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| − | == | + | ==January 27, 2015 - Release 1.0.4== |
| − | + | *The function to Import spatial data in BricsCAD is now defined using a direct command | |
| − | *--- | + | *Assign Object properties in BricsCAD import process |
| + | *Import parameters depending on geometry types | ||
| + | *Defining Block Attributes for Point elements | ||
| + | *Importing alphanumeric data as Extended Data (EED / XDATA) | ||
| + | *Simple Extended Data (EED / XDATA) Viewer | ||
| + | *Application Commands are shown in application Setup | ||
| + | *Zoom Extension is performed in the drawing when any import process is finished | ||
| + | *Available updates are checked when running the application | ||
| + | *Assigning Attributes and other properties to the Blocks | ||
| + | *Object Properties are now shown in the Properties area | ||
| + | *Object selection data is now shown in the Properties area | ||
| + | *The "About..." window is now defined | ||
| + | *FDO data Provider is added to the list | ||
| + | *Now a small set of spatial files for sample purposes is included when you install the application | ||
| + | *Improved speed for read and write in the PostGIS provider | ||
| + | *The PostGIS provider now allows selection of the database to use in a dropdown | ||
| + | *The PostGIS provider now supports more data types | ||
| + | *Development of the SQLite provider | ||
| + | *Development of the OGR provider | ||
| + | *Some improvements made in the PostGIS provider | ||
| + | *New own icon is set for the OSM provider | ||
| + | *Now the user can set the timeout when connecting using the SQL Server Spatial provider | ||
| + | *Improved providers table (order, names and extensions) | ||
| + | *Added a new property to the providers to see if it is necessary to check its parameters | ||
| + | *Improvement in the performance of the tree in the OSM provider parameter window | ||
| + | *Now the user can set the WFS store version | ||
| + | *The FDO provider is normalized in terms of default names or types of icons | ||
| + | *The OGR provider is normalized in terms of the default names or types of icons | ||
| + | *Format 'Arc/Info .E00 (ASCII) Coverage' has been added to the OGR provider | ||
| + | *One area of transformation has been set by default to the Coordinate Transformation | ||
| + | *Now, when loading a KML/KMZ file, it can add a Field including information about the folder from each feature which is loaded | ||
| + | *Corrections of some bugs and other minor improvements | ||
| + | |||
| + | |||
| + | ==January 21, 2015 - Release 1.0.4== | ||
| + | *The SRID of a PRJ (a Shapefile companion file) is now also composed by reading its parameters | ||
| + | *You can now also search the catalog of CRSs using the "aliases" of the CRSs | ||
| + | **Alias: Unofficial Coordinate System name but that is commonly used | ||
| + | *The application now considers the displacement of the Origin of coordinates in all cases where needed | ||
| + | *No more problems when reading an invalid date in the header of any SHP or DBF files | ||
| + | *Now unnamed fields are supported in an ODBC connection | ||
| + | *The SRID of a data source is displayed even if the source only includes Point Features | ||
| + | *Improvements in the KML/KMZ data Provider: | ||
| + | **Data can now be loaded data from HTML in the description | ||
| + | **Support for OGC KML extensions added | ||
| + | **A warning is displayed when trying to load a file without Features | ||
| + | **Support for "Model" Features added | ||
| + | **Now if there are null Features, the following Features will continue to be processed | ||
| + | **Multiple nested geometries can now be loaded | ||
| + | **Now existing folders are never ignored | ||
| + | **The folders referenced within the links no longer cause problems | ||
| + | **All badly constructed geometries are repaired | ||
| + | **Loading a file now never goes to an infinite loop | ||
| + | **Other small bugs solved: | ||
| + | ***The coordinates separated by tab are now supported | ||
| + | ***Links to KMZ without extension are now controlled | ||
| + | ***Now the column headers HTML "th" are also supported | ||
| + | ***The formats of coordinates X and Y are now validated before reading | ||
| + | ***The KMZ files are supported even if they have a KML extension and vice versa | ||
| + | ***It is also supported that the coordinates separator be ';' instead of ',' | ||
| + | ***Analysis of whether any Polygon or Polyline are empty | ||
| + | ***It also examines whether any linked file has no extension | ||
| + | ***The links with empty name and relative URLs are checked | ||
| + | ***The links to websites instead of KML files are also reviewed | ||
| + | ***The KMZ files whose KML has a "byte order" character at the beginning, are supported | ||
| + | ***The links to nonexistent pages are also supported | ||
