BricsCAD (Windows) Release Notes

Important notes

BricsCAD^® (Windows) V15 installs and runs independently from previous BricsCAD versions.
V15 is not binary compatible with V14, some API's have changed. Most 3rd party applications/tools, except scripts and applications written in pure Lisp, will need to be rebuilt by their manufacturer in order to run on V15. If you are using 3rd party applications, please check with your supplier for V15 compatibility and updates.
V15.3 is not compatible with Communicator V15.2. An upgrade to Communicator V15.3 is required.
Pro or Platinum license is required for rendering, 3D modeling and Drawing Views.
Platinum license is required for creation of 3D Constraints, Mechanical Assembly design, Sheet Metal design and BIM design.
To report problems, please send a Support Request.

Version 15.3.05

09/07/2015

Fixes

COMMAND ARC: After changing the current linetype newly created arcs ignored the new linetype. Regression in V15.3.
PROPERTIES PANEL: The controls for the distance of front and back clipping planes(FRONTZ,BACKZ) would alternately appear and reappear upon clicking. Regression in V15.3.
SR63619 - BIM COMPOSITIONS: fixed newly created compositions not showing up in compositions panel.

Version 15.3.04

06/07/2015

Fixes

SR63554 - MAPCONNECT: Command MAPCONNECT had been accidentally disabled in V15.3.03. This release reenables it.

Version 15.3.03

03/07/2015

New

MECHANICAL BROWSER:
- 3D CONSTRAINTS: option was added to enable/disable the 3D Constraint.
- SELECT: the Select option allows to select edges, faces and/or 3D Solids related to Features, 3D Constraints or Body nodes.
DMGROUP: allows user to group a set of 3d solid edges and faces into a special feature that has a name and a description. The group is shown in the Mechanical Browser, its elements can be selected using the 'Select' context menu item, and dissolved when it is not needed
DMSIMPLIFY: simplifies geometry and topology of 3d solid entities. It removes unnecessary edges and vertices, merges seam edges, and replaces the geometry of faces and edges by analytic surfaces and curves, if possible within the user-specified tolerance. It is recommended to always run this command on imported 3d solid geometry.
DRAGMODEINTERRUPT: system variable which specifies whether the recalculation/redrawing of the model can be interrupted when mouse cursor is being moved (responsive, but may cause blinking, incomplete or disappearing graphics) or every drag iteration must be completed (slow, but graphics is always valid).
SR51627 - VIEWSECTIONSTYLE: allows to specify the visual format of section views and section lines.
SR51627 - VIEWDETAILSTYLE: allows to specify the visual format of detail views and detail symbols.
VIEWEDIT: command allows changing the scale and the hidden line visibility of drawing views.
BIM database
- Materials and Compositions
  A BIM database consists of Building Materials and Compositions. A Building Material contains information about one specific material: its appearance, cost, manufacturer, etc. A Composition contains information about the structure of a building element, by defining Composition layers. Each Composition layer refers to a Building Material, and has a certain thickness.
- Project database and Library database
  A BIM Project consists of dwg entities, classified as Building Elements, to which Compositions can be attached. All Compositions being used in a project, are stored in the Project database. The Project database can be stored inside a dwg file, or in a separate file with extension .bimlib. When the Project database is embedded in a dwg file, that dwg file contains the complete BIM Project. When the Project database is stored as an external bimlib file, the BIM Project can consist of multiple dwg files, all using the same Project database.
  To reuse compositions and building materials across multiple BIM Projects, a Library database can be specified, in addition to the Project database. The Library database is a bimlib file, usually stored in a location which is common to several projects. When Compositions and Building Materials from the Library database are used in a BIM Project, they are automatically imported in the Project database. To maintain and extend BIM databases, users can drag Building Materials and Compositions from one database to the other, provided that they have write access to the destination database.
- Flexibility
  The same flexibility as we offer in modelling, we offer in attaching building information. Although Compositions are grouped into Wall, Slab, Roof and Generic Compositions, any type of Composition can be attached to any dwg entity. When that dwg entity is a 3D Solid, with certain geometrical properties, then we will use the information from the Composition to control the thickness, and the cross section will show the structure by applying the hatch patterns from the different layers on the section geometry. When a 3D Solid is assigned a Composition which enforces a thickness or a minimal thickness, and this thickness can not be applied on the geometry, the section will appear in red to indicate the problem, that the dwg entity does not match with the chosen Composition.
- Composition layers
  A Composition describes the structure of a Building Element by an ordered set of Composition layers. Each Composition layer has following fields:
  - Material. The Building Material for this layer.
  - Function. One of (None, Structure, Substrate, Insulation, Finish1, Finish2, Membrane). In this version this field serves for information only.
  - Thickness. Defines the thickness of the layer.
  - Locked thickness. Specifies whether this layer should always have the same, fixed thickness, or that it has a variable thickness. Only one layer in a Composition can have a variable thickness. As such, a Composition can have a fixed total thickness (all its layers have a locked thickness), a minimal total thickness (there are two or more layers of which one has a varying thickness) or a free thickness (there is only one layer and it has a varying thickness). A Building Material can optionally have a locked thickness on its own, layers using such material can not have a variable thickness.
  At the time of attaching a Composition to a 3D Solid, the thickness, if applicable, is applied by finding the side faces, using the same logic as BIMDRAG and BIMCONNECT. One of these side faces, the one located most to the outside of the building, is marked as reference face. The opposite face is moved until the distance between the two side faces is equal to the desired thickness. Users can flip the choice of reference face with the command BIMFLIP. BIMUPDATETHICKNESS can be used at any time to reapply the Composition thickness on the 3D solid.
  Sections created with VIEWSECTION or SECTIONPLANETOBLOCK will show the layers from the Composition. The reference face is used to indicate the top layer for Slab Compositions, and the exterior layer for other Compositions. Starting from the reference face, the 3D Solid is sliced by planes parallel to the reference face, at an offset equal to the layer thickness. Again, BIMFLIP can be used to flip the starting face from which the layers are set out. In the result 2D drawing, sections using the same building material are joined.
- BIM Compositions panel
  All BIM database features are accessible from the dockable panel named "BIM Compositions" :
  - drag and drop Compositions on the model
  - drag and drop Compositions from one database to the other
  - open the Compositions editor
  - open the Building Materials editor
  - open the BIM Project Info dialog. In this dialog you can specify the location of Project and Library database, find some statistics about the databases, and manage the project filter. The project filter is explained in the next section about tags.
- Tags
  To each Building Material or Composition, any number of tags can be attached. Any string can be entered as tag, and a list of existing tags in the library is available to choose from. On the project info dialog, each of the tags can be used as a filter on the database: when a tag is checked, only those Building Materials or Compositions which have that tag, will be listed. There is a button at the top of each list, to switch the filter on or off.

Improved

properties field is now correctly shown for imported (procedural) and native surfaces
3DCONVERT: surfaces are allowed to be converted to meshes.
AREA: surfaces are now supported.
BMDISSOLVE: restores expressions from component parameters to corresponding variables.
BMFORM: converts created mechanical part into parametric component if it has suitable expressions.
DMSTITCH: an option to set stitching tolerance has been added; several 3d solids can be stitched at once.
DIMENSION COMMANDS: added support for dimensioning of custom entities.
GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION: strongly simplified the required setup when use of Map Grid Coordinates is desired - now it suffices to set a checkbox.
GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATE REFERENCE SYSTEMS:
- SR62188 - added support for California State Plane Zones CA-I - CA_VII on NAD27 (feet), CA83-I - CA-VI on NAD83 (meters), CA83-IF - CA83-VIF on NAD83 (feet)
- SR62188 - added support for Utah State Plane Zones HARN/UT.UT-NIF - HARN/UT.UT-NIIIF on NAD83(HARN) (feet), EPSG:2921-2923.
- added support for Google Maps Global Mercator - EPSG:900913 (used in Open Streetmaps)
- added support for New Zealand Transverse Mercator Projection - EPSG:2193
MAPCONNECT:
- Most Recently Used connection is moved to the top of the 'Connections' list and selected.
- Connections can now be renamed.
- The length of the names generated for downloaded map images has been reduced.
- Image entities resulting from a mapconnect session are grouped.
NEW: the most recently used template drawing is now preselected when the "NEW" file dialog opens.
SHEET METAL:
- SMCONVERT: command improved. The vertex-connected flanges are united if they are adjacent to the same bend. Also, it unites the coplanar connectivity components into one flange in case when these components, being taken from both flange sides and translated to the same plane, form a one-connected region. Accordingly, the validation of such flanges is adapted. Improved robustness of feature determination on imported geometry.
- SMJUNCTIONCREATE: if the Junction feature cannot be created, warning appears in command line but junction cut is made anyway. Supported rare case occurred on imported geometry when junction has to be created on duplicate coincident edges sharing same pair of vertices (or only one vertex, for linear co-directional edges), providing a solution to unmerge the geometry by cut and finally unfold the part.
- SMEXPORTOSM: complex topology cases are properly exported. Hard edges and flanges/bends which prevent export are now highlighted by the command. Command does not save .osm file anymore if data validation has failed.
- SMFLANGESPLIT: now can accept an edge (imprinted), which lies entirely on a flange. Also, the user control panel is implemented, which allows to specify the type of the split upon center/left/right positions on the selected line.
- SMRELIEFCREATE: command improved.
  - correctly supports large radius bends
  - existing Corner Relief feature is updated to the new one if possible
  - command is able to create bend reliefs for the existing bends if they are needed.
- SMUNFOLD: self-intersection detection has been improved: now touching without sharing a volume is not considered as an error.
- Performance has been improved on models having large number of features.
- Switching a bend to a junction is allowed to proceed without creation of a Junction feature, if the bend connects more than two flanges. Only the corresponding geometry is created in this case.
BIM
- BIMINSERT : During placement of a window or door on a 3D Solid face, dynamic dimensions are created, starting from the middle of each edge of the bounding rectangle of the window or door, to the nearest parallel edge on the face of the 3D Solid.
- Parametric doors. The insertion point of a door is now kept in place when the door height is changed.
- BIMSPLIT : it is now possible to choose a planar solid face as input: the solid will be split in parts using the plane of the input face as slicing plane.
- IFC import is now integrated in the native BricsCAD import command (requires a Platinum license). Following options are available in the settings dialog:
  - Import spaces. When checked, spaces are imported as 3D Solids.
  - Import Bim Data. When checked, imported objects are classified as Building Elements, Walls, Slabs, Beams, Columns, Windows or Doors according to their ifc class.
- Sketchup import is now integrated in the native BricsCAD import command (requires a Platinum license). An option to stitch is available in the settings dialog:
  - With stitching, faces are combined to form 3d solids, when the face edges are coincident.
  - Without stitching, all faces are imported as REGION entities, which have layer and color properties of the corresponding sketchup faces.
- IFC export is now integrated in the native BricsCAD export command (requires a Platinum license).
SETTINGSSEARCH: the search was made case-insensitive - it used to be case-sensitive.
VISUAL STYLES: all visual styles are now listed using alphabetical sort. Previously the built-in visual styles were always listed at the top, using a fixed order, not alphabetically sorted.
SR35875, SR45266, SR61556, SR62337, SR62364 - PUBLISH DIALOG: added the possibility to exclude model space or layouts from the sheet list.
SR42481 - DRAWING EXPLORER:
- During a copy/paste operation, when the destination drawing already contains an item with the same name, the name of the item that will be replaced is now mentioned in the warning prompt.
- 'Copy but keep both' option has been added (the copy will be renamed).
SR47522, SR48877 - FIND: added support for multileader entities.
SR51949, SR61993 - TEAR-OFF TOOLBARS: increased the distance the cursor has to move away from a flyout before it starts to tear off (now 90 pixels instead of 30).
SR61651 - CUSTOMIZE DIALOG: the search function now also searches in command macros.
SR61787 - OFFSET: the Offset command now applies the sub-entity type selection as set by the 'SELECTIONMODES' variable. Note that Entities always remain selectable for OFFSET.
SR62179 - GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION: increased precision for angular seconds with 4 extra digits.
SR62491 - FILE DIALOG: improved to allow selection of up to ~3000 files.
SR62574 - TOOLPALETTES: added support for List View style to the View options.
SR62760 - QUAD: if cursor is inside quad, preview reset due to Ctrl up/down is now disabled. This allows users to release the Ctrl button once they move into the quad.
SR63084 - UNDO: CTRL+Z and the Undo toolbar button no longer will cancel the active command. That means that if a command with an undo option is active, e.g. PLINE, clicking the Undo button during command execution will cause the '_u' input to be interpreted as a command option, which will undo a vertex instead of cancelling the command.

Fixes

The dynamic display during direct modeling commands was incorrect in perspective view when a non-default UCS was active.
3D CONSTRAINTS: default constraint value of dmDistance3d, dmAngle3d and dmRadius commands were set to 0 when dynamic dimensions were disabled.
BMINSERT: failed on insertion of two parametric assemblies with the same parts, but different parameterization.
BMHIDE: hidden nested component became visible upon COPYCLIP/PASTECLIP applied to the top-level component.
DISPLAY: an automic display update was missing after changing the locked state of layers.
LAYERS: when creating a new layer as a copy of an existing layer, viewport overrides were always set, even when the viewport properties were not overridden in the source layer.
PARAMETRIC COMPONENTS:

a block units switched to 'Unitless' upon changing of a component parameter.
parameters of nested components could be reset back to initial values upon COPYCLIP/PASTECLIP applied to the top-level component.
3D constraints applied to parametric components could be lost upon BMUPDATE.

PDFATTACH: the "Select PDF Underlay File" dialog did not apply the LUNITS and AUNITS settings to its input fields.
PROPERTIES BAR: when the value of the 'Color' control in the Entity Properties Toolbar was updated , the corresponding 'Color' property in the 'Properties' bar did not immediately reflect the change when the 'Color' property was selected.
SELECTION: using Shift + LeftMouseButton click it was not possible to unselect previously selected faces or edges of a 3d solid.
SHEET METAL:
- It was impossible to create a Bend Relief on hard edges adjacent to a bend with a large radius.
- Several crashes in SMUNFOLD have been fixed for non-manifold geometry.
- SR47917 - improper constraining was applied in case a Junction feature happened to be adjacent to more than two flanges.
- SR63476 - SMFLANGESPLIT: command failed in particular cases.
BIM
- SR49660 - BIMINSERT: The file name drop down list of the file dialog now displays the previously inserted file name.
- SR49660 - BIMINSERT: when running the command once with WCS and once with a different UCS set, the dynamic UCS as shown by the ucs icon, is the same, but the window was rotated differently. This is fixed.
- SR62482 - IFC IMPORT: Problem with importing non-uniformingly scaled entities is fixed.
- SR62315 - IFC IMPORT: Problems with IfcBooleanResult and IfcIShapeProfileDefModel are fixed.
- SR62658 - IFC IMPORT: Improved import of the IFC file attached to the request. Remaining errors are caused by invalid geometry in the IFC file.
- SR62671 - Sketchup IMPORT: distance values are now correctly converted to the target drawing's INSUNITS, whether the .skp file is in inch, mm, or another unit.
DRAWING VIEWS: message 'Unknown error' could appear many times if one of the section views was erased in another editor before opening the drawing in BricsCAD.
SR34777, SR46685, SR62719 - HATCH: wrong origin was used for the display of dotted hatch pattern.
SR42652 - DYNAMIC UCS:
- dynamic UCS detection did not ignore ELEVATION, it should, unless the elevation is transparently set for that particular DUCS.
- dynamic UCS detection failed when UCSVP was set to 0.
SR43262, SR44979, R44918, SR44989, SR62177 - TEMPLATE FILES: invalid BASEFILE value caused errors when executing the "NEW" command.
SR46946, SR62238 - STRETCH: shift distance was applied twice when stretching mleaders.
SR48876, SR50149, SR50414, SR51792, SR50188 - LAYERSTATE: layer property override settings were not saved/restored.
SR50627 - REFEDIT: it was possible to modify locked entities not in working set.
SR51387, SR61451, SR63049 - LOOKFROM: when UCSORTHO is On and NAVVCUBEORIENT is 0 (=WCS), selecting an orthographic view with the LookFrom control did not set the UCS accordingly.
SR51800 - DYNAMIC BLOCKS: an infinite number of ticks were generated for a linear dynamic block parameter when a value maximum was set but the increment value was zero.
SR51953, SR62543, SR62436 - DYNAMIC BLOCKS: fixed a crash that occurred during editing of properties of Dynamic Blocks using the Properties Bar.
SR61185 - SNAP: it was not possible to snap to the intersection of segments of the same hatch entity.
SR61309 - DYNAMIC BLOCKS: visibility grip point was displayed at unexpected location.
SR61650 - FIELDS: field evaluation of properties of entities in blocks ignored the transformation of the block insert.
SR61659 - SPLINE: scaling of a spline constructed by fit points was not correct.
SR61559 - TOOLBARS: the realistic shademode tool was not available on the Rendering toolbar.
SR61903 - COLOR DIALOG: an unhandled exception occurred when launching the color dialog from the layer combo box in the Entity Properties Bar.
SR62341 - VISUAL STYLE: when switching the visual style using the control on the Properties Bar, an additional regen could be required to force a display update. Regression since V15.2.
SR62125 - DYNAMIC BLOCKS: the display of a user-provided dynamic block was incorrect for certain values of the lookup parameter.
SR62196 - MULTIPLE DISPLAYS: position of combo controls was incorrect for systems with multiple displays. Affected combo controls were: Layer, Linetype, Font, Workspaces.
SR62207 - DYNAMIC BLOCKS: attributes of dynamic blocks were not displayed for certain values of the visibility parameter.
SR62270 - VIEWBASE: avoid total abortion of the view generation in case a partial failure occurs.
SR62315, SR62482 - IFC IMPORT: fixes were applied for IFC model files that could not be imported in BricsCAD.
SR62514 - DIMENSIONS: changing the "Text rotation" property had no effect for annotative dimensions.
SR62521 - INSTALLATION: since V15.2 the License Activate dialog could open during installation, interrupting the installation process.
SR62523 - DYNAMIC BLOCKS: recomputation of a dynamic block failed after changing the value of the visibility parameter.
SR62551 - LOAD PERFORMANCE: a user-provided drawing with xrefs containing lots of scale definitions became extremely slow to load since V15.2.05
SR62577 - STACKED MTEXT: symbol character for stack style of stacked text was not preserved.
SR62582 - SETTINGS: searches in the Settings dialog did not search in collapsed branches of the settings tree.
SR62257 - DRAWING EXPLORER: the lineweight combo of the Layers category didn't display the last 2 values (2.00 and 2.11 mm).
SR62206 - COLOR COMBO: setting a custom color in the Properties Bar while objects with different colors ('Varies') were selected, was resulting in a crash.
SR62687 - DXF: CMLSTYLE variable was not correctly initialized while loading DXF files.
SR62669 - LOCALIZATION: some strings in Mechanical Browser were not translatable.
SR62800 - WORKSPACE: on workspace switch, when WSAUTOSAVE is on, menubar and scrollbar state were not stored in the workspace.
SR63071 - LOCALIZATION: "Offset" string needs to be translated in two different ways in Russian translation.
SR63077 - SORTENTS: fixed crash which occurred when picking points in a corrupt drawing with multiple entities having the same handle. The crash only occurred when object snap sorting was enabled (value 2 of system variable SORTENTS).
SR63154 - DYNAMIC BLOCK ATTRIBUTES: enabled modifying of the attribute position.
SR63178 - LAYER PROPERTY FILTER DIALOG:
- The 'Materials' column has been removed as the Layer Filter data structure has no placeholder for materials.
- Layer names entered in the first column no longer also appear in the last column.
SR63304 - WORKSPACE: prompt to overwrite existing workspace was not properly formatted.
SR63305 - TOOLPALETTES: caching of icon images was broken in V15.

