ZWCAD+ 2015 SP2 Release Notes
Vernum=2015.04.18(26908)
ZWCAD+ 2015 SP2 comes with new exciting features such as flip arrow direction of
dimensions, 3GB OS switch and new image plotters(BMP/JPEG), and also some
enhancements with frequently used tools to make them much easier to use such as
reference manager, license manager, quick selection, in-place edit dimension,
PROPOBJLIMIT setting, detailed and useful prompt messages for some commands
(chamfer/fillet/open file ) , last but not least SP2 fixed more than 160 bugs/requirements
reported by customers.
1 New features
1.1 AIDIMFLIPARROW - flip the arrows of the dimensions
You can flip the arrow direction of linear/aligned/angular/arc length/radius/diameter
dimensions.
Issues under fixing:
 8888 - after flip the arrows, if you repeat undo/redo commands, you may get
extra arrows
 8889 - cannot flip the arrows which the arrow style is integral, architectural tick
or oblique
 8892 - cannot flip the arrows of jogged linear dimensions
 8895 - call AIDIMFLIPARROW in the command line, select non-dimension
entities, cancel the command, select non-dimension entities again, ZWCAD+
would hang.
 8898/8911 – if you save the drawing early version of DXF file format such as
DXF2004 or DXF2000, the flipped arrow will flip back automatically.
1.2 3GB OS Switch - allocate more memory to ZWCAD+
on 32 system
On 32 system, turn on the 3GB switch will allocate more memory to ZWCAD+. If the
physical memory is 3GB, turn on the switch, ZWCAD+ can take up 1.8GB to 2.0GB, if the
physical memory is above 4GB, ZWCAD+ can take up 2.5GB and more. This makes
ZWCAD+ work more fluently, especially with large drawings.
1.3 Newly added BMP/JPEG plotters
Now we can plot drawings to BMP/JPEG files with ZWCAD+ embedded image plotter
1.4 New Commands and System Variables
PAINTPROP[8698/T9731] - enable property match between different drawings
JWWIMPORT (JPN version only) - import *.jww files
JWWTOOLVERNO (JPN version only) - check the information of JWWIMPORT
MBUTTONORBIT - Control whether to enable the function of performing 3D
Orbit by using the <Shift+middle mouse button> shortcut
 ZWZRXCHECKMSG - Control whether to display the ZRXSDK check message when
loading the ZRX file compiled by ZRXSDK
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2 Enhancement
2.1 Reference Manager
We make great improvements to reference manager:
 provide right click menu
 full path in tree
 can export the report
 list the plot style and plot configuration information
But please note that there are some issues under fixing:
× the reference manager cannot show .stb plot style information
× the reference manager cannot show plot configuration information which the
configuration is set by "pagesetup"
× the reference manager cannot export the nested structure of the nested block
2.2 In-place edit the dimensions
Double click the dimension, you can in-place edit the dimension directly, no need to
select the dimensioned entity
2.3 License Manager - Enable alternative server for
floating license obtainment
Enable the alternative server, so that when the preferred server was down and could not
distribute floating licenses, the license manager would try to obtain floating license from
the alternative server automatically. As long as the preferred server is detectedly
recovered, the license manager would make it preferred and request floating license
from it again automatically. This setting makes the management of network licenses
much simpler, and save a lot from the problem that the server is unstable or down.
2.4 PROPOBJLIMIT -extend the valid range
This is a system variable that controls how many entities the properties panel could
count most. We now extend the range from 0~25000 to 0~32767.
The default value of PROPOBJLIMIT is 25000, if the number of selected entities is above
PROPOBJLIMIT, the properties panel will show "No Selection", otherwise the properties
panel will show the exactly number and the general information.
2.5 Drag Drawing Tab
You can drag the drawing tab to change the order of opened drawings
2.6 Useful and detailed prompt messages
2.6.1 File Format Information
Prompt the file format information in the command line when you open a file, support
DWG/DXF/DWT file format.
2.6.2 Xref Manager show the file format of attached file
If you attach an external file, ZWCAD+ will prompt the file information in the command
line, and the Xref Manager will show the file format of attached file.
