Bug Fixes in Visual CADD 4:

Here is a partial list of bug fixes in version 4. Frankly, we can't remember all of the fixes as we have worked on so many over the last months!

• Two drawings of the same name can no longer be opened.
• Files marked read-only by Windows OS are now opening correctly.
• Several drawing file open problems related to drawings with symbols and line types converted from GCADD have been fixed.
• Text placed in the Summary tab of the Drawing Properties dialog (WIP) now saves with the drawing.
• Customized POP menus used to disappear or never work at all –should be okay now. Note that the *.pop files MUST be in the same folder as your .mnu file to work.
• Typing ED with multiple Leaders selected now opens Leader Change.
• Typing ED with a hatch selected now opens Hatch Change instead of the Hatch Settings speedbar.
• Hatch preview now works in HT when hatch display is turned off.
• In earlier versions, if a hatch exceeded the maximum number of segments (a memory limitation) it went ahead and placed only the boundary (and didn’t tell you that it did!) Now, if your hatch exceeds the maximum, you are presented with a dialog that let's you change the hatch scale to place fewer segments, or abort the hatch --without leaving a 'hidden' boundary.
• Preview button on Settings>Hatch Tab no longer required. Can scroll thru list with arrow keys.
• Running snap bug on snapping to center of some entity types fixed.
• Running snaps are now working with MidLine.
• Printing should now work correctly with WinLine software and newer printers with advanced features.
• Memory limitations in Printing that caused crashes have been fixed.
• Rotated TrueType text now rotates correctly when printing (i.e.; no more TrueType Rotate checkbox in Print dialog).
• Fixed scaling bug in Print Scale edit box when using metric settings.
• ZoomSelected now has a 'blank space' border around selected entities, similar to ZoomAll.
• Scale tab now shows up on the Dimension speedbar(s).
• Symbol Open now retains the path you set.
• The resource leak in Symbol Manager when switching between folders is fixed.
• Symbols on Disk/Symbols Loaded toggle in SymMan now ‘holds’ its state next time you open the dialog.
• The view that you set in the Symbol Manager list (Big Icon, Small Icon, List) now ‘sticks’ next time you open Visual CADD. In v3 it would always revert to List view. Note that buttons for these settings are gone. Right click in the list to change the view (or use the menu). Right clicking the list also lets you hide the top part of the SymMan dialog (the "Settings").
• The Undo command now works on double line, beziers, arcs, dimensions etc. when they are set as the default tool.
• Fillet with radius set to 0 now works without dropping entities when using Undo.
• Join command now works with segments that were not placed sequentially.
• Text Change no longer crashes with different fonts or colors.
• Move to Layer and Copy to Layer buttons in the Layer Manager now work with Text.
• A dimension that was originally placed with the ‘Use Dimension Layer’ box checked can now be moved to another layer with the ChanGe command (previously Layer could only be changed in Dimension Edit dialog).
• The arrowhead of a Leader now takes on the current linewidth, same as the other leader parts (it was previously always 0 line width).
• Fixed CG where entering new layer after changing other properties would destroy those changes and reset the properties back to original.
• Fixed length of script string in Assign Script from 250 to 255 characters and added back the warning message when exceeding that amount (was in v2.0.x; disappeared in v3).
• Fixed problem with ‘=’ in Change command with Fast Properties Off.
• CL, CP, TP, and WP now work correctly with either ‘=’ from keyboard or Match button for all combinations of setting or changing object properties with Fast Properties On or Off. For example, one problem in v3 with Fast Properties On with selected entities was that a Match changed all 4 properties instead of only the one.
• V4 drawings will open in 2.04 okay. Be aware that newer features will be stripped out of these drawings if opened in v2 & v3: curved leaders will change to straight line segments, and Layer Groups will not work in v3 because they have an added feature in v4..
• The continuous linetype in AutoCAD now gets matched to the solid line type in VCADD.
• Fixed all toggles so that using the native script commands to restore the previous toggle state now works for all toggles, e.g., HI;2; to restore previous HiLite toggle.
• Corrected the native command VCFPath to correctly set the font path.
• Fixed the "Font not found" warning message so that the message appears whenever a drawing uses a font which is missing.