug fix: DWG Import - "bad" self-referencing blocks cause stack overflow. [5426] 65. Bug fix: Lights - changing light type in properties bar caused a crash. [5428] 66. Bug fix: Text styles listed multiple times in Block Attribute Editor. [5435] 67. Bug fix: LWPolyline linetype generation not correct when "continue dashing" option was set. [5436] 68. Bug fix: CEX Import - fixes to text angle, height and box width. [5442] 69. Bug fix: Selection of Tolerance using the selection rectanle fixed. [5444] 70. Bug fix: Exploding an XRef results in unselectable entities. [5449] 71. Enhancement: Multiline radiused corners are now trimmed on the "inside" if line element offset is greater than the radius. Multiline extents calculation fixed. [5447] 72 Bug fix: Annotation scaling - "default" annotative scale of objects handled correctly. Fix to calculation of viewport target extents. Fixed calculation of annotative scale automatically applied to new viewports. Implemented "Reset" function in Annotation Scales dialog. [5311] 73 Bug fix: Crash when changing annotation scale of multiple selection including non-annotative entities in the properties bar. [5459] 74. Enhancement: Add Layout function now has the option to either create a "default" viewport, or add a viewport using a Named View. [5467] 75. Enhancement: Publish Layout function now allows publishing of the layout as a DWG or DXF file. [5373] 76. Bug fix: Publish Layout - arrow/leader is huge in published drawing. [5478] 77. Enhancement: Optimisation of autoracking of large LW polylines (4000+) primitives. Significantly (about 20 times) faster. [5460] 78. Bug fix: Ratio Jump does not place last cursor position marker at the jump point. [5487] 79. Enhancement: Point snap to base of arrows of dimensions is considered undesirable. Removed. [5469] 80. Bug Fix: Fixed a bug with hatch imported from AllyCAD 3.6 with non-contiguous boundary. [5394] 81. Bug Fix: Fixed a bug with locked layers whereby an entity on a locked layer was modified by using arrow keys and modify scale. Also sorted out locked layer inconsistencies between Select All (CTRL-A) and Select Polygon. [5408] 82. Enhancement: Settings and Styles dialogs only redraw the view if needed (ie: avoid extraneous redraws). [5473] 83 Enhancement: Repeat Last should only repeat specific functions. [5474] 84. Bug fix: DWG Export: MText background fill colour not correct. [5479] 85. Bug fix: Publish Layout: Some entities in blocks have wrong linestyle. [5490] 86. Bug fix: Incorrect results with negative d.mm.ss entry into angle edit, e.g. polar jump. [5507] 87. Enhancement: SHX symbols in symbol linestyles are now drawn using the entity's lineweight. [5494] 88. Enhancement: Hatch annotative scaling implemented. [5500] 89. Bug fix: DWG Export: CELTSCALE variable cannot be set to 0. [5506] 90. Bug fix: Tooltips not working in "Rotation Axis" dialog. [5508] 91. Enhancement: SHP import of polygons can be either mpolygons or closed polylines. 92. Bug fix: Text height set to 1 drawing unit on SHP import with database text. 93. Bug fix: Updated calculation of centre point for SHP polygon import. 94. Enhancement: Added support for import of M type SHP files (the M or measure value is ignored). (Release 7) 95. Bug fix: Replaced the current point in polygon with a significantly faster one to speed up autotracking with island-detection. [5462] 96. Bug fix: Pen button not updating correctly when current pen is pen 7 and you switch between modelspace and a layout [5559]. 97. Bug fix: LWPolyline parallel copy does not copy "smoothing" of lwpolyline. 98. Enhancement: Optimise speed of dragging of hatches with complicated or multiple regions or region elements. [5566] 99. Bug fix: Long lines of text in MText are drawn truncated. [5567] 100. Bug fix: Hanging busy cursor after warning message for all selected entities on a locked layer. [5571] 101. Bug fix: Only the outline of text exploded from a survey dimension is drawn. [5574] 102. Bug fix: Fixed a bug where closed regions in certain southern hemisphere drawings are rejected by the hatch autotracking. [5576] 103. Bug fix: Fixed a bug with the layer visibility from *.lay files imported from AllyCAD 3.6 where only the current layer is visible. [5580] 104. Bug fix: Block not visible if it only contains attributes which have no default values [5581]. 