ARCHline.XP 2015 Release notes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.04.24. Build 154 - Design Center - cogged wheel icon - material and oli element details information are available (so far these information were available only in the developer version) - Teigha 4.0.1 update DXF/DWG export/import - By clicking on the heading of a drawing window, Side views and Geographic orientation commands are organized in sub groups - Development in placing object. Before placing, you have to select a surface. If you selected a surface and then you want to change to another surface, there is the "Select a surface" subcommand (keyword: SURFACE) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.04.22. Build 153 Released version (officially not released) - New control (arrows) on the middle of the dynamic section plane With the red/blue/green arrows you can switch the direction of the section plane. With the black arrow you can move the section plane. - Bug fix: Room by walls command works from the bubble menu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.04.22. Build 152 - Zone management (create zone) is available on the Italian interface - Resolved: 0005362: Stair : Geometry text jumps back after opening and closing the stair dialog - Print to PDF dialog - File is modal (you cannot lose the file saving dialog by going outside of the dialog) - Resolved: 0005079: Object : Simplified 3D option swaps materials - Resolved: downloading objects from 3D Warehouse is working with the new changes made by Trimble ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.04.21. Build 151 - Resolved: 0005366: Window : Changing the window width from the property grid - crash - Resolved: 0005367: Object : Import from Showroom - crash - Resolved: 0005330: Others : 3D window crash - New 3D view commands: #defineview north #defineview south #defineview east #defineview west ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.04.20. Build 150 - Resolved: 0005358: Interface : Lining and mounting gap visibility switches off after each saving operation - Resolved: 0004684: File management : gbd.pro crashes with gbd.exe with ARCHline.XP 2013 - Resolved: 0004434: DXF/DWG : DWG import - very far element on the 2D drawing and crash after some zooming (D.08.01_Windfang Grundriss.dwg) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.04.16. Build 146 - Resolved: 0005342: Printing : Printing from 3D window - only half of the view is printed - Resolved: 0005352: File management : Huge file crashes (Hütte 10x15m Sicherung.pro) - Resolved: 0005279: Object : Assembly object is complete in the preview window but incomplete in the 3D window - Zone defaults are available on the Italian interface - Resolved: 0005305: Window : Set with consignation - at first time the opening direction parameter ($o) is not replaced with its value ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.04.13. Build 143 Released version - Resolved: 0005304: Stair : Strange stairs in 3d lucchini 4 settembre_prova 2.asc - Resolved: 0005351: Printing : Drag and drop a drawing to the plot layout does not work - Improvement in the Object library info dialog (Tools - Accessories - Object manager). Clear naming: * Inner name - this is the name at the creation of an object * Outer name - when you rename an object in the object manager, this is the outer name * Translated outer name - this is the translated item in the Translat.xxx file * Translated name on interface - this is the translation from the Translat.xx file - Resolved: 0005337: Room book : Room book default properties cannot be saved - numbering always appear - Resolved: 0005308: Window : Window in a wall of a surveyed room looks different - Virtual staging: wall and slab thickness is limited to 100 mm - Resolved: 0005348: Balustrade : Rebuild 3D - balustrade changes - Design Center - Materials : right click on a material -> Settings is available in the menu list ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.04.10. Build 141 Released version (but not released) - Bug fix: strange material multiplication is eliminated - Small bug fixes in the opening and converting .hou files - Resolved: 0005281: Room book : Invalid contour message in Casa Ara 6 20150217 916.pro - Resolved: 0005350: Room book : Beam inserted into wall spoils the room book calculation - Bug fix of resaving objects/lamps: in some cases objects/lamps jumped away (depending on the hotspot selection at placing) after resaving. - When you create new material from the Design Center, the new material will be automatically selected right after you go back into the material library. - Bug fix in "Purge unused material" function at file saving. * The texture of an unused material was deleted even if you had other used materials with the same texture. