MiniCAD 7.0.3 Final Fix List

Fixed in 7.0.3

  • Text that is rotated 90 degrees ends up rotated 180 degrees from the expected result when rotated -90 degrees in MiniPascal.

  • When clicking in text in 7.0.3 betas on Windows, the data bar redraws using that text block's font and size.

  • When saving files to a network volume on Windows 95, saving fails if that volume has not been assigned a drive letter.

Fixed in 7.0.3b4

  • Interactive light aiming is broken on the Macintosh (7.0.3 beta only).

  • After using the Duplicate Array command, some extra objects are sometimes selected.

  • After locking a value in the data bar, snapping for alignments is disabled.

  • When using MiniCAD with the decimal separator set to commas, the Num2Str and Num2StrF functions do not work if the parameter is any numerical variable; the only thing that works is an integer constant.

  • Printing from Windows to a Xerox-Acolor/SM ICS prints differently than the Macintosh version.

  • When in final render modes, the drawing must be re-rendered after printing.

  • When opening certain MiniCAD 6 files in the full (non-educational) version of MC 7.0.1, the program mistakenly thinks that the files were saved by the educational version, so the "MiniCAD Educational Version" watermark appears in printouts.

  • Large MiniPascal procedures which used to compile in MiniCAD 6 run out stack space when executing in MiniCAD 7.

  • Memory allocation for reading DXF/DWG 'mtext' is handled incorrectly, giving out of memory errors even when memory is available.

  • SetTextSize SDK callback fails to reset the width of the text block properly.

  • There is a serious memory leak triggered by using the 3D cursor tool to drag a 3D object. This causes MiniCAD to crash after repeatedly dragging objects or using 3D rotation tools.

  • The perspective pop-up menu in the set 3d view dialog selects the incorrect perspective if the dialog is invoked while the drawing is in plan projection.

  • Perimeters of round rects are incorrectly calculated in the Object Info palette.

Fixed in 7.0.3b3

  • If you group walls with symbols attached and click on one of the symbols with the selection tool, MiniCAD will crash.

  • Moving an object always switches to the snap-drag cursor, even if you are not over a snap point.

  • When using the databar to constrain both the x and y coordinates of the mouse, screen hints no longer appear.

  • The chamfer tool does not set the chamfer in the proper location when the chamfer distances are unequal.

  • When printing filled arcs to postscript devices, an extra radius line is printed.

  • After printing, buttons in the interface with round corners redraw with a black background.

Fixed 7.0.3b2

  • With Windows 95B (or OS 2.1) and some newer video cards, MiniCAD leaks resources rapidly, which leads to low-memory errors.

  • With the MiniCAD windows version (7.0.1) it's not possible to create text in a different color then black. If you set the default pen foreground color for example to red and then write some text, the characters are black instead of red. On the Mac this works. Assigning a color to the text after creating the text also works.

  • EPS files appear to shift the position of lines by their line weight.

  • If you zoom in to a drawing and scroll with the arrow keys MiniCAD will have a memory leak and eventually crash.

  • Bounding boxes were incorrect when files with solids were moved between platforms.

  • Patterns don't print correctly when black background is set.

  • Custom line thicknesses do not show up in the Attribute palette when selected.

  • Color Palette & Line-colors
  1. Draw several rectangles.
  2. The line-color of the object the first drawn is red.
  3. Second drawn is yellow, Third drawn is blue ...so on.
  4. Select all.
  5. Select "Red" line-color on the line-color palette.
  6. T lines of objects do not change to Red color.

Fixed 7.0.3b1

  • Using the MiniPascal procedure PrimaryUnits() causes all symbols and walls to increase their size by a factor of 10000 thereby corrupting the drawing and eventually leading to a crash.

  • Precision is reduced unnecessarily on drawings with multiple scales and symbol definitions (not instances, definitions) that don't fit on the layer with the smallest scale. [For drawings to pick up the benefits from this fix, a field must be changed on the Units dialog, the Scale dialog, or the Drawing Size dialog that causes a recalculation of the precision.]

  • VDelete('view name') doesn't work.

  • The bounding boxes for text are not always being calculated correctly. For example, if you draw a line of c's across the page on a 1:1 layer, zoom out 3 times, add a new layer at 1:100, then go back in and look at the text, the bounding box is too large.

  • WINDOWS: Print different lines (0¡, 45¡, 90¡) of the same thickness (eg. 20 mils): they are printed with a different thickness. This has been experienced on a DesignJet & Epson printer. No problem on a postscript printer.

  • Hatches with many lines would sometimes not print to postscript devices or export to EPSF correctly.

  • Printing to some Windows drivers cause MiniCAD to hang when you hit print.

  • When all snaps have been turned off in the constraint palette, snap to objects is still active.

  • Some QD3D renderings on Windows would have thin triangles leading off to infinity.

