Dec 19 - General CADD Pro v6.1 Released

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General CADD Pro v6.1 Released

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CHERRY VALLEY, NY, Dec 18, 2007 – General CADD Products, Inc., creators of General CADD Pro announces the release of General CADD Pro Version 6.1.

General CADD Pro or "GCP" as users are calling it is a very powerful 2D Computer Assisted Design & Drafting program (32 bit accuracy) which embodies the features of Generic CADD (CADD6), the very popular and well known DOS based CADD program which reportedly has over 350,000 users world wide.

Current list of new features and commands supported by Version 6.1

New Commands

For GCP 6 Command Video Tutorials Click Here.

F2 Field to Finish – see new video
PI Polyline entity added.
QS (Quick Select)
PN (Pan Line) Pans drawing based on 2 click. Very useful lining up Viewports
KK Cookie Cutter / 2D Booleans – demo coming – Paste after KK to see place cut portion
BF define boundary by Circle, rectangle, ellipse

Performance

Major speed increase for Dimensions/Text
Faster NP search
Better selection rules when complex objects like Components, Fills, Hatch, and Text are on top of one another.
Multiple Drawings and Batch Print faster
Enitity extents are stored in drawing. Much faster load times once the drawing has been saved from GCP6.

Version Control overhaul

VC launches dialog
Delete after number of days
Recycle files, keep newest
Restore VC File - strips date from filename and loads it

Viewport Enhancements

Double click mouse inside Viewport boundary to make active
Scroll wheel works inside Viewport when active.

OLE Server

Insert GCP6 drawings in other Windows app as OLE objects.
Paste GCP6 drawings as an OLE object
OLE Copy – image support

DWG 2008

new ACAD Library implemented

Snapping inside Components/Viewports/Xrefs

All snaps work inside Components/Viewports/Xrefs when GC is ON.

Double click on...

Leader Text brings up QE
Leader line/arrow brings up UG show only Leader settings
Dimension Text brings up QE
Dimension line/arrows brings up UG

Dimensions

Text Append Linear Dimension uses Center Justify
Multiple lines as be added to dimension text using UG or QE
UG added Insert Chars button (like

Quick Select QS command

click drag selection
drag move when inside selected objects
hold shift key while moving to copy
RCclick to see QuickSelect.pop menu (not shift/rclick)
QuickSelect.pop is editable
selected objects show a quick info display in the 3rd prompt line
` (grave key) gives you quick access to QS. ` again to abort QS command.

Tabs

Reorder by dragging tab to new location
When the Tab scroll arrows are visible, Double click the left arrow to jump to the first tab, right arrow for the last tab.
Ctrl+Tab to select the next (right) tab, Ctrl+Shift+Tab to select previous (left) tab

FS, LT, CP (and other commands that use the side menu)

FS lists the Fonts used in the drawing at the top and displayed Red
FS will jump the side bar down the list as you type. Hitting Enter will pick the font highlighted.
CP will jump the side bar down the list as you type. Hitting Enter will pick the component highlighted.
LT shows Linetype preview
LT, <TAB> shows Symbolic Linetypes only, <TAB> again to see all
LT rclick menu Edit/Reload/Load the Linetype file.
LK then Tab to toggle showing the color palette or color list. Will add to other color commands if you guys like it.

Quick Edit QE

Delay the text update on screen. A pause of 1 second while typing will update the text on screen.
Print (batch print enhancements)
Faster redraws and tab selecting. Sending prints out is significantly fast too.
Tab Color: this is an advanced command that allows you to color code the tabs when in DP. You can assign a color to a printer setting. Rclick tab or use the page setup dialog
Layout tabs can now be batch printed.
All PDF options are inside the Print options DP,T,P
Save Job can be called from DP
Fast and Preview boxes have been added to the status bar. Preview when on shows print order, color map, all to black on screen, but this causes redraw to be slower. Turning it off will still print them.

XRefs

Handles circular referenced xrefs better; much faster
Use all snaps inside XRefs
XRef Manager is faster

Viewports

Much faster display and object finding.
Close All Tabs will leave the Model space drawing
Active Viewport. shift/rclick menu item and pick Activate Viewport (double click inside VP to also select it). When ON the viewport will highlight its border.
When Viewport is active
Scroll Wheel will change only the Viewport zoom
Auto Pan (drag middle mouse button) will pan the viewport objects
All zoom commands can be typed in and are directly passed to the Viewport.
Zoom Previous and Panline added

Selection Commands (MV, CO, CG, OI, all selection commands)

implicit 'W' if you click and drag a window. Right to Left window will do a crossing if AQ>AllowCrossing ON
we've had an implicit 'O' for some time - here as a reminder.

Filter

Text Size (height) has been added to the filter
More... option add that allows you to filter all available entities like Leaders, XRefs, Viewports, OLE objects

Misc

Hatch Origin in OI - relative distance from the ref pt.
AQ setting to turn off the Org pt. (hide white mark at 0,0) AQ>HideHatchOriginPt
Using file association to launch the text editor. No longer hard coded to launch Notepad.
Shift/rclick brings up an editable custom popup menu called Default.pop. You can add commands and macros. Same syntax as the Video menu (Line, LI;).
Custom Commands - new option to make these commands repeatable with spacebar. See MA options.

The price for a single-seat license of General CADD Pro 6.1 is $599.00 US. This license includes the program and an on-screen manual in HTML format and unlimited Forum and e-mail support. Future program upgrade releases will cost $299.00. A "next version" pre-purchase option at the time of initial purchase is available for $199.00 US. Special arrangements for educational institutions are also available.

For more information, go to www.generalcadd.com or email support@generalcadd.com.

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