ACTCAD Software Updates & Fixes

IntelliCAD Technology Consortium (ITC) announced the release of thier new version IntelliCAD 8.4. Below is a detailed list of Improvements and Bug Fixes compared to IntelliCAD 8.3a.

New Features:

Performance

• Improved entity snap performance in drawings with underlays.
• Improved redraw performance when creating and updating entities in a drawing that has a large number of existing entities.

Working with files

• Attach IFC underlays (for versions of IntelliCAD that support working with BIM files). IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) format files include building and construction data. Once the .ifc underlay is attached, you can explode it, snap to it, and use the IFCPANE command to open a Categories pane to control visibility.

• For IntelliCAD versions that support markup for .dgn files in their native format, several new features are available such as loading blocks from .cel files, Array command, Fillet command, and more.

• Use the new Drawing Properties command to display properties for a drawing, some of which can be modified such as keywords and comments.

User interface

• Running IntelliCAD on a 4K monitor and switching between monitors with high resolutions is greatly improved.
• A new Customize dialog box allows for easier customization of the user interface. Use it to customize menus; the ribbon, application button, and quick access toolbar (for IntelliCAD versions that support a ribbon); toolbars; keyboard shortcuts; and aliases. You can also easily manage .cui customization files and share settings between files.

Creating entities

• Draw a polyline that has a breakline symbol using the new Break Line command.
• Draw leaders using the new Quick Leader command, or draw multileaders using the new Multileader command. You can edit, align, and collect multileaders. You can also create and assign styles to multileaders, which help control the layout and appearance of multileaders.
• Use the new Multiline Styles command allows you to create and modify multiline styles, which help control the layout and appearance of multilines.

Selecting and modifying entities

• Search for entities that match properties of other entities using the new Select Similar command. The entities with properties that match are then added to the selection set.
• The new Explode Attributes command ungroups blocks, creating separate entities for each element and converting attributes to text.
• The new Get Selection command selects all entities in a drawing that match both the layer of an entity you select and the type of an entity you select.

Text

• The in-place Multiline Text editor now supports line spacing, lists, and paragraph justification.
• Use the new Explode Text command to break multiline text and single-line text into polylines.
• The new Auto Number command adds numbering to text, multiline text, multileaders, or block attributes.

More features

• New Filter option for the -LAYER command.
• New hatch patterns are available.
• New linetypes are available.

System variables

• Added or updated: BLIPSIZE, IFCOSNAP, MLEADERSCALE, SELECTSIMILARMODE, SNAPSIZE, UOSNAP.

Important Bug Fixes & Improvements:

Working with files

• Several fixes for opening and saving specific drawing files.
• WMFOUT fixed for solid hatches.

Text and multiline text

• Several fixes for working with the in-place multiline text editor, including: lost italic setting, underline and overline, SHX fonts, and more.
• Fixed issue with text styles that used substituted fonts.
• Several fixes for stacked text.

Printing

• Fixed print stamp issue when entities are assigned a non-default color.

APIs

• DCL: Fix for dlg_set_tile() / dlg_get_tile().
• IRX: Fix for IcadEditor::docInstanceFrameMovedOrResized() reactor called before setting WNDLMDI, fix for ignoring IRX module lock if unloaded with incomplete path.

More fixes

• Fixed issue with hatch patterns and linetypes when switching between Imperial and ISO.
• Fixed Increment/Decrement button when defining blocks.
• Fixed issue with the OLEHIDE system variable.
• Several fixes for working with hatches, including an Add option fix and preserving color when editing.
• Several fixes for the Find command.
• Snapping while grip editing 3d polylines now respects OSNAPZ.
• Fixed crash issue when using CUTCLIP with a rectangle.
• Fixed viewport display of entities with transparency.
• Fixed issue with joining lines and polylines.
• Fixed several issues with trimming and extending lines.
• Fixed specific crash issue when working with angular dimensions.
• Some entities (3D faces) were not visualized in Artisan Rendering; this is fixed.
• Fixed issues related to working with entities in NWUCS.
• Regeneration issue with PDF underlays during zoom/pan has been fixed.

