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CADVANCE V13 Release Note
describes what is new and improved for CADVANCE V13. This version
of CADVANCE provides all of the features of CADVANCE V13 currently
available. It is intended for experienced users and does not
currently include the updated Manuals, Helps files or SDK. These
release notes should provide all the information needed to get you
started with this release.
What's New and Improved in CADVANCE V13.
CADVANCE V13 contains many improvements over
CADVANCE V12. The following is the outline of these new features:
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Basic
Cadvance Features:
·
Increased
the initial maximum size of drawings from 8mb to 128mb.
·
Increase
maximum members of Symbols/Groups from 255 to 7,500 per Nesting level.
Nesting level currently is defined to be 15 deep.
·
Symbol
names can now be up to 256 characters in length (Including path).
·
TrueType
Creation/Editing supports both
the V12 TrueType dialog box and a new multi-feature Text Editor. The
new Text Editor supports the RTF (Rich Text Format) specification with
a built-in Spell Checker. The System Variable “TrueTypeEditor” selects
which editor to use. Note:
TrueType fonts use Paper Space Units when defining font size and word
wrap. The Drawing Scale in
Options/Units define the relationship between Design Units and Paper
Space. For correct TrueType
scaling the Drawing Scale must be set appropriately. (See notes at end of document.)
·
TrueType
text has been enhanced to provide additional features that are defined
in the Windows RTF specification.
One of the new features is the ability to show colors of the
TrueType text. The System
Variable “TrueTypeColors”, selects if TrueType colors will be used or
if the object color will override the TrueType colors (V12 compatible).
·
Drawings
now pack out deleted symbol/group definitions and their deleted members
during drawing save.
·
Query/Edit
object has been combined to display object and size information in one
dialog box.
·
Edit/Properties
now performs Edit/Properties on a single object or Edit/Properties on
all objects on the OSL (Object Selection List). Edit/Properties is accessible via the
Edit/Properties menu, Double clicking the object, or Properties on the
B2 pop-up menu. If only one
object is on the OSL then Edit/Properties displays a Dialog box for
that particular object. If more
then one object is on the OSL then Edit/Properties displays the Dialog
box to modify all objects on the OSL.
·
Double
clicking any object will activate that object. If the object type is an OLE object
then the application that created that object will be activated. If the object type is TrueType then
the Text editor will be activated.
If the object is CAD text then the Cad text dialog box will
presented. Other graphical
objects will activate the Edit Properties dialog box for that object
type and display information for the object.
·
A
new B2 popup menu will be presented when no objects are selected. This popup menu will provide a set of commonly used
operations for faster access to those commands. (Feedback from our Beta Users on
which Cadvance features should be included is welcome.)
·
The
Menu File/Reference has two additional features added for the handling
of reference files. They are
“Merge” and “Expand”. The
“Merge” feature allow for the merging of all attached reference file
drawings that have visible objects to be added to the current
drawing. The “Expand” feature
provides the same as Merge but it includes all objects in the
reference files.
·
File/Reference/Setup
now supports window clipping to include objects that cross the window
when using the window option.
Reference files also support the Area Fills under lines
option in Options/Miscellaneous.
·
A
new clipboard feature: Edit/Copy with Basepoint, provides the ability
to accurately copy objects to the clipboard and locate those objects
onto the drawing at a specific location.
·
Draw/Line
and Draw/2Line include the ability to sketch lines freehand by using
the mouse. Holding down the left
button while moving the mouse sketches the lines onto the drawing.
·
Object
selection now includes two additional methods to select objects on the
drawing. They are “Window
Crossing” and “Polygon FreeHand”.
Window Crossing provides the ability to select objects with a
rectangle and all objects that reside within or crossing that rectangle
will be selected. Polygon
FreeHand allows for the selection of objects using a sketching motion
with the mouse to define the polygon.
The Options/System variable “SelectionWindow” provides for
selecting by Window or Window Crossing as the default in Point Select
mode. In Point Select mode the default is “Window”.
·
Text
extents now are displayed for the entire block during placement, not
just the first line.
