ACTCAD Software Updates & Fixes

ActCAD 2024 new update 121322 released for products Standard, Professional, Prime, Map Drafter and Nesting. This is a general maintenance release with below mentioned fixes:

• Added MKSHAPE command
• Added MKLTYPE command
• Fixed crash issue after changing wall length
• Fixed AcGeVector2d 0 length issue in ICARX API
• Fixed AcGeVector3d 0 length issue in ICARX API
• Improved speed of hatch boundary recognition
• Fixed certain crash issue during application exit
• Fixed certain crash issue with IRX api exit
• Fixed hanging issue of a viewport while panning
• Fixed Table stretch preview issue
• Fixed certain error during SOLIDEDIT command
• Fixed out of memory error while handling OLE
• Fixed SHX file issue during MKSHAPE command
• Fixed issue with Follow option in ARC command
• Fixed standard scale display issue of viewport
• Fixed crash issue with find and replace of certain pattern

The new versions are available from ActCAD download page.

ActCAD 2024 new update 121312 released for products Standard, Professional, Prime, Map Drafter and Nesting. This is a general maintenance release with below mentioned fixes:

• All new IntelliCAD 12.1 Engine
• Improved Start Page with additional links
• Improved speed and performance
• Drag a .dwg file to tool palette to add it as a block on the tool palette
• Advanced Blocks (similar to Dynamic Blocks in other CAD)
• Provision to convert Dynamic Blocks to Advanced Blocks
• Many improvements to ActCAD 2024 Prime product related to AEC
• Improved Quick Properties
• Improved API to support ARX
• Several improvements to data extraction
• Fixed issues in Trial Left days
• Resize model space viewports
• Toggle the display of the printable area boundary in paper space
• load and save print stamp setting (.pss) files
• Specify the IFC4 or IFC4x3 schema when exporting to .ifc files
• Set display properties for AEC styles



The new versions are available from ActCAD download page.

ActCAD 2024 Map Drafter new version released. This is a general maintenance release with below mentioned fixes:

• All new MAPCLPLINE Command
• Added multi-point image rectification technology
• Added support for A0 grid images
• Improved Gap Find command
• Improved Overlap check command
• Improved interface for Map commands

The new versions are available from ActCAD download page.

ActCAD 2024 new update 1168 released for products Standard, Professional, Prime and Map Drafter. This is a general maintenance release with below mentioned fixes:

• Improved Start Page with additional links
• Fixed certain issue in CheckForUpdates command
• Fixed the issue of ActCAD PDF Printer becoming default
• Added new command EXPORT_POINTS_EXCEL in Professional and Prime
• Added new command EXPORT_TEXT_EXCEL in Professional and Prime
• Fixed certain issue with Map Drafter Videos Page
• Fixed certain issue with Map Drafter Videos Page
• Fixed crash issues with NESTOUTPUT command
• Fixed certain issue with MAPIMPORT command
• Fixed GATTE command autoload command

The new versions are available from ActCAD download page.

ActCAD announces the release of new product ActCAD 2024 Nesting suitable for Sheet metal industry, textiles, fashion industry, leather, footwear production etc. Below are the features of this new product:

• Complete 2D Drafting Features
• Easy and simple to use interface
• Native dwg and dxf file formats
• Supports multiple file formats like IGES, STEP, SAT, ACIS, SVG, PDF, Image etc.
• Best True Shape Nesting Engine
• Select parts and sheets directly from ActCAD software
• Auto selection of parts and sheets from a given folder
• Provision to maintain multiple project folders at desired location
• Edit parts and other parameters at any point to get optimized nesting results
• Edit sheets and other parameters at any point to get optimized nesting results
• Provision to use remnant sheet geometry
• Provision to create parts inside parts
• Grouping of Parts
• Provision to add Cutter diameter
• Provision to add clearance, part to part distance and border space
• Turbo mode for high speed nesting calculations
• Enable part overlaps
• Provision to perform nesting in both the directions
• Provision to specify tolerance for nesting
• Sequencing option to choose either area or perimeter

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ActCAD 2024 new update 1164 released for products Standard, Professional, Prime and Map Drafter. This is a general maintenance release with below mentioned fixes:

