12.6
2023

Version 23.2.06

Improvements to BricsCAD

• Parametric Blocks A new system variable, ATTFULLUPDATE, is introduced to adjust the behavior of parametric blocks' attributes. In the default (On) state, the attributes are reset to the values specified in the block definition on the first parameter modification. If set to Off, this doesn't happen.
  SR148859 SR152485 SR157359 SR157018
  

Improvements to BIM

• BIMSECTIONUPDATE Now annotations are marked as invalid using color index, making them easily editable when printing.
  SR155510
  

Fixes

• BIMSECTIONUPDATE Layer names are now created correctly for story lines and story callouts in generated drawing.
  SR153329 SR157812
  
• BLOCKIFY We fixed a bug where no results are found if the drawing contains a non-uniformly scaled block reference.
  SR158545
  
• CRS geographic bounds Geographic bounds were corrected for EPSG:25828-25838.
  SR159058
  
• External References Fixed: xref path dependency should not be created for non-xref blocks
  SR148796
  
• Hidden Layers The LAYON and LAYTHW system variables no longer affect hidden layers.
  SR140164 SR140574 SR141074 SR150291 SR156131 SR157958 SR158932
  
• IFC Import Fixed the handling of IfcGeometricRepresentationSubContext.
  SR152886
  Handling of IfcBooleanResult is now fixed.
  SR153106
  
• MPolygon Fixed "invalid index" exception for MPolygons during selection and snapping operations.
  SR157449
  
• MVIEW Viewports are now correctly created after using VIEWBASE command.
  SR149214
  
• Panels An issue has been corrected so that floating tabbed stack panels are correctly shown at startup.
  SR156355
  
• Point Cloud Fixed the POINTCLOUDCOLORMAP command options in localized versions.
  SR158487
  
• Resizable model space viewports Avoided creation of viewport borders for not active viewport schemes.
  SR155554 SR157121 SR156400
  
• Section Generation A BIM grid scale factor issue has been fixed, BIM rectangular grids are now properly displayed in section views.
  SR150800
  

Applications

• BRX/.NET Custom help registered by acedSetFunHelp() (C++) and with the CommandMethod attribute (.NET) is now working properly while the custom commands are running.
  SR153655 SR158012
  
• BRX/NET Corrected adedGetXxx() input function to respect CMDECHO=0/1 setting.
  SR157004
  
• BRX Proxy entities now get resurrected to the correct position after having multiple mirror transformations applied.
  SR155919
  
• LISP BLADE Fixed a significant slowdown (performance lag) when entering literal strings in BLADE's editor, under some specific circumstances.
  SR157605
  
• LISP Corrected 2D/3D Constraints related API functions to also work under PRO license (no Mechanical license required).
  Fixed implementation of (vl-acad-defun) and (vl-acad-undef), regression from V23.
  SR157805
  

15.5
2023

Version 23.2.05

Improvements to BricsCAD

• COM The miniframe command line and fading command log now remain hidden while the main frame windows is not visible.
  SR157027
  
• Drawing Recovery Manager Added direct registry record to remove redundant hard disk access.
  SR153848
  
• File Menu Audit, Recover and Purge drawing utilities have been added to the File Menu under Utilities, as well as Security Options.
  SR156851 SR157089
  
• Ribbon The label of the Blockify button in the Drawing Optimizations panel, of the Manage tab, in the Mechanical workspace of the Modern layout has been corrected from "Simplify" to "Blockify".
  

Improvements to BIM

• BIMQUICKWALL Improved the detection of wall thickness in Point Clouds.
  
• IFC Import Added support for IfcMaterialConstituentSet and IfcMaterialProfileSet on IFC import.
  SR129133 SR143406 SR149153 SR149156 SR151917
  
• RFA Import We fixed an issue where some geometry was not imported correctly.
  SR115329
  

Improvements to Pointclouds

• POINTCLOUDFITPLANAR/POINTCLOUDFITCYLINDER The user feedback message is now consistent with the actual license requirement for these commands. SR155346 SR156322
  

Fixes

• BIMQUICKWALL The command context panel now receives the correct values in imperial drawings.
  SR155727
  
• BMINSERT An issue has been fixed were 'Inserted Component Properties' property was missing in the Properties panel while inserting mechanical components.
  SR148252 SR148673 SR149085 SR153540 SR153886 SR155740 SR155773 SR156016 SR156291
  
• BimAnalyticalModel An issue occurring when exporting to UBSM format where analytical Bar's would not have ID attributes has been fixed by adding the ID attributes.
  
• Built-in editor Improved processing of single line text with fields in built-in editor in case when width factor or oblique settings are non-default.
  SR154646
  
• CIVIL commands Fixed the functionality of the command options in the Command line for localized versions.
  SR155957 SR155734 SR155814
  
• CIVIL3DIMPORT An issue was fixed where BricsCAD would crash when trying to import some Civil 3D entities.
  SR156113
  
• COLOR Dialog Picking a color using the Color Books tab is again possible.
  SR156156 SR156937 SR157051 SR157291
  
• CREATELIBRARYBLOCK A V23.2 regression has been fixed. The saved component file is now in the chosen category subfolder instead of the parent folder.
  SR156417SR156330SR157267
  
• Command Line The mini frame command line is now retaining its hidden state after a restart.
  SR156338
  
• Dynamic block Fixed stretching of specific blocks.
  SR155245
  
• EXTRUDE/REVOLVE The EXTRUDE/REVOLVE commands can now also be applied to Surface (Extrusion) entities.
  
• ExpressTools Actual ObjectSnap setting (OSMODE) is no longer cleared during MSTRETCH command.
  SR147284
  Fixed a defect in XDATA command, when entering a string value to be assigned.
  SR157226
  Fixed a spelling issue in PROPULATE command.
  SR157087
  
• Import Layout/Clone Table Fixed crash on importing a layout with malformed table entity.
  SR152853
  
• Library Panel The library panel configuration state of the User library components is now retained after a restart. This was broken in V23.2.
  SR157468
  
• MLEADER We fixed a lockup while opening drawings containing certain annotative mleaders that included roundtrip data from a newer drawing format.
  SR156666
  We fixed the command flow for the negative doglength in mleader style- added the user input for non-fixed landing distance
  SR154381 SR156630
  
• MText Avoided crash in built-in editor while creating a new column for an MText entity with dynamic/manual column style.
  SR157377
  
• Manipulator Improved copy option of Manipulator.
  SR147085
  
• Mechanical 2D Annotations AutoCAD Mechanical objects read issues have been fixed.
  SR99550 SR104065
  
• Opening Drawing Solved unknown exception when opening files created with BricsCAD V21.
  SR143720 SR148281
  
• POINTCLOUDCROPSOLID Fixed the functionality of the Inside/Outside property for localized versions.
  SR153087
  
• POINTCLOUDEXPORT Exporting a point cloud to HSPC or LAZ file format has been fixed.
  SR154929
  
• POINTCLOUDFITPLANAR Fixed the remaining untranslated strings from the command context panel.
  SR155371
  
• PURGE The PURGE command now always purges nested items, unless you specify the names to purge.
  SR151148
  
• Parameters Manager Fixed the functionality of the 'Animate' and 'Remove' buttons from the panel.
  SR155875
  
• Point Cloud Fixed the discrepancy between the POINTCLOUDPOINTMAX range actually used and the range mentioned in Settings menu.
  SR157178
  Fixed the broken point cloud settings button
  SR155959
  
• Qt Ribbon Suppressed a warning message that would appear when selecting entities on a locked layer with the qt ribbon active (line weight dropdown fix).
  SR155894 SR156734 SR156909 SR156800 SR157414 SR157315 SR157691
  Suppressed warning message when selecting entities on a locked layer with the qt ribbon active (line type dropdown fix). Also fixed cursor flickering when editing a table with the qt ribbon open.
  SR155894
  
• SETTINGS We fixed a V23 regression that caused an error when attempting to change one of the dimension arrow block system variables in the settings dialog.
  SR157045
  
• Structure Browser Fix crash when deleting a blockref that is expanded in the structure browser
  
• Table cell Fixed regression: the grips of the selected table cell were invisible.
  SR155922
  
• Typed Plans Hatch overrides are now saved correctly again in Typed Plans.
  SR157170 SR157466 SR156890
  

Applications

• .NET A newly created geometry-driven variable is solved as geometry-driven. Previously, when a geometry-driven variable was created, on the first model update after that, it would be frozen (i.e., not treated as geometry-driven). Now it will be treated as geometry-driven.
  SR156177
  
• BRX/.NET Sweeping along a closed path performed via .NET or BRX has been fixed.
  SR154915
  
• BRX AcDbDatabaseSummaryInfo::getCustomSummaryInfo() now returns an empty string instead of NULL for unassigned fields.
  SR155267
  AcDbPolyline::dwgIn() now replaces existing vertices in all cases, instead of appending.
  SR157620
  We fixed the incorect behaviour of the second parameter for AcDbTable::insertColumnsAndInherit() and AcDbTable::insertRowsAndInherit().
  SR148624
  
• LISP Fixed a problem in LISP GarbageCollection, related to COM/VLA objects, which caused volatile Lisp errors.
  Implemented (vla-get-xeffectivescalefactor) (vla-get-yeffectivescalefactor) (vla-get-zeffectivescalefactor) and (vla-put-xeffectivescalefactor) (vla-put-yeffectivescalefactor) (vla-put-zeffectivescalefactor) as Fast-COM functions, for Windows, Linux, Mac;this fixes improper behaviour of these functions with annotative blocks.
  SR152976
  

17.4
2023

Version 23.2.04

Improvements to BricsCAD

• ExpressTools API (acet-laytrans) The ExpressTools API function (acet-laytrans filename [options]) has been implemented for all platforms.
  SR155003
  
• Render Materials The default render materials now support localized display in the user interface, while continuing to be persisted in drawings by their global (English) names.
  SR95126SR123884
  
• Tool Palettes A new Annotation tool palette has been added to the default tool palettes.
  

Improvements to BIM

• BIMSECTIONUPDATE The layer 'BIM_SECTION_BOUNDARY' for indicated depth of the volume sections is always created, even if it was not found in the _SectionSettings.dwg file.
  SR126145
  
• Hole Features Hole features are now correctly processed when moved or copied from one solid to another.
  SR129958
  

Fixes

• ATTRIBUTES Fixed undesirable conversion of Ø symbol to '%%C' in ATTRIBUTE and ATTDEF editors.
  SR150785
  
• Attribute Annotative multiline attributes whose current annotation scale is different from their first added annotation scale are now staying at their new position after the block reference is moved, and the drawing is saved and re-opened.
  SR155500
  
• BIMQUICKDRAW We fixed a bug when using the hidden WALLWIDTH, SLABTHICKNESS and FLOORTOFLOORDISTANCE settings in script, where the options would no longer be available after specifying a value that is already set for a parameter.
  SR153077
  
• BIMTAG Fixed an issue where BricsCAD would crash on opening the section result with fields in BIM tags when the model file is absent.
  SR154568
  
• BOM Manager An issue where a crash would occur during the automatic refresh of the BOM manager has been fixed.
  SR155808
  
• Built-in editor Fixed built-in editor jump during zoom and rotation animation.
  SR153214 SR153954 SR155025 SR155491 SR156013 SR156074
  
• CIRCLE Entering a diameter value via polar tracking is now working correctly again.
  SR155577 SR155955
  
• Color Palette Improved adjustment of the active palette colors according to the background color
  SR146734
  
• Dimensions Fixed: distribution order in Offset mode
  SR151487
  
• Dynamic block Improved stretching of dynamic blocks with attributes.
  SR153664
  
• Explode Explode of some associative array could lead to corruption.
  
• ExpressTools Fixed a number of issues related to ExpressTools commands (TJUST TCIRCLE TCOUNT EXOFFSET ...)
  SR155438
  
• EXTRUDE An issue has been fixed where creating a sketch-based feature from the extrusion of a complex boundary was leading to a wrong subtraction.
  SR153455
  
• GEO dialog Fixed dialog sizes for the first call.
  SR149984
  
• Hatches Auto-adjust HPMAXCONTOURPOINTS variable for hatches which affects creation or rendering of hatches.
  Show info message about too small HPMAXCONTOURPOINTS when a created hatch cannot be evaluated because of that.
  SR147291
  
• IFCIMPORT We fixed an issue where the IfcProject and IfcSite location where not correctly taken into account during IFC Import.
  
• IMPORT The import performance of old SAT files has been improved.
  SR143282
  
• Localized Commands Reporting about unavailable commands in localized versions of BricsCAD has been fixed.
  SR152903 SR154880
  
• Mechanical Browser Custom properties no longer change their values in some particular cases unless the user explicitly sets them.
  SR154765
  
• Menu bar The text in the Tools tab has been changed from hideobjects to Show/Hide.
  
• Multiview Block Annotative multiview block attributes from other platforms are now displaying at the correct height again.
  SR146358
  
• OLEFRAME We fixed a V23 regression that resulted in embedded OLE objects plotting upside-down in certain cases.
  SR154186 SR154810
  
• OVERKILL When using the 'Combine duplicate block definitions' option, the command now ignores blocks containing non-uniformly scaled block references.
  SR154250
  
• Parametric Block Assist The display of the error messages on localized versions has been fixed.
  SR150693 SR155187
  
• PURGE, Regapps option Removing redundant AcDbRegAppTableRecords by PURGE/Regapps was fixed which does not cause AutoCAD Mechanical to crash anymore while loading particular drawings.
  SR149478
  
• Region Fixed error in command REGION, disallowing creation of regions from certain polylines with arc segments.
  SR153752
  
• Render Materials Assigning a composition to an entity now correctly displays the material on localized versions.
  SR154422
  
• RFA An issue where some RFA files could not be inserted successfully has been fixed.
  SR127827
  
• RTEXT Starting with V22.2.06, malformed RTEXT containing a replaceable parameter without a closing parenthesis caused a lockup when loading the drawing. The RTEXT now evaluates as if the closing parenthesis was appended, preventing the lockup.
  SR155031
  
• Selectable dimensions The bounding rectangle of a selected window or door, to which selectable dimensions are referenced, no longer remains displayed after unselecting the window.
  SR152581 SR155728
  
• Selection Avoided wrong selection with option WPoygon, when entity lies outside of polygon, but touches it by starting point.
  SR154149
  

Applications

• .NET We implemented fail case for Solid3d.CreateLoftedSolid.
  SR144245
  We implemented the Database.IsValidLineWeight() and Database.GetNearestLineWeight() methods.
  SR139313
  
• BRX/.NET The close button, which was previously accidentally broken, is visible again on vertically docked palettesets.
  SR155659
  
• BRX The AModeler::Body::decomposeIntoLumps() function was implemented.
  SR155399
  We changed the behavior of acutAssertMessage() to unconditionally display the message.
  SR149551
  We extended BRX BIM API by new functions:static BimApi::ResultStatus BrxBimSpace::getSpaceName(const AcDbObjectId& spaceId, AcString& spaceName);static BimApi::ResultStatus BrxBimSpace::setSpaceName(const AcDbObjectId& spaceId, const ACHAR* spaceName);static BimApi::ResultStatus BrxBimSpace::getAssignedSpace(const AcDbObjectId& entityId, AcDbObjectId& spaceId, AcString& spaceName);static BimApi::ResultStatus BrxBimSpace::setAssignedSpace(const AcDbObjectId& entityId, const AcDbObjectId& spaceId);static BimApi::ResultStatus BrxBimSpace::setAssignedSpace(const AcDbObjectId& entityId, const ACHAR* spaceName);static BimApi::ResultStatus BrxBimSpace::getAssignedEntities(AcDbObjectIdArray& entityIds, const AcDbObjectId& spaceId);static BimApi::ResultStatus BrxBimSpace::getAssignedEntities(AcDbObjectIdArray& entityIds, const ACHAR* spaceName, const AcDbDatabase* pDb = nullptr);(3rd party apps might need to forward-declare these functions, until a new BRX SDK is published)LISPWe extended LISP BIM API by new functions:(bim:get-assigned-space element [T/NIL])(bim:set-assigned-space element spaceName|spaceEntity)(bim:get-spaceobjects spaceName|spaceEntity)
  We fixed a crash in AcGiViewport::acadWindowId() when called in an unusual scenario during nearest distance dimension calculation.
  SR151969
  We fixed a crash in AcGiViewportDraw::context() that occurred in some unusual scenarios like during nearest distance calculation.
  SR151969
  We fixed a crash that occurred when accessing some member functions of AcDbAssocVariable.
  SR155033
  We implemented AcDbDynBlockReference::convertToStaticBlock methods.
  SR153685 SR154402
  We implemented AcDbOle2Frame::scaleHeight(), AcDbOle2Frame::scaleWidth(), AcDbOle2Frame::setScaleHeight(const double) and AcDbOle2Frame::setScaleWidth(const double) functions.
  SR149724
  We implemented AcGePointOnSurface::parameter() and AcGePointOnSurface::normal() signature functions.
  SR149885
  We implemented AcGeTorus::getAnglesInU(double&, double&) and AcGeTorus::getAnglesInV(double& startLatitude, double& endLatitude) functions.
  SR149562
  

20.3
2023

Version 23.2.03

Improvements to BricsCAD

• -PARAMETERS Using the Properties option of PARAMETERS command, you can set the lower and upper bounds for 3D constraint parameters so that they will be taken into account in dynamic operations (e.g., DMMOVE, MOVE and DMROTATE).
  
• Animation Editor The option to choose between Draft quality (real-time rendering) and Full quality (rendering according to the current rendering preset) was added.
  It is now possible to specify the rendering range not only in seconds but also in frames. The current frame and position of the animation now are displayed in the scene properties.
  
• ANIMATION The Animation command accounts for preset bounds when animating a sequence.
  
• AREA The selected area is now highlighted when SELECTIONAREA system variable's value is true.
  SR127863 SR137639 SR142395 SR151345
  
• ARRANGE A new option in the Arrange command panel has been added to specify the distance between consecutive entities.
  
• BEDIT Blocks defined in external references are no longer shown in the BEDIT block selection dialog.
  
• BLOCK We removed the auto-complete function from the Name field in the Block Definition dialog box.
  SR145379
  The BLOCK command dialog box default action is now "Convert to block".
  
• BLOCKIFY The handling of symmetric objects has been improved to make the BLOCKIFY command more robust, solving numerous issues with object sets being either not recognized or incorrectly converted.
  SR143146
  
• BricsCAD Usage Data Program Added a new checkbox "Join as Guest" for the "BricsCAD Usage Data Program" dialog. If checked, no login dialog will appear.
  
• CONNECT Two collinear but non-touching lines can now be joined correctly with the CONNECT command.
  
• CONVTOSOLID BricsCAD will no longer attempt to create 3D solids from self-intersecting meshes.
  
• CUI Merge After installing a major BricsCAD update, opting to copy files and settings from a previous BricsCAD installation now preserves user changes in the CUI while adding the new CUI items.
  SR96822
  
• Color Palette Foreground colors now adapt luminance to maintain contrast with background color (instead of switching to a complementary color).
  
• Commands List Export Added document-scoped commands.
  
• DESIGNTABLE The DESIGNTABLE command now automatically creates all parameters defined in the .csv file. Previously, only string-valued parameters were created.
  -DESIGNTABLEEDIT/"Link all parameters" option restores all initially existent (but subsequently removed) parameter links.
  
• DWGHEALTH The functionality of the FINDOUTLIERS command is now integrated into the DWGHEALTH command.
  We fixed a bug where the results of the Audit task were not always entirely visible.
  
• External References External references are highlighted in the drawing when they are selected in the Attachments Panel, and vice versa.
  SR101661 SR114011 SR118157
  
• Field dialog Added support of associative array properties in the Field dialog.
  SR136067
  
• FIND Added "Select" button to "Find and Replace" dialog box. This button creates a selection set from the selected entities in the list and closes the dialog box.
  SR148121
  
• FINDOUTLIERS/OPTIMIZE/BIMINVERTSPACES Optimization The clustering algorithm now runs faster in the FINDOUTLIERS, OPTIMIZE and BIMINVERTSPACES commands.
  
• FINDOUTLIERS The command now opens much faster when used in large drawings.
  The camera position no longer changes when altering the valid region base point or sizes.
  We added 'move', 'move into valid region' and 'undo' functionality to the FINDOUTLIERS command.
  SR143337
  We added an automatic zoom button in the settings panel of the FINDOUTLIERS command.
  We added tool icons for the FINDOUTLIERS command.
  
• FLIPLINE The FLIPLINE command has been extended with an option to only flip specific entities.
  SR139323
  
• FONTS We created a BricsCAD-native font for simplified Chinese text: gbcbig.shx.
  
• Geometry-Driven Parameters Entering the value of a geometry-driven variable will now cause it to take on said specified value, as expected.
  
• IMPORT We've increased the types of metafile records that can be imported via WMF.
  SR140631SR151840
  
• Large PNG Raster Files Non-interlaced PNG files are read by scanlines.
  SR134573 SR139892 SR143293 SR149701 SR151735
  
• Layers Panel Enabled selection of multiple rows by dragging selection.
  SR141196 SR143177
  Layers panel key bindings (e.g., Ctrl+A) now work after clicking anywhere in the panel.
  SR138682
  Selecting all rows by clicking on the index column header is now possible in the Qt panel.
  SR149216
  
• Linetypes The Load Linetypes dialog box now shows more line types when set to its minimum height.
  
• LOFT FEATURE A loft feature is properly created when a lofted entity is constructed with the 'Path' or 'Guides' option of the LOFT command.
  
• MANAGEUSAGEDATA A new variant of the MANAGEUSAGEDATA command dialog has been created. Now, there is a distinction between "joining the Usage Data Program", and "managing the Usage Data Program settings". More specifically, the values of the settings are correctly loaded when the MANAGEUSAGEDATA dialog pops up; and the wordings of the buttons have been fine-tuned (e.g., "Save" instead of "Yes, sign me up"). Finally, the "Maybe later" functionality has been removed from the MANAGEUSAGEDATA dialog, since it is only relevant for the JOINUSAGEDATAPROGRAM dialog.
  
• MATCHPROP The command now correctly updates the plot style on localized versions.
  SR132326
  
• Menu Bar The 'Open' and 'New' functions have been moved out of sub-menus in the File tab.
  SR143765
  More tools have been added to the Menu bar. Tools that control the workspace have been moved from the Tools tab to the Window tab.
  
• MLEADER ORTHOMODE now restricts a Mleader's angle during creation.
  SR96344 SR102845 SR125488 SR116533 SR144865
  
• Model Space Viewports It is now possible to change the size of model space viewports by dragging their borders.
  SR77369 SR84278 SR91665 SR95384 SR116883 SR117485 SR137456 SR146077 SR147796 SR81261 SR150386 SR151310 SR151690
  
• Modern Ribbon The DataSmith/Twinmotion command can now be found in the Export tabs of the BIM and Complete workspaces, in the modern layout.
  SR147637
  The Annotate tab in the BIM workspace now contains controls for annotation scaling.
  
• MOVEGUIDED Concentric arc segments with equal radius are now correctly healed after using the MOVEGUIDED command.
  SR141493 SR149302
  
• MTEXTFIXED We have modified the zoom transition that is triggered when editing rotated MTEXT, to make it less jarring, when MTEXTFIXED is set to "2".
  SR122306
  
• NADCON Transformation Implemented NADCON transformations: NAD27 to NAD83, NAD83 to HPGN.
  SR76050
  
• OLE Embedding Drawings from older versions of BricsCAD which are embedded as OLE objects in other applications will now automatically open in the latest installed version of BricsCAD. In addition, when the COMAcadCompatibility settings is enabled, embedded AutoCAD(R) drawing files will also open in BricsCAD.
  SR128404 SR149526
  
• Online Bing Map Support The GEOMAP, GEOMAPMODE, GEOMAPIMAGE, GEOMAPIMAGETYPE, GEOMAPIMAGERESOLUTION, and GEOMAPIMAGEUPDATE commands are introduced. The GEOMAPKEY command is introduced for user-defined Bing Maps Key.
  SR61534SR130298SR132271SR140216SR144025
  
• Online Help The format for help strings we send to our Help server has been changed. Now we use the exact parameters CMD/DLG/SYS/DOC in the URL instead of a query string to search.
  SR153275
  
• OPTIMIZE 3D regions and surfaces are now supported in Optimize.
  We reorganized and simplified the options to make it clearer how each of the actions will affect your drawing.
  We now show any gaps that will be closed as transparent red circles in the drawing. Trimming and extending lines to close T-connections is now available as a separate option.You can now set the gap tolerance by clicking two points in the drawing.
  
• Overkill dialog The Overkill dialog Ok button can now be triggered by pressing ENTER.
  SR147998
  
• Parameters Manager The Parameters Manager has top-level categories expanded by default. Previously all categories were collapsed by default.
  
