Qscape
new release
Version 29.1 7th March 2024
Fixed
1.
Updated
registered office address on EULA.
2.
Fixed
"false negative" license check issue on certain cloud servers.
Version 29.0 17th November 2023
Supported CAD versions
·
BricsCAD
Pro (or higher) V18 to V24
·
AutoCAD
2021 to 2024
New
1.
BricsCAD V24 supported.
2.
BricsCAD only - QTools - QscapePrint button - Temporarily hides QSoft's and
QHard's hatch boundaries before printing/pdf’ing.
Improved
1.
Remastered/designed icons for CAD interface - Now better optimised for Ribbon and large toolbar
sizes. Ribbon buttons now have labels. Labels are in part to make it more
compliant with the new BricsCAD V24 Ribbon where you can now toggle labels
on/off through the blue "Interface settings" label on top/right of
Ribbon.
2.
QTools toolbar/panel - Add Northing Easting label tool - The tool adds a
Northing/Eastings block + leader + label (using CAD's World Coordinates System)
- The Northing and Eastings labels now report back solely in metres, regardless
of the working units of the drawing. So if Qscape's units is set to "mm",
the coordinates will be converted back to metres (as per the British National
Grid) again for the label. NB The tool has a command line option to also return
simple XY coordinates, these won't be converted and will always report the true
WCS point (if working in mm).
3.
QMeasure - Cost Estimates/Schedule of Quantities - Grand
total area/length calculations - for eg hatch layers, closed polyline layers,
linear polyline layers, eg Turf, edges, shrub beds are now always rounded up to
the m2. Previously they were rounded to the nearest m2. This could cause issues
on smaller schemes eg if there is a single area/length of an item under 0.5m2,
it would erroneously be reported as 0m2 in the Cost estimate or Schedule of
Quantities.
Fixed
1. QAbout- Check
for Updates - Update available dialog - Release
Notes link was broken.
Fixed
3. QPlants -
Settings - Label Content - Removal of constituent plants
from Plant Mix labels (ie unticking the checkbox) failed for mixes which
comprised a very long list of constituent plants. Some of the plants failed to
be removed from the label leaving a discombobulated looking plant mix label).
Version 28.0 12th June 2023
Supported CAD versions
·
BricsCAD
Pro (or higher) V18 to V23
·
AutoCAD
2021 to 2024
New
1.
AutoCAD 2024 supported.
Version 27.1 22nd March 2023
Improved
1.
BricsCAD only – Start up - If Qscape menu is loaded but BricsCAD is being
run at "Lite" license level - a Brx applications not supported
warning dialog at startup appeared. It
is now supressed.
Fixed
1.
AutoCAD only - QPlantPARTNER - When
navigating the PlantPARTNER website (eg to import products or schedules),
script errors would popup in the HTML control every time the page changed and
needed cancelling. They didn't prevent usage but were annoying and now been
fixed.
2.
CHM Help/PDF User Manual - Fixed some out of date information eg office
addresses, phone numbers, system requirements etc.
3.
QHard - Poly M tab - Drawing Extruded polylines - Qscape changes changes CAD's
"OffsetErase" setting to true but did not reset to the original
value.
Version 27.0 2nd December 2022
Supported CAD versions
·
BricsCAD
Pro (or higher) V18 to V23
·
AutoCAD
2020 to 2023
New
1. BricsCAD V23
supported.
Fixed
2. Qscape menu
files and resource files - now copied from Menu subfolder
in Qscape Program Files directory into a Menu sub folder in "Qscape
Application Data" folder. This
folder is read/writeable, so allows resource files to be generated on the fly
as required by AutoCAD and/or BricsCAD. Previously start-up crashes would occur
occasionally for some users. AutoCAD
only - the Menu subfolder is remapped in File Support Paths and added to
AutoCAD's Trusted locations.
Version 26.2 12th October 2022
Fixed
1.
Registering for license key – through KTF license server -
Failed if various non alpha numeric characters appeared in user serial numbers
or user entered text (eg apostrophes, various brackets, accents, tildes etc).
Also failed if a field length was over 120 characters. Regression added v26.0.
Version 26.1 19th August 2022
Fixed
1.
Registering for license key - QIPCONFIG" command – for getting Network Adaptor
information. Failed if list of properties of a Network adapter was too short.
Some VPN's eg ExpressVPN if installed would cause the list to be shorter.
2. Registering for
license key - "DisableKTFEmailRelay"
command (New command for v26.0 for forcing user email registration method
rather than through KTF server) caused registration process to crash.
3. Registering for
license key - Failed
when Window Log in names have a space in them eg "Joe Blogs". Regression added v26.0.
Note
1.
Download (no register urls) on various pages - updated for new (php 8.0
compatible download website forms). V26.0 and earlier Qscape version download
links will stop working, once website if fully switched over in November 2022.
Version 26.0 29th July 2022
Supported CAD versions
·
BricsCAD
Pro (or higher) V16 to V22
·
AutoCAD
2016 to 2023
New
1. AutoCAD 2023
supported.
2. QTools - QColor - New GUI. BricsCAD V21
onwards. (Support for AutoCAD to follow
in due course all going to plan). This
tool allows the quick creation of coloured plans. It adds Solid Washes to
hatches, closed polylines, linear polylines (with width value, eg kerbs, block
edges) and blocks (where the picked subentity is a closed polyline). A new
layer of the same name of the picked entity layer (or block name for blocks),
with the prefix "qcolor-" is created. The colour and transparency can
then be further titivated in the Layer Manager.
There is also a propagate button, where qcolor will try to apply the
wash to all similar entities and the ability to swap wash colours etc, delete
them etc. Further development to follow
in due course for instance a dedicated layer colour
manager/transparency/RGB/ACI Grid control.
3. QSoft/QHard -
New complex linetype - QLTYPE_067 shrubs/hedge hybrid
type appearance. NB Please find new Linetypes at bottom of the linetype pickers
as they appear in alphanumerical order.
4. Network
Licensing – Preliminary support added - KTF NLM License Manager can be placed in a shared folder on LAN eg
"\\CustomerServer\\Customer_Selected_Shared_Folder". This will allow
unlimited users, but a maximum number of concurrent users. This facility is in
"beta" and is turned off by default. It requires special files
(available on request) for it to be enabled.
Improved
1. License Key
Registration - New registration system,
relayed through KTFsoftware servers. New streamlined registration process -
User fills License Key Registration Form - Then the software will try to talk
to KTF Server directly, if fails will automatically switch to email method
(where user will be asked to copy/paste or attach the registration details
manually and email them to us).
2. "QFixView"
command now turns "Perspective"
off (if its on) and resets the dwg's VisualStyle to 2DWireframe (as that is the
optimum Visualstyle for 2D drafting).
3. QTools - QCoordinates - command made clearer that it now accepts keyboard entries for the
point eg in the form of 1000,2000 when inserting the point block. It will also
center the view on the new point, if it is off screen.
4. Toolbars/Ribbon - Button icons remastered to properly support large buttons sizes.
Ribbon design refreshed. QBlocks now
moved to the QTools toolbar/ribbon panel (Along with QColor). The intention
being to keep the Qscape focussed on the core – (QSoft, QHard, QPlants and
QMeasure).
Fixed
1. QPlants -
Hedges tab - ListView - The last hedge in the
hedges.dat file would not appear in the list if there wasn't a blank line
underneath it in the hedge.dat file.
2. QPlants -
Hedges tab - Add Hedge label to drawing -
There was some "undo" "flotsam" on the command line.
3. QPlants - Plant
labels (mtext and leader entities) - Annotative scaling - if the current dimension style is annotative. Then these entities are
drawn annotatively too. This isn't
usually desirable behaviour as Qscape is a "what you see is what you
get" program and you want what you see in your model space be reflected in
the viewport. This is because plant labels are often densely packed or you
don't want them obstructing part of the drawing. Qscape now creates its own "clean"
dimstyle called "qscape" and uses this for the plant labels.
4. QSoft/QHard - Error on launch if the Listbox is empty for instance if the
All/Used/defined/checked toggle button is set to defined but nothing is defined
in the dwg.
5. QTools -
Qscalebar - Failed to import if Attribute
Dialog box (AttDia) was set to on.
6. QSoft - PolyM2 - Colour of "Planting-Ornamental Mixes" was ACI 66 (muddy
green) not green (ACI 3) in the Support
folder. (Out of Factory settings).
7. QMeasure -
Quantities/Costs tab - Schedule of Quantities - If using Public/Private mode - Hard Landscape for "Private"
areas was omitted. (Still included in Cost Estimates).
8. QTools -
BMask-on button - Add Background Mask, didn't
bring entity to the front, so depending on the draworder, the mask didn't
always fully display.
Depreciated
1. QAbout - A few
website label buttons (eg file support request, contact
us, feature request). They were rarely used and will fail when a new form
system is implemented at www.qscape.co.uk in the near future. So removed now.
2. AutoCAD – QPoly Toolbar automatically appearing - The auto-pop
up by the dialog when drawing polylines/hatch boundaries functionality is
depreciated due to fatal crashes occurring for some AutoCAD users. Workaround
is to now click the command line, instead of typing "l" or
"a", or just have the toolbar permanently docked in the interface.
(NB Crashes understood to be due to issue of an AutoCAD uninstaller wiping out
the ObjectDBX entries for ALL installed versions instead of just the one it was
uninstalling!").
Version 25.1 30th November 2021
Fixed
1. AutoCAD
2022/2021 - Start up failed with error (for intermittent AutoCAD users) – The Qscape Menu file ("Qscape.cuix") loaded but with errors
and failed to add the toolbars which caused start up to fail when Qscape tried
to “force show” the missing toolbars.
Workaround was to delete the
Qscape.cuix companion files "Qscape.mnr" and
"Qscape_light.mnr" files (from a writeable directory) and then
regenerate them fresh again). Menus are
now all recompiled again for AutoCAD 2022.
Have put a protocol in place for developer to ensure this is done for
each new release of AutoCAD even if the legacy cuix works on our system).
Version 25.0 4th November 2021
Supported CAD versions
·
BricsCAD
Pro (or higher) V16 to V22
·
AutoCAD
2016 to 2022
New
1. BricsCAD V22
supported.
Fixed
1. AutoCAD -
QMeasure - Plant Schedule Import ("Default" style) - When dwg has a rotated user UCS (with ucsfollow=1) - The angles of the
lines of text became discombobulated.
2. AutoCAD -
QMeasure - Plant Schedule Import ("Table" style) - When dwg has a rotated user UCS (with uscsfollow=1) - The table was
imported rotated to the World UCS not the Current UCS.
3. AutoCAD -
QMeasure - Create Cost Estimate - Routine
failed if there were errors in the data file (perhaps from manual edits). Now skips over problematic lines rather than
fails.
4. QPlants -
Leader Reattach button - When dwg has rotated UCS
(ucsfollow=1). The label/leader combinations were recreated in the wrong place.
5. AutoCAD 2022 -
Start up - Errors would appear on the
command line "** Undefined Shape 10" then repeated through to
"** Undefined Shape 15". Did not prevent usage. Issue was found to be undefined Shapes in
QD_Linetypes.dwg. (Ferreted out and deleted the offending (invisible) Shapes
with the help BricsCAD's Structure Browser and zooming to them. Deleting
invisible/empty ones.
6. QMeasure -
Plant Schedule - Export to Excel - Columns
for "Bamboos" "Climbers", "Bulb/Wildflower Mixes"
and "Aquatic/Marginal Mixes" became discombobulated.
7. QSoft/QHard -
Hatch tab and Polyline tabs - Drawmode = "Swap" - If the target polyline (including hatch boundaries) entity colour
properties wasn’t "bylayer" - a major crash would occur, then Qscape
could not be launched again until BricsCAD was restarted. (The hatch entities
were simply ignored and would stay the same colour. This is now also fixed and they now get
swapped to colour = bylayer too).
8. Plants - Find
& Replace - Plant mixes, hedge mixes and
hedges weren't found. Regression added in v24.3.
Version 24.3 23rd September 2021
Improved
1. Startup – Insunits -
Qscape no longer resets "insunits" to 0 (unitless) as that maybe
times where this behaviour is undesirable eg if inserting xrefs or blocks of
different drawing units from the current drawing and the “insunits” is set up
accordingly in all the files.
Fixed
1. Start
up/Welcome - "Register for License Key" - The "register by
email" option was broken and caused Qscape to crash.
2. QPlants - Find
& Replace - False positive
plant abbreviations would be found (and replaced) if the abbreviation was the
same but with a different suffix. Eg If searching for the abbreviation
"Abe Mas" - The abbreviation "Abe Mas 5L" would also be
found (and replaced).
Version 24.2 27th August 2021
Improved
1. QSoft/QHard - Draw Polylines/Hatches (in Draw mode) - Can now click the "draw Line", "draw
Arcs" etc command line options similar to using the native
"pline" commmand.
Fixed
1. BricsCAD only-
QSoft/QHard - Draw polylines (in Draw mode) – Command line echoing wasn't supressed (when the
floating "QPoly2" Toolbar was displayed). This made the command line
options difficult to follow. Regression added v23.1.
2. QSoft - Blocks - Purged some superfluous layers
eg QD-Private-Planting Distance, QD-Label-Plant, QD-Soft from the blocks in the
"factory" My Qscape Documents folder.
3. QSoft/QHard - Hatch - Settings - Hatch Preview/picker dialog – the "QGrass_3"
hatch preview was missing.
4. QPlantPARTNER -
Product Import failed.
Version 24.1 29th June 2021
Fixed
1.
QPlants - Accidentally included a plant palette not meant for “shipping”.
Supported CAD versions
·
BricsCAD
Pro (or higher) V16 to V21
·
AutoCAD
2016 to 2022
New
2. AutoCAD 2022
supported.
Fixed
5.
QSoft/QHard - Drawing polylines/hatches - When using
multiple screens - process
failed with error when "Show QPoly toolbar" setting is turned on (the
default setting) and using multiple monitors. This pops up when manually
drawing polylines. Regression added in v22.0.
6.
QPlantPARTNER - Product Import failed due to changes to PP website.
Some Schedule Import became discombobulated. Now improved to approx 80%
success. Still a few plants which still not imported quite correctly)
7.
BricsCAD V21 - QPlants - All/Used filter – The Used plants filter failed
and showed no plants. Bug developed
sometime after BricsCAD V21.1.06, first reported in BricsCAD release V21.2.05,
so likely then. Patch in core Qscape created to accommodate, as not sure
BricsCAD timeframe for bug fix.
Version 23.0 4th December 2020
Supported CAD versions
·
BricsCAD
Pro (or higher) V16 to V21
·
AutoCAD
2016 to 2021
New
1. BricsCAD V21
supported.
Improved
2. BricsCAD - Ignore Lines - as used for
Plant schedules and cost estimates.
False positives were returned if flotsam segments of ignore lines
occurred in the dwg or the closed polyline was really small. This resulted in
plants/entities not being picked up. Now
Qscape only reads them if they are closed (or seemingly closed) and have a
minimum area of 1m2.
3. Debugger – Now accommodates the CAD configuration pre-routines.
Fixed
8. QSoft - PolyM
tab – Swap mode – When swapping entities using
"Swap mode" failed with error.
9. Qscape launch -
failed to launch with error when
using a KeyTERRA-Firma CAD Profile. (Regression added v22.0)
Version 22.0 3rd July 2020
Supported CAD versions
·
BricsCAD
Pro (or higher) V16 to V20
·
AutoCAD
2016 to 2021
New
1. AutoCAD 2021
supported.
Improved
1. Program Support folders - moved from %ProgramData%/Qscape Application data
to %ProgramFiles%/Qscape/Support. This is to facilitate future support for BSB
(OEM) software.
2. QPlants -
Favourites - Export – The “Archive” folder is now built
on the fly as required. The “Copy” checkbox is now depreciated (Favourite files
are copy exported now as a matter of course). Favourite files can of course
then be deleted as desired thought the Favourites interface. (This is to
simplify the interface).
Fixed
1. Hatch Boundary visibility functions (qhbvis,qhbinvis) - The visibility state of the
layer name wouldn’t update, if it had been manually renamed eg by using
"-rename" command and the text case (eg L l, H h) didn't match the
case defined in the Layer definitions stored in the "My Qscape Documents"
folder (or the program code).
2. “Remove_Qscape”
command – the command failed to remove File
support Paths (if used before Qscape had been launched).
3. AutoCAD -
Register for License Key – The Online
option failed with error.
4. QSoft/QHard -
QPoly toolbar – The toolbar (optionally) pops up
when manually drawing polylines. For some AutoCAD versions (Students versions
suspected) - Qscape would error as the AutoCAD doesn't recognise the toolbar as
defined in the CUI. The show/hide
toolbar routines now made more robust, so don’t error if the toolbar isn’t
found for some reason. Qscape just moves on.
5. Welcome/Register
dialogue boxes - "Contact Us" hyperlinks
were opening website using obsolete http (unsecure links).
6. Startup - Qscape would fail to launch with error if a drawing does
not have an annotative scale of "1:1" defined in it. (Qscape tries
reset "cannoscale" to "1:1" if in model space at start up)
Version 21.1 27th November 2019
Fixed
1. QPlants - QPlantPARTNER - Import button failed to appear when browsing to PP
"Product" or "Schedules" pages. (due to loss of
"www" in PP Location Urls). Qscape now accommodates both.
2. QPlants - QPlantPARTNER - Obsolete login
instructions appeared when not on Schedule or Product Pages.
3. QPlants - QPlantPARTNER -
Schedule Import failed. (Logged here in case the bug developed before Item 1).
Version 21.0 6th November 2019
Supported CAD versions
·
BricsCAD
Pro (or higher) V16 to V20
·
AutoCAD
2016 to 2020
New
1. BricsCAD V20
supported.
Improved
1. Ribbon interface -
Buttons "QLayerOrder", "QXrefOrder", "Add vertex"
(BricsCAD only) ported from the QTools toolbar. Buttons/Rows/Panels arrangement
tweaked.
Fixed
1. QPlants - QPlantPARTNER -
Automatic log in system updated to accord with PlantPARTNER login changes. Protocol previously was a url constructed
from user name and password. Now users retrieve a direct access url from their
Account page in PlantPARTNER.
QPlantPARTNER automatic login system updated accordingly.
Version 20.2 18th July 2019
1. QSoft/QHard/QTools - Make Hatch Boundaries Visible - Routine
failed. (Make Hatch boundaries invisible worked though). Regression added in
V20.0.
2. Startup - Register for License Key - Register by Email
option - Open preferred Browser option -
Failed to register serial number and delete old license information on pc. So
license key activation would fail using this method. Feature/Regression added
in V20.0.
Version 20.1 11th July 2019
Fixed
1. QSoft - PolyM2 tab - Drawing closed polylines (eg planting
beds) - The original polyline failed to
be deleted (if using automatic offset) when drawn in a clockwise
direction. Regression added in V20.0.
Version 20.0 7th June 2019
·
BricsCAD
Pro (or higher) V16 to V19
·
AutoCAD
2016 to 2020
New
1. AutoCAD 2020
supported.
