Technical Support Forum

		CADopia 6 Released CADopia 6, based on Open Design and IntelliCAD technology, is a major step forward in providng CADopia users access to advanced technology at low prices. CADopia 6 is the most significant upgrade to date featuring a combination of useful new features, performance enhancements, and overall functional improvements. The new features in this release include: EXPORT your drawing views as Adobe Acrobat PDF files New! Sweep and loft solids New! Export drawings to DWF and SVG files ENHANCED Raster Image support(Incl. ESRI SHP and Microstation DGN files) Enhanced print style tables New! Xref Manager Enhanced Entity Snaps Navigate model space and paper space More customization options Work in the command bar Choose single CADopia sessions Performance enhancements Enhanced FlexLM Network License Manager General functionality improvements CADopia 6 Professional Edition allows you to EXPORT your drawing views as Adobe Acrobat PDF files Invented by Adobe, Portable Document Format (PDF) is widely used by enterprises, educators, and governments around the world for secure, reliable electronic document distribution and exchange. Reduce your reliance on paper drawings with Adobe Acrobat. Preserve the look and integrity of your original documents Adobe PDF files look exactly like original documents and preserve the fonts, images, graphics, and layout of any source file - regardless of the application and platform used to create it. Share documents with anyone Adobe PDF documents can be shared, viewed, and printed by anyone, on any system, using free Adobe Reader® software - regardless of the operating system, original application, or fonts. New! Sweep and loft solids Typically lofted solids use multiple profiles and multiple guide curves. You can use the loft command to create very complex solids such as the body of an airplane or the surface of a yacht. CADopia 6 supports general sweeping along a general curve for creating complex solids that cannot easily be created using other techniques. For example, you can now create a true solid model of a helical spring in CADopia Professional Edition. New! Export drawings to DWF and SVG Files Many users prefer to collaborate and share their work using the Internet. They can share their drawings with their peers using either DWF or SVG format files. Now, you can export files in both SVG and DWF formats directly from CADopia 6 and your colleagues can open them using their Internet Browser, without the requirement to have a CAD software installed on the system. ENHANCED Raster Image Support Now you can View ESRI (SHP) files and Bentley Microstation (DGN) files as raster images inside CADopia 6. No need to have ESRI and Microstation installed on your computer. Click here for a complete list of other supported raster and vector formats. Enhanced print style tables The following printing features have greatly enhanced flexibility and control over the printing process: specify pen widths, linetypes, and lineweight regardless of color. store and share print style tables (.ctb and .stb files). New! Xref Manager Attaching and working with external references is now easier with the new Xref Manager. You can view a detailed list of the referenced drawing, or you can view a hierarchical display that shows how drawings are nested and related to one another. Quickly attach, detach, reload, bind, open, and change the path for all external references in the current drawing. The Xref Manager allows you to use the same external reference features as in previous versions of CADopia, but in a more efficient manner. Enhanced Entity Snaps The existing Intersection Snap has a new Extended option, which snaps to the logical location where two entities would intersect if they were of infinite length. The new Apparent Intersection Snap tool snaps to the intersection of two entities that are not in the same plane but seem to intersect in the current view. You can also use its Extended option, which snaps to the logical location where two entities would intersect if they were of infinite length. Navigate model space and paper space Use the enhanced Model/Paper Space control in the status bar to switch more efficiently between model space and paper space on either the Model tab or a Layout tab. You can also change the display of the Model and Layout tabs in the following ways: Show or hide the Model and Layout tabs. Reorder the position of the Layout tabs. More customization options Set the default save format. Specify search paths for print style tables. Use Up/Down arrows in the command history. Show or hide the Model and Layout tabs. Show or hide scroll bars. Create and manage drawing environment profiles. Specify headers and footers for all drawings. Assign default print style table settings for new drawings. Work in the command bar You can do the following in the command bar: Select text, and then right-click to copy, cut, and paste. Press Ctrl + K and Ctrl + L to move forward and backward in the command history. Use the Up and Down arrows to scroll the command history, if enabled by choosing Tools > Options. Choose single CADopia sessions Use the new Single Session command (type singleton) to choose whether CADopia can be started one time or multiple times simultaneously. Performance enhancements CADopia 6 includes major performance enhancements in the following areas: True Type Fonts (Pan, zoom) Polylines (Pedit ) Linetypes (Zoom extents, Pan, Regen) Hatch Patterns (Regen) General LISP Performance Blocks (Symbol table search, Regen) Viewports (Regen, Model space, Block display, Paper space) Enhanced FlexLM Network License Manager CADopia 6 uses the latest FlexLM Network License Manager, allowing you to optimize the use of CADopia licenses at your site by sharing licenses transparently between different users on a network (optional, floating network licenses available with all editions). General improvements Many other functionality improvements have been made in CADopia 6 based on the feedback we receive from our customers.