ActCAD is a commercial member of IntelliCAD Technology Consortium and active involment in Development, Testing and Bug Fixes. ActCAD 2018 versions are now available based on most latest IntelliCAD 8.4 engine.

Portland, OR, USA, July 14, 2017 — The IntelliCAD Technology Consortium (ITC) announced the release of IntelliCAD 8.4.

IntelliCAD 8.4 is a major release that includes many new features and improvements.

IntelliCAD 8.4 boosts performance during screen redraw and while snapping in files with underlays. Running IntelliCAD on 4K monitors and switching between monitors with high resolutions is now supported.

New features can be found throughout IntelliCAD 8.4. Create entities with the new Multileader, Quick Leader, and Break Line commands. Add styles using the new Multileader Styles Manager and Multiline Style commands. Select entities using the new Select Similar and Get Selection commands. Explode entities with more precision according to entity type using the new Explode Text and Explode Attributes commands. Add more formatting to text using the in-place Multiline Editor and line spacing, lists, and paragraph justification. Add automatic numbering to text, multiline text, multileaders, or block attributes using the new Auto Number command. Get more information about your drawings using the new Drawing Properties command.

Another new feature is found in the updated Customize command which allows users to customize the user interface with less effort and share custom user interface settings easily between files and computers. You can drag-and-drop settings to customize menus; the ribbon, application button, and quick access toolbar (for IntelliCAD versions that support a ribbon); toolbars; keyboard shortcuts; and aliases.

For ITC members who are part of the BIM Special Interest Group, IntelliCAD 8.4 adds brand new support for IFC underlays. IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) format files include building and construction data, and once the .ifc underlay is attached, you can explode it, snap to it, and use a Categories pane to control visibility.

For versions of IntelliCAD that support markup for .dgn files in their native format (as part of the DGN Special Interest Group), several new features are available such as loading blocks from .cel files, Array command, Fillet command, and more.

David Lorenzo, ITC President, stated, “Although it’s been less than four months since our last release, we wanted to quickly respond to member requests for various productivity features and performance improvements. I am also excited to see our IFC underlays shipping in this release as it provides a compelling platform for ITC members to create solutions based on IFC model data.”

IntelliCAD 8.4 is supported on Microsoft® Windows® 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows Vista®, including 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

Interested IntelliCAD users can contact ITC member ActCAD to receive details about availability of IntelliCAD software.

ActCAD 2018 versions will be soon updated with this latest IntelliCAD 8.4 engine.

ActCAD announces the release the new maintenance release 8.3.645 for below mentioned versions:

• ActCAD 2018 Professional - 64bit
• ActCAD 2018 Professional - 32bit
• ActCAD 2018 Standard - 64bit
• ActCAD 2018 Standard - 64bit

This is a significant improvement release and below is a detailed list of enhancements:

Added   :   New drawing creation dialog with many options to choose units, templates etc.
Added   :   New dedicated UNITS dialog with complete functionality in addition to former DDUNITS dialog.
Added     :    Several new Drawing templates in both Metric and Imperial units.
Added     :    Many new hatch patterns and line types
Added     :    Several new commands on Dimension Text
Added     :     GROUPQK & UNGROUP commands
Added    :     Menus, Toolbars and Rightclick menus with more options
Revised :   External OpenDesign version changed to 4154
Revised :   Binary files for ActCAD API
Fixed   :   DWG Convert - incorrect dwg versions shown on conversion prompt
Fixed   :   Opening DWG 2018 IntelliCAD complains that it cannot open version 2013
Fixed   :   B-rep API
Fixed   :   Crash in ExternalApplication Activation system
Fixed   :   [MTEXT] Unexpected error message appears in Find and Replace dialog
Fixed   :   Snapping does not work for a polyline
Fixed   :   [4k][HATCH] dialog images display error
Fixed   :   Fix incorrect verification name in script
Fixed   :   Crash when attempting to close a particular drawing

Existing ActCAD 2018 users can use CHECKFORUPDATES command to directly update to this version from any previous version. New users can download latest ActCAD 2018 software versions from our downloads depot.

