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This log lists all relevant changes in the individual releases of CAD6industrie, CAD6studio, CAD6starter, and CAD6engine. Some of those do not apply to all editions.
Release 2020.2.11.26 (November 26, 2020)
| • | When searching in the line pattern selection dialog by means of a keypress, the program could sometimes hang and require the use of the Task Manager to terminate it. |
Release 2020.2.11.24 (November 24, 2020)
| • | When opening the printing dialog, the print preview was created once even before the dialog appeared, taking up unnecessary time. |
| • | When using the Windows command to minimize all windows at once during an ongoing screen refresh, the program could crash. |
| • | CAD6starter was partly unable to either save or print. |
Release 2020.2.11.3 (November 3, 2020)
| • | The new Object Manager offers a comfortable and powerful method to analyze and edit all objects and blocks of the current drawing. The structure of the chosen objects is displayed as a tree view. Objects within blocks, groups, clippings, drawing references, and extended objects, can be viewed and modified individually or several at once. In addition, you can determine geometry data (such as length, angle, radius, surface area) and edit it numerically directly. |
| • | The Selection Filter and Property Search now also offer geometrical data such as length, radius, angle, and surface area as search and filter criteria. Use this to search for all circles with a given radius, for example. |
| • | Using the new Selection Filter from Object command, you can directly use properties of a chosen object as selection filter criteria. This also works from within the object manager. |
| • | When filtering or searching for properties in sub-objects, the transmission structure will be considered, i.e. properties that are transmitted from instances, layers, and/or pens. |
| • | When creating a new object that only has an outline (such as a line), a warning will appear if that object will be invisible due to the current pen and layer settings. |
| • | The export of STL and U3D files by means of the 3D plug-in have been accelerated significantly (up to factor 10× and more). The STL import has also been sped up. All show a progress dialog and can be cancelled. |
| • | For better readability, huge integer values will now usually be displayed with thousands separators. |
| • | Some more dialogs have got a button for direct access to Collections and Pinboard. |
| • | In the Edit Properties dialogs, changes of the line width were sometimes reset when choosing a different line pattern afterwards. |
| • | Editing the Standard Attributes for libraries (the default attributes to be assigned to any new block) did not work correctly. In addition, this option is now also available within the Edit Block command. |
| • | Implicit Attributes (for example ~*00~ for the block name) did not work within blocks. |
| • | Comments were not displayed within groups. In addition, some comment forms could only be mouse-clicked on parts of their outlines. |
| • | When creating Parts Lists with implicit attributes, the column titles are now without prefixes such as *00. |
| • | The dialog for editing Multiline Parameters did work correctly for scales that were not 1:1. |
| • | When changing the monitor settings (number, pixel count, resolution) while running, the program could crash during the following screen refresh. |
| • | The import and export filters for DXF and DWG were revised and some small errors fixed. |
| • | The creation of 3D data by means of CAD6PDF did not work correctly, only empty PDF files were created. |
| • | Unlocking the application is now possible even while it is running. |
Release 2020.1.7.14 (July 14, 2020)
| • | Changing the display and output options in the layer and pen dialogs yielded unexpected results if screen and output settings were set to identical. |
| • | Editing extended dimensions in layout mode sometimes caused those dimensions to become invisible until the active page was switched. |
| • | When using CAD6PDF, the drawing’s title, subject, and comment will now be passed on to the PDF file as title, keywords, and description. |
Release 2020.1.7.7 (July 7, 2020)
| • | By means of the new Extra > Identify > Override Lock and Ignore option, you can now choose objects from locked layers / pens temporarily, as well as identify and snap objects from ignored layers / pens without having to edit the layers’ / pens’ settings. |
| • | The new Hatching > Adapt to Different Outline command enables you to directly adapt an existing dynamic hatching to another outline (or, with active duplicate, to copy it into another outline). |
| • | All recent commands for creating multiple copies have been moved into the Move / Copy Objects submenu. The additional Multiple Copy, Relative Values command allows to easier create multiple copies of objects with a given numerical offset. |
| • | Using the Clipping > Extract Outline as Surface command, you can extract the clipping outline from any clipping object without having to resolve that clipping object. The new Clipping > Replace Outline command allows you to directly the clipping outline of an existing clipping object by another one without resolving the clipping object before. |
| • | In the menu that you call my means of a right-click onto the font selection in text and font dialogs, you now also have access to a list of 10 least recently used fonts. |
| • | In addition to local and global notes, you can now also create internal notes that will be part of the respective drawing file. If a drawing contains internal notes, their number will be displayed in the status window where you also access the notes window directly. |
| • | All types of notebooks (internal, local, global) are now also listed in the drawing manager. |
| • | In the "Insert" menu of all text dialogs, the new "Unicode character" command allows to insert a specific Unicode character into the text (in decimal or hex, directly or as control text). |
| • | When creating a mapping of the Model Space using a rectangle or circle, you can now choose the position of the insertion point. |
| • | Local Attributes can now be passed over multiple levels, i.e. local attributes of an instance can also be accessed from within a multi-level block structure. |
| • | The "Shade" option for layers and pens can now also be active during output. |
| • | All icons in the tree-view controls of all block dialogs, the drawing manager, and the 3D parts tree now scale according to the screen resolution and skin scaling. |