105. Enhancement: Results of publishing layouts now sent to the Output Bar as they could overflow a message box. [5582] 106. Bug fix: Fix to import of DWG MText with "huge" box width. [5587] 107. Bug fix: DWG Import: Fix to dimension text height of dimensions in blocks. [5589] 108. Enhancement: Text and hatches are now made annotative when importing a DRG file. [5539] 109. Enhancement: Merging a DWG drawing into a survey drawing now prompts for the DWG import coordinate transform (None/Negate/Twist180). [5583] 110. Bug fix: DGN import fixes. [5592] 111. Bug fix: Fixed a bug with the properties bar where a group is selected and the line weight was edited but not updated. [5591] 112. Enhancement: Enabled tracking vertical/horizontal scroll for grids. 113. Bug fix: Fix to scaling of annotative entities when publishing a layout, fix to DWG export of annotative MText and DWG import of block inserts. [5456] 114. Bug fix: Printed text appears "bolder" than in AllyCAD3/AutoCAD. [5602] 115. Bug fix: Publishing as DWG: block insert scale and orientation fixed. Publishing to DWG as "survey drawing" implemented, use "Negate" option. [5596] 116. Enhancement: Change the draw order of hatch boundary entities so that they are drawn in front of the hatch. This is only relevant for the entity selection and intersection and autotracking boundary methods. [5505] 117. Bug fix: Memory depletion when printing drawings containing bitmaps. 118. Bug fix: Coordinate Table function was creating a table entity with the wrong table style. Also the alignment of data in the table columns is now as per AllyCAD 3 Coordinate Table function. [5619] 119. Bug fix: Fix to snipping of point entities (fixes publishing of DTM points). [5603] 120. Enhancement: Default line style to continuous and line weight to 0.0mm in hatch toolbar so it is like AllyCAD 3.6. The current line style and weight are restored when exiting the Draw Hatch function. [5454] 121. Bug fix: Fixed a bug where the autotracking (Track selection option checked) of selected closed regions which include lw polylines don't track. [5620] 122. Bug fix: Wrong annotation scale applied to layout viewports created by the Plot Generate function. [5630] 123. Bug fix: Fix to crash in the MText Editor when stacking text. [5629] 124. Enhancement: Instant redraw when swapping between layout tabs after initial draw of the layout when no subsequent resizing of the window has been carried out. 125. Feature: New application BMPGeoLo for converting an image world file in geographical units to LO (easting/northing). [5691] 126. Bug fix: Fix to attribute position when exploding and recreating a block. [5645] 127. Bug fix: Layouts not initially drawn correctly. [5655] 128. Enhancement: Added "repeat last command" support to addons; by default all addon commands can be repeated. [5662] (Release 8) 129. Enhancement: Dimensions can now be shown in feet and inches. [5649] 130. Enhancement: Added an enhancement to the arc measure function so that the the direction of measurement can be clockwise or anti-clockwise and AllyCAD can still differentiate between acute and reflex arcs. [5709] 131. Bug Fix: Fixed a bug with "degenerate" conic (elliptical arc) in track perimeter. [5712] 132. Bug fix: Fitment of dim text above the line incorrectly considers the arrow length. Especially noticeable with a text offset gap out of proportion to the text height. [5729] 133. Enhancement: Ctrl + Context Menu key is a shortcut to displaying the screen toolbar. This allows laptop (and other) users without an external mouse/wheel button to activate the toolbar. 134. Enhancement: System setting to use legacy arrow cursor instead of modern cross cursor in view. 135. Enhancement: Extended custom recent file display to the standard File menu shown when no documents are open. 136. Enhancement: Implemented merging of SHP files via the Load menu command. 137. Bug fix: Fixed a range error bug which caused a crash when selecting a hatch in the control centre. [5741] 138. Enhancement: Overriding dimension text now decides for you whether the override would be better as prefix or postfix properties. This is likely to be what you actually want. [5756] 139. Enhancement: Pen 8 layer highlighting implmented for MText fragments. [5744] 140. Bug Fix: Fixed a precision bug with the property bar where two identical quantities from two selected entities were labelled different ("varies"). [5761] 141. Bug fix: Program hung when merging in a specific DR4. [5742] 142. Bug fix: Fix to selection of groups when "Operate on current layer only" option is active. [5783] 143. Bug fix: Blank annotation scale names now overridden with automatically generated names. [5456] 144. Bug fix: Arcs and inserts in DWG published as a survey drawing were incorrect. Also fix to the initial zoom and DWG import coord transform setting in DWG published as a survey drawing [5373]. 