-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- BlueCAD 2.0 Release 2.0.010 ------------------------------------------------ This update is comprehensive of previous ones since first release, which is release 2.0.001. Warning: in order to input numbers, since release 2.0.002 on BlueCAD makes use of the decimals separator that you set in the operative system settings. If you make use of a different separator, BlueCAD refuses the number inserted. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Upgrade to release 2.0.010 ------------------------------------------------- Fixed errors: - After inserting drawings having DWG or DXF format using commands "Insert|File|As Block..." and "Insert|File|As Drawing...", saved drawing file has a size too large. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Upgrade to release 2.0.009 (not published) --------------------------------- Fixed errors: - Color By Layer is non correct for dimensions. New features: - Compatibility with Windows Vista. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Upgrade to release 2.0.008 (not published) --------------------------------- Fixed errors: - When you set as work layer a protect layer by the attributes bar, it isn't set not protect. - When a drawing having a long pathname is read, a severe error window appears and you must close the program (error was introduced with release 2.0.007). New features: - Reading compatibility with DWG and DXF formats up to AutoCAD 2007 version. - When a template drawing is inserted, attributes are loaded too. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Upgrade to release 2.0.007 ------------------------------------------------- Fixed errors: - When you make the offset of a single segment, the new created segment is not visible, and you need to do Zoom all command. - Printing. If “Print selected entities” is checked, sometimes also selected entities box is printed. - More than one sheet is printed when only one sheet should be printed. This can happen if printer margins are outside printer area and Drawing sheet size is set to “Default”. When you close the Page setup window, you are asked to correct the margins. If you answer yes, printing will be on more than one page, instead of only a page. - After a print preview, lines are drawn on the display with a wide thickness, and you need to close and restart the program. This problem can happen if you print lines with very wide thickness. - If you position a block with x scale < 0 the program signals a calculation error. - If you make automatic snap on blocks including entities having color by block, an elastic segment echo leaves dirt on the drawing area. - When you set as work layer a not visible layer by the attributes bar, it isn't set visible. - The selection filter by layer doesn't work with layers having layer number higher than 31. - When you change work layer, if active color is color by layer, it is changed. - When you set visible/not visible a layer by the layers window, the program doesn't refresh the drawing area. - Calculator: corrected errors in recognizing decimal separator. - When you insert a file as drawing, double layer style banks aren't deleted. If you perform this operation many times, the drawing size can grow a lot else if it contains few entities. - In Windows98 you cannot open a drawing if it is in the disk root directory. - In Windows98 you cannot open the window to insert a new block library (the window stays under BlueCAD main window). New features: - Zoom and dynamic Pan using mouse wheel. - Enabled undo of creating and deleting block descriptions. - Enabled undo of layer commands. - When you ask to delete a layer containing entities, the program asks you if you want to delete all these entities, and then proceed in layer deletion. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Upgrade to release 2.0.006 ------------------------------------------------- Fixed errors: - If you modify a selected block, edit box is wrong. - DWG/DXF output: some ellipse arc are saved reflected respect to their major axis. - Sometimes program hangs while you undo after you modified color to some dimensions. - A drawing containing only a background image, with no graphical entity, is not printed. - Drawing information does't display the number of background images. - Background images aren't displayed in print preview. - Sometime Layer window doen't display the correct layer list. - If selecting or creating entities feedback is on, and the drawing contains blocks including many (hundreds) complex hatchings, the program slow down while you move the mouse over these blocks or if you select them. - DWG/DXF input/output errors for delete unused zeroes attributes of dimension text and dimension tolerance text. - Sometimes a many (thousands) entities deletion undo is slow. - If program crashes Most Recent Used files list is deleted. - In Unit of measure sheet of Options window current measure units are not correctly checked. - If you create or modify a multiline text, input windows inserts carriage return automatically, so if you