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.04.08. Build 139 Released version (but not released) - Snapshot images look as sharp as in ARCHline.XP 2014 - Resolved: 0005347: Roof : Roof height settings are not applied to th roof plane - there is some difference in the height - Resolved: 0005346: Printing : Printing with window selection does not work - Resolved: 0005345: DXF / DWG : DWG export - import - not the same result - New button in the Rendering dialog: Chang to the default New default settings for the rendering: nPixelWidth = 800; nPixelHeight = 600; nRadiosityQuality2014 = LWRadiosityQuality::Medium; nGlobalIlluminationQuality = LWRenderGIQuality::Medium; isBumpMappingEnabled = true; nShadowType = LWRenderShadowType::Hard; nAmbientLight = 450.0; nAutoBrightness = 0.5; nAutoContrast = 0; UseLightSolids = false; Starting a new project, rendering settings change to the default. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.04.03. Build 137 Released version (but not released) - Section with level lines and symbols assigned to the level lines are available. - Resolved: 0005340: Balustrade : The parameter is not defined message comes - however, we did not change anything - Resolved: 0005336: Printing : Hand-sketch drawing cannot be printed with plot stamp together - Resolved: 0005344: Rendering : Thea Export - Virtual staging wall and slab Materials are missing from the Thea export ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.04.01. Build 135 Released version (but not released) - Resolved: 0005335: Object : Object dialog shows wrong dimension parameters - Resolved: 0005334: Floor management : It is not possible to switch off visible floors in the drop-down menu - New possibility in section creating: Elevation gridlines are visible in section view ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.04.01. Build 134 - Resolved: 0005320: Lamps : Multiple lamps command should be among the light sources commands - Resolved: 0005135: Roof : Different colors and commands for roof sturctural line and roof contour line - suggestion * Structural lines are represented with dotted lines. - Resolved: 0005280: Object : KBB - Autolayout crashes when you move the oven from the top - Resolved: 0005319: Layer : Duplicated layer names with change characters appear in a project - Resolved: 0005315: Window : Shutter window material setting error ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.03.31. Build 133 - Resolved: 0005313: Section : Section line representation on other floors is not correct - Resolved: 0005321: Material : Apparent material crash - Resolved: 0005312: Object : Crash with ceiling grid - Resolved: 0005303: Dimension: Dimension settings and the number of decimal values represented are different - Resolved: 0005189: Slab : Drag and drop material to the surface of the slab in 3D - the program switches to 2D - Resolved: 0005258: Object : Cabinet is not cutted in Wall view - Resolved: 0005310: Floor : Pseudo copy from one floor to another does not work ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.03.30. Build 132 - New command for activating a set: #activate #typeKW setname where setname: the name of the set (between quote marks when the set name consists of more than one word) typeKW can be: single, StWall, StWallLoad, slab, StSlab, StSlabNoBeam, StSlabBalcon, StSlabOnTerrain, roof, extrude (projected roof), stair, object, balustrade, plinth, staticplinth, beam, StBeam, StBeamRing, StBeamGeneral, column, staticcolumn, door, window, glass (curtain wall), roombook, terrain, point, overlay, stext, sgroup, selhatch, solid, sline, spolyline, sspline, scircle, selarc, sellipse, searc, seldimension, dimlength, dimdoor, dimwindow, elevation (dimensioning), dimleader, dimangular, dimradius, dimarea, section, userpattern (DecorStripPattern), room, picture, truss, intelligrid, mesh (freeform surface), lamp (wall lamp), lighting (multiple lamps), furnitureassembly (corpus), kitchen (kitchen cabinet), accessory (sanitary) for example when you want to activate a balustrade set "Balustrade with glass inserts" #activate #balustrade "Balustrade with glass inserts" - Resolved: 0005323: Room book : Room book redraw button in the properties dialog - crash - Resolved: 0005324: Room book : Room book area calculation is wrong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.03.25. Build 127 - Outdoor virtual stagin command is available in the Toolbox - Building group - Property grid problems for zones are fixed - Room book modification: illumination area for roof window is calculated with the gross area of the window in every case. - Resolved: 0005200: Hatch : Copy properties dialog shows only the number of the hatch - Again, the PDF printing resolution setting is not possible. We reverted a former change, because it caused problems in the printed size of the PDF document ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.03.19. Build 