RiscCAD Release 10
addtions
Added select mode toolbox.
Added advanced fill dialogue to hold more rarely used fill settings.
Added option to scale fill by drawing scale, allowing fills to be
created actual size.
Added option for island detection (normal, outer or ignore).
Added option to flood fill and to automatically detect boundaries and
islands.
Added option not to view hatch progress, but draw hatch when complete.
Added Bezier curves.
Improvements to RiscDRAW
Bezier curves imported/exported as curves and not flattened.
Fonts imported from Draw file and transformed text.
Draw file header analysed to set RiscCAD paper size, grid etc
from draw file settings.
Conversion of RiscCAD drawing to Draw file including line
styles, weights, colour and fonts.
Converted manuals to HTML.
Added revision cloud to curve tools with rectangular, circle and
irregular clouds.
Made new windows open in default position, even after being moved by
previous drawing.
Added area calculation tool to enquire toolbox. Auto detects boundary,
and islands if required.
Ctrl-U erases current text if not in select mode.
Ctrl-T selects text tool if not in text mode.
Ctrl-D selects dimension tool if not in dimension mode.
F1 opens dialogue for current tool, ie when chamfering, F1 opens
chamfer dialogue. Line angle lock moved to Shift-F1.
Added facility to select multiple snaps from snap toolbox. Snap found
is nearest to cursor.
Removed Insert+Key snap override as these do not work well with
on-the-fly snap.
Also removed TAB and Shift-TAB snap selection, as these do not
work well with multiple snaps.
Improvements to RiscDXF to improve DXF import.
Nested blocks inserted correctly.
Layer colour and thickness imported correctly on later version
DXF files.
Blocks grouped in RiscCAD file.
Paper space and model space converted correctly.
STYLE font table imported. Mappings file used to map DXF fonts
to RiscCAD fonts.
Added support for
LWPOLYLINE command.
Check for and remove empty groups.
Added symbol, template and
CADStore icons to browser to switch views
without closing dialogue.
Added outline fonts for both dimensions and text. Up to 255 different
font names per drawing.
Re-written preferences loading/saving to use single file and use
keywords.
Enquiry mode has option to display results in co-ordinates window
instead of larger window.
Option to create font outline instead of placing text.
Added option to relocate print origin LL corner.
Added legacy data feature to allow values already entered into
writeable icons to be re-selected and used.
Added option not to display units in dialogues.
Added feature whereby Shift or Ctrl click in a writeable icon will
change value.
All colours displayed correctly regardless of screen mode.
Dimensions are now cached, making an enormous difference to the redraw
speed.This cacheing is transparent to the user.
Snaps will now not snap to area fills. If this is required, ungroup and
regroup the fill.
Improved grouping operation to speed process up.
Group contents now displayed in 'selected colour' when groups selected.