145. Bug fix: Annotative hatches with SOLID pattern caused DWG export to fail. [5778] 146. Bug fix: Fix to a range error bug with DWG import of MLeader entities with "rubbish" data [5791]. 147. Bug fix: Fix to import of DWG s-hemi planar entities with a non-zero survey origin, exported using the "twist 180 deg" option. [5789] 148. Bug fix: Crash when saving sheetfile drawing with normal drawing entities added. [5790] 149. Bug fix: Crash after removing a layer referenced by a group in a specific drawing. [5797] 150. Bug fix: Prevent node/handle editing of read-only drawings. [5769] 151. Bug fix: Survey Dimension Defaults not imported from DRG. [5807] 152. Bug fix: MText frame lineweight not drawn correctly after MText lineweight property changed in the properties bar. [5810] 153. Enhancement: Improve error messages displayed during DWG export. [5823] 154. Bug fix: Fix to rubberbanding of table in Coordinate Table function. [5826] 155. Enhancement: Better protection against invalid object names and duplicate object names. [5827] 156. Bug fix: Block insert properties displayed wrong block name if the block was anonymous (non-insertable). [5829] 157. Feature: Added prompt to remap pens when changing the palette in View Settings. This allows us to eg: maintain object colours when exporting to DWG. [5803] 158. Enhancement: Ignore template selection when loading drawings via DDE. [5847] 159. Enhancement: Updated saving view as image to match AllyCAD 3.6 capability. [5853] 160. Bug fix: Autosave was being attempted for all views (including layouts) and not just the open drawings. [5856] 161. Bug Fix: Lines to polylines function also processes lines on hidden layers. [5855] 163. Enhancement: Updated the displaying of progress during loading of drawings and during publishing. [5834] 164. Enhancement: The DP Snap button should be ON by default. Also add a system setting for DP Snap. [5861] 165. Enhancement: Speed up the Sheet File Editor loading routine. [5860] 166. Enhancement: Redraw of a viewport in a layout takes the same time zoomed close in as when zoomed far out. [5864] 167. Bug fix: Fixed a bug with the DWG import of planar entities with s-hemi coordinates that where exported using the "negate coordinates" option. [5891] 168. Bug fix: Corrected bug in spatial index generation that caused imbalanced trees which would occasionally result in entities disappearing from view. 169. Enhancement: Reduced memory usage of "Save Selected" and "Save Visible" functions. [5893] 170. Enhancement: Arc-aligned Text character angle and offset more accurate. When drawing AAText, user is now prompted to set default character spacing if it is zero. [5887] 171. Enhancement: Made the program process the message queue when drawing selected entities and their associated nodes which removes incidences of "not responding". Also enabled redraw cancellation during drawing of highlighted and selected entities and during selection node drawing. 172. Enhancement: Made the program process the message queue when selecting via polygon/rectangle which removes incidences of "not responding" for selection of many entities. 173. Enhancement: Toggle visibility, lock and selection for multiple layers in the Layer Settings dialog. [5895] 174. Enhancement: Add an option to disable dynamic updating of layouts when plotting. [5868] 175. Enhancement: Progress draw when drawing layout viewports. [5901] 176. Bug fix: Multiline with pen 7 not always drawn correctly in viewports. [5904] 177. Enhancement: Added "Negate" and "Twist" option when importing DGN files as survey southern hemisphere. [5869] 178. Bug Fix: Undoing while entities are selected is a lot slower than undoing when entities are not selected. [5914] 179. Bug fix: Fixed a precision bug with the property bar where two different quantities from two different entities were considered equal. [5907] 180. Feature: Added back clip and snap tidy functions from AllyCAD 3.6. [5760] 181. Feature: Added centroid and average centre to for polygon area (only for lines and arcs, thus far). [5851] 182. Bug fix: DWG Export: Multilines in blocks saved to DWG were scaled incorrectly. [5959] 183. Enhancement: Plotting with a Sheet File with missing drawings, should ask the user to find it. [5964] 184. Bug fix: Layer visibility in output drawing was incorrect. [5961] 185. Bug fix: Stack overflow when merging