#sccs "@(#)bc_svpk80.dc 80.72 03/10/10 SIGMA 8.0" /* Copyright 1986-2003 by Sigma Design. Note: 1. BuildersCAD software updates are cumulative. You need to install only the latest update over the BuildersCAD 80 from the release CD. 2. Update Notes listed below are in reverse chronological order. Table of Contents: (in reverse chronological order) Update 4 Various Adjustments (reissued as spin#287) Update 4 Various Adjustments (reissued as spin#286) Update 4 CORRECTIONS AND MODIFICATIONS (spin#278). Update 3c PATCHES (spin#239). Update 3 NEW FEATURES AND ENHACEMENTS. Update 2 CORRECTIONS AND MODIFICATIONS. Update 1 CORRECTIONS AND MODIFICATIONS. ====================================================================== Update 4 Various Adjustments (reissued as spin#287) ====================================================================== 4-93. More plotter drivers specific adjustment. 4-94. Fixed "Array elt used before set" in generating bottom plate drawings 4-95. More corrections to drag fence box if workplane is set. 4-96. Corrected "Message or Augument list too long" errors. ====================================================================== Update 4 Various Adjustments (reissued as spin#286) ====================================================================== 4-84. Corrected command line buffer stack so it won't overflow. 4-85. Fine-tuned plotting to accommodate user specific situations. 4-86. Fixed match entity parameters for text font on dimensioning. 4-87. Corrected to allow drag fence box if workplane is set. 4-88. Set entity RI Library as current when doing Match Parameters on a Repeated Item. 4-89. Miscellaneous core adjustments. 4-90. Corrected bottom_plate plotting discrepancy. 4-91. Corrected opening insertion in corner condition. 4-92. Added j_unloadall and GNOCUSTOMIZATION for diagnosis and trouble shooting. ====================================================================== BuildersCAD 8.0.4 Release Notes ====================================================================== 4-1. All plates in the custom wall routine now have any mitering that was present when the framing was created preserved for future saved versions of custom wall. Mitering of custom wall plates should now be reported properly on the Panel Elevation routine and the Bottom Plate drawings. Dimensioning for mitered plates in the Bottom Plate drawings should now report properly as should the wall length field. 4-2. Opening sub-component board label fields on bottom plates is now set to double columns if the number of board labels is > 7. Also opening boards were fixed for grouping and sorting behavior. This fixes overstrikes on the bottom plate drawings caused by too many board label fields. 4-3. The Parts Layer Manager is fixed to sync up with changed parts category names. 4-4. The Parts Layer Manager is fixed so colors and pens will sync up with changed parts category names. 4-5. Wall insert off reference point command now defaults to drag after reference point is selected. This allows user to continue with a run of walls by selecting a wall corner with F11 or start a new run using New Reference to reference off the end of an existing wall run. 4-6. BuildersCAD will not allow use of Board Piece Names numbered > 49. 4-7. Addressed the problem with top plate overlaps on panels with a base offset and matching panel height with adjacent panels. 4-8. Restore current panel length and base rise info when framing a single panel in the alter wall menu. 4-9. Fix panel lengths report when there is a space in the grusr name. 4-10. Board pieces 27 and 28 that are unused on the board piece names menu now give an error when selected. 4-11. Fixed board length and nominal sizing problems. 4-12. Changed drawing selection to mn_pjselect 4-13. Changed open button to use mn_pjselect 4-14. Panel elevation drawings for double mitered walls now label boards properly. 4-15. The default dormer opening symbol no longer has to be present in the openings data file in order for the default dormer to be generated properly. 4-16. Creation of Builderscad thumbnails now save the associated application data, application level, wall level and current work layer. These parameters are restored when the thumbnail is selected from the open database menu. Existing thumbnails which currently have no application data associated with them can be updated to the current method by selecting them and updating them. Keep in mind that the desired application must be selected and active when making a new thumbnail or updating an existing one in order for the application data to be automatically associated with it. 4-17. Text being edited is now selected to the associated library file rather than the font position (#ftxfont). 4-18. Fixed RI archiver to avoid duplicated entries and corrected attribute data archiving. 4-19. Text being edited is now selected to the associated library file rather than the font position (#ftxfont). 4-20. A problem was resolved with "Edit Paragraph" on text created prior to the installation of Update #3, that would cause the text font to change to a generic font. 4-21. The BuildersCAD parts application now properly re-sorts parts category colors, pens and layers selections when the unused category names are changed. 