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What' new in
GeoTools V11:
( Includes all changes since the
last update of GeoTools V10 [i.e. 10.15] )
GeoTools V11 is the first
version of GeoTools to be compatible with AutoCAD 2011.
New commands added in GeoTools V11
GT_BC_OD2XD
command: GeoTools -> AutoCAD Map Tools
->
Bricscad/plain AutoCAD compatibility tools -> Convert Object
Table Data to Xdata.
GT_BC_ODEDIT
command: GeoTools -> AutoCAD Map
Tools ->
Bricscad/plain AutoCAD compatibility tools -> Edit
object data from AutoCAD Map
GT_BC_XD2OD
command: GeoTools -> AutoCAD
Map Tools -> Bricscad / Plain
AutoCAD compatibility tools -> Transfer Xdata to Object Data (for use after Bricscad / Plain AutoCAD
editing only).
GT_DWGBROWSER
command: GeoTools -> Diverse Tools -> DWG anschauen von Multipel-aktenmappen, mit thumbnail Vorschau
GT_HNDLABEL command:
GeoTools -> Annotation -> Objekt-Handles ausstellen als Textlabellen
GT_EXPLODE2LAYER command :
GeoTools -> Blöcke
-> Blocks explodieren zu einer spezifizierten layer
GT_CREATEANNOT command
: GeoTools -> Annotation -> Annotationen krieren an Kreuzungen
GT_MEASUREMANY command :
GeoTools -> Build -> Measure mulitple objects
GT_PLANARPOLY command :
GeoTools -> Drawing Cleanup -> Make polylines/3dfaces planar
Commands
Enhanced or changed
1. GT_PARTSTRETCH (GeoTools  Polylinie Tool Set 1 Teil einer Polylinie strecken):
command when the first segment of the polyline was picked
for stretching.
2. GT_PARTROTATE (GeoTools Polylinie
Tool Set 1 Teil einer Polylinie
drehen): When the base point for
rotation is asked, the OSNAP mode is now set automatically to ENDpoint. (enhancement)
3. GT_PARTOFFSET/GT_PARTCOPY/GT_PARTRESHAPE/GT_PARTROTATE/
GT_PARTSTRETCH (GeoTools Polylinie
Tool Set 1): All these commands now set and restore their OSNAP setting.
4. GT_XFER_OD_XD : (GeoTools AutoDesk Map Tools Objektdaten zwischen zwei
Objekten übertragen) : This command caused a crash in plain
AutoCAD. This has been fixed.
5. GT_ALIGNTEXT (GeoTools Text Tools Textobjekte ausrichten) and GT_ALINGTEXT2LINE
(GeoTools Text Tools Textobjekte zu Linie
ausrichten): These two commands now call and run correctly from the pull-down menu as well as
the toolbars. Until now, they were
calling a wrong command name and displaying
a message to the effect that the command name has changed but with no offer to run that command.
6. GT_OD2XD (GeoTools AutoDesk Map
Tools Objektdaten
in EED-Daten umwandeln) : This command would not work correctly if there was only one
object table in the drawing if the
user clicked Ok without selecting it with a mouse click. The implicit, autmoatic selection of a single
object data table was not working.
This has been fixed now.
7. General change: All commands that require a
block to be inserted would work
correctly only if the block was defined with the default setting of "Non-Uniform scaling". If
this default was changed and a block
created with "Uniform XY Scaling", the block insertion would
not work correctly in certain
AutoCAD versions. This has now been fixed. A number of other small bugs have been fixed and
improvements made.
8. General change: The AutoCAD menu bar with the
GeoTools menu is now made visible automatically upon loading GeoTools.
Tip: In the event you do not
see the AutoCAD (and GeoTools) menubar, type MENUBAR on the command line
and set the value to 1.
9. GT_IMPEX (GeoTools Export Tools Import/Export von Punkten und Linien) now provides an
additional option under the 'Export Options' dialog box called 'Append
object handle to the exported record'. If this option is checked, the last
field in the exported record will be the object handle. When used in
conjunction with the GT_HNDLABEL command, the handle export can be used as
a means to correlate visually between the records in the ASCII file
against the objects in the drawing.
10. The GT_MREDEFINE (GeoTools Blöcke Tools Mehrfaches Umdefinieren von Blöcken und Layern)
command updates block definition - color, layer, elevation and thickness
of objects. A new option 'LineWidth' has been added and this command will
now update line widths of lines, polylines and arcs within the block
definition.
11. The GT_IMPEX command (GeoTools Export Tools Import/Export von
Punkten und Linien) now supports additional options for
import/export. You can specify 'Start' and 'Stop' codes for linear
records. A Start or Stop code is added to each linear record at the
beginning or end of the record and denotes if the point in question is the
last point or not in a linear sequence of points.
