CadraAPP 7.0-xx Release Bulletin 7.0-06 Date: 20/04/2004 Module: CadraLIB: News: Modified XHatch , select Areas to be XHatched Cadra2004 License Handling 7.0-03 Data: 04/12/2002 Module: CadraLIB: News: Feather Keys (SEATS) - Hole : Fillet Removed Extended the max. path length for the CADRA variable value in cadra.ini 7.0-02 Data: 05/11/2002 Module: CadraLIB: Utilities Error: DimHoles and Utility "Line Style - Line Style" did not work Solution: Bug Fixed 7.0-01 Data: 17/10/2002 Module: CadraLIB: Quick Drawing functions News: Modified ToolTip and Help on line for Functions completed ====================================================================================================== 7.0 Date: 09/27/2002 Module: CadraBOM: BOM + BOM setup + BOM.ini News: A new parameter has been added to create the bill of material table into the drawing: it allows you to decide if the table must be built either from the bottom with the headers in the lowest row (it was the default in the previous versions) or from the top with the headers in the highest row. vo parametro modificabile You can set this parameter with Labels setup program and it's saved in the BOM.ini file. Date: 09/26/2002 Module: CadraLIB News: Quick Drawing functions added Date: 09/23/2002 Module: CadraBOM: Labels Error: When creating a new balloon with a very small zoom factor active in Cadra, the program gave an error and stopped. Solution: Now the balloons are drawn correctly Date: 09/23/2002 Module: CadraBOM: Labels + Setup + Label.ini News: Two new parameters have been added to the labelling setup program (and saved in the Label.ini configuration file): - you can set the radius of the balloons - you can choose the appearance of the labels ends, among three possibilities: 1. Automatic: the program decides between arrow and dot, depending on the presence of entities around the ending point 2. Arrow: labels always end with an arrow 3. Dot: labels always end with a dot Date: 09/13/2002 Module: CadraBOM: BOM + BOM setup + BOM.ini News: For each BOM datum, including the auxiliary columns, defined by the BOM configuration program, there is a new flag "Export" (saved in the BOM.ini file), which indicates if this datum has either to be or not to be exported into the bill of material output file, which can be used to interface CadraBOM with the company MRP system. ====================================================================================================== 6.2-01 Date: 05/31/2002 Module: CadraBOM: Labels Error: When creating a label, View Mode remained active. Fixed: Model mode is activated, after creating a label Date: 05/30/2002 Module: CadraBOM: Labels Error: When creating a new label into a scaled view, the first point of the label was wrong. Fixed: The labels are drawn correctly Date: 05/17/2002 Module: CadraLIB: Utilities (Holes dimensioning by co-ordinates) Change: The small circle inserted in the user origin is no longer hidden, 'cause otherwise, moving the drawing in the view it is not moved together with the other geometries Date: 05/17/2002 Module: CadraLIB: Utilities (Holes dimensioning by co-ordinates) Error: SLOTS: if the length and the diameter of the slot had decimals, the values were rounded in the description and they resulted to be wrong Solution: Fixed: now the description "SLOT LengthxDiam" has Length and Diam with no decimal point if the measures have no decimals, otherwise with 2 decimal places. ====================================================================================================== 6.2-00 Date: 04/22/2002 Module: CadraLIB,CadraBOM News: It is allowed to use both CadraLIB and CadraBOM in COM mode or in traditional mode of communication with Cadra setting the "UseCOM" variable in prf_lib.sys (0=Traditional, 1=COM). ====================================================================================================== CadraAPP 6.1-xx Release Bulletin ====================================================================================================== 6.1-04 Date: 02/06/2002 Module: CadraLIB Error: If you work with the Cadra database not set in inches, and use the "Shafts generation", the first segment of the shaft is correctly drawn, considering the input values as millimeters, while the following segments are wrong, as for diameter and length, which are read in inch. Solution: Now the shaft is correctly drawn. ====================================================================================================== 6.1-03 Date: 11/27/2001 Module: CadraLIB Error: When CadraLIB worked in connection with the Master Parts List on Oracle, it gave an error when selecting a component connected to a part number. Solution: Now the part numbers are correctly loaded. Date: 11/27/2001 Module: CadraBOM Admin Error: When the parts list resides in an Oracle