History of Enhancements and Fixes

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• What was changed in Eagle Point 4.4.0

• What was changed in Eagle Point 4.3.0

• What was changed in Eagle Point 4.2.0

• What was changed in Eagle Point 4.1.0

What's Changed in Eagle Point for 4.4.0

The following items discuss the most recent changes found in this version of Eagle Point software. Please note that the following sections are organized alphabetically, by module, starting with System level changes followed by enhancements and bug fixes.

System

• Process Library:  The Process Library command is a tool that allows you to electronically organize the procedures you follow to complete your work. In addition to documenting the steps for a task, it includes the ability to execute the corresponding tool(s) needed to complete the task. These tools included launching Eagle Point commands, CAD commands, launching other applications and various hyperlink options (including http, mailto, ftp and others). In networked environments, you can establish your processes once (and optionally password protect them) and have multiple people utilize them to help standardized the way they get their work done. You can also create multiple Process Libraries to categorize the types of processes that certain users need access to.

  The Process Library can be accessed via the Eagle Point Tools menu. Once launched, the defined Processes are displayed in a treeview at the top of the dialog box. Processes are the highest level within the tree and contained within the branches of the processes are the ordered tasks that need to be completed. Within each task you establish various steps to follow in order to complete the task. Each step can include a written description of what needs to get done and has an associated tool specified that assists you in completing that step.

  Highlighting a branch within the tree displays the corresponding description in the area located beneath the tree. Performing a double mouse click on a step executes the tool associated with the step. The Process Library remembers the last item selected so the next time the Library is launched, the same item is highlighted by default. Refer to the Sample Process included in the Process Library to help you develop your own processes.

• Autodesk Map 3D 2005 is now a supported CAD engine. Autodesk Map users upgrading to Autodesk Map 3D 2005 only need to run the Configure CAD Engine from the Eagle Point Administrator Program to "point" to the Autodesk Map 3D 2005 acad.exe file. The 2004 4.4.0 CD also contains Autodesk Map 3D 2005 as a supported CAD engine during installation. If Autodesk Map 3D 2005 is the only version of Autodesk Map is installed on the workstation and there is no previous version of Eagle Point installed, you will need the 2004 4.4.0 CD.
  Note: The Point and Terrain Models included with Autodesk Map 3D 2005 cannot be utilized with Eagle Point commands. 
• Windows XP only: Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) is supported in Eagle Point 2004 Q4 4.4.0.
• TCP/IP Network Installation: On a new install, the Keys folder is automatically created as a sub-folder in the Eagle Point License Manager directory. The Eagle Point License Manager program found in the control panel (Eagle Point TCP LM) is automatically configured with defaults including the keys folder, log file and log file size.
• AutoCAD 2005 and Autodesk Map 3D 2005 Only: The Publish Selected Layouts command no longer repeats the word Done continuously on the command line. The command now finishes normally.

Administrator

• Configure Tutorial: The tutorial files are now extracted to the correct location when long paths are used in Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

COGO

• Report Nodes: MicroStation V8 Only. Coordinate values now display correctly when switching between models that have different working units.

Data Collection

• Line Work Library: The description and path information for the Line Work Library now displays correctly when multiple line work libraries are stored in long paths. 

Profiles

• MicroStation J/SE Only. In some cases, vertical curves were annotated and queried as asymmetric curves instead of symmetric curves. The vertical curves are now annotated and queried correctly.  

Sewers

• Convert Objects to Reach: MicroStation only. The sewer network now redraws correctly when the Node Field Code Library for the project is missing.
• Redraw Network: MicroStation only. The sewer network now redraws correctly when the Node Field Code Library for the project is missing.
• 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.
• Hydraulic Profile: Invert Elevations are now annotated in the correct location on sheets created from right to left.
• Hydraulic Profile: The outfall symbol is now placed in the correct location on plan and profile sheets.

Surface Modeling

• Create Intermediate and Index Contours: Intermediate contours are placed correctly when the intermediate interval is less than one.

What's Changed in Eagle Point for 4.3.0

The following items discuss the most recent changes found in this version of Eagle Point software. Please note that the following sections are organized alphabetically, by module, starting with System level changes followed by enhancements and bug fixes.

