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List of advancements of Cenon CAM versions 3.8x. 2007-07-28
3.8.3 (2007-07-28 - in the works)
- Text, Fix: editing text now works in changing scales
- Inspector (Apple): Inspector now resizable
- Help (Apple): PDF-Documentation is available via the Help Menu
- Apple: Window background is transparent now (not white like document)
- CAM-Panel (Apple): Switches are now On/Off with Switchboxes,
Tool-Details: Adjust-Switch is now On/Off
- Apple: Saving Cenon documents as ASCII-Propertylist is active now (Preferences Switch) ...but does nothing.. maybe later? (ask Apple)
- Apple, Fix: Calculation of tracks for vertical centered Text places text at correct position
- Improvements of Punch, Join, Pickout, ...
3.8.3 pre 1 (Apple only):
- Apple, Fix: Calculation of tracks for vertical centered Text places text at correct position
- New: menu item "Display -> Show/Hide Coordinates" to toggle the presence of the coordinate box of document (more space)
- Inspector: Lock switch for crosshairs
- Gerber-Export: improvements with multiple layers
- DXF-Import: improvements with closed Polygons
- Contour calculation improved
- Apple, Fix: arcs with zero line width are printed with default line width
- Apple, Fix: Build Contour of vertical centered Text positions result correctly
- Apple, Fix: move graphic objects with cache, scaled (workaround)
- Apple, Fix: move vortex of graphic objects with cache, scaled (workaround)
- Apple, Fix: rotate graphic objects with cache, scaled (workaround)
- Cenon.ph: New Domain registered
3.82 (2007-01-02)
- Tangential Knife: before lowering the knife without XY-Vector, the knife will be turned in the direction of the next vector (Lines so far).
- Tool-Dimaters are supported up to one meter
- Fix, Layer-Details: for Step-Wise lowering, the number of steps is limited to 99
- New: Batch printing (Multiples) added, including serial numbers
- New: Contour-Panel:
switch, whether to replace the source graphics (or keep it)
Panel has now it's own Unit Popup
- New: convert TextPath to Path
- New, Editing: with Control + Mouse you can drag Curve points within a path
- TransformPanel: now with a nice bar of Icons to look better
- Undo: number of undos increased to 25 instead of 10
- DIN-Import: for Excellon, the tools can be defined within the file
- Fix, Curve-Inspector: display correct points for selected handles
- Fix, HPGL-Import: Labels fixed
- Fix, Join:
two paths or polylines are joined by keeping the order
Undo with two closed paths corrected
- Fix, Path: Undo works when moving several points in a path
- Fix, Arc: 360 degree snap works better now
- Fix, Snap: snapping to itself removed
- Fix, Select: Selecting a point no longer creates a move point undo step
- Fix, Punch: Undo added for groups
- Fix, Punch: Undo without crash
- Fix, Inspector: changing color on non-editable layer leaves color well with correct color
- Fix, Layer-Inspector: redraw Layer, if non-editable and visible layer is turned to editable
- Fix, Text: editing at the top of a window now scrolls the text to visibility
- Fix, DXF-Import: close of polylines corrected to work in all cases
- Apple, PDF-Import: works on Power PC with OS X >= 10.4.7
- GNUstep: Our patch for loading images from it's bundle has been applied
- More details
3.81 (2006-06-25)
- New, PCB: New raster algorithm for fast and error free calculation of printed circuit boards with line filling.
- Layer-Panel: don't allow a tool for special layers like Leveling or Clipping
- Leveling: new option #LEVT to keep the tool during leveling
"#LEVT 1" will keep the tool, a missing entry or 0 will deselect the tool before starting leveling.
- Leveling: If origin is lower/left, we don't add the height of the rectangle
- Output: more tolerant with multiple instruction commands
- Fix, CAM-Preferences: Setting of Device works at once
- Apple: instant display of output tracks
- Apple: Universal Binaries
- Pfad, Arc Editing: Snap to own points implemented
- Join Improvements and fixes
- Gerber-Import: special treatment of Eagle deviation from specifications
- Editing: The first click to an object will select the object but not the control point
- PS-Import: glyphshow operator added
- Fix, Batch production: change of limits repaired
- Fix, Punch: ignore text
- GNUstep: Flatten text works again with new GNUstep libraries
- GNUstep: Improved display with antialiasing
- GNUstep: some fixes
- many more improvements
3.80 (2005-11-28)
- Control-Panel: New button to get machine position from CNC controller. This allows setting of the starting position at the machine.
- Control-Panel: Revolution and Feed can be altered relatively during output
- CNC950: Canceling the output during long vectors is now much improved (no delay)
- Fix, CNC950: When Canceling the output a clean situation is restored
- Fix, CNC950 (#THR 0): wait for the machine before manual tool change
- Fix, CNC950: Levelling measures last row
- Fix, XYZ-Config: #SWn is restored to default when loading a configuration without
- GNUstep, CAM-Panel: Resizing of the panel now works
- Batch-Production: Moving of the master graphics to Null is an option now. The Master graphics moves to the cross hair origin now (not absolute Null).
- Batch-Production: The distance from object to object can now be set absolute as well as relative.
- Contour Fill: Filling without gaps for much less overlap
- Safety, Layer-Panel: Correction and Fill-Icons are only active for layer which are visible and editable.
- Fix, Magazine: Special parameters of thread cutters are saved
- Fix, Output: Output of rectangles accounts for the cutting direction
- Fix, Sinking: inverted cutting direction (clockwise). Direction arrow can be displayed for sinkings.
- Fix, Combi-Thread-Cutter: Cutting of holes inverted (clockwise)
- Fix, Combi-Thread-Cutter: vertical lowering (approach angle = 0) only with 10% of feed
- Layer-Details: Approach angle may be 0, which results in vertical lowering (like 90°)
- Fix, CAM-Panel (Apple, GNUstep): Coming back from Layer-Details and Tool-Details by click on the same Tab.
- New, Import: Import to existing layer by comparing layer names
- New, Import: Import to existing layer by comparing colors with objects on the layer
- Preferences: New entry "Select by border" to select filled objects at border only
- Copy/Paste: lock is not copied
- PolyLine: allows snap to own points
- Fix, DXF-Import: closing of a PolyLine with an arc added
- Fix, DXF-Import: fill color of stroked objects now defaults to stroke color
- Fix, Punch with Rectangle: rectangles with rounded corners are displayed correctly
- Fix, Rotate: more precise (excenter removed)
- Fix, Apple: Contour of mirrored text is now placed correctly
- Apple: Graphics cache is now available (Preferences switch is active)
- Apple: Preferences switch to turn off Antialiasing activated
- Fix, Radial Fill: fill center is saved correctly
- Fix, Radial Fill: center stays inside box, when object is rotated
- Fix, Group: grouping with activated color well doesn't change color
- Copy/Paste: PDF Pasteboard Type added for Apple
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