need a long line you must enlarge the window. - Complementary zone command in selection menu doesn't work. - Open file window is a bit slow while opening. New features: - Program can read images in jpeg format. This new features software is based in part on the work of the "Independent JPEG Group". - New colors management: in combobox not all the colors are listed, but only a few colors. Not listed color can be selectd by a color palette dialog. Listed colors can be configurated by means of Colors configuration... button in View sheet of Options window. - Open and Save memorized directories are the same. - Yes/Not/Cancel window, opened when you exit the program in order to ask you if you wish to save the drawing, remembers your last choice and suggest it next time. - Side and With islands hatching commands and Polyline by sides command can be interrupted while searching the perimeter by means of ESC or Pause key. - Entities are printed ordered by their width: smaller width first and larger width next. - Tooltip info: if works when a selection is requested, if you move the cursor near an entity and selecting feedback is on. You can activate/deactivate it in view options. - DWG/DXF input/output of background images. - Background images interactive edit added. - Background images commands undo added. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Upgrade to release 2.0.005 ------------------------------------------------- Fixed errors: - Reading DWG/DXF files “frozen” layer are seen as visible. Correction: the layers are seen as not visible. - Reading DWG/DXF files in particular cases the dimensions have the dimension line wrongly aligned to X axis or to Y axis. - Sometimes BlueCAD finds not existing intersections between polylines and segments. - Sometimes “Printer properties” button in Printer sheet of Setup window page doesn't work. - If you work with a printer configuration different from default configuration, you don't find the right custom formats of the printer paper in the list of available sizes in the Page sheet of Setup window page. - When drawing name is more than 80 characters long, .bak backup file is saved with the name truncated, or isn't saved at all. - Select Zone command can select also a text external to the zone if his font is truetype and it is displayed very small. - If a creation command is active, and the command visualizes the creation feedback echo, and auto snap is on, when you move the mouse near a dimension the echo dirties the screen. This happens also if you move the mouse near an hatching with a line type different from current one, this also if auto snap is off. - End of selection command in Edit menu doesn't work (while the button in the toolbar works correctly). New features: - DWG/DXF input and output support AutoCAD 2002. - Information window has a new button which allows to stop the output when you selected a large number of entities. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Upgrade to release 2.0.004 ------------------------------------------------- Fixed errors: - Reading DWG/DXF files not visible layers colors aren't correctly read. - Reading DWG/DXF files can slow down if the drawing contains hatchigs having a not zero step close to a 1/100.000 of their dimension. - BlueCAD crashes making use of Angle= and Angle 3 points commands if you never opened Attributes window before. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Upgrade to release 2.0.003 ------------------------------------------------- Fixed errors: - Drawing Save and Open commands: if the path plus the drawing name is too long the commands do not save/open the drawing. Again, if you modify a drawing having a too long path and name, enter Exit command, and then choose to save the drawing, an error mask appears. - DWG/DXF output of a dimension: reference distance is not correctly saved. Note: a negative distance is lost because AutoCAD doesn't recognize it. - DWG/DXF output of a dimension: truetype texts are non correctly saved. - DWG/DXF input; sometimes truetype texts and truetype dimension texts are not correctly read. - DWG/DXF input: multiline entities are not read. - DWG/DXF input: polyline arc segments are read as line segments. - DIS output: if an entity has color by layer, it is saved with white color instead of the color of the layer. - If the drawing has wide hatchings havint step zero, if you zoom many times drawing operations can slow down. - After you change a view option, for example View width, you must enter redraw command to see the change. - If you have a block which contains entities having color by block, and you break it, the entities created have white color instead of the color of the original block. - If a block contains only one hatching and is positioned with a very high scale factor, this block can be seleted only along the hatching border. - Error executing Redraw Colors command with colors from 16 upward. - Redraw Color command ignores entities in the blocks. Now the command checks the effectively viewed color. - Modify Color, Linetype, Width and Layer commands