GeoTools CADPower V23.14 Update
The first update of GeoTools and CADPower in 2023 is an equally remarkable one!
V23.14 of CADPower and GeoTools is our first update for the year 2023, and introduces a tremendouns improvement in the automatic text numbering tool (CP_TC) in CADPower.
CP_TC: CADPower-> Text-> Creation-> Draw Quick Text (running numbers)
In V 23.14 of CADPower, we improved the CP_TC command in response to a request from one of our large customers in India, who use CADPower extensively for layout designs.
Their conveyor layout designs that they use employ several blocks with multiple attributes, and many of these attributes are part numbers of various components. As these blocks are inserted at repeated locations in the drawing, multiple attribute values need to be incremented, and all at once, automatically.
Until now, the CADPower CP_TC command was used for this purpose to insert the blocks and perform attribute updates one at a time.
The design manager conveyed the desire to speed up this process and we responded by fine-tuning and improving the CP_TC command within five days.
A new option was provided to manage multiple attributes and their automatic incrementing.
We added an ‘Increment Multiple attribute values’ option in the Settings dialog and this brings up another form where you can now individually specify the increment type, starting increment value, prefix and suffix for each one of these attributes. You can also specify which attributes need to be incremented and which ones should not.
The below screen-shot shows the result of automatically placing blocks with multiple attributes automatically incremented in a fully customizable manner.
Improvements in the CP_MOFFSET (CADPower -> Build -> Offset -> Multiple-Offset relative/absolute) command
The CP_MOFFSET command has been fixed. Earlier, it would not take the entered offset values correctly from the command-line. This has been fixed now.
CADPower Quick Tip: Split a Circle into several equal arcs
Last week, one of our customers had a requirement to split a circle into a number of arcs, each with a specified length.
This was part of a design requirement to create bar-bending schedules. They could use CADPower efficiently to achieve this. Having to do this several times during the design, it brought immense savings in the overall time to complete the project.
The first step was to convert the circle into a polyline. We did that using the CP_LINE2PL (CADPower -> Conversion -> Lines/Polyline/Arc/Splines-> Convert lines and arcs to polylines) command which converts selected lines, arcs and circles into a polyline entity.
Once this is done, the next step is to run the CP_CHOP (CADPower -> Miscellaneous -> CAD Procedures -> Second Set -> Object Chopper) command.
CP_CHOP can chop a linear entity into a specified number of equal curves or can chop it to a specified length. In our case, we chopped polyline with a length of 80.0. This resulted in seven arcs of length = 80.0 and one arc with a length of 69.82. This adds up to the exact circumference of the circle. Mission accomplished!
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