| + | ***The application now checks that none of the links have a link to itself and causes an infinite loop | ||
| + | ***Rejected requests to load links from the code are now checked | ||
| + | ***Invalid values of Z coordinates are not allowed | ||
| + | ***Also the links to KMZ files without extension are not allowed | ||
| + | *The EPSG tables (CRSs and other objects) have been updated to version 8.6 | ||
| + | *The installation process now includes a shortcut in the Desktop to the "How to start?" Wiki page | ||
| + | *The 32-bit and 64-bit setup applications are now consolidated into a single setup program which automatically selects the appropriate platform | ||
| + | *Now the application cannot be installed on a computer without any BricsCAD installed on it | ||
| + | *Fixed some incorrect texts in the Welcome window of the User Data Sources (UDS) Wizard | ||
| + | *The text "Panel" has been replaced by the text "Palette" throughout the application, its interface, the Web and the Wiki of the Product | ||
| + | *The Properties of the imported Objects are now displayed though its length exceeds 255 characters | ||
| + | *The potential errors resulting from access to a location without the necessary permissions are now controlled | ||
| + | *The remaining number of Trial days in the initial window now agrees with those in the License Options | ||
| + | *Corrections of other minor bugs and other minor improvements | ||
| + | |||
| + | |||
| + | ==October 27, 2014 - Release 1.0.3== | ||
| + | *The OpenStreetMap data provider can now also import PBF files | ||
| + | *New BricsCAD ribbon for the application which includes its main commands: | ||
| + | **Palette (SPM): opens and/or displays the application palette | ||
| + | **Help (SPMHELP): shows the application help (Wiki format) (New command) | ||
| + | **Updates (SPMUPDATE): checks if there is a new application release to be downloaded from Internet (New command) | ||
| + | **Information (SPMABOUT): shows basic information about the application and the installed release | ||
| + | **Options (SPMOPTIONS): set of parameters to configure the application (New command) | ||
| + | **Furthermore, the welcome window disappears (it is not necessary now) | ||
| + | *When pressing F1 over the ribbon, the application Help page is shown | ||
| + | *A new possibility of using non-perpetual licenses has been included | ||
| + | *Improvements in the appearance and functionality in various application windows and icons | ||
| + | *Fixes in the access to new releases and in the update window | ||
| + | *Improvements when importing KML files with invalid name space | ||
| + | *Can now import SHP files which include date fields | ||
| + | *The deactivation of the application no longer causes BricsCAD fatal errors randomly | ||
| + | *The behavior of the application when it is activated after the end of the trial period has been improved | ||
| + | *Corrections of some bugs and other minor improvements | ||
| + | |||
| + | |||
| + | ==September 3, 2014 - Release 1.0.2== | ||
| + | *The import processes when performing transformation of coordinates are now up to ten times faster | ||
| + | *There are many new conversion systems for coordinate transformations. Among them, various grid-based interpolation (NADCON and NTv2) | ||
| + | *Now more conversion information is displayed, allowing the user to select its parameters more accurately | ||
| + | *The setup program now includes an application icon in the ribbon "Add-ins" of BricsCAD | ||
| + | *The application can be executed now by logging in with a user other than the one installed | ||
| + | *The application windows are displayed correctly even if the overall Windows text size is set at values greater than 100% | ||
| + | *Corrections of some bugs and other minor improvements | ||
| + | |||
| + | |||
| + | == June 6, 2014 - Release 1.0.1== | ||
| + | *The import processes for source tables OGR (DXF, DGN, etc.), when coordinate system transformations are applied, has been improved | ||
| + | *Fixed an error when importing MIF files | ||
| + | *The licensing system has been improved to keep the license active when the computer name is changed | ||
| + | *The search of SQL Servers has been improved | ||
| + | *Corrections of some bugs and other minor improvements | ||
| + | |||
| + | |||
| + | == June 1, 2014 - Release 1.0.0== | ||
| + | *First commercial version. Includes a limited Trial version which allows you to select the application Edition to try | ||
| + | *The EPSG tables (CRSs and other objects) have been updated to version 8.4 | ||
| + | *Improvements to read a PRJ file that cannot be recognized | ||
| + | *New system of licensing and activation/deactivation of licenses | ||
| + | *Changes in the application updates system depending on the support period | ||
| + | *It is now possible to disable the repeated warning of a specific update | ||
| + | *New function included in the application options to check for updates at any time | ||
