Functions Moved in 5.1

Drawing Environment Settings

Drawing Environment settings that were available from the general document properties window are now available by clicking Projects>Settings[Drawing Environment Settings]. See [here] for more information.

Functions Modified in 5.1

Double-click Functional Block

The old behavior for double-clicking a functional block was to assign the next number in the systems database regardless of the assigned state of the block. The new behavior is to assign a new number only if the block is unassigned, and to bring the block up in Edit Mode if previously assigned.

Functions Added in 5.1

Mtext - Multi-line text entity

Leader - Leader dimension

PDF Export

WireCAD supports direct export of the drawing to pdf without needing additional software.

Save As

DWF, SVG, HPGL, DXF, ICO.

Shape File Based Functional Block Creation

Shape file driven functional block creation. This allows you to use existing dwg drawings as the basis for your functional block display, thus allowing complete customization. Further, you can attach special tags to shape file drawings to control behaviours.

Shape File Tag Editor

By adding custom tags to the entities in a dwg drawing that is used as a shape template, you control the entity's behaviour as ports are added. Thus allowing total customization of the display of the functional block. Some examples follow:

Functions Removed in 5.1

Multi-page Print (Auto pagination)

This can be accomplished through windowing.

2-3 Key Shortcut Auto Execute

All keyboard shortcuts must now be followed by the [Enter] key.