4-22. A problem was resolved that caused the text in a paragraph placed with color and pen set to None and then edited (even with Status Menu color and pen set to None) to spontaneously change to pen and color 1. 4-23. A problem was resolved that caused the break points of an edited line to shift slightly on the Y axis. Note rounding would have to be set to 4 decimals to detecte the shift. 4-24. When cutting viewports and defining the cut with the fixed size method the cursor is now initially positioned to the current database reference point. 4-25. Prior to this update the RI node snap cursor rotation was not functioning. When placing an RI using Node Snap (under the More button), the bracket keys should now work, allowing you to rotate the RI on the cursor before placement. 4-26. Prior to this update the Plot menu clear doesn't unhighlight the Plot button on the Desktop menu. The Plot button now should unhighlight when either the Title Bar or the "X" on the plot menu is selected, clearing the menu. 4-27. User defined 3d layers can now be displayed on the 3d display menu and can be automatically called when creating elevations. The 3-D layers that can be designated by the user are layers 901-910. 4-28. Panel renumbering now correctly remembers custom wall data. It was discovered that the association between the panel and the custom wall data file of a panel could be lost if a wall of a lesser number was split and then the panels were renumbered for the level. This has been fixed. 4-29. Zoom in (:zmi) and Display All (:da) have been altered to automatically restore the current window and search criteria after the display. This was previously causing a temporary loss of the current entity filter during the editing of a drawing. 4-30. When using the load command and being prompted to load individual layers read-only, an option for 'Yes to all' has been added which automatically loads all the remaining layers that must be loaded read-only. 4-31. The Notes feature external text editor file is now written to disk with a unique file name eliminating a conflict bug with multiple ARRIS sessions or X windows. 4-32. The :mn_getfil "Browse" program slidebar number has been changed to not conflict with other menus which may be present when this menu is used. 4-33. The Project Page List Manager and Project Page Select menus now properly recognize BuildersCAD thumbnails. 4-34. Correction - Plan View - Does not alter status of Entity Selection for single edits. 4-35. Correction - Query of dimensions now reports the correct font stored for the dimension text. 4-36. Correction - Wall Utilities -> Copy Level - Status of cursor is automatically restored. 4-37. Correction - Wall Utilities - Rotate Area - Status of cursor is automatically restored. 4-38. A problem with "Array element used before set" error when more than 12 fonts are loaded has been fixed. 4-39. Selection of font names are now limited to 16 characters. 4-40. Disabled loading font from directories other than SYS: USR: STD: 4-41. Corrections for dimension font handlings. Added proper data initialzation and avoided duplicated loading. 4-42. Modified pack database to cleanup unwanted path in lt filenames. 4-43. Recovered a few NOTE commands that were left out in the previous Update. 4-44. Updated samples/01000.pj/arrisdat.dir/pagelist.tx for thumbnails. 4-45. Text Font Pager (:mn_pager) now uniquely sorts all text font libraries with no duplicate entries. All current libraries are dynamically displayed each time the menu is selected. 4-46. Corrected a material report printing problem caused by usernames that contain SPACE characters. 4-47. Added utility to convert text inside RI created in verison 7 to 8.0 format. j_ritxto80 automatically scans all ri's in the named library. Places each ri in the database. Freezes the ri. Packs the ri. Scans the ri for text that does not have a font library associated with any text strings. If it finds an ri text string that does not have a font associated with it, the ri will be rejected and the name will be saved to a logfile. All other ri's will be recreated and the library will be automatically updated. This program must be used in noname.db. The user is responsible for having all necessary font libraries loaded in the proper font locations as the previous version for proper conversions to occur. At the end of the conversion process BuildersCAD will generate a list of unconverted ri's on the screen. 4-48. Corrected problem that prevented generation of bottom plate drawings when graphic entities exist on wall work layer. 4-49. Corrections for wall extrude problem caused by openings with adjacent edges, horizontally and vertically. Better interference checking is implemented and a minimum gap is imposed. 4-50. Enforced the maximum namelength for RI to 12 characters (not including the extensions), during creation and archiving. Issue ERROR message when invalid RI names are encountered druing loading. 