ActCAD announces the release the new maintenance release 8.2.1071 for below mentioned versions:

• ActCAD 2017 Professional - 64bit
• ActCAD 2017 Professional - 32bit
• ActCAD 2017 Standard - 64bit
• ActCAD 2017 Standard - 64bit

This is a significant improvement release and below is a detailed list of enhancements:

Added   :   New drawing creation dialog with many options to choose units, templates etc.
Added   :   New dedicated UNITS dialog with complete functionality in addition to former DDUNITS dialog.
Added   :   Several new Drawing templates in both Metric and Imperial units.
Added    :    Many new hatch patterns and line types
Revised :     External OpenDesign version changed to 4177
Revised :    Binary files for ActCAD API
Fixed   :    Ability to set a layer for print stamp, fixed print stamp color setup.
Fixed   :    [Crash] Open a drawing from startup wizard in SDI mode.
Fixed   :    [MTEXT][ENTPROP][Line Spacing] Vertical line spacing cannot be changed
Fixed   :    [Crash] auto load on open document task
Fixed   :    [RR] DIM1 HORIZONTAL does not ask for text
Fixed   :    Fix MText option for linear dimeasion
Fixed   :    Certain menu icons were wrong
Fixed   :    MOVE command ignore some entities
Fixed   :    MTEXT Imperial height modification
Fixed   :    Autocomplete does not provide exact results
Fixed   :     Styles toolbar for ActCAD
Fixed   :    Crash on opening any DGN file
Fixed   :    ActCAD enters a wrong state in which commands can't be executed
Fixed   :    DCL programming dlg_set_tile() / dlg_get_tile() fails

Existing ActCAD 2017 users can use CHECKFORUPDATES command to directly update to this version from any previous version. New users can download latest ActCAD 2017 software versions from our downloads depot.

ActCAD is glad to inform all its existing customers and prospects about the improvements to our licensing system. Please read below description:

If customer owns ActCAD 2018 Professional license, the same key can be used to Activate any previous ActCAD Professional version say 2017/2016/2015 including 2018.

Similarly, if customer owns ActCAD 2017 Professional license, the same key can be used to Activate any previous ActCAD Professional version say 2016/2015 including 2017.

However, Professional license will work only on previous Professional versions, Standard license will work only on previous Standard versions.

The version can be changed anytime by customer using our LicenseTranser command.

There is no need to contact technical support for any of the above actions.

ActCAD announces the release of new version 8.2.1045 for below products based on most latest IntelliCAD 8.2a Engine:

    ActCAD 2017 Professional - 64bit
    ActCAD 2017 Professional - 32bit
    ActCAD 2017 Standard - 64bit
    ActCAD 2017 Standard - 32bit

This is a general maintenance and bug fixes release, the detailed Release Notes are mentioned below:

Added - Several new commands on Dimension Text

Added - GROUPQK & UNGROUP commands

Improved - Menus, Toolbars and Rightclick menus with more options

Fixed - Issues with Check for updates

Fixed - Table Edit of Formatted text

Fixed - Editing of ARCTEXT parameters

Fixed - Some entities doesn't move using MOVE comamnd
Fixed - AUTOCOMPLETE is very slow if commands list is large
Fixed - [Crash] Cannot draw a pline with blips, snaparg & ortho
Fixed - Crash due to some external applications
Fixed - DIMSTYLE: vertical text alignment rephrase
Fixed - Opening DWG 2018 ActCAD notifies that it cannot open version 2013
Fixed - DCL logging
Fixed - [CUI] Reset user's aliases if the list is empty
Fixed - Improved methods to backup and restore CUI file
Fixed - [Crash] Crash when trying to create a new drawing wizard
Fixed - Drawing load message has to be notified once per drawing
Fixed - [HANGUP] 100% cpu hangup in command bar on entering comma (,) symbol.
Fixed - No drag image during grip editing in a layout
Fixed - [IRX] ExternalApplication on unload sends NULL app id
Fixed - Some issues with GRIP points
Fixed - [Crash] Zoom in few times with mouse

Existing 2017 users can update to this latest version by using on CHECKFORUPDATES command. New users can download this latest version directly from our Downloads section.