System

• MicroStation V8 2004 Edition is now a supported CAD engine. MicroStation V8 users upgrading to MicroStation V8 2004 Edition only need to run the Configure CAD Engine from the Eagle Point Administrator Program to "point" to the MicroStation V8 2004 Edition ustation.exe file. The 2004 4.3.0 CD also contains MicroStation V8 2004 Edition as a supported CAD engine during installation. If MicroStation V8 2004 Edition is the only version of MicroStation that is installed on the workstation and there is no previous version of Eagle Point installed, you will need the 2004 4.1.0 CD or later.
• Windows XP only: The compatibility mode for Eagle Point and the CAD platform that you are running is now checked when you run Eagle Point. If Eagle Point or the CAD platform you are running has a compatibility mode set, a message box displays stating that the compatibility mode was removed and that you must restart Eagle Point. This eliminates various lockup problems, crashes, etc that were cause by the compatibility mode being set unnecessarily. 
• AutoCAD 2005 Only: The Publish command no longer repeats the word Done continuously on the command line. The command now finishes normally.
• AutoCAD 2005 Only: The Save command no longer repeats the word Done continuously on the command line when you enter a new name for the drawing in the dialog box. The command now finishes normally.
• AutoCAD only: Copying Nodes from one drawing and using the Paste to Original Coordinates in a new drawing now places the Nodes at the correct locations.
• MicroStation V7 only: A problem has been corrected reading Symbol libraries and Nodes on certain DGN files when they are opened. 

Drafting

• Annotate Lines/Curves by Number: When switching between "By Object" and "By Point" annotation methods while annotating Line and Curve Numbers on a polyline/complex chain, the annotation is now correctly written so all numbers will appear in Line and Curve Tables. Previously, the Line and Curves that were annotated using the "By Points" method after the "By Object" method would not appear in the Line and Curve Tables.

RoadCalc

• The Define Channel command was added to RoadCalc. The key-in command of "rcdefinechannel" displays the Define Channel dialog box. This command was designed for the NRCS and other conservation engineering organizations to aide in the design of grassed waterways. The define channel command allows you to launch an external program to determine the shape for the channel. It also automatically builds parabolic and trapezoidal channel shapes according to the widths, depths and side slopes specified. Once the channel shapes have been constructed, they can be assigned to profile VPI locations. With the channel shapes specified at VPI locations, a default condition is built and the channel shape and conditions are automatically entered in the Edit Design Locations so you are ready to Run the design.
• Query Cross-Sections: The depth from the top most original ground surface to a selected surface or utility is now reported on this dialog box. This allows you to quickly see the depth to a surface or utility at different offsets from the centerline. To display the depth to a surface from the top most original surface, select the desired surface from the Surface drop list. Click on the Move Left and Move Right icons to move the cursor left and right along the selected surface. The depth from the top most original surface to a utility will be measured to the crown or the invert depending on how the utility was defined. The depth will display as a positive number when the selected surface is below the top most original surface and a negative number when the selected surface is above the top most original surface.
• Step Through Editor: The depth from the top most original ground surface to the selected surface or utility has been added to this dialog box. This allows you to quickly see the depth to a surface or utility at different offsets from the centerline. To view the depth to a surface, select the desired surface. Click on the Move Left and Move Right to move the cursor left and right along the selected surface. The depth from the top most original surface to a utility will be measured to the crown or the invert depending on how the utility was defined. The depth will display as a positive number when the selected surface is below the top most original surface and a negative number when the selected surface is above the top most original surface.
• MicroStation V7 Only: The CAD Settings in Cross-Section Sheets now hold their line weight settings when switch between items.
• MicroStation V7 Only: The CAD Settings in Plan and Profile Sheets now hold their line weight settings when switch between items.

What's Changed in Eagle Point for 4.2.0

The following items discuss the most recent changes found in this version of Eagle Point software. Please note that the following sections are organized alphabetically, by module, starting with System level changes followed by enhancements and bug fixes.