2. QSettings -
QPSLTSCALE - Paper/Model space scaling – (QPSLTSCALE command) – This is a
new Qscape setting/interface that allows you to override Qscape's default MODEL
space linetype scaling, (PSLTSCALE = 0) with PAPER space linetype scaling
(PSLTSCALE = 1). The QPSLTSCALE
interface will allow you to physically rescale the Qscape linetype entities so
they are correctly scaled for a sepcified viewport scale eg 1:200. We do recommend using MODEL space scaling
where possible (as the Qscape polyline lin file is optimised for this), but on
occasions where PSLTSCALE=1 is required (for instance to tie in with
drawings/work by others – this interface makes it quick and easy to toggle back
and forth between paper/model space linetype scaling. Please note if you have been using the
“PsltscaleFix” patch, “qpsltscale” replaces that functionality but it won’t be
compatible with legacy drawings converted to PSLTSCALE=1 (using the
aforementioned patch).
3. QTools toolbar
- "QLayerOrder" button -
(QLAYERORDER command) - Launches an interface that allows changing the draw
order of layers through drag and drop actions, "bring to top" buttons
etc. The "gathered" layer
order is determined by the last drawn entity on a layer.
4. QTools toolbar
- "QXrefOrder" button -
(QXREFORDER command) - Launches an interface that allows changing the draw
order of all xrefs in a drawing through drag and drop actions, "bring to
top" buttons etc.
5. BricsCAD only –
QTools toolbar - "QAddVertex" button - (QADDVERTEX command) for quickly adding a vertex to an
existing polyline without going through the "Quad" (while pressing
<Ctrl>) or using the "pedit" command.
6. QHard - PolyM
tab – suite of buttons/tools for working with PolyM triple polylines - (NB These functions may not work on legacy drawings, but
will on drawings produced going forward):
i. “Select” button – Creates a gripped selection of QHard PolyM polyline(s)
along with the two associated edge lines (if applicable). Either the PolyM polyline or the Edge Line
can be picked. Note there are command line options to choose what is selected
eg all 3 polylines, or outer or inner.
ii. “Delete” button – As above but deletes.
Also includes command line options to choose eg
all 3 polylines, or outer or inner.
iii. “Trim” button – trims triple polyline(s) in a
single click.
iv. “Extend”
button - extend
triple polyline(s) in a single click.
v. “Edge Line
colour toggle” button - toggles colour of edge lines
between bylayer and the middle polyline entity colour.
Improved
1.
QHard - PolyM - Edge Line layer
naming convention -
The "dumb" edge lines which "sandwich" the main
dashed/complex polyline now have more intelligent naming convention. They are
now placed on layer QD-Edge Line_Hard, QD-Edge Line_Hard_Kerb, QD-Edge
Line_Hard_Paving or QD-Edge Line_Hard_Enclosure" as appropriate. The target layer is derived from text
pattern matching the layer of the main polyline eg if text string “KERB” is in the layer name - “QD-Edge
Line_Hard_Kerb” will automatically be delegated as the layer name for the edge
lines. This makes layer control easier
on a completed drawing easier eg for instance so you can turn off internal
paving lines but keep Kerb lines etc.
2. QHard - PolyM -
Swap mode - Now swaps triple polylines in
their entirety. The width and the two
"sandwich" edge-lines will also be recalibrated accordingly. NB This feature won’t work on legacy drawing,
but will on drawings produced going forwards.
3. Qscape License
Requests - Interface improved both for
"online" registering and "by email" registering. Less
onerous required fields with just name and email now minimum requirement. Third option for "Register by Email"
added which launches default email client.
4. "Luprec"
(Linear Unit Precicision Setting) -
This would previously be reset to 3 (0.000) at startup by Qscape. This is to
the nearest millimeter (if working at 1 CAD unit = 1 metre). This has been now bumped up to change a
drawing's luprec setting to 4, (if less than that value) at Startup. A luprec
value of 4 is CAD's default value, 8 is the maximum value.
5. QMeasure -
Plant Schedule (Table style) Import -
These can now only be imported into model space. Paper space imports would get discombobulated
when toggling between "mm" and "m".
6. QMeasure -
Plant Schedule (Table style) Import –
Tables now brought in as linework and mtext, as the Tables were proving
intransient for rescaling, switching units etc. KISS "Keep It Simple &
Stupid" principle applied.
7. QSettings -
"Metres/Millimetres Rescale Drawing" – Renamed and dialogue box reformatted to be clearer.
Checkbox has been added giving the option to update the zoom factors of the
viewports as part of the process.
8. QSettings -
QViewport - If a viewport is active - the
centering tool now automatically centers it.
9. QTools – added
to "Qscape" menu drop down –
this submenu duplicates the toolbar, but allows the functions to be more
instantly readable than the toolbar.
10. QSettings -
Metres/Millimetres - Rescale existing entities - "Regenall" call added to end of routine, to
reduce the need to type “regen” after using the function.
Fixed
1. Qscape License
Requests - Online option - Will now fail
for earlier versions of Qscape due to website switch from http to https
protocol.
2. QTools - Add
user defined label - failed to show the textbox form
due to depreciated subroutine.
Depreciation added Qscape v18.0.
3. QSoft - Poly M
- "Swap" mode - the last
drawn polyline was swapped rather than necessarily the actual picked polyline.
4. QPlants/QMeasure
- Mixes eg Plant Mixes, Hedge Mixes etc -
Constituent percentages of plants didn't display correctly for single integer
percentages eg "5%" if there was an empty space in the database for
instance "10% Ilex
aquifolium.." works; "5% Ilex
aquifolium.." works but " 5%
Ilex aquifolium.." did not work, note the black space at front.
5. QPlantPARTNER -
Product Import - For product sizes where there is
a PlantPARTNER image or if they are non-typical size - the imported plant
Spacing value became discombobulated.
6. QPlantPARTNER -
Schedule Import - Failed further to an update to PP
website.
7. QSettings -
Metre/Millimetres - Rescale Existing drawing
- Erronously recalculated Ltype scales of polylines when the setting PSLTSCALE
= 1 (On) ie Linetype scaling set to PAPER space. (Ltscales should stay the same
not change).
8. QSoft - Poly M2
- Draw Polyline using Swap mode -
When swapping to a complex polyline, the "linetype generation"
setting of the new entity wasn't turned on, so the symbols sometimes appeared
on the wrong side of the polyline eg on curves.
9. QAbout – Telephone and address updated to new details.
10. QPlants - All/Used Plants toggle - failed when mixes including constituent plants displayed
were in the drawing and the number of characters in the mtext entity exceeded
250. So larger mixes caused the routine
to break.
11. AutoCAD only - HTML controls/forms - several Internet Explorer Script error messages would pop
up when launched for certain websites (ones using
Joomla/Wordpress) eg Qscape website.
This affected registering for license keys using online option and
"Contact Us" forms etc accessed off QAbout. (Process still worked but
was off-putting to end user). HTML
Controls now replaced with browser for AutoCAD.
Version 19.0 20th November 2018
Supported CAD versions
·
BricsCAD
Pro (or higher) V16 to V19
·
AutoCAD
2016 to 2019
New
1. BricsCAD V19
supported.
2. Command
"QBlockDefsUpdate" - routine
to update existing block definitions in a legacy drawing with new definitions
as amended/stored in the "My Qscape Documents" folder. Please read command-line carefully when using
as it contains options to do certain blocks or update all block definitions.
Improved
1. QSoft/QHard –
Blocks tab - Settings – Block redefining -
code updated to more efficient code as developed for “QBlockDefsUpdate”
routine.
2. "Dimdec"
(Dimension Precison) setting was reset to 0 by Qscape at Start Up causing
dimensions (eg linear dimensions) to appear as round numbers (eg 40 rather than
39.95) when this behaviour is not necessarily desired. This setting can be
reset on the command line by typing "dimdec" and then entering an
integer for instance 0 for no decimal precision to 3 for 3 point decimal
precision.
3. QPlants -
Adding Hedge or Plant Mixes - Obsolete
command line muttering regarding undo marks had appeared.
Version 18.0 12th September 2018
Supported CAD versions
·
BricsCAD
Pro (or higher) V13 to V18
·
AutoCAD
2013 to 2019
New
1. AutoCAD 2019
supported.
2. Preliminary
support for High Res Screens -
Qscape GUI's (forms, controls, fonts etc) are now scaled in accordance with the
Windows Display/DPI settings eg Text, App etc Scaling Overrides. NB Graphic
buttons on GUI's and CAD toolbars/ribbon, don't yet scale unfortunately - So
for small, super high res screens, where the App Scaling override needs to be
very large, it is still better to "stop" down the resolution in
Windows' "Display settings" to something like 1920 x 1080p. (NB After changing display settings in
Windows, you should log out then in again for CAD to work properly).
3. QSoft/QHard - Hatch Settings - Hatch Selection icons – Proper hatch
selection palette added (with long overdue preview icons). This replaces the
rather unhelpful dropdown list of hatch names when select hatch patterns for a
new/existing hatch entity.
4. Command
"QDocsPath" - Opens a dialogue box telling you
whether you using Qscape in "Local" or "Network" mode and
gives you the Windows path to your current "My Qscape Documents"
folder. It also gives you to open the folder in Windows Explorer.
5. Commands
"QDocsZip", "QDocsUnzip", "QDocsExport",
"QDocsImport" – All do the
same thing and are a command line way of launching the revamped "My Qscape
Documents - Zip/Unzip" GUI. See
item 4 under "Improved" for more information.
6. Command "QNetworkSettings" - Alternative command line method to Launch the
"Local/Network Settings" dialogue box (rather than going through
QSettings interface.
Improved
1. QTools -
QCoordinates (adds Eastings Northings to drawings) – Command line option added to change the label style from
Easting Northing style eg "1234E, 1234N" etc to XY style eg "X =
1234, Y = 1234".
2. Command
"Remove_Qscape" – now always
available even if Qscape isn't launched.
For instance to remove a trial.
NB This command doesn't delete files or registry - it only removes the
menu file and file support path from the current active CAD profile.
3. QSettings
"Local/Network Settings" -
Browse button - For browsing to network "My Qscape Documents" folders
is now less "picky" - it will still work if a parent or subfolders
(of the “My Qscape Documents” folder) is selected.
4. QSettings - "My Qscape Documents - Zip/Unzip" - (renamed from "My Qscape Documents -
Export/Import"). Interface
refreshed to be clearer. Routines now
improved to allow seamless replacing of current active "My Qscape
Documents" folders in both "Local" and "Network"
mode. All overwritten folders are automatically first
backed up (in case future recovery is required). The unzipping process will also takes you to
Qscape's download page, should an update be required to connect to the newly
extracted folder. This GUI can now also
be activated from the command line see item 5 under “New”.
5. Automated
"My Qscape Documents" folder backups - (are now automatically done when a Qscape is user is
about to overwrite a folder through the Qscape interface). Routines now have unlimited backups,
(formerly there was a maximum limit of 5).
Additionally a text file is now automatically created called
"Backup_Creation_Notes.txt" in the backed up folder. This text file contains pertinent information
about the backup for recovery purposes
(ie the original folder name and path, whether it was retained or
deleted, the Qscape user at the time and the date and time the backup was
created).
6. "My Qscape
Documents" folder - Automated rebuilding of non-crucial folders - Both the "Flags" and "Qscape Schedules"
folders can be intermittently empty.
When manually zipping a "My Qscape Documents" folder through
Windows sometimes empty folders can be omitted from the zip file. This would cause Qscape to error later if
reading to the subsequently unzipped folder eg when creating editing flags or
making a cost estimate or plant schedule.
The missing sub directories are now created "on the fly" as
required should they become missing.
7. Qscape Startup - If Qscape doesn't launch for instance because it isn’t
licensed or it couldn’t connect to the “My Qscape Documents” folder, a command
line message is returned saying so.
Fixed
1. AutoCAD 2016
& Later - QPlants - Find -
Crash when zooming/unzooming to found labels due to new command-s calls being
required.
2.
QTools - QScalebar - Routine failed when layer 0 was
locked. Possibly also failed in AutoCAD 2016 onwards (due to not using
command-s calls). Also removed off
putting command line message saying command "not allowed in paperspace"
when routine was used.
3.
QMeasure - Qscape Cost Rates
dialogue – A typo
(landcape) corrected on Tab Strip.
4.
QPlantPARTNER - Product Import – The (Qscape) Product Import -
plant data fields became discombobulated after a PlantPARTNER website update.
5.
QPlants - Settings - Palette Actions - Dropbox/Cloud buttons erroneously
still on the dialogue despite being depreciated in v17.0.
6.
QSettings - My Qscape Documents
Import/Export -
Dropbox/Cloud references still on the dialogue despite being depreciated in
v17.0. NB Item now renamed "My Qscape Documents - Zip/Unzip". See
Item 4 under “Improved”.
7.
QSoft – “Poly M2 tab” – Some item descriptions became
corrupted to “1” or “0”. Regression
added Qscape v15.0/v15.1. The Extraneous Update works at Startup after V16.0
(or later) update were meant to fix the bug, unfortunately it appears Network
"My Qscape Documents" weren't fixed after all. Issue now hopefully fixed for V18.0 (or
later) post installation extraneous updates. NB This is an obscure bug and
probably would not be noticed by most.
8.
Qscape Startup - Qscape would erroneously connect
to a later release version of a "My Qscape Documents" folder in
Network mode. Qscape now warns the user,
gives the user the opportunity to download the latest version of Qscape or
revert back to "Local" mode.
Other
1. License troubleshoot commands added -
"qregistermac" command to allow registering for a license key using a
specific mac address; "qipconfig" command collects a pc's Network
Adapter info and writes it to a text file called qipcfg.txt on desktop. Nb
"qipconfigopen" opens qipcfg.txt in Notepad.
2. The DosLib loader moved to menu file, so DosLib is now
installed prior to the Qscape session starting, so DosLib copywrite now appear
at the start of the CAD session rather than at Qscape launch.
3. QSettings - Local/Network Settings - now simply relaunches
Qscape after closing. This is to
simplify code, so global variable resetting, version checks etc can all be
handled in one place (start up) rather than in several places within the code.
4. AutoCAD - File support Paths - "..Qscape\\Menu"
subfolder now added to File support Paths at start up. (AutoCAD 2019 requires Partial Menu files to
be in file support paths despite not being necessary for AutoCAD 2018 and
2017). Blanket added this for all
AutoCAD installations as a precaution.
Fixed
2. QBlocks – The
"Insert" Button was missing its caption and was disabled. Inserting
blocks also failed. Regression added in
V17.1.
Improved
1. "Luprec"
setting - This setting (Linear Unit Precision) controls how many
decimal places CAD displays. Previously Qscape would configure CAD to show
precision (eg measurements) to three decimal places (eg 5.123m) when working in
metres and zero decimal places when working in mm (eg 5123mm). The luprec setting also affects some settings
such as the "plinewid" setting (polyline width). So you could have a
legacy plinewid setting of 0.05 but it will only displays as 0 (if working in
mm). Unfortunately CAD doesn't display arcs when “plinewid” is set to very
small number (but not 0) eg 0.05. Due to this potential confusion, Qscape is
modified to sets luprec to 3 at start up (whether working in metres or mm).
Version 17.1 22nd February 2018
Fixed
1. QPlantPARTNER - The "Import into Qscape Palette" button failed
to appear when browsing to “Schedules” and “Product” pages in
PlantPARTNER. Issue caused by Qscape not
accommodating for PP urls upgrading to the secure “https” protocol.
2. New document
event handing in CAD (OnDocEvents) -
(ie user switches between open drawings, some with Qscape launched and some
without) caused modeless GUI's to freeze and/or error messages to appear on the
command line and occasionally system crashes.
OnDocEvents are now defined for all Qscape modeless GUIs whenever the
Qscape menu file is loaded.
3. QSettings -
"My Qscape Documents - Export/Import" – (Exports/Imports the user’s folder to a zip file). Process failed. Regression added in V17.0.
Other
1. Code -
QPlantPARTNER - Further work to the robustness of
Schedule/Product Import. (At programmer
troubleshoot level - Matrices (and not just lists) are generated (and printed
to test htm files) to aid troubleshooting).
2. Code – GUI’s – The new Odcl 8
lisp symbol naming convention now fully implemented.
Version 17.0 24th November 2017
Supported CAD versions
·
BricsCAD
Pro (or higher) V13 to V18
·
AutoCAD
2010 to 2018
New
1. BricsCAD V18
supported.
2. QSettings –
“QPlants - Label Size” setting – Allows the control of font heights allocated to
anticipated plot scales eg 1:100, 1:200 etc. Font heights can be allocated to
just the current drawing and/or to Qscape defaults. There are also options to
update existing entities in the current drawing and to revert back to “factory”
settings.
Improved
1. QPlants –
Inputting Plant Mix Labels into drawing – Closed
polyline selection behaviour now aligned with other categories such as
“Shrubs”, “Herbaceous” etc. So Private line lassoos will be retained/deleted in
accordance with QSettings (“QPlants – Lassoo Actions”). Qscape will also automatically attempt to
generate a lassoo if user clicks into blank space rather than selecting a
closed polyline.
2. QSoft/QHard -
"Descriptions" - (allocated to Qscape layers and appears in Excel Cost
Estimates/Keys). Non-alphanumeric
characters such as speech marks or punctuation now supported.
Fixed
1. Qscape Palette
(UK) – Shrub - Spiraea - spelling corrected from Spirea. (NB will only affect new installs).
2. QMeasure - Cost
Estimates tab - Export to Excel - Failed if the current drawing file
extension was upper case eg "MyDrawing.DWG" rather than
"MyDrawing.dwg".
3. QPLantPLANTPARTNER
- Schedule Import - Broke due to
changes to PlantPARTNER website.
4. QPLantPLANTPARTNER
– Schedule/Product Import - Surplus spaces in PlantPARTNER specification information
stripped out before import into Qscape. Eg for bulbs/wildflowers - “Full pot” would become “Full pot”.
5. QMeasure -
Plant Schedule Import (Table format) - Further information at bottom of
Schedule eg "- Substitutions to be agreed with Landscape Architect"
etc was missed off.
6. QSoft - Poly M
tab - Automatic Offset - If offset button is set to on, but no distance entered in
the offset distance textbox, the polyline got deleted (rather than retained but
not offset).
7. Start-up – The user
prompt on the command line was lost after the Qscape Web/copyright information.
(“cmdecho” setting).
8. “Cmdecho”
setting - Qscape turned off cmdecho (Command Echo) setting at start
up. This could cause confusion to advanced CAD users working interactively with
lisp on the command line, due to missing prompts and messages. Code
substantially rewritten to only surpress (and restore) cmdecho as and when
required.
9. AutoCAD
(probably 2015 onwards) - Launching Qscape
from the "QAbout" dialogue box (as appears by default when a button
is pressed before Qscape is launched) caused fatal error. (Command-s call issue).
Depreciated
1. QSettings -
Auto Launch - This feature automatically launched Qscape every time a
drawing was opened (It is set to off by default). A bug arose in BricsCAD V17 where by using
the double-click method to open more than one drawing in quick succession
caused BricsCAD V17 to fatal error. As it is bad practice to launch Qscape in
drawings where Qscape is not required this feature has been depreciated.
2. QDropbox - Depreciated due
to API changes by Dropbox and the removal of "Public" folder
functionality. This means Qscape is now
unable to second guess the generated sharing link urls.
3. QClip command - (For
punching holes or removal into xrefs/blocks). Depreciated as the native
"xclip" command does the same, including “punching” holes into
xrefs/blocks.
Other
1. Qscape Menu files - moved to their own subfolder with in the
primary Qscape folder.
