ACTCAD Software Updates & Fixes

IntelliCAD 6.1 was released on 9/5/2005.

New Features:

Create rendered images

IntelliCAD uses new and enhanced rendering features to create higher-quality and more photo-realistic images of models.

Both IntelliCAD Standard and IntelliCAD Professional include the new rendering solution, while some versions provide additional rendering capabilities with a complete set of materials, backgrounds, lighting options, and render settings.

Format text

New formatting features are available when you enter text using Insert > Multiline Text. You can specify text color, first line indents, paragraph indents, right indents, and tabs.

Attach and record audio

IntelliCAD provides the unique ability to record audio notes, which are sound clips attached to entities and available for playback at any time. For example, audio notes in a factory floor plan can describe maintenance activities for specific areas of the factory and employees can play the audio notes to hear instructions.

Work with 3D solids

In addition to slicing and sectioning solids, you can now slice regions and bodies (typically sheets). This feature is available if your IntelliCAD version supports editing ACIS solids.

Use entity snaps

You can now snap to hatch patterns when using entity snaps:

• Snap to the middle points and end points of hatch pattern lines.
• Snap to the nearest point and perpendicular point on a hatch pattern line.
• Snap to any intersection point or apparent intersection point where the pattern line intersects with other entities that are supported by entity snaps.

Use new system variables

New system variables include: AUDIOICON, AUDIOICONCOLOR, and AUDIOICONSCALE.

Imprtant Fixes:

Multiline text

• The text height for multiline text is saved correctly now when exiting the MTEXT command dialog box.
• The formatting for the MTEXT command (Bold, Italic, and Underline) now works correctly.

• You can now use both begin and end curly braces appropriately with the MTEXT command.

• MTEXT entities can now be used as a cutting edge with the TRIM command.

Entity snaps

• Extended intersection snap now works properly.
• IntelliCAD snaps are no longer stuck on a single location and they no longer require that the snap be reset.

Hatches

• When moving hatches, any associated boundaries move with the hatch.
• The ARRAY, ARRAY3D, MIRROR, and MIRROR3D commands now work with hatch entities.
• Hatch scale is saved correctly.
• Solid hatches utilize all spline knot boundaries correctly. This also fixed minor problems with the display of Kanji characters.
• If a hatch entity has the same name as a hatch pattern in the ICAD.PAT file but contains a different definition, that entity's hatch definition is no longer redefined on save.
• Hatch entities work better with the CHANGE and ENTPROP commands.
• Enhanced performance when working with dense hatch patterns, including patterns that are too dense to display.
• Dynamic dragging is approximately five times faster when dragging inserted blocks that contain hatch entities.

Linetypes

• User-defined complex linetype patterns are now saved and displayed properly.
• IntelliCAD now works properly when multiple linetypes are imported at the same time.

Print features

• User-defined print style tables are now saved in C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\Print Styles per Microsoft® Windows® logo requirements.
• The Print Style file name dialog box now disallows invalid file names.
• Long file names are now visible in the Print Style Table Editor dialog box.
• The options on the Printing tab found in Tools > Options are now unavailable when no drawings are open.
• IntelliCAD now works properly when print style settings cannot be detected.

ACIS and 3D solids

ACIS primitives are created with the current color setting now (not always BYLAYER).

Match properties

The MATCHPROP command copies the polyline width if all segments of the source polyline are the same width.

Entity properties

• The ENTPROP command allows you to change the width of a polyline correctly.
• Relative paths now work properly for entity hyperlinks.

Display

• Zoom Extents calculates the view correctly when entities are extended outside of the current view.
• You can view changes made with DVIEW without an additional REGEN.
• OLE objects remain visible even when links are broken.

• Dynamic mouse wheel zoom centers the zoom properly on the cursor location when using multiple monitors.

• All nested MINSERT entities now display properly.

• VPLAYER freeze now works properly for entities in paper space.
• Constant, invisible attributes now display properly when ATTDISP is ON.
• IntelliCAD consistently displays lineweights in model space viewports.
• Previously, if IntelliCAD could not properly display a single entity within a block, it would not display any of the remaining entities within the block definition. Remaining block entities now display when a single block entity cannot properly be displayed (for example, if a HATCH entity was too dense to display).