slow down if changed entities number is very high, that is > 10000. - Reading a drawing having many layers is slow. - If a point for creating a dimension is inserted selecting an existing dimension, the created dimension can be wrong if some dimension option is activated. - If any entity is selected, selection box is visible both in print preview and in print. - Program can crash editing a polyline having more than 100 points. - After closing a block editing, the scroll bars have wrong sizes. - Putting the Explorer window on the side of drawing area, in some positions it loses the contents window. - Deleting some layers in the Layer window, the window has visualization errors. - Deleting some layers in the Layer window, they are deleted in the window even if they aren't really deleted because they contain some entity. - Macro commands cannot define/modify text type attributes: Font, Line type, Dimension Font. New features: - During printing hatchings are printed before other entities. - Chamfer and Chamfer First commands modified: requested value is not used to define the chamfer segment length anymore, but is used to define the distance from the intersection point in which the two selected segments are cutted. - Option window, View sheet: undefined blocks visibility is added. - Undefined blocks, either if they are visible or not, are no more considered in the optimal window calculation, both on the screen and in print. More, an undefined block included in another block is ignored in its box calculation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Upgrade to release 2.0.002 ------------------------------------------------- Fixed errors: - After saving a drawing in DXF format, sometimes Exit command doesn't work properly. - Splines and ellipses are not supported in DWG/DXF input and output. - Hyperbolas and parabolas are not supported in DWG/DXF output. Because of DWG/DXF format doesn't suppot them, they are written as polylines that approximate them. - Error in DWG/DXF output of hatchings having border got by splines, hyperbolas or parabolas. - Vertical dimensions are read as horizontal ones from DWG/DXF input. - Reading 3D wireframe from DWG/DXF input, entities Z coordinate is not set to zero. - When you enter Radius Dimension or Diameter Dimension commands, the first echo is white and remains drawerd on the screen, the following ones have the current color and are right. - Multiple Trim command: if you make a zoom after selecting the first segment, the program crashes. - Fillet command: if you want to trim a short and a long segment, and you zoom the intersection zone, when you try to make the fillet sometimes the program doesn't do it. This isn't an error, simply the error message, which signals that the radius is too short, is not visible because the message is overwritten by the following one. Now the message remains visible in this and the other error situations. - Hatching having borders made from splines, report errors in area calculation. - When you modify the attributes of an entity in edit, sometimes (for example if you modify texts height) the change implies the change of entity geometry. In this situation the edit box is not updated. - When a layer color is modified, this color is set as the current one even if the layer is not the work one. - If you create a block containing another block, and then you save both in a block library, the program may chash in the following drawing saves. The block saved in library is corrupted and is no more usable. On the contrary the block saved with the drawing is usable. - Purge Layers command: if Layer window is opened, the deleted layers aren't removed from the list and you must close and reopen the window. - Select by Layer and by Width command doesn't work from Edit menu. - In Dimensions Attributes window the tolerances fields have 2 digits after the decimal separation, and the digits from 3rd on are lost. - Cancel redundant zeros dowsn't work for dimensions. - Layer description modifying doesn't work. - Last Operation Copy and Move do not work from contextual menu. - In Modify attributes and in Define attributes modes you cannot input 0 values in some fields in Attributes window. - Attributes window: in some keyboard configurations, you cannot insert values having comma. - Printing rotated texts having rotated truetype font is non correct. Printing preview of rotated texts having not rotated truetype font is wrong under Windows 95/98. - Texts having truetype font are wrongly drawed in print preview if they are very small compared to the drawing. - Line types scaling doesn't work in printing. - Copy in clipboard saves the entities upset and the box is the drawing one, not the copied entities one. New features: - New Open window: it allows a better selection of drawing folder and allows the preview of all the drawings, so you can easily find the drawing. - Block and drawing icons in Explorer window are drawed in asynchronous mode respect to the program, and this allows a faster start if the Explorer window is opened on a folder containing many files.