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Another thing I just noticed is that spaces are automatically updated when you open the macro; so you don't need to go to the refresh menu.

When I Refresh All labels, the labels on layers that are not currently on, show up until I recalculate the Display List.

For some reason, the space areas suddenly got 3 decimal places, even though I had changed it to zero.

I have just uploaded a new version of the macro (0.0.0.27). This can be downloaded from and the fixes/changes in this version are noted on that web page.

Thank you,
David H.

When I try to open the Spaces macro this morning, it is crashing DataCAD.

I reinstalled b27 and it is still crashing DataCAD.

I was able to use Spaces in the Symbol Editor. The drawing is still crashing, though. Do you want me to email it to you?

Hi Neil,

I am assuming it is only crashing the 1 drawing. Could you please send me a copy of that drawing file, and also a copy of the Spaces.ini file from your macros folder.

I have just uploaded a new beta (0.0.0.28) where I have fixed one possible crash. You may like to try , but the crash I fixed only occurs with a very specific set of circumstances and I doubt that it is the same thing causing your problem.

Thanks for reporting the issue,
David H.

I just sent the file and ini file.

After some testing with Neil's file I have been able to isolate and fix the problem.

A new version (0.0.0.29) is now available for download from

Hi David,

B29 works as it should in that drawing. Thanks for the fix.

There is a new beta (0.0.0.30) available from .
Changes are detailed on that page as usual and include better handling of locked layers and a new (separate) macro that can be used to quickly update space labels without the need to navigate the user interface of the main macro (this is for convenience only ... there is no reduction in the main macro's functionality and it will still update labels).

I think I am very close to a final version now so expect the initial release version is not too far away.

There is a new beta (0.0.0.31) available from .

Sorry that progress has been pretty slow over the last few months. There has been another issue taking a fair bit of my time, but hopefully that is now resolved.
I am currently preparing a video to demonstrate the main features of the macro and will release it once the video is complete. The main change in this latest version stems from an inconsistency that I noticed when preparing the video (the default path when I chose to base labels on a symbol was not as I expected).

Thank you.

During the installation, the upper path still just says Macros. I have to manually browse to C:/DataCAD 21/Macros. The lower path is the correct absolute path.