• Fixed license transfer issue
• Fixed text formatting issue during table export to CSV
• Improved hole table command
• set OpenGL as default graphic device
• Fixed incorrect results starting from second segment of trim
• Fixed certain dimension associativity issue in a block
• Fixed certain wrong results in DIMSPACE command
• Fixed lisp (strcat) function for some non-English characters
• Implemented SaveAs method in .net api
• Fixed certain auto lisp loading issues
• Fixed crash issue while handling AECOBJECTS
• Fixed appilication crash issue in ribbon
• Fixed certain crash issue while using GS device
• Fixed some issues with symbols and text
• Fixed certain data handling notifications
• Fixed dropdown box issue in PDF PUBLISH tool
• Fixed issues while using WinGLES device
• Fixed issues while using SAVEAS command

The new versions are available from ActCAD download page.

ActCAD 2024 new update 1143 released for products Standard, Professional, Prime and Map Drafter. This is a general maintenance release with below mentioned fixes:

• Fixed Find - Text replacement does not work properly
• Fixed round and trunc functions inside Table feature
• Fixed slow opening of Quick Properties when a particular solid is selected
• Fixed display error in the content of "Color Books" in SECTIONPLANESETTINGS
• Fixed certain issue in SSGET command
• Fixed perpendicular Object Snap does not snap to arc with large coordinate values
• Fixed error in seeting paper selection through API
• Fixed certain macro wrong result in menu script
• Fixed icon design issue of superhatch
• Fixed display properties tab missing AEC style
• Fixed "EDGES CACHED DATA" disappeared after save
• Fixed DIASTAT sysvar should indicate a return status of closed DCL window
• Fixed certain error when converting polyline to wall
• Fixed incorrect value is accepted for the Conversion Factor field in the Additional Format dialog
• Fixed error in block definition when the "Match layout orientation" option is checked
• Fixed hide command error for image
• Fixed an issue that very slow speed to print without lineweight
• Fixed a file open issue having isolines for invalid spline faces
• Fixed setting 4 of the OSOPTIONS system variable does not take effect
• Fixed DCL dialog with only an image button raises an error message
• Fixed DWFATTACH error and crash when trying to open objects from DWF database
• Fixed "PublishToWeb JPG.pc3" when adding a paper size, it does not appear in the Paper Size list
• Fixed unbreakable space is pasted to external text editors as tilde symbol
• Fixed crash while changing plot via Page Setup
• Fixed crash in Printer Configuration Editor
• Fixed error in printer path handling
• Fixed accelerators of snap modes differ to the reference
• Fixed transparent enable snaps from the status bar is broken
• Fixed Graphics performance on OpenGL ES
• Fixed the size of objects not updated when ANNOAUTOSCALE is not positive
• Fixed DWG to PDF.pc3 legal paper size is missing
• Fixed unexpected message about non existent printer configuration
• Fixed -SCALELISTEDIT always resets scales to Imperial measurement
• Fixed search layer names by starting characters in ActCAD explorer

The new versions are available from ActCAD download page.

ActCAD 2024 Map Drafter released with several improvements as mentioned below:

• Latest IntelliCAD 12 engine
• Latest ODA 23.12 dwg and dxf libraries
• Several improvements to Map Drafter commands
• New ANGLE command
• Create reports and report templates, extract data to tables and .xls files
• New SUPERHATCH command to create hatches using images, textures, blocks, external references, and wipeouts
• New Quick Properties pane
• Export tables to .csv files, create and update them from extracted drawing data, remove cell formatting overrides, and specify cell border properties
• Improved ActCAD Explorer to manage more visual style properties, manage more layout settings, and specify whether to freeze layers automatically in layouts that you create. For all Explorer elements, change the column order, visibility of columns, and restore the default display of columns.
• New command for Project geometry
• New commands for Rename Block, Change Block and Copy Multiple
• Improved page setups from other drawings
• Improved Licensing Technology

The new versions are available from ActCAD download page.