2. "QLicstatus" command -
returns license information such as days to expiry or license troubleshooting
information on command line.
Improved
1. QPlantPARTNER - code
substantially rewritten, so should be more tolerant to PlantPARTNER website
updates (and in the future, if it does get broken, easier to fix).
Fixed
1. BricsCAD V17
(v17.2.04 onwards) and AutoCAD - Start up - Failed if the
current layer in the drawing is locked.
Regression added in v16.0 (Qload_Ltypes subroutine).
2. AutoCAD -
QPLANTPARTNER Product & Schedule Import - Although fixed
for BricsCAD in the previous release, there was an unanticipated diversion in
how website html code was read between the two CAD packages.
Version 16.0 6th April 2017
Supported CAD versions
·
AutoCAD
2010 to 2018
·
BricsCAD
Pro/Platinum V13 to V17.
1. Support for
AutoCAD 2018.
2. "QViewport"
- Accessed from command line or from
QSettings. This is a tool/dialogue box
that creates, modifies and queries viewports. The advantage over native
controls is that it takes in account whether the user is using millimetres or
metres and you can just select the desired scale eg “1:200, 1:100” etc. It will also test/convert the scale of
existing viewports. Another advantage
is that it allows users to predetermine the centre point of the viewports in
modelspace.
Improved
1. QAbout – Qscape version information made clearer.
Fixed
1.
QAbout - Check for new updates -
Download dialogue box (if applicable) visited out of date urls.
2. QPlantPARTNER - Product and Schedule Import failed.
3. AutoCAD 2014
(possibly 2015 too?) - Start up failed. This was due to confict in the loading Qscape
Linetypes (block insert/redefine) routine using newly implemented command-s
calls.
4. AutoCAD 2017 -
QSettings - Several settings failed due to
new command-s calls being required.
Fixed Settings are "Metre/Millimetres - Change existing
drawing"; "Qscape Layer Prefix"; "QPlants - Label
Style"; "QPlants - Leader Style"; "Qscape's Default Layer
settings"; "Drawing Sheet Setup".
5. QSoft/QHard –
Tooltips - Several were out of
date/incorrect.
6. Qscape V15.1
and V15.2 users - QSoft - PolyM2 –
Some users reported their item descriptions getting corrupted to “1” or
“0”. This was most obviously visible
when producing keys or exporting cost estimates to Excel. (Patches were issued as required at the
time). Patch now included in the
extraneous update works launched at start-up when new install detected just in
case any affected users are unaware of the bug.
Version 15.2 25th February 2017
Fixed
1. New user
installs - Start up error. Due to extraneous update works routine for v15.1 not
accounting for new users. (Existing
users worked fine).
Version 15.1 8th February 2017
New
1. Language
Localisation available - More
information available on request.
2. Currency
Localisation available – More
information available on request.
3. QSettings -
QSoft/QHard - Cost Rates – All cost
rates can now be accessed and tweaked in a single here. (Can still also be accessed through the
QMeasure - Cost Estimate tab).
Improved
1. QSoft – Poly M2
- Settings – Hedges – Qscape has
always treated hedges differently.
Rather than measuring their area, it derives a length measurement from
the circumference of the hedge polyline, working on the assumption hedges are
generally between 0.5 and 1.5m wide. Previously Qscape knew a layer was a hedge
by searching for the text string “hedge” within the layer name. Now you expressly tell Qscape if a layer is a
hedge using a checkbox in a “Hedge” column on the “Properties” grid. The “Costs” grid now explicitly says the
measurement unit is “m (derived)” rather than ”m2” which it wasn’t. NB All legacy hedges on the “Poly m2” tab
will automatically be updated in this fashion.
In future, if you are adding hedge layers, you need to tell Qscape that
they are hedges using the checkbox and there is no requirement to have the text
string “hedge” in the item/layer name.
Fixed
1. QAbout –
Registered business address changed 6th January 2017.
2. QSettings/QPlants
- Changing Plotscale - When working in mm in a scale
other than the default 1:200, the Mtext labels were tiny (because the Textstyle
font scale wasn’t scaled up from metres).
3. QSettings -
Plotscale - Changing existing labels -
If QPlants was active, an error message appeared and the label on QPlants
wasn't updated. Routine worked apart from that though.
4. QMeasure - Cost
Estimate Settings - "Derive total lengths of hedges from plant
labels" feature now depreciated. With apologies, this feature has become
untenable because it doesn’t take account of multiple hedge layers with
multiple cost rates. There is no way to
know which layer (and costs) to allocate to the counted hedge labels. Please remember that Cost Estimates are
exactly that, just "Estimates". So, for super precise measurements of
hedge lengths should be derived from the plant schedule rather than the cost
estimate.
5. BricsCAD V17
(17.1.17 and earlier) - Exporting mixes to Excel - Mix break downs are not properly split into the correct
columns. This is due to a regression
that developed in BricsCAD’s “wcmatch” function. (Fixed for the next BricsCAD release).
6. AutoCAD 2017–
QSoft/QHard – Poly m2/Poly m Settings –
The Properties tab grids failed to populate correctly due to a subroutine (to
load Qscape linetypes) requiring a “command-s” call.
Version 15.0 28th November 2016
Supported CAD versions
·
AutoCAD
2010 to 2017
·
BricsCAD
Pro/Platinum V13 to V17.
New
1. Support for
BricsCAD V17. NB Minimum build required is 17.1.09.
2. "My Qscape
Documents" folder backups – backups are now created when user is overwriting
folders (through the Qscape interface).
If a user is copying their "My Qscape Documents" folder from
the "Local" location to the "Network" location or vice
versa, and agrees to overwrite the old folder when queried, Qscape will create
a back up the old folder into a "Deleted Qscape Documents" folder
within the same mother directory. Up to
5No. legacy copies of Qscape Documents will be retained in this fashion. This procedure is designed to aid trouble shooting
for users who have accidentally overwrite their “My Qscape Documents” (through
copying using “local/network settings” interace). NB This is not a substitute for inhouse
backup protocols as it can’t protect against system failures/user errors
outside of Qscape’s control eg deleting through Windows. The “Deleted Qscape Documents” folder can be
manually deleted if desired, it doesn’t affect Qscape’s operation.
3. QSoft/QHard/QPlants
data file back ups - When editing layer settings/costs and plant databases - a
backup copy (up to a maximum of 10) of the original data file is made in the
"Back up" folder of "My Qscape Documents" (one per day)
every time one is accessed through the Qscape interface. This is to aid data
restoring, should something untoward happen such a user accidentally deleting
their data when editing a plant or a hatch setting for instance.
Improved
1. About Qscape
(QAbout) dialogue - "Check for updates" button - added as more
visible than the previously used
hyperlink.
Fixed
1. Start up - Pop
up Tray Window in bottom right of screen - information
was truncated (on certain setups).
Version 14.2 20th October 2016
Fixed
1. QPlants – Error Handler - When triggered (Escape pressed) whilst
inputting lassoos,– The error handler
failed and then offered an innocuous looking command line option to "undo
all?". As it is easy to miss and the default answer is "Yes", it
was very easy to inadvertently undo an entire day’s work with no “redo” option!
(Regression added in V14.1).
2. QMeasure -
"Edit Costs button" –
Failed and went into error in Network mode, when a flag is found indicating
that the cost databases are/have been edited by others.
Version 14.1 29th September 2016
New
1. QPlants -
Adding a Plant - Automatic Lassoo generation -
When adding a plant such as a shrub, bamboo, herbaceous etc. If there is no lassoo to pick, just pick a
point (with in a closed boundary) and Qscape will attempt to automatically
generate a lassoo, measure it (and optionally delete) for you and start your
label leader.
2. QPlants –
Recalculate Plant numbers to new polyline - Automatic Lassoo generation – See above.
3. QTools -
"QCoordinates" button -
Adds labels to user selected points on a drawing showing the Northings and
Eastings coordinates (using World coordinates).
To aid production of setting out drawings.
4. QPlants -
Find/Replace dialogue - 3 new buttons:
i. "Unzoom" - Reverts back to previous view (after
zooming into a found label).
ii. "Textbox All" - Add a text boxes on a non-plotting
layer of all the instances of that plant.
iii. "Untextbox All" - Removes all textboxes.
5. QTools -
"QSel" command enhancements (for querying and selecting drawing
entities) - Area and Length information now
returned, always returned in metres even if drawing is set up for mm. Returned information can now also be copied
to Window's clipboard.
Improved
1. Dialogue screen
centering failsafe added - Sometimes
modeless dialogue boxes eg QSoft, QHard, QPlants can get lost "off
screen" in Windows. To get around
this a failsafe has been added each time a dialogue is launched. First time you
launch it - it is opened in the previous used location. Second time you launch
it, assuming its open (and possibly off screen) it automatically centers the
dialogue box on the screen.
2. QPlants –
Useful buttons moved to more prominent locations – The moved buttons are the “Plant label numbers recalibrate”
button and the “Plant Find and Replace” button.
3. QSettings/QPlants
- "Lassoo Actions" –
Renamed from “Keep/Delete Lassoos” and additionally added to QPlants – Settings
dialogue box.
4. AutoCAD –
Lassoos generation - can be generated within non
Qscape layer polyline boundary sets. (BricsCAD already did this).
5. QPlants -
Adding a plant - Selected polyline/lassoo stays
highlighted until the plant label is brought in (to reduce chance of
accidentqally selecting the wrong polyline).
6. QAbout -
Release date - format upgraded from 29.9.16 to 29th
September 2016.
Fixed
1. AutoCAD 2015
onwards - QSoft, QHard, QPlants Error Handlers failed - due to it not accepting "Command" calls within
it. (Changed to "command-s").
2. QSoft/QHard/QPlants
– Osnap/Esnap – When using “Pick point” drawing
mode (or lassoos) - Osnap is temporarily supressed by design, but wasn't
reinstated if the error handler was triggered. (Escape pressed).
3. QSoft/QHard -
Hatching – Assorted hatch settings not reinstated if error handler was
triggered (escape pressed) – Settings were
hpassoc, hpbound, hpname, hpscale, hpseparate, hpang, hplayer.
4. BricsCAD -
QPlants - Error handler - "Promptmenu" settings - not reinstated after being suppressed.
5. QAbout - PDF
User Manual - failed to open.
6. QTools -
QScalebar - At 1:5 scale, because it was such
a small scale, a couple of incorrect numbers appeared due to rounding up of
numbers to one decimal place.
7. QMeasure -
Plant Scheduling – Unnecessary command line message - If all ignore lines found are
actually frozen, unnecessary command line message appears "0No. Ignore
polygon(s) found. Subtracting entities,
please wait...".
8. TrayWindow
popup in bottom right of screen -
(appears at start up to indicate current settings or as a warning if using a
twisted view). Was a third party
function, but was causing crash reports to be generated in BricsCAD V16
(Windows 7) and crash info to appear in Windows 10's EventViewer. Function now rewritten as integrated part of
Qscape to prevent this. Colour changed
to green to fit in with other Qscape graphics.
Version 14.0 12th May 2016
Supported CAD versions
·
AutoCAD
2010 to 2017 (and verticals such as AutoCAD Architecture).
·
BricsCAD
Pro/Platinum V12 to v16.
New
1. Support for
AutoCAD 2017.
2. QPlants -
Recalibrate existing plant label to a new/changed closed polyline button - Found at bottom of
QPlants with other plant labelling functions.
Simply select an existing label and a corresponding closed polyline and
the quantities in the label will be recalibrated. The function also has a command line option
to recalibrate plant numbers to linear polylines too.
3. QPlants –
Shortcut button directly to QSoft's "Blocks" tab - for quick insertion of blocks on the fly when doing
planting plans.
4. "QToolbar"
command - (Commandline only) - forces show
and float of Qscape Toolbars in the CAD interface. Useful for Ribbon users who still want the
Qscape toolbars within the interface.
Also useful if the toolbars have been turned off or accidentally pushed
off screen for any user. See also
“Qmenu” command (Item 8, under “Improved” heading below).
Improved
1. QPlants - Improved graphics, tooltips and command line
user prompts through out.
2. QPlants -
"Multi" toggle – toggles
rationalised to single toggle button and moved to bottom of QPlants next to
Background Mask toggle and with the other plant label function buttons. Style updated.
3. QPlants –
“Background Mask” toggle – style updated.
4. QPlants - Used
plants toggle added to each tab next to the
column toggles.
5. QSettings -
Optimise BricsCAD/AutoCAD Settings (qconfigure) - Set cross hair size option - reduced from 5 pixels to 4 pixels. (5 pixels started
seems a tad too big).
6. Startup -
Ribbon Interface users - Qscape
toolbars now added as a matter of course after a new install/update. This is because in the latest iterations of
AutoCAD they are easier to turn off than to manually add to the user interface
should they be required. (The new
"qtoolbar" command also helps in this regard).
7. "QMenu"
command - (Commandline only) - Forces
loading of Qscape menu and toolbars.
AutoCAD Ribbon users now asked whether they want the Qscape toolbars
(Qscape and QTools) added to the interface. This is for Ribbon users who prefer
having the easy access of the Qscape toolbars within the Ribbon interface.
8. BricsCAD V16
(and later) - QSettings - Optimise BricsCAD Settings (qconfigure) - Time Sensitive Right click option added.
9. Qscape program
folders – Rationalised to a single working
folder (in Program Files). Reduces
Qscape clutter in CAD’s “program options/settings” eg File Support Paths,
Trusted Paths etc. NB The “My Qscape Documents” folder remains unchanged and
separate.
Fixed
1. QSoft/QHard -
Blocks Tab - "Swap" drawing mode -
Command line error if no entity selected.
2. BricsCAD - Quad
Display setting - By default, the Quad is displayed
on right click of the Mouse (“quaddisplay” setting). This interfered with Qscape's right-click
repeat/shortcut menu show actions. Quad right click activation - now turned off
at Qscape start up.
3. Startup – Rogue
font files causing system crash –
This occurred due to Qscape not "liking" a few font files (if
allocated to a Qscape label style) such as "ISOCP". The offending font files are actually
".shx" files found in the BricsCAD/AutoCAD's support paths rather
than the usual ".ttf" files found in the Windows's fonts folder
(C:\Windows\Fonts). It was the support of "Big Fonts" aspect of the
shx files which broke Qscape.
4. QSoft/QHard -
Entity Input mode toggles - Incorrect
tooltip for "Swap" mode. Control heights were inconsistent.
5. QSoft/QHard -
Polyline generation - Failed when CAD's
"Plinetype" setting (governs handling of old style pre AutoCAD R14
polylines) was set to 0 rather than the default value 2. This is now fixed at Qscape’s start up.
6. Plant databases
- Mixes - Data file editing - Capital
"C" for centers/centres text caused parsing failure. Eg Plant Mix 1 planted @ 3m Centres failed
but Plant Mix 1 planted @ 3m centres worked.
Version 13.2 22nd February 2016
Improved
1. QPlants/QMeasure
- Plant Data files - Capitals for spacing for Mixes/Hedges eg "3/M2"
not just "3/m2" now supported.
Fixed
1. PlantPARTNER -
Schedule Import broken - Fixed and
hopefully made more robust, including "catching" more PlantPARTNER
plants, such as those included in mixes and own self defined groups.
2. QMeasure -
Plant Scheduling Crash Analysis -
The Mix name which failed not always correctly returned.
3. QMeasure -
Plant Scheduling - Traffic Light -
now set to red when counting routine initiated, to avoid false positive green
light (if crash occurs).
Version 13.1 4th December 2015
Improved
1. QMeasure - Cost Estimating/Plant Scheduling - This was slow (sometimes extremely) where lengthy and
complex Measure/Ignore polygon arrangements were found in large drawings.
Qscape code now optimised to improve speed (sometimes significantly) with such
drawings. NB The “windows polygon” selection function within CAD’s engine can
be slow, so the less the number of polygons and the less number of vertexes
within polygons the better. Unusually BricsCAD is much slower than AutoCAD in
this regard, therefore the process may still take around a minute for exceptional
drawings. Bricsys have been made aware
of this performance differential and are working to fix the issue. (NB
generally BricsCAD has a quicker engine than AutoCAD).
2. Startup - New
license key registration - Existing
user checkbox (for faster registration with just an email address) moved to
more visible location and highlighted yellow.
Version 13.0 12th November 2015
Supported CAD versions
·
AutoCAD
2010 to 2016 (and verticals such as AutoCAD Architecture).
·
BricsCAD
Pro/Platinum V12 to V16.
New
1. BricsCAD V16
now supported.
Improved
1. QPlants - Plant
Data files editing – Improved the parsing methods of
datafiles to allow more flexibility of editing of the data bases. Plant Scheduling/QPlants generation is now
more robust on the following levels:
i)
More flexibility with the allowable
information for each plant. For instance for spacing type in Hedge Mixes, you
don't need to write " in a " to obtain a the spacing type. eg
"NATIVE HEDGE MIX 1 planted @ 6/m in a Double Staggered Row" could be
"NATIVE HEDGE MIX 1 planted @ 6/m through 4 Staggered Rows". No
requirement for "in a".
ii)
More spacing styles accepted eg 10cm
centres, 100mm centers. NB Hedges
require the "?/m" style of spacing to calculate the plant quantities
(due to their linear nature).
iii)
If Qscape doesn't parse the
information correctly, instead of breaking the program - the offending
plant/mix should still be displayed.
Albeit incorrectly with "??" in the fields. This will alert the user to re-edit the
offending item in the date file.
iv)
If the worse happens (and hopefully
it wont now) and QMeasure/Qplants breaks – the Qscape error handler should now
indicate the problematic plant data file/plant on the commandline using the
following format to aid trouble shooting:
**************** QMeasure Crash
analysis by Qscape ****************
A problem occurred attempting to parse the
"HEDGE MIXES" data file.
The problematic mix is "SPECIAL NATIVE
HEDGE MIX 2".
Please re-edit the data file or contact Qscape
if you require assistance.
**************** End Crash analysis
by Qscape *******************
2. Qplants – Find
function - More robust pattern matching of
multiline mtext (eg hedge/mix labels).
For instance manually edited ones contain "\\P" format
characters, (manually added carriage returns), so they weren’t found.
3. Licensing – Routines tweaked so to differentiate between QArb/Qscape
license keys.
4. QPlants/QMeasure
– Find function - Fuzz factor added to the zoom, so
zoomed in labels do not unhelpfully fill the entire screen.
5. Startup – Splash screen uang on third party copyright notices which
was distracting.
Fixed
1.
Start up - Welcome Dialogue/Register Dialogue -
"Contact Us" hyperlink was broken.
2.
AutoCAD - Start up - Local/Network
network settings checks failed to alert user if network connection failed.
Version 12.3 10th July 2015
Improved
1. QMeasure -
Plant Schedule - Specification column - Truncation
(where required) of specification column (to create multiple line
specifications) now based on character count (60 characters) rather than word
count (previously 6 words). This creates
a more even (and aesthetically better) specification column.
Fixed
1.
QPlantPARTNER - Schedule Import - Was temporarily broken due to
PlantPARTNER website update. Qscape code
not amended as a fix provided at PlantPARTNER side 3.7.15. Included this in release notes for user
information.
2.
Start up - Licensing Dialogue - The "Paste License Key"
button failed to enable the "Launch Qscape" button if a recognisable
license key was manually entered by clicking on the license textbox.
3.
QMeasure - Plant Schedule Import -
Tables - If the Table
is to include the specification column.