database, the program gave an error when filling the data grid with the part numbers. Solution: Now the data are loaded correctly. ====================================================================================================== 6.1-00 Date: 10/03/2001 Module: CadraLIB News: CadraLIB can now work on drawings with any unit of measure, not only millimeters. In any case it remains a METRIC library: the inserted components are in mm. as indicated in the CadraLIB GUI. Also the library functions which start programs to draw parts require inputs in millimeters (e.g. the dimensions to draw a shaft, the mounting distance to locate a retaining ring on a shaft, etc.). When the programs of the "ISO system of limits and fits" work on a drawing which unit is not millimeter and the secondary unit is enabled in the Dimension Style, the secondary value is supposed to be in mm and extracted as the dimension value to apply the tolerance. If the drawing is in mm and the secondary unit is enabled, the primary value is extracted. Date: 09/19/2001 Module: CadraLIB: ISO system of limits and fits News: Using the programs of the ISO system of limits and fits on a drawing set in inch, if the secondary dimensions are enabled, the second value is used as the dimension value to which the tolerance is applied. If the drawing is in inch with secondary dimensions, the primary value is extracted. Date: 09/17/2001 Module: CadraLIB: external metric ISO threads Error: The thread was always drawn with the same distance of mm 0.35 (as if the first line of the table wes selected) Solution: Now they are drawn correctly. Date: 09/11/2001 Module: CadraBOM: ballooning Error: When the unit of measure on a label was different from "number" (= "N."), the quantity value was always displayed with 6 decimal digits, even when they were all 0's. Solution: Now only the meaningful decimal digits are displayed. Date: 09/07/2001 Module: CadraBOM: ballooning News: Two new functions have been added to the Label editing menu ("Chg. label"): - "Position", to relocate a label and its corresponding balloon. - "Delete", to remove the label you choose and its corresponding balloon. The same functions have also been added to the Notes editing menu ("Chg note") Date: 08/10/2001 Module: CadraBOM: ballooning + BOM News: on a single drawing it's possible to balloon groups and create a bom table for each - in the balloon menu there is a new group of entries: "Groups ON" "Groups OFF" "Read Group" "Show Group" "List Grps" - if you select "Groups ON" with a drawing open, it's marked with a hidden attribute which says that the above mentioned functions must work on "GROUPS" - when you pick the ballooning, positioning or BOM procedure, it asks which GROUP you want to work with. If no group is given, the functions work as usual. - the bill of material data for a are saved in a text file named -.txt - if there are active the integration with CadraEDM and the automatic creation of the BOM links, they are created only for the drawing code, while the BOM data of the groups are only saved in a text file (if the function has been activated) ====================================================================================================== 6.0-01 beta Date: 07/2001 Module: CadraLIB: CadraWire News: The first revision of CadraWire has been added to CadraLIB ====================================================================================================== CadraAPP 5.1-xx ====================================================================================================== 5.1-02 Date: 07/18/2001 Module: CadraLIB: Utilities (Conversions) Errors: - The conversion utilities gave error in the French and German versions of the Library - The utilities "Line Style -> Line Style" and "Line Style -> Weight" did not work correctly when a Breakline was selected as reference line - German version: the names of the utilities in the Library GUI were in English Solution: FIXED Date: 07/17/2001 Module: CadraLIB (Catalogs Configuration) Errors: In the definition of the conversion table (line color-font-weight) - the color column was disabled and the color could not be chosen - the columns width were wrong for the German version - the list of the line fonts and weights were always in English - the configuration data were not correctly saved in the catalog.ini. Solution: FIXED Date: 06/11/2001 Module: CadraLIB: Local Library Error: The procedure to include files into the local library stopped with an error in Cadra, on some drawings. Solution: FIXED Date: 06/11/2001 Module: CadraLIB Error: The procedure exits with an error while inserting the gear table (both straight-tooth and helical), when the Draw Mode is active. Solution: FIXED ====================================================================================================== 