ActCAD 2024 products released in Prime, Professional, Standard and Map Drafter variants. It is a major release based on IntelliCAD 12 engine. Below is a list of major improvements in this release:

• Latest ODA 23.12 dwg and dxf libraries
• Siginificant improvements in speed and performance
• Improved user interface
• New ANGLE command
• Create reports and report templates, extract data to tables and .xls files
• New SUPERHATCH command to create hatches using images, textures, blocks, external references, and wipeouts
• New Quick Properties pane
• Draw splines using control vertices and knot parameterization
• New Geometric Center snap
• Create and edit legacy image tile menus
• Export tables to .csv files, create and update them from extracted drawing data, remove cell formatting overrides, and specify cell border properties
• Improved ActCAD Explorer to manage more visual style properties, manage more layout settings, and specify whether to freeze layers automatically in layouts that you create. For all Explorer elements, change the column order, visibility of columns, and restore the default display of columns.
• New command for Project geometry
• Show and hide CV
• Layer Isolate, VP Freze
• New commands for Rename Block, Change Block and Copy Multiple
• Improved page setups from other drawings
• Choose PDF presets when publishing or exporting to pdf files
• Import and export Facet Modeler Binary (.fmb) files
• Set display settings for section planes, control whether entities on layers can be cut by section planes
• Preview the modifications when using the Offset, Trim, and Extend commands and when editing hatches
• Customize AEC styles
• Attach roof and ceiling plane symbols to walls and reference them while interactively creating roof and ceiling planes
• Assign levels to AEC entities, import .ifc files with more options, and include .rvt and .ifc underlays when exporting to .ifc files
• Improved Licensing Technology

The new versions are available from ActCAD download page.

ActCAD 2023 new update 1478 released for all products. This is a general maintenance release that includes few improvements and bug fixes. Below is a list of enhancements in this update:

• Fixed palettes restore issue
• Fixed certain crash issue while switching from model space to paper space
• Fixed issue of RTOS fractional mode format
• Fixed dimension TEXT moved after editing and SYMBOL insertion
• Fixed graphic artifacts when editing a spline in CV method
• Fixed 3DSOLID does not change to FMBODY when FM3DCONVERT is executed
• Fixed certain Hatch modification preview issue
• Fixed prompt display issue of (ssget) function when called from irx
• Fixed export button disabled if no sheet selected during PDFEXPORT
• Fixed stretch unexpected output on MTEXT elements
• Fixed table cell cannot change formula
• Fixed dgnexport issue in ActCAD Converter when INSUNITS 0 to 6
• Fixed %USERPROFILEFOLDER% environment variable in tool palette
• Fixed icons of items in tool palette exported from other software in xtp format
• Fixed WBLOCK creates preview image that differs from other software
• Fixed import points issue using IMPORT command
• Fixed Enter keypress to accept default not recognized in IMPOINT command
• Fixed distortions appear after imageattach
• Fixed igesstepconverter by updating binaries
• Fixed occasional errors in copydll.cmd
• Fixed file opens while previewing in an external PDF viewer
• Fixed wrong angle value in surveyor's units

The new versions are available from ActCAD download page. Existing ActCAD 2023 users can use "Check for updates" command to get the latest version.

ActCAD 2023 new update 1450 released for all products. This is a general maintenance release that includes few improvements and bug fixes. Below is a list of enhancements in this update:

• Updated ODA dwg & dxf libraries
• Fixed 3D solid loses colors while changing dimensions
• Fixed array that doesn't work properly in localized builds
• Fixed certain errors in copy command
• Fixed table cells formatting and functions lost when copied to clipboard and pasted
• Fixed default font while copying content between table cells
• Fixed certain issue in FIND command

The new versions are available from ActCAD download page. Existing ActCAD 2023 users can use "Check for updates" command to get the latest version.

ActCAD 2023 new update 1445 released for all products. This is a general maintenance release that includes few improvements and bug fixes. Below is a list of enhancements in this update:

• Revised ODA dwg & dxf libraries
• Improved curve trim test script
• Fixed layer state drop-down behavior in PUBLISH dialog
• Fixed right-click not valid to choose run command options
• Fixed CTAB variable in text do not update while switching between layouts
• Fixed PDF quality presets in PUBLISH dialog
• Fixed property window list not changed with mouse wheel rotation
• Fixed the issue of Match Properties not working for leader
• Fixed LISP ROTS return value error when DIMZIN is 8
• Fixed mouse cursor display error in certain scenario
• Implemented TABLEEXPORT command for .csv file format
• Fixed Mtext editor overlapping of some text lines
• Fixed EXPLAYERS right scroll display issue
• Fixed columns arrangemnet in Explorer window

The new versions are available from ActCAD download page. Existing ActCAD 2023 users can use "Check for updates" command to get the latest version.