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New Features and Enhancements

• Auto-update - AcceliCAD allows you to check for and get updates including patches as well as any new versions you may be entitled to.
• Faster zooming and panning
• Error Reporting - If AcceliCAD crashes it will now give the user the option of sending a report directly to Autodsys that contains information including the context of how it occurred as well as a mini machine dump that will help Autodsys in pinpointing the problem
• Additional Hatch Patterns - almost 200 additional patterns
• Built-in Spellchecker - AcceliCAD is no longer reliant on having Microsoft Office installed but instead uses its own built-in dictionary
• Wintopo Raster-to-Vector included and integrated
• Network License Management Available - AcceliCAD now has the ability to connect to the new Autodsys license manager to allow licenses to be shared over a network
• Improved Batch Plotting with import and export of settings to Microsoft Excel - Batch plotting control files may now be created or modified in Microsoft Excel, making it easier to make changes and easy for anyone to modify project files and distribute them to others
• Encryption/Decryption mechanism - Any user of AcceliCAD may encrypt lisp files, block libraries, or hatch pattern libraries for distribution to others.  This allows additional content to be included with AcceliCAD or for 3rd party developers to market for AcceliCAD.  Autodsys has used this functionality to included additional hatch patterns with AcceliCAD and will use it in the future to add aditional content.  Autodsys is also pursuing relationships with 3rd party developers to make more content available for AcceliCAD.
• Perimeter, Area, Mass, and Volume added to Entity Info Window
• Toolbar enhancements - One-touch toggle of toolbars to clear the drawing area.  This allows for a much larger drawing area with the toolbars only appearing when necessary.  It also can allow for a virtual tablet taking the place of physical tablet digitizer menus.
• Customize the status bar and menus using DIESEL - You can use DIESEL from the command line, in MNU menu files, and in LISP to customize the status bar and menus.  Use new and enhanced system variables
• Additional image formats - The number of image formats available for drawings has been expanded.  You can include images in the following formats: ECW, JPG 2000, ERS, ALG, HDR, DAT, DOQ, FST, NTF, ASC, IMG, DEM, DDF, DT0 and DT1, and HDF (including MET, L1R, and L1G).

Important Fixes

Polar Tracking

• A Crash could occur if polar tracking and entity snaps were enabled while trying to snap to a block.  Would only occur intermittently
• In some cases polar tracking would not lock on to the specified angles.

Open and save files

• IntelliCAD uses the DWGdirect 2.5.2 libraries.
• IntelliCAD uses new DaVinci rendering libraries.
• When opening a DWG 2006 file created originally in Autodesk® AutoCAD®, the ATTRIB no longer changes in IntelliCAD.  Also, hard pointer is no longer changed from LEADER to MTEXT.
• QSAVE works properly now when zoomed in closely in a drawing.
• Saving a drawing after exploding its contents no longer produces errors.
• In some specific cases, the following items were inconsistent when opening and saving drawings, which have been fixed: VIEWCTR, ACIS solids, elliptical arcs, splines, text thickness, draw order.
• Improved behavior when attempting to reopen an already opened drawing file.

Import and export files

• When exporting to PDF, IntelliCAD now includes external references and OLE objects.
• Exporting to 3D DWF works correctly now.
• OLE objects are exported to PDF files correctly now.

Raster images

• Adeko Raster now handles larger images with higher performance and less memory usage.
• Crashes could occur during out-of-memory conditions for extremely large image files (300MB+); this has been fixed.
• IMAGECLIP command line options are now compatible with scripts.
• IMAGECLIP can now be called correctly from LISP.
• AddImage COM API method is now working.
• Image/Attach dialog box did not always appear on top of the IntelliCAD main window; this has been fixed.
• Fade option of image management no longer works in reverse.
• Added the RASTERVERNUM system variable to determine the version number of Adeko Raster.
• Improved support for images inserted with Hitachi Image manager.
• Added support for additional image positioning files
• Adeko Raster provides better performance for more complex drawings with many images attached.
• Attaching a raster image now properly releases memory.
• Stretching images with clipped boundaries could cause IntelliCAD to crash.
• TFW positioning files are used correctly.
• Images can now be attached that have non-English file paths.
• Image file sizes no longer change when saving drawings.
• Images that cannot be found or loaded no longer cause delays on REGEN.
• Fixed problem when attaching invalid images.
• You can now attach images even when FILEDIA is turned off.

Layers

• Inconsistencies in distinguishing layers named "0" and "00" have been corrected.
• Layers in external references now appear on the Properties toolbar.

Blocks

• Fixed block selection when block is coincident with a line.
• Files created with the WBLOCK command save preview images now.

Dimensions

• DIMFAC implemented for dimension tolerances in Dimension Settings dialog.
• In some cases, dimension positions were incorrect; this has been fixed.

Text

• ASCII line text characters interpretation problem fixed.
• In some cases entering multiple DTEXT entities resulted in only the last entity being created; this has been fixed.

Viewing drawings

• Zoom Extents fixed to work properly in drawings with proxy entities.
• Fixed viewing inconsistencies when zooming in and out in paperspace.
• Fixed viewing inconsistencies when undoing changes made in paperspace, if model space has a view twist applied.
• Anonymous blocks did not display properly in some cases; this has been fixed.
• Block attributes now display properly during drag operations.
• Significant performance increase for toolbar controls when running certain LISP and SDS routines.

Printing

• IntelliCAD no longer changes the current directory after loading a printer configuration file.
• Fixed print preview and printing of specific attributes.
• Print Preview now displays print offsets correctly.
• Drawings print correctly with 1 to 1 scale.

APIs

• COM: Fixed problem canceling an active command.
• COM: Layouts can no longer be assigned a duplicate name.
• COM: Plotmanager.setpapersize, Plotmanager.Getpapersize, and Points.Add now work properly.
• LISP: Using the Lisp entity snap nearest function in a drawing with an XREF underlay containing an empty MTEXT entity, IntelliCAD no longer hangs.
• LISP: Implemented RGB color support for the CHPROP and CHANGE commands.
• LISP: LISP environment settings are preserved per drawing when opening additional drawings.
• DCL: problem with dlg_slide_image fixed.

Other fixes

• Specific drawing was unable to load as an external reference until fixed text height was set to 0.
• Full color persists for layers after turning layers on and off.
• Hiding three-dimensional entities could fail inside viewports.
• Entities with Xdata attached can now be trimmed and edited properly.
• IntersectWith now works properly with ray entities.
• AUDIT works properly for drawings that contain external references.
• Regions created from polylines that contain arc segments are exploded correctly.
• Fixed crash after using CTRL+V after UNDO.
• Fixed problem when running a command and switching between two drawings.
• Fixed trimming a circle at very large coordinates.
• WIPEOUT command fixed to better hide lines.
• Fixed crash when undoing the deletion of certain proxy entities.
• Fixed problem inserting a block containing a wipeout.
• Linking problem fixed for entities with a hyperlink assigned.
• Problem with loading hatches fixed.
• Search path order for finding drawings fixed.
• Snapping to a point twice no longer causes crash.
• TABLET command allows non-interactive input and wrapping of tablet calibration and other routines.
• Significant startup performance improvement when digitizer is installed but disconnected.
• Realtime pan or zoom during MOVE or COPY operations cause
• PSLTSCALE variable is not supported
• Drawings crash on load when Plinetype = 0
• Improved hatch stability for certain complex boundary conditions.