Change Log Release 2024

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 2024.2.12.10 (December 10, 2024)

•	In the "Clipboard Options" dialog, the output settings for SVG and WMF were swapped.

•	When exporting WMF format, dashed lines were incorrect.

•	When copying SVG format to the clipboard, two different format types are now used to be compatible with more programs.

•	In the "Insert Block" dialog, the state of the "... into nested groups" option was not displayed correctly.

•	New Change History command and accompanying window.

•	Undo and Redo now display which command was undone or restored.

•	The Context Menu now also includes numerous commands for trimming, transforming, and deleting. It has been made clearer using sub-menus.

•	The Automatic Trim / Cut Out and Automatic Lengthen trimming commands now also take into account intersections with other contours of the same object.

•	Commands for horizontal, vertical, and angled tangents (such as Draw > Tangent > Object - Point, Horizontal and Draw > Tangent > Angle - Object - End Points) now also work for Bézier curves and as a result also for ellipses in curves and surfaces.

•	When snapping intersection points, intersections of Bézier curves with themselves are now also recognized.

•	Dimension numbers in dimensions can now be directly rotated by 180° using an option.

•	Under Backup > Setup Automatic Backup, you can now specify whether unchanged drawings should also be backed up automatically.

•	Commands in the "Manage > Coordinate Systems / Scales" submenu were temporarily inactive, although they should have been available.

•	Trim > Trim Object > Insert Margin sometimes did not work with Bézier curves, depending on the location of the insertion point.

•	After a SVG import, not all imported objects were marked as "previous identification".

•	When working with multiple drawing windows, all windows now remember their respective zoom and coordinate system settings when switching between different pages (and the model area in layout mode).

•	The Popup Window now closes automatically when the mouse pointer leaves it. In addition, tooltips now appear for all buttons that display the respective command (in addition to the display in the title bar).

•	Endless perpendiculars in the Dynamic Snapping Guide were faulty, parallels were not displayed during input.

•	When opening very old drawing files, color gradients could be converted incorrectly.

•	When switching from multi-monitor to single-monitor operation, windows could remain outside the visible area and thus be "hidden".

-	When exporting selected objects, an incorrect origin could be used under certain circumstances.

-	When working with multiple drawing windows, the origin of the drawing window in which the objects were selected is now always used for export when exporting selected objects.

•	When using CAD6starter in Viewer Mode, drawing files opened in it are no longer locked at the file level and can still be changed by other programs.

•	The installer tool has been converted to Unicode.

Release 2024.1.6.25 (June 25, 2024)

•	For the SVG export, you can now set the minimum line width to be used. Texts with a height of zero and blocks with a scaling of zero will be skipped during output.

•	The settings of Create Graph were not saved at program end. In some rare parameter constellations, the graph creation could result in an endless loop.

•	The "Bitmap Export" Dialog sometimes showed empty or wrong values when opening.

•	Snapping center points sometimes did not work if "Snapping Guides" were ignored.

•	The maximum dimension of a bitmap during export is now checked more intelligently in order to get as close as possible to the Windows-internal limit of 2 GiB if necessary.

•	The resolving of block instances can now be stopped more directly by pressing the ESC key.

•	Permanently visible windows (e.g. layers, notes, pages) did not show the specific icon in the title bar.

•	All options related to data exchange via clipboard and via import and export can now be managed centrally with the new Options > Data Exchange command.

•	The SVG export was integrated directly into the program and revised. More compact, easier to read by other programs and now also usable for the clipboard. It can now handle bitmaps that use effects such as brightness or gamma modification.

•	SVG files can now be opened and imported, as well as exchanged via the clipboard.

•	You can now set what should happen when you "drag & drop" a file: import, replace, or open in a new window.

•	New Trim Object > Radii, Numerical command to change multiple radii numerically at once.

•	In the "Layers" dialog and "Pens" dialog, the respective status of their sub-elements is better displayed for folders: active for all, active for none, different states.

•	In the "Color Selection" dialog, hex values (HTML colors) can now be entered directly in the RGB and HSB color models.

•	Color Gradients of the "Stripes" type can now also use negative start and end threshold values.

•	In the Drawing List, drawings can now optionally be imported (instead of replacing the current drawing).

•	The Object Number Display was incorrect if groups with multiple objects were hidden.

•	Changes in the Object Manager were sometimes not adopted. Changes in nested clippings or nested groups sometimes resulted in the edited object being duplicated.

•	In the "Edit Line Type" dialog, changes to line part sequences were sometimes not applied.

•	In the new variant of the "File Selection" Dialog, the list of file types was sometimes incomplete.

-	When importing DXF/DWG, instances in pages could be scaled incorrectly under certain circumstances.

-	Attribute texts were not always displayed correctly.

-	Surfaces in block definitions were displayed incorrectly in rare cases.

-	An error in post-processor output with material advance has been corrected.

