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Any news out there? Was wondering if smeone could give an update about when V12 will be released. Are there any other new features/functions to be included with V12 that we haven't heard about?

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Giuseppe

Hello Giuseppe,

No firm date, but at the DBUG presentation last week, Mark Madura said that they are working at squashing bugs and updating the DWG capabilities. Beta 87 was the current version at that time, so you can see that things have been proceeding with all possible speed.

Thanks for the update Neil.

Giuseppe

Is there any more late breaking news?

Anyone?

Hello,

Here's what you have been waiting for!

http://forum.datacad.com/viewtopic.php?t=5358&highlight=

Great news. I hope to read about or see video of the presentation with all the various features.

Giuseppe

Does the debut of V12 mean that all beta testing is done? If so is there any word as to when V12 will be available to purchase?

Hello Giuseppe,

Beta is today at the 104 (under)version and is named as "one of the last beta's".
There is some time required to fix all the minor problems still present in the software, but the general hope by testers is (like yours) to have it available by next 4-6 weeks.

No matter which delay still will be demanded, DataCAD 12 will be great for many things that we all expected over its improvements.
It will worth by far the huge efforts spent by the Guys at Avon. All of us, users, will take the benefits of this long battle.

Thanks,
Miguel

I’m surprised that I haven’t seen anyone inquire about what was shown at the DataCAD 12 debut at Milford High School. Or did I miss it?

I was also wondering about the presentation Milford High. Anyone see it? Any comments?

Hello,

We saw Release Candidate 1, and it was an overview of what we have seen before: lots of details on the new "smart" walls, doors, and windows including built-in textures, new MSP tools including scale-dependent Pen tables, MText and ParaText, new snapping tools including an Offset snap, SketchUp tools, etc. Lots of new things...

We heard about timing and pricing: it should be released in 2-4 weeks, and it will cost $395 to upgrade from v11, $495 to upgrade from v10, $595 to upgrade from v9, and $795 to upgrade from v8.5 or earlier -- and there will be a 10% discount for an introductory period. There will be an LT version, but the timing and pricing are not determined yet.

More details will be forthcoming in the DBUG meeting notes -- I'm going only from memory and what others have already posted.

Thanks Neil

In one of the DBUG digests (#71), Mike Smith mentioned that v12 will have a “Save as v11” option. Does that mean the .aec file format is changing? Will v11 be able to open v12 without first doing a save as from 12?

Just curious because we have a few people in the office that use LT11 to view our plans. I’m wondering if they will be out of luck until LT12 comes out.

Thanks

Hello Brian,

Yes, a v12 AEC file cannot be opened with v11, so if you need to work on a drawing in v11 after working on it in v12, then you have to use this Save As V11 AEC option. Any Smart Entities in the file will be converted to 2D and/or 3D equivalents.