| + | *Corrections of some bugs and other minor improvements | ||
| + | |||
| + | |||
| + | ==April 9, 2014 - Release 0.9.9 (beta)== | ||
| + | *Compatibility with BricsCAD 2015 | ||
| + | *Corrections of some bugs and other minor improvements | ||
| + | |||
| + | |||
| + | ==March 27, 2014 - Release 0.9.8 (beta)== | ||
| + | *A welcome screen is now displayed instead of automatically opening the application palette | ||
| + | *The texts relative to the beta version have been improved | ||
| + | *EEDs (or XDATA) data conversion has been improved when their maximum length is exceeded | ||
| + | *The period of beta testing is extended to May 31, 2014 | ||
*Corrections of some bugs and other minor improvements | *Corrections of some bugs and other minor improvements | ||
Revision as of 21:12, 27 January 2015
January 27, 2015 - Release 1.0.4
- The function to Import spatial data in BricsCAD is now defined using a direct command
- Assign Object properties in BricsCAD import process
- Import parameters depending on geometry types
- Defining Block Attributes for Point elements
- Importing alphanumeric data as Extended Data (EED / XDATA)
- Simple Extended Data (EED / XDATA) Viewer
- Application Commands are shown in application Setup
- Zoom Extension is performed in the drawing when any import process is finished
- Available updates are checked when running the application
- Assigning Attributes and other properties to the Blocks
- Object Properties are now shown in the Properties area
- Object selection data is now shown in the Properties area
- The "About..." window is now defined
- FDO data Provider is added to the list
- Now a small set of spatial files for sample purposes is included when you install the application
- Improved speed for read and write in the PostGIS provider
- The PostGIS provider now allows selection of the database to use in a dropdown
- The PostGIS provider now supports more data types
- Development of the SQLite provider
- Development of the OGR provider
- Some improvements made in the PostGIS provider
- New own icon is set for the OSM provider
- Now the user can set the timeout when connecting using the SQL Server Spatial provider
- Improved providers table (order, names and extensions)
- Added a new property to the providers to see if it is necessary to check its parameters
- Improvement in the performance of the tree in the OSM provider parameter window
- Now the user can set the WFS store version
- The FDO provider is normalized in terms of default names or types of icons
- The OGR provider is normalized in terms of the default names or types of icons
- Format 'Arc/Info .E00 (ASCII) Coverage' has been added to the OGR provider
- One area of transformation has been set by default to the Coordinate Transformation
- Now, when loading a KML/KMZ file, it can add a Field including information about the folder from each feature which is loaded
- Corrections of some bugs and other minor improvements
January 21, 2015 - Release 1.0.4
- The SRID of a PRJ (a Shapefile companion file) is now also composed by reading its parameters
- You can now also search the catalog of CRSs using the "aliases" of the CRSs
- Alias: Unofficial Coordinate System name but that is commonly used
- The application now considers the displacement of the Origin of coordinates in all cases where needed
- No more problems when reading an invalid date in the header of any SHP or DBF files
- Now unnamed fields are supported in an ODBC connection
- The SRID of a data source is displayed even if the source only includes Point Features
- Improvements in the KML/KMZ data Provider:
- Data can now be loaded data from HTML in the description
- Support for OGC KML extensions added
- A warning is displayed when trying to load a file without Features
- Support for "Model" Features added
- Now if there are null Features, the following Features will continue to be processed
- Multiple nested geometries can now be loaded
- Now existing folders are never ignored
- The folders referenced within the links no longer cause problems
- All badly constructed geometries are repaired
- Loading a file now never goes to an infinite loop
- Other small bugs solved:
- The coordinates separated by tab are now supported
- Links to KMZ without extension are now controlled
- Now the column headers HTML "th" are also supported
- The formats of coordinates X and Y are now validated before reading
- The KMZ files are supported even if they have a KML extension and vice versa
- It is also supported that the coordinates separator be ';' instead of ','
- Analysis of whether any Polygon or Polyline are empty
- It also examines whether any linked file has no extension
- The links with empty name and relative URLs are checked
- The links to websites instead of KML files are also reviewed
- The KMZ files whose KML has a "byte order" character at the beginning, are supported
- The links to nonexistent pages are also supported