• Parametric Blocks A global design table is created in case a parametric block parameter bound by the block design table is linked to a new global parameter via the -BMPARAMETERS command, or by using the Parameters Manager Panel.
  
• PBLOCKASSIST A new option has been added to the PBLOCKASSIST command dialog box to convert existing references to dynamic blocks (in model space) to new references of the newly created parametric blocks.
  All dynamic block flip actions are properly reconstructed as pblock flip actions, even if the flip action only affects a subset of the entities inside the block.
  DBlock move actions are recognized as pblock stretch actions.
  In addition to providing error messages when a dynamic block's conversion is not possible, warning messages are also displayed when conversion is allowed but the resulting parametric block could potentially have issues.
  We added the option of specifying a suffix to add to the name of newly created or exported parametric blocks.
  We improved the layout of the command dialog.
  SR147027
  Improved the error messages to deliver a more precise description of any issues/problems in conversion.
  
• PRINT We implemented snapping to the corners of the printable area in Paper Space. The paper margins are represented by a Polyline, so it is also possible to snap to Midpoint, Nearest, etc.
  SR121228
  
• Prompts Command input prompts have been made more consistent, and now always end with a colon character, followed by a single space.
  
• Properties Panel Clicking on or tabbing to a read-only property now sets focus to the property value for easier copying to the clipboard. This behavior existed in earlier versions but was lost in V21.
  SR151091
  If several entities are selected, mass properties of 3D solids and surfaces are no longer displayed in the Properties Panel. This was done to avoid delays when a large number of entities are selected.
  
• Publish Dialog The Publish Dialog sheet list is now updated when changing the "Include" option value. Also, the dialog resize behavior has been improved.
  SR141786 SR131290 SR148343
  
• Qt Dialogs A number of new Qt dialogs are updated to trigger the action button (blue button) on pressing enter/return when the dialog is open: Block, Color, Field, Find, Flatshot, Table.
  SR129762 SR139271 SR134188 SR145167
  
• Qt Ribbon Added a toggle button for switching between the Qt and Legacy Ribbons on the Interface Settings panel.
  Added a large horizontal toggle button mode in the new Qt Ribbon.
  SR143394
  Added support for ribbon panel launcher buttons on the Qt Ribbon.
  SR150234
  Decreased the height of large split button popup items; the new size corresponds to the size of their legacy counterparts.
  SR146320
  The Qt Ribbon active tab can now be changed using the mouse wheel.
  SR149784 SR150202
  The "Justify Top: No" option now works for Ribbon row panels.
  Now the Split button's drop-list (fly-out) can be opened by pressing and holding the left mouse button.
  SR143460
  Clicking on a menu item with children now executes the first child, if it is an executable action.
  SR143765
  
• Qt Sheet Set Panel When SSMSHEETSTATUS system variable is set to 2, the Qt Sheet Set panel will now update sheet lock status every SSMPOLLTIME seconds.
  
• Quad It is now possible to edit attribute values in Quad rollover properties.
  SR98091
  
• Ribbon - Tool Updates 'Check for updates' has been added to the Ribbon in the Classic layout.
  SR125034
  The icons in the Ribbon Layer control now match the icons in the Layers panel.
  SR149067
  The CLEANUNUSEDVARIABLES command was added to the Ribbon and can now be found in the Drawing Optimizations panel of the Manage tab.
  SR115302
  The Modern layout has been reworked using data collected from the "BricsCAD Usage Data Program", and feedback from support requests. The time spent looking for commands has been dramatically reduced. All commands not located in the main Ribbon bar are now just a single click away in a large drop-down at the panel label.
  The empty button in the 'Move' Ribbon drop-down on modern CUI, 3D Modeling Home tab, has been removed. CopyGuided3D has been added to the 'Copy' Ribbon drop-down on modern CUI, 3D Modeling Home tab.
  The '2D Parametric' tab in the Modern layouts, and the 'Parametric' tab in the 'Drafting' workspace of the Classic layout have a new panel named 'Operations'. This contains commands that allow you to apply an operation to a parameter, such as FLIPLINE and PARAMETRIC stretch.
  The 'Copy' button in the Modern CUI has been renamed from "Move" to "Copy".
  SR153030
  The tools 'Reposition Dimension Text', 'Reposition Dimension Text with Dimension Line' and 'Reposition Dimension Text with Leader' have been added to the Classic Ribbon.
  SR121909
  The behavior of some split buttons in the Ribbon have been altered to remember the last selected item in most, but not all, split buttons.
  SR153445
  
• Ribbon panel height Tuned Ribbon CUI and button heights to remove spurious vertical resizing when changing Ribbon tabs.
  SR143534
  
• SETTINGSSEARCH The SETTINGSSEARCH command now accepts a comma or semicolon-separated list of setting names. When provided with a list of terms, the SETTINGS dialog displays only those settings in an isolated view.
  SR147052
  The command can now be started transparently at a running command prompt.
  SR147052
  
• Sheet Set Manager A Model views tab has been added to the Sheet Set Manager.
  Drag and drop of a node with children keeps the expanded/collapsed states of nested nodes.
  Sheet Set tree nodes can be re-ordered with drag and drop.
  SR120943
  
• Sheet Set Panel The Sheet Set panel contains a new menu option to auto-save changes. It is active by default.
  The Sheet Set panel tree no longer expands all nodes when dragging and dropping a node.
  SR145606
  The "View label block" and "Callout blocks" picker buttons now work. Also, we updated the UI for read-only properties to make them easier to read + selectable (copyable).
  Added a 'save' icon to sheet sets that have unsaved modifications in the sheet panel tree, and the '*' prefix to the sheet set name.
  SR91301 SR116490
  Removed full tree refresh on importing or closing a sheet set. This means collapse/expand state of nodes is preserved when importing/closing a sheet set.
  The Sheet Set panel now immediately starts the renaming of a newly added subset.
  The Sheet Set panel remembers nodes being expanded/collapsed when switching between the Sheet List and Category Views tabs.
  
• SHXFONTS The amgdtans.shx font is mapped to amgdt.shx.
  SR148654
  
• SWEEP A loft feature is created when a lofted entity is constructed using the INTERACTIVE option of the SWEEP command.
  
• TABLE Added the possibility to switch between Table cells by clicking the cell with the mouse (during the editing of Table content).
  Improved formatting and conversion of cells to different types.
  Improved subtable selection: selecting rows by clicking their number indicators (1, 2, 3,...) and partly (for tables without breaks) selecting columns by clicking their letter indicators (A, B, C,...).
  SR140138 SR143231 SR148381
  Pre-existing custom table cell styles are now shown in the Table Editor and Explorer Table style panel.
  SR146519
  Added properties in the Properties Panel of the "Contents" group when selecting a Table cell.
  SR114660 SR121322
  
• Textures Quality We now use a MIP-mapping technique for texture rendering. It improves visualization performance and the display quality of 3D objects with textures, for views with varying distances.
  
• TIFFOUT Implemented the TIFFOUT command, which saves a screenshot of selected objects in the TIFF file format (LZW compression).
  SR127482 SR101531 SR72585 SR74652 SR83550 SR104947 SR130183 SR144357
  
• VISIBILITYSTATES We added the "Select State" option to the VISIBILITYSTATES command.
  SR144436
  
• WMFOUT workflow The WMFOUT command now lets you choose a selection set to export, or you can choose to export the active viewport.
  SR151953
  

Improvements to BIM

• Background Image Generation Background images are no longer generated with section lines, BIM grids and space callouts.
  SR144440
  Background images on a BIMsections 'volume' section now take 'background' clipping correctly into account.
  SR144440
  
• BIMCREATEDETAIL The BIMCREATEDETAIL command now has a command panel, grouping all user interaction steps in one place.
  
• BIMINVERTSPACES BimInvertSpaces takes closed polylines into account and creates openings. The polylines, created in POINTCLOUDFITPLANAR or manually, are used to create a parametric opening component. When polylines are detected on both sides of the wall, they are interpolated. The polylines do not need to be exactly in the face of the space. The parametric opening object can easily be replaced with a window or door component (with _bmReplace).
  
• BIMQUICKDRAW BIMQUICKDRAW now supports the usage of Entity Snapping (ESNAP) to complement the existing smart-snapping behavior.
  The BIMQUICKDRAW command now queries the active story and assigns the new building elements to that story, if any.
  We changed the floating command panel into a full-height panel, consistent with a general move towards full-height command panels.
  We have fixed a bug and improved the copying-behavior of BIMQUICKDRAW command when outer walls of a building don't form a closed loop.
  SR146476
  Added Left and Right justification when snapping to single lines.
  SR94867
  It is now possible to toggle a checkbox in the BIMQUICKDRAW command panel that specifies the connection between the outer walls and the slab (wall on top or next to slab)
  There is a new (collapsible) section in the BIMQUICKDRAW command panel, "Advanced snapping options" - which is by default collapsed.
  
• BIMQUICKWALL Can now place unconnected walls, and walls that are connected at one side. A command panel lets you specify a composition, height, unconnected length, spatial location, top and base offsets, and justification. The justification is properly applied when regular entity snapping is used to position the wall. It is now possible to create walls that cross spaces or block references.
  The command can now detect walls in an underlying point cloud. When a wall is found, both wall width and position are locked to the wall in the point cloud.
  SR147460
  
• BIM Ribbon The BIMSECTIONUPDATE command can now be accessed from the ribbon with a single click.
  
• BIMSECTIONUPDATE The hatches in the section result are always sent to background.
  SR134447 SR145000
  The option to generate the Raster Image without section lines was added to BimViewport.
  
• BIMTAG A new full dockable command context panel replaces the command dialog box. Minor redesign of the UI: Box selection mode is moved under Auto, and useful messages and instructions from the Command line are now shown in the command context panel. Removed duplicate icons that led to the same BimTag panel.
  
• BIMWALL Based on the POLYSOLID command, BIMWALL lets you create walls in any direction, including arcs. A command panel allows you to specify a composition, thickness, height, spatial location, top and base offsets, and justification.
• BMINSERT BMINSERT no longer ignores internal walls when determining the dimension endpoints.
  
• Details Panel The "View details" dialog, which is launched from the Details panel, now has a more modern look after conversion to Qt.
  
• EXPORTLAYOUT Annotative hatches inside blocks are handled correctly during EXPORTLAYOUT command.
  SR141928
  
• IFC Export Validation We implemented an IFC model validation engine. It checks the exported IFC file to ensure that it is fully compatible with the official buildingSmart IFC specifications, for IFC2x3 and IFC4. IFC validation can be enabled via the IFCExportValidateModel setting. Any rule violations will be reported in the log file.
  
  We fixed an IfcArbitraryOpenProfileDef export problem (assuring 2D curves are used in the profile definition).
  We fixed an export bug for IfcToroidalSurface.
  We fixed an issue in export mapping where dynamic types were not recognized.
  We fixed an issue where the IfcShapeRepresentation was not always correct .
  We fixed an export bug for IfcPresentationLayerWithStyle.
  
  We also fixed certain cases that resulted in non-compliant IFC files, but IFC is a complex specification, and we need your help to fix them all - if you find issues, please file a Support Request. We appreciate your help!
  
• IFC Import/Export The containment of entities in Spaces is now imported from and exported to IFC.
  
• INSERTLAYOUT/-INSERTLAYOUT INSERTLAYOUT and -INSERTLAYOUT commands have been moved from BIM to CORE and are now available for all license levels.
  
• New Project A building and story are created by default when a new project is created.
  
• Project Browser When adding a new sheet, you can edit the name, number, template layout, or select a layout from existing drawings.
  SR142721
  It is now possible to create (new) sheets from sections, even when the destination file fields were already set, or when sheets have already been created.
  SR144441
  The 'save drawing' button on the project browser now opens the SaveAs dialog, in the folder of the most recently active project.
  When updating a logo in the Info tab, the open sheets using that logo will be updated to show the new logo.
  SR147090
  It is now possible to duplicate any file or folder in the Project Browser panel, via a right-click menu.
  In the Files tab, when renaming a sheet, users can now edit the sheet title and/or sheet number.
  SR144848 SR146993
  
• RFA Import Revit-defined Level of Detail (LoD) Settings for Elements will be honored when importing geometry, so the imported geometry will correspond to a particular LoD. The LoD will be determined by the "RVTRFALevelOfDetail" setting.
  
• Ribbon The new BIMWALL command is now available in the Ribbon of the BIM and Complete workspaces.
  
• SELECTABLE DIMENSIONS When selecting windows and doors in a 3D view, the dimensions refer to walls that are connected to the host wall at the side which is in view.
  
• Spatial Locations Assigning a space to a building element will now override the building element's story and building properties with those of the space.
  
• Various Command Panels We adjusted the spinboxes to use the number of decimals specified by the LUPREC and AUPREC document settings.
  SR145936 SR148697
  

Improvements to Civil

• Civil Explorer Civil entities, styles, and point file formats in Civil Explorer are now sorted alphabetically.
  
  Status icons have been added to Civil Explorer. The Show/Hide icon has been added to all Civil entities. Additionally, for TIN Surfaces, status icons for Out of Date, Refresh, and Snapshot have also been added.
  
  The context menu for most TIN Surface definitions now includes a 'Zoom to' and 'Select' option, making it easier to find them in the drawing.
  SR147192
  
  While editing the Simplify and Densify parameters, a 'Rebuild surface' button will appear in the dialog box. This enables the user to edit multiple parameters at once, without the need to rebuild the surface after each individual edit.
  
  The Add Breaklines dialog has been upgraded with the following improvements:
  - Added information about the breakline layer, minimum and maximum elevation.
  - Added right-click commands to zoom to, select, remove, and copy breakline geometry information to the clipboard.
  - Added a button to pick the breakline in the drawing, which highlights it in the dialog.
  SR147192
  
  The Add drawing objects dialog has been upgraded with the following improvements:
  - Added information about object type and elevation.
  - Added right click commands for zoom to and copy object geometry information to the clipboard.
  
  The Add boundaries dialog has been upgraded with the following improvements:
  - Added information about the boundary layer
  - Added right click commands for zoom to, select, and remove.
  - Added a button to pick the boundary in the drawing which highlights it in the dialog.
  
• GISEXPORT Now it is possible to export CAD entities (polylines, lines, etc.) without associated GIS data into a .shp file.
  SR148562 SR149554 SR150757 SR150793
  
• GRADING When a boundary is added to a TIN Surface by grading, it now contains information indicating that it was generated from the grading object.
  
  It is now possible to change the input entity for grading through the Properties panel.
  
• Point Cloud to TIN TIN creation performance has been significantly improved when the TIN is created in a portion of the point cloud with the 'cLip polygon' option.
  
• TIN Surface Elevation values are now rounded to 3 decimal places in tables for all TIN definition dialogs.
  
• TINEDIT The following deprecated TINEDIT sub-commands: Remove Breaklines, Remove Boundaries, Clip TIN Surface, have been removed from the QUAD.
  SR146516
  

Improvements to Mechanical

• BMBALLOON A new "Consecutive" numbering mode was added to BMBALLOON automatic mode for a polyline and a circular pattern. It is possible to change the direction and the starting balloon for the circular option by pressing Ctrl and Tab keys correspondingly.
  
• BMBOM By default, non-mechanical objects are not shown in BOM tables if they are inside components, regardless of the filtering mode. It is possible to make them appear by enabling a new flag to treat leaf parts as transparent, or by explicitly setting Transparent BOM status to those components.
  
• BMEXPLODECONFIG A new command was added to allow the assignment of the preferred directions for parts during automatic generation of exploded views.
  
• BMINSERT When a regular (non-Mechanical) .dwg file is inserted via the BMINSERT command, and the MECHANICALBLOCKS setting is enabled, that file will be inserted as a Mechanical block.
  
• BMMECH, BMUNMECH After running the BMUNMECH command, the component description can be restored by a consecutive BMMECH command.
  SR144743
  
• BMMECH Arrays of blocks will be converted to Mechanical blocks, if the option to convert all objects in the model is selected.
  Now, if a solid has a BIM name, this name is kept as a component name during conversion to a Mechanical solid.
  SR129858
  
• BMTRAILINGLINES If a selection set has two parts and a 3D polyline, a custom trailing line will be created.
  SR135823
  
• BMWELDANNOTATE Improved the BMWELDANNOTATE interface. When you select a curve (or part of a curve) for a caterpillar, a preview of the caterpillar is shown. The flip option flips the preview, not the caterpillar of the previous curve (part). In addition, now you can specify the scale of the caterpillar.
  
• BMWELDING When creating a fillet weld, now you can select several faces for the second member. For each of these faces a weld will be created if possible. Adjacent welds will be combined into one feature if the FILLETWELDINGCOMBINEADJACENT setting is turned on (and it is turned on by default).
  When creating a fillet weld, now you can specify the A (throat) size.
  SR149089
  
• BOM Manager Added the "Fixed" sorting mode, in which the positions of parts in the BOM are remembered, and their numbers stay the same after an update, regardless of added or deleted parts.
  SR149453 SR134197 SR137095 SR137287 SR120278 SR86889
  Added the ability to add user-fillable columns and enter unitless values (or text) to any cell of the user-fillable columns, quantity columns and any columns except Number, Thumbnails, Component columns.
  SR148128
  
• IMPORT When a file with custom properties of components is imported, the list of properties will be optimized to avoid duplication, when possible, to improve the performance of further operations.
  SR135970 SR141464
  
• Mechanical Browser "Filter by selection" mode is added to the Mechanical Browser panel.
  A new menu item for the Mechanical browser settings is introduced. When synchronized selection mode is disabled, this setting allows you to enable or disable highlighting for objects in the model corresponding to the selected nodes in the tree.
  Another new option "Keep values list order" was added to avoid sorting lists of values of the parameters.
  SR148501
  
• Mechanical Drawing Views Added the "Assemblies optimization" setting (DRAWINGVIEWASM) for creating and updating views. This may improve view creation time for assemblies. VIEWBASE, VIEWPROJ and VIEWUPDATE commands benefit from it.
  
• Modern Ribbon More tools have been added to the Modern Ribbon in the Mechanical workspace.
  SR148544
  
• VIEWBASE The dialog for selecting exploded views was replaced with a Qt dialog, and a combobox to select exploded view steps was added.
  Drawing views generated for exploded views now respect specific steps, selected via dialog or batch mode.
  

Improvements to Mechanical 2D

• AMDATUMID Added 'Object attachment' and 'Object detachment' functionality to the Datum Identifier Symbol dialog. This allows the user to group and ungroup the symbol with the associated geometry and to ensure alignment as the geometry is moved in the model.
  
• AMWELDSYM Added 'Object attachment' and 'Object detachment' functionality to the Welding Symbol dialog.
  Applied various Welding Symbol dialog improvements. Added symbols for parameters.
  
• LOADMECHANICAL2D When opening a drawing that contains 2D Mechanical content while LOADMECHANICAL2D is disabled, a warning bubble is displayed at the status bar describing the situation and providing a hyperlink to immediately enable and load the Mechanical 2D modules.
  SR147123
  

Improvements to Pointclouds

• 2D Images from E57 BricsCAD is now able to extract 2D images that are stored in E57 format point clouds, and write them to the cache folder, for use in the bubble viewer.
  SR139434
  
• Bubble Viewer When the bubble viewer and model view are synced, and the "camera" is positioned inside a green bubble, you'll no longer get a green cast to the scene. We now hide the bubble when the camera is inside.
  
• POINTCLOUD Added a guard to check the available free disk space during pre-processing.
  SR128684
  The Point Cloud Custom File Format panel now appears whenever the contents of the point cloud file cannot be detected automatically for ASCII file formats.
  SR144693
  A Cancel button now appears in the Reference Manager during point cloud pre-processing.
  SR138337
  
• POINTCLOUDALIGN The option to either align the point cloud by rotating it, or by creating an axis-aligned UCS was added to the command.
  SR136550 SR146977
  
• Point Cloud Manager Panel It is now possible to select multiple items in Point Cloud Manager panel and turn them on/off simultaneously.
  
• POINTCLOUDCACHESIZE The POINTCLOUDCACHESIZE system variable is no longer used. The Reference Manager dialog box now displays available disk space in the current cache folder.
  
• BUBBLES Visibility settings for bubbles are now retained.
  SR148684
  
• BIMQUICKWALL The command can now detect wall widths in an underlying point cloud. When a wall width is found, it is automatically set as the BimQuickWall wall width value and displayed in the command panel. The wall preview cursor adopts this width and also sticks to the wall location.
  
• POINTCLOUDDETECTFLOORS This command has a new option to write the floor level to BIMSPATIALLOCATION. This makes it much faster to start working in 'Top View Mode'.
  

Fixes

• -PDFATTACH The command no longer displays a dialog after prompting for filename.
  SR153400
  
• ACISOUT Tolerance in exported ACIS file was changed from 1.e-7 to standard value 1.e-6.
  
• ACTIVATESTORY Updated the default value shown in the command when asking to show the model in top view.
  
• Adaptive Grid Snap Improved LINE/PLINE length rounding according to adaptive snap mode (SNAPTYPE=2) when an angle constraint is first entered.
  
• AEC Fixed wrong display of AEC wall openings.
  SR75934
  
• AECC In some cases, there was an issue displaying Civil 3D entities in BricsCAD. This is fixed.
  SR147885
  
• AI Assist Fixed an issue where the AI Assist tab would not be loaded into the ribbon, when BricsCAD is started with the ribbon closed.
  The focus is correctly moved back to the Command line after the AI Assist bubble message pops up.
  
• AMWELDSYM Fixed the remaining untranslated strings and the display of Unicode characters.
  SR146716
  
• Animation Editor Separated the translation for the "Sun" strings from this panel and the "Sun" abbreviation for Sunday.
  SR147650
  The xrefs with relative paths are now visible in the rendered video.
  SR74424 SR100328 SR137555 SR140633 SR144679 SR145014
  
• ARRANGE/BLOCKIFY The application no longer crashes when changing the visual style to or from 2D Wireframe during the command.
  
• ARRANGE BricsCAD no longer crashes when you switch documents while using the draggers of the ARRANGE command.
  
• ARRAYDETECT In the detected rectangular arrays, rows are used in the direction closest to the Y-axis and columns are used in the direction closest to the X-axis.
  
• Associative Arrays Fixed: respect the draw order of source entities when creating associative array or editing its source elements.
  SR133249 SR138539
  
• Associative Dimensions Fixed creation of associative dimensions for large coordinates to not lose associativity.
  SR145243
  Fixed an issue where associative dimensions of 3D solids made in AutoCAD could be lost when saving the drawing in BricsCAD.
  
• Attachments Panel Sorting by size is now always correct, also when attachments with size in kB and size in mB are present.
  The attachments panel now responds to Ctrl+A/ESC to modify the selection. Arrow up/down to move the selection also works.
  Attached xrefs that have changed and need reloading are now marked with a warning icon next to their name.
  SR152613
  
• Attribute An unusual scenario involving a non-annotative attribute with locked block position could result in the attribute mysteriously moving to an earlier position after saving and re-opening a drawing file. This has been corrected so the attribute retains its new position.
  SR153642
  
• BIMAPPLYPROFILE The "Rotation angle" option is properly displayed now on localized versions.
  SR147651 SR136091
  
• BIMCLASSIFY The profile size is now always expressed in millimeters in the name of the profile, when it is automatically assigned by the BIMCLASSIFY or the BIMIFY command.
  SR148931
  
• BIMCREATEDETAIL The Details panel now updates after running BIMCREATEDETAIL command.
  
• BIMGENERATE2DSTAIR Layers The symbolic 2D stair generation now uses "BIM_2D_BACK+_" layers instead of "BIM_2D_BACK_". This way the solid geometry of the stair is still shown in the section result. Objects below the visible part of the stair will appear 'hidden.
  
• BIMPYTHON BIMPYTHON command no longer stops unexpectedly when a script is executed a second time in the same session.
  Reading the native .dwg properties (like Layer) through get_property is now correctly supported.
  
• BIMQUICKDRAW The BIMQUICKDRAW command will now correctly create a building when starting to draw on a slab-like solid which is not classified.
  
• BIMSECTIONUPDATE Detail callout is now placed correctly in 2D section result.
  SR129796
  Fixed the position of 2D entities from BRX_2D+_ layers in generated drawings.
  
• BIMTAG Dynamic Types are now available in predefined tag styles.
  
• BIMWINDOWCREATE You can now create an opening with a preselected boundary from the Ribbon.
  