Applications

LISP - SHEET METAL: New function SmLispGet provides sheet-metal-related queries in LISP, which can be used by LISP third-party developers in their own sheet-metal basic scenarios. The API includes functionality that allows finding adjacent features for selected feature, specifying a Flange, while looking for hard edges adjacent, by "top" and "bottom" options, and checking whether a hard edge is convex or concave. The full set of the options with short descriptions is available via SmLispGet "?".
SR43014 - LISP: (BricsCAD only) improved (grarc) function by extending the signature to (grarc ptCenter radius startAng endAng color [minsegments] [highlight]) which allows to specify minimum number of segments to be drawn.
SR50020 - .NET: fixed a crash that occurred when using MoveGripPointsAt overrule.
SR51392 BRX: corrected BRX sample program - the CDialogBar instance need to be destroyed when the module is unloaded.
SR61490 - BRX: AcDbEntity::getOsnapPoints returned empty results for snapping modes Nearest, Midpoint, Perpendicular for entities derived from AcDbCurveobjects.
SR61598 - PROPERTIES PANEL: fixed 2 problems with registered (COM) PropertiesPanel extensions:
- PerInstanceProperties callback handlers were called with wrong instances of IDynamicProperty.
- IPropertySourc::GetProperties() callback was called for unrelated entities.
SR62021 - LISP: when ads_putsym() / acedPutSym() was called from a BRX registered command - the Lisp symbol was not immediately present, only after actual Lisp execution was finished.
SR62103 - LISP: new VLE functions have been added to extract the values of dotted-pairs:
- (vle-list-massoc key lst) returns a list of all values using same 'key' in assoc-list 'lst'
- (vle-entget-massoc dxfCode ename) returns a list of all values using same key 'dxfCode' in the (entget) list of an entity 'ename'
SR62217 - BRX: a crash occurred when a BRX module, loaded by autoload.rx, displays a message box during acrxEntryPoint(kLoadDwgMsg) callback.
SR62349 - LISP: the Lisp engine could fail with an error message, for (vlr-docmanager-reactor) using the :vlr-documentToBeDestroyed event.
SR62744 - COM : fixed a fault in COM function "put_Arrowhead1Type" of dimension entities, which caused the second arrow of the dimension to get the same arrow head as the first, instead of preserving the original second arrow head.
SR63111 - COM + Lisp: property "VisualStyle" is not implemented for IAcadPViewport in the Teigha COM libraries. As an alternative (vla-get-VisualStyle) and (vla-put-VisualStyle) were implemented as Fast-COM functions.

Communicator

Import: when color information is available in the source model, it is translated to the drawing.
Import: added support for STL format.

Version 15.2.08

21/05/2015

Fixes

SR62521 : Problem during installation - the License Activate dialog could open, interrupting the installation process.

Version 15.2.06

27/04/2015

Improved

3DCLIP: improved calculation of initial clipping planes location.
WMS
- Increased precision of geographic coordinate input and display.
- Layers containing sublayers now initially are displayed collapsed in the Mapconnect tree view, thus providing a better overview for WMS servers that offer lots of data.
- Corrected geographic bounds for MGA related projections.

Fixes

vcomp100.dll was missing from the installer.
POLYSOLID and SWEEP: when a non-default UCS was active and a closed path was used, the POLYSOLID and SWEEP commands produced an incorrect result.
SR51340 - FIND: zooming to mtext was incorrect in case the defined width of the mtext did not match the actual width.

Applications

SR62193, SR62201, SR62218, SR62212, SR62219 - LISP : the Lisp functions required for ExpressTools and AI_utils were not loaded due to a timing problem introduced in V15.2.05.
SR62208 - Lisp/BRX/COM : entupd() function failed on group objects (regression in V15.2.05)

Version 15.2.05

23/04/2015

New

ACISOUT: surface entities can now be exported to a .sat file.
AIMLEADEREDITADD and AIMLEADEREDITREMOVE commands were added to provide a shortcut to add/remove leader lines to/from mleader entities.
BIM
- BIMIFCIMPORT: imports 3D geometry from a IFC file.
- BIMSKPIMPORT: imports geometry from a Sketchup file. Optionally stitching can be performed:
  - With stitching, faces are combined to form 3d solids, when the face edges are coincident.
  - Without stitching, all faces are imported as REGION entities, which have layer and color properties of the corresponding sketchup faces.
- BIMSPLIT: analyzes a solid, when segments of wall-like solids can be detected, the solid is split into these segments
CLIPPING PLANES: the View section of the Properties Bar has been extended with controls to set the back and front clipping planes of the view.
CONSTRAINTBARDISPLAY: new system variable to control the visibility of a geometry constraint at its creation and/or selection.
DCDISPLAY: allows to select constraint dimensions, or entities which have dimensional constraints on them, and set them to be displayed or hidden.
DYNCONSTRAINTMODE: system variable that controls the visibility of hidden dim constraints when the constrained entity is selected. When hovering over an entity with a dimensional constraint, the blue constraint glyph now also becomes visible.
DMPUSHPULL: 3d solid faces with spline geometry can now be edited in basic cases.
DMSTITCH: stitches a set of surfaces or regions that bound a watertight volume into a 3d solid.
EXPLODE: surface entities can now be be exploded.
GENERATEBOUNDARY: this new command is similar to HATCHGENERATEBOUNDARY but instead of accepting only hatches as input, it also accepts faces from 3d solids as well as the boundaries detected when SELECTIONMODES flag 4 is activated. Spline or elliptical segments of boundaries are converted to multi-segmented polyline edges.
GEOGRAPHICLOCATION:
- The Geographic Location dialog has been extended to allow to define and store (or remove) geographic location data in a drawing.
- CHOOSE LOCATION: the (long) list of cities can now be searched using a 'filter-as-you-type' search field.
- COORDS: extended to support Geographic Mode ( = 3 ) to display longitude and latitude GIS coordingates according to the GEOLATLONGFORMAT setting.
- GEOLATLONGFORMAT: specifies the format of the latitude and longitude values displayed in the Geographic Location dialog, and in the coordinate status bar when in Geographic mode. 0 = decimal degrees (DD), 1 = degrees minutes seconds (DMS).
- CGEOCS: this read-only system variable indicates the Current Geographic Coordinate System. A field to display its content was added to the Status Bar.
- GEOMARKERVISIBILITY: system variable to control whether, in drawings that contain GeoData, the geographic marker glyph is displayed at the location in the drawing that corresponds with the Latitude/Longitude chosen in the Geographic Location Dialog.

MAPCONNECT (Pro or Platinum license required)

The MAPCONNECT command brings up the Map Connect dialog which allows to set up a connection with a Web Map Service.
The 10 most recently used connection data sets are remembered for use during subsequent sessions.
The Select Map Content dialog appears after a connection with the WMS server has been established, showing an overview of the offered map data.
One or more data 'layers' can be selected for download, and the user can specify the desired ground resolution and number of tiles into which the data should be divided.
An estimate of the download size is displayed at the bottom of the dialog.
Downloaded map tiles are stored as regular image files, the name of the images reflects the URL of the Web Map Service, the Coordinate Reference System, and the layer name.
The definition of the supported Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS) is stored in the new geodatabase.xml file which is located in the folder pointed to by the ROAMABLEROOTPREFIX variable, e.g. C:\Users\John\AppData\Roaming\Bricsys\BricsCAD\V15x64\en_US\Support
Also contained in geodatabase.xml is a list of cities and their WGS84 geo coordinates which is used by the "Choose Location..." functionality of the Geographic Location dialog.
Before adding map data to a drawing, the GEOGRAPHICLOCATION command should be executed to define and store the appropriate geographic location data in the drawing.
Currently following Coordinate Reference Systems are supported, more can be added on request:

