The short list of feature additions and changes in the current release:
Features:
| • | Polygon viewports and boundaries. This allows you to create custom shaped viewports. |
| • | Auto-aligning boundaries. No more zooming to scale and then positioning the viewport manually. |
| • | Re reference pointers function. Changes the SheetReference on pointers in the current drawing or project wide. |
| • | Drawing error check still beta. Checks the drawing against the database and shows the error list in grid form. |
| • | Slurp SysNames. Pulls all SysNames from a drawing and puts them in the systems database. Cool for reusing drawing from other projects |
| • | Improved Settings dialog. Lots of improvements to the settings dialog including the ability for plugin developers to register their own settings panels. |
| • | Modifications to Terminal Assignment. Now very easy to change the SysName of a terminal and keep port data unchanged. |
| • | DWG 2010. Now supports reading ACAD 2010. |
| • | Fixes to HP plotters. Fixes an issue that made plotting to HP plotters difficult. |
| • | Works with VBox. Now works with oracle Vbox virtual machines. |
| • | Flipped pointer sets that work backwards in a drawing. This is useful if you need to represent a cable in the drawing from right-to-left using pointers. |
| • | Port Polling Status Bar Panel. When drawing a cable shows the port info (Name, Type, Connector) in the status bar panel. Helps to reduce confusion. |
| • | Text Editor. Works with both Text and Mtext entities. |
| • | Assign Cable After Draw. When checked, and cable draw is completed the Assign Cable Number function is launched. |
| • | Aux Text. You can now display axillary text for each cable that can be assigned to one of several variables. |
New Plugins:
| • | Block extractor. Extract all blocks from a drawing and write them to a folder. |
SDK Changes:
We have made the following non-breaking changes to the Software Development Kit:
Added Events
| • | QueryNextSysNameNumber - fired before WireCAD calculates the SysName. Allows custom formats. |
| • | QueryNextCableNumber - fired before WireCAD calculates the next cable number. Allows customs formats. |
| • | ValidateCableNumber - fired before WireCAD closes the Cable Edit dialog. Allows custom validation of cable data. |