4-51. Switched BuildersCAD (Windows version) build to Windows XP/VC6.5. (spin#260) 4-52. Inserting a dimension into a running dimension will now allow the user to insert more than one dimension into a string of dimensions. 4-53. Global dimensioning by level, area and single can now be accessed via the Cycle Menu>>Utilities>>Dim popup. The parameters established on the setup menu will be the ones in effect. 4-54. Interior dimensioning can now be selected from the Cycle Menu>>Utilities>>Dim popup. The parameters established on the setup menu will be the ones in effect. 4-55. Dimensions placed on panel elevation drawings can now be selected via select entity parameters to set the dimension parameters. This will only work on those elevation drawings created with update #4. 4-56. Initial floor and roof level selection problems have been addressed to ensure better reliability when selecting roof or floor levels. 4-57. Fixed plot-to-file for Windows XP. 4-58. Addressed a problem that caused breaking a circle or arc to move it to the work layer. 4-59. Symbols 30 and 31 (Line Wide and Line Normal respectively) have been added to the leader pointer symbols available for Paragraph Text. They may be selected by toggling to them on the Pointer Leader Symbol box on the Paragraph Text Status menu. 4-60. A new utility :j_rirename has been added to locate and convert Repeated Item names which contain illegal characters or are too long. This utility is documented in the Utilities topic of the BuildersCAD Encyclopedia. 4-61. BuildersCAD Drag/Input wall feature has been streamlined and now displays the drag input distance values directly on the popup menu. The user no longer needs to call up a separate menu to input the values. An X and Y distance feature has been added that automatically calculates the angle and distance based on the plus or minus X/Y values that have been input. 4-62. Corrected geometric routines that calculate line colinearity, perpendicularity and adjusted floating point data handling that causes data inaccuracy after breaking lines. 4-63. Trim/Extend roof plane will now trim properly when a shared edge such as a roof ridge is present. The program drops the plane definition from the shared edge and adds a new edge for the edited plane. 4-64. There was a sporadic problem with the edit function Move Wall that would only move one end. This has been fixed. 4-65. A flickering of the Wall and Opening edit menus once an entity was selected has been fixed. 4-66. The Make Thumbnail function has been replaced on the Job/Database menu with the BCAD bookshelf, a button that opens the Bcad Bookshelf in Adobe Acrobat Reader. Users are encouraged to use the Make Thumbnail selection from the File drop down or Save drop down menus so that the current application such as Walls, Parts etc can be restored when loading from a Thumbnail. 4-67. The ouput to file functions have been revised on the plot menu to use the current drawing name for the plot file name as an initial default. The Other File option (.plt default) now accepts selection of the file name on the plot menu. 4-68. Corrected Entity Selection by Complex Window Area In in Edit/Move. 4-69. Force re-selection of break point for proper operation with wall split. 4-70. The Repeated Item Catalog Manager now correctly creates the ricat.dir directory if it is not present while creating a new catalog. 4-71. Alter Wall > Wall Base Offset - Two new default menu selections have been added. - 11 1/2" and -1'-2 1/8". Additionally the program now "remembers" the last Wall Base Offset entered and adds it as the default selection for the next wall selected. 4-72. When placing walls with Drag or XY Input method the user is now given the choice of continuing an existing run of walls by selecting F4. If F4 is selected the user is prompted to select the wall end to continue from with F11. When the wall end is selected the system automatically joins the wall ends to continue the run of walls. If F4 was not selected when starting the wall, the wall is input at the exact input point given by the user with no automatic joining if there happen to be wall ends adjacent to the start point. 4-73. Modified to disable highlighting of color button during copy operation. 4-74. Corrected data in global.icg/pm_rtpl8.tx. Corrected data in roof.dir/rf_pspec.tx. 4-75. Include Rainbow Sentinel Driver 5.41.1. and a updated Authcode Manager. Include Rainbow Sentinel Driver Cleanup Utility (SSDcleanup.exe) for use when driver uninstallation failed due to "network resource Unavailable" 4-76. Enhancements for better PDF creation. (driver type dependent). 4-77. Added Sound toggle in User Preferences. 4-78. Fixed font display for manual dimensions. 4-79. Corrected ERRLOG stack and made error trace log ON for save as default. 4-80. BuildersCAD custom wall lines menu will allow the user to create multiple custom wall lines during a session. Wall widths that were in effect when the new custom wall line is named are now preserved. The option MODIFY/CREATE has been changed to WALL LINE DEFINITIONS MENU because the user must select an existing custom wall line from this menu in order create a new one. 4-81. Fixed the Notes command to properly restore the user cursor setting at the end of note placement. 