Unique id (Alias)	EPSG code	Name	Projection Type	Ellipsoid	Unit
OSGB_WGS84	---	WGS 84 / British National Grid	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	WGS84	Meter
CaspianSea-C	---	Pulkovo 1942 / Caspian Sea Mercator (variant C)	9006: Mercator cylindrical map projection (variant C)	WGS84	Meter
Hartebeesthoek94.Lo15	2046	Hartebeesthoek94 / Lo15	43: Transverse Mercator South Orientated	WGS84	Meter
Hartebeesthoek94.Lo17	2047	Hartebeesthoek94 / Lo17	43: Transverse Mercator South Orientated	WGS84	Meter
Hartebeesthoek94.Lo19	2048	Hartebeesthoek94 / Lo19	43: Transverse Mercator South Orientated	WGS84	Meter
Hartebeesthoek94.Lo21	2049	Hartebeesthoek94 / Lo21	43: Transverse Mercator South Orientated	WGS84	Meter
Hartebeesthoek94.Lo23	2050	Hartebeesthoek94 / Lo23	43: Transverse Mercator South Orientated	WGS84	Meter
Hartebeesthoek94.Lo25	2051	Hartebeesthoek94 / Lo25	43: Transverse Mercator South Orientated	WGS84	Meter
Hartebeesthoek94.Lo27	2052	Hartebeesthoek94 / Lo27	43: Transverse Mercator South Orientated	WGS84	Meter
Hartebeesthoek94.Lo29	2053	Hartebeesthoek94 / Lo29	43: Transverse Mercator South Orientated	WGS84	Meter
Hartebeesthoek94.Lo31	2054	Hartebeesthoek94 / Lo31	43: Transverse Mercator South Orientated	WGS84	Meter
Hartebeesthoek94.Lo33	2055	Hartebeesthoek94 / Lo33	43: Transverse Mercator South Orientated	WGS84	Meter
Lambert93	2154	RGF93 / Lambert-93 -- France	37: Double standard parallel variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	GRS1980	Meter
ED50.EuroLambert	2192	ED50 / France EuroLambert	36: Single standard parallel variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	INTNL	Meter
Batavia_1.NEIEZ/01	3001	Batavia / NEIEZ	49: Mercator cylindrical map projection with Scale factor	BESSEL	Meter
Batavia_2.NEIEZ/01	3001	Batavia / NEIEZ	49: Mercator cylindrical map projection with Scale factor	BESSEL	Meter
Batavia_3.NEIEZ/01	3001	Batavia / NEIEZ	49: Mercator cylindrical map projection with Scale factor	BESSEL	Meter
Makassar/E.NEIEZ	3002	Makassar / NEIEZ	49: Mercator cylindrical map projection with Scale factor	BESSEL	Meter
CaspianSea	3388	Pulkovo 1942 / Caspian Sea Mercator	6: Mercator cylindrical map projection	KRASOV	Meter
WORLD-MERCATOR	3395	WGS 84 / World Mercator	6: Mercator cylindrical map projection	WGS84	Meter
Popular_Visualisation_CRS	3785	Popular Visualisation CRS / Spherical Mercator (deprecated)	69: Popular Visualisation Pseudo Mercator	VisualisationSphere	Meter
WGS84.PseudoMercator	3857	WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator	69: Popular Visualisation Pseudo Mercator	WGS84	Meter
RGF93.CC42	3942	RGF93 Lambert Zone 1 (NewZone/NZ 1) Corsica	37: Double standard parallel variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	GRS1980	Degree
RGF93.CC43	3943	RGF93 Lambert Zone 2 (NewZone/NZ 2)	37: Double standard parallel variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	GRS1980	Degree
RGF93.CC44	3944	RGF93 Lambert Zone 3 (NewZone/NZ 3)	37: Double standard parallel variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	GRS1980	Degree
RGF93.CC45	3945	RGF93 Lambert Zone 4 (NewZone/NZ 4)	37: Double standard parallel variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	GRS1980	Degree
RGF93.CC46	3946	RGF93 Lambert Zone 5 (NewZone/NZ 5)	37: Double standard parallel variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	GRS1980	Degree
RGF93.CC47	3947	RGF93 Lambert Zone 6 (NewZone/NZ 6)	37: Double standard parallel variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	GRS1980	Degree
RGF93.CC48	3948	RGF93 Lambert Zone 7 (NewZone/NZ 7)	37: Double standard parallel variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	GRS1980	Degree
RGF93.CC49	3949	RGF93 Lambert Zone 8 (NewZone/NZ 8)	37: Double standard parallel variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	GRS1980	Degree
RGF93.CC50	3950	RGF93 Lambert Zone 9 (NewZone/NZ 9)	37: Double standard parallel variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	GRS1980	Degree
LL84	4326	WGS 84 -- WGS84 - World Geodetic System 1984, used in GPS	69: Popular Visualisation Pseudo Mercator	WGS84	Degree
CRS:84	4326	WGS 84 -- WGS84 - World Geodetic System 1984, used in GPS	69: Popular Visualisation Pseudo Mercator	WGS84	Degree
JAD69	24200	JAD69 / Jamaica National Grid	36: Single standard parallel variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	CLRK66	Meter
Jamaica1969.NtlGrid	24200	JAD69 / Jamaica National Grid	36: Single standard parallel variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	CLRK66	Meter
Jamaica69.NtlGrid	24200	JAD69 / Jamaica National Grid	36: Single standard parallel variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	CLRK66	Meter
NTF.Paris.Lambert-1C	27571	NTF (Paris) / Lambert zone I	36: Single standard parallel variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	CLRK-IGN	Meter
NTF.Paris.Lambert-2C	27572	NTF (Paris) / Lambert zone II	36: Single standard parallel variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	CLRK-IGN	Meter
BritishNatGrid	27700	OSGB 1936 / British National Grid	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	AIRY30	Meter
MGA-48	28348	GDA94 / MGA zone 48 (deprecated)	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	GRS1980	Meter
MGA-49	28349	GDA94 / MGA zone 49	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	GRS1980	Meter
MGA-50	28350	GDA94 / MGA zone 50	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	GRS1980	Meter
MGA-51	28351	GDA94 / MGA zone 51	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	GRS1980	Meter
MGA-52	28352	GDA94 / MGA zone 52	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	GRS1980	Meter
MGA-53	28353	GDA94 / MGA zone 53	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	GRS1980	Meter
MGA-54	28354	GDA94 / MGA zone 54	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	GRS1980	Meter
MGA-55	28355	GDA94 / MGA zone 55	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	GRS1980	Meter
MGA-56	28356	GDA94 / MGA zone 56	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	GRS1980	Meter
MGA-57	28357	GDA94 / MGA zone 57	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	GRS1980	Meter
MGA-58	28358	GDA94 / MGA zone 58	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	GRS1980	Meter
Belge72/b.Lambert72	31300	Belge 1972 / Belgian Lambert 72	38: Belgian variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	INTNL	Meter
Belge72.RN.Lambert72	31300	Belge 1972 / Belgian Lambert 72	38: Belgian variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	INTNL	Meter
Belge72a.Lambert72	31300	Belge 1972 / Belgian Lambert 72	38: Belgian variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	INTNL	Meter
BD72.RN.Lambert72	31300	Belge 1972 / Belgian Lambert 72	38: Belgian variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	INTNL	Meter
Belge72.Lambert72	31300	Belge 1972 / Belgian Lambert 72	38: Belgian variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	INTNL	Meter
Belge72.RN.Lambert72A	31370	Belge 1972 / Belgian Lambert 72 --- Belgium	37: Double standard parallel variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	INTNL	Meter
Belge72a.Lambert72A	31370	Belge 1972 / Belgian Lambert 72 --- Belgium	37: Double standard parallel variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	INTNL	Meter
BD72.RN.Lambert72A	31370	Belge 1972 / Belgian Lambert 72 --- Belgium	37: Double standard parallel variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	INTNL	Meter
Belge72.Lambert72A	31370	Belge 1972 / Belgian Lambert 72 --- Belgium	37: Double standard parallel variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	INTNL	Meter
Belge72/b.Lambert72A	31370	Belge 1972 / Belgian Lambert 72 --- Belgium	37: Double standard parallel variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	INTNL	Meter
DHDN.Gauss3d-1	31461	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss zone 1 (deprecated)	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN/2.Gauss3d-1	31461	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss zone 1 (deprecated)	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN/3.Gauss3d-1	31461	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss zone 1 (deprecated)	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN.Gauss3d-2D	31462	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss zone 2 (deprecated)	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN/2.Gauss3d-2D	31462	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss zone 2 (deprecated)	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN/3.Gauss3d-2D	31462	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss zone 2 (deprecated)	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN.Gauss3d-3D	31463	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss zone 3 (deprecated)	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN/2.Gauss3d-3D	31463	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss zone 3 (deprecated)	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN/3.Gauss3d-3D	31463	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss zone 3 (deprecated)	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN.Gauss3d-4D	31464	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss zone 4 (deprecated)	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN/2.Gauss3d-4D	31464	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss zone 4 (deprecated)	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN/3.Gauss3d-4D	31464	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss zone 4 (deprecated)	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN.Gauss3d-5D	31465	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss zone 5 (deprecated)	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN/2.Gauss3d-5D	31465	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss zone 5 (deprecated)	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN/3.Gauss3d-5D	31465	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss zone 5 (deprecated)	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN.Gauss3d-2	31466	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss-Kruger zone 2	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN/2.Gauss3d-2	31466	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss-Kruger zone 2	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN/3.Gauss3d-2	31466	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss-Kruger zone 2	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN.Gauss3d-3	31467	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss-Kruger zone 3	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN/2.Gauss3d-3	31467	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss-Kruger zone 3	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN/3.Gauss3d-3	31467	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss-Kruger zone 3	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN.Gauss3d-4	31468	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss-Kruger zone 4	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN/2.Gauss3d-4	31468	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss-Kruger zone 4	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN/3.Gauss3d-4	31468	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss-Kruger zone 4	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN.Gauss3d-5	31469	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss-Kruger zone 5	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN/2.Gauss3d-5	31469	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss-Kruger zone 5	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
DHDN/3.Gauss3d-5	31469	DHDN / 3-degree Gauss-Kruger zone 5	3: Transverse Mercator of Redfearns' Formulation	BESSEL	Meter
TX-SC	32040	NAD27 / Texas South Central	37: Double standard parallel variation of Lambert Conformal Conic	CLRK66	Foot
UTM84-1N	32601	WGS 84 / UTM zone 1N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-2N	32602	WGS 84 / UTM zone 2N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-3N	32603	WGS 84 / UTM zone 3N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-4N	32604	WGS 84 / UTM zone 4N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-5N	32605	WGS 84 / UTM zone 5N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-6N	32606	WGS 84 / UTM zone 6N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-7N	32607	WGS 84 / UTM zone 7N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-8N	32608	WGS 84 / UTM zone 8N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-9N	32609	WGS 84 / UTM zone 9N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-10N	32610	WGS 84 / UTM zone 10N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-11N	32611	WGS 84 / UTM zone 11N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-12N	32612	WGS 84 / UTM zone 12N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-13N	32613	WGS 84 / UTM zone 13N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-14N	32614	WGS 84 / UTM zone 14N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-15N	32615	WGS 84 / UTM zone 15N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-16N	32616	WGS 84 / UTM zone 16N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-17N	32617	WGS 84 / UTM zone 17N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-18N	32618	WGS 84 / UTM zone 18N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-19N	32619	WGS 84 / UTM zone 19N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-20N	32620	WGS 84 / UTM zone 20N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-21N	32621	WGS 84 / UTM zone 21N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-22N	32622	WGS 84 / UTM zone 22N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-23N	32623	WGS 84 / UTM zone 23N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-24N	32624	WGS 84 / UTM zone 24N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-25N	32625	WGS 84 / UTM zone 25N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-26N	32626	WGS 84 / UTM zone 26N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-27N	32627	WGS 84 / UTM zone 27N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-28N	32628	WGS 84 / UTM zone 28N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-29N	32629	WGS 84 / UTM zone 29N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-30N	32630	WGS 84 / UTM zone 30N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-31N	32631	WGS 84 / UTM zone 31N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-32N	32632	WGS 84 / UTM zone 32N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-33N	32633	WGS 84 / UTM zone 33N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-34N	32634	WGS 84 / UTM zone 34N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-35N	32635	WGS 84 / UTM zone 35N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-36N	32636	WGS 84 / UTM zone 36N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-37N	32637	WGS 84 / UTM zone 37N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-38N	32638	WGS 84 / UTM zone 38N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-39N	32639	WGS 84 / UTM zone 39N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-40N	32640	WGS 84 / UTM zone 40N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-41N	32641	WGS 84 / UTM zone 41N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-42N	32642	WGS 84 / UTM zone 42N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-43N	32643	WGS 84 / UTM zone 43N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-44N	32644	WGS 84 / UTM zone 44N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-45N	32645	WGS 84 / UTM zone 45N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-46N	32646	WGS 84 / UTM zone 46N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-47N	32647	WGS 84 / UTM zone 47N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-48N	32648	WGS 84 / UTM zone 48N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-49N	32649	WGS 84 / UTM zone 49N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-50N	32650	WGS 84 / UTM zone 50N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-51N	32651	WGS 84 / UTM zone 51N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-52N	32652	WGS 84 / UTM zone 52N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-53N	32653	WGS 84 / UTM zone 53N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-54N	32654	WGS 84 / UTM zone 54N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-55N	32655	WGS 84 / UTM zone 55N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-56N	32656	WGS 84 / UTM zone 56N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-57N	32657	WGS 84 / UTM zone 57N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-58N	32658	WGS 84 / UTM zone 58N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-59N	32659	WGS 84 / UTM zone 59N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-60N	32660	WGS 84 / UTM zone 60N	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-1S	32701	WGS 84 / UTM zone 1S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-2S	32702	WGS 84 / UTM zone 2S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-3S	32703	WGS 84 / UTM zone 3S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-4S	32704	WGS 84 / UTM zone 4S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-5S	32705	WGS 84 / UTM zone 5S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-6S	32706	WGS 84 / UTM zone 6S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-7S	32707	WGS 84 / UTM zone 7S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-8S	32708	WGS 84 / UTM zone 8S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-9S	32709	WGS 84 / UTM zone 9S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-10S	32710	WGS 84 / UTM zone 10S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-11S	32711	WGS 84 / UTM zone 11S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-12S	32712	WGS 84 / UTM zone 12S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-13S	32713	WGS 84 / UTM zone 13S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-14S	32714	WGS 84 / UTM zone 14S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-15S	32715	WGS 84 / UTM zone 15S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-16S	32716	WGS 84 / UTM zone 16S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-17S	32717	WGS 84 / UTM zone 17S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-18S	32718	WGS 84 / UTM zone 18S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-19S	32719	WGS 84 / UTM zone 19S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-20S	32720	WGS 84 / UTM zone 20S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-21S	32721	WGS 84 / UTM zone 21S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-22S	32722	WGS 84 / UTM zone 22S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-23S	32723	WGS 84 / UTM zone 23S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-24S	32724	WGS 84 / UTM zone 24S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-25S	32725	WGS 84 / UTM zone 25S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-26S	32726	WGS 84 / UTM zone 26S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-27S	32727	WGS 84 / UTM zone 27S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-28S	32728	WGS 84 / UTM zone 28S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-29S	32729	WGS 84 / UTM zone 29S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-30S	32730	WGS 84 / UTM zone 30S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-31S	32731	WGS 84 / UTM zone 31S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-32S	32732	WGS 84 / UTM zone 32S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-33S	32733	WGS 84 / UTM zone 33S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-34S	32734	WGS 84 / UTM zone 34S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-35S	32735	WGS 84 / UTM zone 35S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-36S	32736	WGS 84 / UTM zone 36S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-37S	32737	WGS 84 / UTM zone 37S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-38S	32738	WGS 84 / UTM zone 38S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-39S	32739	WGS 84 / UTM zone 39S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-40S	32740	WGS 84 / UTM zone 40S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-41S	32741	WGS 84 / UTM zone 41S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-42S	32742	WGS 84 / UTM zone 42S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-43S	32743	WGS 84 / UTM zone 43S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-44S	32744	WGS 84 / UTM zone 44S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-45S	32745	WGS 84 / UTM zone 45S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-46S	32746	WGS 84 / UTM zone 46S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-47S	32747	WGS 84 / UTM zone 47S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-48S	32748	WGS 84 / UTM zone 48S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-49S	32749	WGS 84 / UTM zone 49S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-50S	32750	WGS 84 / UTM zone 50S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-51S	32751	WGS 84 / UTM zone 51S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-52S	32752	WGS 84 / UTM zone 52S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-53S	32753	WGS 84 / UTM zone 53S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-54S	32754	WGS 84 / UTM zone 54S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-55S	32755	WGS 84 / UTM zone 55S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-56S	32756	WGS 84 / UTM zone 56S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-57S	32757	WGS 84 / UTM zone 57S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-58S	32758	WGS 84 / UTM zone 58S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-59S	32759	WGS 84 / UTM zone 59S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter
UTM84-60S	32760	WGS 84 / UTM zone 60S	44: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)	WGS84	Meter

OFFSET: added the possibility to offset faces of 3d solids as well as boundaries detected when SELECTIONMODES flag 4 is activated. To use this new feature, move the cursor so the desired face or boundary is highlighted and select the Offset tool from the Quad: the offset boundary is now displayed in dynamics, allowing to snap to a desired location or fill in an offset distance.
PDFADJUST: new command to adjust the fade, contrast, and monochrome settings of a PDF underlay.
PHOTOMETRIC LIGHT DEFINITIONS
- The LIGHTINGUNITS system variable specifies if generic or photometric lighting is used.
  - 0 - generic lighting. No lighting units are used.
  - 1 - photometric lighting using American units (foot-candles)
  - 2 - photometric lighting using International units (lux)
- Web lights with photometric light definitions (IES files) are supported. The photometric data should be of Type C and use IES format LM-63-02.
- When the photometric data file could not be found or could not be read, the web light will be interpreted as a point light.
- Photometric data is applied when using the RENDER command or when software-based rendering is performed - when using hardware-accelerated display web lights are interpreted as point lights.
- The new DEFAULTLIGHTING system variable specifies whether default lighting should be used always or only in case no other lights have been switched on. Default lighting consists of distant light that follows the view direction. When default lighting is used, it replaces all other light sources defined in the drawing. This setting can be specified per viewport, for ease of use it has been added to the Properties Bar.
PICKAUTO: added support for PICKAUTO == 2. With this, window selection is initiated even if one is hovering over an entity by clicking and dragging the mouse.
QUAD for entity CREATION: the new 'No Selection' group contains commands which are available when the Quad is called while no selection is active. This allows to use the Quad not only for modifying selected (or hovered) entities but also for creation of new entities. A new flag (4) was added to the QUADDISPLAY setting to allow to bring up the Quad by clicking the right mouse button.
QUICKSELECT: now supports BIM properties and properties of 3rd-party objects, with the exception of per-instance properties.
IMAGEATTACH/PDFATTACH:
- Allow non-uniform scaling: both X and Y scale are available now on the Properties Bar for Raster Images and Pdf-Underlays.
- When opting for non-uniform scaling during placement, width and height are defined simultaneously by picking a single point.
- A new option 'XY' was added for individual scaling along X/Y axes for IMAGEATTACH/PDFATTACH command-line versions.
- When attaching a multi-sheet pdf file, it is now possible to select the desired page instead of defaulting to the first page.
SHEET METAL:
- Junction features are now created with SMFLANGEEDGE, SMJUNCTIONCREATE and SMFLANGECONNECT commands and listed in the Mechanical Browser.
- Junction feature gap can be separately controlled for each feature; the default global value can be defined on the document level.
- SMJUNCTIONSWITCH: command allows changing symmetrical Junction feature to one with overlapping faces. Switching the type is also available in Mechanical Browser.
- smTargetCAM: new system variable which defines a target CAM system for processing sheet metal parts unfolded with BricsCAD using SMUNFOLD command.
SHORTCUTMENUDURATION: system variable that specifies how long the right mouse button must be pressed to display the shortcut menu. Default length is 250 milliseconds. This new option is especially useful when combined with the new QUADDISPLAY setting flag to bring up the Quad by clicking the right mouse button: a short right-click will bring up the Quad, while holding the button depressed slightly longer will bring up the Shortcut menu, thus offering the best of both worlds.
SNAP: added support for snapping to the corners of PDF frames.
VIEWPROJ: command creates additional projected views for drawing views previously created using the VIEWBASE command.
SR31944 - SNAP: added support for Nearest, Endpoint, Midpoint and Intersection snapping to the geometry of ADT objects (Architectural DeskTop).
SR48821, SR51933 - MENUBAR: system variable to control whether the menu bar is displayed.

Improvements

AUTOCOMPLETE: added support for mid-string search.
AUTOSNAP: flag 64 was added to enable/disable creation of a tracking lines from LASTPOINT.
BIM: significantly improved performance of inserting and modifying windows in larger models.
BOUNDARY DETECTION: the grid lines of table entities are no longer taken into account during boundary detection.
CONSTRAINT DIMENSIONS are now created on the hidden *ADSK_CONSTRAINTS layer.
DMEXTRUDE, DMREVOLVE: improved positioning of the dynamic dimensions when command is applied to detected boundaries.
DMROTATE, DMREVOLVE: improved support for snapping. Commands temporary set UCS to be aligned with rotation axis. After selecting the axis DMROTATE additionally prompts for start point of rotation.
DUCS: Donut, Helix, Light and Sketch entities can now be placed on the dynamic UCS plane.
DYNAMIC DIMENSIONS: locked dynamic dimension can now be unlocked again by deleting the current value using the Backspace or Delete key and pressing TAB.
FLATSHOT:
- Produces linear segments now instead of splines when the splines can be recognized as linear within a small tolerance.
- Collinear linear segments are joined into a single linear segment if they are projections of edges with the same visibility flags.
- When generating a separate .dwg (export to file) a zoom extents was added.
HUNSPELL: spelling library has been upgraded to version 1.3.3.
OFFSET
- dynamics were added showing a preview of the entity being offset
- offset distance can be specified using a dynamic dimension field
PARAMETRIC COMPONENTS: support for COPYCLIP/PASTECLIP scenarios has been added.
PATHS: the most recently used path for the INSERT, IMAGEATTACH, PDFATTACH and XATTACH dialogs is now stored separately per dialog instead of using one shared setting.
PDFATTACH: now INSUNITS are taken into account when attaching a PDF underlay.
RIBBON: added text truncation and auto adjust popup features for Layer combo, Linetype combo, Layer Filter combo, Font combo, Custom choice combo.
SHEET METAL:
- QUAD: set of commands for multiple faces of sheet metal body has been adjusted.
- SMBENDCREATE, SMRELIEFCREATE, SMFLANGEEDGE: numerous improvements were applied to the commands stability and the correctness of the geometry.
- SMBENDCREATE, SMJUNCTIONCREATE: commands now allow switching between Bend and Junction when applied to a face of a feature of another type.
- SMDELETE: behavior has been improved for cases when the sides of the junction being deleted have only partial overlapping.
- SMEXPORT2D: command respects FILEDIA system variable.
- SMFLANGECONNECT: support for flanges lying on two different solids has been added.
- SMFLANGEROTATE command automatically dissolves Junction features which connect the rotating flange with adjacent flanges.
- SMJUNCTIONCREATE: command accepts several flanges as input. Junction geometry can be created on a circular edge.
- SMUNFOLD: improved algorithm to determine the lengths of the bend lines in resulting annotations - they outfit the bend exactly to 0.25 of part thickness at the point they intersect the bend geometry. Improved keywords controlling saving in dwg(dxf) format with respect to 2d(3d) mode.
- SR47917 - the gap between adjacent flanges is automatically maintained when one of them is moved or when the thickness of the part is changed.
TOOLPALETTES: read-only palettes now have a lock icon on their tab.
VIEWBASE: improved Esc key handling, now it returns a level up in the prompt sequence instead of interrupting the whole command.
WORKSPACES: when a new default.cui is being installed, and one or more custom workspaces are detected in the current cui file, these can now be merged into the new cui file.
SR27846, SR28502, SR33494 - IMAGEFRAME: added support for 'Display but do not plot' option.
SR39335, SR45229, SR50659 - STACKED MTEXT: added Stack Properties dialog to set the properties of stacked MText. Previously, the values of TSTACKSIZE and TSTACKALIGN were ignored, now they are applied.
SR41214, SR61390 - OLE: the aspect ratio between height and width of OLE object is taken into account now when you pull a grip point.
Following properties were added to the Properties Bar for OLE Objects:
- Position X,Y,Z
- Width
- Height
- Scale width %
- Scale height %
- Lock Aspect
SR41427 - LAYER STATES: when restoring a layer state, it is possible that a drawing contains more layers than those found in that layer state. An option was added to turn off such layers, freeze them, or leave them untouched.
SR41918, SR46224 - RENDERED DISPLAY: improved display precision of entities located at huge coordinates when using one or more viewports with rendered visual style.
SR43048 - FILE DIALOG: previously we used a common shared file selection filter for XATTACH/INSERT/PDFATTACH and IMAGEATTACH. Now distinct filters are used per command.
SR45988, SR46773 - BATTMAN: added buttons for sorting attribute definitions.
SR49764 - IMAGE CACHE: the right-click context menu for raster images in the Image Explorer now offers the option to clear the cache for the selected image(s). Clearing the cache is required when the contents of an image were modified while the name of the image remains the same as before.
SR50899 - LAYERP: added LAYERP command to 'Settings->Layers' menu and to 'Layers' toolbar.
SR50900 - MLEADERS: added tools for MLEADEREDIT, AIMLEADEREDITADD and AIMLEADEREDITREMOVE to the 'Dimension' menu and toolbar.
SR51858 - 3DROTATE: added 'Copy' option.
SR51956 - CUSTOMIZE (CUI) DIALOG: now the dialog will reopen on the most recently used tab.
SR61998 - LAYOUT: improved performance when deleting layouts from drawings containing many layouts.

