Qscape
new release
Version 30.0 13th May 2024
Supported CAD versions
·
BricsCAD
Pro (or higher) V18 to V24
·
AutoCAD
2022 to 2025
New
1.
AutoCAD 2025 supported.
2.
BricsCAD (V22 onwards) - Beta support for network/floating licenses.
Improved
1.
QPlants/QMeasure - Plant Mixes - Can now accommodate decimal
places in their composition percentages eg 2.5%.
2.
QSlope dialog - function
c:ADD_SLOPE gave error messages if picked from CAD's command line (eg via
auto-suggestion). This is because the command is designed to be invoked from
Qscape's QSLOPE dialog and is reliant on information on the dialog. c:ADD_SLOPE
will now show Qscape's "QSlope" dialog if the dialog is inactive.
Fixed
1.
BricsCAD - QPlants - Settings - Plant Label Content - The show/hide plant mix
constituent plants in labels failed on certain drawings with error.
Version 29.1 7th March 2024
Fixed
2.
Updated
registered office address on EULA.
3.
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
1. 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