4-82. Added a "Points" option to the scale factor set on the Copy and Edit menus which allows setting the scale factor by selecting 4 points. The first two points entered establish a baseline distance and the second two points determine a new scale distance. The scale is the ratio of new scale distance divided by baseline distance. 4-83. the edit window has been changed to automatically detect the current workplane settings and use the appropriate logic for placing complex windows or box windows. If an F10 is selected when placing the window, the options, 'workplane box' and 'workplane complex' are no longer offered for a special fence. Instead, the program automatically detects the current workplane settings and uses the appropriate logic. This prevents user error by applying the inappropriate selection BOX without paying attention to the workplane settings. ====================================================================== UPDATE3 PATCHES ====================================================================== Update 3c: Corrections. (patched 03/19/2003) 3c-1. Changed so *@lt defined in drwings/sheets will always get loaded regardless of versions of database. [critical] 3c-2. cleaned up font menu to avoid redundant LT loading on demand. [non-critical] 3c-3. Corrected check for arrisdat.dir in Notes Parameter settings. [non-critical] 3c-4. Updated z_arris.nc. [critical] Update 3b: Corrections. (patched 03/17/2003) 3b-1. Corrected missing :sca and :rta commands in smfile.sys [non-critical] Update 3a: Corrections. (patched 03/13/2003) 3a-1. Adjusted loading sequence for LT(font) migration from pre-80 database. [critical] ====================================================================== Update 3 NEW FEATURES AND ENHACEMENTS. ====================================================================== 3-1. Addition of the Notes feature. 3-2. Addition of eZview as standard feature. 3-3. Update of the Project List Manager 3-4. Update of the Project Page List Manager 3-5. Addition of a Delete Section option/button 3-6. Additional width and depth sizes were added to the default choices for board edit. 3-7. Added the ability to specify a z elevation for Stair placement. 3-8. Bcad generates floor and roof board label list as grid. 3-9. Can now insert blocking in floors or roofs spaning an unlimited number of joists or rafters. Previously you couldn't insert blocking that spaned more than 8 boards. 3-10. The Floor Application now searches and turns off uneeded layers such as Roofs, Section, and Materials layers. 3-11. The method BuildersCAD uses to select an external text editor has been modified to resolve some problems and be in line with ARRIS core function. The External Editor button has been removed from the Startup pop-up menu. The text editor is now determined by the GEDCOM variable as it is set in the Config (arris.ini) file. The default text editor is Notepad. You can add a entry that re-defines the variable GEDCOM to direct BuildersCAD to use your favorite program as an external text editor. For example, to enable BuildersCAD to use Wordpad add the entry GEDCOM=C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\Wordpad.exe Depending on the Windows version, the path to Wordpad.exe may be different on your PC. Verify it before you add this new entry, otherwise it will not work. Also note that modification of the text editor require manual adjustments for column alignment in reports if text font is not equal-spaced. 3-12. Now BuildersCAD start with the Caps setting for Text set to On. Since most notes are entered as all caps this enables users to enter notes without being forced to use the Caps Lock key on the keyboard. If you prefer that BuildersCAD start with the Caps setting for text in the Off position you can add the following entry to the Config (arris.ini) file: GCAPLOCKOFF=yes ====================================================================== Update 3 CORRECTIONS AND MODIFICATIONS ====================================================================== The following problems were addressed in Update #3: 3-13. Walls with openings outside the wall envelope will now be skipped during the extrusion process when creating elevations or 3D walls. All other walls will now be extruded. An error message will be displayed reporting that some walls were not extruded. 3-14. Autosave now stores floor and roof board information properly so the Recover from Autosave function now works reliably even when working with roof or floor boards. 3-15. 3D stairs are now placed in the correct location even when placing stairs with a rotation. 3-16. Domer program automatically checks for current walls elevation higher than input point. 3-17. Addresses a problem that would cause Roof Markers to disappear on version 7 databases if you loaded to Roof Application to view the roof but exited BuildersCAD without saving. You can restore the Markers with the command "fixrfm". 