124 Released version (published only for the Hungarian users) - Resolved: 0005048: Hatch : Rectangle hatch setting Off does not work ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.03.18. Build 123 Release version to test Rearranged module structure: 1-XLS and RTF cancelled 3-Roombook cancelled 4-Calibration cancelled 5-Drawing_Comparison cancelled 8- Individual Rendering module is cancelled, combined with 22 14-StudioToStandard cancelled 15-StandardToProf cancelled 16-Furniture Editor cancelled 17-Energia_Optimum cancelled 21-3DTV cancelled Valid modules: 2-Terrain STUDIO 6-Animation STUDIO 7-Tiling STUDIO 9-Survey&Photo STUDIO 10-Structural STUDIO 11-Furniture design STUDIO 20-Indoor STUDIO 22-Virtualstage+Rendering STUDIO - Resolved: 0005307: Balustrade : Primary balusters edition does not work - Resolved: 0005302: Balustrade: Edit balustrade layout optionally on the view from the other side - new development There is a sticker menu: Layout on other side ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.03.17. Build 121 - Resolved: 0005306: Survey : Surveyed room - line type and dimension text settings are not possible for the diagonals and sides ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.03.13. Build 117 - Room survey is available in the toolbox inside the Building group. - The title of the main floor plan appears with blue color - to make a difference from the other 2D windows. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.03.11. Build 114 - Resolved: 0005235: Hatch : Polilyne set - solid hatch is set by default - Resolved: 0005252: Hatch : The hatch properties dialog always shows Solid hatch setting - Resolved: 0005294: Wall : Predefined room - changing the wall length spoils the hatch ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.03.08. Build 112 - Change in the set management: in the Factory styles only the default sets are included - Resolved: 0005293: Line : Userlinetypes.oli loaded slowly and its size will be tripled - Resolved: 0005126: Polyline : Polyline style without a solid hatch - not possible to set - Resolved: 0005220: Object : Materials are mixed up in ALAPRAJZ.pro - Resolved: 0005198: Design center : Styles are not found in the Project manager - 3D Warehouse import dialogue is always on top - Resolved: 0005290: Balustrade : Mirroring of a balustrade mirrors the 2D symbol and the 3D model differently ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.03.05. Build 109 - Resolved: 0005140: Template : Dimension styles imported from VAVRA2014.set are not visible - Resolved: 0005257: Lamp : Place group of lamps command does not work if there is no default Lighting set ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.03.04. Build 108 - Resolved: 0005287: Project management : Modifications in 4. Vorentwurf 11.02.2015.pro take a long time The solution is not perfect but now it is a little bit faster - Resolved: 0005297: Wall : Crash when you cut the wall between lines - Resolved: 0005191: Layer : Layer groups in the layer management dialog does not work correctly - Resolved: 0005296: Layer : Layer manager dialogue shows false information ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.03.02. Build 106 - Sensible reference markers can be temporarily switched on/off by pressing the "Alt" key once - Resolved: 0005275: Roof : Roof error (Mansard roof) - Augustin EINR WALM-2.pro - Resolved: 0005274: Roof : Dormer roof properties - crash ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.02.26. Build 102 - Resolved: 0005282: Wall : Drawing the wall with middle reference line - walls are not connected automatically - Resolved: 0005286: Design Center : Project Manager - Multiple drawing selection and deletion cause crash ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.02.18. Build 94 - We do not support OLE object handling. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.02.11. Build 87 - File menu - Options - User interface Instead of the Environment package now there are Profiles and Profile package. - Resolved: 0005212: Printing : Print queue does not take into consideration the floor settings from the other building - Balustrade development: with the Edit baluster layout in this part command you can specify individual balusters in the nodes of balustrade path (you can edit the first post and the second post separately) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.02.10. Build 86 - Resolved: 0005269: Profile : Panel profile definition for doors and windows - outline profile disappears ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.02.09. Build 85 - Resolved: 0005270: Preferences : Project sets are visible in the Project navigator but not visible in the project - Resolved: 0005230: Line : Because of many user line types the propeties dialogs open slowly At first time the dialog opens slowly but next time it will be fast (the informtaion is cached). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.02.04. Build 82 - Interior - Tiling - Tiling in 2D dialog became simpler because Create tiling pattern and Tiling consignation are separate commands now (so far the Create tiling pattern and Tiling consignation were included in the Tiling in 2D dialog) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.02.02. Build 80 - Quick 3D model and Build partial 3D model takes the elements only from the main floor plan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.01.29. Build 76 - Toolbox - right mouse click an icon - Help menu is available for the actual icon - In the Help -> Registration and Help -> Activate Product dialog it is possible to enter the codes by reading an E-mail attachment. There is an ellipsis button (a button with three dots) beside the input field. * Click the ellipsis button. * Browse the e-mail attachment to fill the input field with the code ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.01.23. Build 72 - Resolved: 0005254: Material : Substitute material command does not work on material used in macro - Resolved: 0005253: Room book : Room book table text margin is uncontrollable - Google Maps Integration crash is eliminated based on the crash report sent by Marco - Resolved: 0005256: Terrain : Terrain import problem with a 3D DWG file - 3D Warehouse lamp object download: * When you download an object with "lamp" in the name, a Compact 11W light source will be assigned automatically. * When you download an object with "spot" in the name, a LET 18W light source will be assigned automatically. * The light sources are positioned on the bottom of the object. - Resolution of newly explored missing texture errors. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.01.09. Build 65 - Resolved: 0004706: Rendering : Texture mapping problem in ARCHline.XP 2013 vs ARCHline.XP 2012 - Resolved: 0005251: File management : XML export error - wrong tag for bubbletexts ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2015.01.07. Build 63 - Resolved: 0005240: Door : Garagentor(1Flg) - only the frame material can be changed ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014.12.21. Build 59 - Resolved: 0005242: Tiling : Deleting a tiling does not work every time - Building Floor Structure is included in the Manage Project dialog - Resolved: 0005245: Roof : Roof tile material is lost when you modify the roof - To distinguish roof structural lines and contour lines, structural lines are represented with dotted line. - Resolved: 0005246: Room book : Exported data in WinWatt are not correct ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014.12.15. Build 55 - Resolved: 0004422: Room book : Room book jumps away - Resolved: 0005233: Material : Material changing problem on a terrain surface - Change in the external sets: From now on you have to use this registry setting for the external buttons: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cadline\ARCHline.XP2015\Environment Params] "ExecuteByRegistry_OnExternalAttributes_"="" For example if you have external button for GEAR (assuming that the application start from C:\gear.exe: "ExecuteByRegistry_OnExternalAttributes_GEAR"="C:\gear.exe" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014.12.10. Build 53 - Resolved: 0005236: Wall : Drawing a wall above a certain length is not available ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014.12.08. Build 51 - Resolved: 0005232: View menu : Incorrect Hidden line removal representation in vector graphics - Resolved: 0005234: Door : Garage with jointed panels - 2D representation is different from the others - Resolved: 0005076: DXF / DWG : DWG import failure (13-1101- S013 Attika BT Ost_cad04.dwg) - In the status bar the 3D build hammer icon changed to a menu list as follows: * Quick 3D (create the 3D model with the actual settings of the Build 3D model dialog - the Build 3D model dialog does not appear) * Create 3D dialog - the Build 3D model dialog appears * Create 3D with rectangle * Show Room volumes with Transparency mode ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014.12.05. Build 49 - Resolved: 0005231: DXF / DWG : DWG import failed - 001_GR_D_UG_Wellness.dwg ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014.12.03. Build 47 - Light sources are available in the Design Center ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014.12.02. Build 46 - Stair menu new command : Create Ramp - Resolved: 0005204: Material : Beam set with apparent material does not work until you open the beam properties dialog - Resolved: 0005206: Design center : Material category with zero element appears - Resolved: 0005169: Object : Object rotation error (Schneckedusche) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014.11.28. Build 