Fixes

BIM: copies of a parametric window lost their link to the wall entity in case the window definition was changed.
BIM: it was not possible to move a window along the wall by moving its grip point.
BIMINSERT: command caused layers from external file without window definition to appear in Layer list of the active document.
BMINSERT, BMHARDWARE: dynamic input was ignored during insertion.
DISPLAY: annotative blocks were displayed at an incorrect location in viewports with a rotated ucs.
PARAMETRIC COMPONENTS:
- Copies of a component shared the changed parameters.
- Placing another variable as a 3d constraint parameter was handled incorrectly in the drawings where the component was inserted.
- Undoing a change of a parameter value did not roll back the changes of components depending on that parameter.
PERSPECTIVE MODE: the dynamic display of the height during creation of BOX, WEDGE, PYRAMID, CONE and CYLINDER entities did not correctly follow the mouse location in perspective mode.
SELECTION: holding Ctrl-key down now highlights faces and edges irrespective of the value of SELECTIONMODES.
SHEET METAL:
- Diagnostics of the bend feature was invalid in case it had internal holes.
- Erasing a sheet metal solid in another dwg editor caused BricsCAD to crash on next opening of the file.
- Sheet metal model became invalid in case 3d solid was automatically separated as a result of an operation.
VIEWDETAIL: default absolute and relative scales were incorrect.
SR24858, SR33444, SR38788 - PASTE: when working with multiple instances of Bricscad, 'Paste as Block' sometimes inserted older clipboard data instead of the most recent.
SR29456 - VPOINT: fixed to not set camera's direction and target to extremely large values.
SR40106 - IMAGATTACH: once a raster image with embedded geo-reference data had been inserted in a drawing, the 'Attach Raster Image' dialog undesirably retained the insertion coordinates and scale during subsequent use of the dialog. To allow overriding of embedded geo-reference data by placing an external geo-reference file next to the image file, the behavior has been changed so that embedded geo data no longer takes precedence over external geo data: if an external geo data file exists, it will take precedence over the embedded geo data.
SR41798 - DISPLAY: 3d paperspace viewports were not displayed opaque.
SR42358 - SVG EXPORT: SVG export of a viewport with "legacy hidden" shadeplot produced raster output instead of vectorial.
SR43420 - SNAP: corrected processing of TK option, when entered points lie on coincident snap tracks.
SR43433, SR46765 - ANNOTATIVE DIMENSIONS: extension lines of annotative dimensions didn't scale according to the annotation scale.
SR43603 - MULTILINE ATTRIBUTES: multiline attributes of some blocks in a user provided drawing had an incorrect height and style.
SR43680 - SNAP: direct distance entry on the command line during parallel snap was not working.
SR44988 - DYNAMIC DIMENSIONS: when entering non-numerical characters in the dynamic input field, they were properly sent to the command line, but when entering coordinate filters like ".x",".y" or ".z", only the decimal dot "." was shown on the command line, the subsequent character was lost.
SR45147 - ANNOTATIVE FILLS: annotative gradient and solid fills were always displayed, ignoring the ANNOALLVISIBLE setting.
SR45705, SR50274 - FLATSHOT/VIEWBASE: the FLATSHOT and VIEWBASE commands did not correctly generate visible tangential edges when using the Tangent Edges option.
SR45768 - PURGE: unreferenced xrefs were not purged correctly in a user provided drawing.
SR46534 - PRINT: PDF underlay failed to print on large page formats (A1, A0).
SR46655 - IMAGE SELECTION: when using a rendered display mode, raster images are now selected by their frame, instead of being selected by clicking anywhere in the image surface.
SR46798 - ATTSYNC: implemented reordering of attributes for INSERTs.
SR47017, SR48733, SR51533 - LAYOUT: when copying a layout the viewport overrides were not taken into account.
SR47064 - SNAP: fixed calculation of translation vector after entering a distance at the prompt for the 2nd point in MOVE/COPY commands, when ORTHOMODE=ON, DYNMODE=0 and some snap point is selected.
SR47281 - MTEXT: an exception got thrown when editing MText containing JUSTIFIED indents.
SR47370 - SCALING: block content in mleaders did not get scaled properly.
SR48026 - PRINT: lines in an xclipped block were not correctly printed if they were coincident with one or more line segments of the clipping polygon.
SR48096, SR48516 - DIMENSIONS: radial dimensions had an extra large extended arc when the arc normal and the ucs Z-axis had opposite directions.
SR48198 - MATCHPROP: corrected MATCHPROP command to copy viewport overrides.
SR48496 - TOOLPALETTES: were not loaded from a shared network with read-only rights.
SR49135 - TANGENT SNAP: the rubber band line disappeared when using deferred tangent snapping.
SR49264 - BIM: Some parameters got set to a value of MAX_DOUBLE. This is fixed.
SR49264 - BIM: Mirroring an inserted window or door is now supported.
SR49264 - BIM: After copying an inserted window, the parameter value of one of the copies now no longer overwrites the other copies.
SR49721 - ASSEMBLY DESIGN: numerous messages appeared stating that external blocks have been purged.
SR49840, SR50780 - LOCALIZATION: titles of the columns of the table produced by BMBOM command were not translated.
SR49929 - POLYSOLID: fixed wrong order of polysolid segments.
SR50262 - PDF EXPORT: export to PDF of text containing the character spacing control code \T did not work properly.
SR50349 - DDE: double-click to open a drawing could fail due to dde-related registry keys. Given that dde is no longer actively supported, following keys will no longer be created at BricsCAD startup:
- [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\BricscadApp.AcadDocument\shell\open\command] @="C:\\PROGRA~1\\Bricsys\\BRICSC~1\\bricscad.exe /dde"
- [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\BricscadApp.AcadDocument\shell\open\ddeexec] @="[open(\"%1\")]"
- [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\BricscadApp.AcadDocument\shell\print\command] @="C:\\PROGRA~1\\Bricsys\\BRICSC~1\\bricscad.exe /ddenoshow"
- [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\BricscadApp.AcadDocument\shell\print\ddeexec] @="[print(\"%1\")]"
- [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\BricscadApp.AcadDocument\shell\printto\command] @="C:\\PROGRA~1\\Bricsys\\BRICSC~1\\bricscad.exe /ddenoshow"
- [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\BricscadApp.AcadDocument\shell\printto\ddeexec] @="[printto(\"%1\",\"%2\",\"%3\",\"%4\")]"
SR50476, SR50862 - HATCH: associative hatches in dynamic blocks were not updated if they were involved in the STRETCH action.
SR50639 - BIMINSERT: command caused unloaded external references to reload.
SR50649, SR50711 - WINDOW SELECTION: window inclusive selection during commands like Erase an Move should not include partially selected solids. V15 regression.
SR50715 - ASSEMBLY DESIGN: standard parts copied from another document were not always displayed as components in the Mechanical Browser.
SR50760, SR51377 - PLACESBAR: the File dialog did not show the correct PlacesBar icons depending on user access rights.
SR50947 - LAYER EXPLORER: when creating a new layer while the currently selected layer was an xref layer, the new layer was considered an xref layer as well.
SR50476, SR50862 - DYNAMIC BLOCKS: associative hatches in dynamic blocks failed to update.
SR51025 - RIBBON: the minimum width allowed for combo boxes has been reduced from 240 to 50 pixels.
SR51086 - DISPLAY: filled dimension arrows were displayed as non-filled after rotating the view.
SR51237 - MTEXT: Chinese mtexts were incorrectly encoded when loading drawings of older formats (pre R21 - DWG 2007).
SR51404 - FIND AND REPLACE dialog: 'Zoom To' option worked unsatisfactory in certain UCS contexts.
SR51440 - ASSOCIATIVE DIMENSIONS: when an entity with related associative dimension was edited, e.g. by the MOVE command, updating the associative dimension could cause an internal exception, which afterwards caused other commands to fail (regression since V15).
SR51460 - SMFLANGEEDGE: it was impossible to create a second flange on an existing edge flange. Enabled creating of a flange adjacent to existing Corner Relief feature.
SR51538 - BMDISSOLVE: command unexpectedly changed positions of sub-components. Rigid sets of a sub-component dissolved from Mechanical Browser became invalid.
SR51584, SR51952 - DCL DECIMAL SEPARATOR: the dcl engine ignored the LC_NUMERIC locale (Control Panel > Region and Language > Formats> Numbers).
SR51593 - MATERIALS BROWSER: undo didn't not work after dragging and dropping a material on an entity, either from the 'Drawing Materials' grid or from the 'Library Materials' grid.
SR51630 - TRIM: trimming periodic entities, like e.g. circles, failed when using multiple cutting edges.
SR51721 - DOCUMENT TABS: ampersands in file names were not displayed.
SR51736 - WORKSPACES: on startup with /B option (running a script), WSCURRENT was not set to default.
SR51864 - CUI: removed diesel expression from osnap options TK, TT, FROM, m2p in contextmenu - they undesirably became disabled while running Lisp.
SR51884 - PERFORMANCE: there was noticeable performance drop for commands adding a bulk of entities (regression introduced in V15).
SR51957 - RIBBON: Button Style "Large with text(horizontal)" was not displayed correctly.
SR51977 - RIBBON: 'Behavior' control for Split Button was not working correctly.
SR61036 - XREF: the application was hanging when using doubleclick edit on an invalid xref (e.g. path or file not found).
SR61263 - PROPERTIES BAR: point and vector properties were no longer expanded automatically (V15 regression)
SR61290 - MULTILINE ATTRIBUTES: control codes in multiline attributes were lost after a block was moved or transformed in any way.
SR61298 - PRINT: fixed wrong offset of print output in Layout + Inches mode.
SR61373 - REFEDIT: extended warning message in case REFEDIT refuses to edit a dynamic block.
SR61507 - TABLE: a table in a user provided drawing was not properly displayed.
SR61529 - TOOLPALETTES: after using dimension commands from a toolpalette, DIMENSION related system variables could undesirably have been modified.
SR61558 - CUSTOMIZE: the 'Workspace' control was missing in the 'Add Control' dialog on the 'Toolbars' tab of the Customize dialog. (this dialog is displayed when right-clicking on a toolbar and choosing 'Append control' in the context menu).
SR61604 - POLYLINES: in polylines containing arc and line segments, using a constant width, the line segment following an arc segment was incorrectly drawn, ignoring the width.
SR61764 - SNAP: fixed intersection snapping on segments of the same polyline (regression since V15.1.14).
SR61833 - SOLPROF: command did not work in translated versions - "line type not defined" error.
SR61689 (reported on V15.2.01 beta) - BIM: IFC import: an exception occurred while importing the description of a layer, which caused the import process to be aborted.
SR61956 - BIM: INSUNITS is now correctly written in IFC during IFC export. Similarly, IFC import scales geometry to INSUNITS according to the unit stored in the IFC file
SR62005 - ALIGN: alignment of annotative attributes was not correct after inserting the block in a user-provided drawing.
SR62043 - PURGE: empty attribute definitions (default value string (DXF1) is "") were erased by PURGE/ALL or PURGE/EMPTY TEXT ENTITIES - they should not be erased.

Applications

LISP: performance improvement - garbage collection now uses multi-threading to cleanup unused memory.
LISP: (acet-sys-control-down) and (acet-sys-shift-down) did not correctly report the key state under high CPU load.
LISP: implemented ExpressTools API functions (acet-ms-to-ps [distance] [viewport]) and (acet-ps-to-ms [distance] [viewport]).
SR22776, SR61009 - BRX/TX: corrected missing call to excludeFromOsnapCalculation() for registered AcEdInputPointMonitor / OdEdInputPointMonitor handlers.
SR43014 - LISP:
- improved (vla-update) to ensure updated entity graphics
- added 2 more BricsCAD-specific functions to create temporary graphics:
  - (grfill ptlist color [highlight]) fills the polygon specified by given point list ptlist with given color [1...255], optionally highlights the filled area with highlight=1
  - (grarc ptCenter radius startAng endAng color [highlight]) draws an arc or circle specified by its center point, start angle and end angle, with given color [1...255], optionally highlights the arc/circle with highlight=1
SR49013 - MENU: toolbar positions got lost after a menu had been unloaded and reloaded.
SR49205 - BHATCH, BOUNDARY and FIND commands were modified to support working with custom entities.
SR49544 - Lisp/SDS/BRX : (entmod) did not preserve persistent reactors like associativity and other entity-to-entity relations.
SR51098, SR51587 - MENU: the position index of menu popups (menu columns) was incorrect when multiple menu files were loaded by application code.
SR51205 - MENU: when using MENULOAD or CUILOAD with FILEDIA = 0 the menu popups (menu columns) were not automatically shown.
SR61065 - SDS/BRX: corrected return status of sds_invoke/acedInvoke - it only returns RTERROR, if the function handler returned RSERR, for any other result status it returns RTNORM.
SR51497 - Lisp/SDS/BRX : fixed a problem with string input from context/shortcut menu - if the input string originates from the menu and when it is a menu command string, it should be handled like a transparent command, and not passed to Lisp/SDS/BRX; example : "$p0=*" issued from context handler, to show a context menu.
SR51617 - BRX: AcDbLayout::copyFrom() led to a crash when picking a newly created layout tab whose properties were copied from a template.
SR51635 - LISP, BRX: when non-current drawing was closed by using the [X] icon of the Document Tab, registered application functions + commands could get lost for the active drawing.
SR51641, SR51866 - SDS/BRX: when calling sds_putsym/acedPutSym, when a new document was opened/created, from Lisp code, the Lisp symbol was not placed into the newly opened document's Lisp space, but in the current one.
SR51753 - Crash: after sendStringToExecute, when Quad menu is active, and the PickFirst selectionset contained erased entities, a crash occurred.
SR60997 - LISP: fixed implementation of (vla-exportprofile) function.
SR61030 - LISP: (vla-GetObjectIdString) function was missing, now implemented, (vla-AddMText) has been improved to correctly support field expressions in MText string.
SR61056, SR61702, SR61721 - DCL: on loading a dcl dialog, BricsCAD crashed with a buffer overflow exception, if the LC_ALL system locale value happened to be longer than 128 characters. In a recent fix for inconsistent locale settings, the locale was stored in a fixed size of 128 characters. It was improperly assumed that languages were referred to by 5 character language codes like en_US, de_DE, ja_JP. However, the locale value holds descriptive names, causing 128 characters to be too short in some cases. This has been fixed by using a dynamically sized string instead.
SR61123, SR61124 - COM: IAcadTable functions which return a color object triggered a memory access violation.
SR61136 - COM: IAcadMLeader::SetLeaderLineVertices() triggered an exception if the MLeader did not use text content but e.g. block content instead.
SR61232 - LISP: fixed a problem in ExpressTools Lisp API, which caused amongst others BCOUNT command to fail.
SR61401 - LISP: improved the representation of floating point numbers at command line, i.e. when returned as result of a Lisp expression. Example: (/ 421177 2.0) => 210589.0 has been improved to return correct representation 210588.5
SR61193 - COM: the overall scale for MLeader objects could not be set via COM.
SR61315 - BRX: acedGrDraw no longer worked in AcEdInputPointMonitor::monitorInput. Regression since V15.1.14
SR61474 - DYNAMIC BLOCKS: fixed an infinite recursion with erased DynamicBlock references in particular application context.
SR61528 - LISP: when switching to another drawing, while SDI=1, and later switching back to the previous drawing, all Lisp definitions of the previous drawing were lost.
SR61713 - BRX: undo recording was disabled for some cases in which it should not have been disabled.
SR61717 - EXPLODE: reworked EXPLODE command to support any kind of custom entities.
SR61722 - BRX/TX: after loading BRX/TX module with custom entities, when proxy entities were resurrected to normal custom entities, and user did run _U (undo) up to "before" loading of the applications, BricsCAD became unstable, as the custom entities were undone to proxies, which was incorrect.
SR61889 - COM: IAcadToolbar::Item() function failed to retrieve the specified IAcadToolbarItem.
SR62022 - LISP: fixed a problem with (round 0.n) and (vle-round 0.n).

Communicator

Added support for import of the JT format version 8 and 9.
Fixed several import failures, which were caused by a too strict processing of error codes issued by the underlying InterOp libraries.
For any remaining import or export failure, a more detailed error message is given on the command line.
Apply correct scaling for import and export, based on unit information available in the source file, and related BricsCAD settings (INSUNITS, INSUNITSDEFSOURCE, INSUNITSDEFTARGET).
Added a progress bar for import and export.
After an import operation, if the current drawing has not been named yet (DWGTITLED = 0), the name is set according to the imported filename.

Version 15.1.23

11/02/2015

Fixes

SR51543 - MENUS: when a main cui file contains a WorkspaceRoot but no workspaces in there, this caused a crash on startup
SR51523, SR51584, SR51668, SR51672, SR51685, SR51771, SR51657, SR51693, SR51583, SR51572, SR51771, SR51772, SR51773, SR51743, SR51751 - DCL LOCALE: A fix for cyrillic characters (for SR49003) caused the dcl engine to change the user locale (Regional settings/Format).

Version 15.1.22

28/01/2015

Improvements

OFFSET: improved algorithm leads to better performance.
POLYGON command now supports the use of a dynamic UCS.
SR34297, SR34298, SR51026 - SVG: added support for export of hyperlinks.
SR42352 - ANNOTATION SCALE: the Annotation Scale tab on the Status Bar was moved to the left, in between the Model/Paper tab and the Tablet tab.

