What's new in CAD Viewer 2022 (A.27)
Sep 3, 2022
- Support all AutoCAD DXF and DWG drawing formats up to AutoCAD 2022
- Optionally embed Markups directly into DXF and DWG drawings
- Enhanced Compression Wavelet (ECW) image format support
- Microstation DGN support (v7-v8i,Microstation Connect)
- User defined 'Time/Date'/'Checked' stamp
- Expanded Markup, Dimension options
New in CAD Viewer 2020 (A.15) (Apr 6, 2020)
- Support all AutoCAD DXF and DWG drawing formats up to AutoCAD 2020 New
- Optionally embed Markups directly into DXF and DWG drawings New
- Enhanced Compression Wavelet (ECW) image format support New
- Auto-rotate printed pages for best fit
- Microstation DGN support (v7-v8i) New
- User defined 'Time/Date'/'Checked' stamp New
- Most recently used documents list
- Set Styles for Dimensions, Markups, QA
- Expanded Markup, Dimension options New
New in CAD Viewer 2020 (A.04) (Feb 4, 2020)
- Import/Export Markups
- Overlay drawing printed in Black/White with Markups in color
- Add Markups to PDF documents and drawings (Markup, QA versions)
- Dimension tools (Markup, QA versions)
- Area and Distance Measurement tools (Markup,QA versions)
- Store Markup Edits / Additional Markup functions (Markup, QA versions)
- Save as PDF
- View ESRI shapefiles
- View HPGL, HP-GL/2 (.PLT) plot files
- Save to BMP, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG
New in CAD Viewer 2020 (A.03) (Jan 20, 2020)
- Support all AutoCAD DXF and DWG drawing formats up to AutoCAD 2020
- Optionally embed Markups directly into DXF and DWG drawings
- Enhanced Compression Wavelet (ECW) image format support
- Auto-rotate printed pages for best fit
- Microstation DGN support (v7-v8i)
- User defined 'Time/Date'/'Checked' stamp
- Most recently used documents list
- Set Styles for Dimensions, Markups, QA
- Expanded Markup, Dimension options
New in CAD Viewer 2019 (A.20) (May 7, 2019)
- Support all AutoCAD DXF and DWG drawing formats up to AutoCAD 2020
- Optionally embed Markups directly into DXF and DWG drawings
- Enhanced Compression Wavelet (ECW) image format support
- Microstation DGN support (v7-v8i)
- User defined 'Time/Date'/'Checked' stamp
- Expanded Markup, Dimension options
New in CAD Viewer 2019 (A.11) (Apr 2, 2019)
- Support all AutoCAD DXF and DWG drawing formats up to AutoCAD 2019
- Optionally embed Markups directly into DXF and DWG drawings
- Enhanced Compression Wavelet (ECW) image format support
- Microstation DGN support (v7-v8i)
- User defined 'Time/Date'/'Checked' stamp
- Expanded Markup, Dimension options
New in CAD Viewer 2018 (A.10) (Jul 26, 2018)
- Support all AutoCAD DXF and DWG drawing formats up to AutoCAD 2019
- Optionally embed Markups directly into DXF and DWG drawings
- Enhanced Compression Wavelet (ECW) image format support
- Microstation DGN support (v7-v8i)
- User defined 'Time/Date'/'Checked' stamp
- Expanded Markup, Dimension options
New in CAD Viewer 2017 A.01 (May 11, 2017)
- Support all AutoCAD DXF and DWG drawing formats up to AutoCAD 2017
- Optionally embed Markups directly into DXF and DWG drawings
- Enhanced Compression Wavelet (ECW) image format support
- Auto-rotate printed pages for best fit
- Microstation DGN support (v7-v8i)
- User defined 'Time/Date'/'Checked' stamp
- Most recently used documents list
- Set Styles for Dimensions, Markups, QA
- Expanded Markup, Dimension options
- Import/Export Markups
- Overlay drawing printed in Black/White with Markups in color
- Add Markups to PDF documents and drawings (Markup, QA versions)
- Dimension tools (Markup, QA versions)
- Area and Distance Measurement tools (Markup,QA versions)
- Store Markup Edits / Additional Markup functions (Markup, QA versions)
- Save as PDF
- View ESRI shapefiles
- View HPGL, HP-GL/2 (.PLT) plot files
- Save to BMP, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG
New in CAD Viewer 12 A.02 (May 19, 2014)
- Support all AutoCAD DXF and DWG drawing formats up to AutoCAD 2015 New
- Optionally embed Markups into DXF and DWG drawings New
- Auto-rotate printed pages for best fit New
- Most recently used documents list New
- Set Styles for Dimensions, Markups, QA New
- Expanded Markup, Dimension options New
- Import/Export Markups New
- ECW format support New
- Overlay drawing printed in Black/White with Markups in color New
New in CAD Viewer 10 A33 (Jun 17, 2013)
- Option may be set in DWGCONV.INI to give higher resolution for OLE insterted objects (e.g. spreadhseets)
- Setting is:
- Settings]
- BaseWidthOLEpixels=1600 (default = 1600 a very high resolution would be say 4800)
- Fix: Some linetypes not dislaying correctly
- Fix: QA - Capture Dimensions Tags not stored after user selects back / forward
- Fix: Repair/reinstate Capture Dimensions Tags that were previously not stored
- Fix: If multiple saved markup edits for the same drawing existed, the software woud ask twice instead of once which edits to use
- Fix: If multiple saved markup edits for the same drawing existed, and the user hits 'Cancel' cancel was ignored.