44 - New possibility in slab with beam - beam can be defined as object, too. - New element type: Shape. You can find it in the Toolbox - Indoor tools * With this tool you can define objects with bool operations by three profiles: Floor plan profile/Frontal profile/Side profile ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014.11.27. Build 43 - Resolved: 0005229: Printing : Printing in PDF - custom paper size is incorrect in the printing result ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014.11.26. Build 42 - New translation files for the new graphical tooltips (under reconstruction): Translat_Tooltip.xxx - Doors/Windows: new option in the Lining and architrave dialog: Representation in 2D. With this option you can make the Lining and architrave settings visible on the floor-plan. - File - Options - Item settings - Hatch parameters New option: Excange Here you can define hatches (like sets). The sets name will be exported/imported to/from GEAR application. Also, you can find these hatch names in the hatch list found in the Wall properties dialog at Wall layers - Hatches. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014.11.20. Build 38 - New command for the dimensioning of electrical accessories on the wall: #dimwall #electrical - It is possible to start an external application through the registry settings as follows: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cadline\ARCHline.XP2015\Environment Params] "ExecuteByRegistry_"="" For example: "ExecuteByRegistry_zoli"="notepad" This command will start notepad: systemdialog external 106 zoli Special application in case of external sets: "ExecuteByRegistry_OnExternalAttributes"="" If you click on the external set button in the dialog, its starts the application from - Google Maps Integration - new command: Building menu -> Google Maps Integration -> Project Location ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014.11.19. Build 37 - Resolved: 0005226: Dimension : Serial dimension works different in 2014 compared to 2013 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014.11.17. Build 35 - New command for placing the height information of electrical accessories on the floor plan: Indoor Tools -> Electrical Accessory -> Manage elevations: * All elevations (places elevation information only) * All elevations with ID's (places both the elevation and the ID information for each electrical accessory) * Delet all elevations * One by one elevations (you can place the elevaton information by selecting the electric accessory first, and then the position of the elevation information) - Resolved: 0005222: Hatch : Moments of inertia data are missing from the Tools - Infor - Entity info dialog - Structural commands are included in the Professional and Standard versions - New selection dialog for creating the references: DLGOFFSET+4245 "Plinth to Column/Beam" DLGOFFSET+4246 "Unlink Plinth ID" DLGOFFSET+4247 "Display Column/Beam references" DLGOFFSET+4248 "Hide Column/Beam references" DLGOFFSET+4249 "Slab to Column/Beam" DLGOFFSET+4250 "Unlink Slab ID" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014.11.09. Build 29 - 0005217: Design center : Tooltip shows false information about the name of design center elements - Build 3D model dialog - The following options are eliminated in the 64-bit version: * Face limit * Tiling surface number limit * 3D model size reduction - Edit toolbar - From now on L and T connection commands work only for walls (and do not work for lines). - Resolved: 0005194: Hatch : 3D build does not work - Vordach.pro - Resolved: 0005218: DXF / DWG : Goups are exported with their original names ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014.11.06. Build 28 - Resolved: 0005195: Room book : Room book elements jump away on the plot layout - All room books are selectable at once in the toolbox: right mouse click on the toolbox command - Select types - Room book property grid: displaying the name of room book standard, displaying room dimensions (gross area, net area etc.) - Room book Norm I GrossVolume = volume is calculated with the gross area NetVolume = no subtraction at the height of heilimits[1] NormIArea = gross area ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014.11.04. Build 27 - Resolved: 0005215: DWG Export : Group is not visible in the exported dwg file ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014.10.30. Build 25 - Resolved: 0005197: Text : Label text property changes when the text is not single row - Introduction of Room type parameter. (Room Type parameter appears in the property grid of room book. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2014.09.11. Build 3 - Resolved: 0005167: File management : Cannot export when project pathname includes IP address ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------