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improvements Drawing Explorer
enhancements
WinLINE plotter driver updates
Viewport layer support
R14 hatch display
Clipboard support
Direct-distance functionality
MS Windows 98 compatibility
Online Help feature changes
Information
IntelliCAD, IntelliCAD 98, Service Release, 1.0b
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This article lists the
improvements included in Service Release B for IntelliCAD 98 by Visio. Service Release A provided increased compatibility with
Autodesk AutoCAD R14.01 files and a faster screen redraw rate.
Service Release B updates versions 1.0 and 1.0a of
IntelliCAD 98 to version 1.0b, and includes these enhancements and more...
Performance
improvements
IntelliCAD 98 1.0b provides significant
performance improvements in screen regeneration and redrawing, in opening drawings, and in
loading LISP programs. You'll also notice faster zooming, panning, and saving
capabilities.
Drawing Explorer
enhancements
The Drawing Explorer includes the following
enhancements:
- Single-click editing. Click a setting
to toggle its value or to open a dialog box associated with it.
- Purge tool. Use the new Purge tool to
eliminate unreferenced layers, linetypes, styles, blocks, and dimension styles from your
drawings.
- Viewport layer visibility control.
Freeze and thaw entities on a layer for the current viewport, all viewports, or new
viewports when tilemode is set to off or 0. Entities on a frozen layer do not display,
print, or regenerate. Use the new single-click editing feature to change the status of a
layer from frozen to thawed and back again. Support for externally referenced drawings and
block layer visibility is limited in this release.
- Layers. Use the new color swatch to
identify the color of the layer you've selected. Click the color swatch to open the Color
dialog box and change the color of the layer.
- Linetypes. Look in the new Linetype
Appearance column to see a visual representation of the dots, dashes, and lines that
comprise a linetype.
- Styles. Assign new text
characteristics such as backward, upside down, or vertical text. Use the single-click
editing feature to change these settings.
- Coordinate Systems. Use the
single-click editing feature to edit origin settings.
- Views. Use the new View Direction
setting to enter x-, y-, and z- values and quickly change the view direction. The View
Direction setting replaces Center Point.
- Blocks. The default setting is to
display images. A thumbnail picture of each block appears in the right-hand pane. To see
more information about a block, click the Details tool. Edit the path and the insertion
point by clicking the setting and typing the changes.
- Dimension Styles. Cut, copy, and
paste dimension styles from one drawing to another. Right-click to select the dimension
style and open a shortcut menu with the cut, copy, and paste commands. Or, select the
dimension style and press Ctrl X, Ctrl C, or Ctrl V. These keyboard shortcuts also work
with the other Drawing Explorer elements.
WinLINE plotter
driver updates
Service Release B comes with an updated WinLINE
plotter driver that contains several problem fixes and minor user interface changes. You
will need to reinstall the WinLINE driver to take advantage of the update. For the latest
information about installing and configuring the driver, see WinLINE online Help
(Winline.hlp) or the Readme.txt file in \Program Files\IntelliCAD 98\Drivers\Printers on
the CD.
The updated driver also includes the following new or
modified features:
- The Rainbow pen, which maps screen colors to pen
colors, is now called the AutoColor pen.
- The driver supports the assignment of pen colors using
numbers in a color index ranging from 1 to 255.
The HP Laserjet (HP/GL2) selection now allows a
variety of paper sizes.
Viewport layer
support
Service Release B includes limited support for
the Viewport Layers (VPLAYER) command. You can use the VPLAYER command to adjust the
visibility of layers in viewports in the active drawing when tilemode is set to off or 0.
Within the drawing, you can set layers as visible in one viewport and invisible in others.
Support for externally referenced drawing and block layer visibility is limited in this
release.
The Drawing Explorer can also be used to adjust
visibility of layers in viewports.
AutoCAD R14 hatch
display
Service Release B includes limited support for
Autodesk AutoCAD R14 hatch entities. IntelliCAD 98 can now display the R14 hatch entities.
You cannot edit them; however, the data transfers correctly between AutoCAD R14 and
IntelliCAD 98.
Clipboard
support
Now you can use the Clipboard to cut, copy, and
paste entities between IntelliCAD and AutoCAD. Entities are inserted as ActiveX objects or
native drawing entities.
Direct-distance
functionality
Take advantage of new direct-distance
functionality by pressing the Shift key when you draw lines to have them lock in the
horizontal, vertical, or angular position you specify.
Microsoft
Windows 98 compatibility
IntelliCAD 98 has received Windows 98 logo
certification.
Online Help
feature changes
Service Release B contains the following online
Help enhancements:
- A new "Dimensioning variables" topic
contains information about all the dimensioning variables. Command Reference links jump
from those topics to corresponding system variable topics.
- An expanded Welcome topic includes information about
IntelliCAD 98 features, how to use online Help, how to contact us with documentation
suggestions, and where to find sample drawings.
To get more information and download Service Release
B for IntelliCAD 98, click here.
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