Command bar

• The performance of command bar line scrolling has been greatly improved.
• The command bar no longer randomly displays duplicate entries.
• The command bar stores its size correctly if you vertically resize it.

API calls

• Entmod will now correctly create and display attribute entities.
• VBA Select method works correctly in IntelliCAD for large selections.

More fixes

• IntelliCAD Explorer works correctly when deleting dimension styles or text styles.
• Block definitions are added to the block table when a block insert is cancelled.
• The AREA command correctly reports the perimeter (not the circumference) of spline entities.

• XCLIP boundaries are no longer deleted when saving drawings.

• Performing certain operations on selected WIPEOUT entities now works correctly.

• Extrude works properly on entities created with the RETANGLE command.

• SOLID entities now properly honor entity color when DXF files are imported into IntelliCAD.
• The Load/Unload status (DXF group code 280) of image definitions is now saved properly.
• Grip selected entities can now be unselected by using the shift key (shift-pick, shift-window, shift-crossing).
• IntelliCAD includes improved handling of the sortents table when it contains references to deleted entities.
• Exploded blocks with a negative scale factor in one axis no longer rotate ellipse entities incorrectly.

ActCAD annouces the release of its all new ActCAD 2017 versions based on IntelliCAD 8.2a engine. Below new versions are now available in our Downloads section:

• ActCAD 2017 Professional 64bit (version 8.2.942.84228)
• ActCAD 2017 Professional 32bit (version 8.2.942.84228)
• ActCAD 2017 Standard 64bit (version 8.2.942.84228)
• ActCAD 2017 Standard 32bit (version 8.2.942.84228)

New Features:

Added - All new Ribbon Style Interface in addition to Classic Menu Interface

Added - All new ARC ALIGNED TEXT Command with user friendly dialog

Added - New FILTERS Dialog

Added - Many new LISP functions

Added - Many new SDS functions

Added - New Direct Distance Entry feature allows you to enter a distance in the direction of your cursor when specifying the next point.

Added - New dynamic columns in MTEXT 

Feature or Performance Improvements:

Working with files : 

• Several fixes in working with .dgn files, including some fixes while zooming, selection, and panning.

Editing entities : 

• Dimscale for leaders is now editable in Properties pane. 
• Fixed ability to select all entities for a cutting point when trimming hatch entities.

 Entity snapping :

• Fixed snapping issue to zero-length polyline.
• Fixed snapping to point nodes when PDMODE!=0.
• Fixed display of entity snaps after a layer freeze.

Text:

• In certain scenarios multiline text disappeared while editing. This issue has been fixed.
• Revised the format of the panel layout for multiline text.

 Printing:

• Fixed Apply to Layout option when using Print Preview.
• Fixed issue with missing text during printing and print preview.
• Fixed viewport content that was previously printed at the wrong scale.

 External references and blocks:

• Fixed issue with nested xrefs.
• Double click a block or external reference to run the REFEDIT command.
• Fixed display issues with user defined dimension arrows in an external reference.

 Bug Fixes:

Implemented RIBBON and RIBBONCLOSE commands.

The UNDO and -PAN commands are fixed while using a maximized viewport (VPMAX command).

MVIEW scale and view location are fixed while using the VPMAX and VPMIN commands.

Fixed DDEDIT command for editing the format of dimension text.

Fixed issue with the TIME command.

Fixed how ActCAD Explorer updates the list of layers when filtering layers.

Fixed CTRL+J and CTRL+M to repeat the previous command.

Fixed issue with display of Korean fonts.

Set dwg file association to ActCAD version that is being installed.

Hangup on getting certain System Variables.

ESNAP glyphs are not shown after layer freeze

[XREF] not opening in certain scenarios

MNL file is not loaded on DGN document creation or open

[Crash] Delete dim from the drawing in a specific case

Note: Existing users of ActCAD 2017, can update to this new version simply by clicking "Check for Updates" in Help menu.

ActCAD announces the maintenance release of following ActCAD 2016 versions based on most latest IntelliCAD 8.1b engine:

• ActCAD 2016 Professional 64bit
• ActCAD 2016 Professional 32bit
• ActCAD 2016 Standard 64bit
• ActCAD 2016 Standard 32bit

There are many performance improvements and bug fixes in this release. Nvidia graphic cards crash issues are resolved in this version.