2.6.3 Prompt message of default value of CHAMFER & FILLET
ZWCAD+ 2015 SP1 removed these prompt information, and now they come back!
2.6.4 Extracting prompt of the installation package
Provide a friendly extracting prompt when the installation package is extracting
2.6.5 Quick Select enhancement
When selecting block by name, the quick select manager will list the blocks name order
by value
3 Fixed bugs
We fixed more than 150 issues reported by customer, some of them are listed below:
 3356/T5769/6803/7546 - drag the drawing tab to change the order of open drawings
 4774/T6539: imageframe: cannot turn off the image frame by system variable
IMAGEFRAME
6802: chspace - select some entities, then call CHSPACE command, the entities failed
to display in the layout
8454- image- if the drawing contains images with no file name extension, ZWCAD+
cannot display it right, and the image manager will not show the information of these
kind of images
 8402/T9423: Unicode - In Hebrew system, call "Edit Scale List" dialog box by some
specific lisp program, the texts display wrong on the dialog box.
 8502:STLOUT- remove STLOUT from ZWCAD+ STD version
 8515: when using multiple monitors, the system always display ZWCAD+ on the main
monitor when you start up ZWCAD+, even if you drag it to another monitor, next
time you start up, it displays on the main monitor. And you cannot turn on the tool
bar by "CUSTOMIZE"
 8519/T9551/8552/T9619: plot with DWF plotter by ZWCAD+ 2015 SP1, the dwf is
much larger than that plot by ZWCAD+2014
 8558/T9626:dimlinear\Unicode-some specific drawing contains dimensions using
wplus.shx show as "???" in system with Hebrew as region language, but allright in
English region language system
 8525/T9572: refedit - edit some specific drawing with REFEDIT and save it, try
REFEDIT again, then you get error message and fail to edit it.
 8562/T9642:create tool palette of blocks in design center by right click menu, the
created palette is always empty
 8571:PROPOBJLIMIT -extend the valid range from 0~25000 to 0~32767.
 8585/8800:imageattach\TFW -use TFW file to locate image when insert it to
drawing, but the result is not very accurate
 8606/T9681: dxf/open- failed to open some specific .dxf file
 8607/T9194: ruler\mtext- the text editor cannot remember the status of ruler last
time you set, and each time you open text editor, the ruler is always on
 8611/T9682:dxf/save - failed to save specific drawing to DXF2000 file
 8628:Layiso - default option should be "Lock and fade"
 8651: prompt more detail information about why the workstation fail to get floating
license
 8698/T9731:PAINTPROP - enable property match between different drawings
 8712/T9748: setvar/cecolor - failed to set CECOLOR as BYLAYER in polish version
 8713/T9749: eattedit-failed to edit the attributes in some specific drawings in polish
version
 8775: 3GB OS Switch, allocate more memory to ZWCAD+ on 32 system
 8780/8781:prompt message of default value of CHAMFER & FILLET
 8790/T9848/8838/T9928:publish/dwf - publish some specific drawing as dwf,
ZWCAD+ will crash or fail to publish
 8771: osnap\extension - the color of extension line is too close to the default
background color in model space
 8813/T9886: open/security – cannot open drawings with password set in AutoCAD
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4 Appendix: Newly support ZRX interface
AcDbDynBlockReferenceProperty();
AcDbDynBlockReference(AcDbObjectId blockRefId);
AcDbEvalVariant(double dVal);
~AcDbDynBlockReference();
~AcDbDynBlockReferenceProperty();
AcDbDynBlockReferenceProperty::setValue(const AcDbEvalVariant& value);
AcDbDynBlockReferenceProperty::value() const;
AcDbDynBlockReferenceProperty::propertyName() const;
AcDbDynBlockReferenceProperty::getAllowedValues(AcDbEvalVariantArray& values);
AcDbDynBlockReference::isDynamicBlock() const;
AcDbDynBlockReference::getBlockProperties(AcDbDynBlockReferencePropertyArray&
properties) const;
Global function：
acplPublishExecute(AcPl2DSDData
bShowPlotProgress);
dsdDataObj,
AcPlPlotConfig*
pConfig,
bool