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September 29, 2011

Virtual entities

Sometimes you want to digitize entities without storing them in the drawing file. Digi3D 2011 introduces a code table feature that lets you mark a code as Virtual, so a code can now be marked as Point, Linear, or Virtual.

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September 29, 2011

Drawing file projects

Digi3D 2011 lets you store drawing file settings (display scale, recording increment, code table, menu table, key configuration file, ...) so you do not have to fill in this information when loading a drawing file. This

2011 new_feature projects
September 29, 2011

Automatic model change in Digi3D 2011

Digi3D 2011 includes a button on the toolbar of the Fast model change dockable pane that lets the application change models automatically when the operator moves from one model to another. This feature is highly optimized to make the change very

2011 automatic_model_change new_feature
September 28, 2011

Remembering loaded reference files

One feature of the double-precision binary files supported by Digi3D 2011 is that they can remember the reference files loaded in the previous session. If your drawing file is a double-precision binary file and you load reference files, when you close the file

2011 drawing_files new_feature
September 28, 2011

Renaming unknown codes

Digi3D 2011 incorporates a new tool that will help us to rename the unknown codes of the drawing file loaded. Sometimes we load drawing files with entities with unknown code. Many times it is difficult to rename them because in their name there may be spaces, which

2011 unknown_codes new_feature command
September 28, 2011

Code display pane

Digi3D 2011 includes a new dockable pane that lets you enable or disable code display in both the drawing window and the photogrammetric window for each drawing file. This means you can tell Digi3D 2011 not to display a specific code

2011 new_feature code_display
September 28, 2011

Drawing file pane

Digi3D 2011 includes a dockable pane called Drawing file that lets you load and unload reference files, change the active drawing file, zoom to a specific file's extents, and zoom to the first and last entity in a specific drawing file

2011 drawing_files new_feature
September 27, 2011

Viewpoints in the Digi3D 2011 drawing window

Digi3D 2011 includes two toolbars that let you change the viewpoint in the drawing window. The first toolbar, called Viewpoints, lets you view the drawing file from above, below, the left,

2011 new_feature viewpoints
September 27, 2011

Multiple selection

Digi3D 2011 includes a new feature that lets you select multiple entities and send that selection to a command that is waiting for you to select one or more entities to perform an operation on them. All commands that

2011 new_feature multiple_selection
September 27, 2011

Multiple search modes in Digi3D 2011

Digi3D 2011 lets you select multiple search modes simultaneously through a change to the SMODE command, which now accepts multiple parameters. This new feature can increase productivity because you no longer need to change the

2011 search_modes new_feature