Fixes

SMUNFOLD: command was unstable on imported 3d solid models containing incorrect vertices.
REFEDIT: command failed on drawings containing 3d constraints or sheet metal features.
SR33763, SR47862 - OLEFRAME: the value of the OLEFRAME system variable was not correctly applied nor could it be modified.
SR37326, SR37600, SR50837 - OPEN: user-provided drawings containing faces with zero normals failed to open. Now they can be opened, or repaired using AUDIT.
SR40891 - CUSTOMIZE DIALOG : when an item is dropped on a submenu or flyout, it is now added as a child, instead of being inserted next to it.
SR41974, SR47042, SR48525 - PDF: after erasing an attached PDF, an uncaught exception occurred while opening the PDF Underlays tab of the Drawing Explorer.
SR42235 - DISPLAY: stray images of the Ucs icon were left behind while using the RTPAN command.
SR42957 - PUBLISH: when publishing sheetsets in the background, fields with sheet properties were not correctly updated.
SR45286 - QSELECT: Quick Select by 'Mline style' was not supported.
SR46870 - SHEET SETS Explorer: an unhandled exception occurred when clicking in the 'Include for Publish' check box while editing the 'Number' or 'Title' field.
SR47239 - ANNOTATION SCALE: the Annotation Scale tab on the Status Bar did not update automatically on changing spaces.
SR47717 - MULTILEADER: when changing the style of a multileader, its text size did not get changed according to the new style.
SR48843 - OLE: BricsCAD document OLE objects were not printed in MS Word.
SR48884, SR51106 - MTEXT: changed height of partial text was not shown in the combo box (only the default height value was).
SR49367 - LEADERS: annotative leaders were not displayed after a drawing was saved.
SR50171 - SMUNFOLD: dimensions could be placed incorrectly in specific cases.
SR50280 - ANGLE: the ANGBASE and ANGDIR variables were ignored for fields displaying an angle value.
SR50405 - TOOLBARS: icons in nested flyout toolbars were no longer accessible since tear-off feature was introduced.
SR50605, SR50650 - PURGE: default objects should not be purged.
SR50610 - LOCALIZATION: VIEWEXPORT and VIEWUPATE global command options were not accepted in translated BricsCAD versions.
SR50651 - CRASH: a user-provided drawing containing an invalid constraint definition caused BricsCAD to crash.
SR50698 - VIEWSECTION: moving a section line created with VIEWSECTION caused BricsCAD to crash.
SR50719 - RTROT: when pressing the close button on the Document Tab, while the RTROT command is running, a runtime error occurred.
SR50756 - OLE: undesired scaling of OLE object edit has been fixed.
SR51035 - CUSTOMIZE DIALOG: when a tool from the main cui was dropped into a partial cui section (menu, toolbar, ribbon...) and then a second tool was dropped on top of that first one, the new item's group was not updated correctly, resulting in an error message "Tool not found in MacroGroup".
SR51038 - LINETYPES: Xref-dependent complex linetypes were loaded without shapes and text characters.

Applications

LISP: (vl-sort) and (vl-sort-i) functions have been made fully compatible. Performance was improved as well.
SR25294 - SDS: sds_setfunhelp() now assumes .chm help files, if filename extension is not specified for the help file.
SR48938 - .NET: a NullReferenceException got thrown when calling LayerStateManager.SaveLayerState
SR49003 - CYRILLIC DCL : Cyrillic characters (using codepage 1251) were not properly displayed in dcl on a partially Russian system. The dcl engine did not obey the system locale (regional settings, "Language for non-Unicode programs"), instead it obeyed the user locale (regional settings, "Format").
SR50557, SR50686, SR50990 - WORKSPACES: when running cuiload/menuload in unattended mode, ribbons/toolbars were not added to workspaces.
SR50688 - SDS/BRX: improved compatibility for acedEvaluateLisp() - the input Lisp string can start with space(s) or comments as well.
SR50855 - UCS: support for custom entities was added to UCS command.
SR51057 - LISP : (ver) function now reports version 7.0 (was version 6.0 in BricsCAD V14).

Version 15.1.20

09/01/2015

Fixes

SR26228, SR40828 - LAYERS: it was possible to change the layer of an entity to a layer belonging to an xref. This is incorrect behaviour, and has now been disabled.
SR45471, SR46713 - CHSPACE: the command CHSPACE failed when using it with annotative entities.
SR47176, SR47243 - STRETCH: adjusted the STRETCH command for aligned and rotated dimensions, so that they do not break a dimension line (i.e. to not introduce a gap in the dimension line) and avoid a jumping of the text.
SR47234, SR47384 - MLEADERS: when creating an annotative MLEADER in Paper space, the scale of all MLEADERS using the same style was updated (undesirably).
SR48195 - ANNOTATIVE MTEXT: insertion point and width of annotative mtext was interpreted differently by Teigha library compared to AutoCAD.
SR49393 - PLOT: missing ACAD_PLOTSETTINGS dictionary was not automatically created on drawing load - fixed the same problem with ACAD_PLOTSTYLENAME dictionary.
SR49669, SR50562 - RIBBON SPLIT BUTTONS: the behaviour of "Split with recent" and "Split with recent (static text)" has been swapped.
SR49940 - MENU ITEMS: disabled menu items appeared as enabled.
SR50406 - MTEXT EXTERNAL EDITOR: editing MTEXT with Japanese locale ANSI_932 (but possibly others as well) did not work correctly when using an external editor.
SR50529 - GRIP POINTS: grip points were not displayed for attributes if their layer is OFF.
SR50640 - TABLE: an unexpected error occured when deleting more than half of a table's rows, starting at the top of the table.
SR50664 - LOCALIZATION: the string "Select face: " for the command SelectAlignedFaces was not translatable.

Applications

SR50402 - TX/BRX: OdDbPolyline::getPointAtParam() did not verify against negative parameter.
SR50467 - TX/BRX: OdDbFace::subWorldDraw() should call geometry() not rawGeometry()
SR50477 - CUSTOM POLYLINES: PEDIT option "Edit Vertex" did not support custom polylines - editing vertices resulted in native polyline entities, rather than preserving the custom entity polyline.

Version 15.1.17

19/12/2014

Improvements

DRAWING EXPLORER: newly created text styles now inherit the properties from the currently selected text style.
DYNAMIC UCS: improved choice of X-axis direction.

Fixes

BENDING TABLES: it was impossible to specify a global die width taken from the bend table.
SMUNFOLD: 210, 220 and 230 DXF-codes are avoided now for 2D geometry in the OXY plane, thus simplifying the DXF output for unfolded sheet metal geometry.
SR42957 - FIELDS: when publishing a sheet set, sheet property fields took their values from the drawing that was active when starting the publishing, instead of using the values pertaining to the drawing in which they are contained. NOTE: this has been corrected for publishing 'in foreground', not yet 'in background'.
SR45111, SR49950 - TOOLPALETTES: Tool Palette Tabs were empty on first run.
SR47432 - HATCH: separate hatches (created with HPSEPARATE = On) often failed to be associative.
SR48941 - AUDIT: duplicate names in symbol tables that were created by XREF loading are now reported in recover/audit, instead of just silently fixed upon loading.
SR49572 - PRINT: an 'unexpected error' message occurred when using a pc3 file that refers to an unavailable printer. Instead the message now informs about the missing printer.
SR49619 - CUSTOMIZE DIALOG: when using drag-and-drop to reorder newly added toolbar controls, they were undesirably duplicated.
SR49697 - PDF EXPORT: exported files could trigger error messages upon opening in Acrobat Reader when containing values, e.g. coordinates, which exceed the 32-bit signed integer range (-2^31..2^31-1).
SR49817 - LINETYPES: Xref-dependent linetypes were not loaded into the host drawing. Regression since Teigha 4.0 update.
SR49893, SR50135 - WORKSPACES: upon opening of the Customize dialog, if WSAUTOSAVE is On, toolbar positions are now saved to the CUI file to reflect the current situation in the active workspace. On close, if anything has changed in the active workspace, the CUI file is saved again and toolbars will be reloaded.
SR49946 - TABLES: clearing of cell overrides failed to clear Text Height and Alignment, making it impossible to change Height or Alignment. It also was not possible to set cell text justification in certain conditions.
SR50287 - PERFORMANCE: excess CPU usage while Tips widget was activated has been fixed.
SR50316 - DYNAMIC BLOCKS: a crash occurred when selecting a detached dynamic block.
SR50331 - RENDER: downloaded RedWay material definitions are read-only, but in the Material Explorer the impression was given that properties could be modified. Now the unmodifiable properties are disabled.
SR50333 - RENDER: when rendering 'to window' from the render dialog, if a valid file name was filled in for the "Render to file" option, the output was also (undesirably) written to that file.
SR50335 - RENDER: for certain RedWay materials, e.g. Aluminium, generation of the Preview in the Drawing Explorer had become very slow since V15.1.14.
SR50369 - SMFLANGEEDGE: crashed when executed on a very short flange.

Applications

LISP: performance was further improved for some of the (acet-xxx) ExpressTools API functions.
SR40910, SR49571 - CONTEXT MENU: a crash or endless loop could occur when modifying the context menu using OdEdCommandContext.
SR49269 - COM: Move() method was not ignored for clipped paperspace viewports.
SR49738 - BRX: overridden OnClosing() method of DockingWindow was not called.
SR49763 - Lisp/SDS/BRX: sequence of entities contained in selectionsets created by ssGet("X") or ssGet("A") was opposite (reversed) when created using Lisp compared to sets created using SDS/BRX. The entity sequence now is uniform regardless the API being used. Please note that applications should avoid to depend on this sequence.
SR50089 - BRX: following corrections were applied to the Sample application:
- Warning level 3 for Release build.
- no PDB generation for client Release build
- /MP flag was missing in 1 build configuration
SR49581, SR49939 - IMAGES: suppressed warning "iCCP:cHRM chunk does not match sRGB" that appeared when loading certain corrupt image files, e.g. icons. The warnings now only appear when QAFLAGS flag 256 has been set.
SR50196 - CUI: on partial cui load, default positions of floating toolbars were not written to all workspaces.
SR50360 - Lisp, COM: (vla-HitTest) triggered a runtime error.
SR50389 - DCL: if the definition did not contain an "edit_width" specification, edit boxes were too narrow (regression since V15.1.14).
SR50402 - VLAX - BRX : added a guard for negative parameters at OdDbPolyline::getPointAtParam()

Version 15.1.16

05/12/2014

Fixes

Following fixes were announced in V15.1.14, but they were not included in the release:
SR49264 - BIM: don't create opening if window's subtractor is not found or if it does not have a planar face on the XY plane.
SR49793 - SNAP: entity snap cycling using the TAB key was broken. Regression introduced in V15.

Version 15.1.14

05/12/2014

Improvements

DYNAMIC DIMENSIONS
- Only the dimension that currently has the focus is drawn in a box, boxes are no longer displayed for the other dynamic dimensions to make their display less intrusive/distracting.
- Added degree symbol for angular dimensions to distinguish them from distance dimensions.
- Dynamic dimensions which are purely informative and cannot be modified are displayed using a smaller, boldface font type.
- Improved positioning of dimensions when working near the edge of a view.
DYNAMIC UCS
- The dynamic UCS is oriented according to the edge by which the cursor 'entered' the hovered face, thus providing users a way to manipulate the orientation of the DUCS. The origin of the DUCS is set to the start point of this edge and the X-axis is chosen codirectional to the tangent at the start point of the edge.
- SR49533: improved choice of dynamic ucs orientation for planar faces with a single edge loop, like e.g. circular faces.
HIGHLIGHT: made highlighted faces easier to spot during use of the PUSHPULL and BIMDRAG commands.
LINE THICKNESS: improved line thickness display when using an antialiasscreen value of 2 or higher.
RENDER MATERIAL LIBRARY:
- Added support for user-defined render material definitions, besides the predefined downloadable Redway high-resolution material definitions. To copy a user-defined material definition from a drawing to the library, right-click it in the Drawing Materials list of the Render Materials Browser and choose the "Add material to Library" option from the menu. A material preview is generated and the material definition is added to the Library Materials list.
- Drag-and-drop now also is supported for the Library Materials list. If a not-yet-downloaded Redway material is dragged onto a material, the download operation is started and a message is displayed. On the other hand, if the dragged material is already available in the library, the definition is added to the current drawing and the material is assigned to the entity onto which it has been dropped.
- Improved scroll speed through material list with thumbnail previews.
- Selecteded item is now scrolled into view when sorting by column.
- Added the possibility to delete material definitions from the library.
RENDER ENGINE: the RedSDK render engine has been upgraded to V3.5
RIBBON: the width of ribbon controls has become user-definable.
SUBTRACT: the blank solids from which tool solids are subtracted, used to become united after the subtract operation, similar to e.g. AutoCAD behavior. This was found inconvenient so from now on blanks will no longer become united after a subtract operation.
SR42522, SR44438, SR44693, SR46504 - LAYER Explorer: newly created layers now inherit the properties from the currently selected layer.
SR45067, SR48480 - SNAP: implemented TANGENT snap for xlines and rays to construct xline/ray tangent to one or two circles.
SR49697 - PDF EXPORT: strongly improved performance of exporting/publishing hatch entities with a solid pattern type.

Fixes

DMEXTRUDE: command produced nothing when called for a separate profile with Unite option.
FIELDS: not all fields were updated upon a Save, Open or Etransmit operation.
SR36203 - FIELDS: fields were updated for print/preview but undesirably rolled back afterwards.
SR40688, SR43480 - ATTRIBUTES: grip points of locked attributes were displayed - they should not be.
SR42678 - ATTRIBUTES: grip points were not displayed for attributes when the layer of the parent insert was OFF - they should be.
SR44000, SR49764 - IMAGE CACHE: after renaming image files on disk, the old image content remained displayed. The up-to-date check of the cache was extended to also check the file size, besides the file modification date.
SR47294 - BMBOM: formatting of the table was lost on reopening the document.
SR48032, SR49306, SR49366, SR49600, SR49685 - SNAP: due to a timing issue a crash could occur during snapping and tracking.
SR48919, SR49210, SR49485 - SAVE/SAVEAS: on Windows 8.1 and Windows 2008 Server BricsCAD could not create files in certain folders despite having sufficient folder access rights.
SR49107 - DELETETOOL: the DELETETOOL setting was missing in the Settings dialog.
SR49264 - BIM: don't create opening if window's subtractor is not found or if it does not have a planar face on the XY plane.
SR49309 - ANNOTATION SCALES: a crash occurred while retrieving the current annotation scale in the drawing.
SR49367 - ANNOTATIVE LEADERS: after saving a drawing, annotative leaders were no longer displayed. Regression introduced in V15.
SR49517 - BIMDRAG: when ORTHO mode is on the behavior was incorrect.
SR49617 - PARAMETRIC COMPONENTS: incorrect parameters were displayed in Mechanical Browser for a new component created by the BMFORM command.
SR49678 - WORKSPACES:
- When providing empty input for the SaveAs option, the current name will be used.
- Toolbar and controlbar positions are now also saved even if WSAUTOSAVE is Off.
- Delete option: if it's the current workspace being deleted, WSCURRENT will be set to the default workspace (instead of empty)
SR49679 - WORKSPACES: dockable controlbar positions are now saved/restored in CUI workspace.
SR49681 - PUBLISH: when publishing to a multi-sheet PDF file, layouts could become duplicated while others went missing. Regression introduced in V15.
SR49686 - DIMORDINATE: when creating an ordinate dimension in paper space and snapping to an entity in a model space view, the UCS of this view was not taken into account. Regression introduced in V15.
SR49720 - DUCS: choice of dynamic UCS on a planar 3d solid face did not take the block transformation into account for 3d solids contained in block inserts.
SR49754 - PROPERTIES BAR: when many entities were selected performance was poor. Regression introduced in V15.
SR49765 - MLEADER: double-click action could not be controlled for MLEADER entities.
SR49793 - SNAP: entity snap cycling using the TAB key was broken. Regression introduced in V15.

Applications

SR17585 - EXTRUDE: when extruding curves with ECS (0,0,-1) while the actual coordinate system is WCS (0,0,1) the WCS orientation did not get priority, that is, the extrusion occurred in the -Z direction. This has been corrected.
SR26675, SR40749 - LISP/SDS/BRX : ssget(":E", point) selected only 1 entity instead of all entities within aperture. Interactive selection by ssget(":E") when user specifies the pick point, behaved correctly.
SR46862 - NOMUTT: setting NOMUTT=1 did not suppress output of command prompts.
SR47059 - MENUS: the CUILOAD command did not allow to load a partial menu as hidden.
SR47990 - DCL: corrections were applied for TAB and CURSOR key navigation for DCL radio buttons.
SR48695, SR49642 - MENUS: when a menu file (mnu or cui) was loaded via lisp on startup (lisp file loaded in on_doc_load.lsp), a redundant call to load the menus from the current workspace resulted in a wrong menubar.
SR49711 - DCL: adjusted editbox width to better fit the number of characters specified by the "edit_width" value.
SR49712 - DCL: missing "focus rectangle" on DCL dialogs has been fixed.

Version 15.1.11

18/11/2014

New

MTEXT EDITOR: added Paragraph Line Spacing button and dialog.
PdfImageAntiAlias: new setting to control whether anti-aliasing is applied to images that require upscaling during PDF export.
SNAP: added support for extension snapping to edges of 3D solids.

Improvements

DMPUSHPULL: performance was improved for 3d solids containing a lot of faces parallel to the face being pulled.
DYNAMIC DIMENSIONS
- Improved algoritm to avoid overlapping, and reduce jumping, of dynamic dimension text boxes.
- Keep angular dimensions in neighborhood of the centre of the angle instead of moving all over the screen.
WORKSPACES: on workspace switch and on application exit, when WSAUTOSAVE is on, the controlbar states/positions are now saved to the current workspace section of the CUI file. Also on workspace switch, the controlbars (palettes) settings of the activated workspace are now loaded from CUI. This allows to properly store/restore the Ribbon and other controls when switching between workspaces. Flashing of controlbars during workspace switches has been further reduced.
SR46110 - PREVIEW: when rendered viewports were involved, calculating a print preview was very slow. By restricting the resolution of the preview image to the current screen resolution, preview calculation time was reduced from minutes to seconds.
SR48809 - DISPLAY: the new GsDeviceType3D setting can be used to restore old behavior for Hidden, Flat and Gouraud shademodes ,that is, it allows to enforce using the OpenGL device instead of RedOpenGL for these shademodes.
SR49410 - BIMCLASSIFY: improvemed Option strings.

