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Dear Valued Customer:
Thank you for your interest in DataCAD 14. As part of our dedication to continuous improvement and to deliver the highest quality CADD products possible, this latest upgrade includes your most requested enhancements. To get the most from DataCAD 14, please refer to the overview below. If you have any questions about DataCAD 14, contact our technical support staff at techsupport@datacad.com.
Thank you for supporting DATACAD,
Mark F. Madura
President/CEO
mark@datacad.com
Where to find the new
feature
Helpful hintsDataCAD 14 extends DataCAD 13's scale-independent settings for
text and arrows by adding dimensions, symbols, and hatching to the list of items
that can update automatically whenever you
need to change the scale of your drawing. So this latest upgrade allows
you to set all of your scale-dependent items to a predetermined size, regardless
of plot scale.
Legibility of notes and dimensions in contract documents is a top priority.
With DataCAD 14's new KnockOut property, you can make sure that background
information such as hatching never obstructs your notes and dimensions. In
addition, any entity that can be filled, such as a polyline, can also be used to
mask out a portion of your drawing.
In DataCAD 13 we introduced the ability to turn XREF
layers on or off based on GoTo Views. DataCAD 14 takes this feature a step
further by adding XREF layer highlighting and clipping boundaries so they can
also be remembered on a per GoTo View basis. With DataCAD 14, you can also
edit XClip and SClip boundaries in-place using familiar polyline editing tools;
so you don't have to redraw them to make changes.
With this upgrade, we've addressed a 3D item that has been on the wish list for
a long time; increasing the 36-sided limit of 3D entities. You can now
have up to 256 vertices on 3D polygons and slabs, and up to 128 primary and
secondary divisions on 3D entities such as spheres and contours.
I'm confident these enhancements will provide a boost to your production drawing
and modeling productivity.
In addition, here are some of the DataCAD 14 new feature highlights…
DataCAD 14 includes a new property called KnockOut which you can use to hide
information that is behind the portion of the drawing you want to appear
unobstructed. This feature is particularly useful when adding text or
dimensions which you want to display over hatching. You can apply the
KnockOut property to Text, including MText and PText, Associated Dimensions, 2D
Arcs, Circles, and Ellipses, Polylines, 3D Polygons and Slabs.
Enable [F8] KnockOut in the Text menu or [S8] in the Dimension, Text Style menu.
Select the 2D Cavity Settings tab in the Wall Type Manager.
Select the Cap Settings tab in the Wall Type Manager.
Select 'Master Wall' when prompted during X, L, and T intersection cleanup.Enable
Text Scale and Lock Size via the Dimension Text Style menu.
Enable Symbol Scale and Lock Size while inserting a symbol.
Enable Lock Size via the Hatching, Hatch Type menu.Add
as many as 256 vertices while creating 3D polygons and slabs.
Define
as many as 128 Primary and Secondary Divisions while creating 3D Curves,
Cylinders, Cones, Spheres, Tori, Contours, Mesh Surfaces, and Revolved Surfaces.Select
Edit from the XClip or SClip menu and the polyline editing tools will
automatically appear.
The layout of the Layer Manager has been adjusted to provide a smaller minimum width.
- Pen Sorting can now be disabled via the Print/Plot menu.
- DataCAD 14 allows you to export to either SketchUp 7 or SketchUp 8 format.
- A 'Zoom %' option has been added to the Multi-view Window context menu.
- Enabled dynamic mouse panning button combination Left Mouse Button + Right Mouse Button