3-18. Addresses a problem with the Update program that caused version 7 Roof Marker names to disappear when loaded in version 8. 3-19. Insert Dimension tool under the Utilities button on the Cycle menu now works correctly. 3-20. A problem was corrected that caused Opening RI libraries to display incorrectly if they were not located in either the program folder or in the graphics user folder. 3-21. Duplicate NOH Roof Markers were eliminated in the default Rood.dir folder. 3-22. Problems were addressed that caused Toolbar icons and text to disappear. 3-23. Problems were addressed that in some instances caused duplicate font entries in the font table. This could result in inconsistent font displays. 3-24. At load time Bcad looks at master.dr and eliminates duplicate font entries in the font table. 3-25. A problem was addressed that might cause an "illegal table number" error when splitting walls. 3-26. An icon to access the new Notes feature was added to the Foundation Drawing Tools Menu. 3-27. A problem was addressed that might cause an "array elt used before set" when attempting to generate an opening schedule. 3-28. A problem was addressed so that now the Delete Database function available in graphics works properly and removes the database folder from the hard drive. ====================================================================== Update 2 CORRECTIONS AND MODIFICATIONS. ====================================================================== The following problems were addressed in this Update: 2-1. Copy to Clipboard, now allows a copy when there are a large number of entities. 2-2. Problems that were a result of modifying the Colors/Pens settings in the Parts Application have been address. 2-3. Prior to Update #2, if Copy Standards at Startup was checked and GRSTD wasn't checked Bcad copied folders and over wrote existing folders. The user would end up with empty project folders. 2-4. Now Materials Edit tools allow you to erase a specific schedule number. Prior to Update #2 selecting the Erase button under Schedule gave a "Point Value Expected" prompt. 2-5. Prior to Update #2 trim of angled walls (if lap wasn't set to mitered) caused connecting wall to shift. 2-6. Prior to Update #2 Briefcase Takeout didn't include Custom Wall framing files (*.cw) when copy/creating a takeout folder. 2-7. Prior to Update #2 going to Drawing Tools in the Floor Application, and selecting the RI menu displayed the version 7 Sub-menu instead of the version 8 menu. 2-8. You now able to type in Part name to select a Part after the Type/Category is slected. 2-9. Prior to Update #2 there were several problems within a database that would generate the "illegal table number" error message. 2-10. Prior to Update #2 there was a persistent problem with the display of some wall intersections. That type of problem can now be corrected with the Fix Intersection utility now available in Walls Utilities. 2-11. Prior to Update #2 there was a problem with using Wall or Floor Application Drawing Tool lines as a reference for outlining floor planes. 2-12. The problem with Crosshatch Move Origin edit tool has been addressed. 2-13. Prior to Update #2 if you froze Crosshatch and then deleted it entities that weren't visible would remain on the layer. 2-14. Prior to Update #2 going to Drawing Tools when on Parts Level A would put you on layer 3000, Parts Level B Drawing Tools put you on layer 3405. This was a problem with Appliance and Cabinet Categories. 2-15. Prior to Update #2 Roof Planes added through the Add a Plane tool would not frame properly. You had to remake the plane to frame it properly. 2-16. Prior to Update #2 generating Wall Panel Elevation drawings by Range didn't work. 2-17. A problem with placement of Crosshatching inside walls between openings was resolved. 2-18. BuildersCAD now correctly saves Bcad the Plot Ref Point in a sub-folder, views.dir. 2-19. Prior to Update #2 the Erase button on the cycle menu was using the Areas Some In edit filter. BuidersCAD version 7 used the Area In filter. This caused the function to work differently. The filter now defaults to Area In although you can manually change the filter, going to the Scissors Edit menu, to Area Some In. 2-20. Prior to Update #2 there was a rounding problem in Auto Dimension function. User had to set the Omit Dimension parameter to 3 5/8" to omit 3 1/2" dimension. 2-21. Prior to Update #2 you had to touch on Windows opening group before you can add a Dormer or you would get an error message, "1846DH Opening Not Found". 2-22. Prior to Update #2 the select entity - Match Parameters button didn't work for text. 2-23. Update #2 address a problem with the Rename option selected from the Save icon. 2-24. Prior to Update #2 setting the GRSTD varialble didn't work for locating RI's for user defined Parts. 2-25. Prior to Update #2 *.pdv files were created in the Windows folder. Now they are correctly created in the graphics user folder. 2-26. Prior to Update #2 there was a problem with one of the Insert Wall tools. It failed when attempting to use the Auto-extend option or the Man-extend option. 2-27. There are problems with Wall Piece Names no. 27 and 28. BuildersCAD now prevents use of these two Piece Names. 