System

• AutoCAD 2005 is now a supported CAD engine. AutoCAD 14/200x users upgrading to AutoCAD 2005 only need to run the Configure CAD Engine from the Eagle Point Administrator Program to "point" to the AutoCAD 2005 acad.exe file. The 2004 4.2.0 CD also contains AutoCAD 2005 as a supported CAD engine during installation. If AutoCAD 2005 is the only version of AutoCAD that is installed on the workstation and there is no previous version of Eagle Point installed, you will need the 2004 4.2.0 CD.
• Opening a project with Nodes that were placed without a description attribute from a Node Field Code Library that is not available no longer produces an unhandled exception error.
• Individuals with "user" rights no longer receive the message "Failed to Update the system Registry. Please try using REGEDIT" when running Eagle Point.
• When the Point Protection dialog box displays, you can now check the 'Apply to All' option to not place duplicate nodes when placing one or more Node ID's that already exist in the project.
• Enhanced Precision - (MicroStation SE Only) Elements that have more than 64 vertices and contain Eagle Point's double precision data are now converted correctly to store MicroStation's Enhanced Precision. 

Data Collection

• Reduce - When the Query Warnings dialog box displays after reducing a job, it now displays the most recently reduced job file warnings. 
• Linework Library - The Fitted Alignment linework type now only requires two points instead of three.
• Reduce - (MicroStation Only) When the lines in the Line Library are set to ByLevel, the warnings dialog box no longer displays that style -1 is not in the design file.

COGO

• Modify Node - When changing the text style of an attribute, Modify Node will now read and apply the obliquing angle of the newly selected text style.
• Best Fit Line/Curve or Stakeout Points - Nodes in a linked External Node Database that do not reside in the CAD graphic may now be selected for use with the Best Fit Line, Best Fit Curve and Stakeout Points commands.

Drafting

• Annotate Spirals - (AutoCAD/Graphics Engine Only) When displaying the spiral delta and/or deflection angles, the degree symbol properly displays when using the %%D to identify the degree symbol.
• Annotate Spirals - The spiral annotation labels are now displayed with the spiral value.

RoadCalc

• Typical Sections - (MicroStation Only) Deleting PT Codes from the typical section design file or the cross-section design file no longer leaves phantom objects.
• Annotate Cross-sections - The default text height for the cross-section number and station annotation were adjusted so they display as the correct size .
• Cross-Section Sheets - Eagle Point no longer crashes when creating cross-section plot sheets when the stationing format is set to "No +" and the circle stations are toggled on to plot.
• Plan and Profile Sheets - When the cut and fill catch points are toggled on and you have only one catch point on a cross-section, an out of memory error is no longer produced when you create plan and profile sheets.

Site Design

• Project Slopes to Offset - When projecting to the inside of certain shapes, the slope lines that were projected from the offset line projected in the wrong direction. The projected slopes and the resultant catchline now continue to project to the inside of the object selected.
• Change Elevation - You may now set the absolute elevation of items placed with Architectural units. Previously you were only able to change the elevation of these objects using the relative method.
• Change Elevation - (AutoCAD/Graphics Engine Only) Clicking twice on the pick in CAD button without selecting any objects no longer crashes Eagle Point.
• Prismoidal Volumes - The value of -1.#J is no longer displayed when the volume is extremely close to zero (0.00) when using Windows 2000 SP2.

Sewers

• Plan and Profile Sheets - The Profile Pipe/Structure Annotation dialog box has been modified to allow for displacement values (Delta X and Delta Y) when specifying the Structure Description, Rim Elevation, Invert and Station locations. You also have the ability to set the text justification and the rotation angle of the text. 
• Plan and Profile Sheets - You can now annotate the invert pipe directions in the plan and profile portions of the plan and profile sheet. An Invert Direction tab has been added to the Network Settings dialog box. This tab allows you to specify the labels for eight general directions (N, S, E, W, NE, SE, SW, NW) for the incoming pipe inverts. In order for the pipe invert directions to be labeled, you have to insert braces {} in the location where you want to the incoming pipe directions to appear. The braces can be placed in the Label edit field for the inverts on the Structure tab of both the Edit Plan Pipe/Structure Annotation and Edit Profile Pipe/Structure Annotation dialog boxes.
• Hydraulic Profile - The Drafting Unlink Object command will now unlink the pipe, structure and junction information in the hydraulic profile drawing. This is done so you can more or edit text and the information is not redrawn if the network changes.
• Plan and Profile Sheets - If you created a sewer profile of lateral inlet lines (junctions at both sides of a road) through a central manhole (at the road Centerline), the junctions were not getting placed at the correct station. The junctions are now placed at the correct station.
• Plan and Profile Sheets - You can now plot the extension lines in the Profile portion of the plan and profile sheet. The Extension Lines toggle on the Structure tab of the Edit Profile Pipe/Structure Annotation dialog box now works correctly. When toggled on you are now able to place an extension line vertically above the junction in the profile view. With this option toggled on you can also specify the length of the extension line drawn.