text styles. [5965] 186. Bug fix: Publish: All OLE objects were being saved in the published drawing (not just the relevant OLE objects). [5962] 187. Bug fix: Crash while inserting a block using the "snip" option. [5970] 188. Bug fix: Block disappears if you rename it starting with a '*'. [5971] 189. Bug fix: Fixes to naming of XRef objects, and sanitising of object names. [5921] 190. Bug fix: Can add "illegal" characters to Light name, Group name or Attribute name in the properties bar. [5977] 191. Bug fix: Fixes to "Lines to Polyline" function. [5979] 192. Bug fix: Disabling of text height inputs in Dimension Styles dialog and Table Styles dialog when the referenced text style has an "overriding" non-zero height. [5980] 193. Bug fix: Dots in dashed linestyles drawn too big. [5986] 194. Bug fix: Arcs processed backwards in Ruled Surface function. [5987] (Release 9) 195. Bug fix: Crash when saving to DWG/DXF with bad dimension styles. 196. Bug fix: Smeared output on certain tile edges as well as gaps showing between tiles when printing images. 197. Bug fix: Fix to layer and line style indexing when publishing to DWG. (Release 10) 198. Bug fix: Autosave suspended during print operations as activation during print preview causes a crash. [6039] 199. Bug fix: DGN import fixes/enhancements for text underlining, dimension offsets, spline and polygon mesh fidelity, embedded raster image colours, attached raster images. [5935] 200. Bug fix: CEX import: Fixed bug importing CEX hatches with arcs, also CEX hatch RGB colour. [6022] 201. Bug fix: Closing "Purge" dialog while running "Remove Duplicates" caused a crash. [6041] 202. Enhancement: Added ability to set annotation scales to multiple selected entities. [5456] 203. Enhancement: ArcView SHP files determined to be in Geo coordinates can now be imported in LO coordinates. 204. Bug fix: Block Inserts not saved to DWG if their Z-scale is zero. [6062] 205. Bug fix: Output Bar cleared incorrectly while opening a drawing. [6067] 206. Bug fix: Cannot open DR4 after snipping specific hatch and saving. [6070] 207. Enhancement: Plot Move function: Added orientation arrow and text to the Move Plot function. [6072] 208. Bug fix: Prevent invalid object names from being pasted into name input bar/dialog. [6082] 209. Bug fix: Crash in MText Editor after copy/pasting text from the Output Bar. [6085] 210. Enhancement: Added "Simple Annotation Scaling" checkbox to View Settings (Visibility), to allow user to enable/disable simple annotative scaling. [5456] 211. Bug fix: Fixed behaviour of text box when changing text height in legacy text mode. [6087] 212. Bug fix: Enabled import of block attributes with duplicate tag names from DWG. [6091] 213. Enhancement: The undo/redo system can be disabled to increase function speed in many instances. The option can be set under System Settings. [6074] 214. Bug fix: Cannot snap to layout viewport if in DP Snap mode. [6098] 215. Enhancement: Use previously entered block attribute values as defaults when inserting a block multiple times. [6107] 216. Enhancement: Added "Draw frame" option to OLE Frame entity. Added "scale" property to OLE Frame properties. [6101] 217. Enhancement: Upgraded Table Styles dialog to allow editing of Table grid visibility. [6101] 218. Not all drawing settings were being made correctly when opening an ArcView SHP file. [6122] 219. DWG Import: Added option to "Skip" unreadable DWG entities when opening a DWG file (else try to recover the DWG). [6117] 220. Bug fix: Viewport layer visibility does not update correctly until a change is made in the modelspace. [6119] 221. Bug fix: Existing drawings that use driver limits for size must update size on open. [6133] 222. Enhancement: Updated to Teigha for .dwg/.dgn 3.05.01. 223. Bug fix: Symbol linetype not drawn correctly if first dash is a dot, also drawing of SHX symbols in symbol linetypes tweaked to be visible at smaller pixel sizes. [6165] 224. Bug fix: DWG Import: Duplicate last vertex in MLeader leader lines. Also improvements to MLeader drawing, exploding and check nearest. [6169] 225. Bug fix: Text mirrored incorrectly in mirrored block insert. [6153] 226. Bug fix: Hatch circular arc boundary was swapped around when saving to DWG. [6167] 227. Bug fix: Angle input control conversion and input correction fixed. [6184] 228. Bug fix: Dots in linestyles are still drawn "thick" even when "Draw with pen widths" is disabled. [6185] 229. Bug fix: Layout viewport does not update if an entity in modelspace is edited using "node