  • Importing DXF/DWG files that have symbols with names that have more than 20 characters that begin with the same first 20 characters will import incorrectly.

  • When importing DXF/DWG files, some dimension text begins with "1;".

  • Snapping is broken for all 3D symbols in plan projection.

  • Picking is broken for all 3D symbols containing groups or group-like objects in plan projection.

  • Snapping fails randomly for 3D symbols even when in a 3D projection.

Fixed in 7.0.3b0

  • Undo for wall reshape does not allow redo.

  • Sometimes the symbol insertion tool redraws the entire screen after inserting a symbol.

  • Names of Formats and names of Record Fields can only be 20 characters long. However, there is no indication of this to the user. Longer names can be typed in but they are truncated after 20 characters. Also, new formats must have at least one field, but this is not made obvious to the user.

  • Constraint selections not stored in saved document.

  • Using the resource palette to browse in an *external* symbol library folder that is nested 2 deep or deeper, I can't 'pop-up' one level to get to another symbol definition without going up to the top of the document.

  • Can't reshape objects proportionally. Shift key constrains to symmetric (90° reshape angle).

  • Cannot draw a tangent line from a point to a circle, only from the circle to the point.

  • On greater than 24x36 drawings at 1/8" scale, after setting the grid snap to 1/8", the grid snap reverts to .13" not .125. This isn't round off of the display. The actual grid snap becomes 0.13000".

  • Align H and Align V did not appear for a while in a particular file (the necessary constraints were on). Other screen hints still worked. After I switched to a different file and switched back to the first file, Align H and Align V worked.

  • With the scale set to 1/4 and the snap to grid set to 6" and the reference grid set to 12" the constraint, snap to grid, does not work with the angle snap on.

  • 30, 60 and 45° constraints should be on by default, particularly for the sake of existing users who are used to the shift key snapping at these angles.

  • When drawing parallel lines, one may not use the smart cursor horizontal or vertical extensions to constrain the lines to the same length. The lines never appear, even if the endpoint of the previous line is a datum point and the snap to point constraint dialog has been properly set. It seems that you can briefly activate the extension line by opening a new drawing, using the Smart Cursor there and switching back.

  • Asymmetric snap grid does not rotate when grid is rotated.

  • Wall framer - If you select the wall framer options, and change the wall class with the slider at the top of the window to Exterior, the lumber will appear to automatically change to 2x6. But after you have used the framer, it only delivers a 2x4 wall. If you return to the options menu, the lumber will have re-set to 2x4 as well.

  • The callbacks GetFillPattern and SetFillPattern don't work for dimensions.

  • Export Text - An error output file created when a document export to Text format has symbols which use 'Link Text to Record.'

  • Export Text - Sometimes, color attributes do not export correctly.

  • More than one worksheet cannot be opened at a time using the resource palette.

  • Sweeping an oval with the 3D conversion resolution set to High or Very High creates an illegal sweep.

  • Arcs with very large diameters do not import from DXF or DWG.

  • Create worksheet, click "on drawing" check box on resource palette, Paste PICT, Set fill fore color of PICT, click "on-drawing", click "on- drawing": Now the text of the worksheet-on-drawing is blue too.

  • Undoing the rotation of a diametral dimension moves the position of the dimension.

  • Exporting EPS, DXF, DWG and Text file types on a disk without enough room will create an incomplete output file without warning.

  • Many snap constraints cannot be saved with a custom tool.

  • With snap to intersection turned on, lines cannot be drwain inside of filled circles.

  • When trying to recursively nest 3D symbols crashes occur randomly after the warning dialog.

  • When in mm and using A4 paper, the "One Page" option cannot be selected with some drivers.

  • Grid Creator crashes.

  • Wall Framer Framing Type dialog does not display lumber size in current drawing units.

  • On Windows, Join should become Join and Fillet with the SHIFT key modifier, not the CTRL and/or ALT key modifier.

  • The eye dropper tool does not paste arrow head shapes on 68k versions.

  • Rotated symbols are not always being placed in framed walls correctly.

  • When you click on the endpoint of a horizontal or a vertical line, the angle constraint toggles on or off. When you double click, the Angle Snaps dialog comes up. Neither of these reactions should occur.

  • It is not redrawing after use 'Light Creation dialog' with Next Click box turned ON.

  • A system error occurs when I use the Undo command after using the Wall Framer tool.

  • Link Text to Record
    • Symbols do not properly adjust their bounds to include long linked text.
    • Change Symbol Name with resource palette does not update the name on the info palette.

  • Dash styles 17-24 cannot be deleted from the Edit Dash Styles dialog.

  • Undo for 3D mirror undoes the previous step.

  • On windows, select close or control-W when no windows are open & you will crash with an access violation.

  • Dropping locked documents on MiniCAD for PowerPC sometimes causes a crash.

  • Can't change the line style (dash style) of objects if I've created too many dash styles. This seems to break when I have more than 16 styles.