·
When
background is black, all black colored objects become white; when
background is white, all white colored objects become black.
·
A
New Options/System Variables…
dialog box provides operations that allow you to view and modify the
system parameters and save them without accessing the ini file
directly. It provides
information about the system parameters and allowable values. It
currently includes about 100 user settable variables and will be
expanded as needed. There is an
associated help .pdf file that describes the System Variables.
·
New
variables have been added to the ini file to allow usage of colors in
TrueType (RTF) text blocks( System variable “TrueTypeColors”). Also a new variable “TrueTypeEditor”
allows selection of either using the existing Dialog box to be use the
new text editor for TrueType entry.
DWG/DXF file support:
·
AutoCad 2007/2008 files can now be read
and written directly by CADVANCE V13.
CADVANCE will decompress/decrypt the AutoCad file on reading and
will then compress/encrypt the file during saving to AutoCad in the
selected format. CADVANCE now
supports versions of AutoCad Drawings and DXF files from Release 2.5
through AutoCad 2007/2008.
·
Cadvance now supports Windows RTF blocks
in the translation to/from DWG/DXF files. Cadvance RTF blocks map to AutoCad’s
Mtext blocks. TrueType fonts
will attempt to maintain the same names and there are no limits to the
number of TrueType fonts that can exist in a VWF file (drawing).
·
Color mapping is now available during the
importing/exporting of DWG/DXF files to provide better control over the
selection of how colors map between DWG/DXF files and CADVANCE
colors. The file CAD.TRN now
contains the options for loading and saving DWG/DXF files, the font
mapping and the color mapping between Cadvance and AutoCad. This file is stored in the same
format as a Windows .INI file for easy modification.
·
The function Utility / Translate DWG SYM
now translates AutoCad R2007/R2008 blocks (in DWG format) to CADVANCE
Symbols (SYM files).
·
Drawing scale information is now
exchanged between Cadvance and AutoCad drawings. The Load AutoCad drawing dialog box
allows modification of the drawing scale.
·
Increase Symbol names to 256
characters. Truncation of the
symbol names has been eliminated.
·
Increase the size of Symbol/Group
members from 255 to 7,500. per Nesting level. Nesting level currently is defined to
be 15 deep.
·
Numerous enhancements and bug fixes have
also been included in the updated translator.
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New features and improvements:
- Resizable dialog box for file handling such as
File/Open, Symbol/Place, etc.
- File/Print --- Load/Save printer ini file.
When a new printer is selected, margins,
color, pen width are updated per the selected printer.
When a new printer.ini file is loaded, color
and pen width are updated.
- Three icons are added. Please see bitmap folder
in the V13 files.
- TT font edit is now switched back to V12 style
as a default, but if TT Font Edit is set ON in the cadvance.ini
file, it changes to TT font edit screen.
A new TT font edit can be
activated by setting On, Options/System variables/TrueTypeEditor.
- Freehand line draw. Draw/Line/Sketch
- Huge nested symbol/group problem is corrected.
- Degree, Radius, and +- signs are translated
properly from/to Acad.
- Angle lock off for Move/Duplicate by setting
OFF on AngleLock in System Variables.
- Kind on/off. Set on or off on KindEnable in
System Variables.
- User can run his exe module from within
CADVANCE. Refer to cadvance.ini and toolbar.txt files.
- Double click object. Text shows text edit box,
other object shows object property dialog box.
- Help file is added which can be open from
System Variables dialog box.
Windows
Vista Support:
Cadvance V13 supports Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating
system. Because of the new
security requirements added to Vista, the
following steps are needed to enable Cut/Paste operations in all
versions of Cadvance.
1.
From
the Windows Start Menu select the Control Panel.
2.
In
the Control Panel select the User Accounts Icon.
3.
Switch
the user to Administrator mode.
4.
The
bottom icon in the list of operations is "Turn User Account
Control on or off.
5.
Select
this Icon and select the square to turn off the "User Account
Control" UAC.
6.
Run
Cadvance from this account and check that Copy/Paste is operational.
7.
Log
out of Cadvance and you can switch the UAC back on.
