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The following items discuss the
changes found in this version of Eagle Point software. Please
note that the following sections are organized alphabetically, by
module, starting with System level descriptions of VIP
Enhancements, General Enhancements and then bug fixes.
There are no new VIP-specific
enhancements in this release.
- System -
AutoCAD Map 6 is now a supported CAD engine. Since the
AutoCAD Map 6 release overwrites your current 2000/2000i/Map
5 installation, installing the patch is the only step
that needs to be performed. AutoCAD 14 users upgrading to
AutoCAD Map 6 only need to run the Configure CAD Engine
to "point" to the AutoCAD Map 6 acad.exe file,
then add an Eagle_Point_98 profile that includes the path
to the Eagle Point \Images folder. The 2003 3.1.0 CD also
contains AutoCAD Map 6 as a supported CAD engine during
installation.
- COGO - Convert to Lot. The
Convert to Lot process has been changed to increase
productivity. The change is in the dialog box allowing
you to enter the Name, Description, ID, Owner and Parent.
You can now enter a lot name that will automatically
increment when lots are converted.
To use the automatic lot name increment, enter the
<> symbols in the Lot Name edit field. Set the
corresponding number in the field to the right of the lot
name. Anything that is entered before the <> is
considered a prefix to the Lot Number and anything after
the <> is considered a suffix. When the lot is
converted, the <> is replaced with the
corresponding number in the edit field to the right of
the lot name. When a lot is converted and the Apply
button is selected, the number will automatically
increment. If the <> symbols are not in the Lot
Name edit field, the corresponding number is not used in
conjunction with the lot name.
You will also want to toggle on the Convert to Lot on
Pick of Internal Point option. When the Apply button is
selected, the command will automatically repeat using the
Convert to Lot option that was selected. The Lot Name
dialog box will no longer display for each additional lot
that is converted unless you stop the command and select
a new method for converting the lot.
Another option that was added to increase your
productivity is the ability to annotate the lot when it
is converted. To annotate the lot when it is converted,
toggle on the Annotate Lot option. Select an existing
annotation style from the Annotation Style drop list.
Modifications to the annotation style can be done by
selecting Drafting - Annotate - Styles. Highlight the
desired style, select Area/Lot in the drop list and click
on the Edit button.
If a lot needs to be reannotated once it is converted,
you can do so by using the Drafting module. You can use
the Annotate - Lots command or the Annotate - Multiple
Objects command and select Lots as the option.
Another way to increase your productivity using the Eagle
Point Boundary option when converting a lot is to reduce
the number of objects that are visible on screen. When
the Eagle Point Boundary option is used, all objects
visible on screen are selected as valid objects to form a
boundary. Once the objects are selected, they are all
evaluated with the internal point you pick. Therefore,
with fewer objects selected (visible on screen), the
processing time will be reduced to find the closed object
around the internal point.
- COGO - Place Node. This
command has been optimized to increase your productivity.
AutoCAD/Graphics Engine users can also use the EPPN
command which is a command line version of the Place Node
command.
- System - Eagle Point Graphics
Engine. You are now able to draw polylines with different
width segments. For example, the first segment of the
polyline can now have a width of 2, the second segment a
width of 4, and so on. Previously the first segment had
to have a width of 0.
- System - Eagle Point Graphics
Engine. The Save as R14 feature now works correctly.
Previously, the drawings would not display correctly in
AutoCAD 14 after you used the Save as R14 feature in the
graphics engine.
- System - Eagle Point Graphics
Engine. Text spacing is now correct when using Mtext with
an .shx font. Previously, extra spaces would be included
between the words in a line of text.
- System - Eagle Point Graphics
Engine. Command prompting has been improved when drawing
lines, polylines or arcs after doing a grip edit. You are
now correctly prompted for a start point when issuing the
command after a grip edit.
- System - Cut/Clip. When you
perform a copyclip or cutclip in AutoCAD, the Eagle Point
nodes are no longer automatically included in the
selection set.
- System - Select Layer. The
layers are now displayed in alphabetical order in all of
the Select Layer dialog boxes.
- System - Node Field Code
Library. Brackets {} are now valid when importing a
symbol file.
- System - Shortcut. The
Alignment database is now loaded when opening a project
using the project shortcut. Previously when you opened a
project using a project shortcut, the Alignment database
would not open for the project. You would then receive an
error message of "Instance 2521: .IFO cannot find
specified file".
- System - General. A problem
with duplicate records in the Alignment database has been
fixed. The symptom of this problem was that the
Converting Alignments progress bar would stop. This
problem should have been quite rare and limited to
multiple users accessing the same database.
- Advanced Irrigation - Help
icons have been added to the Autosize Mainlines and
Autosize Laterals dialog boxes.
- Advanced Irrigation - Locate
Mainline. When drawing mainline pipes to connect either a
valve in head or a zone valve, the Locate Mainline
command was not snapping to the valve or the point of
connection. When the Autosize Mainlines command is run,
the mainlines will now automatically snap to the POC and
the valves.
- Advanced Irrigation - Locate
Lateral. In some instances, heads were being deleted when
drawing crossing lateral pipes. This occurred when
Intersect Crossing Pipes, Place Label, and Snap to Head
were toggled on. The heads are no longer deleted.
- Advanced Irrigation - Assign
Zones. Memory leaks have been fixed with this command.
Previously, this command could go into a loop and use up
system resources.
- Advanced Irrigation - Locate
Lateral. The pipe text is now aligned correctly in a
rotated view.
- Base Plan - Place Text on
Polyline. The text is now displayed correctly when using
true type fonts in the Eagle Point Graphics Engine.