Fixes

ANNORESET: command did not consider mtexts/texts as annotative if they were created using an annotative text style.
DMEXTRUDE:
- an incorrect option was highlighted on the 'Tips' widget in case an option had been changed by entering a keyword.
- 3d solids were incorrectly displayed in dynamics when Taper and Subtract options were combined.
DMPUSHPULL: all equidistant faces were highlighted as reference faces even if they were located on opposite sides of the face being pulled.
PRINT: when using the print area Extents option, in perspective mode, print and print preview showed only part of the extents.
SR32166 - POLYGON: the status bar shows relative coordinates now during POLYGON command when COORDS == 2.
SR40637 - CHSPACE: dimensions were not properly scaled by the CHSPACE command.
SR41668 - TEXT HEIGHT: when using a text style with non-zero height in the mtext editor, this height was not applied to the edited text.
SR43600 - HATCH DISPLAY: holes in solid hatches could be displayed as filled.
SR43832 - DYNAMIC BLOCKS: changing a lookup parameter produced wrong dynamic block shape.
SR45048 - PROPERTIES BAR: when changing the "Dim style" property, existing dimension overrides were not cleared, so the settings of the dimension style were only partially applied.
SR45612 - MTEXT: the TSPACEFAC variable, which controls the multi-line text line spacing distance measured as a factor of the text height, was not applied for multi-line mtexts newly created with the default mtext editor.
SR46132 - POLYGON: the position of the first point, in case a distance is entered instead of a point, has been corrected. First edge of the polygon now is parallel to the X-axis of the current UCS when the polygon is being created by a macro or script.
SR46449, SR47182 - ANNOTATIVE MTEXT: fixed cursor size and position when editing annotative mtext.
SR47220 - CHSPACE: command could not be applied to associative and annotative entities.
SR47333 - DIMORDINATE: when adding an ordinate dimension in Paper Space and a snap point is on an entity in MSPACE, it was not taken into account that the UCS can be changed after a viewport was created with the previous UCS.
SR47661 - DYNAMIC BLOCKS: some dynamic blocks were not listed neither in the Insert dialog nor in Drawing Explorer / Blocks.
SR48941 - NESTED XREFS: AutoCAD crashed when loading nested Xref files created with BricsCAD due to duplicate names in the Dimension Style symbol table. Corrupted drawings can be fixed by simply opening and saving them with BricsCAD version V15.1.11 or more recent, or by using the (nested) Recover command in AutoCAD. This problem was introduced in BricsCAD V15 with the upgrade to Teigha 4.0.
SR48946 - PASTEORIG: command no longer worked after the source drawing had been closed.
SR49063 - PLOT: the -PLOT command no longer shows the "Remove hidden lines?" prompt for a model layout.
SR49073 - XDATA: user-provided drawing containing invalid XData could not be loaded.
SR49181 - TRIM/EXTEND: introduced use of adaptive tolerance to avoid problems when large coordinates are involved.
SR49218 - PROPERTIES BAR: it was impossible to change the arrowhead block of a radial dimension via the Properties Bar after the arrowhead block of the dimension had been changed in AutoCAD.
SR49336 - MECHANICAL BROWSER: right after calling the context menu command components were not highlighted on selection.
SR49430 - LOCALIZATION: Materials Browser titles were not translatable.
SR49445 - LOCALIZATION: the "UCS" option in the right-click context menu of the LookFrom control could not be translated.

Applications

LISP: (vla-mirror) ignored MIRRTEXT when mirroring attributes and text entities.
PLOTREACTORS:
- PlotInterfaceForCOM::plotToDevice(): begin/end events were not symmetric.
- OdPlPlotEngineImpl: added missing begin/end page events.
- publishToPDF: PlotReactor events were missing.
QUAD: support for custom entities has been added.
SR36044, SR42616 - BRX: dynamicBlock property "Origin" could not be set via API.
SR48908 - LISP/SDS/BRX : ssget("A") did only select entities from active layout/space, instead of from any layout/space.
SR48908 - LISP/SDS/BRX: entmake() did not respect the layout specified by the 410 dxf group code value.
SR48909 - MODELER: modeler settings assigned by setvar() or directly as command names were not effective, until Settings dialog was opened and closed.
SR49015 - EXPLODE: translation of XData references, like 1005, was incorrect after EXPLODE, in particular scenario (use BLOCK to create a block definition, then INSERT, then EXPLODE)
SR49283 - PERFORMANCE: time required to add entities to a database, outside the context of a command, has been halved.
SR49313 - GS marker for TTF text was ignored by GDI device.

Version 15.1.08

06/11/2014

Improvements

BMFORM: new document created by the BMFORM command now inherits visual style and view setting from the original drawing.
GET STARTED: dedicated template files per workspace are now used instead of modifying settings on the fly.
PROPERTIES BAR: performance of Properties panel refreshing was improved in case multiple parametric components are selected.
SMFLANGESPLIT: correct result is produced in case flange has non-orthogonal side face.
WORKSPACE SWITCH: flickering of control bars is avoided when switching between workspaces.
SR48944 - RENDER: AntiAliasRender setting no longer affects the material preview display in the Material Explorer dialog.

Fixes

CUSTOMIZE DIALOG: did not allow to create ribbon tabs and panels manually for a new menugroup.
DMMOVE: dynamic input was not always handled correctly.
DMUPDATE: parametric components were not recalculated by the command in case DMAUTOUPDATE system variable was Off.
SMCONVERT: could corrupt the model in case adjacent Flanges and Bends were not tangent to each other in the initial configuration.
SR47778, SR48881 - TOOLPALETTES: the DIMCLRD (dim line color) and DIMCLRE (ext line color) settings of dimension styles were not correctly applied.
SR47851, SR48067, SR48122, SR48664, SR48803 - UNDO: the AUTOSNAP and OSMODE system variables were undesirably reset after undo of a dimension text edit.
SR48996 - HORIZON: display of the horizon background failed with older graphic cards.
SR49064 - PROPERTIES BAR: Linetype Scale field no longer accepted fractions.

Version 15.1.05

29/10/2014

Fixes

SR 48551 - RenderMaterialPath
- Improved error message when user tries to download files while RenderMaterialPath is empty, or not pointing to an existing folder with write permission.
- when RenderMaterialPath is empty when BricsCAD starts up, it is set to the default folder: ..\[ProgramData]\RenderMaterials
SR48947 - MATERIALS: when copying render materials in the Material Explorer, an unhandled exception was thrown.
SR48971 - WORKSPACE: when using the new GetStarted dialog, toolbar states were not stored/retrieved in the workspace. When WSAUTOSAVE setting is On (default), toolbar states were not saved at the end of a BricsCAD session.
SR48965, SR48973, SR48974, SR49000, SR49006 - Windows XP: BricsCAD V15 could not run on Windows XP x86

Version 15.1.04

27/10/2014

New

3D CONSTRAINTS: 'Flip side' context menu option of the Mechanical Browser allows to change the relative placement of constrained entities.
ASSEMBLY DESIGN:
- PARAMETRIC COMPONENTS:
  Parameters defined in a component file can be changed in a higher level assembly maintaining the link to the source component definition. Parameters can be changed in the Mechanical Browser properties or in the Properties panel when the block reference representing the mechanical component insert is selected.
- SR45715 - BMBOM: columns with new data optionally can be added to the assembly bill of materials table. New data types of components are Density, Description, Volume, Mass, Parameters.
- SR40213, SR40873, SR40874, SR45716 - DENSITY: material density property for components was added in the Mechanical Browser
- BMMASSPROP: command to calculate mass properties of an entire component or a selected set of bodies/subcomponents, taking into account the assigned density values - volume, mass, center of gravity, inertia tensor.
BIM design:
- Concept:
  - Instead of creating a set of dedicated BIM primitives like walls, slabs, columns, etc..., each with their own restricted behavior and properties, we opted for offering maximum flexibility. Any 3D Solid can be used in a BIM model, whether it is created and edited by using existing BricsCAD modeling tools, new powerful BIM commands, or even imported from 3rd party software or edited by 3rd party tools.
  - At any stage one can decide to classify 3D Solid, or other entities, as Building Elements of type Wall, Slab, Column, etc... Classification can be done automatically and manually.
  - The automatic classification tool analyzes and classifies entire buildings in a few seconds.
  - IFC import/export ensures optimal cooperation with other disciplines and applications.
- Modeling commands:
  - BIMDRAG: Main editing tool for 3D Solids which resemble walls and slabs. Geometry of 3D Solids is analyzed on the fly. Depending on this analysis and on which face is selected, BIMDRAG allows you to easily perform following operations, which can be toggled on the fly by pressing the CTRL key:
    - Drag a single face to extend a wall or slab over a distance or to a point in the model.
    - Automatically connect to the nearest solid.
    - Select any solid(s) to connect to.
    - Move an entire wall or slab, specifying the distance relative to any other wall or slab in the model, dragging along faces of connected walls or slabs.
    - Modify the thickness of a wall or slab.
  - BIMCONNECT: accepts a selection set of 2 solids, and will try to create an L-connection between the two solids. Press enter to accept the suggested connection or tap the CTRL key to switch to alternative connection types. This command works for walls and roof slabs, or any other set of 3D Solids for which a connection can be found.
  - BIMINSERT: inserts a window or door (see below on windows and doors).
  - BIMWINDOWUPDATE: updates the opening made by a window or door in a solid, in case the definition changed in such way that the opening was not correctly updated automatically.
- Windows and Doors: Windows and Doors are native .dwg files which can be inserted in walls or slabs by the command BIMINSERT.
  - Using Dynamic UCS, a window will automatically align with the 3D Solid Face it is inserted on.
  - A 3D Solid in the window drawing on a layer named "BIM_SUBTRACT" will be used to automatically create an opening in the wall, keep the window in its position in the wall, and keep the opening associative with the window.
  - Optionally, the window drawing can contain 2D symbols. These 2D symbols will either replace the actual 3D Solid section of the window, or be added with the 3D Solid section, depending on their layer: symbols on a layer with prefix 'BRX_2D_' will be used to replace the geometry resulting from the actual section, symbols on a layer with prefix 'BRX_2D+_' will be added to the section result. Only those 2D entities in a plane parallel to the section plane are considered.
- BIM Classification: At any time, any dwg entity can be classified as a Building Element and get a name and an internal guid (a globally unique identifier).
  - Specialized types of Building Element are :
    - Wall: applicable to any 3D Solid
    - Slab: applicable to any 3D Solid
    - Column: applicable to any 3D Solid
    - Beam: applicable to any 3D Solid
    - Window: applicable to any Block reference
    - Door: applicable to any Block reference
  - BIMCLASSIFY: this command allows to classify an entity to any of the above elements. Each type is separately available in the Quad when an applicable entity is highlighted.
  - Automatic: BIMCLASSIFY has an option to automatically classify a set of entities. Currently automatically classified elements are walls, slabs, windows and doors.
  - Unclassify: Any classified element can be unclassified, removing all BIM data from the entity.
- IFC: BIMEXPORT exports the model to a .ifc file containing all 3D geometrical and BIM related data. Entities which were not classified, or were classified as Building Element, are exported as Building Element Proxy. Others are exported to the corresponding IFC element.
CUSTOM ENTITIES: AREA, BREAK, OFFSET, TRIM and EXTEND commands have been extended to support custom entities.
COPY: added REPEAT option to the copy command, which allows array-like repeat operation.
DELETETOOL: system variable to control whether 'tool' entities ( subtracted entities ) used during the SUBTRACT command are deleted or retained. By default tools are deleted.
DIRECT MODELING:
- DMEXTRUDEMODE: system variable which determines the behavior of the DMEXTRUDE and DMREVOLVE commands when their 'Auto' option is used. Depending on the DMEXTRUDEMODE, material will be subtracted or added to existing solids depending on the extrusion/revolution direction. Auto is the default option.
- DMEXTRUDE command can now create extrusions with a taper angle using dynamic input or the new 'Taperangle' command option.
- DMEXTRUDE, DMREVOLVE and SMFLANGEBASE commands can now be applied to boundaries detected when the Boundary flag of the new SELECTIONMODES setting is active.
DOCUMENT TABS:
- The ShowDocTabs setting controls whether a tab is displayed for each opened document.
- The DocTabPosition setting controls whether the tabs are displayed along the top, bottom, left or right side of the graphic window.
- Previously this feature was only available on Linux and Mac versions, now a Windows implementation based on Daniel Marcotte's DocTabs utility has been added.
DUCS LOCK: the dynamic UCS can be locked/unlocked by tapping the Shift key.
DYNAMICS: added dynamic dimensions for RECTANGLE, MTEXT, BOX, CYLINDER, SPHERE, AI_SPHERE, WEDGE and CONE commands.
SR37186, SR37924, SR39544, SR44502, SR44836, SR44972
DYNAMIC BLOCKS now can be edited in-place using following grip types:
- Point
- XY
- Linear
- Polar
- Rotation
- Flip
- Visibility
HIDEOBJECTS, ISOLATEOBJECTS and UNISOLATEOBJECTS commands
- HIDEOBJECTS: hides the selected objects.
- ISOLATEOBJECTS/ISOLATE: hides all but the selected objects.
- UNISOLATEOBJECTS/UNISOLATE/UNHIDE: unhides objects that were hidden.
These commands are controlled by the OBJECTISOLATIONMODE system variable:
- 0: hide objects for the current drawing session only.
- 1: hide objects persistently over multiple drawing sessions.
SR40681, SR45317 - FORMULAS: implemented direct entering of formulas in table cells.
SR44088, SR45203 - HATCH GRIP EDIT: implemented grip editing for non-associative hatches.
HORIZON: for perspective views a horizon background is now displayed when no specific view background has been set. The horizon background is fully configurable through following new settings:
- HorizonBkg_Enable: enables or disables the horizon background. Default = enabled.
- HorizonBkg_GroundHorizon: color of the ground near the horizon.
- HorizonBkg_GroundOrigin: color of the ground near the origin.
- HorizonBkg_SkyHorizon: color of the sky near the horizon.
- HorizonBkg_SkyLow: color of the lower part of the sky.
- HorizonBkg_SkyHigh: color of the higher part of the sky.
SR22262, SR27499, SR27511, SR33172, SR35812, SR36759, SR36865
LAYERP (Layer Previous) command: undoes the most recent change or set of changes made to layer settings.
LAYERPMODE: system variable to switch tracking of changes made to layer settings On/Off (for use by the LAYERP command).
SR40593, SR42743, SR44835, SR46597, SR46740
LAYLOCKFADECTL: system variable to control faded display of locked layers. Not yet supported for rendered display modes.
LIBRARIES:
- REDSDK engine was upgraded from V3.2 to V3.4.0.9
- TEIGHA library was upgraded from V3.9 to V4.0. Teigha V4.0 contains hundreds of fixes and improvements for the processing of dwg files.
- WxWidgets library was upgraded from V2.9 to V3.0.1
LICENSE MANAGER: added support for IPv6 for network licensing.
LOOKFROM CONTROL:
- The new LookFrom control can be docked in one of the corners of the graphics window and allows to set the desired view orientation in a fast and intuitive way.
- Detailed configuration possibilities are offered in its right-click menu.
- This control replaces the former LookFrom toolbar.
MTEXT RULER: allows positioning of indents and tabs in a user-friendly way.
SR30614, SR30794, SR35898, SR45325, SR47192
NOTIFICATION:
- New settings have been added to control whether a warning should appear when attached files have been modified or when they are missing.
- XNOTIFYTIME: sets the time interval between checks for modified files. Setting the value to 0 disables checking for modifications.
- XREFNOTIFY: controls whether warnings for missing or modified XREF files are issued.
- IMAGENOTIFY: controls whether warnings for missing or modified image files are issued.
- PDFNOTIFY: controls whether warnings for missing or modified PDF files are issued.
POLYSOLID command to create wall-shaped solids.
- Separate option: if set, each edge of the base polyline will generate its distinct solid.
- Dynamic option: if set, after entering the base polyline is concluded, dynamic dimensions are displayed allowing to set the values for height (stored in the PSOLHEIGHT system variable) and width (stored in the PSOLWIDTH system variable).
- Dynamic Justification: tapping the Ctrl key during the end stage of the command will toggle the Justification option between Left, Middle and Right.
PREVIEWTOPDOWN: this setting had become redundant and was removed.
RENDERING
- ANTIALIASRENDER and ANTIALIASSCREEN system variables control the amount of anti-aliasing ( edge smoothing ) applied during rendering generation and on screen rendered mode display. Default value is 1, maximum value is 5. Note: high anti-alias values incur a high calculation cost.
RENDER MATERIAL LIBRARY
- The MATBROWSEROPEN command opens the new render Material Browser, which can be docked next to the drawing display. It shows an overview of available high-resolution render materials. The MATBROWSERCLOSE command closes the dialog.
- The BricsCAD installer contains only previews of the available materials, clicking the download button will actually download and install the selected materials on your machine. This approach was chosen to avoid having to download a monolythic 6 GB installer containing the high resolution definitions of 600+ Redway rendering materials, while for a typical discipline only a small subset of these will effectively be needed.
- The Redway high-resolution material definitions are used exclusively by the Render command. For real-time display, lower-resolution dwg-compatible definitions of the same materials are used.
- A list of material definitions contained in the current drawing is shown in the upper part of the browser. Assigning rendering materials can be done by simply dragging and dropping them from this list onto the desired entities.
- After a material definition has successfully been downloaded to the local library, the download button next to the material will no longer display, thus indicating the status.
- Use the 'Add material(s) to drawing' option from the right-click menu to add selected materials from your library to the current drawing, thus making them available for assignment to entities.
- A search field allows fast filtering of the list 'as you type'.
- To sort the list, e.g. on 'Downloaded' status, it suffices to click the head of the corresponding column.
- FYI: the library functionality will be extended to also support user-defined render material definitions.
RIBBON: besides menus and toolbars, BricsCAD now also supports the Ribbon user interface. It is individually configurable for the 2D Drafting, 3D Modeling, Mechanical and BIM workspaces.
SELECTION: 4 new commands, available from the Quad in the "Solid/Face Selection" group, allow to select 3d solid faces or 3d solids which are related to an input face:
- SELECTALIGNEDFACES: Selects all faces which are coplanar with the input face.
- SELECTALIGNEDSOLIDS: Selects all solids which have a face which is coplanar with the input face.
- SELECTCONNECTEDFACES: Select all faces which are overlapping with the input face.
- SELECTCONNECTEDSOLIDS: Select all solids which have a face which is overlapping with the input face.
SELECTIONMODES system variable: controls selection mode of Edges, Faces and Boundaries.
- Edge: if activated, edges of 3d solids can be selected directly, without requiring to hold the Ctrl key down.
- Face: if activated, faces of 3d solids can be selected directly, without requiring to hold the Ctrl key down.
- Boundary: if activated and a closed boundary surrounding the cursor is found, it will become highlighted and selectable. Only linear geometry, curves and planar faces of 3d solids are taken into account during boundary detection.
SELECTIONMODES toolbar: shows the status of the Edge, Face and Boundary selection mode flags and allows to toggle them.
SELECTION of EDGES or FACES by CROSSING WINDOW: pressing the Ctrl key after starting a crossing window selection, toggles between regular selection and edge or face selection. An icon is displayed at the cursor location indicating when edge- or face-crossing-window selection are active.
SHEET METAL DESIGN:
- New commands were added to convert 3D solids to valid unfoldable sheet metal parts:
  - SMBENDCREATE: converts hard edges (sharp edges between flange faces) into bends.
  - SMCONVERT: automatically recognizes flanges and bends in a 3D solid.
  - SMDELETE: removes a junction by restoring a hard edge between two flanges; creates a hard edge in place of a bend; removes a flange with all the bends adjacent to it. The adjacent flanges are extended up to a junction configuration with the flange being deleted.
  - SMDISSOLVE: dissolves sheet metal features
  - SMFLANGESPLIT: splits a flange along a line drawn on its face.
  - SMJUNCTIONCREATE: converts hard edges into junctions.
  - SMRELIEFCREATE: makes proper corner and bend reliefs. Corner reliefs are built on corners which have three or more adjacent flanges. Bend reliefs are built on flange edge start and end.
  - SMRETHICKEN: restores the 3D solid model of a sheet metal part by thickening one of its sides (all thickness faces become perpendicular to flange faces).
- BENDING TABLES: global Die width parameter can be set in Mechanical Browser for sheet metal parts with attached bend tables. This global value is applied to compute the deduction for all bends, which do not have local Die width parameter set.
- CORNER RELIEF: the SMFLANGEEDGE command automatically creates a Corner Relief feature for adjacent edge flanges. It allows to automatically adopt the size of the square relief to future changes of part thickness and bend radius.
- SMEXPORT2D: exports unfolded representation of a sheet metal body as a 2D profile in .dxf/.dwg file format.
- SMEXPORTOSM: command to export a sheet metal solid to the .osm file format.
- FEATURE DIAGNOSTICS: invalid sheet metal features are automatically marked in red in the Mechanical Browser. Clicking an invalid feature results in displaying a diagnostic message in the status bar.
TIPS: the assistant 'Tips' widget reveals options to users. The assistant widget appears to make sure interesting features do not go unnoticed. Example: when creating a Polysolid, the widget points out that the justification (Left - Center - Right) can be dynamically toggled using the Ctrl key. The assistant can be dismissed by clicking the cross in the right top corner of the widget. Clicking the newly added 'TIPS' field on the Status Bar activates/deactivates the assistant by setting the new TIPS system variable accordingly.
TRANSPARENCY DEPTH: newly added Visual Style setting - default value is 4. Increasing the value increases the number of superposed transparent faces through which one can see during onscreen visualization. When using the Render command to produce an image, the applied transparency depth is 20.
VIEWBASE:
- Added possibility to generate a view corresponding to the current view in Model Space.
- 'Preset' option allows to generate sets of pre-configured Mechanical and Architectural views.
VIEWDETAIL: command to create a viewport showing a detailed view of a Drawing View created with the VIEWBASE or VIEWSECTION commands.
WORKSPACES:
- Menu-, toolbar- and ribbon settings can now be stored in Workspaces.
- The new 'Get Started' dialog allows to select the initial Workspace when starting BricsCAD.
- A new Workspace Toolbar and Combo control have been added.
- When switching between Workspaces, additional actions can be configured by customizing the On Switch section of the Workspaces.
- WSAUTOSAVE system variable: when switched On, upon switching to another workspace, the toolbar positions of the current workspace are saved in the CUI file. In BricsCAD, the default value for WSAUTOSAVE is On, so current toolbar positions will be saved and restored after switching.
XDWGFADECTL: system variable to control faded display of xref drawings. Not yet supported for rendered display modes.
SR35458, SR39495, SR39955, SR46613
ZOOMWHEEL system variable and command have been added to toggle the direction of zoom operations when scrolling the middle mouse wheel.