This
operation only needs to be performed once after installing
Cadvance. Cadvance then can run
as a standard user if desirable.
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New INI File
variables:
·
[System] TrueTypeEditor=ON/OFF ON - Use the V13 Text
Editor, OFF – use the V12 Dialog box.
·
[System] TrueTypeColors=ON/OFF ON - Display TrueType
font colors, OFF – use color of object.
·
[System} WindowSelection=0/1 0 – Use V12 TrueType Dialog Box, 1 –
Use V13 TrueType Editor.
Cadvance
SDK Features:
Two new functions have been added to the CADVANCE SDK:
CdiSelectbyKind(), and CdiObjElemXY(). The function CdiLoadFile() now
includes the ability to load a Bitmap and insert it into the drawing at
a specified location. The
function CdiSaveFile() provides the ability to save the ini and toolbar
file, just the ini file, or just the toolbar file. CdiZoom() has a new
option for drawing fit: CDI_ZOOM_FIT’
·
Short CdiSelectbyKind (osl, kind)
This routine will place all Visable/Selectable objects in
the drawing with the given kind onto the specified OSL.
Parameter
Type/Description
Osl Long
(void *) The OSL to use for
this operation. If osl is
NULL then the
CADVANCE OSL will
be used.
Kind Short
The value for kind.
Return
Value CDI_OK if successful,
CDI_ABORT if B2 was selected, CDI_WARNING if nothing was
selected, otherwise CDI_ERROR.
·
Short CdiObjElemXY( point, op,
index, lineset)
Retrieves the x and y coordinates of a vertex within a 2D
lineset. (Can be used with
reference files).
Parameter
Type/Description
Point CDI_DD_POINT A two element structure specifying the (x,y) coordinates
being retrieved. (RETURNED)
Op Short (*) The type of operation: CDI_MOVETO
or CDI_DRAWTO
Index Short The index of the point to be
retrieved. (See table 8.2)
Lineset CDI_LINESET_BUFFER (*) A
buffer which defines the lineset,
typically obtained
through a call to CdiObjInfo().
Return Value CDI_OK if no error, otherwise CDI_ERROR.
·
Short CdiLoadFile (file_name, file_type, configuration)
Loads the specified file. (see CADVANCE SDK Manual for
function description and table 8.41 for File Types.)
file_name: String (char *) File name.
file_type: Short CDI_FILE_BMP
configuration:
Long (void *) CDI_FILE_BMP_LOAD_CONFIG
The CDI_FILE_BMP_LOAD_CONFIG structure contains information that CADVANCE needs during a BMP file
load operation.
typedef struct
cdi_file_bmp_config {
CDI_DD_POINT position;
double
scale_x;
double
scale_y;
double
rotation;
short
layer;
short
DoDialog;
}
CDI_FILE_BMP_LOAD_CONFIG;
The CDI_FILE_BMP_LOAD_CONFIG
structure contains the following fields:
Field Description
Position The
lower left coordinates of the bitmap.
Scale_x The
x scale of the bitmap.
Scale_y The
y scale of the bitmap.
Rotation The
angle of rotation in degrees.
Layer The
layer of the bitmap.
DoDialog CDI_TRUE
to display a dialog box for the above values. CDI_FALSE to use the
passed in parameters.
·
Short CdiSaveFile (file_name, file_type, configuration)
Saves the specified file. (see CADVANCE SDK Manual for
function description and table 8.49 for File Types.)
file_name: String (char *) File name.
file_type: Short CDI_FILE_INI
configuration:
Long (void *) CDI_FILE_INI_SAVE_CONFIG or Null
The CDI_FILE_INI_SAVE_CONFIG structure contains information that
CADVANCE needs during a INI file save operation.
typedef struct
cdi_file_ini_save_config {
short option;
}
CDI_FILE_INI_SAVE_CONFIG;
The CDI_FILE_INI_SAVE_CONFIG
structure contains the following fields:
Field Description
File_type CDI_FILE_ALL saves the ini file and toolbar.
CDI_FILE_INI_ONLY saves only the ini file.
CDI_FILE_TOOLBAR_ONLY saves only the toolbar file.
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