5.1-01 Date: 06/07/2001 Module: CadraLIB Error: The hexagon socket head cap bolts with diameter M5 had wrong lengths (which included the head) - bolts wit seat Solution: The drawings of the wrong bolts have been corrected in the file lb044-01-03.cad Date: 06/06/2001 Module: CadraBOM: BOM Error: The procedure stopped while creating the bill of material table, when an auxiliary column was enabled (see BOM / Setup) Solution: FIXED Date: 06/01/2001 Module: CadraLIB: Local Library Error: The filter to query local library components did not work. Solution: FIXED Date: 05/17/2001 Module: CadraLIB: Utilities (Holes dimensioning by co-ordinates) New features: The following new features have been added to the program for the holes dimensioning by co-ordinates: 1. "Edit hole": new menu option in Cadra GUI, which allows to change the holes data in the table; the co-ordinates on the center cannot be changed (geometries ARE NOT changed). 2. "Move hole": new menu option in Cadra GUI, which allows to move a hole which has already been dimensioned with this procedure (and then numbered and contained in the table). It moves the hole entities (with the axes, is existing, and the hole number) and updates the center co-ordinates of the hole in the table. 3. now the procedure can handle "unknown" holes, that is such holes which are not included in the standard types, which were recognized by the previous version of the procedure (i.e. 3 concentric circles, threaded holes with the arc which is not precisely of 270°, etc.): in the form to be filled in with the hole data, only the center co-ordinates are indicated, and the conventional string "***" is put in the "hole type" field, which the user can replace with the correct name. 4. the editable fields are never mandatory (that is they can be left blank) 5. you can set the number of decimal places for the co-ordinates of the holes centers in the table: in the configuration file .\CADRA_LIB\DimHoles\DimHoles.ini set the key "NumDecCoord=" to the number of decimal places you need (max 5) 6. you can set the parameters of the text to fill in the table. In the configuration file .\CADRA_LIB\DimHoles\DimHoles.ini set the keys: txtHei=3.5 : text height txtWid=1.832 : text width txtHor=2.5 : horizontal spacing txtVer=5.25 : vertical spacing txtFont=0 : font number txtSlant=0 : gradi di inclinazione yMarg=3.0 : vertical margins in the table rows WARNING: the columns width is fix. 7. you can add a column to the standard ones of the table. In the configuration file .\CADRA_LIB\DimHoles\DimHoles.ini set the keys: colTit=TITLE : column header colWid=10 : column width, as number of characters. The column is created and handled when ColTit is not empty and ColWidth is set to a value greater than 0. Date: 05/17/2001 Module: CadraLIB: Utilities (Holes dimensioning by co-ordinates) Error: The procedure puts a 0.2 mm diamater circle in the user defined origin. If the origin was chosen in the center of a hole, the above mentioned small circle identifying the origin was by mistake interpreted as part of the geometry of the hole Solution: FIXED Date: 05/17/2001 Module: CadraLIB: Utilities (edit X-hatch / pattern) Error: Some particular x-hatch / pattern areas were not correctly recreated (e.g. a profile with a portion of a circle) Solution: FIXED WARNING: this utility works correctly only with x-hatch / pattern areas NOT acrossed by lines or arcs and not containing entities, that is on SINGLE areas. The hatch is recreated with the new parameters only in the simple area where the selection was made. Sometimes you can come across this limitation by temporarily blanking these "disturbing" entities. Date: 05/17/2001 Module: CadraLIB Error: Sometimes, at random, some programs caused Cadra to hung Solution: As it was not possible to reproduce this error, some changes have been made which seem to fix the problem, but this is not completetly guaranteed. ====================================================================================================== 5.0-04 Date: 03/21/2001 Module: CadraBOM: Bill of Material Error: Texts and lines of the BOM table were not all created on layer 252 (according to Cadra prf) Solution: When drawing the BOM table, lines and texts are created on layer 252 ====================================================================================================== 5.0-03 Date: 03/15/2001 Module: CadraLIB Error: The datum of the Transverse module is not written in the table if the MODIFICATION COEF. is different from 0 ====================================================================================================== 5.0-01 Date: 01/18/2001 Module: CadraLIB Error: The hexagon socket head cap bolts with diameter M5 had wrong lengths (which included the head) - bolts without seat