editing". [6186] 230. Bug fix: Huge MLeader arrowheads since Teigha 3.5.1 upgrade. [6190] 231. Bug fix: DWG Import: Fix to spline tangents when importing as survey drawing using the "None" or "Twist 180" coordinate transform. [5992] (Release 11) 232. Enhancement: Rotation arrow and angle text added to Plot Generate "Move" function. [6072] 233. Bug fix: Incorrect vertical positioning of stacked text inside multi- line text (e.g. as used by the limit option of dimension tolerance). [6191] 234. Enhancement: Preview windows in style dialogs now use the current pen colour. [6205] 235. Bug fix: Angle input from from property bar: Conversion to/from NdmsE incorrect. [6203] 236. Bug fix: Fix a bug where circle could not be "hatched" in a non-standard basis. [6129] 237. Enhancement: Added an option to have selection carried out in AllyCAD 3 style. The setting can be made on the Legacy Options page of System Settings, which now also contains the other legacy settings that used to appear on the General Page. 238. Bug fix: Corrupt/bad font.cache file causes AllyCAD to hang on startup. [6211] 239. Bug fix: Table data exported as CSV will not open correctly in Excel. [6214] 240. Enhancement: Added an option to have mouse wheel scrolling act in the opposite fashion to normal. Scrolling forward will then demagnify and scrolling backward will then magnify. This allows the user to select the style with which they are most familiar. The setting can be made on the General page of System Settings. 241. Bug fix: Hatch *.drg import, fixed a bug with degenerate hatch regions which caused some of the hatches to not display. [6228] 242. Bug fix: Polar Jump modified to work from last entered point when triggered from the tooolbar or menu. [6225] 243. Enhancement: Text background mask shape now matches the text's frame shape. [6222] 244. Bug fix: Speed up of hatches with different annotative scales. [6160, 5708] 245. Bug fix: Crash in drawing using a font name longer than 32 characters. [6231] 246. Bug fix: Layout viewports on invisible layers were not visible if "Draw in layer order" enabled. [6232] 247. Bug fix: Bug in handling groups inside groups caused a crash when editing layer settings. [6235] 248. Bug fix: Hatches rescaled incorrectly by "Sheet Size and Scale" function. [6241] 249. Change: Exploding a group now ungroups it (previously the entities inside the group were exploded). [6240] 250. Enhancement: Coordinate Table function now allows editing of points names as they are added. [6242] 251. Bug fix: OLE item does not print to PDF correctly. [6248] 252. Bug fix: Skew linear dimensions on published drawing. [6250] 253. Bug fix: Added spatial index update when calling Update on script entity object. Update must be called after changing geometry of an existing entity via a script. 254. Bug fix: SheetSizeAndScale updates dimensions if resize is not carried out in order to get correct dimension values. 255. Bug fix: Dimension text justification needs to be ignored when 'Force text inside' property is ON. [6249] 256. Bug fix: Polygon area of regions containing arcs was incorrect. [6255] 257. Bug fix: Hatch display: Fixed hatch estimate, so now AR-SAND displayed in a small area. [6265] 258. Enhancement: Hatch selection: Changed sensitivity of single-click hatch and other "filled" entity selection. Introduced a precedence(highest to lowest priority) for other "filled" entities as follows: (Text -> Hatch -> Solid -> Image -> OLE Frame -> Viewport). [6244] 259. Bug fix: Version checking could crash the program if the user has a proxy on their internet connection which does not actually return the file requested. 260. Bug fix: MLeader text height incorrectly scaled by MLeader overall scale. [6266] 261. Bug fix: Some MText properties not available when multiple MText selected. [6267] 262. Enhancement: Added WaitCursor function to the script Document object in order to toggle wait cursor (hourglass) display for long running scripts. 