12. The GT_AUTOINCROD command (GeoTools AutoDesk Map
Tools automatisch
nummerierte Objektdaten erzeugen) now has an additional option to
assign incrementing object table data in a X/Y sorted manner. With options
similar to those provided by the GT_SORTEDPOLY command, you can now assign
incrementing object data with X/Y coordinates sorted.
13. The GT_ANNOGRID (GeoTools Bauwesen Tools Das
Gitter für die Karte erzeugen): use supporting DWG files which used to be located
in a common folder called 'BLOCKS' under the GeoTools installation folder.
Anticipating that commands may need to use their own support files in the
future, a new folder called "Support" has now been created under
the GeoTools installation folder and all support files specific to each
command will be placed in a folder by the name of that command.
For example, the support files
used by GT_ANNOGRID will now be placed in <install_folder>/Support/ANNOGRID
folder.
14. The GT_VEGLINE
command (GeoTools Zeichnen Tools Vegetationsbedeckung
als Symbole zeichnen) now offers 6 pre-defined PAR files which
are useful to draw vegetation symbols for (T)rees, (S)hrubs and (H)edges,
with scales of 1:200 and 1:500. The names of the files are HPOLY500.PAR,
TPOLY500.PAR, SPOLY500.PAR, HPOLY200.PAR, TPOLY200.PAR and SPOLY200.PAR.
You can use these files as a guide to set GT_VEGLINE parameters which are
suggested best fits for the type of vegetation and the scales. If you
don't like the parameters, feel free to save your own and retrieve later.
15. The GT_ATTEDIT
command (GeoTools Blöcke Tools Block-Attribut-Editor)
now allows block attribute increments and decrements in real numbers also.
Until now, only integer increments and decrements were possible
16. The GT_ENCLOSE command (GeoTools Text Tools Text in Box einschließen): The GT_ENCLOSE command now supports additional options to enclose
text objects. You can now use either a
WIPEPOUT, SOLID or 3DFACE object to create
the enclosing bounding box. These are provided under the 'Box' sub-option and closely mimics the AutoCAD TEXTMASK
command.
17. The GT_LAYERMAN command (GeoTools Diverse Tools Layernamen Editor): Two additional options have been introduced 'Add at Position'
and 'Strip at Position'. These two
options allow you to add or remove a specified
number of characters from the layer name starting from a specified position.
For instance, if you have layers called LOTS-LABELS,
LOTS-LINES and LOTS-CENTROIDS and would
like to rename them to LOTS-OLD-LABELS, LOTS-OLD-LINES and LOTS-OLD-CENTROIDS,
this is the tool to use.
18. The GT_SURFAREA command (GeoTools Diverse Tools 3D-Fläche berechnen): can now be used to
optionally create 'projected' 3DFACE
objects on the XY plane, when you choose the option 'Projected(horizontal)' area. This is in addition to
the projected area reporting that is
performed by the command.
19. The GT_INSVX command (GeoTools Polylinie
Tool Set 1 Stützpunkt einfügen)
: Until now,you were only able to add a new vertex at a point on the
existing segment of the polyline. The
GT_INSVX now allows you to pick a point outside
the polyline and a new vertex will be added at the picked location. The segment closest to the picked point
will redraw itself to include the new
vertex.
20. The GT_FLIP command (GeoTools Polylinie
Tool Set 1 Richtung
umkehren): The GT_FLIP command has been made more intuitive,
with clearer dialog descriptions. A bug
has been fixed which affected 2- vertex
polylines. Additionally, support for LINE objects has been added when 'High-2-Low' and 'Low-2-high' options are
chosen.
21. The GT_ENDELEVCHECK command (GeoTools  Bereinigung Tools Check for coincident (XY) endpoints with varying
Z):The GT_ENDELEVCHECK command now
provides an option to create a single 3d polyline from the joined objects.
22. The GT_3DJ command (GeoTools Polylinie
Tool Set 1 3D-Polylinien verbinden) : The
GT_3DJ command now allows LWPOLYLINE objects
to be selected as inputs. You can now
provide a combination of light-weight, heavy-weight polylines as well as lines and 3DPOLYlines as inputs for this
command.
Interface changes
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Bug Fixes
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1. GeoTools V11 (running in
trial mode only, not licensed versions) was causing an unexplained freeze in
AutoCAD 2011 and the only way out was to shut down AutoCAD. This has now been
fixed. We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused to all our AutoCAD
2011 evaluation users.
2. Some commands in GeoTools were
incorrectly displaying a message "There is no license to run this
command". This bug sneaked in during one of the earlier updates back and
has been fixed now.
3.The GT_DRAPEPOLY (GeoTools
-> Build Tools -> Drape a 3d polyline across a set of intersecting linear
objects) command would freeze AutoCAD if a LINE object was supplied as a source
object. This has been fixed now.
GeoTools
Tutorial
GeoTools
Tutorial Lesson 14
This tutorial covers how to
utilize some of GeoTools Block / Attribute
tools to edit, modify the block attributes
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