Multiline specifications got corrupted and appeared in the wrong column.
Version 12.2 11th June 2015
Improved
1. Start up - 64bit processors – When launching a third party
arx/brx application, a harmless error message appeared on the commandline.
Fixed
1.
Start up – License Key Request/Enter
Dialogue - The
"Paste License Key" button failed for some users because Qscape was
unable to retrieve copied license key windows clipboard. Code changed, improved error handling added
and option to manually type/paste license key added.
2.
QSoft - Poly m2 Tab – Automatic
offset - If enabled
but distance is set to 0 – Polyline would disappear (rather than simply not
offset).
3.
BricsCAD - QSettings -
Metres/Millimetres - Rescale existing drawing - Plant Label Leaders became corrupted when rescaling from
mm to m.
4.
BricsCAD - QSettings -
Metres/Millimetres - Rescale existing drawing - Tables (eg new style Plant
Schedules) became corrupted when rescaling. NB Tables are now exploded when
rescaled.
Version 12.1 28th May 2015
Fixed
1.
QPlants - PlantPARTNER - Product and Schedule Import
failed due to PlantPARTNER website update.
2. QPlants -
Bamboos tab - The "Abbreviation" column visibility toggle failed.
Version 12.0 26th May 2015
Supported CAD versions
·
AutoCAD
2010 to 2016 (and verticals such as AutoCAD Architecture).
·
BricsCAD
Pro/Platinum v12 to v15.
New
1. AutoCAD 2016 now
supported.
2. QMeasure -
Plant Schedules – Font - Now imported
using the same font as plant labels (rather than the utilitarian looking fixed
width font "Lucida console"). See item 4, if old style schedule are
required.
3. QMeasure -
Plant Schedules - Tables - Checkbox added
to allow importing of plant schedules directly as Table entities. NB These are
true tables but can be optionally exploded into their simple line and mtext
entities. This feature is unavailable
for BricsCAD V13 or earlier.
4. QMeasure -
Plant Schedules - Legacy style checkbox - This
imports plant schedules in the old style using Lucida Console font. The schedule is an exact facsimile of the
text file opened by pressing the "Review" button. This style is recommended if a lot of manual
editing is undertaken to the plant schedule prior to importing.
Improved
1. QMeasure -
Plant Schedules – Specification column/Compact style - checkbox
settings are now stored in the drawing, so do not have to continually be reset.
Fixed
1.
Start up - Failed when in Paperspace where the
cannoscale variable is set to "1'-0" = 1'-0"" and is
read-only.
2.
QMeasure - Plant Schedules - Specification information was added to Mixes even if the
"Include Specification" checkbox was unticked.
Version 11.0 18th November 2014
Supported CAD versions
·
AutoCAD
2010 to 2015 (and verticals such as AutoCAD Architecture).
·
Bricscad
Pro/Platinum v12 to v15.
New
1. BricsCAD V15
now supported.
2. BricsCAD V15 –
Qscape CUI file – Ribbon – Qscape tab added.
Improved
1. "QBaseplan"
command – This brings in a demo layout for
demos/training exercises. Some of the polyline gaps have been removed to better
illustrate Pick Point concepts.
2.
QMeasure - Plant Schedules - Notes and abbreviations – (As appended to the bottom of plant schedules). Measuring
program is now more discerning to which ones are added.
3.
QAbout – Qscape
contact information updated with new phone number and layout refreshed.
4.
BricsCAD Only -
QSettings - Optimise BricsCAD's settings (qconfigure) - Right Click of Mouse better
optimised for BricsCAD.
Fixed
1.
Start up - Splash screen - Flashed on/off too quickly,
version/copyright message intermittently failed to appear, if user aborts they
could be left stuck with a wait cursor.
2.
QMeasure - Plant Schedules - Notes and abbreviations – (As
appended to the bottom of plant schedules)
– Automatic ones did not line up with user ones when the schedule was
imported into the drawing.
3. QSettings -
QPlants - Label Style dialogue - Incorrect
current font was shown in the Font combobox.
4. QSettings -
QPlants - Leader Style dialogue -
Incorrect current leader shown in the combobox.
Version 10.1 8th August 2014
Fixed
1. Interactivity
with Qscape website - new website
necessitated url remap of Qscape's online forms. For instance "license key
requests, support requests, contact, bug reports, update checks etc.
2. QPlantPARTNER - Schedule/Product Import - Last Microsoft Windows update
broke this functionality in Qscape. (Event Evoke property of controls now
changed to synchronous).
Version 10.0 4th July 2014
Supported CAD versions
·
AutoCAD
2010 to 2015 (and verticals such as AutoCAD Architecture).
·
Bricscad
Pro/Platinum v11 to v14.
New
3. AutoCAD 2015
now supported.
4. QPlants -
Favourites Tab - Major refresh to make the
Favourite categories and Favourite Plants more visible and easily accessible.
5. QPlants -
Automatically resizes - The GUI now
resizes itself to fit the information being displayed in order to maximise
drawing space “real estate” and avoid the need to continually manually resize
the form. Docking has been sacrificed to
gain this functionality as it was an either/or option and the resizing facility
is more useful.
6. QSoft/QHard/QPlants
– Database backups – A precautionary backup of the
previous version of the database (before editing for that day begun) is created
in folder "My Qscape Documents/Backup".
7. AutoCAD -
Ribbon Interface added – Autodesk are
now forcing the Ribbon interface onto their customers and consequently have
removed the “Classic mode” switch from AutoCAD 2015. Qscape toolbars and menu dropdown are still
available for AutoCAD 2015 users who wish to recreate a toolbar/menu interface
manually.
8. QTools -
"QCopy" button – This button
complements the existing “QMove and “QErase” functions. It only selects entities on Qscape layers for
copying.
9. New Linetype - "QLtype_066", replicates CAD's native zigzag
linetype. Useful for certain types of fencing amongst other things.
10. QSoft/QHard -
Qboundary button - Draws a boundary polyline on the
private layer. Essentially like the
lasso feature minus the “pick tail”.
11. QSettings -
QPlants Leader Start Points -
Allows users to override Qscape automatically starting plant label leaders at
the insert point of blocks eg Trees, climbers etc. Useful for when the landscape layout is an
xref, or the block insert points are in the wrong places.
Improved
5. QSoft/QHard –
Blocks Tab - Settings - Defining new blocks in the
drawing - Error handler improved.
6.
QSoft/QHard - Layer Settings - Descriptions - Copying and pasting multi-line descriptions into the
“Descriptions” textbox, broke the Settings dialogue, the next time it was
launched.
7.
QSoft/QHard - Layer Settings - On initialise events are now more robust in case the program
encounters unexpected something unexpected in the data file (such as a
multiline description).
8.
QPlants -
Palette Actions Dialogue Box - When clicking on a palette name to do an action -
the name was highlighted and went into edit mode. It should only do this when the
"Rename" button is clicked.
9.
"Pickfirst"
setting – setting
would be reset to 0, if escaping out of "QMove" and
"QErase" commands. Error
handler improved to reset “PickFirst” setting to user’s original setting.
10. QSoft/QHard - Drawing Mode - "Pick" renamed to
"Swap". The term "Swap" better describes
what happens and less likely cause confusion with “Point”.
11. QSettings - Metres/Millimetres Change Existing Drawing - Viewport zoom factors are unow
pdated even if their "display locked" property is set to True.
12. QPlants - "Used/All" label/toggle – the label is now coloured green
when set to "All" and red when set to "Used".
13. QPlants - Drawing Scale – Combobox now replaced with a clickable label and
moved to top of QPlants.
14. QPlants - Draw Private Line, Bed Divison Line buttons - QPoly2 Toolbar now appears
along with layer information in the same way it does with QSoft.
15. BricsCAD - QSettings - Set Drawing Units - References to AutoCAD in text
removed.
Fixed
5. BricsCAD V14 -
QSettings - "Metre/Millimetres - Change existing drawing" - Leaders became corrupted when rescaling from millimetres to metres.
6.
Startup - If using an
unsupported version of BricsCAD, an error message failed to appear.
7. BricsCAD V14 -
QHard/QSoft - Adding hatches using Pick Point methods. Where there are
Mtext islands - hatch would be incorrectly made invisible when using Qscape
hatch boundary visibility functions.
This is due to a bug in BricsCAD V14 (as tested on 14.2.09) and has been
reported to Bricsys. Patch added to
Qscape in the meantime.
8. QSettings -
Qscape Layer Prefix - Some delimiter characters eg
"@" "#" caused QMeasure and certain other functions to fail
because they are also recognised as "wildcard" characters by
CAD. They have now been removed from the
list of available delimiters.
9. BricsCAD -
QPlants Settings - Label Content -
Toggling constituent plants in Mix labels within drawing. Some of the longer
mix labels would be deleted when removing the constituent plants from labels.
10. QPlantPARTNER - Schedule Import was broken further to format changes to
PlantPARTNER Website.
11. QPlantPARTNER - Header instructions when "Import into Qscape"
button is not available updated to reflect changes to PlantPARTNER website.
Version 9.3 11th March 2014
Improved
1. Windows Server – Qscape’s hkey current user registry hive now supports
roaming. This is to optimise Qscape for
Citrix environments (where users “roam” across multiple servers using the same
Windows profile).
Fixed
3. QBlocks - Further to the removal of the QBlocks Library from the
"My Qscape Documents" folder in V9.2.
The relevant folder "Qscape Blocks" was sometimes not
removed/renamed when switching to "network" mode.
Version 9.2 21st February 2014
New
12. QMeasure -
Key/Legend - Checkbox added to allow either
entity descriptions or partial layer name to be used in the key.
13. QMeasure -
Key/Legend – Checkbox added to allow
conversion of text to uppercase.
14. Four new hatch boundary visibility commands to enhance the
existing hatch boundary visibility buttons. (These are command line only).
i) "qsoft_hb_on" - Makes just QSoft
hatch boundaries visible.
ii)
"qsoft_hb_off - makes just Qsoft hatch boundaries invisible.
iii)
"qhard_hb_on" - Makes just QHard hatch boundaries visible.
iv)
"qhard_hb_off - makes just QHard hatch boundaries invisible.
Improved
16. QMeasure -
Key/Legends – Order - Soft landscape
elements now (rightly) appear before hard landscape elements in the key.
17. QBlocks - The
block library is now removed from the "My Qscape Documents" folder
and has become part of the core Qscape program. The reason for this is to reduce the
"My Qscape Documents" folder size from approximately 37Mb to
approximately 2Mb. The thousands of
blocks were adding unwanted “bloat” to the "My Qscape Documents"
folder when it is meant to be highly portable for easy sharing. It will also improve login speeds for
Cloud/Citrix environments as Qscape now has a much smaller Windows roaming
profile presence. Unfortunately there is a small downside - it is now not possible
now to write new files to QBlocks. If
this is something you have been doing a backup of your blocks will be found in
a Windows folder called "QBlocks Depreciated v9.2" adjacent to the
"My Qscape Documents" folder in the Qscape Application Data folder on
the local drive and the network (if applicable) too. This folder can be deleted after removing any
blocks you wish to retain.
18. QPlants - When QPlants is
undocked – its now not necessary to continually scroll to see the previously
selected plant.
Fixed
12. QPlants -
PlantPARTNER - Schedule Import into Qscape failed
due to changes on PlantPARTNER website.
13. BricsCAD V14 -
QSettings - Optimise BricsCAD Settings – Change
Model space to Black option failed due BricsCAD’s "bkgcolor" setting
modifications.
14. QPlants - Adding Mix labels to a drawing - the right-click repeat
didn't show the constituent species in the label (when using that setting).
15. QMeasure -
Key/Legend - For block entities - the partial
layername was used in the key rather than the entity's description (where
defined).
16. QSoft - Poly m2
tab - Settings button - Tooltip was incorrectly
displaying "QSoft Hatch Settings".
Version 9.1 12th January 2014
Fixed
4. QSettings -
Drawing Plot Scale - Change existing entities - Dialogue box would not initiate if a suffix has been added
to all plant label layers.
5.
QPlants - Plant Mixes Databases - Adding a Plant Mix label to a drawing failed, if there were
empty space characters after the Mix spacing.
6.
QPlants - PlantPARTNER - Product
Import into Qscape - Plant Column Errors appeared due to changes to the
PlantPARTNER website.
Version 9.0 6th November 2013
Supported CAD versions
·
AutoCAD
2010 to 2014 (and verticals such as AutoCAD Architecture).
·
BricsCAD
Pro/Platinum v11 to v14.
New
2. BricsCAD V14
now supported.
Fixed
7. QMeasure/QSettings
- Plant Schedule Running Order - User
defined default running order was reset to factory setting when starting a new
drawing.
8.
Quick Plant ("QP" Command line function) - Error message appeared if the QPlants GUI was not also
active.
Version 8.5 6th September 2013
Improved
1. Citrix only –
“QCitrix_Optimise” command – this
now turns off the osnap "Extension" setting (if enabled). This osnap setting was proving too resource
intensive and often causing AutoCAD to crash.
Fixed
1. QPlants -
QPlantPARTNER - Product import failed due to
PlantPARTNER website update. Schedule
import was unaffected.
2.
QSoft - Poly M2 tab - Automatic offset - Closed polylines drawn in a clockwise direction wrongly
offset outwards rather than inwards. (Regression added v8.4)
3. QPlants -
Hedges tab - Swapping one hedge species for
another by clicking on a hedge label - The measurement unit "m" as in
"26m Vib tin Hedge" wrongly changed to "m2".
4. QMeasure -
Key/Legend tab - When rolling up the dialogue box -
it would become truncated when rolled down again.
Version 8.4 31st July 2013
New
15. "QLicense"
command - Launches Qscape with forced display of Qscape's
"Welcome" dialogue box to allow the entering of new license keys.
(Command line only).
16. "QRegister"
command - Launches Qscape with forced
display of Qscape's "Welcome" dialogue box with the "Register
for License Key" button enabled. (Command line only).
17. Registering for
a license key – Can now register directly from the
Qscape interface over the internet. (NB Launch Email client option is now
removed).
18. Registering for
a license key - “I am an existing client” checkbox
added to the dialogue box. This allows
existing users to quickly register using just their email address rather than
re-entering their data again.
19. QSoft/QHard -
Block Settings - "Redefine Block" button added
(under the Block Preview control). This
feature allows Qscape block definitions to be quickly redefined rather than
deleted and re-added to the database.
Improved
19. “Welcome”
dialogue – Redesigned. Key amendments are as follows:
i. Simpler interface with more
prominent “Launch Qscape” button.
ii. Message changed when there is 30
days or less to run to make it clearer that you can still use the software
without entering a license key.
iii. Server/Computer name shown in the
title bar. This is particularly useful
for Cloud/Citrix environments when entering server specific license keys.
20. QSoft - Poly M2
tab – Using "Pick" drawing mode
- automatic offset option added as per "Draw" and "Point"
drawing modes.
21. QSoft/QHard -
Hatch tab – Using "Pick" drawing mode -update hatch origin/angle option added as per
"Draw" and "Point" drawing modes.
22. QSoft/QHard -
Block Settings - Define Block actions
simplified. User now simply selects
objects out of the current drawing to make the desired block definition. (There are now no other options).
23. BricsCAD only - QPlants - Dialogue box failed to resize to its last known
size when "escape" is pressed when adding a plant.
Fixed
17. QMeasure - Cost
Estimates - Export to Excel - Function
returned an error if none of the landscape items within a drawing had a
maintenance cost rate allocated to them.
18.
QSoft - Favourites tab
- "3 Lines" and "Extrude" tablet buttons served no purpose
and so are now removed.
19. BricsCAD V13
only - QPlants - When adding a plant to the
drawing and cancelling (pressing “Escape”) - the dialogue box "seized
up" and it was necessary to relaunch.
20. QPlants -
Settings - Palette Actions - Upload to Dropbox - Function failed if QDropbox had not been already launched
in the drawing session.
21. QPlants -
PlantPARTNER - Plant/Schedule Import -
When importing topiary specimen plants - the plant sizings/spacings were
incorrect.
Version 8.3 13th June 2013
Fixed
1.
AutoCAD 2014 only - First time installations - Typing "qscape" on the command line failed due to
Autodesk moving
“ApplicationPlugins" folder from “c:/Program Files...”
“c:/ProgramData...” NB command worked if
a legacy copy of AutoCAD 2012 remained on the pc.
Version 8.2 8th June 2013
New
1. Cloud/Citrix
environment - "QCITRIX_OPTIMISE" – command
line only function that optimises AutoCAD's settings for Citrix working based
on Autodesk's recommendations found at
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=16755552&linkID=9240617
(and personal observations).
2. Cloud/Citrix
environment - "QCITRIX_UNOPTIMISE"
- command line only function that optionally reverts AutoCAD's settings back to
AutoCAD's default settings after using the “QCITRIX_OPTIMISE” command.
Improved
1.
Qsettings - Local/Network mode - In network mode - Target “My Qscape Documents” folder's
write permissions are now checked before Qscape attempts to connect to it. If Qscape doesn't have necessary write
permissions to connect to the folder - a warning message is displayed and
Qscape reverts back to “local” mode rather than Qscape attempting to connect to
the folder and throwing an error.
Fixed
1.
QPlants - Label Content Settings - Swapping label modes from a non default label mode such as
"Quantity and Full Name" to the default "Quantity and
Abbreviation" - the labels’ extended entity was not deleted causing
unexpected results when swapping back to a non default label mode, assuming the label had been manually
edited or "Find and Replace" plant labels function had been used.
(Regression added in V8.0).
Version 8.1 24th May 2013
Fixed
1. BricsCAD V13
(64 bit version) - With some users, Qscape would think
its unlicensed due to the Bricscad x64 lisp engine being true 64 bit software
and therefore handling large integers differently. NB This difference in behaviour is not a bad
reflection of BricsCAD x64, quite the opposite, it tells us that AutoCAD x64’s
lisp engine is surprisingly only 32 bit enabled.
Version 8.0 16th May 2013
Supported CAD versions
·
AutoCAD
2010 to 2014 (and verticals such as AutoCAD Architecture).
·
Bricscad
Pro/Platinum v11 to v13.
New
1. AutoCAD 2014
now supported.
3. BricsCAD V13 –
Support for 64 bit version.
4. AutoCAD – 32
bit software now supported on 64 bit pc.
(Not recommended, added for
continuity reasons with BricsCAD).
5. QPlants - New
button - QLeader_Reattach - This button (at bottom of the dialogue box)
reattaches leaders to Qscape plant labels if they become unattached.
Improved
1.
"Welcome" dialogue -
"Register for License Key" form.
Clarification
added for users who are using web-based email clients such as gmail, yahoo
etc. (They need to save the form as a
text file and email it separately).
2.
QSoft/QHard - Lassoo function -
Speed enhancements. (Designed to reduce lag times in Cloud/Citrix
environments, but regular users will benefit too.)
3.
QSoft/QHard - "Pick Point"
drawing modes - Speed enhancements.
(Designed to reduce lag times in Cloud/Citrix environments, but regular users
will benefit too.)
4.
QMeasure - Cost Estimates/Plant
Schedules - export to CSV -
If Excel isn't accessible to the user - Qscape creates a ".csv"
(comma separated values) file instead. CSV files can be opened by Excel or
other database packages. (Designed for
Cloud/Citrix Environments where Microsoft Office may not be installed on the
relevant server.)