263. Bug fix: The Output bar did not always display correctly when first opened programatically. The background colour would override the display. [6272] 264. Bug fix: If a Knowledge Base Software folder does not exist in the users Documents folder then any drawings in the Knowledge Base Software folder in the All Users Documents folder are displayed twice in the template selector dialog. [6275] 265. Enhancement: Disallowed selection of dark gray (or nearby colours) as a drawing or layout background colour as the cursor contrast colour stopped the cursor from actually being seen. [6276] 266. Bug fix: If a Knowledge Base Software folder does not exist in the User Documents folder then any drawings in the Knowledge Base Software folder in the All User Documents folder are displayed twice in the template selector. [6275] 267. Enhancement: Disallowed selection of dark gray (or nearby colours) as a drawing or layout background colour as the cursor contrast colour stopped the cursor from actually being seen. [6276] 268. Enhancement: Added a registry setting to allow the user to specify the folder to be used for most temporary files. This must be set manually, contact Support for details on what must be done. [6274] 269. Enhancement: Autosave renamed to Crash Recovery to prevent confusion as to what that function is actually doing. [6290] 270. Bug fix: The SheetSizeAndScale script was changing coordinates of survey drawings when the new paper position was given. [6293] 271. Enhancement: Added SurveyOrigin getter/setter to DrawingSettings in the script language. 272. Enhancement: The pick functions (TAKELINEPEN, PICKSETTINGS, PICKTEXTSETTINGS and PICKHATCH) now offer to apply the picked settings to all relevant entities in the current selection, if any. (Release 12) 273. Bug fix: Fixed crash when tooltip prompt displays on the Line Style dialog. 274. Enhancement: Text Styles function should show Text Defaults dialog if Legacy Text is enabled. [6308] 275. Bug fix: Viewport: Midpoint snap should snap to midpoints of viewport edges. [6326] 276. Bug fix: DRG Import: Text with lorg = top not positioned correctly. [6333] 277. Bug fix: Fixed bug which caused a program crash during the Add Hatch Boundary option of Edit Hatch. [6303] 278. Bug fix: Fixed bug in Snap Tidy where almost parallel lines cause vertices to move to "outlier" centroid. [6311] 279. Bug fix: Fixed snap for solid hatches. [6313] 280 Bug fix: In the MText Editor Paste should leave the cursor at the end of the pasted text. [6317] 290. Enhancement: Code changes for visual intersection optimisation [6315] 291. Bug fix: Prevent inclusion of viewports in groups in modelspace (causes crash). [6336] 292. Enhancement: Improve the reporting of polygon areas. Total quantities are reported for unions of regions. It is assumed that the subareas are cells of the partitioned union area. [6340] 293. Enhancement: Export of drawing text updated to match the way AllyCAD 3 and earlier versions handled the same function. [6342] 294. Bug fix: The Coordinate Table function would not accept multiline text as input when indicating labels. This causes a problem when using the Legacy Text option as all text is created as multiline text entities. [6343] 295. Bug fix: Points drawn huge in blocks. [6355] 296. Bug fix: Explode MLeader - arrowhead size incorrect. [6360] 297. Bug fix: DWG Import: MLeader leader line pen/linetype/lineweight incorrect if overridden. [6359] 298. Enhancement: Added TOGGLEGRID command to toggle grid display status. Available from the View menu, as an accelerator (Ctrl+G), and on the Jump and Snap toolbars. (Release 13) 299. Bug fix: Crash on autotracking due to insufficient cleanup after previous track. [6406] 300. Bug fix: Crash while opening MText Editor. [6412] 301. Bug fix: Dimension tolerances in a .drg with decimal commas instead of periods import as zero. [6416] 302. Bug fix: Dimensions with overridden text as well as tolerances incorrectly show format fields in the override text property. [6416] 303. Bug fix: Switching off tolerances does not work for dimensions with overridden text. [6416] 304. Bug fix: Relaxed entity size checking when loading DRG files. The check was failing if the size reported was not the size required. The check now only fails if the size reported is greater than the size required, in order to prevent memory overflows. 305. Bug fix: Coordinate Table function does not calculate table width correctly if drawing scale is large. [6421] 306. Bug fix: Fixes to DGN dimension import, and added support for "filled" DGN entities (converted to hatches). [6425] 307. Enhancement: Added an "All Supported Files" option to the Drawing Open and Load dialogs. This option, when selected, will list all the files of the types that the program can handle rather than the user having to select each individual type to see what is available. [6439] 308. Bug fix: MText Editor "Insert symbol -> Other" now displays the Windows Character Map dialog, from which symbols can be copied and pasted in to the MText Editor. Also handling of '%' character fixed. [6430] 309. Bug fix: Crash while tiling certain "rotated" TIF images. [6395] 310. Bug fix: DGN import Fit point spline does not go through fit points. [6432] 311. Bug fix: Publish fails when layout name contains a character that is invalid in a Windows filename. [6441] 312. Bug fix: It should not be possible to make XRef dependent layers the current layer as those layers disappear if the XRef is unloaded, causing problems with layer settings. [6452] 313. Bug fix: Fix to updating of layer indices of entities and subentities when layer list changes (eg: when xrefs are unloaded). [6456] 314. Bug fix: Opening multiple drawings from Explorer via right-click Open on a selection causes a crash. [6454] 315. Enhancement: Coordinate Table function "autoincrement" option now increments just the numeric suffix of the label, and right-click "restart numbering" option added. [6462] 316. Bug fix: SHP import - could not edit the Text Style height from the SHP Import dialog. [6458] 317. Bug fix: Fixed hatch autotracking bug which with extruded entities. We now ignore the extruded face of the entity. [6424] 318. DRG Import Text decimal alignment now handled correctly when text has no decimal point. Also avoid extraneous groups created where none exist in AllyCAD 3. [6464] 319. Fix for drawing rotating 90 degrees on load or save of DWG/DXF when drawing settings have been made for Northing then Easting coordinate order. 320. Bug fix: Radial dims in blocks have huge dim line. [6485] 321. Updated to Teigha for .dwg/.dgn 3.06.00. 322. Enhancement: Change the upper limit of the hatch threshold from 10 000 to 100 000 with information on how and where to change the threshold in the warning message. [6505] 323. Bug fix: DWG Import error loading MLeader entity. [6496] 324. Bug fix: Changes in layer order (layer indices) are not propagated to attributes in blocks. [6497] 325. Bug fix: Fix to loading of DR4 Text Style with overlength font name. [6507] 326. Bug fix: Annotative scales attached to entities not saved to DWG. [6514] 327. Bug fix: DWG Import fix to clipping of bitonal TIF images. [6433] 328. Bug fix: Wrong coords after publishing to DWG as survey drawing. [6517] 329. Bug fix: Crash while opening DGN file with bad layer index. [6520] 330. Bug fix: Position of single-line text with decimal alignment incorrect after exporting to DWG. [6521] 331. Enhancement: Print Preview window is automatically maximised/restored and Cad bar, Properties, Control Centre and Output disabled for duration of preview. 332. Bug fix: "Rotate Angle" label not visible in Rotate Bar. [6536] 333. Bug fix: Elevation/DP Offset label not correct after setting DP = Current View. [6537] 334. Bug fix: DWG Import of MLeader arrow lines incorrect if mleader has no attachment. [6545] 335. Bug fix: Crash recovery fails to find autosaved files if the drawing was loaded from a folder that has the option "Hide extensions for known file types" selected. [6546] 336. Enhancement: Loaded XRefs monitor the underlying drawing and will offer to reload should that drawing be changed. [6552] 337. Bug fix: Fixed hatch scaling issues for imported *.dwg imperial user and custom defined hatches. [6524] 338. Enhancement: Added support for DWG survey xrefs (user is prompted for the DWG xref drawings settings the first time the DWG xref is loaded, thereafter the settings are remembered) [6547]. 339. Bug fix: Bug with lw polyline hatch boundaries import from DWG with a tiny bulged edge. [6566] 340. Enhancement: Entity statistics now shows entity memory size total in addition to count total. Note that the size reported for groups includes all the group subentities, and those subentities are not taken into account when determining the size reported for each entity type. 341. Enhancement: Entity statistics can now optionally show layer statistics (entity count and total size per layer). 342. Bug fix: Table in Left View not exported to DWG correctly. [6598] 343. Bug fix: Coordinate Table margins not correct until you change the table's style [6593]. 344. Bug fix: Fixes to DWG export/import of Northern hemisphere (northing-easting) drawings. [6482/6583] (Release 14) 345. Updated to Teigha for .dwg/.dgn 3.07.00 (multiple bug fixes). 