AllyCAD Home Edition Changelog

What's new in AllyCAD Home Edition 8.1

• The DX rendering engine that utilises the graphics card for much faster redraws has been enhanced for even faster redraws, improved 3D rendering and view manipulation. In addition, version 8.1 includes:
• KML Export enhancements for better Google Earth integration. The KML output now includes visible text.
• Draw entities in depth order as well as layer order.
• Enhanced anti-aliasing for visually smoother lines, arcs and text.
• Jogged radial dimensions have now been included as a new entity type.
• New Render View Control for intuitive navigation.
• Jogged Radials
• Render view controls Change the view direction with the Orientation Control.
• 'Reset' will reset the view to your initial Render View.
• The 'sun' will enable or disable the lighting.
• The 90 degree left and right will rotate the camera/eye 90 degrees around the target point.
• The '+' button zooms in and the '-' button zooms out
• The 'spirit level' levels the current view so that it is horizontal.
• It is now possible to convert paragraph text (MText) to Reactive Text (RText) and vice versa and you can edit an RText expression. RText can contain data fields (eg: $DATE) or expressions that are resolved when the text is drawn.
• bath visibility states
• Added support for Block Visibility States.
• Block definitions can have multiple 'visibility states' such that one block can contain many graphical representations.
• In this example (left), using a block called 'bath', all entities in the block are visible showing possible size and finish variations.
• Added support for Image Colour Mask Transparency. This allows you to choose a colour in the image. All pixels in the image with that colour will then become transparent.
• bath visibility states
• Auto Spaced Dimensions
• Auto spaced dimensions allow you to position the dimension lines consistently from dimension points. It is available when drawing Linear dimension (aligned, vertical and horizontal), Arc-length dimension (by arc or by 3 points) and 3-Point angular dimensions.