The full products can be downloaded from links given on below page:

Downloads Page

Existing customers of ActCAD 2016 can directly download the maintenance patches from below links:

• ActCAD 2016 Professional 64bit 8.1.1718 Patch
• ActCAD 2016 Professional 32bit 8.1.1718 Patch
• ActCAD 2016 Standard 64bit 8.1.1718 Patch
• ActCAD 2016 Standard 32bit 8.1.1718 Patch

IntelliCAD 6.0 was released on 5/3/2005.

New Features and Enhancements:

Several performance improvements on fatures as below:

Assign print style tables

The following printing features have greatly enhanced your flexibility and control over the printing process:

• Previously you could use the PenMap/Width mapping to associate colors with specific pen widths on your printer. New print style tables allow you to still specify color-based settings, but also allow you to specify pen widths, linetypes, and lineweight regardless of color.
• Print style tables (.ctb and .stb files) are stored in files; you can share the files across multiple drawing files or with other users.
• Print style tables affect numerous existing features, including: New Drawing and New Drawing Wizard; Properties and Entity Properties toolbar; Change; IntelliCAD Explorer (Layers); Drawing Settings > Entity Creation tab; Status bar; Options > Paths/Files tab; Options > Printing tab; and Print > Advanced tab.

There are also several new commands for print style tables: Print Style (printstyle), Print Styles Manager (stylesmanager), Convert Drawing Print Style Tables (convertpstyles), and Convert CTB Print Style Table (convertctb).

Manage external references

Attaching and working with external references is now easier with the new Xref Manager. You can view a detailed list of the referenced drawing, or you can view a hierarchical display that shows how drawings are nested and related to one another. Quickly attach, detach, reload, bind, open, and change the path for all external references in the current drawing.

The Xref Manager allows you to use the same external reference features as in previous versions of IntelliCAD, but in a more efficient manner.

Work with 3D solids

IntelliCAD Standard version now supports viewing and limited editing of 3D solids, including moving, rotating, and scaling. IntelliCAD Professional version still allows you to create and more completely edit 3D solids.

Use entity snaps

The existing Intersection Snap has a new Extended option, which snaps to the logical location where two entities would intersect if they were of infinite length.

The new Apparent Intersection Snap tool snaps to the intersection of two entities that are not in the same plane but seem to intersect in the current view. You can also use its Extended option, which snaps to the logical location where two entities would intersect if they were of infinite length.

Customize more options

The following features are new to the Tools > Options dialog box:

• General tab — Set the default save format. Specify how drawings are opened.
  Paths/Files tab Specify search paths for print style tables.
• Display tab — Use Up/Down arrows in the command history. Show or hide the Model and Layout tabs. Show or hide scroll bars.
  Profiles tab Create and manage drawing environment profiles.
• Printing tab — Specify headers and footers for all drawings. Assign default print style table settings for new drawings.

Save and restore drawing environment profiles

Customize the settings that control your drawing environment, and then save and restore those settings in a profile. For example, if you prefer working with custom menus and toolbars, you can save these settings as your own profile.

Profiles can be helpful if you have multiple users with different preferences, or if you are a single user who works on various projects that require unique settings. You can even export your profile and bring it with you when you work on a different computer.

Navigate model space and paper space

Use the enhanced Model/Paper Space control in the status bar to switch more efficiently between model space and paper space on either the Model tab or a Layout tab.

You can also change the display of the Model and Layout tabs in the following ways:

• Show or hide the Model and Layout tabs.
• Reorder the position of the Layout tabs.

Work in the command bar

In the command bar, you can do the following:

• Select text, and then right-click to copy, cut, and paste.
• Press Ctrl + K and Ctrl + L to move forward and backward in the command history.
• Use the Up and Down arrows to scroll the command history, if enabled by choosing Tools > Options.

Choose single IntelliCAD sessions

Use the new Single Session command (type singleton) to choose whether IntelliCAD can be started one time or multiple times simultaneously.

Use new system variables

New system variables include: APBOX, CPLOTSTYLE, CTRLMOUSE, DEFLPSTYLE, DEFPLSTYLE, DEFPLSTYLETBL, FONTALT, PSTYLEMODE, PSTYLEPOLICY, MBUTTONPAN, SAVEROUNDTRIP, and SHOWTABS.