Prior to final product release in late Fall, General CADD Products, Inc. will be Open BETA Testing the forth coming General CADD Pro Version 6.0.
This unconventional approach to program development allows all to preview the forth coming version and affords everyone the opportunity to feedback to the program development team in real time as the version is being developed.
Current customers using the most recent released Version 5.1 of General CADD Pro can pre-purchase this new version during this BETA testing period for ½ the normal upgrade price and make use of the new features in advance of the full release.
Link to download this BETA Version http://www.generalcadd.com/downloads-BETA6.htm
Current list of new features supported by Version 6.0 :
New Tutorial Help Videos. Visit this page http://www.generalcadd.com/videos.htm
New Commands
- PI Polyline entity added.
- QS (Quick Select)
- PN (Pan Line) Pans drawing based on 2 click. Very useful lining up Viewports
- KK Cookie Cutter / 2D Booleans – demo coming – Paste after KK to see place cut portion
- BF – define boundary by Circle, rectangle, ellipse
Performance
- Major speed increase for Dimensions/Text
- Faster NP search
- Better selection rules when complex objects like Components, Fills, Hatch, and Text are on top of one another.
- Multiple Drawings and Batch Print faster
- Enitity extents are stored in drawing. Much faster load times once the drawing has been saved from GCP6.
Version Control overhaul
- VC launches dialog
- Delete after number of days
- recycle files, keep newest
- Restore VC File - strips date from filename and loads it
Viewport Enhancements
- Double click mouse inside Viewport boundary to make active
- Scroll wheel works inside Viewport when active.
OLE Server
- Insert GCP6 drawings in other Windows app as OLE objects.
- Paste GCP6 drawings as an OLE object
- OLE Copy – image support
DWG 2008
- new ACAD Import/Export Library implemented
Snapping inside Components/Viewports/Xrefs
- All snaps work inside Components/Viewports/Xrefs when GC is ON.
Double click on...
- Leader Text brings up QE
- Leader line/arrow brings up UG show only Leader settings
- Dimension Text brings up QE
- Dimension line/arrows brings up UG
Dimensions
- Text Append Linear Dimension uses Center Justify
- Multiple lines as be added to dimension text using UG or QE
- UG added Insert Chars button (like
Quick Select QS command
- click drag selection
- drag move when inside selected objects
- hold shift key while moving to copy
- RCclick to see QuickSelect.pop menu (not shift/rclick)
- QuickSelect.pop is editable
- selected objects show a quick info display in the 3rd prompt line
- (grave key) gives you quick access to QS. ` again to abort QS command.
Tabs
- Reorder by dragging tab to new location
- When the Tab scroll arrows are visiable, Double click the left arrow to jump to the first tab, right arrow for the last tab.
- Ctrl+Tab to select the next (right) tab, Ctrl+Shift+Tab to select previous (left) tab
- FS, LT, CP (and other commands that use the side menu)
- FS lists the Fonts used in the drawing at the top and displayed Red
- FS will jump the side bar down the list as you type. Hitting Enter will pick the font highlighted.
- CP will jump the side bar down the list as you type. Hitting Enter will pick the component highlighted.
- LT shows Linetype preview
- LT,
- LT rclick menu Edit/Reload/Load the Linetype file.
- LK then Tab to toggle showing the color palette or color list. Will add to other color commands if you guys like it.
Quick Edit QE
- Delay the text update on screen. A pause of 1 second while typing will update the text on screen.
Print (batch print enhancements)
- Faster redraws and tab selecting. Sending prints out is significantly fast too.
- Tab Color: this is an advanced command that allows you to color code the tabs when in DP. You can assign a color to a printer setting. Rclick tab or use the page setUp dialog
- Layout tabs can now be batch printed.
- All PDF options are inside the Print options DP,T,P
- Save Job can be called from DP
- Fast and Preview boxes have been added to the status bar. Preview when on shows print order, colormap, all to black on screen, but this causes redraw to be slower. Turning it off will still print them.
XRefs
- Handles circular referenced xrefs better; much faster
- Use all snaps inside XRefs
- XRef Manager is faster
Viewports
- Much faster display and object finding.
- Close All Tabs will leave the Model space drawing
- Active Viewport. shift/rclick menu item and pick Activate Viewport (double click inside VP to also select it). When ON the viewport will highlight its border.
- When Viewport is active
- Scroll Wheel will change only the Viewport zoom
- Auto Pan (drag middle mouse button) will pan the viewport objects
- All zoom commands can be typed in and are directly passed to the Viewport.
- Zoom Previous and Panline added
Selection Commands (MV,CO,CG,OI, all selection commands)
- implicit 'W' if you click and drag a window. Right to Left window will do a crossing if AQ>AllowCrossing ON
- we've had an implicit 'O' for some time - here as a reminder.
Filter
- Text Size (height) has been added to the filter
- More... option add that allows you to filter all available entities like Leaders, XRefs, Viewports, OLE objects
Misc
- Hatch Origin in OI
- relative distance from the ref pt.
- AQ setting to turn off the Org pt. (hide white mark at 0,0) Advanced>HideHatchOriginPt
- Using file association to launch the text editor. No longer hard coded to launch Notepad.
- Shift/rclick brings up an editable custom popup menu called Default.pop. You can add commands and macros. Same syntax as the Video menu (Line,LI;).
- Custom Commands - new option to make these commands repeatable with spacebar. See MA options.
Now the GCP6 screen size and location are saved and restored
Complete feature list http://www.generalcadd.com/v6-featurelist.htm
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