Improvements

2D CONSTRAINTS: reduced use of resources for displaying constraint icons for 2d constraints.
3D CONSTRAINTS:
- PARTIAL TRANSFORMATIONS are now supported in direct modeling commands DMMOVE, DMROTATE, DMPUSHPULL: if the final position can not be reached due to some 3d constraints that would be violated, the entities are moved to the closest possible position, where all 3D constraints are still satisfied.
- TRANSFORMATIONS: entities moved by commands MOVE, ROTATE and other standard commands now get priority to remain at their new positions upon automatic recalculation of constraints.
- PERFORMANCE of 3d constraints recalculation was improved, especially in cases when only few objects out of many are changed.
- DMDISTANCE3D: distance between center points of two circles can be specified. TAB can be used to switch the measurement type for circles (between axes or between center points).
- DMRADIUS3D: TAB can be used to switch the measurement mode for a torus (major and minor radii).
AUTOCOMPLETE:
- Now also functional when the commandline is closed and commands are displayed on the status bar.
- A flag was added to support autocompletion of preference variables.
BMFORM: command to simplify the creation of mechanical components with top-down assembly design. The command appears in the Quad menu when multiple solids are selected.
COPY/PASTE TEXT: clipboard text can now be pasted into a drawing as an Mtext entity. Both formatted (RTF) and unformatted text are supported.
DIRECT MODELING:
- DMCOPY: command removed, regular COPY can be used instead.
- DMEXTRUDE, DMREVOLVE: the set of command options was extended
  - 'Auto' option subtracts or adds material to existing solids depending on the extrusion/revolution direction. Auto is the default option.
  - 'Auto Create' option subtracts from existing solids or creates new solid depending on extrusion direction.
  - DMEXTRUDE command can now create extrusions with a taper angle using dynamic input or the new 'Taperangle' command option.
- DMPUSHPULL:
  - REFERENCE FACES: all faces in the current view, parallel to the face being pulled, are added to the set of reference faces used by the dynamic dimension that controls the push/pull distance. The TAB key can be used to switch between reference faces.
  - The command is no longer applicable to closed planar contours, DMEXTRUDE and its options should be used instead.
- ORTHOMODE: direct modeling commands now ignore ORTHOMODE system variable to avoid unexpected jumping of 3d geometry.
- DMSELECTEDGES: improved performance.
DRAWING EXPLORER:
- Columns of grid views like e.g. the Layer Explorer detail view, can now be switched On/Off and repositioned by drag-and-drop.
- Lights: a column was added for Intensity Factor, allowing fast modification of the Intensity Factor of groups of lights.
- Views: the Edit option has been removed from the Background combo box, instead all options can be selected directly now.
- SR44997 - Views: the defaults for solid and gradient background options are now taken from the HomeGradientColor preferences instead of hardcoded.
DYNAMIC DIMENSIONS:
- Instead of using an arrow or cone shaped dimension block with varying size, a dot with fixed (small) size is now used.
- Improved algorithm used to avoid overlapping dynamic dimensions.
FIELD EXPRESSIONS: added support for basic formulas imported from Excel tables, e.g. 'SUM(1,5)' to calculate the sum of scalar values, or cells containing scalar values.
GENERATED VIEWS: the BMGEN* command aliases were removed, Drawing views are generated with VIEWBASE, VIEWSECTION and other related commands.
GRIP EDIT:
- straight edges of polylines, like the sides of a rectangle, now have an additional grip that allows to move them by grip editing.
- SR42247 - implemented grip editing for PDF underlays.
- added mid-grip for View Section symbol.
PDF EXPORT:
- Strongly improved resolution and image quality of rendered viewports.
- Further reduced the size of exported pdf files.
- SHX texts are now exported using round joins and caps, thus avoiding protruding 'spikes' e.g. for the 'N' character glyph.
- Polyline arcs are now exported as smooth bezier curves instead of segmented curves.
- PdfImageDpi: new setting to control the minimum resolution applied when resizing exported images.
- PdfRenderDpi: new setting to control the resolution of exported render images.
PERSPECTIVE ZOOM:
- Zoom Extents functionality has been implemented for perspective views.
- Zoom factor is dynamically corrected to offer a smooth scroll zooming in perspective views.
- Improved calculation of clipping planes to allow closer zoom-in.
PERSPECTIVE: the button on the perspective toolbar now acts as a toggle and indicates the current mode.
PRINTING: reimplemented the handling of missing printers. The default printer is no longer used implicitly for printing. The newly introduced 'None' printer device now has its own set of paper sizes that can be stored in the drawing the same as for any 'real' printer. If a layout is opened and the stored printer is absent, the printer switches to 'None' while the papersize is maintained. The missing printer and the previous papersize are now clearly indicated upon opening the Print dialog. The previous paper size can be saved in the drawing, this is not possible for the previous printer.
PREVIOUS PAPER SIZE: drawings created by other parties most often have been set up for a printer that is not available in your office. In such case, BricsCAD resets the printer device to 'None', which results in using the default printer. The paper size also used to be reset to the default paper size of this default printer. Instead we now show the Previous Paper size, so the user is informed about the intended paper size and can set a similar size on any of the available printers.
PROPERTIES BAR: added Elevation property, displayed when no entities are selected.
SELECTION of EDGES or FACES by CROSSING WINDOW:
- Instead of the TAB key, the Ctrl key is now used to toggle between regular Object selection and Edge or Face selection.
- The initial window selection mode is controlled by the SELECTIONMODES flags. These flags can be set using the Selection Modes toolbar. In the 2D Drafting workspace this toolbar by default is not visible.
- When the active window selection mode is Edge or Face, the new Hotkey Assistant widget will appear (until it is dismissed) explaining that the Ctrl key can be used to toggle to other selection modes.
SHEET METAL DESIGN:
- SMFLANGEEDGE: corner reliefs are correctly created for all special cases not supported before. Dynamic dimensions show internal (bending) angle now in compliance with the way other sheet metal commands are implemented.
- SMUNFOLD: the unfolding algorithm was essentially reworked and improved. Intersecting features are colored red in unfolding representation and highlighted in the original model. Incorrect bend faces, which cannot be unfolded, are highlighted.
SNAP:
- EXTENDED TOOLBAR:
  - Added a button to start the little-known but very handy TK input option, which allows the use of temporary Tracking points.
  - Added status button for OSOPTION flag 1: 'Ignore Hatches'
  - Added status button for OSOPTION flag 2: 'Ignore negative Z values when using Dynamic UCS mode'
  - Added status button for OSNAPZ: 'Ignore entity snap elevation' which replaces the Z coord of the snapped point with the current value of the ELEVATION variable.
- PARALLEL: the parallel snap marker on a (sub)entity now is only displayed if parallel snapping has not yet been acquired for that entity. Once parallel snap has been acquired, display of other snap marker types take precedence.
- PRIORITY: the priority between different snap types has been reviewed in order to favor the most likely desired snap type.
- 3D SOLIDS: implemented intersection and parallel snapping for edges of 3d solids.
- DEPTH SORT: when snapping to points that are displayed at the same location on screen, while they are positioned at different depths, the point positioned at the depth closest to the current elevation plane will be picked.
- OSOPTIONS: added a flag to ignore endpoints of dimension extension lines when snapping (this is a potential source of undesired and unexpected behavior of associative dimensions)
SNAP MARKERS: the line weight used to draw snap markers in rendered display modes has been increased to make them easier to read.
SNAP - TK option: the result point of a TK session now is the last acquired tracking point instead of the tracking point that happens to be closest to the cursor when concluding the TK session.
SNAPPING & TRACKING: currently, when a tracking line has been locked by tapping the Shift key, snapped-to points are projected perpendicularly onto the tracking line.
Now the possibility has been added to acquire additional tracking lines and snap to the locations where these intersect with the locked tracking line.
Also new is that it has become possible to snap to the locations where the locked tracking line intersects with other entities.
Similar behavior has been implemented when a direction has been locked by entering an angle in an angular dynamic dimension field.
Before, quite surprisingly, when having locked the angle and then having snapped to some point, the distance from the start point to this snapped point was used as the definition of the length of the new entity. It was not possible to snap to locations where the locked direction intersected with other entities or tracking lines.
Now, it has become possible to snap to locations where the locked direction intersects with other entities or any acquired tracking lines, and when snapping to a point, it's perpendicular projection onto the locked direction is used to define the length of the new entity.
SOLIDEDIT: the Shell sub-command can now be called from the Quad menu on a face of a 3D solid.
TEAR-OFF TOOLBAR FLYOUTS: any flyout toolbar can now become a separate floating toolbar by simply clicking one of its tools and dragging it away ('tearing it off') from its parent toolbar.
TRACKING LINES:
- Root point of polar snapping is used instead of LASTPOINT for creation of additional lastpoint tracking line.
- Avoided that the tracking point marker from which a locked tracking line originates, can be dismissed, thus dismissing the tracking line. To unlock a tracking line, the Shift key should be used.
- Avoided disappearing of tracking point markers after zooming in/out or panning by mouse wheel.
- Parallel snap markers are no longer displayed when a tracking line has been locked: they offer no added value.
TRACKING POINT MARKERS:
- Increased size to make them easier to distinguish.
- Avoided disappearing of tracking point markers after zooming in/out or panning by mouse wheel.
- Tracking point markers created during a TT or TK session were made persistent, i.e. they will not disappear when being hovered over.
SR10322 SR12248 SR12501 SR14215 SR14416 SR14460 SR14687 SR15592 SR22481 SR23130 SR23492 SR24981 SR26109 SR29397 SR30702 SR31757 SR32212 SR34265 SR35017 SR38179 SR38335 SR41999 SR42994 SR43421 SR43543 SR46896 SR47417
XLINE - XRAY: when zooming out or panning, infinite lines are automatically regenerated now.
SR40523 - PROMPTMENU: added a promptmenu flag that allows to hide the prompt menu during selection.
SR42724 - SHEET SET MANAGER: when a DST file is dropped on the application, it is opened in the Sheet Set Explorer.
SR44005 - TEXTUREMAPPATH: added support for multiple paths.
SR45358 - SELECTSIMILAR command:
- improved selection of relative entity types.
- improved layer name comparison (use strict comparison instead of unexpected wildcard comparison)
- improved dynamic blocks selection
SR45497 - MENU: improved menu item mnemonics for File menu (H for Chapoo, B for Publish).
SR45598 - PURGE: added possibility to purge empty TEXT and MTEXT.
SR45987 - MTEXT EDITOR: when the mtext editor is started by double-clicking an mtext entity, the initial caret position is set at the double-click position.
SR46682 - CUI EDITOR: moved mleaderstyle tool from Settings to Drawing Explorer toolbox in the 'Available Tools' overview.
SR47055 - MATCHPROP: improved copying of properties between single-line and multi-line text - Text Style, Height and Rotation
SR47921 - FILEOPEN command: always operates on the command line, ignoring the FILEDIA setting.
SR48038 - OVERKILL: now also removes duplicated INSERT entities if they reference a same block, have codirectional normals and have bounding boxes that are coincident within a given tolerance.
SR48073 - EXPLODE: raster images and wipeouts can be exploded now.
SR48280 - ETRANSMIT: by default, font files are excluded now.