• BLOCK dialog(Qt version) The Qt dialog now respects the LUNITS and LUPREC system variables when displaying point coordinates.
  The BLOCK dialog no longer uses the system locale: coordinates always use "." as decimal separator. It is no longer possible to use ",".
  SR152756
  
• Block Definition Dialog The list of definitions in the Block Definitions dialog box is now sorted alphabetically.
  SR146136
  
• BLOCKIFY Fixed a problem with the order of the segments in a polyline.
  We fixed a bug where sometimes, matching entities are not found when other, very similar entities are located nearby.
  SR148584
  We fixed a bug where the command mistakenly identified the selected input entities as matching an existing block definition.
  SR147723
  
• BMANIMATE A command to run a quick animation of an exploded view or an exploded view step is introduced. It allows you to play, pause, stop or cancel the animation, as well as to move to the next or previous step, without the necessity to create a dedicated scene in the animation editor.
  
• BMBOMTEMPLATEEDIT Fixed the 'Edit' and 'Create' options for this command in BIM Project Browser panel.
  SR151162
  
• BricsCAD Opening We fixed an error where a redundant error message was prompted in the command line when opening BricsCAD.
  SR152999 SR152630
  
• BricsCAD Usage Data Program Information on the current units and view angle are now also being shared with Bricsys for users who joined the BricsCAD Usage Data Program.
  
• Center Mark Fixed: Center Mark block reference should not inherit the scale from parent block.
  SR147472
  
• Civil Explorer The text in the "Description" field now wraps and can be selected with the mouse.
  SR148773
  
• Civil Explorer/BIM Project Browser Fixed the context menu commands behavior for localized versions.
  SR151162 SR151454
  
• Constraints The show/hide constraints CUI menu macros now work correctly in empty drawings without any entities to select.
  SR144158SR148677
  
• CONVTOSOLID We have improved the command to better handle certain cases that previously resulted in the error "Attempting to stitch coincident faces is not allowed".
  SR132902
  
• CopyGuided We fixed a situation where CopyGuided improperly copied entities outside of the selection set. #greedy
  SR149302
  
• CORRIDOR In some cases, the Corridor materials were draped incorrectly when exported to Twinmotion. This is now fixed.
  
• CROPSOLID Transformations applied to the Point Cloud are followed by the crop solids.
  
• CUI Themed tool icons included in a .resz resource file worked properly only when filenames were all lower case. Mixed case filenames are now working correctly as well.
  SR152440
  We fixed a DIESEL expression error that occurred in a custom tool when opening the File menu in zero document state.
  SR150662
  
• DataLink Dialogs Fixed datalink Manager and Edit dialogs issues (exceptions, unavailable preview).
  Fixed an issue where 'Use Excel formatting' option was always treated as turned on.
  SR104079 SR136589 SR146762
  Removed erroneous "Invalid name" message that appeared when canceling adding a datalink.
  SR134413
  
• DATALINKUPDATE Fixed the bug in DATALINKUPDATE for BIM Schedules.
  SR150880
  
• Degenerate Geometry Error Fixed an issue to avoid a degenerate geometry error when hovering over some entities while a command is active and "Intersection" or "Apparent Intersection" ESNAP is enabled.
  SR144174
  
• DGN Import Fixed an issue where BricsCAD failed to import .dgn files containing 3D objects.
  SR130969 SR132741
  
• Dialogs Fixed an issue where themed WxWidgets based dialog boxes were misbehaving when Windows color settings changed.
  SR145256 SR136344 SR151195
  
• DIM It is now possible to use snap overrides in the DIM command.
  SR150543
  
• Dim Constraints Fixed the name display for 2D dimensional constraints on localized versions.
  SR153281
  
• DIMCONTINUE Improved processing of dimension style overrides by the DIMCONTINUE command.
  SR151221
  
• Dimension Style Editor The text descriptions for DIMAZIN property are now correctly displayed.
  SR143941
  An issue was discovered and fixed where the dimension style combo box was not visible when it was using the following ID:"AcDimensionStyleGallery".
  SR144130
  
• Dimensions Fixed: correctly applied child dimstyle values while creating dimensions.
  SR147016
  Fixed: recomputation of scale factors of associated dimensions.
  SR147764
  
• Document Tabs The WNEXT/WPREV commands and related shortcuts now cycle through open documents in document tab order.
  SR104180 SR147685
  
• Drawing Explorer BricsCAD no longer freezes when Drawing Explorer is opened in drawings containing large number of assets.
  SR143899
  
• Drawing BricsCAD no longer crashes when a particular AECCDbAssembly object is loaded.
  SR123570
  
• DWGCOMPARE Fixed an issue that caused the DWGCOMPARE command to incorrectly handle block references.
  
• DWGHEALTH We fixed a bug in the commandline-only version of DWGHEALTH where it was not possible to enter a routine name containing spaces.
  
• DXFOUT, DXFIN The DXFIN and DXFOUT commands no longer fail on Mechanical objects and entities.
  SR149586 SR150473 SR131291 SR132676 SR133974 SR134532 SR132516 SR134073 SR135687 SR139414 SR140954 SR141297 SR143569 SR151457 SR151573 SR132845
  
• Dynamic Blocks Fixed: Changing user parameter values changed values in the original block definition, instead of the anonymous block definition.
  Improved processing of user parameters in dynamic blocks.
  Object property fields referring to attribute definitions of dynamic blocks are now correctly evaluated based on the corresponding block reference's attributes.
  SR139024 SR145470
  
• DYNAMIC INPUT We fixed a scenario where dynamic input returned incorrect diameter values.
  SR144378
  
• Elevation Hatches Elevation hatches are now being created properly for some elements with more complicated geometry.
  SR119507 SR144065
  
• EXPORTLAYOUT Fixed scales for clipped annotative blocks.
  SR114214 SR121911
  Fixed: export of block references clipped with spatial clipping boundary (XCLIP command).
  SR137049
  
• ExpressTools Fixed SSX command that was not working as intended.
  Improved NCOPY command to preserve the active OSNAP setting.
  SR153125
  
• External References Fixed: purge unreferenced external references on drawing open.
  SR144073
  
• FIELD Fields whose cached data format differs from the format specification in the field code are now displayed using the cached format. This change improves compatibility with other platforms.
  SR148541
  Fixed (removed) the "jumping" of the FIELD dialog box when opening it on Windows OS.
  The Object page on the FIELD dialog box now works on first use.
  
• Field Dialog Double-clicking on a tree node arrow indicator no longer immediately reopens a node after closing it (or vice versa).
  
• Fields Fields that reference certain properties like Area and Volume which require a long time to calculate are now evaluated correctly when field values are updated.
  Fixed copy-paste of formula fields with nested ones.
  SR144538
  
• FILLET Fixed command to not change the radius of a polyline's arc segment.
  SR133934 SR138374 SR139738
  
• FIND The "Replace all" option in the dialog box now works for all the strings in the find history, not just for the last one.
  SR140306
  
• Find and Replace dialog "Zoom to" button now works for invisible block attributes (when ATTMODE=2).
  SR146463 SR132490
  
• Flatshot Dialog The mnemonic set to accept the dialog box is changed from "C" to "R", so on Windows ALT+R now accepts the dialog. It is thus now possible to accept (ALT+R) and close (ALT+C) the dialog using the keyboard.
  SR149365
  
• FLIPLINE/PARAMETRICTSTRETCH We added an appropriate warning message when trying to create a flip line or stretch parameter with an invalid name.
  
• GIS Import It is now possible to import geometry data from a .shp file without the associated .shx (index of feature geometry) and .dbf (attribute information) files.
  SR151034
  
• Grips Grip attraction has been fixed for SNAPTYPE=0 with SNAPMODE=ON, and SNAPTYPE=2 cases.
  
• Guided Insert We fixed a specific situation where, when trying to insert a 2D Parametric Block with reference curves, valid guide curves could not be acquired.
  SR139533
  
• HATCH Fixed creation of hatches using COM API.
  SR116534
  
• HATCHEDITEXT In certain cases, converting an edge to an arc failed when the hatch had no arc edges to begin with. This has been fixed.
  SR152970
  
• Help Window Prevented the Help window from locking up BricsCAD when the Tips panel has been opened in the BricsCAD session. The Help window is now opened as a separate process.
  SR140209
  
• IFC Import IFC Space representation color and transparency are now imported.
  We fixed an issue where inconsistent colour information in an IFC file resulted in the IFC file not being imported.
  
• IMAGEATTACH The FILEDIA system variable now affects only the image file prompt, enabling the command options to be set in the dialog even when FILEDIA is set to zero.
  SR150122
  
• IMPORT Fixed an error when converting an imported mesh to a solid or surface.
  SR140866
  
• INSERT Displaying of block unit in INSERT dialog was fixed.
  SR152066 SR153027 SR152220 SR152849
  Fixed a problem where scaling was ignored if both insertion point and scale were specified in the command's dialog.
  SR151908 SR152068
  The command now correctly supports canceling the insertion of a block.
  SR152699
  
• INSERT/BMINSERT Improved performance of insertion of a component with custom properties by INSERT or BMINSERT commands so that BricsCAD does not freeze.
  SR142379
  
• Interior Elevation Interior elevations can now be generated for manually created spaces.
  SR132535 SR142516 SR149782
  
• Invalid Index Error Fixed "Invalid Index" error when hovering over a Spline and a Mleader, while a command is active and "Intersection" or "Apparent Intersection" ESNAP is enabled.
  SR145791
  
• JOIN "Close" option is now highlighted and active on localized versions.
  SR147015
  
• LANDXMLEXPORT Time data type is saved in correct format.
  SR146725
  
• Layer Properties Filter Fixed an issue where the Color property in Layer Filter properties grid couldn't be erased.
  SR154075
  
• Layers Panel (legacy) The "search layers", "layer states", "layer filters" Layer Settings options in the legacy Layers panel are stored/read again on application restart.
  SR149216
  
• Layers Panel Active filter on Layers panel is now saved when hiding the panel.
  SR149045
  Fix: The layer state combo box current index is now updating when the selected layer state is changed externally.
  Fixed an issue where clicking a Layers panel button (e.g., freeze) could activate a button from a different column.
  Linetypes from an xref are displayed correctly in the Layers panel.
  SR148219
  The "All Used Layers" filter now always works, even if "Indicate layers in use" is not switched on.
  Fixed an issue where closing the last drawing, when the Layers panel had been open for that drawing (but was no longer open at the time of closing), would cause BricsCAD to crash.
  SR152796
  
• Layers Layers are now integer sorted in the Ribbon Layer Control, Quad Rollover Tips and Properties panel.
  SR140549
  
• Layout Manager Fixed: publishing filtered list of layouts.
  SR146373
  
• Library panel Library panel options are now saved properly.
  SR150883SR151937
  ISO and DIN folders now are correctly displayed in the panel.
  SR144619 SR151635
  
• Line Type Dialog The line type dialog now responds to Ctrl+A/ESC to modify the selection. Arrow up/down to move the selection also work. The current selection can also be accessed by pressing ENTER.
  
• LINETYPE Fixed bug: xclipped block containing region with dashed linetype incorectly displayed in 2dWireframe.
  SR145757
  .LIN files are now successfully loaded in the "Load Linetypes" dialog on localized versions.
  SR150874 SR150850 SR153233 SR153179
  Fixed a bug when displaying SHX text containing only hyphens or dashes.
  SR150828
  Fixed BricsCAD freezing during opening of a file with entities with scaled linetypes.
  SR144893
  
• MANAGEUSAGEDATA Fixed an issue related to Anonymous login.
  
• Mass Properties Fixed: parallel computation of mass properties and BIM properties.
  SR136838 SR138724 SR139193
  
• Mechanical Browser Mechanical browser now correctly updates its content when the user switches from a layout to the model space.
  SR140746
  Bend tables can now be properly changed in the German version of BricsCAD.
  SR149306
  Fixed the context menu commands on localized versions.
  SR151454
  
• Memory We increased the amount of reclaimed system memory after opening and closing many drawings using a 3D visual style.
  SR149617
  We fixed some memory leaks that occurred in the ACIS modeler, during the shutdown of a BricsCAD session.
  
• Menu The "Login" menu item of the File menu is now working correctly while on the Start page.
  SR153000 SR154231
  
• MTEXT - applied the selected Textstyle height to created Mtext,- set the selected Textstyle as active in the current database.
  SR143993
  Fixed undesirable MText shift after saving/re-opening.
  SR141253 SR151223
  We improved the line wrapping for MText containing tabulations.
  SR151887
  
• MText In-place Editor Fixed: a crash at the activation of in-place MText editor after block insertion with drag-n-drop from Contents browser. The same fix is applied to Table editor as well.
  SR144862
  
• MVSETUP Improved system variables update (LUNITS, LIMMIN and LIMMAX) after processing MVSETUP for modelspace.
  SR104764 SR145082
  
• Nearest Distance Dimension Avoided display of Nearest Display Dimensions after switching to another drawing.
  
• OLE Frame Fixed an issue where OLE Frame is pasted upside down.
  SR150577
  
• OPM A newly registered OPM extension's no-selection properties are now displayed properly immediately after a different extension was unregistered.
  SR145220
  We've optimized a case where a COM dynamic property page is specified as IID_NULL, and a very large selection set of of entities with such properties are displayed in the properties panel.
  SR147265
  
• OPTIMIZE We fixed a bug where it was possible to specify zero as tolerance value.
  Aligning almost collinear lines is now a separate option.
  Now the message about flattening entities only shows when there are entities that need to be flattened.
  
• ORTHO Fixed possible flickering during creating a line when ORTHO mode is on.
  SR148919
  
• OVERKILL Fixed command to delete duplicated polylines even if "Optimize segments within polylines" is not checked.
  SR142451 SR142487
  
• Parameters Now it is no longer possible to create duplicate names for parameters/dimensions/constraints, regardless of the used text case.
  
• PBLOCKASSIST It is possible to construct parametric blocks from dynamic blocks with history-dependent actions. The history of this dynamic block will be lost during the conversion. A user is given a warning about the possible different look of converted block references.
  PBLOCKASSIST command now supports conversion for move actions with increment around midpoint.
  We fixed a bug where the command provided an invalid default path ending with the ';' character.
  SR149441
  A problem with a difference between the block definition units and the drawing units in the active space, has been resolved. This leads to correct conversion of a specific example of a dynamic block with a lookup parameter to a parametric block with a design table.
  Fixed a crash for dynamic blocks with array actions defined before visibility states.
  SR153079
  The application no longer crashes when calling the command on a file containing an unused move action.
  SR153339
  
• PDF Export/Print Fixed: turned transparency off in the PDF/A-1B archiving mode.
  SR148481 SR150240
  
• PDF Export Fixed: reduced large output file size, due to clipped-out text.
  SR146271
  
• PDFExport/PrintAsPdf Fixed: compatibility with PDFA-1b/2b for PDF resources.
  SR131225 SR146559
  
• PEDIT, SPLINEDIT Fixed commands to correctly convert a closed spline with fit points to a polyline.
  SR136365 SR137577
  
• PEDIT Fixed to support polygonal viewports created by MVIEW command.
  SR135473
  
• PEDITEXT Selecting a 3D polyline segment to delete now correctly removes the segment vertex nearest to the pick point.
  SR152074
  
• Plot Style Table Editor Fixed an issue where some CTB files looked empty (without plot styles entries) in BricsCAD.
  SR140892 SR152370
  
• Plotter Configuration Editor Application Custom Paper Sizes dialog for "Print As PDF" was greyed out when called from the .pc3 editor application. Now it follows BricsCAD's COLORTHEME setting.
  SR141931 SR150545 SR137728
  
• POINTCLOUDCOLORMAP The command's options can now be accessed through the commandline for localized versions as well.
  SR150599
  
• Point Clouds BricsCAD now provides better feedback on available disk space before and during preprocessing of pointclouds to avoid a possible crash when the disk is full.
  SR144765
  Color information in exported PTS files is now correctly displayed.
  SR146575
  Fix for the mutual transformations of the .rcs scan data with regard to the .rcp project data.
  SR141475
  Fixed alignment problem when importing point cloud data in RCP format in BricsCAD.
  SR141475
  Fixed issue with snapping to point cloud in perspective mode.
  SR119314
  Regions saved in RCP files are now loaded correctly.
  SR148143
  Programmatically accessing and assigning colormaps has been fixed.
  SR150599 SR152689
  
• PRINT, PDFEXPORT Fixed plot stamp bugs: units conversion when printing, offset when PDF exporting.
  
• PRINT Attached ECW images now print correctly to system printers.
  SR137837 SR148876
  We fixed some specific scenarios where images were not being exported correctly when printing.
  SR151360 SR152120 SR153464
  
• Properties Panel Quick select mode is now preserved when changing STACKPANELTYPE or other workspace properties that cause the workspace to be reconfigured.
  SR151196
  
• Publish dialog The dialog can be accepted by pressing ENTER.
• PUBLISH Fixed: Background publish didn't collate sheets if a drawing with imported page setup was opened first.
  SR133846
  Selecting all sheets in the Publish dialog box by pressing CTRL+A has been re-enabled.
  SR149091
  
• QSELECT Disabled Annotative scale property, which caused a crash on an attempt to show the dialog.
  
• Qt Ribbon Chinese characters in Ribbon panel titles are now properly displayed.
  SR143394
  Fixed the Mleader combo control, it now properly displays the Mleader names.
  SR148933
  Implemented small horizontal toggle button with text.
  SR143394
  The Qt Ribbon height update is now postponed until panel idle time, instead of on the next cycle of the event loop.
  SR143847
  The right-hand panel in the Ribbon file menu in the light theme now has highlight colors.
  SR145204
  The tooltips in split buttons are now updated when a new split button choice is activated.
  SR142476
  Tuned Ribbon CUI and button heights to remove spurious vertical resizing on changing ribbon tabs.
  SR143534
  
• Qt Sheet Tree The option to place view label blocks in the Qt Sheet tree now works.
  SR150345
  
• Qt Table Edit When entering text in a text field in a Qt panel (e.g., Layers, Mechanical Browser), the text field focus is no longer lost when pressing the left/right buttons when the cursor is at the beginning/end of the text.
  
• QUAD When hovering a Block attribute, the QUAD now displays the title "Attribute" instead of "Nested Attribute".
  When hovering over multi-line segments and other unsupported sub-entities, no QUAD is displayed. This fixes a problem where only the close button was displayed in such cases.
  SR145564
  Tools using the QUAD filter OBJECT_ATTRIB for Block attributes are now shown when hovering over an attribute.
  SR151178
  Fixed an issue with the Smart Insert tool button not being displayed in the QUAD.
  SR150666
  
• RENDER The "render to viewport" option is removed, and the default option for the command is the "window" option.
  
• RFA Import We fixed a bug where some sweep solids were not imported correctly.
  SR142575
  We added an error message when importing an unsupported Family Type of an RFA.
  We fixed an issue that blocked certain RFA files from being imported successfully.
  SR142015
  
• Ribbon Fixed the scaling of Ribbon buttons on 4k screen.
  Long Ribbon button labels are now displayed in a single line.
  SR143852 SR143852
  The Qt Ribbon now properly handles multiple RibbonRowPanel instances inside of a RibbonPanel.
  SR143657 SR143902
  The Mleaderstyle control is now available in the Leaders panel of the Annotate tab in the Modern layout.
  SR148767 SR151597
  Split buttons in the Classic layout now remember the last used command.
  SR152674 SR153445
  Ribbon transient popup's height is adjusted to the content, in case it not long enough to be properly scrolled.
  Split buttons now retain their icon when switching color themes.
  SR142480
  
• Ribbon / CUI files Fixed the incorrect merging of the user's CUI file with the new one during BricsCAD installation, which caused RibbonPanelBreak elements to be missing.
  SR152613 SR152574 SR152658
  
• Section Generation Section generation now works correctly when the flag "use section plane orientation" is enabled.
  SR135423
  
• SECTIONPLANETOBLOCK Fixed problem leading to abnormally large size of files with sections created by SECTIONPLANETOBLOCK for SUBDMESH entities.
  SR120488
  
• Selectable Dimensions Fixed selectable dimensions for DMRADIUS3D and DMANGLE3D.
  Fixed incorrect selectable dimension endpoints when updating a dimension. Fixed incorrect display of extents rectangle, as well.
  
• Select Color Dialog In the Select Color dialog box, the color swatch no longer disappears when using ByEntity option.
  SR148019
  
• Settings Fixed: restoration of the default color for variables with indexed colors.
  
• Sheet Set Manager - Categories View Fixed a crash on closing or saving a sheet set with a newly added category view.
  
• Sheet Set Manager Subset name editing in the sheet set tree now stops with clicking on another node.
  The 'Place Callout Block' option is added to the sheet view's Context menu.
  SR150212
  
• Sheet Set Panel The name property in the panel's Details section now updates when changing a name in the sheets tree.
  The new Sheet Set panel no longer expands all nodes on adding a subset.
  Fixed an issue to prevent BricsCAD crashing when dropping a sheet or subset to the bottom of a sheet set.
  
• SHX Fonts Improved specsymbols displaying for texts with non-unicode .shx fonts.
  SR76905
  
• SMCONVERT Fixed a bug where SMCONVERT incorrectly recognized the thickness of a part with a thickness greater than its width.
  SR141490
  
• SMEXPORTOSM Fixed SMEXPORTOSM fails that occurred when a large, lofted bend was adjacent to a regular bend.
  SR115352
  
• SMSPLIT The options for "Split types" are now translatable.
  SR152803
  
• SOLIDEDIT/BODY/SHELL Fixed error appearing when making a shell (by command SOLIDEDIT/BODY/SHELL) of a 3D solid, which was created by sweeping along a helix.
  SR116017
  
• STORYBAR The Storybar now selects the correct solids for each floor.
  
• STRETCH Fixed: compute correct stretch points for Ellipse entity and stretch by start/end angle points.
  SR88361 SR103598
  
• SWEEP Corrected sweeping along a non-planar path, in cases where the profile region intersects the path at the initial position.
  SR87145
  Fixed a problem with sweeping along spline.
  SR116280
  Fixed Sweep to NOT sweep a profile perpendicular to a path if the "Alignment" option is set to No.
  SR125947
  
• Table/MText Fixed: hangup of Field dialog box on field insertion into Table or MText objects.
  
• TABLE We improved compatibility with other platforms, by treating erroneous and empty cells as if they contained zero, when the cell reference is used as the left operand of a + or - operation in a cell formula.
  SR152982
  Fixed regression: merged cell size is now updating properly when the adjacent merged cells exist.
  SR151479 SR152537
  "Block color" property has been added in the Properties Panel.
  SR136549
  Added properties in the Properties Panel of the "Contents" group, "Text" subcategory, when selecting a Table cell.
  SR130748
  Improved the ability to work with nested fields/formulas in a Table.
  SR143601SR148035SR150915
  
• TABLEDIT Custom table cell format is now preserved when editing a cell value.
  SR151525
  MText formatting codes are now preserved when editing a table cell containing text with an embedded field.
  SR151649
  Entity snap glyphs are no longer displayed after view changes while editing table cells.
  SR145758
  
• TEXTEDIT An edited dimension value no longer disappears, when the text edit dialog is open while the current layer is turned off.
  SR150948
  
• TINASSIGNIMAGE Assigning a very large raster to a TIN now displays a warning and offers a way to automatically create a reduced raster.
  SR121802
  
• TIN Surface When editing 'Add point files' or 'Add point cloud definitions', the snapshot definition was not being rebuilt. Now it is rebuilt automatically if needed.
  The issue regarding the generation of an empty TIN Surface upon the selection of Civil Points has been resolved.
  SR148162 SR150377
  The title of the "Select Surface File" dialog box is now displayed correctly on localized versions.
  SR151888
  
• TIN Volume Surface Elevation Analysis of the TIN Volume Surface now works as expected.
  SR151942 SR152057 SR153328
  
• UCS The UCS 'Entity' option is now working correctly when an attribute is provided programmatically to the entity selection prompt.
  SR152206
  
• UI We fixed a bug where the ampersand character ('&') was not displayed in drop-down boxes.
  
• Unloading Xrefs Fixed crash unloading Xrefs in a particular drawing if MTFLAGS 1 was on.
  SR144544
  
• Usage Data Program If there is no internet connection, an error is now printed in the command line when BricsCAD tries and fails to connect to the Bricsys servers in the scope of the Usage Data Program. The login window does not pop up anymore in this case, since it won't be possible to log-in.
  SR126002 SR140172
  
• VERSIONCONTROL Fixed the 'Help' button's functionality for "Create or Restore Version Control Project" dialog.
  SR137873
  
• Version Control Panel The Compare panel now automatically zooms to the next result, after resolving a difference by choosing one of the versions.
  
• VIEWBREAK Fixed an issue where deleting a Layout containing a Viewport with a VIEWBREAK led to a "Not opened for read" error and a crash.
  SR144423
  
• VIEWLABEL Fixed an issue where the viewlabel was moved twice, if the viewport and viewlabel were both selected and moved.
  