Fixed
1.
QMeasure - Cost Estimating - If the "Public" or
"Private" Modes have been used to draw landscape entities - The
generated cost estimate section called "SOFT LANDSCAPE IMPLEMENTATION FOR
PUBLIC AREAS" would be mis-named "SOFT LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE FOR
PUBLIC AREAS". This had the added
side-effect of causing the export cost estimate to Excel function to crash.
2.
QSettings - Plant Schedule Running
Order – If changing the
plant schedule running order and having the “set as default” checkbock
ticked. The dialogue would crash when
“Apply” is pressed and the default is not changed. (Although the running order would be updated
for the active drawing).
3.
BricsCAD V13 only - QPlants -
Automatic Background Mask
- failed.
4.
BricsCAD V13 only - QPlants - Plant
labelling - failed when
not using the default label content mode of "Quantity and
Abbreviation".
5.
Cloud/Citrix Environments - Start up - It was necessary to press
"enter" on the command line half way through Qscape's startup to
finish the process.
6.
QPlants - Label Content Settings -
Swapping label modes -
for instance from "Quantity and Full Name" to "Quantity and
Abbreviation" - function failed where plant labels had been manually
created or edited and a new line feed format character (user pressed enter) was
used. This also affected the Plant
Scheduling program as it failed to read manually edited labels which had more
than one line. For instance Plant Mix
labels. (Regression added v7.0).
7.
BricsCAD only - Plant Label leaders
- Leaders would detach from plant
labels when not working in the default "Plant Label Content" mode of
"Quantity and Abbreviation" when the label was updated for instance
by changing mode or using "Find and Replace plants" or
"+1".
8.
QMeasure - Export Plant Schedule to
Excel - If the
"Form" column in the Trees database is not being used. The
"Girth/Height" and "Specification" information appeared in
the wrong columns in Excel.
9.
QSoft/QHard - Settings buttons - Tooltips were incorrect.
Version 7.1 22nd March 2013
New
1. QMeasure -
Key/Legend tab - Checkbox to control
inclusion/exclusion of entities within "Ignore" polygons.
Improved
1.
QSoft/QHard Hatch boundary
visibility/invisibility functions - speed
improvements. Will be more noticeable in
large drawings.
Fixed
1.
QMeasure - Make Plant Schedule /
QSettings - Plant Schedule Running Order - Occasionally the running order got corrupted if working on
legacy drawing and only "Bulb/Wildflower Mixes" and
"Aquatic/Marginal Mixes" would be the only items measured. As these categories are not widely used it
appeared plant scheduling was failing completely. This could be fixed by going into QSettings -
Plant Schedule Running Order and pressing the "Reset to factory
settings" button and then "Apply". However after this update - this issue
shouldn't arise again.
2.
QMeasure - Make Cost Estimate/Make
Plant Schedule - If
a cost estimate/plant schedule was generated whilst in paperspace, entities
enclosed by "Ignore" lines were still measured.
3.
BricsCAD only – QMeasure – Make Cost
Estimate - Entities
which were intersected by "Ignore" polygons were incorrectly ignored
by the measuring program. (Entities should be 100% within "Ignore"
polygons to be ignored).
Version 7.0 7th March 2013
Supported CAD versions
·
AutoCAD
2010 to 2013 (and verticals such as AutoCAD Architecture).
·
Bricscad
Pro/Platinum v11 to v13.
New
1. BricsCAD V13
now supported. (Version 13.1.20 and later).
2. AutoCAD 2008,
AutoCAD 2009 and BricsCAD V10 – not supported. This is due to logistical issues and lack of
demand. Refer to email circular issued
27th November 2012.
3. QMeasure -
Plant Schedule tab - New error checking "traffic light" added. The
traffic light works as follows:
·
Shows "red" if a plant
schedule could not be created and gives the reason why.
·
Shows "amber" if a plant
schedule could be created but unmeasured plant labels were found in the
drawing. The labels wont be measured if a match for the plant abbreviation
could not be found in the plant palette.
This is because the label has been incorrectly manually edited or the
abbreviation has been changed/removed in the plant database.
·
Shows
"green" if a plant schedule was created without any known issues.
4. QMeasure -
Plant Schedule tab - New error fixing tools.
The new tools are:
·
"Textbox" buttons –
put/remove textboxes around unrecognised plant labels in the drawing so they
can be easily identified.
·
"Zoom" buttons –
zoom/unzoom to unrecognised plant labels.
5. "QCheckLabels"
- New function (command line only) to check for
manual edits of plant labels (if not using default "Quantity +
Abbreviation" label content mode).
Procedure is not fail-safe and should only be used as a last
resort. Plant labels should not be
manually edited if using the non-default label content mode because they
contain hidden extended entity data and therefore cannot be treated as simple
Multiline Text CAD entitites.
Improved
1.
QSoft/QHard - Hatches - Qscape now leaves CAD's
"measurement" variable unchanged.
The variable governs the scaling of native hatches in CAD. (Qscape hatches are not affected, by this
variable). Changing the variable
sometimes caused inconsistent (native) hatch scales in drawings when worked on
by Qscape and non-Qscape CAD stations.
2.
QPlants/QSettings – Plant Label
Content Setting -
Warning regarding editing plant labels in non-default mode made clearer and a
small "help" button added to give further information.
3.
Bricscad v11 only - QSoft/QHard
Hatch tab settings -
Hatch preview message changed from "Hatch Previews available soon" to
"Hatch Previews are available for Bricscad V12 onwards".
4.
Start_Up – Further enhancements to CAD platform
compatibility checks with message boxes and more options if the CAD platform is
incompatible.
5.
QSoft/QHard Settings + QBlocks - Block Previews background colours
set to reflect the colour of model space/paper space as relevant.
Fixed
1.
QMeasure - Plant Schedule tab -
Error listbox -
Mtext format characters appeared in the Error listbox if the plant labels had
been manually reformatted eg italics added.
This was particularly noticeable in AutoCAD 2012 where the format
characters appeared even if the mtext had been manually edited without changing
the format. (This is due to a bug in
Autocad 2012).
2.
QMeasure - Cost Estimates tab - Typo in the generated cost
estimate stated "GRAND TOTAL FOR SOFTWORKS EXCLUDING MAINTENANCE"
should have read "GRAND TOTAL FOR SOFTWORKS INCLUDING MAINTENANCE".
3.
QTools - QDropbox - Uploading files to cloud -
vbscript Message Box failed to initiate to alert user that the upload has
finished. (The upload still worked though).
4.
QPlants - Plant Mixes,
Aquatic/Marginal Mixes, Bulb/Wildflower Mixes tabs - Plant pick events failed when
QPlants was in "USED" mode (showing only plants used in the drawing).
(Regression added in v6.7).
5.
QMeasure - Plant Schedules tab - duplicate sections of the newly
created "Aquatic/Marginal Mixes" and "Wildflower/Bulb
Mixes" plant groups appeared in the newly generated plant schedules.
6.
Bricscad only - Bug where by empty spaces
appeared in Bricscad file support path.
This did not affect Bricscad operation, but was bad practice.
7.
Bricscad only - Bug where by sometimes Bricscad
Help did not work because the Help folder was omitted from the file support
paths. Qscape now checks for the folder
on startup and if it cannot be found - adds it to the file support paths.
8.
QPlantPARTNER - Schedule Import - failed due to changes to
PlantPARTNER website.
9.
Bricscad only - QSoft/QHard Settings
+ QBlocks - Block
previews did not work if CAD’s model space colour was set to white.
Version 6.11 17th January 2013
Fixed
1.
QMeasure - Make Plant Schedules - If not using the default
"Quantity and Abbreviation" mode for plant labels' display state - if
the plant schedule measuring program did not recognise the plant abbreviation
(for instance if the plant label abbreviation has been incorrectly manually edited
or the abbreviation name has been changed in the plant database since creating
the planting plan) - the
label/abbreviation did not appear in the "non-recognised plant label
list" on the "Plant Schedule" tab even though it was not
measured.
Version 6.10 16th January 2013
Fixed
1.
Qscape updates - Procedure failed for those using
Qscape versions older than v6.2.
Version 6.9 14th January 2013
Fixed
1.
QPlants - "Find and Replace
Plant labels" -
The "Replace" function continually returned the message that it
cannot replace the chosen plant label.
Version 6.8 3rd January 2013
Fixed
1.
QPlantPARTNER - With apologies, the Schedule Import
fix introduced in v6.7 continued to fail.
Version 6.7 14th December 2012
New
1. QPlants -
Plant/Hedge Mix Labels - Option to
include the Mix's constituent plants/quantities with in the actual plant label
on the drawing. This function is
accessed via a new checkbox in QPlants - Settings - "Label Content".
2. QPlants - Two
new plant tabs added - "Aquatic/Marginal Mixes" and
"Bulb/Wildflower Mixes". NB
They are turned off by default and can be turned on in QPlants>Settings.
3. QMeasure -
Plant Schedule Tab – Compact Plant Schedules option - Checkbox added to allow creation of compact plant
schedules. This is useful if there is a
shortage of space in a drawing.
Improved
1.
QMeasure- Cost Estimating - Speed
improvements. This will be more noticeable on
large drawings.
2.
First time installations - do not require drag and drop of
"Start Qscape.lsp" into the CAD screen. Simply type "qscape" onto CAD's
command line after running the installer.
3.
Installer - now "Microsoft
Authenticode signed" – this
is to prevent disparaging Windows messages when downloading/launching the
Qscape installer.
4.
Installer - graphics now
personalised to Qscape.
5.
Start_Up - Qscape now checks that a supported
CAD version is being used and warns user if the current CAD is not supported
(rather that throwing an error).
Fixed
1.
QPlantPARTNER - Schedule/Plant
import failed – This
was due to PlantPARTNER website updates.
2.
QMeasure - Cost Estimating - Client drawings with large number of
drawing entities associated with each other in "Groups" caused the
measuring program to crash.
Version 6.6 9th October 2012
Fixed
1.
QDropbox - Uploading files to the Cloud failed
because Dropbox changed their site and made it more secure.
2.
Bricscad only - Occasionally when relaunching
Qscape - user would be alerted that Qscape is missing a vital component and
please re-download it. (Restarting Bricscad would solve the issue). Please report if this issue continues to
occur.
3.
QAbout - A few button tooltips such as
"Pdf User Manual" and "File a Support Request" were
incorrect.
Version 6.5 30th August 2012
New
1. QTools -
"QScalebar" button - Adds
correctly sized scale bars to the paperspace of a drawing.
Improved
1.
QPlants - Hedges - Spacing information in the database
is now optional. This is useful for non
standard hedging such as an Instant Hedge, where perhaps you only want a length
measurement.
2.
QPlants – Column Header tablet buttons - eg Abbr, Name, Spacing etc – Fore
colour now made darker - so easier to read on Windows XP operating systems.
Fixed
1.
QPlants - Find and Replace Plant
Labels - Tree Labels
did not appear in the plant filter Dropdown boxes (when using the
"Trees" group filter).
2.
QPlants - Succulents tab - selecting
succulents actually brought in plants from bulbs/wildflowers database rather
than the succulents database.
3.
QHard - "Draw Edge Line",
"Draw Dashed Edge Line" and "Draw Private Line" buttons
drew the polylines on the current layer rather than the correct layer.
Version 6.4 17th July 2012
New
1. QTools -
QDropbox - (new button on toolbar with little
blue box) - This a "Cloud"
based file sharing service through Qscape's Dropbox Account (which has been set
up specifically for this purpose).
QDropbox allows you to share files over the "Cloud". There is
no need to zip files up before uploading as Qscape automatically puts a zip
wrapper around the files before uploading. A unique download code is generated
which allows others to download the files.
QDropbox is also designed to allow the automated export/import of
Qscape’s "My Qscape Documents" folder and Plant Palettes (for
instance with a subconsultant using Qscape).
2.
QSettings - My Qscape Documents - Export/Import – This is a new dialogue that allows the export/import of
your “My Qscape Documents” folder as a zip file (for emailing etc) or
alternatively over the Cloud using the technology in QDropbox (see item 1).
3.
QPlants -
Settings - Palette Actions - "Upload palette to Dropbox" and "Download palette from
Dropbox" buttons added.
4.
QMeasure –
Costings hedge quantitification – An option has been added to the cost estimate
settings to allow the calculation of hedge quantities from plant labels (rather
than closed polylines). This option should only be used once plant labels have
been added to a drawing. It is useful for smaller planting schemes where a
small discrepancy between the hedge quantities in cost estimates and the plant
schedule maybe noticeable.
5.
QMeasure -
Quantities/Costs Tab - Exporting Cost Estimates to Excel - On the pre-export dialogue
there is now a checkbox to allow the suppression of item numbering in Excel
cost estimates. This is useful if you
are doing a lot of copy and pasting and manual adjustments to the Excel
document and don’t want it pre-numbered.
Improved
1.
QPlants - Hedges - the estimated of hedge lengths (when
derived from the perimeter of a closed polyline) has been tweaked. NB The
function assumes hedge beds have a width of between 0.8m to 1.2m.
2.
QMeasure – Costings - hedge
quantification - The quantities are now derived in
the same way as when inputting hedge labels with the same "rounding
up". This should reduce
discrepancies in hedge quantities between Plant Schedules and Cost estimates (when
not using the calculate hedge quantities from plant labels option (see item 4
above).
3.
QPlants - Running osnaps/esnaps are
automatically suppressed when adding plant labels to the drawing.
4.
QSettings – “QPlants - Palette Actions” can
now be accessed from the QSettings dialogue (as well as from QPlants) for
continuity reasons.
5.
QBlocks - Dialogue given a minor refresh
(checkboxes replaced with tablet style buttons) as recently undertaken with the
other Qscape GUI’s.
Fixed
1.
Startup splash screen - If using Qscape in
"Network" mode and the "My Qscape Documents" folder cannot
be found - Qscapes startup
"splash" screen failed to close.
2.
QPlants - Settings - Palette Actions
– When importing a plant palette - the
"Select Palette files" dialogue did not work properly.
3.
QBlocks - Adding Block to the
library - When adding a
block to the library using the "Select a drawing file" option. If a file wasn't selected - the QBlocks
dialogue would disappear and not reappear until Qscape was relaunched.
Version 6.3 13th June 2012
New
1. QPoly2 Toolbar
- Osnap and Ortho Toggle buttons added - This
is the toolbar that automatically pops
up when drawing polylines from QSoft and QHard.
Improved
1.
QSoft/QHard – Point Mode - Osnap is now temporarily suppressed
when using "point" mode (this also applies when drawing lassoos).
2.
Program Startup – The current drawing’s linear Units
setting (“lunits” variable) is automatically set to decimal (2).
Fixed
1.
QSettings - Local/Network Settings -
Copying the local folder "My
Qscape Documents" to a shared network folder - Progress bar would show a
not responding message. Progress Bar is
now removed as it was confusing and could cause user to press "escape"
and break the routine, causing an incomplete copy of "My Qscape
Documents" to be made which could subsequently cause Qscape operation
issues.
2.
QSettings - Local/Network Settings -
Copying Network folder of "My
Qscape Documents" to the local folder - The folder was not copied.
3.
QSoft/QHard - Blocks Tab -
"Angle" Button - When depressed, it did not give the
user the option to define the block angle when inputting a (non-defined) block
for the first time. (It worked correctly for already defined blocks).
4.
Bricscad Pro v12 only - QSlope - The "QSlope" function (on
QSoft and QHard) failed due to a minor bug in Bricscad v12 (tested on 12.2.5).
Patch added (and bug reported to Bricsys).
5.
Windows XP only - QSoft and QHard - Certain tablet buttons such as
"Description", "multi", "offset",
"angle" were almost invisible. (Regression added in v6.0).
Version 6.2 8th May 2012
New
1.
QTools Toolbar - "QFlatten" button added. This
functions flattens (Z values and elevations) of all entities in a drawing. It differs from other “flattening” routines
because it retains the hatch associativity and label/leader associativity of
entities. It also flattens to the World
UCS XY plane rather than the current view plane. NB It does not flatten entities nested in
blocks and xrefs.
Improved
1.
QSettings - "Metre/Millimetres
- Change existing drawing"
- This function now closes the dialogue down prior to resizing the drawing
(instead of hanging there, whilst the drawing is being rescaled). The user is now alerted when the resizing has
finished.
2.
QSettings - "Qscape's Default
Layer settings" dialogue box -
There is now an opportunity to add a Line Scale for default layers such as
"Bed Division" polylines.
3.
Bricscad
only - QSettings - "Qscape's
Default Layer settings" dialogue box - The Linetype and LineWeight select columns have been
improved to be the same as those in QHard/QSoft Settings.
Fixed
1.
QSoft - List Contents Toggle - Failed to toggle the list contents
on the "Poly m2" tab.
2.
QSoft/QHard - Blocks Tab -
"Angle" Button - When depressed, it did not give the
user the option to define the block angle when inputting a (non-defined) block
for the first time. (It worked correctly for already defined blocks).
3.
QSoft/QHard - Draw Polyline Buttons - eg “Draw Bed Division Line” -
Reset the drawing's "Ltscale" variable rather than
"CeLtscale" variable. This
resulted in all polylines to regenerate temporarily when drawing a polyline. This was more noticible when drawing in mm
with complex polylines. This also slowed
down the drawing.
4.
QSoft/QHard - All Tabs - ListBox
pick - When clicking
on a listbox to select an entity to add to the drawing, if an empty line was
selected - a CAD error message appeared.
NB If an entity has previously been selected (and is therefore already
highlighted in the listbox)- clicking on a blank line simply causes the already
highlighted entity to be inputted in to the drawing.
Version 6.1 26th April 2012
New
1.
QMeasure – New tab - Key/Legend Tab.
This is a new tab added to QMeasure
which allows the automatic generation of keys/legends based upon the Qscape
entities used in a drawing.
Improved
1.
The
default Qscape layers "QD-Text" and "QD-Text-Plant
Schedule" (which are the allocated layer names for imported schedules) can
now have their layer properties eg colour changed in QSettings>Qscape's
Default Layer Settings.
2.
QSoft/QHard - Hatches - Hatching is now faster in large
sized drawings.
Fixed
1.
QPlants - Settings - Plant Label
Content - Changing the
Plant Label content from the default (Quantity + Abbreviation) failed for plant
abbreviations beginning with "N" eg Nymphaea 'Gonnère' would fail.
(Luckily there appears to be very few plants beginning with "N",
which is probably why this bug has remained undetected for so long!).
2.
QSoft/QHard - Hatches - When drawing hatches with the
"Angle" button/checkbox pressed to specify the hatch origin and
direction. If "Escape" is pressed the wrong Qscape Error handler was
activated and the dialogue boxes didnot revert back to their original states.
3.
QSoft - Hatch tab - "Adjust Hatch
origin/angle" and "Match Hatch origin/angle" buttons - did not
make QSoft temporarily invisible (like for QHard) when pressed. (This is done
to aid viewability when selecting items in the drawing).
4.
"QTools" toolbar -
"QJoin" - This
function is a quick and easy way to join polylines, you simply select all the
polylines/lines in one and the routine does the rest. This routine failed in Bricscad v11 and
v10. Additionally there is an inbuilt
fuzz factor so polylines do not have to be "snapped" together. This
fuzz factor did not work properly when drawing in mm. NB Fuzz factor was introduced in Bricscad v12,
so with previous versions of Bricscad - the polylines still need to be snapped
together.