2-28. A problem is correct with "ghost" text that appeared when entering text with a leader line. 2-29. Pre-80 font designation found in customized RI from 7.0 BuildersCAD 8 recognizes text fonts only by their font name and no longer uses the alphabet character handle. Text inside repeated items created prior to version 8.0 will still contain the alphabet handle until they are remade in in version 8.0. For transition purposes in order to map fonts to letters for exsisting V71 RI's, the load command has been altered to automatically create associations between an existing font letter and an existing lettering font. The user controls this by creating a file oldfont.txt using their favorite text editor. The format of the file is one single line record of two fields for each font that is to be mapped. The first field is the font name. The second field is a single lower case letter (a-z or 0). Each file should look similar to the following example with no spaces: eqsp.lt;a block.lt;b This format must be strictly adhered to in order for the program to work correctly.The program first checks in the current database for oldfont.txt, if not found, it checks the User Home Directory (GRUSR) if not found there, it checks the Standard Directory (GRSTD). If no file is found it skips the mapping process. The program checks for the existence of the lettering font in BCAD80/lib, the User Home Directory (GRUSR) and in the Standard Directory (GRSTD) and maps it to the appropriate letter. This is a temporary mechanism implemented just for the transition. ====================================================================== Update 1 CORRECTIONS AND MODIFICATIONS. ====================================================================== The following problems were addressed in this Update: 1-1. Changing sub-layers in the Materials>>Floors>>Application sub-menu will no longer cause the sub-menu to fracture. 1-2. Ceiling planes are now enabled in the Roofs Application. 1-3. Prior to the update if you added a Roof plane using the Plane Add tool and then added a dormer, BuildersCAD would use the number of the single plane you added in the dormer. This would corrupt Roof framing. 1-4. Prior to the update an attempt to label roof boards might result in a "division by zero" error message. 1-5. You can now send Board Reports to the External Editor, the Printer or to file, and not get a "Report not found" error message. 1-6. Prior to the update an attempt to generate a shed roof in the Roofs Application may have resulted in the generation of an extra random edge. 1-7. Prior to the Update if you loaded a database that already had a roof generated and attempted to add a "Roof" (formerly know as a module) BuildersCAD assigned the new outline to module I regardless of which module should be next in order. 1-8. A problem has been addressed that caused the Materials Application to generate an error "invalid command st_stflg" if you attempted to run a Materials Report with Stairs set to YES in the Materials Report Template. 1-9. A problem was resolved that caused the use of Quick Roof with some outline configurations to generate an "array elt used before set" message. 1-10. A number of problems with the input or edit of angled walls are addressed. 1-11. The wall type EXTNLB will now frame properly. 1-12. You can now generate 3D walls on Wall Levels that exceed a total count of 100 wall panels. Prior to the update you would get an error message "Error: bad postion." 1-13. Prior to the Update a 3D wall extrude would turn on the 2D sheathing layer. 1-14. Some problems have been resolved with Floor Board editing. 1-15. You can now use the right mouse button to add custom commands to the Tool Bar. 1-16. You can now use the Create button to add Beam Pockets in the standard opening group. 1-17. Beams pockets in the Standard Opening group now frame properly. 1-18. A problem was addressed with the Dormer Tool that would cause dormer walls to be created in 11000 series layers. Now they create on the last wall Level selected. 1-19. A problem was addressed that prevented some users on Windows 2000 or XP from creating RI's. 1-20. A problem was resolved that would delete a Wall Framing rule if an existing set was copied to an existing name. 1-21. Prior to the update the RI scale parameter would not display if you selected on the RI icon in Elevation Drawing Tools. 1-23. In the Roofs Application you now have the ability to Add Fascia to existing roof plane edges. 1-24. Prior to the Update, when toggling Materials>>Floors, from one Sub-Level to another the Drawing Tools button disappeared. If you tried to pick where the button was you got a "point off active screen" error message. 1-25. In the Wall Label pop-up menu, the small circle was replaced with the triangle with text below icon. 1-26. You are now able to save an Soffit Offset value in the Roof NOH Eave Marker. 1-27. Prior to the Update, Create Outline in the Subcomponent pop-up menu would turn off the REL button/feature. 1-28. Prior to the Update application of Materials to floor plane on Sub-Level one would place the Marker outside the plane. 