• VIEWSECTION When trying to set a section view to a broken view, the error text now contains a mention of the broken view.
  SR145442
  
• VISIBILITYSTATES We fixed a bug where it was not possible to type visibility states with certain special characters, such as ", in the Command line.
  SR144354
  
• Visibility States Panel We fixed a bug that occurred when making entities visible or invisible (using the pop-up menu in the panel) failed, when the state name contained double quotes (").
  We fixed a bug where, in rare cases, unused 'look' variables would remain in the Parameters panel after removing entities from a visibility state.
  
• WMF Import We implemented the import of text represented by contours.
  
• XREFs Graphics Fixed inconsistent behavior when opening a particular drawing with nested XREFs.
  SR151833
  

Applications

• .NET Bricscad.Internal.Utils.IsCommandActive method no longer throws 'System.AccessViolationException'.
  SR145389
  Calling BlockTableRecord.AppendEntity() on an NDBR block to add an NDBR entity no longer crashes when the added entity already had SetDatabaseDefaults() called on it.
  SR147112
  Dimension.Draw() now recomputes stale dimension geometry before generating graphics.
  SR147221
  EditorInput.JigPromptStringOptions.DefaultValue property name was correctly capitalized, and the incorrect capitalization has been deprecated.
  Jig keywords are now highlighted and selectable.
  SR145729
  The text height of the mleader created by the code is updated when the mleader style of the selected entity is changed from the Properties panel.
  SR142100
  We added static methods in namespace Global.Database to toggle "Clip display" property of various object types.
  SR146106
  We implemented the DocumentManager.GetDocument() method.
  SR144024
  We implemented the RibbonItem.Name property.
  SR144024
  We implemented the RibbonItem.Size property.
  SR119528 SR144024 SR143980
  We removed the "sealed" modifier from RibbonTab, RibbonPanel and RibbonControl classes.
  SR119528
  We added new properties and methods to Parametric.Parameter for working with the optional lower and upper bounds.
  SR153665
  We fixed the BlockReference.DynamicBlockReferencePropertyCollection 'eNullObjectPointer' error.
  SR140955
  
• BRX/.NET Handling of object snaps in an overruled block reference has been modified to be more compatible with other platforms.
  SR148366
  The parametrics API now works as expected on parametric blocks in paperspace.
  SR149168SR149873
  We've made some snap tracking related fixes and improvements to input point monitors based on AcEdInputPointMonitor (C++) or PointMonitor (.NET). Point monitors now receive more consistent and compatible history flag values related to snap tracking. Forced picking is now turned on automatically during idling. Alignment curves are now correctly reported.
  SR150374
  The setAttributeFromBlock() (C++) and SetAttributeFromBlock (.NET) functions now add the current annotation scale when called on an NDBRO attribute with an attribute definition from an annotative block.
  SR153955
  
• BRX/OPM Disabling all custom client extension no-selection properties in a category no longer triggers a crash.
  SR145220
  
• BRX A second control bar dropped on a dock that already contains a BRX control bar tries to keep its current docked size if possible, shrinking the size of the first bar to its minimum size if necessary. Multiple control bars docked programmatically in the same dock are arranged with balanced sizes depending on their initial sizes.
  SR70272SR149971SR150207
  AcDbDatabase::dxfOut() no longer changes the database filename, and AcDbDatabase::saveAs() with second argument true now results in DBMOD=5 if the filename changed.
  SR147495
  AcDbHatch::appendLoop() now returns an error if the passed entity list does not form a single contiguous loop.
  SR149098
  AcDbMText::getBoundingPoints() now works correctly when called on NDBRO entities containing special characters.
  SR151114
  Corrected some synchronization bugs in the BRX API layer that could result in runtime errors while using drawable overrules during multi-threaded display operations.
  SR151078
  Disabling document activation via AcApDocmanager::disableDocumentActivation() now prevents users from activating other open drawing windows.
  SR62561 SR64817 SR146712
  Double-clicking the caption area of a docked paletteset now floats it to the most recent floating position even if the paletteset had not been previously positioned by dragging.
  SR149694
  It is no longer necessary to rewind AcDbDeepCloneFiler and AcDbWblockCloneFiler before querying collected object ids.
  SR149674
  Properties and attributes of the newly added IFC types are now also available in BRX.
  Several incomplete AcDbHandle member functions have been implemented.
  SR149264
  Several missing signatures of AcDbTable::copyFrom() functions have been implemented.
  SR148412
  The AcDbDatabase::dwgFileWasSavedByAutodeskSoftware() function has been implemented.
  SR149444SR150769
  The AcEdGlobalTest::acedDrawOrderInheritTest() function has been implemented.
  SR149823
  The global functions acedRegenLayers() and applyCurDwgLayerTableChanges() now invalidate layer table records so that dependent entity graphics are also updated.
  SR151078
  The keywords can now be selected after a pending acedCommand/S.
  SR134529
  The supplied selection methods of items added to a selection set by AcEdSelectionSetService::add() are now correctly interpreted when the selection set is later used.
  SR90099
  We added a missing STL include in the header BrxSpecific/AcComponents.h.
  SR150081
  We added inheritance support for AcDbSection.
  SR145767
  We added new AcGeNurbCurve3d and AcGeNurbCurve2d constructors that convert from any source AcGeCurve3d by approximating a cubic spline.
  SR149884
  We added the new AcGiDrawable::SetAttributesFlags::kThreadedWorldDrawViewportDraw (= 131072) enum.
  SR149444
  We corrected the name of an included header file in opmdialog.h.
  SR149994
  We fixed AcGiTextStyle::font() return result for TTF-Styles.
  SR148024
  We fixed a problem that made it difficult to drag a paletteset or docking control bar to dock at an empty main frame dock site.
  SR149806
  We fixed an error in the UI that occurred after erasing the named UCS associated with the current viewport.
  SR149780
  We implemented AcDbLinkedData, AcDbLinkedTableData, AcDbTableIterator classes.
  SR134615
  We implemented AcDbLoftedSurface::createLoftedSurface method.
  SR146468
  We implemented AcDbTable::cellStyleOverrides(), AcDbTable::clearCellOverrides(), AcDbTable::getOverride(), AcDbTable::setOverride() and AcDbTable::removeAllOverrides() functions.
  SR149275
  We implemented AcDbTable::hitTest() function.
  SR148435
  We implemented several AcString::findRev() methods.
  SR148303 SR149556
  We implemented AcDbTable::getIndicatorSize() function.
  SR148524
  We implemented acdbUnloadXrefs() and acdbBindXrefs() global functions.
  SR149581
  We implemented acedGetUnitsConversion() for calculating conversion scale to use when inserting a block into the current drawing.
  SR148678
  We updated several AcDbDatabase member functions with AcDb::OpenMode mode = AcDb::kForRead as default argument.
  SR149445
  We added an empty implementation for AcDbDatabase::forceWblockDatabaseCopy().
  SR149444
  We implemented AcDbTable::gridColor() and AcDbTable::setGridColor() functions.
  SR149337
  We implemented the AcDbAssocObjectPointer class.
  SR124535 SR149992
  We implemented AcDbViewport::isViewOrthographic() and AcDbAbstractViewTableRecord::isViewOrthographic() functions.
  SR148681 SR149444
  A resizing splitter is now enabled between neighboring BRX palettesets and docking control bars sharing the same dock row.
  SR149971
  We corrected the BimPropertySets::setPSetProperty() function so it assigns the provided initial value for the property when PropertySet or Property are created on-the-fly.
  SR145128 SR149392
  Dockable bars and palettesets now require some mouse movement before dragging begins after clicking on a resizing border or on the caption. This change prevents unintended effects when double-clicking on a caption bar to toggle docking, and generally makes accidental dragging less likely.
  SR153437
  The AcRxProtocolReactor mechanism has been fully implemented, along with an initial BRX layer implementation of AcDbBlockInsertionPoints.
  SR149444
  We fixed a crash that happened in an unusual scenario after setting a newly created block reference invisible.
  SR153058
  We implemented several AcDbTable::getDataLink() function signatures.
  SR149794
  We implemented the AcDbTable::getDataLinkRange() function.
  SR149794
  We implemented AcDbTable::setDataLink(), AcDbTable::removeDataLink() and AcDbTable::updateDataLink() signature functions.
  SR149794
  We implemented the AcDbAssocEdgeActionParam class.
  SR149991
  We implemented the AcDbGlobal::acdbIsGsWorkerThread() function.
  SR149988
  We implemented the AcDbTable::isLinked() function.
  SR149794
  
• Express Tools LayWalk : options "Layer 0 always ON" and "Restore on Exit" are now persistent across sessions.
  SR151073
  
• Lisp A distance value entered in the dynamic dimension is now returned as expected by (getdist) even after (initget 1).
  SR145004
  Added more LISP BIM interface functions to manage properties of a PropertySet:
  

  (bim:pset-create-property psetName propName propLabel propDesc visible)

  (bim:pset-get-property-label psetName propName)

  (bim:pset-get-property-description psetName propName)

  (bim:pset-get-property-visible psetName propName)

  (bim:pset-set-property-label psetName propName propLabel)

  (bim:pset-set-property-description psetName propName propDesc)

  (bim:pset-set-property-visible psetName propName visible)

  (bim:pset-get-property-name psetName propName)

  (bim:pset-set-property-name psetName propName newName)

  (bim:pset-get-name psetName)

  (bim:pset-get-label psetName)

  (bim:pset-get-visible psetName)

  (bim:pset-get-perinstance psetName)

  (bim:pset-set-name psetName name)

  (bim:pset-set-label psetName label)

  (bim:pset-set-visible psetName visible)

  (bim:pset-set-perinstance psetName perinstance)

  
  SR149499
  Extended LISP BIM interface by new functions:
  

  (bim:get-namespace-label nameSpace)

  (bim:get-namespace-visible nameSpace)

  (bim:set-namespace-label nameSpace label)

  (bim:set-namespace-visible nameSpace visible)

  
  SR148430
  Garbage collection of COM objects in LISP has been made safer. This fixes a problem with the CopyObjects method.
  SR151268
  We fixed an issue that caused a drop in LISP performance when a user was logged in.
  SR143970 SR148906 SR152492
  Extended LISP BIM API functions to manage BIM object types for PropertySets:

  (bim:pset-remove-property propertySet propertyNameOrLabel)

  (bim:pset-bimtypes-list-all)

  (bim:pset-bimtypes-list propertySet)

  (bim:pset-bimtypes-has propertySet bimType)

  (bim:pset-bimtypes-add propertySet bimType)

  (bim:pset-bimtypes-del propertySet bimType)

  
  SR152478
  Fixed a V22 (redraw) regression with sub-entities (i.e. attributes of blockreferences) not being properly redrawn in highlighted mode.
  SR152791
  

6.2
2023

Version 23.1.08

Improvements to Point Clouds

• Point Clouds Replaced automatic regeneration of cache when not finding the cache but finding the source files by giving choice to the user to change the cache folder/regenerate cache/just do nothing
  SR148244 SR151011
  

Fixes

• BLOCK dialog (QT version) Fixed some offset between the picked "Insert point" in the dialog box and the actual insertion point of the block reference.
  SR148734 SR148904 SR150965 SR152305
  
• Command Line We fixed a bug that caused the new miniframe command line to shrink to a smaller width when a long command line prompt forced the prompt height to expand to multiple lines.
  SR151120 SR151440 SR152100 SR152132 SR151633
  
• DWGCOMPARE The DWGCPOMPARE command is now back in working order after it was accidentally broken.
  SR143701 SR150716 SR150840 SR150855 SR151039 SR148824 SR152467
  
• DWGHEALTH We fixed a bug where the wrong routine name was shown in the panel at the end of the command.
  
• Formula Fields Fixed missing first opening bracket and last closing bracket in formula expression in some cases.
  SR148035
  
• INSERT Scenario when INSERT dialog wasn't suggesting to user to redefine block was fixed. It was happening when a file already contained a block having the same name as the one being inserted, but with different cases of letters.
  SR152220
  The ESC key is now correctly handled in while loop.
  SR150978 SR151439 SR151993
  
• OLEFRAME On certain plotters, OLE objects were plotting with the wrong rotation in some modes. The problem has been corrected.
  SR150124 SR150154 SR150643 SR150868 SR152069 SR152555
  
• ORTHOMODE Now ortho mode is taken into account when user inputs distance in dynamic dimension or command line during TK (temporary tracking points).
  SR138909 SR141171 SR143380 SR142208 SR151198
  
• Parametric Blocks Drawing order of entities inside the block is now correctly maintained upon parameter changes.
  SR138539 SR148025 SR148316
  
• ROTATE3D We fixed 'Base angle' option and restored the displaying of the default value.
  SR136206 SR143405 SR149205
  
• Render Materials You are again redirected to the correct help page to download more render materials from within the Render Materials panel.
  
• TEXT Changing the Annotative property of single line text no longer causes its size to change when the current annotative scale is different from 1:1.
  SR150990 SR151692
  
• TINEDIT Fixed the behavior for the command options.
  SR146065 SR148848 SR149578 SR149187 SR149909 SR150208 SR150658 SR151293 SR151823 SR152131 SR152298 SR152399 SR151633
  
• Wall Dimensions Fixed an issue where wall dimensions were being created twice for the same solid.Fixed an issue where wall dimensions weren't being cleared.
  SR144950 SR151975
  

Applications

• .NET BoundaryRepresentation.LoopType.LoopInterior value has been corrected from 1 to 2.
  SR150175
  The Civil Alignment .NET API sample has been updated.
  SR118689
  The SelectedSubObject.SelectionMethod property is now correctly set during a subobject selection.
  SR150099
  We fixed an unusual scenario in which a call to Application.UpdateScreen() while using transactions could trigger a crash.
  SR149436
  
• BRX AcDbDatabase::setElevation() is now working correctly.
  SR150197
  We corrected internal implementation to eliminate link errors when using several static members of AcDbGeoCoordinateSystem.
  SR151076
  We fixed a crash that happened when hovering the interference solid created by the INTERFERE command when the source selection set contained a custom entity derived from AcDb3dSolid.
  SR151216
  We fixed a multithreading crash that occurred in certain cases while opening a drawing that contained xrefs with custom entities.
  SR150532
  
• HIGHLIGHT Fixed regression: highlighting an entity by LISP (redraw) or sds_redraw() function doesn't work when the SELECTIONPREVIEW system variable is set to 2 or 3 and the entity is highlighted by selection preview.
  SR151043
  
• LISP Fixed an issue with (vlax-ldata-put) storing Unicode sequences (\U+nnnn) when a particular locale/codepage is active.
  SR145333
  LISP BLADE: added missing (vla-get/put-EntityTransparency) functions to Syntax + AutoComplete database.
  SR151225
  

19.12
2022

Version 23.1.07

Improvements to BricsCAD

• MText Editor Spin buttons state mapped to "default settings" flag state in paragraph spacing dialog.
  SR147323
  
• Ribbon The duplicate of the Page Setup button in the Output tab of the Ribbon has been removed, in all Classic Workspaces.
  SR135668 SR147939
  The duplicate panel name of "Views" in the View tab of the modern ribbon has been renamed to "Layout".
  
• Settings The "CreateSketchFeature" system setting is no longer stored in workspaces, and it is now available as a toggle-button MenuMacro tool.
  
• Tips Panel The TIN Surface icon in the Tips panel is now correctly displayed.
  

Improvements to BIM

• BIMTAG Fixed _DoorTypeStyleMax mleader style, now it correctly displays "Overall width x Overall height".
  SR148189
  
• Project Browser 'Sheet Custom Properties' in the Info tab has been renamed to 'Default Sheet Custom Properties'.
  SR144852
  

Fixes

• AM* dialogs Fixed the remaining untranslated strings for the following dialogs: AMDATUDIM, AMPOWERDIM_ALI, AMPOWERDIM_ANG, AMPOWERDIM_DIA, AMPOWERDIM_HOR, AMPOWERDIM_RAD, AMPOWERDIM_ROT, AMPOWERDIM_VER, AMPOWEREDIT, AMWELDSYM.
  SR147655 SR146716 SR148608
  
• BIMQUICKWALL Dynamic dimensions were missing when running BIMQUICKWALL on top of a 2D plan.
  SR148012
  
• BIMSECTIONUPDATE Grid callouts are now generated with correct values in localized versions.
  SR148408 SR143444
  
• BIMTAG Fix: it is now possible to specify Array properties in BIMTAG attribute.
  SR136174
  
• Command Line The new miniframe command line can now be resized to a smaller width by dragging the right edge.
  
• DATALINK Fixed attaching datalink to a range of cells.
  SR126873
  
• DATASMITHCONNECT We fixed a bug causing DATASMITHCONNECT to fail when another drawing was already connected to Twinmotion Direct Link.
  SR149892
  
• Dimensions Styles Fixed: detection of 'overrides' dimstyle in localized BricsCAD versions.
  SR149961 SR149978
  
• EXPORTLAYOUT Fixed an issue where dimensions appear moved on a layout created with EXPORTLAYOUT command.
  SR141766 SR145197
  Fixed the command to correctly export a Layout that contains a Viewport with a partially visible external Block reference.
  SR139634 SR141766
  Fixed to not miss entities when some parts of their geometry coincide with the viewport boundary.
  SR147017
  
• ExpressTools Fixed MOVEBAK implementation, root folders are now accepted, and .bak files are correctly moved to the defined folder.
  SR148760 SR150040 SR150256
  Fixed a problem where starting ARCTEXT command under Lite license was triggering a message that a Pro license is required. Now the ARCTEXT command starts the command line version under active Lite license.
  SR149082
  
• EXTRUDE The message "Extrude direction is parallel to plane of profile" is no longer redundantly shown during extrusion.
  SR149803
  
• FONTS Improved displaying of texts which default font doesn't allow to display all the characters.
  SR134457 SR139956 SR138178
  
• IFC Export Exported block instances are now properly handled during IFC export in unusual scenarios involving active third party drawable overrules.
  SR148368
  The latitude and longitude of the geographic location is now exported correctly.
  SR146841
  
• INSERT/IMPORT Fixed a bug where inserting a mechanical document with explode option enabled lead to crash.
  SR143761
  
• INSERT In a specific scenario, INSERT command now takes into account the UCS.
  SR149725
  We fixed an error that resulted in an invisible attribute after inserting an unusual annotative block.
  SR148973
  
• INSERTGUIDED We fixed a bug where inserting a block with reference lines from library was not guided.
  SR142197
  
• Layers Panel Fixed an issue to prevent possible crash when closing a drawing when the layers panel is open.
  
• MANIPULATE Fixed a potential crash scenario that could occur when manipulating a third-party custom component. This is a second attempt to fix the problem, after the first attempt proved incomplete.
  SR140541 SR139846 SR139723
  
• MTEXT Improved displaying Korean text.
  SR138178 SR139020 SR146963
  
• PASTECLIP We fixed an unusual case where pasting a copied annotative text entity caused it to become invisible due to lost annotation scale.
  SR149287 SR149447 SR150043
  
• PLOTSTYLE There are no longer unwanted changes to plot style colors when saving with a black color.
  SR148619 SR148660 SR149036 SR149203 SR149824
  
• RTEXT A V22 fix for RTEXT with DIESEL expressions was accidentally omitted from V23, causing the original V22 problem to return. The V22 fix is now included in V23 as well.
  SR149821 SR150554
• Section Generation Implemented field evaluation for properties with 'Misc' category.
  SR136174
  
• Selection Lasso The selection lasso in 3D model views now also cancels out when overlapping itself, as it does in 2D model view.
  
• SMUNFOLD The command is now working correctly on the Italian version.
  SR148170 SR148582
  
• Tips Panel The word "Advanced" has been corrected in the Tips panel.
  SR148770
  
• Top View Modeling Fixed a crash occurring when hovering over the exit button while inserting a door in top view modeling.
  

Applications

• BRX AcDbSymbolTable::dwgOut() no longer crashes when filing to an AcDbDeepCloneFiler or AcDbWblockCloneFiler.
  SR149674
  It is now possible to attach the same xref multiple times by repeated calls to acedXrefAttach().
  SR148779
  
• LISP Fixed a V23 regression, where Unicode characters using "\\U+nnnn" notation were improperly stored using an extra character.
  SR145333
  Fixed a performance issue with (command) function.
  SR149122
  Fixes a V23 regression with (vla-put-StyleName) for several object types, that caused Lisp errors.
  SR149855
  Fixes a problem with (read-line) function, when UTF encoded characters are contained - sometimes extra 0 character(s) were included in returned string.
  SR148411
  Improved ESCAPE key detection for intensive (command) sequences (i.e., in a (while) loop), it is now much easier to cancel such Lisp code.
  SR148979
  Loading an empty Lisp file does no longer trigger an error message (regression from V23).
  SR149728
  
• Usage Data Program An error is fixed when using a LISP expression in the command line, when data collection is enabled.
  SR149829
  

28.11
2022

Version 23.1.06

Improvements to BricsCAD

• Boolean Operations It is now possible to interrupt commands UNION, SUBTRACT, INTERSECT, INTERFERE, MASSPROP and calculation of mass properties and UCS elevation in the Properties Panel by pressing Cancel when they take too long.
  SR118707
  
• HATCH Background hatch color is correctly applied with HatchDialog->'Inherit properties' option.
  SR146008
  
• REVCLOUD Extended "RevcloudProps" data is added to polylines created by the REVCLOUD command.
  SR135154
  
• SPLINE Modified the SPLINE command to not enter start/end tangents at the end of the command. Now entering of start/end tangents are options of the command.
  SR137608
  

Fixes

• AI Assist Fixed the functionality for "Join Usage Data Program" tool.
  SR148384
  Fixed the untranslated strings in the ribbon tab.
  SR147571SR145117SR147820
  
• AM* dialogs Fixed the remaining untranslated strings from the following dialogs: AMDATUMID, AMPOWERDIM_ALI, AMPOWERDIM_ANG, AMPOWERDIM_DIA, AMPOWERDIM_HOR, AMPOWERDIM_RAD, AMPOWERDIM_ROT, AMPOWERDIM_VER, AMPOWEREDIT, AMWELDSYM.
  SR145526
• BIMCLASSIFY Entities can now be converted to a block when classifying as a type under "Other Types (beta)"
  
• BIMGENERATE2DSTAIR Fixed an issue where no 2D stair representation would be generated in some translated versions of BricsCAD.
  SR148297
  
• BIMREASSOCIATE Fixed an issue where BIMREASSOCIATE was ignoring opening tags.
  
• BMLINK Fixed the untranslated strings used in the command.
  SR147657
  
• CUI files Items which have the same name and parent node are now correctly displayed separately in Smartling.
  SR147372 SR148021
  
• Civil - Point File Formats dialogs The dialog titles are now localized.
  SR145918SR145920
  
• Civil Palette Added localization support for the "Civil" palette.
  SR147919 SR147774
  
• Civil-Label style editor Fixed untranslated components.
  SR145405
  
• DIMSTYLE Fixed the untranslated record in the "Dimension Styles" explorer tab.
  SR145058
  
• DWGHEALTH Predefined Drawing Health routines are now included in the installer.
  
• Datasmith Export Exporting to a Datasmith file will no longer cause BricsCAD to crash if there is no version of Twinmotion or Unreal Engine installed on the machine.
  
• EXPORT Fixed exporting product structure to Parasolid files.
  SR142109
  
• EXTRUDE Fixed the behavior of the command options in localized versions.
  SR148352 SR148271 SR148396 SR148302 SR148865
  
• Editable Dimensions Dynamic Input Fix: avoided automatic recomputation of dimension value on pressing Shift while editing the value manually.
  SR143106
  
• Entity Grouping Fixed the remaining untranslated strings.
  SR145318
  
• FBXEXPORT/INSERT/CIVILPOINT/BIMQUICKBUILDING/COPYGUIDED Added localization support for the remaining untranslated command messages.
  SR148608
  
• FONTS Improved font selection in Drawing Explorer->TextStyle view for custom fonts and for fonts from true-type collections.
  SR146200
  
• GISIMPORT Fixed the import functionality on localized versions.
  SR145336
  The column titles from GISIMPORT dialog (properties table) are now localized.
  SR145337
  
• INSERT The options from Advanced settings are now localized.
  SR146301
  In the new Qt-based INSERT dialog, a block can now be selected by typing its name. This matches the behavior of the previous wxWidgets-based INSERT dialog.
  SR148266 SR148331 SR148502 SR148402
  We fixed a bug that caused incorrect scale to be applied after command line entry of individual X/Y/Z scales.
  SR148946 SR148979 SR149046
• INSERTLAYOUT Fixed the untranslated warning message displayed when running the command.
  SR147937
  
• Improvement for BOM in BIM workflow Improvement for BOM in BIM workflow when dragging and dropping a BOM file from the Project Browser on a sheet.
  
