V12.1 Release Notes

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These notes only include either NEW or CHANGED unless relevant to documentation.

New and Changes

Performance Enhancements

The performance of CabMaster Software™ has been improved in many areas so the overall feel and use of this product should be noticeably quicker when placing cabinets or when pressing F8 etc. Memory Load for larger drawings has also been reduced.

OpenGL shaders now used in parts of the 3D rendering in CM (eg light item drawing, machining drilling and routing in 3D).

Limit snapping for elevations when dragging in plan page view (this became very slow when elevation item dragged across plan items).

V12.1.0.12

[20250314]

Updated icons and splash screens for ver12.1
OpenGL shaders now deleted after use, saving GPU memory
OpenGL shader version (GLSL) added to OpenGL description string in Options

V12.1.0.11

[20250306]

Mouseover indication for breadcrumb drop menu added, when user moves mouse up and down the item list, now shows mouseover handles for item in main view
Extend breadcrumb mouseover to friendly parts as well as drawing level items
Theme color integration made more consistent, using proper theme colors when in darker themes
New Black visual theme, darker than existing Dark Gray theme and inverts the color of edit controls etc as well as the window backgrounds
- Note 1: Black theme also displays 2D views with black background now
- Note 2: Black theme does line drawings with inverted luminosity for colors, but solid and textured views are unchanged
Display of symbol items in dark themes use EMFs
Theming enabled for list control scrollbars
Theming enabled for combos in friendly pages

V12.1.0.10

[20250220] Middleware

Improved sorting of combos and droplists when string contains a number (eg myvar_1, my_var_2, myvar_10 now in order)
Provide middleware formula constants for alignment and positioning, instead of needing to use magic numbers.
- New middleware predefined constants now additionally available:
  - leftedge centerline rightedge frontedge middledepth backedge;
  - frontleft frontcenter frontright middleleft middlecenter middleright backleft backcenter backright;
  - alignleft aligncenter alignright alignbottom alignbaseline aligntop.
Middlware lookup/set formula functions added "align" and "labelangle" for labels
Middleware SetValue now support "alignh" and "alignv" to set alignment on one axis (h or v) without affecting other axis (v or h)
- eg setvalue("alignh", alignleft) just changes left-right alignment without altering top-bottom alignment
- Note: you can still use setvalue("align", alignleft+alignbottom) to edit both together
Middleware lookups and XML exports now use "labelpos" instead of "position" to reduce conflicts between label position and picture tiling position
Add missing middleware lookup functions for LabelPos property, newly available names are "labelpos", "showlabel", "hoffset"/"voffset"
- "labelpos" - 9-way positioning indication in byte format
- "showlabel" - Yes/No for whether the label should be displayed
- "hoffset"/"voffset" - horizontal and vertical offsets to apply to the position indicated by the labelpos selection
Revised naming for PenProp members in XML exports to reduce conflicts, replacing "color", "width", "style" with "pencolor", "penwidth", "penstyle"
Implement middleware routing for all DimensionLine properties, giving Lookup & SetValue access to all subproperties per line

V12.1.0.9

Embed a copy of image content for picture items into the saved file
Add support for copy from clipboard, directly pasting into picture items, supercedes use of OLE items for pictures
Add support for copying a picture file directly from Explorer, recognizing file is an image and pasting directly
Include radial dimension tool in item context ribbon, supports angular dimensioning in ShapeMaster/folding products
Middleware function MAPKEYS gets sorted array of keys from a map

V12.1.0.8

[20250131]

Make label font a full formula-controlled attribute, allows formulas with defaults set at Drawing level etc
Use single undo/redo step when rescaling drawing or resizing labels

V12.1.0.7

Middleware PICKFONT action function to pick font from a dialog added
Translation support for font dialog sample text added

V12.1.0.6

Performance enhancements
- drillhole circles;
- custom shape line, fill and texture;
- textures in plan.

V12.1.0.5

New WallEdges and WallEdge properties for housing per-edge data, also improves middleware access per edge

V12.1.0.4

[v12.0.0.101 v12.0.0.102 202410]

Add new profile view tab to machining main view for easier viewing of multitool profiles
Draw profile annotations are now available in main machining view and also display in preview pane
Reg option "ProfileViewEnabled" defaults to 1, set to 0 to disable, but extra Profile tab only present when profiles present

Middleware MAP function now converts string rep of map or array or points to a map
Middleware conversion for colors from maps and arrays added
Visual Themes to Options (Colorful vs Dark Grey) added

Update BCGCGPro UI, ribbons etc to 35.1 (adds badges etc)
Added notification badge to the "Restore Hidden" button when enabled, shows # of hidden items in 3D
When restoring hidden items, set as current selection, allowing peek and easy re-hide of same selection

V12.1.0.3

[v12.0.0.64 20240419]

Removed unused AllCombosHaveAnswers logic

V12.1.0.2

[v12.0.0.64 20240229]

New

Add angular dimensions to item view context ribbon
Enable save & load for annotation tools in list view products

Changed

Remove ability to create and manage group overrides in Library Catalog Manager, legacy feature unused and untested.
Updated layouts for size and pos prop pages, XY labels now above and to right
Update to use new BCGCGPro version 34.1 DLLs

V12.1.0.1

[v12.0.0.61 20230216]

Display 3D

Add hide/unhide buttons to 3D view ribbon bar
3D Select/Navigate ribbon and Hide3D now on 3D ribbon
3D Select mode has new rclick context menu for multi-selection
Ability to hide items in 3D
3D selection now supported in item level 3D viewing to select sections
When 'Select' mouse mode, improve visibility of current selection by drawing outline in wireframe on top
Support double-click to format item in 3D select mode
For multi-selections in 3D, add unique context menu allowing 'Make Even' and 'Align Bottoms' in a 3D view
Selection of multiple items in 3D supported via ctrl, drag rectangle
Implement selection of compound item elements in 3D view
Avoid drawing current camera target and clipping plane details in 3D select mode
See images display-tab v120 and display-tab v121 and changes to Command Reference > Display 3D page

LCM-1 v120 and LCM-1 v121 and changes to Command Reference > Library Catalog Manager

Other

LCM interface tweaks, separate ribbon categories for item actions vs catalog actions and a new icon for catalog cleanup
Add LCM option to add unmodified copy of BasedOn item
Add Marker tool to machining editor ribbon
Add simple line tool to machining editor ribbon
Allow drilling holes that are immediately outside the bounds using radius as allowable tolerance
Photoview now lets you browse to output folder and remembers it
Middleware function APPREGKEY looks up current application registry key
Middleware ribbon manager buttons defined in CabMasterProPreferences.xml

SCHEMA-change 161 Remove group overrides from catalog

Bugfix and Performance