1-29. You can now assign a Roof Board Edge Marker selecting the Any Type edge type. 1-30. In the Floors Application, the miscelleneous lines layer will remain on with the walls layer when outlining areas to create floor planes. 1-31. A problem with report of board lengths when walls were Custom Framed and had the top or bottom plate raked was resolved. 1-32. To set a location for Office Standards folders (such as pn_std.wf or global.icg) BuildersCAD indicated a need to add the variable GRSTDS to the arris.ini file as one of the Environment Defaults. This has changed. You should, instead use the variable GRSTD. This resolves a problem with the ability to use RI's in the Standards folder to make BuildersCAD Parts. 1-33. A problem was resolved that corrupted Parts Categories. The corruption occured if you used the Colors and Pen button in the Parts Application to edit default pen settings for the various Part Categories, and then went to the BuildersCAD Main menu and picked the Startup button to access Drawing Tool Defaults. If you edited the Drawing Tool Defaults for any of the Parts Categories the Category list displayed in the Select Parts menu would be corrupted. 1-34. There was a problem in Windows 2000 because BuildersCAD saved the *.pdv files in the Windows folder. Prior to the Update a user needed write permission to this folder or BuildersCAD would not retain changes in the plotter setup. Now the *.pdv files are saved in the graphics user folder. 1-35. A problem was addressed with Plot Reference Point and where the file is saved. BuildersCAD looks in View.dir but was saving it directly in the database folder. 1-36. In some databases users may have seen a problem, getting an "array elt used before set" error message when trying to execute a Save command. Prior to this Update problems with the Dormer tool may have generated layers 11001 and 11002. If you got this error message check for these layers. If they exist you should delete them. 1-37. There was a problem using Wall Piece Names number 27 and 28. These pieces don't report properly in Wall Panel Drawings so users are not allowed to add these pieces with Custom Frame edit tools. 1-38. There was a problem with Piece Filters in Board Reports. If users attempted to create a filter that included only Plates and a database had Custom Framed some number of walls, the plates from the Custom Framed walls would not report unless the filter included Pieces From Framed Openings. This problem was corrected and in any database created after installing Update #1 all boards in Custom Framed walls will be generated as Wall Boards. However all boards in Custom Framed walls, in any database generated before installing Update #1, will still be recognized as opening boards and therefore Piece Filters must include Pieces From Framed Openings. 1-39. This Update addresses a problem with generating Wall Panel Elevation Drawings by Range. A prior attempt to generate by Range would result in the entire Level being generated. 1-40. Prior to this Update, selecting the Match Paremeters option for text, after selcting text at the Make Selection prompt, would not display the Text Application sub-menu. 1-41. Problems with copy to clipboard and/or paste from clipboard, with a large number of entities has been resolved in this Update. 1-42. The problem with ghost text appering when entering a note using the Text with Leader Line option has been resolved. 1-43. Roof planes added with Add a Plane edit tool now frame properly without the need to remake the roof plane. 1-44. A problem with text font display has been addressed. Prior to this update the text font in version 7 databases might not display correctly and the users may have noticed all text reverting to display in the sysmenu font. 1-45. A problem was addressed in the Wall Label routine. Prior to the update if the system RI library bc_mnbox was loaded, wall labels might not display properly. 1-46. A problem was addressed in Parts Drawing Tools that caused lines, text, and dimensions to be assigned to an incorrect layer in the database. 1-47. Problems in floor board editing tools were addressed with trim/extend to a double reference point, with inserting colinear boards and with assigning edge board markers in some instances. 1-48. Thumbnails now remember the application in which they were created and reload the application when selected. The work layer that was active is also restored. 1-49. Problems with mitered board lengths in custom walls and bottom plates have all been addressed. Mitered wall lengths are now reported properly in bottom plate reports. 1-50. User defined 3d layers can now be displayed on the 3d display menu and can be automatically called when creating elevations. The 3-D layers that can be designated by the user are layers 901-910. 1-51. Running wall input can now be continued when the user selects the end of the wall that he/she wishes to connect to with the F11 button. This was done in response to complaints about the automatic feature that automatically connected with the F1 button.