MICROGDS 10.0.2 RELEASE NOTES February 2008 ============================= MicroGDS 10.0.2 contains a number of fixes. It is provided as a patch to your MicroGDS 10.0 or 10.0.1 installation. It will not work on a machine that does not already have version 10.0 installed. PROBLEMS WITH MSP FILE EXTENSION -------------------------------- The supplied .msp file is a Microsoft Installer Patch. We have encountered some machines where the .msp file type has been set to "Microsoft Paint", so double-clicking MGDS10(01)to1002.msp has started up a paint program! If this happens, run the patch installer by typing the command: msiexec /p MicroGDS10(01)to1002.msp INSTALLING ON VISTA ------------------- We have experienced some problems on certain Vista machines where the patch will not apply by double clicking the patch file. In these circumstances please do the following: 1. on the start menu, find Acessories -> command prompt and right button click it 2. Select run as administrator 3. In the command prompt that comes up type: msiexec /p pathname\MicroGDS10(01)to1001.msp where pathname is the location of the patch file on your macine. EDUCATIONAL LICENCES -------------------- After applying the patch, users with educational licences will have to reset their licence details. To do this: Log in as Administrator Start MicroGDS On the Licence dialog box, change the licence type to Educational (e.g. Compact,Educational) Click OK Exit from MicroGDS PROJECT TEMPLATES ----------------- File->Preferences->Multi-user allows you to add or remove templates from the set available when creating new projects. If you have removed or replaced either of the two templates supplied as standard with MicroGDS, upgrading to 10.0.2 will undo your changes. You will need to repeat the changes. IMPROVEMENTS AND FIXES SINCE MICROGDS 10.0.1 -------------------------------------------- Under certain circumstances copying graphics between layers did not mark the target layer as modified. When saving, this resulted in this data being lost. Toolbar grippers are now drawn correctly. Under certain circumstances MicroGDS would crash typically whilst drawing. When opening non-MicroGDS format files, e.g. DWG, and you have a blank MAN file template, MicroGDS now sets the principal window correctly. The Construct Photo scale and rotate dialog box now has its fields correctly highlighted. Solid Rule Surface now works correctly with curves. DWG/DXF import now correctly sets photo views for 3D views which are nearly down the Z axis. Linestyles with more than 10 pattern elements when exported to PDF no longer creates an Adobe Reader error "Array length is out of range". IMPROVEMENTS AND FIXES SINCE MICROGDS 10.0 ------------------------------------------ Opening a MicroGDS file, Window or saved view could under certain circumstances cause MicroGDS to crash. Cloning a Window, with unique layer naming enforced, whilst a backup was happening could cause MicroGDS to crash. Unicode characters in a texture path could cause the texture not to be displayed Phase filtering clauses that included attributes under certain circumstances could crash. Page setup dialog could not be cancelled. Photo contents of rotated views were not hittable. Photo burn-in gets the wrong results. Files containing illegal text characters, couldn't be opened even with check files on open unchecked. Sometimes thumbnails of Library Man files were not shown correctly in the Document Organizer. Some crashes in the renderer have been fixed. Memory leak when exporting to DWF now fixed. MicroGDS no longer crashes when adding a symbol after an elastic space in the Linestyle dialog box. Creating an helix or spiral of less than one complete turn could cause MicroGDS to crash. Pasting text from Word into the MicroGDS text editor now works correctly. Previously, it could show the error "Invalid string position". The Transform dialog box (with the Alter, Move command) now allows editing of illegal characters in the Angle box. Previously, the command had to be cancelled and then restarted. Box Move of dimension lines now correctly updates the position of the dimension text. The inclusion lists now correctly evaluate attribute filters. A problem has been fixed where assembly highlighting did not highlight correctly. An error reading SketchUp materials (that had 'Auto directed plane' texture space assigned) has been fixed. MicroGDS no longer crashes when updating an instance library file when an error message is displayed during the instance library file reload. Using a mouse-wheel-drag during a Pick action from the View Parameters dialog box no longer crashes MicroGDS. An access violation error which could occur when switching between documents during a Trace command has been fixed. MicroGDS no longer crashes when issuing a File Print on a 3D shaded view that contains a lot of data, before it has finished opening. A wildcard schema value is no longer lost when Match is Assembly on the Phase Filter Editor. SKP import now correctly interprets texture mapping for wrapped images. The Advanced button on the Phase Filter Editor is now available when an invalid attribute clause is present. Previously the button was greyed out, which prevented editing. The Phase Filter Editor now correctly recognizes enum mnemonic entries. The Phase Filter Editor now recognizes components that legitimately enclose the component in square brackets (i.e. [r/]). Previously, it was treated as text. MicroGDS no longer aborts SketchUp reading if it fails to write a texture. A problem with the interpretation of Trace offsets when set to imperial units has been fixed. MicroGDS no longer crashes if a corrupt file in a library alias is encountered. A problem has been fixed where MicroGDS would draw some italic fonts incorrectly, when burning in the text primitive. Sometimes attributes were not being copied when the 'Attribute copied with object' check box was selected on the Mnemonic Definition dialog box. MicroGDS now accepts typed 'O' (origin) hits when the hover snap shows a Face snapcode. Pressing 'Enter' to repeat the last command now works with the Construct Text command. The 2D extents can now be changed by editing the numbers in the View Parameters dialog box. Previously, applying the changes did not work. Exporting to PDF now honours transparency in linestyles. DMS no longer locks whilst text is being edited. Sometimes MicroGDS would crash when opening a DWG file. ^R now shows instance materials. The renderer no longer crashes when a render update is interrupted during shadow map processing and then restarted. An error which could cause the Renderer to run out of memory and disable the Renderer has been fixed. Editing shadow flat on Mstyle now updates shadows. Radiosity is no longer ignored in a Re-render. Moving graphics with the API temporary layer could cause shaded images beneath lines of the segment to be erased. This was caused by a fast-draw error in the code which has now been fixed. The 'Save View As' view button has now been added to the PrefViewControl .NET enumeration. End-User Defined Characters (EUDC) used in MicroGDS text primitives were previously displayed as bullet symbols. This has been fixed. CONTACTING US ------------- You can visit our web site at: http://www.microgds.com Or you can contact us at: Informatix Software International Ltd 509 Coldhams Lane Cambridge CB1 3JS United Kingdom telephone: +44 (0)1223 246777 fax: +44 (0)1223 246778 email: info@microgds.com TRADEMARKS ---------- MicroGDS is a registered trademark of Informatix Software International Limited.