ActCAD announces the release of new version 8.3.635 for below products based on most latest IntelliCAD 8.3a Engine:

    ActCAD 2018 Professional - 64bit
    ActCAD 2018 Professional - 32bit
    ActCAD 2018 Standard - 64bit
    ActCAD 2018 Standard - 32bit

This is a general maintenance and bug fixes release, the detailed Release Notes are mentioned below:

Fixed - Some crash issues with Block Library in 64bit versions
Fixed - Crash when attempting to close drawing
Fixed - An error is displayed if double click a dwg file right after IntelliCAD is installed

Improved - External OpenDesign version changed to 4095

Existing 2018 users can update to this latest version by using on CHECKFORUPDATES command. New users can download this latest version directly from our Downloads section.

ActCAD announces the release of new 2018 versions below versions based on most latest IntelliCAD 8.3a Technology:

• ActCAD 2018 Professional - 64bit
• ActCAD 2018 Professional - 32bit
• ActCAD 2018 Standard - 64bit
• ActCAD 2018 Standard - 32bit

The major addtion in this release is inclusion of ActCAD Block Libraries in all four variants. ActCAD Block Libraries have onver 5000 block symbols which can readily used in drawings without any extra effort. Below are the advantages of ActCAD Block Libraries:

• Over 5000 in-built symbols in various domains
• Add your own drawing files to Block Libraries for reuse. No need to reload each time, just one pasting of drawing files.
• User-friendly interface and do everything with mouse clicks
• Very clear preview images for direct insertion
• Ability to apply scale in X & Y directions
• Ability to apply rotation angle
• Run the program in batch mode to insert multiple symbols into active drawing
• Easy browsing of Folders, Drawing Files and Block Symbols
• Supports 64bit and multi-threading for faster operation
• Highlights currently selected category/folder and drawing file
• No separate installation and activation required
• Available in both ActCAD Professional & ActCAD Standard Versions

New ActCAD 2018 versions are now available for download in our Downloads page.

ActCAD announces the release of new version 8.2.1045 for below products based on most latest IntelliCAD 8.2a Engine:

    ActCAD 2017 Professional - 64bit
    ActCAD 2017 Professional - 32bit
    ActCAD 2017 Standard - 64bit
    ActCAD 2017 Standard - 32bit

This is a general maintenance and bug fixes release, the detailed Release Notes are mentioned below:

Added   - All New ActCAD Block Libraries, over 5000 symbols included for Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Architecture, P&ID etc.
Updated - ActCAD API Binary files
Updated - Tiegha 4.1 Libraries version changed to 4082
Updated    - Ribbon Menus and Items
Fixed     - SELECTIVEREGENMODE sysvar corrected
Fixed   - Menu Visibility changed for Toolbars
Fixed     - Some Arx compatibility issues
Fixed     - When LAYOUTREGENCTL=0, switching between layouts cause crash
Fixed   - IRX entry point corrected, if command is called from LISP
Fixed   - Display problem of Block with ACIS during insert
Fixed     - Slow print dialog open
Fixed     - Crash on drawing open with UPDATEONOPEN=1
Fixed     - MTEXT is inserted in wrong position
Fixed     - Crash on save (AEC drawing, saveAsDWG)
Fixed    - Block rotation using ANGBASE != 0 cause problems (INSANG)
Fixed    - Setting do not show checkbox in AutoStack Properties dialog
Fixed    - Wrong behavior of Jigs while switching Viewports
Fixed    - Fixed cursor issue in BMP mode after adding GS flag for glFinish calls

Existing 2017 users can update to this latest version by using on CHECKFORUPDATES command. New users can download this latest version directly from our Downloads section.

