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Dimensions display and printing very buggy - Values for dimensions print bunched in a different area
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Zar1  
#1 Posted : Wednesday, February 27, 2019 3:10:26 PM(UTC)
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I first bought Cad2D3D (v7) a number of years ago, found it to be very buggy, did not give v9 much of a chance and did not take to it. Now I had a project and decided to upgrade to v11 with the idea that the program must have been refined by now. I'm using Win10.

In general I find it works much better than previous versions but one bug makes the results almost useless. I'm doing very simple stuff, just a 2D drawing. Dimensions are giving me a problem:

- The ends of the dimension extend beyond the lines selected as start and end. Looks odd and I don't know if the dimension is correct. In testing it appears that the value in some cases is correct but not sure about all instances.

- More important, I cannot print with the values displayed in the correct position - they bunch up in the upper left of the drawing, not in the position that shows while working on the drawing. Can't use the printout!!! See attached (if I can attach).

Has anyone else experienced this?
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Tim Olson  
#2 Posted : Wednesday, February 27, 2019 7:25:14 PM(UTC)
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Would it be possible to upload the viacad file (.vc2, .vc3 .vcp) file? I'll take a look at the issue.

Tim

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Zar1  
#3 Posted : Saturday, March 2, 2019 2:54:52 PM(UTC)
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Here is the file, thanks for looking at it. One of the PDFs was from this file. I'm very interested if you will get the same bunching of the values.

I have been playing around with the dimensions since I posted the print (PDF), trying to understand the how the dimensions display in the drawing. I don't understand and have not been able to determine from the manual what I should expect, is the display of the termination of the dimension. The arrow ends extend beyond lines I use for the dimension. This seems to be the way it's done but it confuses what the dimension represents and whether I had clicked in the right spot.
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Tim Olson  
#4 Posted : Saturday, March 2, 2019 4:15:31 PM(UTC)
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>> I'm very interested if you will get the same bunching of the values.

Yes I do repeat, it is related to having perspective turned on in a 2D view.

Try turning off perspective to get your print out. I'm looking into why perspective on makes a difference.

Tim

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Tim Olson  
#5 Posted : Saturday, March 2, 2019 4:30:13 PM(UTC)
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This is now fixed in the 1428+ builds.

The code was incorrectly using OpenGL to transform a perspective point while printing where this transformation was not used or set.

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Zar1  
#6 Posted : Sunday, March 3, 2019 10:45:48 AM(UTC)
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How do I get build 1428? I am using 1417 and the program tells me my version is up to date, no updates available. I was not involved in Beta.
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Tim Olson  
#7 Posted : Sunday, March 3, 2019 3:06:04 PM(UTC)
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We plan to create 1428 WIP builds for ViaCAD/TurboCAD Mac end of this week.

WIP builds are developer builds that have not gone through the QA cycle after a release leading to a service pack. They require a serial number else run in trial mode.

We give WIP builds to tech support to address specific customer issues.

We're also doing a SharkCAD Pro 11 beta. A beta is a build before a major release that does not require serial numbers but expires in 30 days.

You can download WIP and Beta builds from:
http://www.masterviacad.com/beta/beta.php

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