Surface Modeling

• Manage Surface Models - When you create a Surface Model Prototype and load the prototype settings for any surface, all of the settings in the prototype are now written to the current surface model's properties. This includes all of the CAD settings for each object that is placed using the surface model settings.

What's Changed in Eagle Point for 4.1.0

The following items discuss the most recent changes found in this version of Eagle Point software. Please note that the following sections are organized alphabetically, by module, starting with System level changes followed by enhancements and bug fixes.

System

• MicroStation V8 is now a supported CAD engine. Eagle Point will only support running Eagle Point in MicroStation V8 using the native V8 workmode. The DWG and V7 workmodes are not supported. Click here for the Microstation V8 Implementation Guide. Users must use MicroStation version 08.01 or greater to use Eagle Point with MicroStation V8. MicroStation 95, SE and J users upgrading to MicroStation V8 only need to run the Configure CAD Engine from the Eagle Point Administrator Program to "point" to the MicroStation V8 Ustation.exe file. The 2004 4.1.0 CD also contains MicroStation V8 as a supported CAD engine during installation.  If you are only installing Eagle Point for MicroStation V8 on a workstation and have not installed previously, you must install Eagle Point using the 2004 4.1.0 CD or better.
• Nodes are now stored in the design file/drawing using XDATA/User Data. Eagle Point no longer stores all of the node information using an external node file *.dnd. All of the node information is now stored on the node itself in the CAD graphic. This is similar to how the nodes were stored in Eagle Point version 14/5.5. You can still use an External Node Database to store node data in an external file.
• MicroStation users only - Eagle Point no longer uses a *.dbl file to store double precision information for projects in MicroStation. This information is now inherently stored on the elements in MicroStation SE, J and V8. In MicroStation SE and J Enhanced Precision needs to be ON. This can be done by setting the MicroStation configuration variable MS_ENHANCEDPRECISION to 1.
• MicroStation users only - MicroStation 95 is not supported beginning with Eagle Point 4.1.0 due to changes in how precision is stored in the design file.
• The Node (Field Code) Library file format (*.SYM files) has changed to account for long block names for AutoCAD and Eagle Point Graphics Engine users as well as long cell names (now up to 256 characters). Additionally, support for named levels has been added for MicroStation V8 users. Because of these changes, these files will not work with earlier versions of Eagle Point (3.4.0 or earlier). Once any project has been opened in 4.1.0 (or later) and the Field Code library has been converted, you will not be able to open this or any project using that Field Code library using an older Eagle Point version (3.4.0 or earlier). If you choose to not have some machines in your office updated to Eagle Point 4.1.0 or later and are sharing support files on a network, it is required that you point those machines to a separate Support folder.
• The Attribute Styles Library file format has changed to account for named levels for MicroStation V8 users. Because of these changes, these files will not work with earlier versions of Eagle Point (3.4.0 or earlier).
• The Utilities file format has changed to account for named levels for MicroStation V8 users. Previously the utility information was stored in a *.utl file. The new format of the files will store the geometry in the *.utg file and the CAD settings in the *.uts file. Because of these changes, these files will not work with earlier versions of Eagle Point (3.4.0 or earlier).

Data Collection

• The Linework Library now supports named levels for MicroStation V8 users. Because of these changes, these files will not work with earlier versions of Eagle Point (3.4.0 or earlier).
• Geodimeter Data Collectors - Eagle Point now supports raw instrument files using the factory default user defined sequences for instrument setup information. This means you will no longer be prompted for SDMS Setup data for the Occupied Station and Backsight information for the beginning of the job if you have already entered this in the job file.
  The change involved placing a change of activity before each label 2 and label 62 that are recorded within a job file. The value entered for label 2 is now read as an Occupied Station point number along with any entered coordinate values, and label 62 value is now treated as the Back Sight Point Number.
  If your current UDS files automatically write out a change in activity, these will continue to work normally and a change in activity will not be inserted unnecessarily.

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