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thorstenlemke
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CADintosh 5.3b1

Post by thorstenlemke » Wed Jan 05, 2005 1:58 pm

Hello,

I released a new beta.
You can download it from http://www.lemkesoft.com/beta.html

Please e-mail any comments to this group or support@graphicconverter.net

Thorsten Lemke

Changes 5.3b1

New features:
* edit window added
* option for display of dimmed tiffs added
* Spanish translation added

Updated features:
* sets support automatic mode
* redraw speed improved
* printing speed of PICTs improved

Bug fixes:
* many internal changes and bug fixes

RowlandCarson

Re: CADintosh 5.3b1

Post by RowlandCarson » Thu Jan 06, 2005 11:29 pm

At 2005-01-05 12:58 +0000 Thorsten Lemke wrote:
>I released a new beta
Thorsten - thanks for your work on CADintosh.

Specification of parallel lines with positive or negative values now
appears to behave as might be expected, and using a mouse-click in
any selection mode also appears to work OK now.

I find this beta has eliminated (as far as I can tell) the minor
problem I reported with editing or changing attributes of an angular
dimension. However, in making repeated changes to a particular
angular dimension, I note that with each change, it moves a small
distance, in whichever direction will increase the length of the help
lines. Obviously the work-around is to use the "move dimension" tool
to restore the desired position.

No change, though, in the odd behaviour I reported (2004-10-27) in
the scaling dialogue (in options, drawing, choosing any imperial
scale for layer 1023 gives 0 in the scale box and the function of the
imperial scales is incomprehensible). If I'm failing to understand
how this should work, somebody please set me right!

No change in the peculiar behaviour of ellipse objects, either
(reported several times). Elliptical arcs are not saved correctly to
.DXF files, and their start and end angles cannot be specified
correctly with respect to any other drawn objects.

The undesirable behaviour I reported on 2004-10-20 is still present -
double-clicking on a .CAD document when CADintosh is not running
causes CADintosh to launch and then present a "file open" dialogue
box instead of opening the file that was double-clicked.

Finally, when opening an Eppler airfoil file, comment lines starting
with "

RowlandCarson

Re: CADintosh 5.3b1

Post by RowlandCarson » Thu Jan 06, 2005 11:29 pm

At 2005-01-05 12:58 +0000 Thorsten Lemke wrote:
>Changes 5.3b1
>
>New features:
>* edit window added
Thorsten - I had trouble finding how to display this "edit window",
but eventually found it in the "apply ..." palette after the measure
tool. No prompt describing it appears at bottom left of the screen,
as for other tools. I would expect the button at top left (which
glows red when the cursor hovers over it) to close the edit window,
but it does not. It only disappears when a different tool is chosen.
I think the red button is not required and should be removed.

If I change the pen to one of a different width, the width changes on
screen when I press the "Take" button. But when I change the width of
a line using this window, and press the take button, nothing appears
to happen. Am I misunderstanding what should happen? Incidentally, I
think that "Apply" would be a better word than "Take" to use for the
English version, and that would be consistent with the other tools on
that part of the palette.

regards

Rowland
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thorstenlemke
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Re: CADintosh 5.3b1

Post by thorstenlemke » Fri Jan 07, 2005 8:33 pm

--- In cadintoshmac@yahoogroups.com, Rowland Carson wrote:
....
> No change, though, in the odd behaviour I reported (2004-10-27) in
> the scaling dialogue (in options, drawing, choosing any imperial
> scale for layer 1023 gives 0 in the scale box and the function of the
> imperial scales is incomprehensible). If I'm failing to understand
> how this should work, somebody please set me right!
We have found and fixed this now.

> No change in the peculiar behaviour of ellipse objects, either
> (reported several times). Elliptical arcs are not saved correctly to
> .DXF files, and their start and end angles cannot be specified
> correctly with respect to any other drawn objects.
DXF R12 do not support ellpies. That is the reason.

> The undesirable behaviour I reported on 2004-10-20 is still present -
> double-clicking on a .CAD document when CADintosh is not running
> causes CADintosh to launch and then present a "file open" dialogue
> box instead of opening the file that was double-clicked.
We have found and fixed this now.

> Finally, when opening an Eppler airfoil file, comment lines starting
> with "

thorstenlemke
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Joined: Sun Oct 13, 2013 7:45 pm

Re: CADintosh 5.3b1

Post by thorstenlemke » Fri Jan 07, 2005 9:05 pm

> Thorsten - I had trouble finding how to display this "edit window",
> but eventually found it in the "apply ..." palette after the measure
> tool. No prompt describing it appears at bottom left of the screen,
> as for other tools. I would expect the button at top left (which
> glows red when the cursor hovers over it) to close the edit window,
> but it does not. It only disappears when a different tool is chosen.
> I think the red button is not required and should be removed.
fixed now
> If I change the pen to one of a different width, the width changes on
> screen when I press the "Take" button. But when I change the width of
> a line using this window, and press the take button, nothing appears
> to happen. Am I misunderstanding what should happen? Incidentally, I
> think that "Apply" would be a better word than "Take" to use for the
> English version, and that would be consistent with the other tools on
> that part of the palette.
this depends on the display mode of the elements (individual/pen based).