5.
AutoCAD
2011 onwards only - QSoft/QHard - Hatching – The AutoCAD system variable
“hplayer” (introduced in AutoCAD 2011), would override the fill layer of Qscape
hatches (if set to a value other than default).
6.
QMeasure - Measure and Ignore Polygons did not
work if their "linetype generation" property was retrospectively
enabled by the user.
Version 6.0 16th April 2012
Supported CAD versions
·
AutoCAD
2008 to 2013 (and verticals such as AutoCAD Architecture).
·
Bricscad
Pro/Platinum v10 to v12.
New
1.
AutoCAD 2013 now supported.
2.
QHard/QSoft interfaces refreshed. NB - The “Toolbar” checkbox has been
removed. This setting can be accessed in
QSettings – “QSoft/QHard – Show QPoly toolbar”.
3.
QSoft – Now (optionally) includes
“Descriptions” (like QHard). You can now
give fuller descriptions to soft landscape entities rather than just a layer
name.
4.
QSoft – Now includes a “List Contents
Toggle” (like QHard). You can now
quickly toggle what is shown in the listboxes on each tab (eg “Hatch”, “Poly
M2” etc). The values are:
iv. “All” – Shows all design entities
defined in Qscape’s database.
v. “Checked” – Shows only the design
entities which have a tick in the checkbox in the “Show/Hide” column in the
settings of the relevant tab eg “Hatch”.
vi. “Defined” – Only shows those
entities that are already defined in the drawing (they may not exist, but the
layer is defined).
vii. “Used” – Only shows those entities
that are physically in the drawing.
5.
Bricscad
only – QHard/QSoft
– Hatch Settings – Hatch previews now supported at long last! (NB Bricscad v12.1.22 or later is required
for the hatch previews to function).
6.
QHard/QSoft -
“Edge Line 2” button added to complement the “Edge Line” button. This draws a dashed edge line where a
continuous line is perhaps inappropriate.
An example of its use – could be perhaps to delineate between mowing
regimes in a grass area where a formal edge may not be required.
Improved
1.
IMPORTANT CHANGE – Qmeasure - Ignore
Polygons – QMeasure
ignores Qscape entities enclosed by “Ignore” polygons (polylines on layer
“QD-Ignore”). Previously if the polygons
were on an “off” or “frozen” layer – enclosed entities were still ignored by
QMeasure. Now polygons must be on an “unfrozen” or “on”
layer for them to work. This is to give more flexibility when measuring complex
landscape drawings, so the Ignore polygons can be toggled between frozen and
unfrozen layers as required.
2.
QMeasure - Ignore Polygons - Now support multiple layers. As long as the Ignore polygon is on a layer
beginning with the prefix “QD-Ignore”. For instance you can put polygons on
layers “QD-Ignore”, “QD-Ignore 1”, “QD-Ignore Phase 2” etc.
3.
QHard and QSoft Settings - The grids showing the properties
of each item - The row heights have been increased. (In Windows 7 - the
previous row heights were too cramped, to comfortably read).
4.
QHard and QSoft Favourites -
Adding/Removing Favourite Items -
A superfluous "greyed-out" label removed from the dialogue.
5.
QHard and QSoft Settings - Properties and Cost grids now have
their own tab. “Edit Costs” button now
removed.
6.
Bricscad
only - QHard Settings - Description Textbox background
incorrectly appeared black, making it difficult to read.
Fixed
1.
QHard - "Poly M" tab
settings - The
name column in the properties grid was editable when it shouldn’t have been.
2.
Bricscad
only - QPlants Settings - Typo fixed. "Bulbs/Aquatics" checkbox now renamed
"Bulbs/Wildflowers".
3.
QPlantPARTNER - Importing some bulbous plants eg
Allium “Purple Sensation” into Qscape caused the text "!!!!SELECTED
GROUP!!!!" to incorrectly appear in the Specification column.
4.
QPlants - "Add" button
- When retrospectively adding blocks to an existing plant
label. The polylines connecting the
blocks were drawn on the current layer, rather than the same layer as the plant
label.
5.
AutoCAD
2011 onwards only - QSoft/QHard - Hatching – The AutoCAD system variable
“hplayer” (introduced in AutoCAD 2011), would override the fill layer of Qscape
hatches (if set to a value other than default).
6.
QHard – Tab Settings – Description
Textbox – If deleting a
“description” and leaving the textbox blank – An entity’s description was not
updated/removed.
7.
QPlants – Error handling bugs fixed. Sometimes
when inputting a plant label and then pressing “escape” caused the dialogue box
to seize up.
Version 5.2 3rd February 2012
Fixed
1.
QPlantPartner - Importation of a single plant into
Qscape failed after format changes were made to the Product pages on the
PlantPARTNER website 30.1.12.
Version 5.1 31st January 2012
Fixed
1.
QPlantPartner - Importation of user’s PlantPARTNER
Schedules into Qscape failed after format changes were made to the Schedule
pages on the PlantPARTNER website 30.1.12.
2.
QPlants – Favourite Categories -
Quick Plants – When
using the quick access method (“QP” on commandline) – The categories - Trees, Palms and Climbers did not work
correctly. (Regression added in v5.0)
3.
QAbout - "Check for
updates" - If
an update is available the download link in the message box was out of date.
4.
QPlants – Plant number calculations - Routine to calculate the area of
a closed polyline to calculate plant numbers has been rewritten in an attempt
to fix an intermittant area calculation bug in Bricscad.
5.
Non-orthographical view warning - The blue popup warning that appears
to warn users that the drawing view is not orthographical - sometimes appeared
when the view was actually ok. (Regression added in v5.0)
6.
“Qfixview" command -
The command did not satisfactorily change a view to a plan view, if a
non World UCS was used. (Regression
added in v5.0)
Version 5.0 17th November 2011
Supported CAD versions
·
AutoCAD
2008 to 2012 (and verticals such as AutoCAD Architecture).
·
Bricscad
Pro/Platinum v10 to v12.
New
1.
Support
for Bricscad Pro/Platinum v12 added.
2.
QPlants
– Settings – Palette Actions – “New” button – This button
creates a new empty plant palette. This
is useful when creating plant palettes from scratch using the PlantPARTNER
interoperability.
3.
3D
view popup warning - Qscape is a 2D package, it only draws in
2D. Occasionally a third party drawing is set up for 3D work and the view may
be non-planar/non orthographical to the drawing (even though it looks like it
is). Not using a true plan can cause CAD
to behave strangely, for instance juddery curser or strange behaviour when
manipulating a polylines grips, it can also cause entities to be drawn in a
completely different place from where you think you are drawing them. A popup warning now appears when drawing
Qscape entities in a 3D view and tells the user how to fix the view (see
below).
4.
New
commands – “QFixview” and “QFixview_undo” - QFixview switches a
drawing’s view to a 2D planar view.
QFixview_undo restores the previous view used prior to using the command
QFixview.
Improved
1.
Qscape start-up - CAD's
"elevation" setting set to 0.0. This is in case of using a legacy drawing
from a third party where the elevation value has been changed.
2.
Qscape
start-up – CAD’s “osnapz” value set to 1 - This means when using
osnap is used to draw polylines and they are snapped to points with a non zero
z value, the polyline is still drawn at the drawings current elevation (0.0,
unless changed).
3.
Qscape
start-up – “Snap” is turned off by default.
4.
QPlants
- Favourites - Adding/Removing Favourites dialogue –
Whole interface improved and a few bugs fixed.
5.
QPlantPartner
- Import plant/schedule button - displays the Qscape Palette name into which
PlantPartner plants/schedule will be imported into.
6.
QPlants
– Interface improved - Plant column views, “Multi” and
“Background mask” checkboxes replaced with “clickable” labels.
7.
Bricscad’s
floating “Prompt” menu - Now supressed (if turned on) when
adding a plant label to a drawing. (See “Promptmenu” setting).
Fixed
1.
QPlants – Settings – Palette Actions
- Export and import palette bug
fixed.
2.
QSoft - Poly m2 tab – Automatic
offset - When drawing a
closed polyline with an automatic offset with CAD's "UCSFollow"
variable set to 1 - the drawings view would change midway through the action.
3.
QPlantPartner - Minor
plant name formatting bugs and column alignment issues fixed when importing
plants into Qscape.
4.
Local/Network label – On click event for the label on
QPlants, QBlocks and QMeasure did not activate the Local/Network Settings
dialogue.
Version 4.5 9th September 2011
New
1. QPlants - "Find and Replace labels" - This new feature works in a similar way to native CAD's Find and Replace feature, except it automatically corrects the plant quantities within the label. It includes the following buttons - "Find Next", "Zoom to" "Replace" and "Replace All". Button (magnifying glass icon) found at the top of the QPlants dialogue. NB This function only works when “Plant Label content” is set to the default "Quantity and Abbreviation" mode. If you are using a different label content mode eg "Full name" it is necessary to temporarily change back to the default mode.
2.
QPlants
- Adding plant label to drawing - Following on from above,
you can now click directly on existing plant labels (as well as closed
polylines and blocks). The plant label
will be automatically replaced with the new plant label. (Quantity adjusted accordingly). Again this feature can only be used if Plant Label content is set to the
default "Quantity and Abbreviation" mode.
Improved
1.
QHard - "Description"
Textbox - font size
made smaller.
2.
QPlants
- QPlants - QPlantPARTNER - When importing a plant from
PlantPartner's product page or schedule page - Qscape suggests an appropriate
abbreviation for the plant. Occasionally the suggested abbreviation was not as
good as it could be eg Brachyglottus monroi was given the abbreviation
"Bra" rather than "Bra mon".
3.
QPlants
- QPlantPARTNER - Some of the grid rows on the import
dialogue were too narrow.
Fixed
1.
QSettings - Changing Plant Label
Content - eg from
"Quantity and Abbreviation" to "Full Name only". Function
did not change plant labels on plant-label layers with personalised
suffixes. eg It worked on a layer called
"QD-Label-Plant" but not on a layer called
"QD-Label-Plant_Ph1".
2.
QAbout - "Check for updates
button". If the user's Qscape version was out of
date. The link/url to the Qscape
download page was incorrect.
3.
QTools - "Add automatic
label" and "Add user defined label" - When the leader was surpressed
and using a non-World UCS - the created mtext object appeared in the wrong
place.
4.
QPlants - QPlantPARTNER - When importing a few plants from
PlantPartner's product page at one time.
Occasionally a PlantPARTNER's suggested stock size would not import into
Qscape.
Version 4.4 25th July 2011
Improved
1. Qscape start up - The popup which appears in the bottom right of the screen contains additional information such as the current drawing units, (eg 1 CAD unit = 1 metre) and the current font style.
2. QPlants - PlantPartner Automatic login - Password textbox, style changed to "password". (Hides characters whilst they are typed).
3. QPlants - Plant database
editing – If
done outside of the Qscape interface but with an active CAD session open - a
simple Qscape relaunch will update QPlants with in the current CAD session.
Fixed
1.
Qscape start up – “Welcome” screen - On new installations pressing the
"I'll enter a license key later" button caused an error which
prevented the correct configuaration of Qscape on a first time installation.
Version
4.3 26th May 2011
New
1. Qtools toolbar -
"QLabel_User" button
- This new function is for reviewing and quickly adding user defined labels to
a drawing. It includes the following commandline inputs:
- "N" to launch a text editor
for a new label.
- "E" to edit an existing
label in the drawing to create a new label.
- <Space> to toggle through
existing labels in the current drawing.
- "M" to add a background
mask to the label.
- "L" to add a leader to
the label.
2. QPlants - "All/Used" Label
toggle -. Simply click
the new label which says "ALL" to toggle the QPlants display from all
the plants in the palette to just those in the current drawing and vice
versa. This feature is designed to reduce the need to continually iterate
through long lists of plants to add already used plants to a drawing.
Improved
1. "QLabel" function
renamed "QLabel_auto" - (button found on the QSoft and QHard
dialogue boxes). This function automatically added labels to existing
Qscape drawing entities. A button has been now added to the Qtools toolbar next
to the new "Qlabel_user" button. The button image has been updated.
2. QPlants - leaders -the spline leader used for joining
multiple plant symbols (blocks) is now generated as a continuous spline leader
rather than several individual spline leaders.
3. QMeasure - Plant Schedules - These are generated with less
"white space" between the columns to make them more compact.
Fixed
1. CAD's "undo" function
would undo too many plant labels when undoing a sequence of newly added plant
labels.
Version 4.2 12th May 2011
Fixed
1. QSettings - Qscape Layer Prefix - Pressing "Apply" caused
a sequence of error messages and failed to update the layer prefix.
2. QPlants - Favourites (new
installations only) -
The favourites interface was missing a few pre-compiled favourite plant groups.
3. QPlants - Opening/Closing the
dialogue - If the
dialogue was closed whilst in its minimised state, when it was re-launched some
of the controls were invisible.
Version 4.1 6th May 2011
Fixed
1. QMeasure - Make Plant Schedule
tab/Make Cost Estimate tab - Picking Measure polygons - This action failed to measure the
contents of the polygon(s) when using a user defined UCS (rather than
"World").
Improved
1. QSettings - "QPlants -
Keep/Delete lassoos" -
Qscape v4.0 added a default value to "keep" the private layer lassoos
(once picked when adding a plant label). Previous versions deleted the
lassoos. The default value has now been changed back to
"delete". NB If you have already started a drawing using v4.0 -
the "keep" setting will remain unless changed in QSettings.
2. QMeasure - Make Cost Estimate tab -
Picking Measure polygons.
This action is speeded up, with less screen flashing. NB This improvement will
be more notable on very large drawings with lots of hardworks etc.
Version 4.0 3rd May 2011
Supported CAD versions
·
AutoCAD
2008 to 2012 (and verticals such as AutoCAD Architecture).
·
Bricscad
Pro v10, Bricscad Pro v11.
New
1. AutoCAD 2012 - now supported.
2. Qscape toolbars - New (and much improved) icons.
3. Plantpartner interoperability -
import of user defined plant groups -
can now import plant groups with user defined names eg "Mix 1" etc,
not just standard plant groups eg Shrubs, Trees etc.
4. Qsettings - "QPlants -
Keep/delete lassoos" -
This setting gives the option to keep the private layer lassoos when picked
(when adding a plant label).
5. Qscape User Manual - This is an interactive pdf
document which include hyperlinks etc. A link has been added to this
document in the "QAbout" dialogue box. The Qscape User Manual
contains essentially the same information as Qscape's help files, but includes
the necessary pages to allow it to be published/printed (eg front covers,
contents pages, introduction etc).
Improved
1. Bricscad only - Qscape start up - Removed extraneous commandline
information at startup.
2. Qscape start up - "splash"
screens and Register dialogue boxes
- now forced to open in the centre of the CAD workspace area.
3. QSettings - Local/Network Settings - It is not possible to connect to
"My Qscape Documents" on the network if the directory path up to and
before "My Qscape Documents" exceeds 100 characters. This is to keep
file path lengths within Windows' file path length limitations.
4. QPlants - Selecting closed polylines
for adding shrub etc labels
- The closed polyline is only deleted if it is on layer "QD-Private"
so entire shrub beds can be picked (if they only contain one plant species).
5. General CAD - Drawing units - Decimal unit precision set to 3
trailing 0's eg 2.000 metres when working in metres and no trailing 0's eg 2 mm
when working in mm.
6. QPlants - Launch PlantPARTNER button
- tooltip changed to more accurately
reflect its functionality.
Fixed
1. QMeasure - Plant Schedules - Layer
control - When plant
labels are placed on a layer other than QD-Label-Plant eg QD-Layer-Plant_01.
Layer QD-Label-Plant still had to be defined in the drawing for the plants to
be counted even if they were on the different layer.
2. QPlants - Favourites Tab -
Add/Remove Favourites categories
- Occasionally the master plant databases from which selected plants can be to
Favourites eg Trees, Shrubs etc, failed to appear in the listview. (This
occurred when the relevant database eg Trees had previously opened in a QPlants
session.
3. QMeasure - Measure selected entities
with in polygons or rectangles
- In order to measure all the contents, it was necessary to have the entire
polygon/rectangle visible on the screen.
4. QMeasure - Exporting Plant Schedules
to Excel - Sometimes the
notes at the bottom of the plant schedule appeared with incorrect text.
Other
1. User's "Qscape Application
Data" folder (on local computer) added to CAD's file support paths to
enable AutoCAD 2012 to remember Qscape's Menu/toolbars from one CAD session to
the next.
2. Log file creation, debugging and
uninstall/partial uninstall routines now added to aid trouble
shooting/product support.
Version 3.4 23rd March 2011
Fixed
1. QPlants - Adding a Plant
Label - When adding
a shrub, bamboo, aquatic/marginal, herbaceous, bulb label to a polyline - the
plant numbers were calculated too high because Qscape was measuring the
perimeter of the polyline rather than the area. (Regression added in
v3.3).
Version 3.3 11th March 2011
New
1. QPlants - Interoperability
with PlantPARTNER.
PlantPARTNER is a popular and very comprehensive online planting resource
website. PlantPARTNER can be accessed directly through Qscape's interface
using the green "PP" button found near the top of the QPlants
dialogue. This button allows you to take advantage of PlantPARTNER's
plant databases and powerful search engine from within Qscape. Both
individual plants and PlantPARTNER "Schedules" can be imported
directly in to Qscape, (no export required). NB PlantPARTNER is a
subscription based service, your company's user name and password can be
entered directly into Qscape to negate logging in with each visit. Please
see http://www.plantpartner.co.uk
for more details about PlantPARTNER or contact us for more information about
this feature.
2. QPlants - Plant databases -
"Specification" column added.
Additional plant information can be added under this column such as number of
breaks, form eg "bushy" etc. NB the Specification column does not
appear in the QPlants' ListViews but will (optionally) appear in your
Plant Schedules.
3. QSettings - "QMeasure - Change
Plant Schedule Running order".
New setting to allow the changing of the running order within Plant Schedules
of the different category titles eg "SHRUBS", "TREES",
"HEDGES".
4. QPlants - Plant labelling - When selecting a closed
polyline to add for instance a shrub label - there is now a "command
line" option to select a linear polyline (and gain the length measurement
rather than the area measurement). This new feature is useful for very narrow
planting areas where it is more appropriate to position plants in a linear row.
5. QPlants - Hedge labelling - When adding a hedge label to a
selected closed polyline, there is now a "command line" option to
select a linear polyline (and gain a precise length measurement rather than a
length derived from the perimeter of the closed polyline). This feature is
useful for very narrow hedges (less than 0.5m wide) or very wide hedges (over
1.2m wide) and a high level of precision is required.
Improved
1. QPlants - Plant databases - the way Qscape reads the plant
database is changed and is now more robust. Any information can now be entered
in a column in a plant database.
2. QPlants - "Listviews" - on the various tabs eg
"Shrubs" - The default column widths have been made slightly wider,
to reduce the need to continually manually adjust the column widths.
3. QPlants - Bulbs tab - Superfluous "Stock"
column checkbox removed.
4. QPlants - Bulbs tab renamed
"Bulbs/Wildflowers".
Wildflower (non bulbous) plants such as foxgloves etc can optionally be added
here now.
5. QPlants - Closed polyline selection - When selecting a closed polyline
to add for instance a shrub label to a drawing. A Warning message now appears
if there is no "spacing" eg 3/m2, specified in the database for the
plant to be added.