• LandXML Import A check has been implemented for surfaces with empty Definition. Importing of surfaces defined by Breaklines and Boundaries has been implemented as well.
  SR141467
  
• MATERIALS Fixed transparency in transparency maps.
  SR148039
  
• MLEADER Improved the position of the mleader's multiple line block attribute.
  SR37016
  
• MSLIDE Fixed: The MSLIDE command could create slides with the wrong color if the object used an RGB color instead of index color.
  
• MTEXT Starting the MTEXT command from a menu macro again starts the dialog instead of prompting at the command line.
  SR148473
  
• Mechanical browser It was made possible to change custom properties of integer type using the Mechanical Browser.
  SR146811SR149032
  
• OSNAP TO AEC OBJECTS Fixed a crash when esnapping to AECDrawMvBlockRef objects.
  SR147742
  
• POINTCLOUD Point clouds are now printed, as expected.
  SR148575
  
• POINTCLOUDDETECTFLOORS We added support for UCS.
  SR146931
  
• Polyline Display Fixed to correctly display a polyline's clockwise arc segments with non-zero widths and when a polyline's linetype differs from continuous (e.g., dashed).
  SR135876 SR144929
  
• Project Sheetset Name On creation of a new project, the sheetset name and sheetset project name is set to the name of the project. When changing the name of the project in the Project Browser, the sheetset name and sheetset project name are updated.
  
• Project browser Fixed untranslated "Auto background updating" string in the panel.
  SR145911
  
• SETTINGS Opening the Settings dialog box in a new drawing no longer modifies the drawing.
  
• Smart Insert Corrected the description text for Smart/Insert/Connect components in the quad.
  SR148022
  
• Structure Browser It is now possible to use value definitions when configuring the structure tree.
  SR136298
  
• TABLE Fixed regression: DbTable is not updated on the screen after RegenerateTableSuppressed was set to false.
  SR147935
  Fixed an issue where some items in the combo box could not be selected in the "Insert block into cell" dialog.
  SR136549
  Fixes a problem when scaling a table with only 1 or 2 rows - the scaling operation was interrupted with "Invalid input".
  SR148077
  
• TABLEDIT Toolbar icons for cell merge and unmerge were switched. They are now corrected.
  SR148406
  
• Top View Modeling The flip functionality while inserting a window or door in Top View Modeling mode now works as expected.
  
• Usage Data Program An internal encoding issue is resolved to make sure string data is always sent correctly.
  
• VBA Projects Internal recovery of corrupted VBA projects on load.
  SR103511SR138192SR138331SR147330
  
• Visibility States Panel We fixed a bug where the panel would be empty if opened immediately after starting the application.
  

Applications

• .NET Fixed a native resource bug in BIMProfile.GetProfileCurves() that could result in a crash.
  The DBObject.Copied event now sets in the event argument the copied object instead of the source object.
  SR147142
  The MPolygon.PatternColor property is now working correctly to set the pattern color.
  SR148222
  We corrected a problem with corrupt drawing data when an MPolygon was created from a closed polyline with last vertex equal to first vertex.
  SR148222
  We fixed a crash while iterating a selection set containing subentity selections.
  SR148655
  
• LISP Components interface Fixed some minor issues in LISP MCAD/Components interface.
  
• LISP Corrected (acet-error-init) function: the internal undo marker is now placed before system variables changes, to provide proper behavior with later _U operation.
  SR147309
  

31.10
2022

Version 23.1.05

Improvements to BricsCAD Core

• 3D Constraints widgets The widgets of the 3D constraints display the corresponding constraint values: DMRADIUS3D (for a circle, sphere, cylinder and torus argument) and DMANGLE3D (for a cone argument).
• AI Assist A new "AI Assist" ribbon tab is added, containing personalized command suggestions based on your BricsCAD usage.
  The AI Assist tab contains 3 different types of suggestions: other relevant commands, personal commands, and next commands.
  The "other" command suggestion panel contains new command recommendations based on the user's command usage. The "personal" command suggestion panel contains additional important commands in a user's design workflow.
  "Next" commands are command recommendations based on the currently executed command.
  The "Next command suggestions" panel will always contains suggestions, even before a user executes their first command. #magic
• Animation Editor The Sun effect is now supported in the Animation Editor. You can also create special parameters and link them with the sun's azimuth and altitude, by name.
  
• ARRANGE A command panel has been added to the ARRANGE command, to present the various arrangement options in a more visual way.
  A tool icon for the ARRANGE command has been added to the Modify ribbon panels of the different workspaces, the Quad, the Modify toolbar and the Menu bar.
  Draggable widgets have been introduced in model space during the execution of the ARRANGE command, to modify the arrangement (i.e., alignment/distribution) positions.
  The position along the specified direction (X, Y or Z), and where to arrange (i.e., align or distribute) the selected entities can now be changed, from the ARRANGE command panel or via the command line interface.
• ARRAYDETECT The new ARRAYDETECT command provides the array detection functionality that was formerly found in the BLOCKIFY command.
• ATTRIBUTES Attributes referring to the properties of entities belonging to a parametric block can now be correctly regenerated after the parameters are changed.
  SR100115 SR120514
• BCLOSE We made a small improvement to the user experience by making the BCLOSE command repeat as BEDIT.
  SR136414
• Block Edit Dialog Converted the Block Edit dialog to Qt.
• BLOCKIFY We added a command panel where you can edit the settings, and display the results for Equal Solids and Match Existing Blocks. Next to the command panel, we borrowed the green check marks and red cross signs from the BimPropagate command (in BricsCAD BIM). As such, you now have ultimate control over which solids to convert to blocks, and which to leave alone. Besides toggling individual widgets, you can use box selection to flip multiple toggles at the same time.
  SR103403
  The pattern recognition functionality was removed from the BLOCKIFY command, as it is now available in a dedicated command: ARRAYDETECT.
• Boolean Block- and Component-based features3D constraints and associative dimensions in generated drawings which are attached to geometry of boolean-based 3D solid features are now correctly maintained upon parameter changes.
  SR90049SR89640SR89644SR103884SR120496
  The calculation of 3D parametric solid models which involve simultaneous 3D constraints, boolean features and arrays has been reworked. Many cases which previously failed to update are now recalculated correctly, thanks to the corrected sequence of the operations applied internally to the 3D solids.
  SR96257 SR99757 SR100024 SR132738 SR121426 SR124421 SR140204
• BricsCAD Diagnostics & Usage Data Program The dialogs displayed, offering the user the opportunity to join (or decline) the BricsCAD Diagnostics & Usage Data Program have been merged and simplified.
  The user feedback in the log-in dialog has been enhanced.
• CHECKFORUPDATES Introduced CHECKFORUPDATES command. It prints the current installed version, the latest available version and allows to go to the download page.
  SR125359
• Color Dialog RGB and HSL values on the True Color page are now automatically selected when they receive focus.
• Command Panels For full-height command panels, no resizing of the modelspace area is performed (as this was extremely annoying with heavy drawings loaded).
  The default location where command panels pop up is improved. Preferably, they show up on an expanded, non-empty panel.
• CONNECT A new tool has been added to simply connect coplanar 2D curves. The CONNECT tool does not change the underlying geometric definition of the input curve elements. It only changes the start and/or end points to make them connected. When possible, the now connected input curves are joined into a polyline.
• Convert Dialogs to Qt The following dialogs are converted to the new UI framework:* dlgCopyToLayer* dlgHyperlink* dlgNewSheet* dlgPublish* dlgLoadLineTypes* dlgGroup* dlgGroupReorder* dlgGroupList* dlgGroupHighlight* dlgGroupContinue* dlgImportSheetSet* dlgCreateSheetSelection* dlgSheetSelections
• Copyguided3D Dynamic dimensions were added to assist in the positioning of detail entities.
  SR129806
  Next to copying entities (solids, blocks...), the CopyGuided3d command now also fully supports copying a set of faces ("sub-entities"), proving the power of BricsCAD's unique direct modeling engine.
• Copy to Layer Dialog The copy to layer dialog is converted to Qt.
• CRS Introduced Coordinate Reference Systems for Portugal: 4207, 5018, 20790, 27492, 27493.
  SR134451SR140284
• CUI The 'default.cui' file was replaced with 3 new "standard" cui files (modern, classic-ribbon and classic-toolbars) to accommodate multiple UI layout options. The classic-ribbon.cui is the default on a clean installation.
  When a corrupt .cui file is encountered, a prompt enables restoring from the latest backup.
  We have created two new workspaces: Civil and Complete, to give you the tools you need, when you need them.The panel layouts have been improved and standardized across all workspaces.The old workspaces have been renamed to "Classic" and you can still access the old ribbon layouts in these workspaces.
  Commands started from a menu macro now default to prompting for input at the command line instead of displaying a dialog.
  SR138035SR137945
• DEPARAMETRIZE A new DEPARAMETRIZE tool has been added to strip a parametric or a dynamic block from all its "parametrics". As such, the resulting block becomes a dumb, static block. The tool accepts either a single block reference or a set of block references. Under the hood, new (static) block definitions are created for them.
• Dimension Overrides Dimensions with over-ridden dimension text can be underlined using the MARKDIMOVR system variable without modifications to the drawing database.
  Over-ridden dimension values can now be underlined automatically, if desired.
  SR102744
  
• Dimensions Allows users to select Dimension Arrows/Texts and use these sub entities for Quad commands.
• DIMMARKTYPE Created the "DIMMARKTYPE" setting as a BricsCAD system variable.
  DIMMARKTYPE system variable is extended to use overlines as well as underlines.
  
• DIMREASSOCIATE We've implemented support for automatic updating behavior of associative jogged dimensions.
  SR140048
• DIMSPACE We added the DIMSPACE command, which adjusts the spacing between linear dimensions / angular dimensions.
  SR131721SR115925SR126615SR35967SR84734SR94761SR98705SR133444SR134195SR140544SR141665
  
• Display Performance We've improved 3D display performance when navigating in large drawings.
  SR118110
  Improved redraw and zoom in/zoom out performance in 2D wireframe mode, for drawings with large numbers of nested blocks.
  SR113600SR113412SR114190SR113814SR113670
  Avoided flicker of existing selection when a new entity was added to the grips selection set.
  Improved the performance of highlighting / un-highlighting large sets of entities in 3D display modes.
  SR94411SR91326
• DIST The first point prompt of the DIST command now defaults to the value of LASTPOINT.
  SR143470
  
• DMAUDIT The DMAUDIT command panel has been added, making it easier to change the settings for the command. Changing the entity selection, setting the mode (fix or check), and specifying the ADT output file name are now all optional.
• Drawing Recovery Manager This new panel displays a list of drawing files that can be recovered after a program or system failure.The DRAWINGRECOVERY and DRAWINGRECOVERYHIDE commands show/hide this panel.
  SR98736SR101407SR126729SR133620SR138606SR140538SR141194
• DWGCompare Panel DWGCompare now uses a dedicated panel to help you easily compare the contents of two .dwg files. The legend allows to set the colors in which new, removed and modified entities are displayed. In the Results tab, you can browse through all detected differences. It displays two thumbnails: the first one shows the selected differences in the current drawing and the second shows the objects from the compare drawing. You can immediately zoom in to the selected object's location in the model.
  
• DWGHEALTH The new DWGHEALTH command combines the functionality of multiple stand-alone BricsCAD commands that can help improve overall drawing size and accuracy, e.g.: AUDIT, SIMPLIFY, BLOCKIFY and more. This is part of an on-going Epic to deliver automated drawing health management tools in BricsCAD.
• Dynamic Block Improved the display of dynamic blocks with constraints.
  SR115513
• Enhanced Help Trying to input commands from other CAD software? BricsCAD will now display tips in the Command line for alternative commands and workflows available in BricsCAD.
  
• Erase of Associative Hatches BricsCAD now removes an associative hatch from the reactor lists of associated boundary objects immediately after hatch deletion.
  SR98528
• EXPORTPDF Added plotstamp support when exporting to PDF: Print as PDF.pc3, EXPORTPDF and PUBLISH.
  SR114544SR102368SR97700SR96069
• Express Tools The English language versions of the Express Tools for BricsCAD are fully integrated in V23. We are currently preparing the Express Tools for localization. Additional language support will roll out in future minor or major releases
  
• Field Dialog Added support to create/edit custom properties of dynamic blocks and block references.
  SR141359
• FINDOUTLIERS Objects positioned at extreme coordinates can be extremely annoying; these objects are typically hard to detect, so it is hard to find out they are there. Further, the manipulation of the view becomes really hard, since that depends on the total extents of the drawing. This new FINDOUTLIERS command aims to aid users in detecting these objects at extreme coordinates, and offers some actions in order to deal with them.
  SR138970
  
• FITPOLYLINE When selecting any point clouds and/or sections, the command first prompts to select exactly one point cloud and section, if needed.
• GUI Dialogs Fixed: adjust the dialog's position on screen to make the dialog top-left corner visible when user migrates to/from different monitor configurations with different size or/and resolution.
  SR101130SR130182SR134365
• HIGHLIGHT The text string in the Settings dialog referencing the HIGHLIGHT system variable has been corrected. It now states that the value of the HIGHLIGHT system variable is not saved in the current drawing or in the system registry, i.e., it is "per-session".
  SR142481
• Icon Visibility The icons for the DIMCONTINUE and POINT commands have been re-designed for better visibility.
  SR140975
  
• Import Sheet DialogThe import sheet set dialog has been ported to Qt.
• INSERT, BMINSERT The INSERT and BMINSERT commands were unified. In effect, we've extended the INSERT command by adding the functionality of BMINSERT to it, for use on parametric blocks / external references.
  SR129144
• Interface Settings Panel The Interface Settings panel, a new CUI control for V23, now includes a chooser for the "factory" CUI styles - modern ribbon, classic ribbon or classic toolbars.
  
• Layers Panel The columns Plot, New VP and Material are now shown by default.
  
• Load Linetypes Dialog Box We replaced the WxWidgets based "Load Linetypes" dialog box with a Qt-based implementation. There is no functional change to this dialog.
• Login as Guest Login as guest allows users to participate in the BricsCAD Diagnostics & Data Usage Program without authenticating.
  Data and prediction models are then collected and stored under an anonymous identifier specific to the user's BricsCAD installation - instead of specific to the user's account.
  Logging-in with user credentials has the additional benefit of synchronizing the user's prediction models (for Autocomplete, AI Assist ribbon tab) across different installations of BricsCAD.
  
• MLEADER MLEADER attributes are now displayed on the Properties panel.
• New Default Tool Palettes We have added a number of new, default tool palettes, to help you get acquainted with BricsCAD's unique toolset more quickly.
  
• New Publish Dialog The Publish Dialog has been converted to the Qt UI framework.
  
• New Sheet Dialog The create new sheet dialog has been converted to Qt.
• OPTIMIZE The implementation for keeping line-arc connections has been improved.
• OVERKILL When choosing the Combine Duplicate Blocks option, you can now preview the groups of blocks and their references, and select which ones to keep.
• Parameter Bounds Now it's possible to force the value of a parameter into a specified interval. You can use the Mechanical Browser or Parameters Manager panels to specify lower and upper bounds for a parameter. If parameter is assigned to a geometry-driven 3D constraint its bounds will be taken into account while moving the constrained geometry. DMCONSTRAINT3D command now has a new option to specify the lower and/or upper bounds for the constraint value.
  SR100751 SR102841 SR128253
  
• Parametric External References External references with changed parameter values are now updated when corresponding external file is modified and reloaded.
• PARAMETRICBLOCKIFY Flip lines in the input parametric block are now correctly supported.
  The Parametric Blockify command now also supports 2D parametric blocks or a selection set of 2D geometry containing parameters and constraints.
  2D diameter and radius constraints are now also supported.
• PARAMETRICBLOCKASSIST A first (beta) version PARAMETRICBLOCKASSIST, or PBLOCKASSIST, has been created. This is a converter that reads AutoCAD-created Dynamic Blocks and converts them to BricsCAD-format Parametric Blocks.
  SR88751 SR116520
  Quite a lot of Dynamic Block actions are already supported, such as DBlock look-up tables are converted to PBlock Design Tables.
  SR142692
  
• -PDFATTACH The file selection prompt of the -PDFATTACH command is now controlled by the FILEDIA system variable, and the PDF underlay dialog is controlled by CMDDIA.
  SR143428
  
• PRINT Added a WATERMARK to print output when using a BricsCAD Academic license.
  SR105015 SR23279 SR38917 SR43596 SR98380
• Publish Dialog The key now works for removing rows in the Sheet List table.
  
• PURGE We added a dialog where you can choose which item types to purge. A commandline-only version is still available with -PURGE.
  SR101336SR93161SR38993SR118886SR127151SR137572SR140930SR141812
  Extended command to support nested purge (purge nested items).
  SR39461SR42464SR76198SR77407SR115608SR128254SR129730SR142430
• Qt Upgraded the UI framework to Qt version 5.15.10.
  
• QUAD Tools without an underscore prefix in their command strings are now supported and will show up in the no-selection Quad's most recently used items row.
  SR103308SR123853SR119639
  The commands MEASURE, ID, UNISOLATEOBJECTS in the Quad are now available under more circumstances to help facilitate faster workflows.
• Quad Rollover Tips Properties of entities on locked layers can no longer be modified with the Quad Rollover Tips.
  SR140249SR83842
  Dimension arrow block properties are now always fully visible in the rollover tips panel.
  SR138137
• RIBBON We're in the process of introducing a new Ribbon design in BricsCAD. The new Ribbon framework is based on Qt, replacing the historical WxWidgets-based underpinnings. The choice of Ribbon ("qt" vs "wxwidgets") can be controlled using the USENEWRIBBON system variable, which is set to "0" (use "WxWidgets") by default. If you want a sneakpeak how the new framework functions change the setting of USENEWRIBBON to 1. You'll need to exit and restart BricsCAD to effect the change.
  Added the COPYGUIDED3D command to the ribbon in all relevant workspaces (i.e., those with a Modeling ribbon).
  SR143407
  A significant number of commands have been repositioned in the modern.cui Drafting and Modeling layouts. In particular, manipulation commands: MOVE, ROTATE, MIRROR, COPY, etc. The Home tab of the Drafting and Modeling workspace will be familiar for users coming from other CAD platforms. They now have large, drop-down menus that display all hidden commands in a single click. This saves time as there is no need to search various split buttons for a command. All panels were set to Dock instead of float or tabbed, this ensures the command panel displays consistently across all workspaces and all UCS elements are clearly visible from a fresh install. In the other tabs, more commands have been brought to the front and the parametric tools have returned to the Modeling Tabs for all workspaces.
  SR143308 SR143394 SR144300
  When a Ribbon contains more Tabs than will fit on the Ribbon menu bar, the overflowing tabs are hidden and shown in a drop-down menu instead.
  SR101813
  
• SELECTION Lasso selection has been implemented. It is available when when the PICKAUTO setting >= 4. Lasso is activated when the left mouse button is held down while the mouse is moving. Window, crossing and fence modes can be toggled by pressing the space bar.
  SR123070SR104020SR82059SR81307SR124269SR130472SR136157SR136269SR140971SR142147SR103617
• Settings The DefaultPlotStyleTable user preference setting has been implemented.
  SR144249
  
• Sheet Set Manager We've added the option to publish sheets to PDF (or using a plotter, based on the last used presets) directly from the Sheet Set Manager panel.
  SR131575
  Fixed an issue where a re-ordered sheet appeared at the bottom of the tree listing.
  SR115003 SR145606
  
• Sheet Set Panel A new sheets tree menu option has been added enabling you to save all sheets belonging to a sheet set.
  SR69272
  Opening the Qt Sheet Set panel closes the legacy panel, and vice-versa.
  The import of a sheet layout to a sheet set will be prevented if the layout already points to another sheet set.
  SR115003
  The list of layouts can now be sorted before importing them to a sheet set. Also multiple layouts can be included/excluded in one operation.
  SR140477SR115003
  The sheet set panel now contains a dropdown menu listing the recently opened .dst files. Clicking one of these files loads its sheet set into the panel.
  SR123717
  A preview of the selected sheet layout is shown in the Create New Sheets dialog.
  The details panel now contains a preview for sheets.
  
• SHP File Support ESRI SHP files can now be imported and exported with GISIMPORT and GISEXPORT commands.
  SR102373
• SIMPLIFY A command panel for choosing the Simplify settings has been added. The command panel offers a preview, making it easier to find the right settings. The 'straighten' option has been removed: polylines that contain arcs are never simplified.The commandline options have been changed, making it possible to run the command without having to choose the settings on the commandline.
  
• SPELLCHECKER Implemented a "check as you type" spell checking feature for BricsCAD's built-in text editor.
  SR88739SR95315SR90300SR82165SR86164SR93782SR94896SR117418SR101218SR119573SR128094SR128203SR130081SR129097SR134801SR134827SR141813SR128235SR127467
• Surface Properties The Properties panel now displays U and V Isolines properties for surface entities.
  
• System Variables The MIRRHATCH system variable is now exposed to the command line and added to the Settings dialog.
  SR137672
• Tables Performance while grip-editing large Tables has been greatly improved.
• Tips Panel The Tips Panel content has been updated to provide new and existing users with richer in-product help and command guidance.
  The Tips Panel shows a help page when a layout is selected.
• Toolbars Dragging and dropping toolbars in between existing toolbars is now more user friendly. If multiple tools share the same row after dropping, a toolbar may be wrapped onto a new row to ensure that both existing and newly dropped toolbars are visible instead of getting pushed outside the main frame window.
  SR138747
• TOOLPALETTES The experimental panel (Qt) has now become the main ToolPalettes panel and the old one (based on wxWidgets) has been removed.
  Fixed blurry display of images at e.g. 125% display scaling
  Implemented the vertical tab-bar feature request for the Tool Palettes panel.
  SR130204
  A button is now available in the top-right corner of the panel to open the palette context menu.
  New ToolPalettes panel: context menu on tabs is now available.
  New ToolPalettes panel: improved list view design. Also added a button to open the context menu.
  New ToolPalettes panel: when adding a new separator or text item via the blue "Add" button or the top-right context menu button, the view scrolls down to show it, if needed.
  Rectangle selection is now available to select tools.
  TOOLPALETTEPATH: now supports catalogs with the same GUID.
  SR131157
  When dragging a tool inside a palette, the palette is now automatically scrolled if needed.
• TSPACETYPE The MLeader behavior has been improved to handle the TSPACETYPE settings variable.
  SR103599
• Trimble Sketchup Import The Sketchup SDK has been upgraded. BricsCAD V23 now properly imports SKP 2022 format files.
  
• "Ultimate" Workspace The new BricsCAD Ultimate workspace is available by selecting "Complete" via the Workspace selection drop-down, the Status Bar workspace selector, or by using command _WSCURRENT and setting the current value to "Complete".
  SR130727
  
• User File Manager Dialog The default selection is now 'Keep Current' (instead of 'Overwrite').
• VPMAX VPMAX command improvements:
  
  • - Background color of maximized PS viewport is changed to the color of Model Space
  • - You can select a single viewport automatically
  • - The command will stop when no viewports are available
  • - The command will print a message when a selected entity is not a viewport
  
  SR93811SR121282

Improvements to BIM

• Associativity Added new properties "Associativity" and "Associative coloring". "Associativity" indicates whether a tag is associated. "Associative coloring" visualizes an unassociated tag in red, if true. It doesn't change the tag's actual color property.
• Active Story Added the active story state. See "Top view Modeling" for more information.
• BCF Panel It is now possible to create new BCF issues and sync them with your favorite BCF cloud service (BIM Track, BIMcollab, BIMsync). While doing so, you can immediately add a screenshot and a viewpoint, which will guide your team members to the exact location of the issue. Entity selection to the screenshot has been added, both when creating a new issue or adding a comment to an existing one.
  When you select entities before creating the screenshot, this entity selection will be saved within the BCF issue and synced to the BCF cloud service. It is also possible to adjust the entity visibility to show only selected entities.
  The login process has been improved, so that you don't have to manually provide the URL of the BCF cloud service anymore.
• BIM Details Panel The panel for managing BIM Details has been converted to Qt.
  The filter mechanism, based on detail tags, is now exposed by clicking on a filter icon.
• BIMEXTEND Extends a wall to a wall (works with un-classified wall-like (poly)solids, as well)
• BIMPROJECTINFO The database information window shows statistics on spatial structures, such as the number of buildings, the number of stories, etc.
• BIMPROPERTIES An XSD (XML Schema Definition) file has been created to be be used for generating XML files for BIM properties.
  SR138549
• BIMQUICKDRAW We added a command panel, making it possible to easily change the settings while placing rooms.
  The WALLWIDTH, SLABTHICKNESS and FLOORTOFLOORDISTANCE system variables, related to the BIMQUICKDRAW command, have been removed, since these user settings are now available in this new Bim Quickdraw command panel.
  
• BIMQuickwall Lets you create a UCS X or Y aligned wall with one click, with both ends connected to existing walls. Wall width can be specified in the command panel.
  