Fixes

3D CONSTRAINTS
- 3D constraints were lost after SaveAs followed by Undo.
- DMUPDATE command did not recalculate constraints after UNDO when DMAUTOUPDATE was Off
ARRAY DIALOG: corrected display of negative angles when ANGBASE is different from 0.
ARRAY PERFORMANCE: when a large number of sheet metal objects were arrayed, performance was lacking.
BEND TABLES
- A bend table set for the active document was applied to all the documents in the session.
- SR47995: wrong block of bend table was selected due to too low comparison precision.
- LOCALIZATION: error messages related to sheet metal bend tables could not be translated.
BMOPEN: command crashed when called from Quad menu for unresolved component instance.
CUI: selecting another main cui file did not reset toolbar positions.
DIRECT MODELING:
- Dynamic dimensions were drawn incorrectly when using window selection or when a large PICKBOX size was used.
- Dynamics were incorrectly displayed in perspective views.
- AUNITS system variable was not honored by direct modeling commands for the angle value input.
- DMEXTRUDE, DMREVOLVE: material of the 3D solid was not applied correctly to new faces created by these commands.
- DMEXTRUDE, DMREVOLVE: empty 3d solids were left behind in case of complete subtraction of the initial solid.
- DMPUSHPULL, DMFILLET, DMCHAMFER: command line prompts have been corrected.
- DMPUSHPULL: command behaved incorrectly upon entering zero in the dynamic dimension field.
DRAWING EXPLORER - LIGHTS: very small Intensity Factor values were displayed using scientific notation.
MATCHPROP: layer overrides related to a viewport were not copied by the MATCHPROP command.
PDFATTACH command:
- Active UCS was ignored: PDF underlay was placed in WCS XY-plane instead of current UCS XY-plane and the dynamics were incorrectly rotated and scaled.
- when the same pdf was attached a second time, the attachment failed with an error message: 'Not opened for write AcDbPdfDefinition: (EE)'.
- -PDFATTACH ( command line version ) failed if no full path to the file was specified, or if the file extension was not specified.
PICKBOX: upon opening a new drawing, the pickbox was displayed with a size of 5 pixels - instead it should use the value of the PICKBOX system variable.
POLYLINE: when using the 'Follow' option, the polyline started from (0,0,0).
PROPERTIES BAR:
- added missing properties for Angular dimensions: Dimension Line Type, Extension Line Type 1, Extension Line Type 2.
- added missing properties for Diametric dimensions: Extension Line, Extension Line Type, Extension Line Color, Extension Line Lineweight, Extension Line Offset, Extension Line Extension
PURGE-ON-LOAD: symbol table entries, like e.g. Layers, from erased xrefs were not purged when loading a drawing. In some cases unreferenced xref block records were not purged either.
SMUNFOLD: in some cases the unfolded body was placed very far from the cursor.
SNAP - TK option: when used in combination with dynamic dimensions, the additional tracking points option 'TK' only could be used while entering the first point for a command, now it can be used for subsequent points as well.
SR32166 - COORDINATES: when COORDS = 2 the status bar shows relative coordinates now while executing the POLYGON command.
SR34628 - PDF EXPORT: japanese ttf text from a user-provided drawing was missing in pdf export output.
SR35259 - HATCH ASSOCIATIVITY: the Hatchgenerateboundary command now creates an association with the created boundary if HPASSOC sysvar is on. If the hatch was already associated with an entity, the command only makes a boundary around the hatch and does not associate.
SR35999 - HARDWARE: screws corresponding to DIN 913/914/915/916 were located under "Socket Recess" instead of "Set Screw".
SR40340, SR46337, SR47294 - BMBOM: settings specified in the table style used by the Bill Of Materials table were ignored.
SR40331, SR45163 - DELOBJ: the direct modeling commands did not respect the DELOBJ setting.
SR40771 - TOOLBARS: if a toolbar was docked at the right side of the Properties Bar, it would not remain at the right side upon restarting BricsCAD.
SR40797 - FILE OPEN DIALOG: hard drives that were hidden using the Microsoft Active Directory Domain Policy, remained visible in BricsCAD dialogs.
SR40979 - TOOLBARS: if a toolbar was docked at the left or right side, it left an undesired gap on top of it.
SR41141 - FLATTEN: multi-lines should not be exploded by Flatten in case the current view is perpendicular to the multi-line's plane.
SR41638 - GEOLOCATION: the wrong time zone was displayed for Indian cities, instead of GMT+5:00 it should be GMT+5:30.
SR42187 - AUDIT: 3d solids that have no proprietary data (DXF1) are now detected and handled by the AUDIT command.
SR42386 - PRINT: non-standard print paper size saved in AutoCAD could be interpreted differently in BricsCAD.
SR42547 - VIEWSECTION: creating a section view on the center line of a round solid failed.
SR42950 - 3D CONSTRAINTS: large parameter changes broke the model.
SR43195 - DISPLAY: blocks in a user-provided drawing were not visible after loading the drawing.
SR43420 - SNAP TK option: fixed calculation of a direct distance from the last entered temporary tracking point.
SR43537 - FIELDS: formatting was not applied to Field entities if format codes were specified using an external text editor.
SR43953 - XLINE: depending on the view, xlines contained in blocks were not displayed.
SR43971, SR44555 - PASTECLIP: when executing PasteClip during a refedit session, entities were pasted into the model (or paper) space instead of appending them to the edited xref.
SR44325 - ANNOTATION SCALE: Leader entities were visible in all viewports without taking into consideration the current annotation scale.
SR43537 - FIELDS: formatting of Field text was not preserved if an alternative text editor was used for editing Mtext.
SR44494 - PROPERTIES BAR: when scales were added/deleted using the SCALELISTEDIT command, while the 'Annotation scale' property's editor in the Properties bar was visible, the property's choices were not immediately updated.
SR44589 - VIEWUPDATE: command line messages were not translated.
SR44601 - MECHANICAL BROWSER: components remained highlighted after opening from Mechanical Browser.
SR44666 - SNAP: apparent intersection snap failed for entities located at large coordinates.
SR44721 - HATCH: using BricsCAD x64, construction of an associative hatch failed in a user-provided drawing.
SR45003 - GRIPOBJLIMIT: CTRL+A should not add grip objects to a selection set if it contains more entities than specified by GRIPOBJLIMIT. This strongly improves performance when working with large selection sets.
SR45049 - BIGFONT: position, height and width of texts with leading/trailing spaces that use bigfont, were undesirably changed after the texts were updated, e.g. to change the color.
SR45115 - ATTRIBUTES: attributes that have ACAD_MLATT roundtrip data changed their height after the drawing was saved, closed and reopened.
SR45175, SR45355 - SECTIONPLANETOBLOCK: layers and line types specified in the section plane settings were not correctly applied.
SR45414 - VIEWBASE: applying very small custom scales took a long time.
SR45447 - SNAP: disabled intersection snapping for text, attribute and attribute definition entities.
SR45517 - XREF ATTACH: the Attach External Reference dialog box did not memorize the path setting (full, relative, no).
SR45593 - SLIDES: the size of generated slides was too large because they contained unneeded color data.
SR45800 - MTEXT: width of XXX-Center and XXX-Right aligned mtexts was not properly saved.
SR45819 - DISPLAY: joints between linear and bulged segments of polylines with global width were not correctly displayed at large coordinates.
SR45898 - MECHANICAL BROWSER: browser update introduced delays for unrelated operations.
SR45904 - AUDIT: a drawing containing an invalid non-Null AcDbSequenceEnd object could not be saved. AUDIT and RECOVER have been extended so they can fix such corruption
SR45941 - SHEET METAL THICKNESS: the thickness of a flange could be edited, but the component thickness would not change.
SR45945 - HATCH: fixed construction of a hatch in 'Select boundary entities' mode for a case when there are selected entities which don't form any closed loops (create an open loop from these entities).
SR46005 - SHEET SETS: if the path to the sheet set drawings contained the Russian 'P' character then such paths was not correctly read from .DST files.
SR46081 - DIMENSIONS: arrowheads of a dimension were not displayed when switching On the property 'Fit->Dim line inside' (DIMSOXD).
SR46221 - SMFLANGEEDGE: when parallel edges were selected the command failed.
SR46255 - SNAP: enabled snapping to drawing view section marker lines.
SR46536 - GRIPS: sometimes grips of deselected object were not removed.
SR46558 - STATUS BAR: Quad pane state was not updated after QUADDISPLAY modification in Settings dialog or in statusbar context menu.
SR46580 - PRINT: fixed crash that could occur when printing multiple 3d viewports.
SR46584 - PDF EXPORT: a slightly different color palette than for printing was used for PDF export. Now the same color palette is used.
SR46702 - DISPLAY: when using multiple viewports in model space, lines were not visible when drawing in the second viewport - a regen was required.
SR46919 - SAVE/LOAD: a user provided drawing failed to load on AutoCAD after being saved in BricsCAD due to a Table style incompatibility.
SR46966, SR47840 - WMF: exported WMFs were not rendered by some programs (e.g. Paint)
SR47017 - LAYER OVERRIDES: the layer overrides related to a viewport (vpcolor, vplineweight etc.) were not preserved when a viewport was copied.
SR47183 - ANNORESET: entities with duplicate annotation contexts cause problems during processing. To avoid this, when removing an annotion scale, the OBJECTSCALE and ANNORESET commands now also remove all duplicate scales from entities.
SR47184 - HELIX: in the first prompt message (Number of turns = 3.0 Twist = CCW), the last part, CCW or CW, was not translatable.
SR47186 - MLEADER: attribute definitions were not copied along when copy/pasting mleader entities.
SR47260 - DISPLAY: temporary graphics sometimes were not displayed when multiple drawings were opened at the same time and there was an on_doc_load.lsp script that modified entities.
SR47283 - LOAD: a user-provided drawing containing a 3D model failed to load with an end-of-file error message.
SR47326 - RECOVER: a user-provided drawing could not be opened. The RECOVER command was improved to remove wrong AcDbCellStyleMap items from the dictionary and restore the default AcDbScale in ACAD_SCALELIST dictionary. After applying recover, the drawing now can be opened.
SR47431 - HATCH: avoided a crash during calculation of the Area property of a hatch boundary that contains thousands of coincident arcs.
SR47463 - PRINT/EXPORT: when using hidden shademode during print or export, the color of faces was undesirably influenced by the display background color.
SR47515 - TABLES: table grid lines visibility undesirably changed after the table is updated.
SR47551 - DYNAMIC BLOCKS: custom fields in the properties bar were not updated after visibility change.
SR47651 - ANNOTATIVE BLOCK DISPLAY: when creating an insert of an annotative block definition, the attributes remained invisible.
SR47683 - AUDIT: Audit test for incorrect proxy object that represents AcDbMLeaderStyle was implemented.
SR47832 - XREF: conversion of paths to Relative/Absolute/None failed in case only a single xref object was selected in the Xrefs Explorer.
SR47871 - WMF: exported WMFs were not centered when drawn by some programs (e.g. Word).
SR47883 - -HATCHEDIT: hatch associativity was lost when using the 'Add boundaries' and 'Remove boundaries' options.
SR47944 - MTEXT: width of multi-column mtexts was incorrect if reference mtext width (DXF41) and column width (DXF48) are not synchronized.
SR48049 - JOIN: modified the behavior in order to reverse the normal of a result polyline if its plane is parallel to the XY/YZ/XZ plane but its normal is opposite to the normal of the XY/YZ/XZ plane.
SR48329 - CRASH: a crash occurred when loading a main drawing and an xref that have an annotation scale with the same name, but different paperUnits or/and drawingUnits.
SR48365 - UNDO: when undoing the insertion of an OLE object, the UNDO sequence was broken, leading to error messages and incorrect undo behavior.
SR48439 - CUI: incremented FileVersion of CUI file from 0.3.2.0 to 0.4.0.0
SR48441 - SELECTION: raster images, wipeouts and OLE objects could not be selected if their frame display was disabled.
SR48647 - REDSDK error: when there is a rendered viewport and a raster image in paperspace, a REDSDK error could occur when running the SCALE command.
SR48825, SR48846 - CUI: when loading a (main or partial) cui file, a unique UID will be assigned automatically to menus that don't have a UID yet. This should fix the fact that such menus were not appearing in the menubar.

Applications

IMPORTANT, BREAKING CHANGE: the PLOT command for model space has been extended in detailed mode with a new option 'shade plot' which allows to print with different visual styles. This breaks applications that use the plot command-line version to plot model space. In V14 this feature was available as an extra option 'Extended' at the start of the command, next to the detailed or simple mode. This option 'Extended' has now been removed.
LISP:
- added the majority of ExpressTools API functions (acet-xxx) to the Lisp engine core.
- added Fast-COM implementation for properties HasAttributes, IsPlanar, IsRational, IsPeriodic, Degree, TagString, PromptString and TextString
- added (vle-aci2rgb) and (vle-rgb2aci)
- added DOSLib analoga
- extended existing property implementations for MLeader and MLeaderStyle objects
New C++ OPM API:
- Additionally allows to add dedicated properties to OPM/PropertiesManager for the "No Selection" page to show application and/or document related settings and preferences.
- BRX comprehensive sample code available in \samples\brxSample\dbx\MyOPMExtension.cpp/h
- Supports 'PerInstance' properties.
- Client Callback property ("..." button calls a client handler)
- Editable ComboBox property (edit field of combobox allows to enter an arbitrary entry, to be processed + added to list by client handler)
AUTOLOAD: .NET modules can now be loaded using the autoload.rx mechanism.
SR41008 - LISP: (getfiled) did not ignore flag values equal to, or higher than 256.
SR42441 - BRX: screen artefacts occurred if AcEdJig::drag() loop was finished by Cancel/Escape.
SR43507 - .NET: fixed intermittent selection exception in Editor.GetSelection.
SR44080 - BRX: fixed a timing issue with drawings containing custom objects - when the related BRX was loaded, the proxy objects were not yet resurrected to valid objects, when the application received its kLoadDwgMsg event; this problem only happened with initial drawing or template drawings.
SR44343 - .NET: diffuse property of Teigha.DatabaseServices.Material class returned wrong values.
SR44401 - LISP/SDS/BRX : (entdel), sds_entdel() and acdbEntDel() functions allowed to delete layers, block definitions, and other symbol table entries which were in use.
SR45234 - COM: IAcadState::IsQuiescent() always returned True, this has been corrected.
SR45362 - DCL RESIZING: resizing of dcl dialogs can now be controlled in horizontal and vertical direction separately by the attributes fixed_width and fixed_height. Previously (BricsCAD V8 to V14), when setting either attribute fixed_width or fixed_height to false at dialog level, the dialog could be resized in both directions. Starting from V15 the horizontal and vertical direction can be controlled separately. However, the resize mouse pointer (typically an arrow in two directions) is always shows in both directions. That is OS-level behaviour that cannot be changed in BricsCAD or wxWidgets.
SR45453 - UNKNOWN COMMAND: the 'unknown command' message now also mentions the command name itself, to provide better feedback for developers.
SR45630 - LISP: fixed (getstring) function - must always use given input string as plain text, ignoring DIESEL-like input strings.
SR45700 - .NET: eNoDatabase was thrown when setting the layer for a newly created object.
SR45728 - VBA, LISP: a timing issue with display initialisation triggered a crash in a specific use case scenario.
SR46225 - COPY: adjusted COPY command to ignore incorrect result status of AcDbEntity::transformBy(), which can occur with application custom objects.
SR46271 - CALLBACK: there were missing 'virtual void dragStatus(const AcDb::DragStat status)' callback events on dragged entities, when dragging was started by mouse click on selected entities, and moving the mouse with left-button pressed.
SR46348 - XREF: using '~' to bring up file dialog (from LISP command) did not work in -XREF command.
SR46353 - LISP: the :vlr-beginsave reactor event could cause an exception on Lisp GarbageCollection, since the COM object instance for databases was not correctly handled.
SR46405 - OPEN FILE DIALOG: the file open dialog did not behave as a modal dialog, when started from a modeless dialog.
SR46620 - STRETCH command failed with particular custom entities, which did not override the ::getStretchPoints() virtual function.
SR46626 - XDATA: XData 1003/1005 handles did not get translated during CopyClip/PasteClip operations - regression since V14.2.12.
SR46635 - BRX: improved support for BRX application commands using kSession mode flag.
SR45636 - BRX: fixed incorrect array handling for arrow symbol id of AcDbMLeader.
SR46684 - COM: when a partial menu (mns/mnu/cui) was loaded via COM, the shortcuts/hotkeys could get lost.
SR46771 - XDATA: after EXPLODE, 1003/1005 XDATA undesirably was reset.
SR46830, SR46916 - LISP: some cases of DottedPairs were not correctly transformed into expected resbuf lists, when passing particular lists to Lisp functions defined in SDS/BRX module.
SR46942 - LISP/BRX: when multiple drawings were opened by the startup wizard, automatic Lisp code like on_doc_load.lsp was executed *before* the Lisp interface functions of BRX modules had been registered.
SR47012 - LISP: improved error reporting in case the (defun) argument list contains the same variable multiple times, i.e. (defun MyFun ( var1 var2 var1 ...) ...)
SR47101 - BRX: acedEditMTextInteractive() no longer opened the MText editor, but worked in commandline mode.
SR47120 - DDEDIT: when using Lisp code to start the DDEDIT command for MText entities, the Mtext editor no longer was opened. It should be opened regardless the context from which the command was started.
SR47236 - COM : the value of the DoglegLength property of the IAcadMLeader was not properly applied.
SR47284 - LISP: _UNDO _BACK did not ask for confirmation when used by Lisp (command), when no _mark/_begin/_group was active.
SR47293 - LISP: (vl-propagate ) could fail to propagate Lisp variables to a drawing opened immediately after closing another drawing.
SR47325 - AUTOCOMPLETE: after entering 2 characters, which do not match an existing alias or whole command name, pressing Enter would yield 'Unable to recognize command', also in case the correct command was selected in the suggestion list.
SR47337 - XDATA: transformation of XData was missing for Shape, MLeader, MPolygon, Table, Underlays, 2dVertex, Helix, Camera, Light, RevolvedSurface.
SR47368 - COM : the enumeration values used for IAcadMLeader properties TextLeftAttachmentType and TextRightAttachmentType were not compatible.
SR47507 - BRX: AcDbMline::setStyle was not functioning as expected.
SR47547 - BRX: OdDbTable::getSubSelection did not return the selection range while the tablemod command was active.
SR47547 - COM: implemented get/set/has/clear SubSelection methods for Tables.
SR47570 - DCL FOCUS: If a spacer or image appeared before a radio_button in a dialog, then clicking the spacer or image selected the radio_button. This was caused by focus cycling. If the spacer or image was clicked on, it gained focus. Since a spacer or image cannot sensibly have focus, the focus was then passed along to the next widget in the focus cycle, being the radio_button. If a radio_button receives focus, it gets selected. This has been avoided by preventing that a spacer or image can gain focus in the first place.
SR47673 - OPM: during the initial properties query in the PropertiesPanel initialization for custom entities, the COM wrapper was not assigned the ObjectId of the entity in query.
SR48262 - DCL : wrong radio button became checked during dialog initialization.

Important notes

Version 15.3.05

09/07/2015

Fixes

Version 15.3.04

06/07/2015

Fixes

Version 15.3.03

03/07/2015

New

Improved

Fixes

Applications

Communicator

Version 15.2.08

21/05/2015

Fixes

Version 15.2.06

27/04/2015

Improved

Fixes

Applications

Version 15.2.05

23/04/2015

New

Unique id (Alias)

EPSG code

Name

Projection Type

Ellipsoid

Unit

Improvements

Fixes

Applications

Communicator

Version 15.1.23

11/02/2015

Fixes

Version 15.1.22

28/01/2015

Improvements

Fixes

Applications

Version 15.1.20

09/01/2015

Fixes

Applications

Version 15.1.17

19/12/2014

Improvements

Fixes

Applications

Version 15.1.16

05/12/2014

Fixes

Version 15.1.14

05/12/2014

Improvements

Fixes

Applications

Version 15.1.11

18/11/2014

New

Improvements

Fixes

Applications

Version 15.1.08

06/11/2014

Improvements

Fixes

Version 15.1.05

29/10/2014

Fixes

Version 15.1.04

27/10/2014

New

Improvements

Fixes

Applications

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