BERLIN, Germany, Sep 23, 2015 – New ABViewer highlights measuring of 3D objects in STP and IGES files. Measurement results are added above the 3D model. After it the drawing can be either printed out or saved as JPG. The new version allows measuring distance between two points, edge length, curvilinear edge radius, height between two parallel surfaces as well as surface area of 3D objects.

The Structure panel is used to show general information on 3D objects. The panel allows getting information on the overall dimensions of both the whole model and model parts.

Except for measuring 3D models, ABViewer 11 includes the following changes:

• Loading of custom line types
• Saving to DWG 2004
• Support of SHX Big fonts (for Asian characters)
• Greatly improved Batch print
• New Align tool
• New Pan tool
• Possibility of layouts duplicating
• Improved PDF to DWG conversion
• Output of the list of not found Xrefs and fonts to the command line

Loading of Custom Line Types

Now users have the opportunity to load their own line types with the LIN extension from file to the drawing and use them designing the drawing. ABViewer also allows loading line types created for AutoCAD.

Support of SHX Big Fonts (for Chinese, Japanese and Korean Characters)

Unicode encoded SHX fonts as well as TrueType fonts were supported even in the earliest ABViewer versions. However, speaking about Asian characters, a special code standard is used to encode SHX for big fonts.

The new version of ABViewer allows viewing Asian characters that were designed with the help of big SHX fonts. ABViewer supports both standard SHX Big fonts used in AutoCAD and custom fonts.

Batch Print Improvements

Now in the Batch Print window users can select layouts from the loaded file list according to the specified condition and then set for them the output device, paper format and other printing options. Printing rules are used to accomplish such a task. The following picture shows that for the first file printing settings were configured manually (standard virtual Microsoft XPS printer) while to the second file the ARCH (42’’x30’’) scale 1:1 printing rule was applied.

The printing rule in use was created beforehand in the Rules for files with unspecified printers window. The rule contains a filter that finds 42×30-inch layouts in the loaded file list and sends them for printing on the ARCH E1 sheet at 1:1 scale.

New Align Tool

The Align tool applies three changes to the selected objects at once: it moves, rotates and scales them.

The tool can be used for a large variety of tasks: to align one object to another one, to make plans designed at different scale overlap, to prepare the raster background layer for outlining etc.

You can download the latest version of ABViewer at the following links:

32bit: http://cadsofttools.com/download/abviewer.zip

64bit: http://cadsofttools.com/download/abviewer_x64.zip

ABViewer 11 support forum: http://www.cadsofttools.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=3

More on ABViewer: http://cadsofttools.com/products/abviewer/

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