• BIMSECTIONUPDATE The performance of the second and subsequent updates has been improved for associative sections.
• BIMSLICEWALL Slices a wall vertically (works with un-classified wall-like solids, as well).
• BIMSTAIR We added a command panel, making it possible to easily change the settings while placing the stair.
  The BIMSTAIR-specific settings have been moved from the general BricsCAD application "Settings" dialog to the BIMSTAIR command panel. A new setting has been introduced, to turn off the new approach of handling stair objects during sectioning.
• BIM Support Folder Grid and Space 3D call-outs have been moved to the "_SectionSettings.dwg" file.
  
• BIMTAG A command panel has been added for the BIMTAG command.
• BIMTRIM Trims a wall, automatically detects other walls and uses them as the trim object (works with un-classified wall-like solids, as well).
• BOM for BIM Three example BOM files are added to \UserDataCache\Support\en_US\Bim\Schedules:Door Schedule.bom,Material List.bom,Window Schedule.bom.
  
• CONVTOSURFACE, CONVTOSOLID, CONVTOMESH BIM data and the entity's GUID are now maintained when applying CONVTOSURFACE, CONVTOSOLID or CONVTOMESH.
• Create Sheets Dialog Added an option to only allow 1 section per sheet in the Create Sheets dialog.
  It is now possible to set the sheet's layout for viewports individually, in the viewports tab of the Create Sheets dialog.
  It is now possible to set the viewport's typed plan from the Create Sheets dialog.
• Creating BOM Files Clicking "New BOM" in the blue plus button menu opens a dialog, allowing you to create a BOM file. After that, it is possible to configure the BOM in a panel.
• Data Extraction A BOM can be used for BIM entities, offering additional functionality that was not previously possible with BIM schedules.
  SR115504 SR118714
  
• Drag and Dropping BOM Files BOM files can be dragged and dropped on a sheet, resulting in a table being generated on that sheet.
• Drawing Generation The "Generate background" property was added to BimDbViewport. When on, a background image will be added to section result during BIMSECTIONUPDATE.
  Stair objects are now specifically processed during drawing generation; in order to show a more relevant 2D stair representation on 2D plans.This alternative symbolic stair representation is generated automatically for all objects classified as stairs, and includes the parts cut away by the section, nosing lines, numbering and a walking line, which are placed on different layers.
  This automatically generated 2D representation can be overruled either by a custom symbolic representation on the BRX_* or BIM_2D_* layers, or with a Typed Plan (with a symbol customization).For users who wish to customize the symbolic representation, we added a new command, BIMGENERATE2DSTAIR. This command will put the automatic symbolic representation on BIM_2D* layers inside the stair block. This can afterwards be modified by the user, and will be used during section generation.
  SR119538
• Edit Sheets Dialog It is now possible to set the typed plan of viewports from the Edit sheets dialog box.
• Editing BOM Files BOM files can be edited by right clicking the BOM file in the file tree, then clicking "Open file". That right click menu also contains the buttons "Generate csv" and "Generate xlsx", which allows you to export the BOM to .csv or .xlsx.
• General Filter UI The existing filter UI component (as used in Graphical Overrides and BimDimension) has been extended to support multiple "rows". This is done to support the logical "OR" operation. A switch button has been added to the context dialogues in the general filter UI to specify whether nested entities need to be searched top-down or bottom-up. The filter for BIM Type will now show the list of BIM Types to choose from.
  
• IFC Export IFC attributes are now managed dynamically, like properties and property sets. This allows the user to choose between IFC2x3 and IFC4 attributes. The Attributes and Attribute Sets can be managed in the BIMPROPERTIES dialog box, where you can toggle their visibility.
  SR104654 SR135705 SR135698
  The visibility of the namespace and the attributes are checked before exporting, and a warning message is shown if the visibility is turned off.
  We fixed an issue that caused BricsCAD to crash during IFCEXPORT when the bsyslib database file was missing.
  SR145459 SR145984
  
• IFC Import Many improvements to our IFC4 Import have been made, including additional support for IfcSectionedSolidHorizontal, IfcAlignmentCurve, IfcLinearPlacement, and better handling of split walls.
• IFC Import and Export Entities such as BIMgrid and objects classified as Site now retain their GUID when importing/exporting from/to IFC.
  Sites, Buildings and Storeys now have a persistent GUID during import and export. The GUID is visible in the BIMSPATIALLOCATIONS dialog.
  We added many IFC types, mainly for IFC4. Use BIMCLASSIFY and select the newly added types. When using IFC4 specific types, make sure to make the IFC4 attributes visible in BIMPROPERTIES.The new BIM types can be exported and imported to IFC, and can be used in data extraction, filtering (for Typed Plans or Graphic Override).Please note that these new BIM types are not backward compatible with older BricsCAD versions. In order to keep your project backward compatible, make sure not to use the new BIM types and use the IFC2x3 attributes.
  SR81920 SR92702 SR92491 SR100467 SR93626 SR101025 SR103338 SR104200 SR84768 SR88890 SR123858 SR125703 SR125698 SR127535 SR129355 SR130477 SR133489 SR133968 SR134004 SR135421 SR89932 SR137262 SR137896 SR139236 SR139495 SR141080 SR141584 SR143909
  
• IFC Types We added many new IFC types, mainly for IFC4. Use BIMCLASSIFY and select the newly added types. When using IFC4 specific types, make sure to make the IFC4 attributes visible in BIMPROPERTIES. The new BIM types can be exported and imported to IFC, and can be used in data extraction, filtering (for Typed Plans or Graphic Override). Please note that these new BIM types are not backward compatible with older BricsCAD versions. If you must keep your project backward-compatible with versions of BricsCAD BIM older than V23, ensure that you do not use the new BIM types, and use the IFC2x3 attributes.
  SR81920 SR92702 SR92491 SR100467 SR93626 SR101025 SR103338 SR104200 SR84768 SR88890 SR123858 SR125703 SR125698 SR127535 SR129355 SR130477 SR133489 SR133968 SR134004 SR135421 SR89932 SR137262 SR137896 SR139236 SR139495 SR141080 SR141584 SR143909
• INSERTLAYOUT The new INSERTLAYOUT command was introduced. This command allows you to insert a block reference that stores entities from a layout. The command only works with paper space layouts.
• New Project It is now possible to create a BIM project directly from the landing page in the BricsCAD BIM workspace.
  
• Physical Materials The background color of hatches (used in sections and elevations) can now be set for each material in the Physical Materials dialog.
  SR115719SR124411SR98430SR130961
• Project Browser - Info Files tab configuration: Folders and extensions to ignore - allows you to specify which part of the project you want to see in the Files tab.
  Project folder names can now be set in the Project Browser.
  SR136006SR141199
  
• Project Browser - Sections and views Create Sheets dialog box is now opened by right clicking a selection of sections in the sections tree.
  Drag a section on a sheet: you can insert the viewport by its lower left corner.
  Drag a selection set of sections on a sheet: you can specify two corner points of the rectangular area to specify rows/columns of viewports.
  Drag a view on a sheet to insert a 3D view. (runs the PLACEVIEW command.)
  
• Project Browser - Sheets Auto background updating can now be set with a switch at the bottom of the sheets tab.
  Sheet and sheet view properties are easily accessible now in a properties pane on the sheets tab.
  Sheet views can be dragged and dropped from one sheet to another sheet on the sheets tab. Hold down CTRL to drag a copy.
  The project browser now shows the same sheetset properties as the sheetset panel, and with the same names.
  SR144851 SR144852
  
• Project Browser - Files A master model drawing can now be easily renamed from the context menu. All linked sections on sheets are updated.
  A sheet drawing can now be easily renamed from the context menu. All linked sections and the sheetset is updated.
  You can drag a .dxd or a BOM onto a sheet.
  Schedules can be easily exported by right-clicking on a schedule file (.dxd file) and clicking 'Generate csv' or 'Generate xlsx'.
  SR136775
  Drag a .dwg onto a .dwg: you can import/insert a block/insert as a xref; if you drag it onto paperspace: you will insert a layout from the .dwg.
  Drag any supported filetype for import (used to be right click) or imageattach, pdfattach, etc...
  Existing drawings and new drawings can be added to a BIM project via the plus (+) button.
  
• RFA IMPORT When importing a .RFA file that contains multiple family types, you can now choose which types to import.
  SR113968
  We now properly import attributes from .RFA files.
  SR131600SR119144SR102555SR137990
  Components imported from a .RFA file are now classified with their corresponding BIM Type.
  SR113660
• Ribbon BIMTrim, BIMExtend, BIMSlicewall, BIMQuickwall, BIMGenerate2DStair are now available in the ribbon.
  
• RVTLevelOfDetail System Variable BIM Setting RVTLevelOfDetail was renamed to RVTRFALevelOfDetail and is now stored in the drawing. In both .RVT Import and .RFA Imports/Inserts, the setting will determine the level of detail of the Element Graphics to import.
  
• Section 2D (non-solid) entities from the BRX_2D+_ layer are now copied to a section.
  SR128634
  
• Section Callouts Section callouts stored in _SectionSettings.dwg are now used to generate sections.
• Section Generate Hardcoded templates for cm and m are no longer used. Now only the mm template is used for section generation.
  Section INSUNITS initialization was implemented for correct section size generation in millimeters, for 3D models with any initial INSUNITS setting.
  SR140859
• Sheetset Setup The Sheetset Setup dialog was ported to Qt and split into the Create Sheets dialog and the Edit Sheets dialog.
  SR129805SR140177
• Sheetset Templates In older BricsCAD BIM versions, metric projects with a model in cm or m used a hard coded template sheetset file and a corresponding template sheet dwg in cm resp. m., ignoring the setting 'SectionSheetsetTemplateMetric'. In V23 all metric projects by default use a sheet template in mm, and will honor the setting 'SectionSheetsetTemplateMetric', if not empty. The cm and meter sheetset and sheet template files are no longer included in the installation.
  
• STORYBAR Tools have been added at the top of the view, including home icon, building label, active story name, and exit button. The last two are only displayed when there is an active story. See Top View Modeling.
• Structure Tree Configuration Files Three new configuration files are added to the release, to be used by the Structure Browser:* BIM - Composition.cst: sorts and groups BIM entities by composition* BIM - Profiles.cst: sorts and groups BIM entities by profile* BIM - Type.cst: sorts and groups BIM entities by BIM-type
  
• Support Folder Removed obsolete files in \Support\Bim\Sections folder. All 2d callouts are defined in _SectionSettings.dwg, tags in _SectionTag.dwg
  
• Top View Modeling We added Top View Modeling, a mode to edit the 3D model as a 2D floor plan. It can be activated by clicking on a story disc on the Story Bar, or with command ACTIVATESTORY. The mode is deactivated by clicking 'Exit' on the storybar or with command DEACTIVATESTORY
  In top view modeling (tvm), the view is changed to top view and perspective is turned off.
  3D Solid Face and detected boundary highlighting is turned off, osnapz is turned on and ucs is moved to the story elevation.
  The model is clipped by two section planes: above and below the story elevation. These sections are erased when exiting tvm.
  Entities below the story elevation do not highlight, cannot be selected and are rendered transparently. This allows to use the story below as reference.
  Insertion of doors and windows, as well as dimensions when selected, are adapted to top view in tvm.
  A command panel to update sill height is displayed during window insertion in tvm.
  It is also possible to activate a story in a 3D View, without switching to top view mode, by right-clicking on a story disc on the Story Bar, or with command ACTIVATESTORY. The mode is deactivated by clicking 'Exit' on the storybar or with command DEACTIVATESTORY.
  An active story will clip the model with the same section planes as described above. SR87209 SR104283 SR105016 SR125678 SR120162 SR127790 SR129712 SR133323
  
• Typed Plans With BricsCAD BIM V23, the concept of a "Typed Plan" has been completely rethought. A new Typed Plans editor has been created, enabling BIM users to easily define and consult all their drawing and tag customization requirements.
  When there is no tag defined for an object in the Typed Plan, the rules set in _TagTypeToStyle.xml are used as fallback rules.
  On creating a new Typed Plan, it can be renamed directly in the Typed Plan Editor.
  SR140170
  
  The "Drawing Customization" property on the viewports has been renamed to "Typed Plan".
  
  Multiple tags defined in TagTypeToStyle.xml can again be used when using Typed Plans.
  SR136416
  Some examples of typed plans have been included in the support folder (Support > BIM > Typed Plans), such that they can be imported from the BIM Project Browser.The path for "Import Typed Plan" in the BIM Project Browser has also been adjusted.
  Included 3 more typed plans in the installation set, to generate LOD100, LOD200 and LOD400 drawings
  SR145772
  
• UPDATELAYOUTBLOCK The new UPDATELAYOUTBLOCK command lets you update a block reference that was inserted by INSERTLAYOUT command.
  
• VERSION CONTROL In the Version Control panel, when adding a folder that contains an old, deleted Version Control project, this project will be recovered.
  It is now possible to revert to a previous commit while the file is open.
  You can now create a Version Control project from within the Version Control Panel. While doing so, you can easily define which file types need to be ignored.
  
• Visual Styles Three new Visual Styles are added to (BIM/Shape)-(mm,cm,m,imperial).dwt: 'Maquette', 'Render' and 'See-through'.
  
• Wall dimensions Selectable dimensions are shown when a wall-like solid is selected. They display the distance between the selected and the nearest wall-like solid.
  

Improvements to Civil

• BricsCAD Launcher BricsCAD Launcher has been extended with Civil design option.
• Civil Drawing Template Metric and imperial civil specific template drawing has been added.
• Civil Explorer This new panel displays a list of Civil objects in tree structure. Civil Explorer panel contains Object View and Settings View. Object View is used for better navigation and manipulation of civil entities and objects. Settings View is used to manage label styles and point file formats.
• Civil Labels We have introduced a new Civil labeling framework in BricsCAD V23. The new framework brings options for labeling Civil entities, so far for TIN Surface, TIN Volume Surface and Grading. The command ADDSURFACELABELS allows labeling spot elevations, surface contours and slopes.
  We have introduced two new user interfaces for Label styles and Symbol styles. This user interfaces allows to create and edit label styles and symbol styles which are then used for the surface labels.
  SR114191SR123520SR127243SR128005SR140957
• Civil Points The user interface for importing Civil Points from the point file has been added. It allows users to specify any point file format for importing Civil Points.
  SR136625SR137768SR138497SR139258SR136622
• Civil Workspace Civil workspace has been added.
  SR131176
  The Datasmith/Twinmotion commands have been added to the Civil Workspace.
  
• GIS Export New command GISEXPORT has been added. This command allows to export spatial and attribute data in an ESRI SHP file.
  SR138796SR139511
• GIS Import New command GISIMPORT has been added. This command allows to import spatial and attribute data from an ESRI SHP file.
  SR94870SR138796
• Grading Gradings can now be set to use only part of the input curve (by setting start and end length parameter). Gradings now support multiple regions and transitions between them.
  SR140101
  Grading boundaries are now added to TIN Surface as read-only definitions.
  The "Input entity" property has been added to the properties panel and the "Target surface" property now displays the name of the TIN surface.
  Gradings now support multiple segments.
  SR123457
• Grading Edit New command GRADINGEDIT has been added. This command splits grading into regions or merges two gradings with the same grading type that lies on the same input entity.
• TIN Edit The maximum triangle length, minimum triangle length and maximum triangle angle can now be set. By defining those settings, the TIN surface will remove any triangles with specified restrictions.
  SR139822SR140939
  Swapping triangles edges is now enabled.
  SR121232SR137916
  The command prompt for adding boundaries has been changed. An option for trim triangles that underlie the boundary line has been added.
  SR141167
• TINMERGE Added breaklines on triangle edges to preserve surface geometry.
  SR104437
  
• TIN Surface TIN Surface build process has been changed to an incremental process consisting of definitions that can be edited, deleted, or just temporarily disabled.
  TIN Surface is now visible even if face style is invisible.
  User interface for creating TIN Surface from point file has been added.
  The new option "TIN Densify" has been added to the TIN command. After TIN Surface is already being simplified, the user specifies the maximum elevation difference between the simplified TIN Surface and the excluded input points on a specified area in a TIN Surface. All input points that have a greater elevation difference than specified are added back to the simplified TIN Surface.

Improvements to Mechanical

• BMBALLOON Non-mechanical objects that are present in a BOM table now can be annotated with balloons.
  In automatic mode, only objects present in the selected BOM table will be annotated.
• BMBOM An option to enable or disable multiple inserts of the same BOM table was added to BOM settings.
  SR142443
  BOM mode was introduced to configure which kinds of objects should be present in that BOM table. It allows to generate BOM tables for models without mechanical components or blocks.
  SR134066
  Column filters now can be applied to formulae and child rows in hierarchical bills of materials. In case of hierarchical tables, a setting was added to either keep or remove parent rows from the table if they don't match the filter criteria but have child rows that do match.
  New BOMFILTERSETTINGS and BOMPROPERTYSET settings are introduced to define what objects to include and what property set to use by default.
  For mechanical blocks, it is now possible to assign BOM status for particular instances.
  SR131477SR131919SR142376
  Now, BOM tables should work faster in common scenarios by reusing already collected data when possible.
  Options to include parts from other documents to a bill of materials table were added to the BMBOM, BMBOMEDIT commands and BOM manager.
• BMBOMEXPORT A new command to export an existing BOM table or a new table based on a provided .bom template to .csv files is introduced. It also allows to link tables in a document to a .bom file using datalink, which allows to use bill of materials like BIM schedules.
  Now it is possible to export a BOM table to an .xlsx file using either the BMBOMEXPORT command or the BOM manager panel.
  Command -BMBOMEXPORT does exactly the same as BMBOMEXPORT except that it is script friendly. It will not open any dialogs, etc.
• BMBOMTEMPLATEEDIT A new command to edit the .bom files in a standalone mode using the BOM manager panel was added.
• BMEXPLODE BMEXPLODE command now allows to specify a set of parts to create an exploded view from.
  Option to configure which types of objects to include in an exploded view was added to BMEXPLODE.
  Now, it is possible to create exploded views without creating a mechanical assembly first.
• BMLOCALIZE Mechanical external references are now supported as well as traditional mechanical components.
  
• EXPORT Native export to 3D PDF and ASAT formats now supports mechanical blocks, external references and solids.
• Mechanical Blocks Support for mechanical blocks had been added to all mechanical design commands (BM) and scenarios including
  insertion, exploded views generation, Bill of Materials generation, 2D drawings annotations, exporting of the data and importing it.
  
  Commands INSERT, EXPLODE, BEDIT, XATTACH and others also support mechanical data making Mechanical design in BricsCAD even more compatible with regular workflows.
  
  With Mechanical blocks enabled external references are used to represent mechanical assembly structure. With this approach handling of external files modifications for parametric multilevel assemblies is greatly improved both in terms of stability and performance, compared to the previous implementation of external mechanical components.
  
  Mechanical blocks are now enabled by default, to return back to previous implementation of Mechanical components switch off the MECHANICALBLOCKS setting to Off.
  SR129858 SR122252 SR124051 SR124392 SR125127 SR126803 SR126922 SR128734 SR135715 SR141189 SR69956 SR103851 SR145796 SR123757 SR131198 SR127216 SR138473 SR140580
• Mechanical Browser The Mechanical browser was reimplemented using Qt.
  Search in the mechanical browser now works as a filter.
  SR125098
  
• Parameters and Constraints Panel Legacy Parameters and Constraints panel is not available anymore. It is replaced by Parameters Manager panel.
  
• Welding Added a new toolset to create weldings and welding annotations. The BMWELDING command creates a welding for the selected faces of 3D solids. The BMWELDANNOTATE command creates caterpillars and sideviews on drawing views. The AMSIMPLEWELD command creates caterpillars and sideviews over 2D geometry.
  SR49105SR75844SR76147SR77582SR78870SR83469SR87619SR90239SR92169SR92395SR93922SR100978SR120472SR122534SR122537SR123195SR126441SR128293SR128619

Improvements to Mechanical 2D

• AMDATUMID Added new AMDATUMID command. This command creates a datum identification symbol.
  AMDATUMID symbol can now be edited via its Grip points.
  Implemented a dialog box to set up the parameters of the AMDATUMID symbol you are inserting.
• AMEDGESYM Added new AMEDGESYM command. This command creates an edge symbol.
  AMEDGESYM symbol can now be edited via its properties in the Properties panel.
• AMFCFRAME Added new AMFCFRAME command. This command creates a feature control frame symbol.
  AMFCFRAME symbol can now be edited via its Grip points.
• AMNOTE Added new AMNOTE command. This command creates a leader note.
• AMSETUPDWG We've added the AMSETUPDWG command to BricsCAD Mechanical. This command can be used to change the current drawing standard to a different standard (in the case of an existing Mechanical document) or set up a new one (in the case of a non-Mechanical, "vanilla" drawing).
  SR142818
• AMSIMPLEWELD Added new AMSIMPLEWELD command. This command creates caterpillars and sideviews for welds over 2D geometry.
• AMSURFSYM/AMWELDSYM Improved work of commands for creating 'Welding Symbol' and 'Surface Texture' symbols.
  SR141660
• AMWELDSYM Implemented a dialog box to set up the parameters of the Welding symbol you are inserting.
  'Weld types' are added and separated according to standards.
  SR141659
  Missing properties are added and separated by standards.
• LOADMECHANICAL2D System Variable The default value of the LOADMECHANICAL2D system variable is now 1.
  
• MECH2DSAVEFORMAT MECH2DSAVEFORMAT is set to 2018 by default
• Power Dimensions Added new commands for creating Power Dimensions: AMPOWERDIM_ALI, AMPOWERDIM_HOR, AMPOWERDIM_VER, AMPOWERDIM_ROT, AMPOWERDIM_ANG, AMPOWERDIM_RAD, AMPOWERDIM_DIA. These commands create multiple types of dimensions within a single command session and provide the ability to specify tolerances or fits as appropriate.
  SR91997 SR103450 SR127357 SR135079 SR142152
  

Improvements to Sheet Metal

• OSM The custom properties related to the old and new mechanical architecture and specified per each mechanical component are transferable now into OSM. These properties are passed into OSM documents and OSM tags.
  SR135244
• SMUNFOLD Now SMUNFOLD in associative mode supports tangent bends, jogs (with and without flange) and hems (all types, except closed hems).

Improvements to Point Clouds

• Fitplanar Command Panel The FITPLANAR panel has been redesigned for clarity.
• Point Cloud UI The new Point Cloud Insert dialog is now the default.
  Implemented -POINTCLOUDREFERENCE and -POINTCLOUDDELETEITEM non-GUI commands.
  
• Point Cloud Attach The transformation used for attaching point clouds is now consistent among the different options
• Point Cloud Color Maps Implemented user-defined colormaps for point clouds. These maps are stored in dwg and are compatible with otherCAD.
  Added command panel for setting point cloud color mapsSR125585
• Point Cloud Deviation Added support for running pointcloud deviation on TIN surfaces.
• Point Cloud File Format BricsCAD now supports the Hexagon Smart Point Cloud (HSPC) file format.
• Point Cloud Insertion Dialog User's preference for insertion are now remembered. The labels are clickable.
  Fixed issue of point cloud not being inserted if provided through command line.
• Point Cloud LAS/LAZ The classification information included in LAS/LAZ files are now available for use in HSPC format.
• Point Cloud Manager It is now possible to turn regions on and off with the new point cloud manager.
  SR125424
  With the use of HSPC format, scanner and classification info are added to points. The POINTCLOUDMANAGER GUI provides tools to toggle the display of points based on these additional attributes.
• Point Cloud Performance Implementation of temporary load/unload of a point cloud from a .dwg file to reduce resource consumption.
  SR119767
• Point Cloud Preprocessor Added support for preprocessing custom point file formats.
• POINTCLOUDREGION New command for creating and managing regions in a point cloud.

Fixes

• -PDFATTACH The command now accepts filenames wrapped in double quotes.
  SR143428
  
• -TOOLPANEL On localized versions, panels can now be properly launched from ribbons and toolbars.
  SR145118
  
• 2D CONSTRAINTS Newly added 2D constraints are no longer ignored after an existing constraint is removed, in a specific case.
  SR136844
• 2D Display Improved the graphics display precision when deeply zoomed-in on lines with associated line-weight attributes.
  SR82943
  
• 3D CONSTRAINTS We reworked handling of the 3D constraints located inside parametric blocks, there were cases when 3D constraints were lost upon propagation of a parameter changes across the blocks hierarchy.
  SR122984SR139693
• ACIS SUPPORT Fixed error preventing specific 3d solid entity from being displayed.
  SR134723
• AECC In some cases, there was an issue displaying Civil 3D Alignment in BricsCAD. This is fixed now.
  SR136205
  
• AI Assist An issue with the downloading of the most recent AI Assist models at BricsCAD startup is resolved.
  