6. QMeasure - Progress Bar. Added to the dialogue box
when creating plant schedules and cost estimates.
7. QMeasure - Plant Scheduling Layer
Control - Qscape
previously only counted plants on layer "QD-Label-Plant". It
will now count plants on additional layers too as long as the layer name has
the prefix "QD-Label-Plant" eg "QD-Label-Plant_Phase
1". This feature allows you to optionally exercise layer control to
different sections of your plant labels.
8. Startup - On launching Qscape any Qscape
textstyles found in a new drawing/template will now revert back to Qscape's
"factory settings" font sizes.
9. QSettings - "Drawing Plot Scale
- change existing entities"
- Now only rescales entities in the drawing's model space.
Fixed
1. QPlants - Bulbs tab, Hedges tab,
Hedge Mixes tab, Succulents tab
- The "Refresh" button which reloads an edited database into the
ListView on an active QPlants dialogue failed.
2. QSoft - Poly m2 - Drawing closed
polylines (in "Draw" mode).
When the automatic offset checkbox was checked - very occasionally it would
fail and cause CAD to crash.
Version 3.2 10th January 2011
Improved
1. Bricscad only - QSoft/QHard - Hatch Settings. Lineweight previews included
with in the dropdown menu in the grids. (This feature already exists on AutoCAD
versions).
2. QSoft/QHard - Settings -
"Delete items" dialogue - now
resizeable.
Fixed
1. QSoft/QHard - Hatch Settings - Changing a hatch pattern in the
"Properties" Grid or "Add Item" Grid, caused CAD to fatal
error. (Regression added in v3.0).
2. Bricscad only - QPlants - When adding a plant label to the
drawing, the QPlants dialogue would not automatically lose focus. An example of
how this manifested itself would be the inability to use mouse wheel zooming
when adding a plant (without clicking the commandline first). (Regression added
in v3.0).
Version 3.1 16th December 2010
New
1. "QAbout" dialogue box - new buttons added, which enable
you to do the following:-
- Read Qscape's EULA.
- Read Qscape's Release Notes.
- Fill in an online "Contact" form. (internet connection required)
- Fill in an online "Support Request" form. (internet
connection required)
- Fill in an online "Feature Request" form. (internet
connection required)
- Fill in an online "Report a bug" form. (internet connection
required)
- Check for Qscape updates. (internet connection required)
2. New EULA, (apologies for changing, the old
one wasn't really fit for purpose). The new form is a standard software
agreement form with clarification added by us to item 3.3 (b) regarding use of
Qscape on 2nd laptops/home computers (yes you can, subject to restrictions) and
further detail regarding our support obligations, see item 6. The EULA can be
read by clicking the new "EULA" button in the "QAbout"
dialogue box (see above).
Improved
1. Qtools toolbar - all buttons now launch the
"QAbout" dialogue box if Qscape has not previously been launched in a
drawing session.
2. Bricscad v11 - "QSettings" -
"Optimimise CAD's settings" (QConfigure). Option to turn off
"Dynamic Input" added for Bricscad Pro v11.
3. "QSettings" -
"Optimise CAD's settings" (QConfigure). Options to change CAD's pick box
and cursor size (crosshairs) added, if they are not CAD's default sizes. This
has been added because occasionally an error/crash may cause the cursor and
pick box to go very small.
4. Qscape start up - Dynamic Input is now
automatically turned off. It can be turned on again using the menu tablet
at the bottom of the screen if required.
Fixed
1. QSoft/QHard - Poly m2/Poly m tabs -
"Reverse" button
- stopped working. (Still worked on QTools toolbar). (Regression added in
v3.0).
2. QSettings - "Autostart" - When the "autostart"
checkbox is checked - A conflict sometimes occurred between CAD's native start
up splash screens, "Tip of the day", New features dialogues etc and
Qscape's start up splash screens, the first time CAD is opened. It is now
necessary to manually "Launch Qscape" just once at the start of the
initial CAD session, thereafter Qscape will automatically launch for all
subsequently opened drawings (assuming "Autostart" is checked).
Version 3.0 6th December 2010
Supported CAD versions
·
AutoCAD
2007 to 2011 (and verticals such as AutoCAD Architecture).
·
Bricscad
Pro v10, Bricscad Pro v11.
New
1. Bricscad Pro v11 - now supported.
2. QSoft/QHard - Polyline/Closed
Polyline Settings -
"Linetypes" selected from a dropdown list within the Properties grid
rather than from a separate dialogue box. Linetype previews are included with
in the dropdown (new feature for Bricscad users).
3. New linetypes - QLTYPE_064 (squiggly line) and
QLTYPE_065 (hedge type linetype) added to Qscape's linetype library. NB As
these are complex linetypes the shape file c:/program files/Qscape.shx has been
updated. If you have previously copied this shape file to another directory on
your network, please manually replace it (so other non-Qscape CAD users can
correctly read your linetypes in drawings).
4. New command - "Qorder" -This command is similar to CAD's
native draw order functions, however extra commandline inputs have been added
to send entities to "Front" or "Back" of the draworder. A
crucial difference from the native functions is it has an "All"
command line option has been added. This allows the selection of an entity
eg mtext on layer "QD-Label-Plant" and not just that entity but all
others of the same type on its layer will be changed too. The
"Qorder" button is positioned adjacent to the Background mask buttons
on the "Qtools" toolbar as it is anticipated a common use of the
command will be to bring background masked labels above other entities.
5. Bricscad only - QSettings - Leader Style.
The Selection Combobox now includes images of the arrow aheads. (This feature
already exists on AutoCAD versions).
6. Bricscad only - QSoft/QHard - Block Settings - Block previews now available.
(This feature already exists on AutoCAD versions).
7. Bricscad only - QSoft/QHard - Polyline/Closed
Polyline settings.
Lineweight previews included with in the dropdown menu. (This feature already
exists on AutoCAD versions).
8. Bricscad only - QBlocks - "Edit
categories" and "Edit blocks" buttons added. These buttons enable the
adding and removing of blocks and categories to the block manager. (This
feature already exists on AutoCAD versions).
Improved
1. Improved graphics for Background
mask buttons on the "Qtools" toolbar.
Fixed
1. QSettings - Plant label content - If changing the information to
display in a drawing - an error occurred if there were no plant labels in the
drawing.
2. AutoCAD 2009 and 2010 only - QPlants - adding a plant label - picking a closed polyline
occasionally caused the error message "Cannot calculate
the area of a self intersecting curve." and QPlants GUI would freeze
(until Qscape is relaunched). This was due to a bug in AutoCAD's native
"area" command.
Version 2.16 26th November 2010
New
1. QPlants - Plant labels - Options to change what is
displayed in a drawing's plant labels. The options are:
1. Quantity and Abbreviation. Label = "10No. Cho ter". (default mode).
2. Abbreviation only. Label = "Cho ter".
3. Quantity and Full name. Label = "10No. Choisya ternata".
4. Full name only. Label = "Choisya ternata".
5. Quantity, Full name and stock. Label = "10No. Choisya ternata (3L)".
6. Full name and stock. Label = "Choisya ternata (3L)".
This feature can be accessed through QSettings - Plant Label Content, or QPlants "Settings" button. NB plant labels can only be manually edited with CAD's text editor when in the default "Quantity and Abbreviation" mode. In the other modes the plant labels contain "hidden" information which will not be updated through a manual edit.
1. QMeasure - "Make Plant
Schedule" and
"Export Plant Schedule to Excel" - functions are modified to
accord with the different plant label displays (see above).
2. "QTools toolbar" -
"Quick selection tool".
(Keyboard entry - "qsel"). This is a powerful tool, that on clicking
an entity returns useful information such as its layer, entity type eg Hatch
boundary, closed polyline etc. The tool includes some handy command line
inputs - Pressing the <space> bar allows you to cycle through the
entities stacked under (and close by) without changing their "draw
order". Pressing "S" allows you to select the relevant
entity.
3. "QTools" toolbar
- "Xref List" button. (Keyboard entry - "qref").
This tool allows you to select an xref entity and it will return the Xref/block
name, the xref/block layer and the "nested" xref layer.
4. QHard - Hatch tab - new button -
"Match hatch origin and angle".
This button allows the "origin" and "direction" of an
existing hatch in the drawing to be inherited and then "pasted" to
other hatches. An example of its use would be to save time for repetitive
hatch jobs such as concrete blocks in multiple parking bays. Simply
quickly draw all the hatches with the "Angle" checkbox
<unchecked> - then retrospectively using this tool - fix the hatch
origins and directions in one go.
Improved
1. Hatch boundary
visibility/invisibility functions - speeded
up.
2. QHard and QSoft - Hatch tab -
"Pick" option.
Non Qscape entities such as hatches without boundaries can be selected and they
will be converted and given an associative hatch boundary. The routine is
generally more robust, quicker and more reliable.
3. QMeasure - Cost Estimating - Speed improvements. This is
probably only notable on very large drawings. Also Command line output added,
so progress can be reviewed on large drawings.
4. QMeasure - Plant Scheduling - Speed improvements. This is
probably only notable on very large drawings.
5. QPlants - Adding/Removing Favourite
Plants dialogue box.
The "<<REMOVE" button for Favourites Catagories now renamed
"<<DELETE" to avoid
confusion. (The word "Remove" implied that the action was reversible,
when in fact is not.)
6. QSoft - Dialogue box - now resizeable.
7. QHard - Dialogue box - no maximum width on resizing.
8. QHard and QSoft - All Settings
dialogue boxes -
All dialogue boxes default sizes increased to 1024 x 768 pixels. (The minimum
recommended
screen resolution for AutoCAD and Bricscad). They are now resizeable so users
can expand them if they have a high resolution monitor or alternatively if
using a Netbook of only 1024 x 600 resolution - shrink them .
9. QPlants - Adding and Removing
Favourite plants dialogue box
- default size changed and made resizable as above.
10. QPlants - spline leaders - When selecting multiple blocks eg
trees in "Multi" mode. The line connecting the selected blocks is now
a 3 point spline. This enables the middle "grip" to be selected and
pulled around other (non-selected) entities.
Fixed
1.
"QLassoo"
function - Stopped
working on very large drawings with lots of Qscape polylines already within it.
2.
Bricscad
- QHard - Hatch tab - Update hatch origin and angle button - occasionally failed.
3.
Start
up Splash Screen -
If Qscape was set to "Network mode" and the "My Qscape
Documents" folder on the network cannot be found on startup (for instance
if working on a non connected laptop) - an error message appeared
and the splash screen did not close.
4.
AutoCAD
- QHard and QSoft - Hatch tab
- "Pick" option. When updating a hatch using the
"Pick" drawing mode and working in "mm". The replacement
hatch
object was drawn to the wrong drawing units.
5.
QMeasure
- Cost Estimating tab - Cost Estimate Settings - Soft plot rates - The textbox for adding the number
of plots in the drawing
sometimes disappeared.
6.
QMeasure
- Cost Estimating tab - Measuring Selected polygons - The "Open" and
"Import" buttons for the cost estimate and schedule of
quantities were not "enabled" after the cost estimate had been
created.
7.
QPlants
- Settings - Hide/Show (plant group) tabs - When in "Network" mode the settings were not
"remembered".
Version 2.15 10th October 2010
Fixed
1. Bricscad commandbar focus behaviour - when implementing functions off
Qscape's GUI's - eg to draw a closed polyline from QSoft, the Bricscad command
bar would lose its focus. This manifested itself by requiring an additional
<click> on the command bar to activate it prior ti typing something eg
<escape>.
2. Bricscad "ortho" tile
button behaviour -
When drawing a hatch or closed polyline in "draw" mode - the
"ortho" tile button (below the commandline) did not work and
additionally caused Qscape's code to break (causing Qscape's automatic offset
feature to not work correctly).
Version 2.14 2nd October 2010
Improved
1. QSoft - "Poly m2 tab" -
Offset button -
now offsets the distance specified in the Offset Distance Textbox rather than
0.15m.
Fixed
1. QSoft and QHard Settings -
Changing/adding cost rates for an item - if Qscape's "units" were set to "mm"
- the rate was not automatically updated to 2 decimal places. Eg an item given
a cost rate of £2 was not automatically corrected to £2.00.
2. QSettings - "Drawing Plot Scale
- Change existing entities" -
When Qscape's units were set to "mm" - labels, leaders and slope
symbols did not resize correctly to the newly specified plot scale.
Version 2.13 22nd September 2010
Improved
·
QMeasure
- Connecting to Excel.
Support added for "Microsoft Office 2003" suite added.
·
QSettings
- Optimimise AutoCAD/Bricscad Settings - "Turn off Snap" option now
added. Snap makes
the cursor "jumpy" (as it snaps to invisible grid points). It is
little used these days, especially for landscape work.
Fixed
·
QSettings
- Optimimise AutoCAD/Bricscad Settings - "Change the AutoCAD's modelspace
background colour to black" option.
This option sometimes appeared even if the background colour is already set to
black. Also in AutoCAD the crosshairs failed to change colour to white, (so
they can be seen against the newly created black background). In Bricscad an
error was thrown up and sometimes crashed, when selecting this option.
Version 2.12 13th September 2010
Fixed
·
QSoft
- Hatches - The
following error message "no function definition:QHATCH_REMOVE_ISLANDBOUNDARIES"
appeared on the commandline when drawing a hatch using "Point" mode.
This error did not prevent usage, however hatch boundaries were added to
internal islands within a hatch. (Regression added in v2.4).
·
QSoft
- Hatches. The default
hatch colour for turf had changed from green to red. (Regression added in
v2.11).
·
QMeasure
- Writing Cost Estimates to Excel.
If the "use descriptions" checkbox was checked - The item names for
closed polyline entities eg "Planting-Shrubs" or
"Planting-Hedges" were incorrectly displayed in the Excel cell.
(Regression added in v2.10).
Version 2.11 3rd September 2010
Fixed
·
New
user Qscape installations failed. (Regression added in v2.10).
Version 2.10 27th August 2010
New
·
QSettings
- "Metre/Millimetres - Set Drawing Units". A "Set as default"
checkbox has been added, so Qscape's default drawing units can be set to
either "1 unit = 1m" or "1 unit = 1mm". (Previously Qscape
defaulted to "1 unit = 1m").
·
QSettings
- "Qscape layer prefix" - choice of deliminator characters is now
offered. This permits
different prefix styles such as "QD_Soft" "QD.Soft"
"QD~Soft" etc. Previously Qscape only permitted the
"QD-Soft" style. Qscape now permits the use of different types of
deliminators in the layer prefix naming conventions. This is to help Qscape's
layers to "dovetail" into an office's inhouse layer naming
conventions.
·
Multiple
login users on same pc.
Qscape can be used by multiple users on the same the pc using their own login.
NB Qscape should be set to "Network" mode, if the different users are
to share the same landscape and plant data.
·
QSoft,
"Poly m2" tab - Offset distance textbox. This allows the user to
specify the automatic offset distance fro closed polylines. The default value
may be changed in QSettings. (Previously the automatic offset was fixed
to 0.15m).
·
QSoft,
"Poly m2" Settings - Linetype Scale column added to the Properties
grid.
Improved
·
"FIXPOLY"
command which corrects
the rendition of a polyline, now has an "All" option, so all
polylines in a drawing can be regenerated correctly. This is useful if a large
drawing with many complex linetypes is opened on on a low RAM computer and the
polylines are not rendered correctly.
·
Unlimited
number of plants permissable in each plant category eg "Shrubs" in QPlants.
Previously errors occurred after approximately 600-700 plants per plant group.
·
QSoft
and QHard Settings - Working in mm
- if Qscape's drawing units is set to "1 unit = 1mm", all line type
scale, hatch scale, line width etc information is now displayed in
"mm" rather than "m".
Version 2.9 6th August 2010
New
·
"QSlope" function added (accessed from
QSoft, QHard and QPlants dialogue boxes). This function adds gradient
arrows to slopes. The gradient arrows can optionally be attached to
Qscape hatches and polylines. Qscape's measuring program will subsequently
adjust it area/length calculations accordingly, if it finds a gradient arrow
attached to an entity. QPlants will also adjust its plant number
calculations if it finds a gradient symbol attached to a picked entity and/or
if the QSlope dialogue box is floating on the screen. (Qscape flashes a
warning, when it is adjusting plant numbers to account for a gradient).
·
"Export
Plant Schedules to Excel"
function added to the QMeasure GUI. NB Excel cells and Excel
documents can be copy and pasted directly in to CAD by using CAD's "Paste
Special.." function (as found in the "Edit" menu
dropdown).
Improved
·
If
a command is active - closing a dialogue box by pressing the cancel button in
the top right of a dialogue box such as QSoft or QHard caused a "Runtime
Error" message to appear several times. Qscape now prevents dialogues
being closed whilst a command is active.
·
The
"Hide" checkbox is now omitted from QSoft, QHard and QPlants. Qscape
now automatically hides the dialogue box when carrying out an action in the
drawing.
·
Qscape's
"modeless" dialogue boxes automatically close when opening a new
drawing during a Qscape session.
·
The
CAD command "undo" ("u") does not need to be utilised
multiple times when "undoing" entities drawn with QSoft or QHard such
as a hatch.
·
Bricscad
only. QBlocks - The
Bricscad floating "prompt" menu (promtmenu) interfered with the
inserting of blocks, making it very slow. The prompt menu is now temporarily
disabled when inserting a block from QBlocks.
Fixed
·
QSoft
"Poly" m Settings. When adding a new polyline for the "Poly
m" tab in the Settings dialogue, the new selected linetype was not added
to the "Add Item" section and an error message was shown.
·
Bricscad
only. When
changing hatches with QSoft/QHard ("Hatch" tab), set to
"Pick" mode. The hatches did not update if the hatch boundaries are
"invisible".
·
When
changing a hatch origin/angle with "Adjust Hatch Origin/Angle button"
in QHard Hatch tab. If CAD's UCS was not set to "World" and
"UCSFollow" set to 1 in CAD, the view of the plan "jumped"
midway through the command.
·
If
using the "Add Label" button on QHard and QSoft. If CAD's UCS was not
set to "World", the cursor information sometimes appeared at the
incorrect angle.
·
Labels
and Leaders, for instance Plant Labels. Vertical leaders were not created when
CAD's UCS (User's Coordinate System) was not set to "World".
·
"Measure"
and "Ignore" polylines were drawn at the wrong linetype scale when
working with units set to "mm".
·
"Measure"
and "Ignore" polylines were drawn in the wrong position when UCS was
not set to "World".
Version 2.8 22nd June 2010
Improved
·
Plant
labels may now be drawn with vertical leaders (as well as horizantal and
diagonal leaders).
·
QSettings
- "Optimise CAD settings" - The following additional settings are
checked for:
Display of Object Snap markers, Object Snap magnets to be used, Object Snap
aperture boxes to be turned off.
·
Qscape's
"Help" files have been expanded to include new material such as
"QHard" and rewritten/updated in parts.
Fixed
·
When
pressing "Escape" whilst inputting a plant label into the
drawings. AutoCAD's Decimal precision in the "Units" setting
was reset to 0 (instead of 0.000 etc).
Bricscad users only
Minor issues not preventing usage:
·
When
inserting a single block from the Blocks tabs on QSoft and QHard or QBlocks -
the escape/enter keys do not work as expected. (Regression appeared in
Bricscad Pro v10.3.11).