Thorsten

RowlandCarson

Re: CADintosh 5.3b1

Post by RowlandCarson » Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:37 pm

At 2005-01-07 19:33 +0000 Thorsten Lemke wrote:
>--- In cadintoshmac@yahoogroups.com, Rowland Carson wrote:

> > No change in the peculiar behaviour of ellipse objects, either
>> (reported several times). Elliptical arcs are not saved correctly to
>> .DXF files, and their start and end angles cannot be specified
>> correctly with respect to any other drawn objects.
>DXF R12 do not support ellpies. That is the reason.
Thorsten - I have e-mailed you direct with sample files (also for the
Eppler file problem). The comments above relate to 2 separate
problems - I should probably not have combined them.

(1) DXF export of ellipses:

Ellipses get converted into x-lines (splines) when exported to DXF;
you say this is because the version of DXF does not support ellipses,
and I cannot argue with that. However, the orientation of the x-lines
in the .DXF is often (but not always, see my sample files) mirrored
from what it was in the .CAD file. This is more obvious if elliptical
arcs are drawn, not full ellipses. For instance, an elliptical arc in
CAD with the open end at the left will show in the DXF with the open
end at the right; that is, mirrored about its centre, or rotated 180
degrees.

(2) Inability to define ellipse arc terminations with respect to
other drawn objects:

I have mentioned this on a number of previous occasions. I first
encountered the problem when trying to draw formers with outlines
which were partly elliptical and partly straight lines. These
problems are also illustrated in the CAD file I sent to you.

I am making this reply to the list in addition to sending you the
files direct, as I think the list does not allow attachments.

regards

Rowland
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| Wilma & Rowland Carson
| ... that's Rowland with a 'w' ...

RowlandCarson

Re: CADintosh 5.3b1

Post by RowlandCarson » Wed Jan 12, 2005 8:39 pm

At 2005-01-08 01:03 +0100 Thorsten Lemke wrote:
>Hello,
>>>> Finally, when opening an Eppler airfoil file, comment lines starting
>>>> with "

thorstenlemke
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Re: CADintosh 5.3b1

Post by thorstenlemke » Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:19 pm

Hello,

we found and fixed the CADintosh ellpie to dxf export bug.
I uploaded an updated beta to our iDisk: lemkesoftgmbh

Thorsten
--- In cadintoshmac@yahoogroups.com, Rowland Carson wrote:
> At 2005-01-07 19:33 +0000 Thorsten Lemke wrote:
>
> >--- In cadintoshmac@yahoogroups.com, Rowland Carson wrote:
>
> > > No change in the peculiar behaviour of ellipse objects, either
> >> (reported several times). Elliptical arcs are not saved correctly to
> >> .DXF files, and their start and end angles cannot be specified
> >> correctly with respect to any other drawn objects.
> >DXF R12 do not support ellpies. That is the reason.
>
> Thorsten - I have e-mailed you direct with sample files (also for the
> Eppler file problem). The comments above relate to 2 separate
> problems - I should probably not have combined them.
>
> (1) DXF export of ellipses:
>
> Ellipses get converted into x-lines (splines) when exported to DXF;
> you say this is because the version of DXF does not support ellipses,
> and I cannot argue with that. However, the orientation of the x-lines
> in the .DXF is often (but not always, see my sample files) mirrored
> from what it was in the .CAD file. This is more obvious if elliptical
> arcs are drawn, not full ellipses. For instance, an elliptical arc in
> CAD with the open end at the left will show in the DXF with the open
> end at the right; that is, mirrored about its centre, or rotated 180
> degrees.
>
> (2) Inability to define ellipse arc terminations with respect to
> other drawn objects:
>
> I have mentioned this on a number of previous occasions. I first
> encountered the problem when trying to draw formers with outlines
> which were partly elliptical and partly straight lines. These
> problems are also illustrated in the CAD file I sent to you.
>
> I am making this reply to the list in addition to sending you the
> files direct, as I think the list does not allow attachments.
>
> regards
>
> Rowland
> --
> | Wilma & Rowland Carson
> | ... that's Rowland with a 'w' ...

RowlandCarson

Re: CADintosh 5.3b1

Post by RowlandCarson » Tue Jan 18, 2005 3:12 pm

At 2005-01-17 16:19 +0000 Thorsten Lemke wrote:
>we found and fixed the CADintosh ellpie to dxf export bug.
>I uploaded an updated beta to our iDisk: lemkesoftgmbh
Thorsten - thanks, the DXF export of ellipses seems to be working fine now.

This beta also works more correctly when changing the number of
decimal places in a dimension using the attributes tool.

With angular dimensions, it seems to work correctly (except that the
dimension is moved slightly each time a new attribute is applied.

With linear dimensions, the number of decimal places cannot be
reduced. If an incease in the number of decimal places is requested,
the result is nonsense. EG dimension originally "10.0", change
attribute to 2 decimal places, result "10.00.0".

The edit dimension tool appears to work correctly and can correct
problems such as the above example.

regards

Rowland
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| Wilma & Rowland Carson
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RowlandCarson

CADintosh beta

Post by RowlandCarson » Wed Feb 09, 2005 10:39 am

I'm not sure if I mentioned this since downloading the latest beta
from the iDisk, but I noticed that the undesirable behaviour I
reported a while back is still present - double-clicking on a .CAD
document in a Finder window when CADintosh is not running
causes CADintosh to launch and then present a "file open" dialogue
box instead of opening the file that was double-clicked.

regards

Rowland
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| Wilma & Rowland Carson
| ... that's Rowland with a 'w' ...

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