New in CAD Viewer 10 A32 (Jun 17, 2013)
- Fix: QA - Capture Dimensions not working
New in CAD Viewer 10 A31 (Jun 17, 2013)
- Fix: Crashing with 'error code (-168)' (Invalid ResBuf) when DWG with PDF underlay has clip boundary
- Fix: Some thick polyines with bulges wrong
- Fix: Trial Expired on first time run
New in CAD Viewer 10 A30 (Jun 17, 2013)
- Markup Circle option
- Display error message if drive on network is unaccessable
- Fix: Block Move would flag Markups as needing to be saved, even if user cancels operation.
- Fix: Image in drawing was not printing
New in CAD Viewer 10 A29 (Jun 17, 2013)
- Better resolution of text widths.
New in CAD Viewer 10 A28 (Jun 17, 2013)
- Fix: Attributes may not display when drawing has draworder in effect
New in CAD Viewer 10 A27 (Jun 17, 2013)
- Fix: solid hatch with arc edges not displaying correctly
- Fix: thick polyline with bulges not displaying correctly
- Fix: Markup Export not working (versions affected A.22 to A.26)
- Fix: Markup Fills not being saved (versions affected A.22 to A.26)
- Fix: Markup Dimension Polylines not being saved (versions affected A.22 to A.26)
New in CAD Viewer 10 A26 (Jun 17, 2013)
- Fix: Leaders (callouts) with multiple leader lines not displayed correctly
New in CAD Viewer 10 A25 (Jun 17, 2013)
- Draworder automatically enabled when required.
New in CAD Viewer 10 A24 (Jun 17, 2013)
- For multipage documents give option to delete markups for the whole document or just the current page.
- Fix: for multipage documents, markup entities that were not internally assigned a page number get displayed on every page.
- Fix: QA/QS Dropdown lists do not show last entered item if the item was not originally in the list
- Fix: OLE object not displaying
New in CAD Viewer 10 A23 (Jun 17, 2013)
- Fix: some null hatches not eliminated
- Fix: text containing '/' may be not correctly justified.
- Fix: captured qs tolerances of format +n.n/+n.n picks up 2nd +n.n as 0.0
- Fix: Recursive Explode blocks does not finish if there are viewports and 'Explode Viewports' is not checked.
- Fix: Inq Attrbiutes after flashing for ambiguous entity selection, after Attribtues displayed, display is blank (until refresh)
- Fix: Scale function not working
- Gray out Scale function for drawings that do not have linestyles. (since Scale only affects linestyle display)
- Fix: Exported QA symbols coming back incomplete upon import
- For multipage documents give option to export markups for the whole document or just the current page
New in CAD Viewer 10 A22 (Nov 28, 2012)
- AutoCAD 2013 drawings format support
- Inbuilt QA tolerance tables (IT Grades, etc.)
- QA preserve suffix renumber method
- Circle placement guide option for QA Sym placement
- Expand QA attributes number to 20
- Coordinates tracking always active (i.e. not just in command mode)
- Keep Markups in color when drawing is toggled to Black/White
- Support for Unicode pathnames (asian, arabic, hebrew, etc.)
- Pan mode as default (similar to Google maps)
New in CAD Viewer 9.0 (Nov 24, 2011)
- Support all AutoCAD DXF and DWG drawing formats up to AutoCAD 2012
- Auto-rotate printed pages for best fit
- Most recently used documents list
- Set Styles for Dimensions, Markups, QA
- Expanded Markup, Dimension options
- Import/Export Markups
- ECW format support
- Overlay drawing printed in Black/White with Markups in color