Bricssys have been informed of these issues and they will be addressed in the next Bricscad release.
Version 2.7 5th May 2010
New
·
Support
for Microsoft Windows 7.
·
Support
for foreign language versions of AutoCAD/Bricscad.
Fixed
·
QSettings
- "Optimise CAD settings" - If opting to change CAD's model space
from white to black. AutoCAD's cross hairs did not change from black to white
to contrast with the model space".
·
New
user Registration - If a new user's pc's "desktop" was situated on
the "D" drive, (because pc has been partitioned). Qscape saved the
Registration document to the "C" drive desktop instead of the
"D" drive desktop. (Issue only applied if opting to save the
registration details to send later rather than emailing).
·
New
user Registration - In the "Welcome" dialogue, using the
"paste" button to enter a new license "key". Qscape
sometimes failed to read the "key" correctly if there was inadvertant
text formatting such as tabs/spaces/carriage returns in the pasted
"key".
Bricscad users only
Minor issues not preventing usage:
·
When
inserting a single block from the Blocks tabs on QSoft and QHard or QBlocks -
the escape/enter keys do not work as expected. (Regression appeared in
Bricscad Pro v10.3.11).
·
When
drawing closed hatches or polylines using QSoft or QHard. Pressing escape
terminates the action but only after automatically closing the polyline/hatch
boundary. (Regression appeared in Bricscad Pro v10.3.11, fixed in v10.4.7).
Bricssys have been informed of these issues and they will be addressed in the next Bricscad release.
Version 2.6 1st May 2010
Fixed
·
Qscape's
CUI file (menus and toolbars) did not load on first time installs.
·
QSettings
- "Rename Qscape's layer prefix" function eg "QD- to
"DEW-". Function failed when a layer with the new prefix already
exists in the drawing. The function now works however if there is a block
definition using the old layer name, eg "QD-Soft" the layer cannot be
renamed and so the old layer name will be retained for legacy purposes. The new
layer name eg "DEW-Soft", will still be created.
Bricscad users only
Minor issues not preventing usage:
·
When
inserting a single block from the Blocks tabs on QSoft and QHard or QBlocks -
the escape/enter keys do not work as expected. (Regression appeared in
Bricscad Pro v10.3.11).
·
When
drawing closed hatches or polylines using QSoft or QHard. Pressing escape
terminates the action but only after automatically closing the polyline/hatch
boundary. (Regression appeared in Bricscad Pro v10.3.11).
Bricssys have been informed of these issues and they will be addressed in the next Bricscad release.
Version 2.5 19th April 2010
New
·
Support for
AutoCAD 2011.
Fixed
·
QSoft/QHard
(Windows Vista only) - The "Add Item" section on the Settings
dialogue boxes did not display correctly.
Improved
·
QSettings
- (AutoCAD 2009+ only). When using the "QConfigure" function to swap
to AutoCAD's workspaces to "Classic" mode (toolbars rather than
ribbons). Qscape's menu and toolbars are automatically loaded into the new
workspace. (Previously it was necessary to re-launch Qscape in the
drawing session).
Bricscad users only
Minor issues not preventing usage:
·
When
inserting a single block from the Blocks tabs on QSoft and QHard or QBlocks -
the escape/enter keys do not work as expected. (Regression appeared in
Bricscad Pro v10.3.11).
·
When
drawing closed hatches or polylines using QSoft or QHard. Pressing escape
terminates the action but only after automatically closing the polyline/hatch
boundary. (Regression appeared in Bricscad Pro v10.3.11).
Bricssys have been informed of these issues and they will be addressed in the next Bricscad release.
Version 2.4 14th April 2010
Fixed
·
QSettings
- Changing Qscape layer Names prefix sometimes threw up an error.
·
QSoft/QHard
- When drawing hatches using "Point" mode, if there are
islands within the hatch area, boundary polylines were added to the islands,
which could upset the quantities generated by QMeasure.
·
QMeasure
- Closing the dialogue in its "minimised" state caused the tab
control to be invisible next time the dialogue was launched.
Bricscad users only
Minor issues not preventing usage:
·
When
inserting a single block from the Blocks tabs on QSoft and QHard or QBlocks -
the escape/enter keys do not work as expected. (Regression appeared in
Bricscad Pro v10.3.11).
·
When
drawing closed hatches or polylines using QSoft or QHard. Pressing escape
terminates the action but only after automatically closing the polyline/hatch
boundary. (Regression appeared in Bricscad Pro v10.3.11).
Bricssys have been informed of these issues and they will be addressed in the next Bricscad release.
Developer's notes
·
DN
2.4.1 (Bricscad) - Workaround removed (see DN 2.3.1.) as Bricscad code
has been updated. NB Bricscad code still requires further work see above.
Version 2.3 4th March 2010
Developer's notes
·
DN
2.3.1 (Bricscad) - Temporary workaround added to allow use of prompt menu,
right clicks of mouse and toolbar inputs when drawing polylines and hatches.
(Regression added in Bricscad Pro v10.2.12).
Version 2.2 25th February 2010
Fixed
·
QSoft
rolldown fixed.
·
QSoft
& QHard layer information fixed to extend across the dialogue, when the
"hide" checkbox is unchecked.
Version 2.1 23rd February 2010
Fixed
·
Blocks
drawn using QHard were not measured by QMeasure.
Version 2.0 18th February 2010
New
·
Added
support for Bricscad Pro v10 by Bricssys.
Bricscad is an excellent cost effective alternative to AutoCAD.
·
New
module - "QHard" for drawing hard landscape design.
Fixed
·
The
Lassoo function in QSoft and QPlants "raycasted" to entities on
Qscape layers to draw the lassoo, but failed to ignore entities on frozen
layers.
·
Removed
Osnap overrides by Qscape as caused conflicts with users' osnap settings.
Osnap is now purely controlled by the users through CAD.
Improved
·
Lots
of new hatches and linetypes added. Hatches and linetypes are designed to
be predominantly modular in scale based upon 1 unit = 1 metre. This means
if you wished to use a hatch for paving slabs, sized 450 x 450mm. You can
set the hatch scale to 0.45 and the slabs will be drawn at true size.
Bricscad users only
The following are minor issues that do not prevent usage of Qscape .
·
The
QPlants dialogue does not yet support docking.
·
Users
cannot yet add new directories and blocks to QBlocks.
·
Hatch
previews not yet supported in QSoft/QHard Hatch Settings. If adding a
hatch to QSoft to QHard, it is easier to draw the hatch first in the drawing
and at the desired scale. It can then be selected from the hatch settings
dialogue by pressing the new "Pick Hatch" button and its properties
will be automatically inherited.
Bricssys have been informed of these issues and they will be addressed in subsequent Bricscad releases.
Developer's notes
·
DN
2.0.1 - Menu source files moved from "Qscape" folder to
read/writeable "Qscape Application Data" folder. This allows
CUI updates when the user does not have full administrative permissions on
their computer.
Version 1.13 24th November 2009
Fixed
·
QMeasure
went into error when a block definition was defined in the drawing, but not
actually physically in the drawing.
Version 1.12 19th November 2009
New
·
"QInclude" button added to various dialogues.
This command draws a polygon or rectangle on a layer called
"QD-Measure". The polygons and rectangles can then be selected using
a new button on the "QMeasure" dialogue - (next to the main "Measure"
button). If pressed, only items or plant labels entirely within the
polygons/rectangles (as selected by you) will be measured. This gives you
optionally more control on what is measured - for instance you can measure
different phases of a housing development, or perhaps just one plot. NB
Landscape Items/Plant Labels must be completely within a polygon to be
measured.
·
"QIgnore" button does not have a dialogue any
more. It defaults automatically to a polygon. Check the command line for
options eg typing "R" will draw a rectangle.
·
"QLabel" button added to QSoft, this allow
Qscape landscape items to be automatically labelled. When you hover the cursor
over a Qscape item such as turf or timber edge - the name of the item is
identified and then if you select it - the correct label is added to the item.
You should check the commandline for various options such as adding background
masks or leaders etc.
·
"Pick
Item" added to the
QSoft settings dialogues, so if you are adding an item to QSoft such as a
hatch, linear polyline or closed polyline - you can retrieve the linetype,
hatch pattern etc from entities already existing in the current drawing. (like
match properties).
·
"Button
Polyline Settings"
in QSettings has been changed to "Default Layer Settings" and now
gives you more control over the properties of Qscape's default layers, such as
colour to ensure compatability with your inhouse CAD standards.
Fixed
·
When
writing a cost estimate to Excel, Qscape trimmed the trailing "2s"
from area measurements ending in "2".
·
A
couple of glitches in the rescale drawing routine "mm2m" or
"m2mm" have been repaired - Background masks are now
"shrink-wrapped" around resized multitext; if an item cannot be
resized, the routine does not crash, but simply warns the user when its
finished what has not been resized.
·
When
customising your blocks in QSoft - if a block is deleted, a block of the same
name can be re-added in the same session.
·
When
customising items in QSoft for instance linetypes or colours - selecting
"default" in the dropdown lists, sometimes caused problems - this has
now been fixed.
Developer's notes
·
DN
1.12.1 - The Network location of "My Qscape Documents" is now stored
in the computer's registry rather than the drawing, so the information is
retained from drawing session to drawing session.
Version 1.11 2nd October 2009
New
·
"QIgnore" button added to QSOft and QMeasure
GUI's. QIgnore draws a closed polyline or rectangle on layer
"QD-Ignore". All landscape entities and plant labels which are
enclosed by polylines drawn on this layer will be ignored by QMeasure. An
example of its useage would be use around a drawing key in model space.
·
"Local/Network
Setting" added
to QSettings. Qscape reads/writes to a folder called "My Qscape
Documents". This can now be placed on a shared directory on a network, so
multiple users can shared the same plant data and customisations etc. Further
information can be found in ch.8.8 in the "Help" files.
·
"Drawing
Units Setting"
added. Qscape can now function if the base drawing is set up in millimetres or
metres. Further information can be found in ch.8.6 in the "Help"
files.
·
"Button
Polyline Settings"
added to QSettings. This new setting allows the default linetypes, colours and
line weights of the polylines activated by Qscape buttons to be modified. It
also controls whether they are plotted or not. This feature is to aid companies
who utilise inhouse ctb files and colours affect lineweights.
·
"Drawing
units display" -
QSoft, QBlocks, QPlants and QMeasure dialogue boxes now include information
regarding what drawing units are being used by Qscape. (NB This can be clicked,
to toggle between metres and millimetres.
·
"Local/Network
setting display" -
QSoft, QBlocks, QPlants and QMeasure dialogue boxes now include information on
whether QScape is operating in "Local" or "Network" mode.
·
"Qclip" command added (command line only)
for "trimming" blocks without exploding them. This command only
works on AutoCAD 2008 onwards.
·
"Qchspace" command added (commandline only).
This command is an extension of the native AutoCAD command that moves objects
from one drawing "space" to another. An example of its useage would
be to move a drawing key from "model space" to "paper
space". "Qchspace" differs from "chspace" in that it
will also rescale linetypes, so they appear the same in "paper space"
and "model space."
·
A
splash screen now appears the very first time Qscape is launched in an AutoCAD
session.
·
Backups
made of Qscape databases when accessed.
Improved
·
QSettings
has been revamped. All settings are now in a list, each with their own dialogue
box.
·
The
"Drawing Mode" combobox on QSoft (which controls the layer prefix
used by QSoft eg QD-, QD-Public-, QD-Private-) has been replaced with a label
to save space. This can be clicked to toggle through the drawing modes.
·
Improved
registration/authorisation dialogue for new users.
·
An
update screen with a progress bar now appears when Qscape is reconfiguring
itself after an install/update.
Fixed
·
If
a Qscape layer is turned off, it is turned on automatically if an entity is
drawn on it by QSoft rather than going into error.
·
Automatic
Offsets (as used by QSoft) now work when a non-World UCS is being used.
·
QSoft
hatch settings can now add hatches to existing drawings where there are already
QSoft hatches being utilised in the drawing.
·
When
Qplants is floating - the controls now stay properly aligned to the sides of
the dialogue box after a "resizing" event.
Version 1.10 9th August 2009
New
·
Help
button added to Qscape toolbar.
Fixed
·
QBlocks
- could not create and delete block Categories.
Version 1.9 23rd June 2009
Fixed
·
QPlants
- lists of plants did not remain anchored to the sides of the QPlants control
when it is floating. (Regression added in v1.8).
·
QPlants
- "Refreshing" Plant/Hedge Mixes in QPlants after editing
database did not work. (Regression added in v1.8).
·
QPlants
- Adding plants to a drawing from QPlants "Favourites" tab
failed. (Regression added in v1.8).
·
QPlants
- Modify plant lists in "Favourites" failed.
Improved
·
QSettings
- When changing the default layer prefix from for instance "QD-" to
"ABC-". If there are any layers in the drawing already beginning with
"ABC-" they will be now be merged into the newly created layer.
·
QMeasure
- Hedge measuring issue repaired and refined - Qscape now far more accurately
measures hedges between 0.6m and 1.5m wide. As a general rule Qscapes measuring
deviates by approximately 1m per 200m of hedge.
Developer's notes
·
"Autosnap"
variable automatically set to "1" in Qscape's start up, so object
snap "grips" always appear when objectsnap is used.
Version 1.8
20th May 2009
New
·
Support
for AutoCAD 2010 added.
·
Mouse
"right-click" functionality added to Qscape's dialogue boxes. This
means useage of buttons such as "Draw Bed Division Line" or
"Lassoo" on the dialogue boxes is exactly like useage of buttons on
AutoCAD toolbars/ribbons - You can "right-click" your mouse to repeat
the command afterwards, rather than continually having to return to the
dialogue box.
·
"QConfigure"
dialogue box added. Launched by typing "QConfigure" or pressing
the new "QConfigure" button on the QSettings dialogue box. This
allows you to optimise your AutoCAD settings for Qscape. All settings are optional
and simply suggestions, they do not prevent Qscape useage. You may uncheck the
"checkboxes" for any setting you do not want changed. There is also
an option to restore your original settings later. This dialogue automatically
appears after Qscape is installed, if your AutoCAD settings are not optimised.
Improved
·
Installation
of software simplified for new users. (Simply involves typing
"qscape" on AutoCAD command line after running of the product
installer).
·
The
"QPoly" toolbar now defaults to "hidden" when Qscape is
first installed. This is because it is now not required because all its buttons
are already on the "QSoft" and "QPlants" dialogue boxes and
with their increased functionality (see item 2) - the QPoly toolbar is now
surplus to requirements. It can of course be "shown" again, in the
usual way by "right clicking" on another Qscape toolbar and turning
it back on.
Fixed
·
QBlocks
- sometimes deleted newly created categories.
Developer's notes
·
DN
1.8.1 - Selected block images in the "QBlocks" dialogue are now
indicated with a green boundary, rather than the background colour changed to
white. This was a necessary change to enable "QBlocks" to "play
nicely" with AutoCAD 2010.
·
DN
1.8.2 - Qscape fixed to work on "Windows 7". If default fonts
are not found in the Windows package - they are substituted with Arial font.
Version 1.7 21st April 2009
Improved
·
Minor
amends to UK Plant Palette.
·
More
Favourite Categories added to QPlants. Existing Favourite Categories developed.
·
QSoft
- The layer information caption in QSoft now resets itself after selecting
items from the "Favourites" tab or the buttons such as "Edge
Line" or "Bed Division".
·
Help
file and User guide logo updated.
·
Favourite
categories in QPlants extended.
Fixed
·
Quick
Plant Popup ("QP"), fixed so hedges did not work correctly.
·
QPlants
- "Multi" checkbox did not work when adding tree labels.
·
QPlants
- Swapping between plant palettes (in Palette Actions) caused the list of plot
scales in the plot scale "combobox" to duplicate themselves.
·
QMeasure
- when dialogue is closed by the user in its rolled up state - it launched
incorrectly.
Version 1.6 18th December 2008
New
·
QPlants
- Support for multiple Plant Palettes added, with a UK palette and a Middle
East Palette pre-loaded.
·
QPlants
- Settings dialogue added, allows different Plant groups (tabs) to be
hidden/shown.
Improved
·
QPlants
- Additional Plant Groups (tabs on QPlants) added -
"Aquatics/Marginals", "Bulbs", "Succulents" and
"Palms".
·
QPlants
- Last selected plant remains highlighted on the dialogue.
Version 1.5 18th November 2008
New
·
Integral
help files now included ("qhelp" and in menu drop down).
·
User
guide and tutorial handbook to accompany Qscape produced.
·
New
commands to accompany tutorials added to Qscape:
- "Qbaseplan" brings in to the drawing an example practice layout.
- "Qconfigure" configures AutoCAD to the suggested settings.
Fixed
·
QSoft
- polyline widths did not reset themselves if escape is pressed.
·
QBlocks
- a block directory could not be deleted, if it was current.
Version 1.4 21st October 2008
Improved
·
QBlocks
- New categories added: "Plan Symbols - Trees","Plan Symbols -
Shrubs", "Plan Symbols - Misc".
·
Rescale
Drawing from mm to m or m to mm functions, now includes linetype scales,
dimensions, leaders and views within viewports.
Fixed
·
QMeasure
- AutoCAD's "Angbase" variable sometimes causes schedules to be
imported incorrectly.
·
QPlants
- First tree or mix label brought in to drawing came in with the incorrect
personal layer prefix eg "BID-Label-Plant", rather than
"QD-Label-Plant".
·
QSettings
- "Auto Start" setting did not work (regression appeared in v1.3).
·
QPlants
- Plant/Hedge Mix notes lines could not begin with a numeric charactor.
Version 1.3 29th
September 2008
Fixed
·
Polylines
drawn using QSoft dialogue did not override the Ltscale properety set in
Autocad Properties pallette. ("celtscale" system variable).
Developer's notes
·
DN
1.3.1 - Directory "c:\\Qscape Application Data" moved to c:\\Document
and Settings\\<user>\\Application Data\\Qscape Application Data" to
allow user to have read/write permissions to Qscape Application Data, even
without full admin permissions. Versions 1.0 to 1.2 get copied accross to the
new location automatically. Version.txt added to My Qscape Documents.
Version 1.2 12th September 2008
New
·
Offset
0.15 button added to "Pline m2" tab on QSoft.
·
QSettings
- Automatic Start up option added, where by Qscape launches automatically with
each new AutoCAD session.
·
QSoft
- Automatic offset function added to "Poly" tab.
·
QTools
toolbar - QTrim function added to complement QFix function.
Improved
·
QSoft
- Automatic reverse added to Closed Polylines if they are drawn in a clockwise
direction.
·
QSoft
- Automatic offset function for closed Polylines improved.
·
QMeasure
- Opening Cost Estimates and Schedules of Quantities - now possibe to do
"save as".
·
QPlants
- Opening and editing plant databases changed to a 2 step process. One button
to open the notepad, one button to refresh the list. "Save as" is now
possible too.
Fixed
·
Rescale
labels function failed.
Developer's notes
·
DN
1.2.1 - QPlants - Disabled rollup button when QPlants docked.
Version 1.1 20th August 2008
Fixed
·
Button
captions did not always fit on the buttons when a user had their computer
configured to Windows "Classic" display (as opposed to Windows XP).
Improved
·
QMeasure
now only measures items drawn in Autocad's Model Space.
Version 1.0 14th August 2008
Developer's notes
·
First
release of Qscape landscape software.