Solution: The drawings of the wrong bolts have been corrected in the file lb044-02-03.cad Date: 12/4/2000 Module: CadraBOM: Bill of Material Changes: Before starting the processing to create the bill material, it starts the procedure which checks the ballooning (it checks for labels without balloon or vice-versa) WARNING: when accessing an Oracle database (integration with CadraEDM), create the "CADRADM" DSN with the "Microsoft ODBC for Oracle" Driver, instead of the Oracle proprietary Driver. Date: 11/24/2000 Module: CadraBOM: Ballooning Changes: When a label is created for ballooning, if the first locate for the label line end is close to a xhatch entity, a DOT (not arrow as before) is put as label end. Date: 11/17/2000 Module: CadraBOM (InterrogaAnagrafica, MasterBOM.ini) Changes: New section added to MasterBOM.ini: [Customize] StartExeButton= CaptionExeButton= WaitExeEnd=1 (1 if InterrogaAnagrafica must wait for the process to end, 0 otherwise) If StartExeButton has a value, a button appears in the database query window (this button has the value of the entry CaptionExeButton as a caption). Pressing this button, the program is started (the complete path is in StartExeButton entry). Date: 10/11/2000 Module: programs.rlb (XHATCH Editing) Changes: The actual value of the parameter is shown between "()". If the user press return the new value is set to the actual value. Date: 08/10/2000 Module: LibrerieCadra.exe, programs.rlb (machining symbols) Changes: The machining symbols are all grouped in one panel only, from which you can select either the single symbol (when you apply it in the drawing you are required to select a line for the rotation angle) or combine different symbols for a general symbol. Date: 08/08/2000 Module: programs.rlb, ConfSet.exe, Set.ini (encode set) Changes: The procedure for changing the geometries of an encoded set has been changed to use an auxiliary temporary view instead of (set of) layers. In the configuration file Set.ini, instead of the parameter WorkingLayer there is the new parameter InactiveViewCol, to give a unique color to the drawing inactive views during the set modification. Date: 08/02/2000 Module: All Changes: The configuration files prf_lib.sys and .ini have been moved to the subfolder init of cadra_lib; the resource files have been moved to the subfolder res of cadra_lib: the programs have all been updated to access these files correctly. Date: 08/01/2000 Module: programmi.rlb (labelling) Changes: In the menu to view baloons and labels of the labelling procedure, a menu is added to view part number and description simultaneously. Date: 08/01/2000 Module: BOM.exe Changes: If in the bom setup a default folder is set where bom data are saved in a file, a window is shown where you can choose a different folder. Date: 08/01/2000 Module programmi.rlb (bill of material) Changes: If CadraBOM is not linked to the PDM, the drawing part number is required, which is used to save the bom data into a .txt file. Giving an Enter, the drawing file name is used as part number. Date: 07/28/2000 Module: LibrerieCadra.exe Changes: If CadraLIB is connected to the Master Parts List, the parts of the Local Library which have been defined as "Encoded" (with the program to set the Local Library), are managed like the standard parts of the mechanical library, that is you can only insert those parts which have been bound to a Part Number (for the bill of material) Date: 07/27/2000 Module: LibrerieCadra.exe Changes: Local Library is now integrated into the standard Library tree View structure (new node LOCAL LIBRARY) Date: 07/24/2000 Module: CadraBOMAdmin.exe Changes: Added the tool to map codes to the local library parts. Date: 07/20/2000 Module: LibrerieCadra.exe Changes: Various utility programs added to the standard library (new node UTILITIES) 1) Modify Xhatch , pattern : Modify Xhatch/Pattern without deleting and re-creating it. 2) Modify Fillet : Modify the radius of all the fillets selected. 3) Draw Splines : Draw automatically a spline from points (MAX. 200) extracted from a text file. 4) Draw Shafts : Draw automatically a shaft from parameters extracted from a text file. 5) Interactive Conversions : Executes the following transformations on the active drawing : - Line style -> Line style - Line style -> Weight - Colore -> Line style , Weight - Layer -> Line style , Weight - Weight-> Weight - Cadra Profile - Draw prf -> Cadra prf 6) Modify text : - CAPITAL <-> small - Get parameters - Set parameters 7) Holes dimensioning by coordinates Date: 06/26/2000 Module: ConfigLocalLib.exe Changes: - When loading the tree and adding new nodes the tree is sorted alphabetically - Drag and drop is now possible to move nodes to a different position in the tree (possible if the resulting level is not greater than 3)