| • | When loading a drawing that contains objects with out-of-range coordinates, the drawing manager will display a warning and allow you to either permanently select or delete those objects. |
| • | Changing the active page alone does no longer mark the drawing as "changed". |
| • | When editing multiple pages at once, a numeric change of the page size was not applied correctly in most cases. |
| • | The file selection dialog did not always store the column widths correctly. |
| • | The records "Created by" and "Modified by" will now be updated correctly for all file types. |
Release 2020.0.5.5 (May 5, 2020)
| • | Snapping of points in mappings only worked in the first of all pages. |
| • | The checkbox for underlining in text and font dialogs did not work correctly in most cases. |
| • | When changing the "Line Opacity" in a property editing dialog for multiple objects, that change did not automatically set the check to apply this change to all objects. |
| • | The "Use only elements from referenced file" option for external references now also affects line patterns. In addition, it’s active by default. |
| • | Arrow parameters of the "Draw" plug-in that were stored at the pinboard or in a collection could not be selected afterwards (instead, saved colors were presented). |
Release 2020.0.4.15 (April 15, 2020)
| • | The new Clipping > Edit Contents Properties command enables you to directly edit the properties of objects contained in clippings without first having to resolve the clipping. |
| • | When in Layout Mode, hovering over the buttons to switch between Model Space and pages will display a preview of the Model Space or page, respectively. |
| • | The Normalize command for blocks (in the dialog for Library > Block > Edit) now has an option to also reset the optimized line width display in the blocks. |
| • | When snapping, block instances that were actually scaled by means of the "Apply scaling of Model Space or page" option behaved like they were not scaled. |
| • | When opening a drawing containing a dynamic hatching with blocks, the program could hang if the used block no longer existed. |
Release 2020.0.3.10 (March 10, 2020)
| • | The export of drawings as DXF and DWG stopped and displayed an error message if the drawing did not contain at least one block. |
Release 2020.0.3.4 (March 4, 2020)
| • | When, directly after the installation, the application was first started with Administrator privileges (e.g. directly from within the Setup), the Pinboard and the local Notebook were not accessible by normal users afterwards. In addition, no respective error messages were displayed. |
| • | Collection items of types "Property Search" and "Text Search" were displayed incorrectly in lists. |
Release 2020.0.3.3 (March 3, 2020)
| • | For a completely new method of working with information, especially among teams, Collections and Pinboard have been introduced. They offer a way to store a variety of non-graphical information for later reference. They both can hold a virtually unlimited number of items such as:
- Colors
- Layer names and/or layer definitions
- Pen names and/or pen definitions
- Texts
- Font types
- Filters
- Text searchs
- File names
- Color gradients
- Arrow types
- Settings of plug-ins
and much more. The Pinboard is used for short-term, local, and fast storing and retrieving, while Collections are normally used for long-term, global storing and retrieving. Both can be accessed via most existing dialog windows and lists in the program. |
| • | For simple, text-based notes, you can use the additional Notes window that can be kept permanently open. Store, view and manage local notes and global notes from your whole team. |
| • | The "Edit Properties" dialog has been revised. It show visualizes the transmitting structure, so that you can see at all times whether a property is owned by the objects itself or transmitted from a layer or a pen. This information is also available at the cross-hairs and in other dialogs. |
| • | The new "Optimized line width display for Layout mode" option replaces the previous "Display line width as zoom independent while in Model Space" option. It works much more intuitively and better adapts to all circumstances, especially in imported DXF and DWG files. |
| • | The maximum number of blocks per drawing has been increased from 100,000 to 1,000,000. The memory required is allocated more dynamically, reducing the initial memory demand even more. |
| • | Opening drawings with lots of blocks has been sped up enormously, deleting blocks in those drawing has been accelerated, too. |
| • | The 3D plug-in now features a command to directly rotate 2D objects that were projected to a 3D perspective in that very perspective. |
| • | When creating an Export Procedure, the settings for active page and output parameters will now be saved along by default. |
| • | When pasting from the clipboard, existing elements can no longer be removed, only new elements will be added. |
| • | When creating an object in a page that is currently not displayed, a warning will appear. |
| • | A Selection Filter used to filter for standard properties with the "Search in sub-objects also" option could take an extremely long time for instances. |
| • | When hatching without using a pen, the line color of the hatching object will be transmitted by default. |
| • | Multi-line dimension texts did not work properly. |
| • | When switching between Classic and Layout mode using the Manage > Pages - Display command, all corresponding display and output settings will now be changed accordingly, too. |
| • | The "Virtual" mode for pens has been removed. When loading old files using that mode, the affected pens’ names will be supplemented with a "[v]" indicator. |
| • | CAD6starter can now be installed with the "Do not allow saving" option so that it can no longer change any drawing files. It will then also open files created by trial versions. |
| • | The "Zoom Areas" plug-in did not display the zoom area names correctly. |
| • | When importing WMF or EMF files with Unicode text objects, those texts were cut off at about half their length. |
| • | The import of DXF and DWG files with lots of blocks has been sped up significantly (by a factor of 100× or more in extreme cases). |
| • | The export of files with lots of blocks into DXF and DWG has also been sped up significantly (by a factor of 100× or more in extreme cases). |
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