• AMEDGESYM AMEDGESYM symbol can now be edited via its Grip points.
• AMFCFRAME 'Surface arrowhead' property is supported now.
• AMPOWEREDIT Using the AMPOWEREDIT command you can now specify accuracy for dimension values, or add tolerances and fits to dimensions.
  SR142152 SR143501
  We fixed a typo in the Edit Dimensioning dialog box.
  SR143502
  
• AMSURFSYM Implemented drop-down list for the 'First requirement' and 'Second requirement' properties.
  Improved Surface Texture symbol placement without a leader.
  SR142151
  Drop-down list for the 'First requirement' and 'Second requirement' properties is supported.
  Grip point for subSymbol origin has been added.
  Missing properties are added and separated by standards.
• AMWELDSYM Various weld types are supported by the standards.
  SR136711
• Annotative Attribute We continue to improve annotative attribute text height behaviors in certain unusual scenarios where the saved annotative scale states are not completely coherent.
  SR142645
  
• Annotative Entities Fixed: invalid graphics of annotated entities in layouts MS after switch from Model layout when ANNOALLVISIBLE=0.
  SR96720 SR143898
  
• ATTIPEDIT The width of Multiline MText attributes can now be adjusted via the width adjustment arrows in the Text box.
  SR145827
  
• ATTSYNC We've fixed a V22 bug that resulted in the position of dynamic block attributes not being reset in certain cases when using ATTSYNC.
  SR140131
• AUTOCAD COMPATIBILITY Fixed a problem when BricsCAD creates a drawing with ACIS entities which cause hanging of AutoCAD on opening the drawing.
  SR95087
• Animation Video file was not generated by Animation Editor nor by ANIPATH if path to TEMP folder contained non-English (e.g. Cyrillic) letters.
  Upgraded FFmpeg tool to the latest version.
  SR101567SR137802
• Associative Dimensions Improved performance of creation of associative dimensions with entities inside blocks.
  SR91942
• BEDIT Fixed possible disappearance of objects in BEDIT session when changing the visibility state parameter in a nested dynamic block.
  SR120150 SR142812
  
• BIM Project Browser Modifying number_start in bimproj_project.xml works as expected now.
  SR143312SR144685SR143087
  
• BIMPROPERTIES The Import file dialog box now shows all existing .xml files correctly.
  SR136186
  Fixed the UI so that it is easier to delete the last item in an enumerated list.
  SR138514
  
• BIMQUICKRAW, BIMSTAIR The user's variables for the BIMQUICKDRAW and BIMSTAIR commands now correctly respect the insertion units.
  SR144277 SR144654 SR144678
  
• BIMREASSOCIATE The BIMREASSOCIATE command now works correctly, and respects the new BIM associativity approach.
  SR132368
  
• BIMSECTIONUPDATE Story lines and callouts are placed to dedicated layers in section result now.
  SR135658
  
• BIM Sheetviews The default value of the layersnapshot property for new sheetviews is now set to 'no'.
  SR141995
  
• BIMSPACE Fixed a crash when creating a BIM Space when AEC walls are present.
  SR139523
• BIM Spaces BIM_ROOM_LINES layer was renamed to BIM_SPACE_LINES after replacing rooms by spaces.
  
• BIMSPATIALLOCATIONS We now post a warning when the external bsyslib database file is missing.
  SR129731
  
• BIMSTAIR Fixed: If you change the stair width setting while placing a stair, the stair no longer snaps to nearby walls.
• BIMTAG Object2dMLeader fields are evaluated correctly in Bim tags.
  
• Bim Viewport A viewlabel is placed in the left bottom corner of a viewport when the viewport is resized or moved. The user-defined place of a viewlabel is respected after the MOVE, SCALE and BIMSECTIONUPDATE commands.
  SR140745
• Block Dialog The unit field is now properly translated/localized.The unit and factor fields are now properly updated after a drawing is selected.
  SR145116
  We have fixed an issue where BricsCAD was crashing when failing to create a block definition.
  SR145908
  
• BLOCKIFY Fixed an issue where the BLOCKIFY command would result, in specific cases, in block references with non-uniform scaling. This made it impossible to explode the reference again without changing the scaling.
  SR141727
  Fixed a crash that occurred when using a block reference as input, and no repeated geometry was found.
  SR143023
  A particular file can now be saved again after running the BLOCKIFY command and selecting the "match existing Blocks" option.
  SR138750
• BLOCKREPLACE Keeps parameter values for dynamic blocks if replaced and replacement blocks have parameters with same name and type.
• BMBOM BOM tables now calculate mass properties only when explicitly asked, to reduce potential performance impact. In addition, mass properties computations were improved in general.
  SR102146
  
• BMBOM, BMBOMTEMPLATEEDIT In BOM filter dialog, if a string containing special symbols such as comma is selected, necessary escape symbols will be added automatically to the filter expression.
  SR143465
  
• BMBOMTEMPLATEEDIT A BricsCAD Mechanical license is no longer required to change the position of BOM columns in a BricsCAD BIM license context.
  SR145241
  Boolean properties are now processed correctly in a BOM filter.
  SR145246
  
• BMUPDATEMODE BricsCAD crash was fixed in case of specific file opening while BMUPDATEMODE setting is enabled.
  SR140601
  
• BricsCAD Usage Data Program We now set the DATACOLLECTIONLOGINTYPE system variable correctly, based on previous choice if applicable.
  A crash in the BricsCAD commandline, after manually closing the LOGIN dialog of the Usage Data Program, has been resolved.
  The administrative override for DATACOLLECTION now operates as intended; system administrators now have the ability to prevent users from joining the program / sharing their usage data with Bricsys.
  
• Civil Explorer Panel Strings are now translated for localized versions of BricsCAD.
  SR145115
  
• Color Dialog RGB and ColorBook pages are no longer hidden in the Color Dialog for color parameters that support only indexed colors.
  SR141939
  
• COM We fixed a COM registration bug that sometimes caused an error after using COPYCLIP, then pasting said clip into another application as an OLE object.
  We fixed a problem that occurred when starting the drawing editor from an OLE drawing object embedded in another application.
  SR138979
  
• COPYGUIDED3D An invalid index error that manifested when DYNMODE was Off, is now fixed.
  SR143367
  Fixed a bug when the COPYGUIDED3D command was simply exited without showing an informative warning message, when specifying no detail solids at the start of the command.
• COPY/PASTE of BIM Objects Fixed a crash that occurred when performing a copy-paste operation on BIM-objects, with the ClipBoardFormat system variable set to DWG2007.
  SR132453
  
• CUI CUI context menu object type filters now use specific type names for each subtype of polyline, including LWPOLYLINE, 2DPOLYLINE, 3DPOLYLINE, POLYFACEMESH, and POLYGONMESH.
  SR141341
• Command Panel After finishing a command that uses a command panel, the previous panel state is restored.
• Copy Fixed crash when copying a block with AcDbSpatialFilter in extensions dictionary.
  SR132284
• COPYGUIDED & MOVEGUIDED Polyline segments and multiple line segments are being processed in a much more rigorous way, leading to more powerful and stable CopyGuided and MoveGuided commands.
  SR13087
• Data Extraction BOM can be used in BIM and allows to sort and group entries by entity types.
  SR126016
  BOM can be used in BIM which avoids column duplication in the resulting table.
  SR131306
  
• Datalink Fixed a crash when attempting to create a datalink with an XSL/XSLS file and Excel is not installed.
  SR126420
  
• DATALINKUPDATE Fixed bug: empty table after DATALINKUPDATE, if BEDIT modified the block the table refers to.
• Details Panel The Details Panel is now updated automatically after creating a new detail.
  
• DGN Import Fixed: failed to import particular DGN file with degenerated mesh.
• DIMENSION Fixed: option 'Distribute'Groups of dimensions located at the same distribution distance from the reference dimension(s) are now distributed by groups and not individually.
  SR135186
  Multiline dimension text with fractions is correctly placed now after the dimension is recomputed.
  SR136894
  Scaling of dimensions between centermarks takes the overridden DIMLFAC into account.
  SR141031
• Dimensions Fixed: creation of associated dimensions may break the associativity network evaluation.
  
• Display Added new shader for displaying with default lighting. This improves performance of redraws.
  Fixed a scenario where a long delay could occur in large drawings, when edge display was either enabled or disabled from a Visual Style.
  SR84888SR85268
• DMPUSHPULL Fixed a crash during DMPUSHPULL command.
  SR142231
  
• Drawing Health We've addressed a delay in opening dialogs when the DWGHEALTH command is invoked.
  SR144472
  
• Drawing Views Fixed: 3D solids from BC_SUBTRACT layers were unexpectedly displayed in drawing views with 3D geometry.
  SR142242
  
• DWGCOMPARE Minor improvements for command prompt and file selection.
• DWGHEALTH All strings in the Edit Routine dialog are now localizable.
  SR145401
  Fixed a crash that occurred when using the DWGHEALTH command in a Polish-language localized version of BricsCAD.
  SR145400
  
• Dynamic Block Now construction lines are visible in BEDIT session and invisible in dynamic blocks.
  SR76781
  
  Fixed possible incorrect saving of blocks after the BEDIT command.
  Fixed incorrect stretching of Splinefit 2dplines in dynamic blocks.
  SR131086
  Inserted Dynamic Blocks now properly update embedded Hatches after a stretch operation.
  SR119861
  Block Properties Table supports the option "Block properties must match a row in the table".
  SR122819
  MLeader objects now correctly update inside dynamic blocks.
  SR126981
  An associative array from a dynamic block is now recalculated after the dynamic block is stretched.
  SR122402
• Dynamic Dimensions Corrected processing of negative values entered in dynamic dimension during command CIRCLE/2Points. Entered negative value means that circle's diameter should be built at opposite direction from cursor.
• Dynamic UCS DUCS support has been added to subdivision mesh entities.DUCS has been enabled for planar faces of ACIS entities inside non-uniformly scaled blocks.
• Entity Selection Rectangle and Lasso selection modes were fixed to eliminate a problem that occurred when ORTHO mode was 'on' and Lasso selection was enabled (PICKAUTO >= 4).
  SR143300SR143630SR144030
  We fixed a regression that allowed entities on locked Layers to participate in editing operations. #notcool
  SR143549
  Fixed Window selection behavior for scaled inserts.
  SR143227
  
• ETRANSMIT Improved handling of file names containing exotic Unicode symbols with ETRANSMIT command while working with ZIP archives.
  SR78705
• EXPORTLAYOUT The EXPORTLAYOUT command now places the entities correctly.
  Detail views are now correctly clipped by their boundaries.
  SR134154SR136353SR136949SR143059
• Export PDF, Publish to PDF Upside-down option is now ignored.
  SR125745
• EXTRUDE Specific scenario of spline's extrusion was fixed.
  SR133722
  Implemented new techniques to ensure correct taper angles on models with large extents.
  SR142161
  
• Extruded Surface Fixed an exception (and crash) when "Extruded Surface" entity was moved or rotated (or geometrically modified in any way), while the "extrusion path" entity was no longer present.
  SR145795
  
• FIELD Dialog The text in the Diesel expression field now wraps and can be selected with the mouse.
• Fields We fixed an issue that broke the link between Fields and their associated dynamic block parameters.
  SR137657
  Fixed an issue that caused certain linked fields to alternate between normal and error state after each field update.
• File Menu Improvments The Export and Import tabs of the file menu have been improved.
  SR144099SR145830
  
• Filters We solved an issue that caused search results to be shown incorrectly when searching properties for the filters in Graphic Override and Typed Plans.
  
• Find and Replace dialog box Fixed Zoom operations for strings within a Table object.
  SR121473
  
• FITPLANAR The feedback regarding distribution of the points against the found plane was different for model space and bubble view.Now both are the same and the more technical information (2 sigma) has been removed in order to reduce complexity towards user
• FITPOLYLINE The FITPOLYLINE command now correctly creates polylines w.r.t. the input data when the User Coordinate System is not equal to the World Coordinate System.
  SR141268
  
• Fonts Corrected the width of space character in geniso.shx font.
  SR137123
• General Filter Fixed filtering on BIM properties Story and Building.
  Fixed filtering on Layer property.
  SR134427 SR136114 SR136147 SR139321
  
• GEOGRAPHICLOCATION The center of CRS geographic bounds is set to the geographic position, if a CRS is selected for a drawing without changing the geographic position.
  SR138656
  
• GRADIENT We fixed the incorrect rendering of a non-centered "Curved" and "Inverted Curved" gradient patterns.
  SR134984
• Graphic Override Fixed bug in updating and reacting to filter.
  Several rendering errors that occurred during Graphic Override in certain situations have been fixed.
  SR136114
• Grip Edit The Exit option now works as expected when called from the context menu.
  SR141842
  
• GRIPS Performance improvement for the cases when a gripped entity contains a big number of grip points.
  SR128039
• GUIDEDINSERT Fixed: Inserting blocks on reference curves in other than Z=0 plane no longer leads to a crash.
  SR144687
  
• HATCH Fixed regression: hatch with none-zero elevation displayed incorrectly.
  SR143581
  "Select entities" mode no longer creates additional edges to not closed loop(s).
  SR136307
  Fixed the display of the background of a non-solid hatch.
• HATCHGENERATEBOUNDARY Fixed to create closed polylines for hatch's loops composed of lines and circular arcs.
  SR91901SR91778SR121905SR122031SR122696SR128958
• Highlighting Fixed regression: incorrect highlighting during entity selection when PICKAUTO = 0, 1, 4, or 5.
  SR143610
  
• Hotkey Assistant Fixed an XRC error that occurred when using the LCONNECT command with Hotkey Assistant enabled.
  SR144597
  
• IFC ExportThe spatial location of grids are now correctly exported to IFC.
  We resolved an issue where beams and columns sometimes got assigned to two different IfcBeamTypes/IfcColumnTypes during IFC Export.
  SR122253
  When a Property Set has a label, this label will be used during IFC Export instead of the ID.
• IFC Import We improved IFC Import performance for certain types of .ifc files. This will reduce the import time for .ifc files created with Tekla and other tools.
  SR142764
  We've made IFC Import more tolerant of certain invalid IFC files; e.g., we've added a read recovery mechanism in case invalid data are encountered.
  SR142697
  
• IFC Import and Export We fixed an issue where a window opening in a wall, made up of multiple solids, would get lost during an IFC export / import round-trip.
  SR143197
  
• IMPORT Fixed incorrect component names in Mechanical Browser after import.
  SR137309
  When importing a product structure, component names now are always kept as in the original, even if they have symbols not allowed in block names.
  SR141769
  
• Improved BIM Workspace The BIM classic workspace ribbon has been improved. There are now more commands available with an improved layout.
  
• INSERT Existing block references are now updated correctly after a dynamic block is redefined during INSERT.
  SR142811
  Insertion points designated via the INSERT dialog now respect the current UCS.
  SR143761
  We fixed a situation that prevented blocks with attributes to be created or inserted.
  SR143603SR143761SR143775SR143912
  
• Installation Some customers reported that Windows Event Viewer showed an error during COM registration while installing the software. The source of the error has been found and fixed.
  SR138911SR142168
• K-Factor The update of k-factor values didn't change the lengths of unfolded parts. The bug was resolved: the unnecessary caching was removed. The change of k-factor value does influence now the resulting unfolded bodies.
  SR139322
• Label styles Creating label style through Civil explorer no longer freezes BricsCAD.
  SR144528SR144519
  
• LandXML Import It is possible now to remove points from TIN Surface imported from LandXML.
  SR117588
• LAYER The default lineweight option is now working properly on all languages.
  SR142927
  
• Layer Filters Performance for clearing excessive layer filters has been dramatically improved when opening a drawing file.
  SR137959
• Layers Panel The legacy layers panel no longer becomes inoperable after turning off layer filters in the settings.
  SR143991
  Selecting all Layers using CTRL+A no longer selects the entities in the drawing as well. #toomuch
  SR138682SR141196SR144549
  
• LAYERSTATE Avoided layerstate name corruption while copy/paste layerstate entry in drawing explorer.
  SR136472
• Layout import/export Fixed: non-cloneable proxy objects are skipped on layout import/export.
  SR113622SR136942
• LENGTHEN Fixed the Increment, Percent and Total options for polylines with clockwise arc segments to not change radii and centers of such segments.
  SR90922SR102645SR126444SR140724
• License Manager The License Manager title bar sports a new, visible text font.
  SR142150 SR143546
  
• LINETYPE GENERATION PERFORMANCE Fixed poor performance of linetype generation on curves having huge number of dashes.
  SR134199
• LINETYPES Fixed bug: splines with client's custom linetype are displayed with inverted dashes.
  SR137589
• Localization We fixed multiple localization issues, including fixing typos and the removal of unused strings.
  SR143787
  
• MANIPULATE Fixed a potential crash scenario that could occur when manipulating a third-party custom component.
  SR140541SR139846SR139723
  
• MANIPULATOR The Manipulator now displays as expected when the MANIPULATOR setting is "1" or "2".
  SR144628
  MIRROR delivered inaccurate results when SNAPTYPE was set to 2.
  SR142951
  The values in the Manipulator's ruler and dynamic dimensions are now always kept in sync.
  
• Manual BimTag Angle constrains of mleader now updates with mleader style change.
  SR135424
  
• MATCHPROP MATCHPROP now keeps the target Mleader's attribute value.
  SR139189
  Fixed applying mleader 'text frame' property to a target entity.
  SR142464
• Mechanical Browser Now, mechanical browser can correctly change sectionability of standard parts from the context menu. Previously, it could fail to do so with legacy components.
  SR134590
  The fields in the Component section are no longer greyed out.
  SR143631
  
• Mechanical Custom Properties In certain situations, BricsCAD tried to process mechanical custom properties even if it was not necessary, which could cause significant drop in performance. It has been ensured that mechanical custom properties will be processed only when it is necessary.
  SR137907
• MISSING DATABASE When a drawing is opened with a missing database, a balloon message is shown alerting the user.
  
• MLEADER MLeaders containing block content with attributes are now updating properly when edited.
  SR144185
  Multiline block attributes of an MLeader are now editable in the properties panel.
  We fixed a crash regression that occurred when opening a drawing with MLeaders with dim breaks.
  SR144075
  Annotative MLeaders are now created with the corresponding Right Attachment.
  SR105046SR101948SR132987SR137449SR139475
  It is now possible to snap to a MultiLeader landing without mText.
  SR125553
  The landing distance has now the same length as the text content.
  SR136501
  We improved the MLeader’s behavior to keep its properties after it was edited.
  SR125602SR127506SR141321
• Modeling Performance The performance of boolean operations between swept entities has been improved.
  SR140777
  We've addressed a performance slow-down with UNION and SUBTRACT operations.
  SR133080
  
• MOVE Fixed MOVE command regression because of which block references with non-uniform transformations couldn't be moved.
  SR141392
  
• MTEXT The Backspace key now works the same no matter the state of the Shift key.
  SR138812
• NAVIGATE settings dialog Text is no longer truncated in the Italian version.
  SR135551
• Nearest Distance The Nearest Distance feature now considers viewport geometry in the calculation when the special kDrawableViewIndependentViewportDraw drawable attribute flag is returned from the custom entity's setAttributes() override. Previously only world geometry was considered.
  SR133584
  Fixed a problem that could occur when multiple selected Multi-lines were modified via the Properties Panel. This could, in specific cases, result in a later crash, depending on the parameterization of said Multi-lines.
  SR137392
• NUDGE This command no longer moves entities from a locked layer.
  SR138723
• OLEFRAME Certain corrupt OLE frame entities are now partially rendered when possible.
  SR143568
  
• OLE Objects We now set the initial size in pixels for OLE objects pasted with PASTECLIP command- The MSOLESCALE system variable is no longer used for OLE object paste when using the PASTECLIP command
  SR143287
  
• OPEN Fixed: Some drawings with proxy objects in dependencies would not open.
  SR139741SR142251SR136629SR139782
  In earlier versions, opening drawing files from Windows Explorer could in some cases bypass essential notifications and checks. This has been corrected, so that drawing files opened by command line parameters are treated in the same way as drawings opened by the OPEN command.
  SR143052
• OVERKILL A problem is solved in the OVERKILL command; parametric or dynamic blocks with non-default parameter values now correctly survive the OVERKILL command.
  We fixed a bug in the OVERKILL command with the 'Combine duplicate blocks' option. This issue manifested as groups of block definitions not being combined when you selected a block definition name that was different from the default.
  Fixed an issue where non-collinear lines that are not in the XY plane are sometimes joined.
  SR136015
• Parameters Manager Parameters Manager correctly shows parameter units and also allows making parameter unitless.
  
• PARAMETRICBLOCKIFY We fixed a bug where using PARAMETRICBLOCKIFY with certain library components, in a drawing using meters as insertion unit, will not find any matches.
• PARAMETRIC BLOCKS Inserting a parametric block with an arc as a reference curve no longer causes BricsCAD to crash.
  
• PARAMETRICSTRETCH A crash is now resolved, when editing the text height of an attribute in a block containing a stretch parameter.
  SR143507
  
• Parametrized Elbow Models Fixed known problems (e.g. spoiled geometry) in some concrete models.
  SR119193
  
• PASTE Fixed bug: paste creates OLE object in Paperspace when used in an activated paperspace viewport instead of creating it in Modelspace.
  SR103997
• PASTECLIP Fixed the paste position when DUCS is ON.
  SR140211SR141122SR141570
• PDF Export The computation of image size of gradient hatches was slightly adjusted to avoid degenerated images and to keep the image aspect ratio.
  SR137280
• PDF Print/Export Fixed: hyperlinks of the texts that outside the printed area should not be printed to PDF
  SR101884
  Fixed: avoid lineweighted line ends when plotting with a plotstyle and 'Plot entity lineweights' option is OFF
  SR136849
• PdfUnderlay Copy-Paste Fixed: Copy-Paste of PDFUnderlay entity within the same drawing.
  SR127594
• PLINE We corrected a V22 regression that caused negative dynamic dimension values to be interpreted as undirected distance values.
  SR138790
  
• Plot Stamp When using "Plot as PDF.pc3" as your plot configuration, the plot stamp header and footer no longer overlap.
  SR144518
  
• Plotstyles Entity color is now white for a dark background when the plot style index color 7 is set to black.
  SR123729SR123861SR135349SR139644
  
• Point Cloud Fixed exception thrown during unloading of pointcloud module.
  SR144491
  Fixed issue with loading/unloading of pointclouds.
  SR116952SR117679SR119767SR126637
  Fixed incorrect region calculations that occurred when a point cloud's insertion point was different than the origin.
  Fixed point cloud file naming and associated functionalities.
  Fixed issues with color scheme assignments.
  SR143500
  The point cloud preview bounding box now properly scales/rotates, according to parameters from the point cloud insertion dialog box.
  Cache: Point cloud cache now properly updated when deleting a point cloud from cache folder. Removing and re-adding the same point cloud from the cache while keeping the import reference window open failed due to the cache not being updated after removing it.
  FITPLANAR: Fixed an accuracy issue that prevented fitted planes from being positioned correctly in model space.
  SR143744
  POINTCLOUDATTACH: Correct point cloud name field in insertion dialog.
  POINTCLOUDFITPLANAR: When selecting points for adjusting the borders, we are now projecting the selected points on the output plane along the picking frustum. The option to remove the last clicked point has been added as well.
  POINTCLOUDCROP: Fixed issue with using POINTCLOUDCROP buttons from the ribbon, in case of multiple point clouds attached
  SR119342
• Point Groups The point group name in Civil Explorer is updated after renaming the point group.
  SR144104
  
• Printing Improved the print quality of drawings using large coordinates and 3D visual styles.
  SR142829
  
• Properties Panel Fixed an issue where selecting a value in an enum property would result in the wrong value being stored.
  It is now possible to modify the supported annotation scales of a selected block attribute even when its owning block reference is not annotative.
  SR140478
• PUBLISH Publishing a specific drawing with xrefs no longer crashes the program.
  SR131061
• QR Code Support for TEXT/MTEXT Fixed: QR Code support for text with annotative style
  SR142696
  
• Qt Tool Palettes Panel Now the palette and tool context menu items get translated for localised versions of BricsCAD
  SR137503SR137876
• REFEDIT Fixed a crash on specific drawing with xref when MTFLAGS is 1 (Parallellized regeneration of display).
  SR131712SR135252
• REGION ENTITY Creation of regions from closed 3d polylines was corrected, to make region's normal correspondent with orientation of vertices of 3d polyline. Clockwise 3d polyline placed on XY plane should produce region with normal (0,0,-1). Counterclockwise polyline produces region with normal (0,0,1). This behavior corresponds to behavior of AutoCAD.
  SR132025
• Rendering of AEC Entities We reduced the regeneration time of AEC entities, subsequently reducing the delay after real-time viewing operations.
  SR142924
  
• RFA Import Fixed misplaced geometries.
  SR103966
  Fixed missing geometry.
  SR141050
  
• RVT Import The performance of RVT import has been improved, reducing the import time.
  The import of walls has been improved.
  SR115123SR115415
  We fixed an issue that caused some imported windows to not generate a corresponding wall opening.
  We fixed an issue where some entities were not imported.
  SR130316 SR131920
  
• SAVEAS Fixed a problem with SaveAs command using R13...R2004 DWG format, after viewports in "Model" layout were unified / merged.
  SR134144
  
• SECTION Fixed an issue that occurred when sectioning a 3D solid with a plane.
  SR131405
  
• Selectable Dimensions Selectable dimensions no longer ignore internal walls when determining the dimension endpoints.
  SR86078 SR85182 SR143096
  
• SELECTION Fixed bug: when SELECTIONMODES=0, face selection was not promoted to full entity selection.
  