ActCAD announces the release of new 2018 versions [8.3.630] for below versions based on most latest IntelliCAD 8.3a Technology:

• ActCAD 2018 Professional - 64bit
• ActCAD 2018 Professional - 32bit
• ActCAD 2018 Standard - 64bit
• ActCAD 2018 Standard - 32bit

There are more than 300 improvements and fixes in this release compared to our previous ActCAD 2018 versions. It includes performance improvements, fixes for natively working with .dgn files, printing fixes, editing fixes and many more. Also included are enhancements to the new in-place multiline text editor that was released last year, including paragraph alignment, symbols, alt-codes, stacked text, numbered lists, and unnumbered lists.

Below are detailed enhancements or fixes in this major release:

Performance

• Significant performance improvements for snapping to PDF underlays (complete code refactoring in this area).
• Fixed performance issue for window selection.
• Fixed performance issue when drawing lines with multi-threaded turned on.
• Fixed scenario where performance was degraded during selection and snapping.

Working with files

• Exporting to a .pdf file was fixed for exporting drawings that contain extremely large images.
• For versions of IntelliCAD that support opening and saving .dgn files natively, several issues were fixed, a few new markup features were implemented to support .dgn files such as the -STYLE and 3DFACE commands, and the LWDISPLAY, TEXTSTYLE, and VIEWSIZE system variables now work with .dgn files.

Editing entities

• Several fixes for editing entities when using the Properties pane.
• Several fixes for editing entities when using grips, including moving grips when ORTHO turned on, for polylines, and for multiline text.
• Fixed the ERASE command for blocks on frozen layers and layers that are turned off.

Text

• Fixed ability to convert a field to text.
• Fixed display of text with UFDOT.SHX font.
• Fixed issue when using the STYLE command with incorrect values for vertical text.
• Several fixes for working with multiline text, including working with paragraph alignment, symbols, alt-codes, stacked text, numbered lists, and unnumbered lists.

Printing

• Fixed printing of certain Chinese text.
• Fixed print orientation when printing to HP DesignJet 430.
• More resolutions are now available when publishing to Web JPG PC3.
• Fixed number of copies setting when using the Publish command.

APIs

• The NetLoad command was renamed to NetLoadVSTA, and the NetLoadClassic command was renamed to NetLoad.
• .NET API improvements.

More fixes

• Several fixes for the Pyramid command.
• Fixed justification of data extracted using the ATTEXT command.
• Reworked dialogs to improve crash handling.
• Fixed scenarios where the user interface was not scaling properly according to screen size.
• Fixed chain filleting of solids.
• Several fixes for working with hatches in the Hatch dialog box.
• Fixed the Render commands when using the 'Maintain Aspect Ratio' option and also fixed rendering materials attached to faces of meshes.

The new software versions are available in our Downloads section. Feel free to contact us on "info@actcad.com" for more details.

ActCAD announces the release of new version 8.2.1035 for below products based on most latest IntelliCAD 8.2a Engine:

    ActCAD 2017 Professional - 64bit
    ActCAD 2017 Professional - 32bit
    ActCAD 2017 Standard - 64bit
    ActCAD 2017 Standard - 32bit

This is a general maintenance and bug fixes release, the detailed Release Notes are mentioned below:

Fixed : Few Freeze and Hanging Issues due to Windows update/Intel Graphics driver mismatch

Fixed : Fixed cursor issue in BMP mode after adding GS flag for glFinish calls

Revised : External Teigha Libraries Version changed to 4069

Added : GS flag for glFinish calls

Improved : ActCAD API calls

Existing 2017 users can update to this latest version by using on CHECKFORUPDATES command. New users can download this latest version directly from our Downloads section.