What's NEW in CMS IntelliCAD® 7.1

CMS IntelliCAD 7.1 is a maintenance release that contains many improvements since the IntelliCAD 7.0 release, while also including performance enhancements throughout in areas such as printing, zooming, multiline text, and .pdf file export. CMS IntelliCAD 7.1 also supports new features: attach .dgn files, drag-and-drop layouts between drawings, invert image clips (raster image support is available in Professional versions), and more.

CMS IntelliCAD 7.1 integrates Open Design Alliance Teigha® version 3.4.1 released earlier this year.

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Interactive Graphic Elements
• Selection crossing/window shows transparent colorization.
• Selected entities appear in color during dragging.
• Point indicators to help in graphics creation (e.g., when drawing a 3-point circle).
• Paperspace sheet color.
• Automatic creation of mview viewport on initial activation of Layout tab.

User Interface
• Pulldown menus include support for re-organized commands and the display of icons.
• Several dialogs include 24-bit icons or have been re-written.
• New docking properties pane with the ability to pin or hide the window.
• IntelliCAD Drawing Explorer is enhanced with 24-bit icons, improved layer handling with multi-select support,
icons in the list control, and improved usability.
• Improvements in handling blocks, views, dimensions, and text styles.
• Improvements to snap and selection.
• Multiple windows can be open with different views or layouts.
• Paperspace supports non-rectangular viewports.

Display Devices
• New support for choosing a display device directly from the status bar.
• Choose between DirectX, OpenGL, and the computer's default device.
• Three new system variables for managing display devices: GSCURRENT, GSPRIMARY, and GSALT.

Graphics Display
• Real-time hidden-line and shaded viewing.
• Display gradient hatches.
• Improved draw order and dragging in color.
• Non-rectangular viewports.
• Display proxies in blocks and xreferences.
• Display ADT and Civil 3D objects.
• DWF and DGN overlays.

APIs
• IntelliCAD 7 is now using DWGdirect as its internal database; the DRX interface is available for developers to create custom entities.
• Support for Visual Studio Tools for Applications or Visual Basic for Applications (PRO Edition)
• SDS/ADS now supports UNICODE.

More New Features
• Direct integration with the DWGdirect libraries allows for faster ODA updates.
• New Page Setup Manager.
• Enhanced Print dialog.
• Export STL files.
• LAYBYENT command allows you to select an entity to control layer settings or VPLayer settings.
• REFEDIT command allows you to edit blocks even if they are in external drawings (Xrefs).
• GSCURRENT allows you to change graphics display devices.
• Options dialog allows you to change languages on the fly.
• Dozens of new hatch patterns.
• New FEEDBACK command for users to send in feedback.
• Direct access to Developer Help from the Help menu.
• Direct access to the User Guide PDF from the Help menu.
• Support for visual styles.
• New 3D orbit command for easier dynamic rotation and 3D viewing.
• New dimension styles.
• Ability to display print styles in paper space
• Support for associative dimensions
• Support for relative paths for images and Xreferences.

Performance Enhancements
• Opening and saving files.
• Real-time rotating, hidden line, and shading.
• Double buffer display.
• Because DWGdirect is the database, more modern data structures are used which are faster (maps and
vectors verses arrays).
• Demand loading features as DRX applications, including the Properties pane, IntelliCAD Explorer, External
Reference Manager, Image Manager, solids creation/editing, mesh entity creation, and more.
• The drawing database is persistent and this speeds access for saving, printing, layout issues, etc.

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Performance enhancements
Performance has been enhanced considerably when using real-time zoom, real-time pan, opening and saving drawings.

Depending on the hardware configuration, running CMS IntelliCAD plus opening a 10Mb .dwg file will take about 10 seconds to load.

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Toolbar and menu icons
The IntelliCAD user interface has been enhanced with new 24-bit icons for all color toolbar icons and menus.

Use polar tracking
Polar tracking is a new tool used to help you draw with precision. When polar tracking is turned on, guides display on the screen automatically at specified polar angle increments.

Check the spelling of text
You can check the spelling of single-line text, multiline text, paragraph text, attributes, attribute definitions, and dimension text. Additional features include loading dictionaries from different sources, including various languages, and adding your own words to a custom dictionary.

Copy multiple entities
Now it’s easier to copy multiple entities. IntelliCAD defaults to prompting for additional copies of selected entities during the Copy command.

Work with additional image formats
The number of image formats available for drawings has been expanded. You can include images in the following formats: ECW, JPG 2000, ERS, ALG, HDR, DAT, DOQ, FST, NTF, ASC, IMG, DEM, DDF, DT0 and DT1, and HDF (including MET, L1R, and L1G).

Layer toolbar
You can now use the Layer toolbar to specify layout-specific layer settings. The Layer toolbar also displays more text, making it easier to use large layer lists.

Customize the status bar and menus using DIESEL
You can use DIESEL from the command line, in MNU menu files, and in LISP to customize the status bar and menus.
Use new and enhanced system variables

New or enhanced system variables include: AUTOSNAP, COPYMODE, DCTCUST, DCTMAIN, DCTMAINPATH, DIMTFAC, POLARADDANG, POLARANG, POLARDIST, POLARMODE, SNAPTYPE, and TRACKPATH.

What was New in IntelliCAD 6.4

IntelliCAD 6.4 uses the latest advances in the Open Design Alliance v2.2 libraries, in order to allow compatibility Autodesk® DWG™ format with , which is widely supported by commercial software vendors, and the engineering community.   IntelliCAD 6.4 utilizes the new Open Design Alliance libraries to interpret the updated .dwg 2007 file format. IntelliCAD 6.4 will read, display, and write .dwg 2007 files, which include 10 new entity types and over 80 new system variables.

Although the focus of v6.4 development has centered on .dwg 2007 file compatibility, other major enhancements can be found in this release:

• A new color book editor provides the ability to effectively organize, create, and edit color books.
• Improved user interface for PDF export provides more flexible output options.
• Dozens of new events and a new ApplicationPreferences object were added to the COM API.
• A new Code Page Manager command allows you to convert drawings or set your code page language preferences when opening drawings.
• Multiple enhancements for raster image handling include:
  • Improved user interface
  • 4x increase in display performance for large images
  • Lower memory footprint for large images
  • Improved performance for drawings with a large number of images
  • Better support for monochrome images
  • New COM API for creating and manipulating image entities

In addition to the new features and .dwg 2007 file support, hundreds of repairs and minor improvements were added as well, including:

• Setup now supports Microsoft Windows Vista™
• Draworder enhancements for blocks and external references
• Viewport enhancements, including locking viewports and assigning a UCS for viewports
• Snapping to model space entities from paper space; picking model space entities from paper space for creating dimensions and other dimensioning improvements
• The Paste command allows you to specify an insertion point
• Performance improvements with drawings containing large meshes
• Improved performance and reduced screen flicker when using dynamic zoom and pan
• The Tangent-Tangent-Tangent option is now available for circle creation