• SETBYLAYER - Settings are respected in the command - SETBYLAYERMODE variable is saved
  SR129906SR140765SR142310
  
• Sheet set panel Fixed: Changes made in sheetsets were ignored on background publish and e-Transmit.
  SR133702 SR128977 SR139293 SR144152
  
• Sheet Templates (for section generation) Missing custom sheet-sets and sheet properties were restored.
  SR144852
  
• SHX Fonts Corrected the spacing for "non-breaking space" characters in a number of .SHX fonts.
  SR82487 SR145450
  Fixed SHX draw scaling issue of SHX bigfont.
  SR129710
• SIGNATURE Display of signature validation dialog was avoided when drawing is opened during command PUBLISH.
  SR128977
• SLICE Fixed wrong result of slicing of given surface by plane.
  SR116616
• SMREPAIR The fix for SMREPAIR allows working with form features adjacent to the borders of their carrier flanges.
  SR137469
• SMUNFOLD The validation of lofted bends was improved.
• Snapping Geometric center snapping points can be used for associative dimensioning.
  SR145106
  
• Status Bar We fixed an error during color theme change while the status bar had the Viewport Lock pane enabled but not visible.
  
• STORYBAR Geometry edits when dragging a story disk has been dropped. Related STORYBARDRAGMODE command has been removed.
  SR129964SR138868
  The Story Bar is no longer visible in rendered images.
  Fixed a bug where storybar sliders could not be adjusted when there are no entities assigned in the current building.
  
• STRETCH Fixed a case where BricsCAD could hang when the STRETCH command is applied to a Hatch based on a large XREF, via dissociation of the hatch from its boundary entities.
  SR141557
  
• STRUCTURE BROWSER When a BIM property is deleted, it is no longer used in the structure browser.
  
• Surface Properties The Properties panel now includes the U and V Isolines properties for surface entities.
  
• Sweeping Sweeping of OdDbSolid is supported in the SWEEP, REVOLVE and EXTRUDE commands.
  We fixed a swept profile misalignment that could occur when sweeping along another closed profile.
  SR130680
  
• TABLE Error cells now evaluate as blank or zero values when used in another cell's formula.
  Fixed a crash when TABLE is edited by grips.
  SR143621
  
• Table Cell Format Dialog Cells with multiple content (e.g. text + block) are now supported.
• Table Editor Formula cells containing field formatting no longer require an extra step to open the field dialog for editing the formula field expression.
  SR140138SR140973
  Copying and pasting table cells with nested fields no longer displays an error message.
  SR144831
  
• Table Export Exporting a table to XMLSS format no longer fails (both for TABLEEXPORT and COPYCLIP) in case a cell had no text style assigned.
  SR136549
• Table Fields Copy-paste cells with fields resulted to non-evaluated fields.
  SR143231
  
• Tables Table cell values lose their precision when loaded from dwg2004 or earlier versions.
  SR128322 SR128862 SR132925 SR135562 SR145105
  
• TEXT Annotation scale is no longer applied twice when creating an annotative single line text entity.
  SR144119
  Inserted fields are now preserved when ending the TEXT command by clicking on the drawing area.
  SR137104
• Text Style Font The text style font is now correctly saved when it is changed in drawings created in mechanical2d templates.
  SR114159 SR144179
  
• Theming Toggling between dark and light themes via a right-click on a menu bar no longer causes BricsCAD to misbehave.
  SR143354
  
• TINEDIT The command prompt for the Delete Line option has been modified.
  SR137789
  
• TINMERGE Fixed: In some cases, TINMERGE created improper TIN surfaces.
  SR135812
  
• TINSERT The rotation angle now depends on AUNITS system variable in the dialog "Insert Block in Cell".
  SR134493
• TIN Surfaces Fix: Now it is possible to merge Surfaces in specific drawing.
  SR130638
  Color banding for slope analysis is now working correctly.
  SR143038
  
• TINVOLUME Fixed: BricsCAD freezes when using the TINVOLUME command.
  SR137046
  
• ToolbarsHidden toolbars no longer forget their previous dock position after a restart.
  SR140882
• TOOLPALETTES Importing a tool palette now correctly loads its tool icons.
  SR142245
  Manage flyouts context menu button is now also available when multiple tools are selected.
  New ToolPalettes panel: doing a separator/text add action now adds it near the clicked position.
  When switching between multiple groups, the current palette is now remembered in the same session and between sessions.
  Command prompts for the HATCH command are no longer echoed at the command line when using a hatch tool.
• Top View Modeling Fixed a bug where slabs created on a named UCS are not shown as transparent in top view modeling mode.
  
• Typed Plans The escape button is now correctly caught in all components of the new Typed Plans editor.
  Fixed localization issues.
  SR137026
  Support multi-word search for properties in the filters.
  SR122517
  
• UI Fixed an issue where closing a panel using the Command line always closes any panel that is active in that panel's toolbar, even if it's a different panel.
• UNION A particular failure in the UNION command was fixed.
  SR101878
  Avoided erasing of non-coplanar regions by UNION command.
  SR139389
• VERSIONCONTROL Corrected the shortcut keys for the command options.
  SR144837
  
• Version Control Panel We fixed an issue where the Version Control panel would sometimes show the wrong project.
  
• VIEWPORTS Copying clipped viewports between layouts reworked to respect the insertion point.
  SR117949
• Workspaces The panels have been re-arranged, displaying browser panels on the left-hand side of the graphics screen area.
  SR143482
  
• XML Spreadsheet Text in table cells no longer becomes underlined / struck-through after the table is copied and pasted as an XML spreadsheet.
  SR76214
  Importing (paste special or create a table) XML Spreadsheet table data with merged cells no longer causes a crash.
  SR129225
• Zoom Fixed a bug that could cause display artifacts to appear while zooming on rotated Blocks.
  SR121290SR136979SR140594SR142862
  

Applications

• .NET Compatibility of multiple filter lists in PromptOpenFileOptions.Filter has been improved.
  SR142705
  The Editor.PointFilter event handler is no longer throwing an InvalidInput exception.
  SR143209
  The GeoCoordinateTransformer class has been implemented.
  SR76050SR143700
  The application .config file now sets more secure default values for internet connection protocol settings used by .NET plugin code.
  SR142582
  The ComponentDefinition.Material property for MechanicalComponents has been implemented.
  SR116683SR113425
  We added a setter method for ComponentInstance.Name.
  SR141566
  We introduced a new AdvancedSupportFlags enumeration for use by client code to extend or limit support for multi-threaded display system operations in overruled or derived Drawable instances.
  A new method signature Hatch.AppendLoop(HatchLoopTypes, Curve2dCollection, IntegerCollection) has been implemented.
  SR44167SR140321
  DynamicLinker.LoadApp() now demand loads applications using the OnCommandInvocation load reason instead of OnProxyDetection.
  SR133671
  Fixed several problems with the MgdDbConstraints module that caused crashes and unexpected typecasting failures in certain cases.
  SR142378
  For improved compatibility, BlockTableRecord.GetBlockReferenceIds() no longer requires the block to be open ForWrite.
  SR137441SR141283
  Text alignment points are now recalculated correctly when text or attribute entities are changed in a nested transaction.
  SR141170
  The Document events LayoutSwitching and LayoutSwitched are now implemented.
  SR131129
  The GraphicsInterface.GenericTexture class has been implemented.
  SR136523
  The Hatch.PatternScale property now works without error on a solid fill hatch pattern.
  SR138072
  The PaletteSet.SizeChanged event has been implemented.
  SR136359
  The function Internal.Utils.GetAcadResourceIcon() is now implemented to access internal tool icons by name.
  SR116148SR137871SR139898SR139642
  The performance of ResultBuffer.Add() on huge result buffer lists has been dramatically improved.
  SR140621
  The signature of PlotProgressDialog.PlotMsgString is now compatible with other platforms.
  SR131128
  We fixed a crash caused by cleaning up a CompositeCurve3d object.
  SR131827
  We implemented Bim.Blockify to expose blockify functionality.
  Fixed Polyline.Extend(double) to extend a polyline's last segment when the new parameter is greater than 0.0.
  SR136099
  We're now including pre-release preview versions of three new assemblies exposing some AEC specific classes in the Teigha.Aec namespace: TA_Mgd.dll, TA_MgdArch.dll, and TA_MgdStructure.dll. These assemblies are not yet officially supported, and there is no documentation outside the assemblies themselves.
  
• BLADE Fixed a problem with the 'Find' function: text starting with a '#' character is now correctly found inside project files.
  SR142842
  Fixed a problem with 'Find' dialog using 'Find in Project Files' option: Lisp files being loaded under Debug context were marked as 'modified' in DebugFiles panel, if those files were not opened in Editor.
  Fixed an unintended switch to the "Output" tab when executing a Lisp expression via LispConsole.
  SR142202
  Fixed some issues with 'Beautify/Reformat' (comments caused improper alignment) and 'Edit-while-Debug' (BreakPoints not reached after Lisp file reload).
  The 'SystemVariables' dialog now provides translatable descriptions.
  SR145114
  
• BRX/.NET We introduced two new service classes that make it possible to perform concurrent solid modeling operations in multiple threads. The new classes are AcDbModelerThreadLock for native BRX and DirectModeling.ModelerThreadLock for managed .NET. These are intended to be instantiated from a worker thread before using solid modeling APIs, then destroyed before the thread ends.
  SR144078
  The points returned from acedSSNameX() or Editor.GetSelection() after a window selection are now in the correct order and projected onto the view plane.
  SR142941
  Autocomplete is now (properly) disabled while selecting objects in a non-command context, e.g. a modeless dialog button event.
  SR142441
  Publishing by API now respects all supported configuration data in the DSD file, even hidden parameters which are not exposed in the API.
  SR142405
  Several asynchronous command API functions have been implemented. For BRX (C++), the new or updated functions are: acedCommandC(), acedCmdC(), acedCallBackOnCancel(), acedCmdCWasCancelled(), and acedPendingCmdCTokens(). For .NET, Editor.CommandAsync() is now implemented.
  We fixed a problem with reloading and unloading of a partial menu by API at shutdown if it included pop menus on the menu bar.
  SR142543
  We implemented BrxBimLinearGeometry::getStartPoint() and BrxBimLinearGeometry::getEndPoint() functions for BRX and .NET.
  
• BRX We removed the outdated AcString operator const char*(). This enables implicit indexing on an AcString instance without generating a compiler error.
  SR134323 SR134680
  Fixed some AcDbDataLink problems. The repathSourceFiles() method has been corrected. The connectionString(), dataAdapterId() and description() methods now properly return updated values. the getUpdateStatus() method now accepts null parameters.
  SR141500
  AcDbSymbolTablePointer constructors default argument is set to AcDb::OpenMode = AcDb::kForRead.
  SR134321
  AcDbTextStyleTableRecord::bigFontFileName(ACHAR*&) now returns an empty string instead of null. We also added the AcDbTextStyleTableRecord::bigFontFileName(AcString&) function.
  SR142949
  AcGiGeometry::draw() no longer causes a crash when generating silhouettes for an NDBR AcDb3dSolid entity which never had setDatabaseDefaults() called against it.
  SR142585
  Completed proper routing of BRX-specific regenSupportFlags() and subRegenSupportFlags() functions for custom objects and overrules. This helps improves stability when multi-threading operations are enabled (see MTFLAGS).
  SR133756
  In V22 we introduced a more robust IFC import/export reactor API architecture, and the new classes were made available alongside the older deprecated classes by giving the new class names a version 2 suffix. In V23 we have now removed the deprecated classes and dropped the version suffix from the new classes.
  Two new callbacks have been implemented to customize the entity's properties before adding them to a database (on import) or writing to an .ifc file (on export).
  It is now possible to create a CAdUiTab dialog window whose parent is not a CAdUiTabMainDialog.
  SR141779
  We implemented missing AcDbVisualStyle::trait(), AcDbVisualStyle::setTraitFlag(), AcDbVisualStyle::traitFlag() and AcDbVisualStyle::setTrait() functions.
  SR133641
  A crash has been fixed after an unusual scenario involving undo after handOverTo() to replace a dynamic block reference.
  SR141491
  AcDbSymbolTablePointer constructors default argument is set to AcDb::OpenMode = AcDb::kForRead.
  SR134321
  Added compatible AcImportXml.h header for importing MSXML type library.
  SR140608
  Custom derived dimension classes now display the custom class DXF name in the Properties panel.
  SR142297
  Extended the BimApi::EIfcImportModelOrigin enum for a new location value, to improve IFC file import.
  Fixed bahavior of AcDbSection after changing its state to AcDbSection::kVolume.
  SR123308
  Grips are now refreshed after a custom grip right click handler modifies the entity.
  SR139575
  OPM (Properties Panel) API now allows specifying native properties to be disabled in each selection + display cycle. This allows for a more dynamic behavior.
  SR139913
  Several blockify API function signatures have changed: the 'createArrays' argument has been removed from matchEntitiesToBlockDefinitions() and replaceGeometryByBlocks(). Array creation is no longer supported through this API.
  The AcDbAssocPersSubentIdPE::getAllSubentities() protocol extension is now implemented for AcDb3dSolid.
  SR103931
  The AcDbTable::isContentEditable(int,int) and AcDbTable::getMergeRange(int,int) functions have been implemented.
  SR136852
  The BRX Blockify API has been changed to use Acad::ErrorStatus signature to avoid ambiguous behaviour.
  The active ribbon tab is no longer reset during BRX subsystem initialization.
  SR138593
  The addNewlyCreatedDBRObject() function now works also to remove objects from a transaction if the second argument is 'true'. This represents a difference in behavior as compared to other platforms, which ignore the second argument.
  The compatibility of AcApDocument::formatForSave() behavior has been improved with respect to .dwt files.
  SR126807
  Two AcDbCivilTinSurface::crop() functions have been added to apply cropping on a TinSurface.
  Improper selection mode "_" in acedSSGet() now behaves in a compatible way. It is treated like NULL selection mode.
  SR137403
  We've fixed an undo state bug that occurred when lockDocument() was called with database undo recording disabled.
  SR142639
  When exploding an empty block table record with AcDbBlockReference::explode(), BRX now returns eOk instead of eCannotExplodeEntity.
  SR139360
  BRX API for Bill of Materials has been supported. It is represented by BrxBillOfMaterials which allows to retrieve the basic information about the particular BOM, supports managing associated tables. BrxBomContent class provides content of all cells in the BOM. It can be formatted (flat table structure with formatted values like in BOM Manager) and internal (represented by nesting row structure with internal raw values). BrxBomColumn provides an interface for getting basic information about BOM columns.
  SR136330SR115023
  We added the snap type kOsnapCentroid to the AcDbPointRef::OsnapType enumeration.
  Added BRX specific functions to query and edit 'Use Lids' and 'Clip Display' properties for Section entities (see BrxSpecific/AcSectionReactor.h):bool acdbIsClipDisplayOn(const AcDbObjectId& idEnt);bool acdbSetClipDisplayOn(const AcDbObjectId& idEnt, bool setOn);bool acdbIsClipDisplayInPsVportOn(const AcDbObjectId& idEnt, const AcDbObjectId& vpId);bool acdbSetClipDisplayInPsVport(const AcDbObjectId& idEnt, const AcDbObjectId& vpId, bool setOn);bool acdbUseClipDisplayLids(const AcDbObjectId& idEnt);bool acdbSetUseClipDisplayLids(const AcDbObjectId& idEnt, bool setOn);
  SR146106 LISPImproved (entmod) to properly support BricsCAD specific 'Use Lids' and 'Clip Display' for Section entities.
  SR146106
  The newly added BIM IFC Types are available in BRX SDK. These types are available through overloaded and new functions using the names of the BIM Types:
  BRX: classifyAs, isClassifiedAs, getClassification, getAllClassifiedAs, getAllUsedClassifications, getBimTypeNamesBRX/.NET: GetClassificationName, ClassifyAs, IsClassifiedAs, GetAllClassifiedAs, GetAllUsedClassificationNames, GetAllClassificationNames
  
  
• BRX API Created BRX sample application which uses BRX components API and BOM API.
  
• COM Custom IDynamicEnumProperty properties with property type VT_USERDEFINED are now correctly displayed and handled in the properties panel as an enum property.
  SR141774
  Improved handling of runtime added menu item interfaces to prevent memory leaks in case returned interfaces are never used.
  Fixed implementation of IAcadDimension.ArrowheadType1 and IAcadDimension.ArrowheadType2 to allow "Closed Filled" arrow head (Enum ID 0).
  SR137816
• Components/Parametrics API V23 brings an effort to modernize, simplify, and expand our mechanical components and advanced 3D parametrics API. As part of this effort, a few existing functions, classes, and namespaces have been renamed. This represents a binary breaking change for .NET plugins which already call these renamed API functions in V22 and prior versions. For BRX plugins we provided macros that enable the old names of several global functions to be mapped to their new names. Following is an overview of the changes:
  

  BRX
  acdbGetConstraintsGroup (was acdb3DCGetConstraintsGroup)
  acdbGetAllConstraintsGroups (was acdb3DCGetAllConstraintsGroups)
  acdbGetBlockParametersNames (was acdb3DCGetComponentParametersNames)
  acdbSetBlockParameterExpression (was acdb3DCSetComponentParameterExpression)
  acdbGetBlockParameterExpression (was acdb3DCGetComponentParameterExpression)
  acdbGetBlockParameterValue (was acdb3DCGetComponentParameterValue)
  acdbGetEntityGuiName (was acdb3DCGetEntityGuiName)
  acdbSetEntityGuiName (was acdb3DCSetEntityGuiName)
  acdbBlockParameterHasStringValue (was acdb3DCComponentParameterHasStringValue)
  acdbGetBlockParameterStringValue (was acdb3DCGetComponentParameterStringValue)
  acdbEffectiveBlockRefName (new)
  AcVariable (members now declared pure virtual)
  AcConstraint, AcConstraintsGroup (new members to support arguments)
  AcConstraintArgument (new)
  .NET
  Bricscad.Parametric namespace (was Bricscad.Constraints3d)
  Bricscad.Parametric.Utility (was Bricscad.Constraints3d.Assoc3dNetwork)
  Bricscad.Parametric.ConstraintsGroup3d (was Bricscad.Constraints3d.Assoc3dConstraintGroup)
  Bricscad.Parametric.Parameter (was Bricscad.Constraints3d.Assoc3dVariable)
  Bricscad.Parametric.ParameterArray (was Bricscad.Constraints3d.Assoc3dVariableArray)
  Bricscad.Parametric.BlockParameter (was Bricscad.Constraints3d.ComponentParameter)
  Utility.GetConstraintsGroup3d (was Assoc3dNetwork.Get3dConstraintsGroup)
  Utility.GetBlockParameter (was Assoc3dNetwork.Get3dComponentParameter)
  Utility.GetBlockParameterNames (was Assoc3dNetwork.Get3dComponentParametersNames )
  Utility.GetAllConstraintsGroups3d (was Assoc3dNetwork.GetAll3dConstraintsGroups)
  Utility.EffectiveBlockRefName (new)
  Utility.EffectiveBlockTableRecord (new)

  SR85016SR130529SR134995SR139758
  Added new methods to get/set custom properties and their categories (property sets). An extended API for custom properties has also been added. It is represented by the BrxMechanicalPropertySet and BrxMechanicalPropertyDefinition classes, and provides an interface for managing the property structure.
  Added new methods to set many built-in component properties and to get the material name, standard part properties, and more.
  SR136330
  Added unmech operation for component definition.
  The method for creating components has been extended for new components, now it is possible to create components for blocks (not only model space) and solids.
  
• LISP Fixed a problem with (dos_copy) when the specified source file (not source folder) did not exist: function incorrectly returned T (success), and created an un-needed folder in the target destination.
  SR144391
  Improved automatic detection and loading of Lisp code files using UTF-8 enconding (without BOM header), to properly support language specific characters inside Lisp code.
  Improved detection of ESCAPE key during intensive Lisp processing, to cancel the running Lisp code.
  Calling (done_dialog) multiple times from the top level DCL dialog (to close all DCL dialogs) could cause a hang-up; this has been fixed.
  SR142519
  Implemented new LISP interface functions for 3D Constraints and Components.
  Implemented new LISP interface functions for sub-entity selection: (vl-subent-atpoint point [subentTypes]) (vl-subent-select [msg] [subentTypes [osmode]]) (vl-subent-ssadd [fsplist [ss]]) (vl-subent-ssmemb [fsplist [ss]]) (vl-subent-ssdel [fsplist [ss]])
  The (getfiled) function now honors flag value 32 for an open file dialog request. Previously that flag was only honored for a save file dialog request.
  SR142670
  Added support for (getvar "LISPSYS") and (setvar "LISPSYS" 0/1/2) which allows to use UTF-8 (without BOM header) encoded Lisp files. It is strongly suggested to always save a UTF-8 file, including the BOM header (most editors allow this).
  SR140847
  Fixed a misbehavior of (vla-SetText) for table cells, not properly re-assigning plain text value for a cell value.
  SR141339
  Fixed implementation of ExpressTools API function (acet-block-make-anon) to provide compatible behaviour.
  SR141481
  Fixes a V22.2 regression: (vla-put-XScaleFactor) (vla-put-YScaleFactor) (vla-put-ZScaleFactor) did not properly scale the attributes of BlockReferences.
  SR141720
  Improved BLADE to operate properly under LISPINIT=0 condition.
  Improved stability, and made changes to better ensure correct behavior when BricsCAD's Lisp engine, running client Lisp code, is involved in multi-threaded operations (i.e., via the Lisp Reactor system).
  SR133756SR134572
  Fixed a performance problem that could occur in large Lisp files containing many "\\U+nnnn" Unicode character descriptions.
  SR146133
  Fixed a problem with the (command "_dtext" ...) sequence: the text entity vanished during the command execution; now the text remains visible, as intended.
  SR145341
  Fixed the (vla-get/put-textbackgroundfill) function for MLeader entities. The function now performs as expected, and no longer toggles the 'BackgroundColorOn' property.
  SR144053
  Improved compatibility for (vla-fieldcode) function: it now returns the text value of Text and MText, if no field is assigned.
  SR144626
  Improved compatibility for the (vl-exit-with-error) function: when issued from non-VLX (normal) user space, this function finishes Lisp processing without delivering its error status and without a displayed error message.
  SR145150
  A repeated lisp (C:XXX) command now repeats as the plain command name instead of incorrectly using the C:XXX form.
  SR144989
  Added new LISP BIM functions to query and edit BIM classifications based on their string names:(bim:get-bimtype-byname ent T/NIL),(bim:set-bimtype-byname ent bimType T/NIL),(bim:is-classified-byname ent bimType T/NIL),(bim:get-all-classified-byname bimType T/NIL),(bim:get-all-usedclassifications-byname T/NIL),(bim:get-all-classifications-byname T/NIL).
  Added new Lisp interface for Mechanical Component definitions & instances.
  SR95815
  Fixed a lockup problem when more than 2 (nested) DCL dialogs are opened, and Lisp code triggers an error from the outermost DCL handler function.
  SR144646
  Fixed a long-time standing issue, running Lisp based commands: under certain circumstances, dialog-based commands (i.e., QUIT) remain in commandline mode, while the command dialog should appear.
  SR144458
  Improved compatibility for VLAX-LDATA strings containing Unicode characters, when saved in dwg file.
  SR145333
  
• LISP/BRX Fixes the processing of a selection set provided by Lisp or BRX code: the original selection set is no longer modified by native commands. This ensures compatible behaviour and logic.
  SR140754
  Improved compatibility of (ssget ...) and acedSSGet() using invalid selection modes (i.e. combinations with colon mode ":L" should return an error).
  SR135956
  Improved compatibility of entmake() for AcDbAttributeDefinition to properly read DXF data sequences where AcDbEntity-level properties are (mis-)placed in section of derived levels.
  SR139617
  Fixed (entmod) / acdbEntMod() for annotative MLeader entities : context data for the default annotative context is now properly updated.
  SR144053