- The application now checks that none of the links have a link to itself and causes an infinite loop
- Rejected requests to load links from the code are now checked
- Invalid values of Z coordinates are not allowed
- Also the links to KMZ files without extension are not allowed
- The EPSG tables (CRSs and other objects) have been updated to version 8.6
- The installation process now includes a shortcut in the Desktop to the "How to start?" Wiki page
- The 32-bit and 64-bit setup applications are now consolidated into a single setup program which automatically selects the appropriate platform
- Now the application cannot be installed on a computer without any BricsCAD installed on it
- Fixed some incorrect texts in the Welcome window of the User Data Sources (UDS) Wizard
- The text "Panel" has been replaced by the text "Palette" throughout the application, its interface, the Web and the Wiki of the Product
- The Properties of the imported Objects are now displayed though its length exceeds 255 characters
- The potential errors resulting from access to a location without the necessary permissions are now controlled
- The remaining number of Trial days in the initial window now agrees with those in the License Options
- Corrections of other minor bugs and other minor improvements
October 27, 2014 - Release 1.0.3
- The OpenStreetMap data provider can now also import PBF files
- New BricsCAD ribbon for the application which includes its main commands:
- Palette (SPM): opens and/or displays the application palette
- Help (SPMHELP): shows the application help (Wiki format) (New command)
- Updates (SPMUPDATE): checks if there is a new application release to be downloaded from Internet (New command)
- Information (SPMABOUT): shows basic information about the application and the installed release
- Options (SPMOPTIONS): set of parameters to configure the application (New command)
- Furthermore, the welcome window disappears (it is not necessary now)
- When pressing F1 over the ribbon, the application Help page is shown
- A new possibility of using non-perpetual licenses has been included
- Improvements in the appearance and functionality in various application windows and icons
- Fixes in the access to new releases and in the update window
- Improvements when importing KML files with invalid name space
- Can now import SHP files which include date fields
- The deactivation of the application no longer causes BricsCAD fatal errors randomly
- The behavior of the application when it is activated after the end of the trial period has been improved
- Corrections of some bugs and other minor improvements
September 3, 2014 - Release 1.0.2
- The import processes when performing transformation of coordinates are now up to ten times faster
- There are many new conversion systems for coordinate transformations. Among them, various grid-based interpolation (NADCON and NTv2)
- Now more conversion information is displayed, allowing the user to select its parameters more accurately
- The setup program now includes an application icon in the ribbon "Add-ins" of BricsCAD
- The application can be executed now by logging in with a user other than the one installed
- The application windows are displayed correctly even if the overall Windows text size is set at values greater than 100%
- Corrections of some bugs and other minor improvements
June 6, 2014 - Release 1.0.1
- The import processes for source tables OGR (DXF, DGN, etc.), when coordinate system transformations are applied, has been improved
- Fixed an error when importing MIF files
- The licensing system has been improved to keep the license active when the computer name is changed
- The search of SQL Servers has been improved
- Corrections of some bugs and other minor improvements
June 1, 2014 - Release 1.0.0
- First commercial version. Includes a limited Trial version which allows you to select the application Edition to try
- The EPSG tables (CRSs and other objects) have been updated to version 8.4
- Improvements to read a PRJ file that cannot be recognized
- New system of licensing and activation/deactivation of licenses
- Changes in the application updates system depending on the support period
- It is now possible to disable the repeated warning of a specific update
- New function included in the application options to check for updates at any time
- Corrections of some bugs and other minor improvements
April 9, 2014 - Release 0.9.9 (beta)
- Compatibility with BricsCAD 2015
- Corrections of some bugs and other minor improvements
March 27, 2014 - Release 0.9.8 (beta)
- A welcome screen is now displayed instead of automatically opening the application palette
- The texts relative to the beta version have been improved
- EEDs (or XDATA) data conversion has been improved when their maximum length is exceeded
- The period of beta testing is extended to May 31, 2014
- Corrections of some bugs and other minor improvements