-	The list of recent CAM projects is now updated correctly.

Release 2024.0.3.26 (March 26, 2024)

•	For architectural dimensions, centimeters can now be selected as the input unit as alternative to meters.

•	With using Line > Parallel and similar commands, the displayed auxiliary straight line during distance definition was accidentally used for snapping, which meant that snapping points were always found and used primarily. Meaningful snapping was thus impossible.

•	The screen display of color gradients has been optimized. In addition, the "Linear" button was displayed incorrectly in the parameter dialogs.

•	Objects in mappings could often no longer be selected for snapping or as a reference object.

•	If the "Use object properties" option was not active in the Selection Filter, filtering within groups was accidentally no longer possible.

•	Line pattern lengths in scaled pages were not scaled correctly in the printout.

•	In some dialogs, the Pinboard button displayed a narrow menu without any text.

•	The display of the decimal places information in the dialog for Options > Crosshairs was sometimes incorrect.

•	Color buttons that were either inactive or did not display any color were incorrectly completely invisible.

•	The names of passive pens have been displayed slightly shifted in buttons.

•	The icon in layer and pen buttons in the panel, tool window and command bar was too large.

•	In dialogs with tabs, the display was unreliable, and in some cases all elements were missing after a redraw.

•	More elements of the "File Selection" Dialog are now conform to the chosen skin. The handling of extension was improved.

-	Handling options for markings / POINT objects have been extended.

Release 2024.0.3.12 (March 12, 2024)

•	The display in drawing windows can now be rotated freely using the new Zoom Rotation > Angle command and others. This means, among other things, that a possible rotation angle can be retained when switching between mappings in the Model Space and on pages.

•	In each drawing window's scale, you can choose to display a button to access a zoom menu for that window and display the current zoom values next to it.

•	When the view is rotated, the Coordinate Entry (F8) makes a distinction between relative coordinates parallel to the axes and parallel to the screen borders.

•	The Dynamic Snapping Guide has been revised. It no longer requires switching between "Line / Arc" and "Endless Line / Circle" and offers numerous additional options, all in one menu. That menu can now also be accessed from the parameter window and the panel.

•	Pages can now be excluded from printing and can be color coded in all lists and in the layout window.

•	Layer visibility can now be adjusted when displaying Model Space in layout mode. It can be automatically applied from the previous page and/or mapping when switching to it.

•	In the context menu of the layout window, a page can now be duplicated, i.e. a new page can be created with a copy of the content.

•	The layer visibility of Model Space, pages, mappings, clippings, and references can now be pinned to the pinboard and stored in collections.

•	In layout mode, the zoom undo information is now stored separately for Model Space and every page.

•	Comments on variables can now be accessed as variables themselves by adding a colon after the variable name. Those comments can now be up to 255 characters long.

•	Command buttons in the Toolbox Window and in the Panel can now be assigned to custom menus that are automatically displayed as soon as the mouse pointer is hovering over this button.

•	The Block Window buttons have two additional size options to fit more buttons into tight spaces.

•	A total of 10 former plug-ins were integrated directly into the program. This means that their commands could be better placed in the menu, are faster to execute, and require less storage space.

•	When creating a Center Cross, two auxiliary lines are displayed so that any intersection points can be captured directly.

•	In the "Insert Block" dialog, the angle presets can now be selected even if "Manual Rotation" is active.

•	For the block preview in dialogs, you can now choose not to resolve attributes, variables, and text statements.

•	Mappings in blocks were sometimes displayed and output incompletely or not at all.

•	Embedded instances are no longer reported as "missing" while opening the drawing if the referenced block is not available.

•	In lists showing blocks within libraries, all read-only libraries are now marked with a lock icon.

•	When writing floating point numbers to CSV databases, a decimal point can now be forced (instead of a comma).

•	The arrangement of the drawing windows is now saved with the drawing.

•	For the "File Selection" Dialog you can now choose between two variants at Options > Files.

•	Layers > Defaults now also offers settings for mid-perpendiculars and center crosses.

•	During Bitmap Import, you can now also select *.webp as format.

•	When importing EMF data from files and the clipboard, complex polygons within paths are now handled correctly.

•	The Skin is now consistently applied to all dialogs, including in plug-ins. This makes dark skins in particular look much better. The former "Gray" skin has been optimized and renamed to "Dark", all others have been revised in some details.

•	The settings for incremental and reference dimensions were accidentally not saved in the respective drawing.

•	Generating a Surface did not work in CAD6starter.

•	When printing with "Microsoft Print to PDF", the program could hang when canceling the appearing file selection dialog.

•	If the "Open additional libraries and manage" button was used in one of the block selection dialogs, a program crash could subsequently occur.

-	For 3D block instances, the context menu in the 3D Parts Tree accidentally did not contain the "Parameters" and "Resolution" entries.

-	All dialogs for creating 3D parts now feature a "Reset" button.