346. Bug fix: Pasting into name edit overwrote all text in the edit. [6618] 347. Bug fix: Images in XRefs are drawn at the wrong detail level (way too rough). [6620] 348. Bug fix: Survey Xref position changes after drawing is recentered, and the xref is unloaded/loaded. [6627] 349. Bug fix: DWG Import: MText diameter, degree and plusminus characters not visible. [6629] 350. Temporarily disabled XRef monitoring due to possible crashes because of multiple change notifications of the same type being received at different times. Will be reinstated in the next build. Toolkit ------- (Release 1) 1. Initial public release (Release 2) (Release 3) (Release 4) (Release 5) 2. Bug fix: COGO points did not correctly display properties before a toolkit function had been run. (Release 6) 3. Bug fix: COGO tache and traverse calculate angles incorrectly in northern hemisphere. [5547] (Release 7) 4. Feature: Reinstated civil toolkit cut/fill drawing functions. 5. Enhancement: Implement civil toolkit cut/fill line function which draws bank lines on a shoulder line without requiring a toeline. [5630] (Release 8) 6. Enhancement: Survey Toolkit "COGO Points" now exported to DWG as "custom DWG entities", so that they can be roun-tripped through AutoCAD correctly. [5705] 7. Bug Fix: When drawing XSections and Roofs, pen colours differ from what it should be and no matter what name you set your layer to, it always put it on layer 0. [5724] 8. Bug Fix: Remove wrong Datum line in Arch toolkit's draw XSection. [5721] 9. Bug Fix: Alignment of foundations in Arch toolkit. [5718] 10. Bug fix: Mech Toolkit: Graphics in Weld and Surface Finish dialogs not scaled correctly for different desktop DPI. [5983] 11. Bug fix: Mech Toolkit: Cursor lock not working in Mech Toolkit functions. [5983] (Release 9) (Release 10) (Release 11) 12. Bug fix: Crash on importing TSM/Trig coordinates in the SG toolkit when the file is not in the expected format. [6204] 13. Bug fix: Survey toolkit: Lines beneath beacon circles not clipped away. Relevant to Outside figure and Block corners. [6298] 14. Bug fix: Survey toolkit: Trig beacon and witness mark symbol not drawn in tables or at point. Relevant to Reference marks and Control coords. [6298] (Release 12) 15. Bug fix: Survey Toolkit Grid Crosses takes too long if more than about 200 crosses generated (appears to hang). [6305] 16. Bugfix: Fixed bug in Civil Toolkit with arcs in cut & fill. [6309] 17. Enhancement: Survey Toolkit General Plan->Add Dimensions->Multiple Dimension. Collinear lines are joined and reported as a single dimension. [6324] 18. Bug fix: Crash on changing SG Diagram template paths. [6361] (Release 13) 19. Bug fix: The Toolkit SG Diagram function does not copy multiline text from the original drawing to the diagram. This is a big problem if the Legacy Text option is used as all text is created as multiline. [6446] 20. Erf tracking in the survey toolkit should ignore existing text within the boundary as it can cause incorrect areas to be calculated. [6467] (Release 14) Turn ---- (Release 1) 1. Initial public release (Release 2) 2. Bug Fix: Simulation is incorrectly scaled by the drawing scale [5038] (Release 3) 3. Bug Fix: Re-implement the Automatic define track path function. (Release 4) (Release 5) (Release 6) (Release 7) 4. Bug fix: Turn Track polylines saved to DWG as LWPolylines with attached XData. Fix to saving of "type" flag (swept/track) to DR4. [5631] 5. Bug Fix: No default vehicle and the setup path was not defined if running Turn for the first time. [5611] 6. Bug Fix: Pressing ESC to interrupt/terminate the dynamic simulation should quit the function. [5611] 7. Bug Fix: Adding a vehicle profile does not display the profile immediately. You have to refresh the screen to see the profile. [5611] 8. Bug Fix: Adding a vehicle profile adds a blank multiline text item to the drawing. The scale is also incorrect. [5611] 9. Bug Fix: Defining the cargo tracking point for a semi trailer when switching between the tractor, trailer1 and trailer2. The cargo point V Coord changes cumulatively. [5611] 10. Enhancement: Automatically Group Vehicle profiles and simulations. [5618] 11. Bug Fix: Clean up the Output dialog and Print output. 12. Bug Fix: No vehicle dimension dialog comes up for a passenger car/ semi-trailer. 13. Bug Fix: Dynamic simulation around obstacles - sometimes does not move around the obstacle. 14. Bug Fix: Cargo Point Tracking dialog now highlights the active vehicle/ trailer and the user can jump to the diagram. 15. Bug Fix: Cargo Point Tracking dialog, pan, demagnify and magnify. [5659] (Release 8) 16. Bug Fix: Turn minimum envelope simulation did not turn through the full specified angle. [5773] 17. Bug Fix: Fixed various user interface bugs on the Cargo point tracking dialog. [5659] (Release 9) (Release 10) (Release 11) (Release 12) (Release 13) (Release 14)