- Base Plan - Create
Perspective. Both the Observers and View Point X,Y
coordinates can be graphically selected now. Previously
only the Observers coordinates could be graphically
selected.
- COGO - Leader Attributes. The
attributes are now correctly justified when the node
leader is to the left of the node insertion point.
Previously, the text on the left side of the node
insertion point would be incorrectly justified, and
overlapping text would occur.
- COGO - If you had nodes that
had elevations between 0 and -1, node modification
commands like Swivel or Edit would add an additional
minus (-) sign to the elevation attribute. This has now
been fixed.
- COGO - When using an External
Node Database and running the Edit or Match Node
commands, which change the field code, you no longer get
duplicate nodes in the database.
- COGO - Convert Objects to
Alignment. MicroStation users only. You can now convert
alignments that have spirals and are using custom
linestyles.
- COGO - When modifying a node
where the drawing units are architectural, the attributes
will now be correctly modified. Previously, the
attributes would all appear at coordinate 0,0 in the
drawing.
- COGO - Nodes. The PIC button
now works correctly when selecting nodes using the
Proximity option.
- Data Collection - Edit
Formatted File. Changes to the Format file are now saved
if the Format file is newer than the Instrument file.
- Data Collection - Download
from Collector. TDS users only. Downloading the raw
format is now working correctly. Previously, some raw
information was lost in the transfer.
- Data Collection - Reduce.
Geodat users only. Previously, if a Geodat label was not
mapped to an SDMS tag, the reduction of the file stopped
at that point. The rest of the file will now be reduced.
- Data Transfer - Import File.
The Import File command has been optimized. This is most
noticeable with large data sets.
- Data Transfer - Import File.
The Caice CSV format now imports correctly.
- Data Transfer - Settings.
AutoCAD/Graphics Engine users. The layers are now
displayed in alphabetical order in the Select Layer
dialog box.
- Drafting - Alignment
Stationing. When you are selecting an alignment from the
Defined list, the correct annotation style is now always
being used. Previously, if you annotated an alignment,
then changed the annotation style, the previous
annotation style was used - not the one you just selected.
- Drafting - Shortcuts. The
CRDL, CLO, CLPOC, CLRP and CRDL key-in commands now
correctly align arrowheads and tails in a rotated view.
- Drafting - North Arrow. The
north arrow scale text is now aligned correctly in a
rotated view.
- Irrigation Design -
Configuration. The Nozzle and Manufacturer buttons were
reversed. They are now next to their respective edit
fields.
- Irrigation Design - Equipment
Table. If you have heads that have long names, the table
will now automatically size itself to account for the
longer name.
- Landscape Design - Plant
Table. The Foliage Size and Foliage Surface fields are no
longer inverted when placing all database fields in the
drawing.
- Landscape Design - Tutorial.
The tutorial manual has been updated to accommodate
changes that have occurred in some of the commands.
- Profiles - Grid. In Metric
projects the datum elevation text is now placed using the
correct displacement distances.
- Profiles - Grid. The
additional datum text is now placed using the correct
displacement distance in metric projects. This results in
the text being aligned with the grid lines now.
- RoadCalc - Generate Reports.
The profile name and curve data are now getting printed
for all profiles. Previously, the profile names were not
being printed in all of the appropriate areas. When you
selected to print All Profiles, the curve data was not
getting printed for each profile.
- RoadCalc - Manage Surfaces.
Now when you change the surface toggle between Strip and
Normal, RoadCalc will update the end areas when the
Manage Surfaces dialog box is closed. This forces the
volumes to update.
- RoadCalc - Manage Typical.
Error checking has been added to prevent more than 99
typical sections from being added to the manager.
- RoadCalc - Manage Utilities.
The CAD Settings for each of the utilities are now
displayed correctly. Previously if you selected a utility
other than the first one, the Linetype/style and Text
Style/Font were not displayed correctly.
- RoadCalc - Volumes. A strip
surface is now being handled correctly when the Waste
toggle is on for the surface. Before, the surface was
always being treated as a normal surface, no matter if
the surface was toggled as strip or normal in Manage
Surfaces.
- Sewers - Details. The
rainfall intensity values are now displayed correctly for
Tabular Rainfall files. Previously, the tabular values
were corrected using BDE coefficients. The values are now
straight line interpolated from the table of values.
- Sewers - Hydraulic Profile.
When you have a reference alignment, the ellipse that was
shown in a junction due to an outgoing pipe was displayed
at the wrong elevation. This problem has been resolved.
- Surface Modeling - Place Spot
Elevation. A problem with multiple block definitions
being placed into the drawing has been resolved.
Previously, a separate block definition was generated
each time a spot elevation was placed.
- Survey Adjustment - By Nodes.
The initial backsight direction is now being read
correctly when using a COGO batch file.
- Virtual Simulator - Create
Path from Road. This command now works properly with the
new Alignment database. This command did not work at all
in version 2.4.0. You do not need to re-install Virtual
Simulator - the Eagle Point 2003 3.1.0 version will take
care of this problem.
- Water Surface Profiling -
Extract From Surface Model. In some instances, the
command would be very slow with extracting cross-sections
for Fixed Cross-sections. The algorithm has been
dramatically sped up.
- Watershed Modeling - Edit
Modified Puls. The hydrograph is now properly updated
when a change to the outlet structure or reservoir is
done. Previously, the hydrograph would not update with a
change to the reservoir or outlet structure.
- Watershed Modeling - Edit
Stand Pipe. When using small increments for the stage
while using an orifice, the stage/discharge curve may
display an oscillating behavior. This has now been fixed.
The following items are links to
other pages that contain important information that should be
reviewed before using Eagle Point software:
Copyright © 2002 Eagle Point
Software Corporation
Last revised: December 04, 2002.