Hanover, 19 October 2018

Changed on 22 February 2019

Dear ELCAD users,

this file contains important information about the ELCAD/AUCOPLAN version 2019 SP1.

1. Installation of ELCAD/AUCOPLAN 2019 SP1

2. Fixed Bugs in Version 2019 SP1

3. Fixed Bugs in version 2019

4. Special information for operation under Windows 10

1. Installation of ELCAD/AUCOPLAN 2019 SP1

You need administrator rights to install ELCAD/AUCOPLAN 2018. ELCAD/AUCOPLAN installs the files in different system folders in accordance with the Microsoft specifications. The installation of ELCAD/AUCOPLAN 2019 uses the following folders.

Programs:

%PROGRAMFILES%

C:\Program Files\AUCOTEC\ELCAD 7140

 (32 bit systems)

or

C:\Program Files (x86)\AUCOTEC\ELCAD 7140

 (64 bit systems)

User environment (aucotec.ini etc.): 

%LocalAppData%

C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Local\aucotec\ELCAD 2019\<language identification>

Sample data such as projects, symbols, translate files etc.:

C:\Users\Public\AUCOTEC\ELCAD 2019\<language identification>

2. Fixed Bugs in Version 2019 SP1

-    232621

If “On editing non-existent articles, empty the related symbol dialogs” was checked in the Working Method of Master Data menu of the project option settings, the respective technical attributes were emptied in ELCAD and AUCOPLAN projects if an invalid part number was entered into a symbol. Emptying the respective technical attributes now also works in ELCAD STUDIO projects.

-    232632

If the status list “Working Status” is to be recreated, this check is now also carried out if only article number options are selected for the part numbers.

-    232641

On repeatedly renaming symbols in a library, some of these symbols were no longer displayed.

-    239915

Updating the user selection list for the first time in a project via a right mouse click on the drawings tree did not work in ELCAD Version 2018.

-    243432

On generating cables, an error occurred if Operation & Result rules were defined for cables and the structure of the cable table did not contain the code number 365.

3. Fixed Bugs in version 2019

-    151520

On creating standard strips as well as on working in the Terminal Block Designer, users can define whether a terminal is to be displayed in the parts list or not. However, this status information was not transferred into the parts list.

-    162532

On saving drawings as Compact PDF, faulty tooltips were created in the PDF for item designations composed of project texts “\z” and fixed texts. However, the item designations themselves were correct in the PDF.

-    166734

Deleting revisions in the drawings tree was only possible directly on the revision document or on the uppermost folder “Drawings”. On all folder levels in-between, deleting revisions was not offered for selection on the shortcut menu.

-    170707

In the ELCAD print dialog, there is the option “Sorting Instead of Grouping”. However, the setting of this option was not saved in ELCAD for batch outputs. As a consequence, the option “Grouping” was always sent to the printer for batch outputs.

-    186161

In the “External Documents” tree, it was not possible to delete documents on the uppermost folder “External Documents”. On right-clicking, the function “Delete” was offered, but did not function.

-    186555

In various ELCAD drawing editing dialogs, numbers and lines were illegible under Windows 10 as of a certain build.

This issue occurred, among others, in the following dialogs:

-    In the terminal editor

-    On editing the line type of lines, circles, ellipses and connections

-    On selecting translate texts

-    196935

In ELCAD 2018, the ASCII output of drawings has been extended by the option “Translate Translate References”. However, this option was not available for the batch action “Output drawings as ASCII file”.

-    199311

If Excel files were imported via protocols and it was specified that not all columns were to be read in during that import, numerical columns with decimal places were erroneously interpreted as alphanumeric columns. Subsequently, an error message was issued that the data field types did not match, and the data was not imported.

-    204633

On changing batch definitions in which the batch action “Replace Symbol Texts and Free Texts” was included, ELCAD issued an error message. Moreover, the batch definition dialog was not initialized with the existing values.

-    205264

If a batch to create Compact PDF was called in a process and a path to a not yet existing folder was defined in that batch, an error occurred.

In that case, copying the already created PDF files from the temporary folder was stopped instead of the missing folder being created.

-    211191

Renaming main representations by editing type 5 symbols in the drawing editing mode only worked if the option “Add New Part Numbers to Database after Editing Symbols” was set as working method for the master data. Now it works again, independent from this setting.

-    211710

Reading in DXF/DWG files led to an error message "[3094] 'DXF code number missing'" if there was no ELCAD version 7.10 or older installed on the computer.

-    216059

When terminal diagrams should be generated by means of the variant “Terminal Connection Diagram”, an error message was issued if no diagrams existed.

-    217223

If content of main representation symbols was changed from within other main representation symbols by using the function “Edit With Transfer”, the status was set to “Manually”, even if code numbers were changed which were not relevant for the item designation or the assignment of secondary representations.

Now, main representations keep their status if content is transferred which neither changes the item designation nor the assignment of secondary representations.

-    218795

If the status list “Used Symbols” was regenerated via a process, the two options offered in the “Regenerate Used Symbols” dialog on manual execution were always active. Therefore, no differing configuration could be used via a process.

-    218859

The function “Edit / Rename Designation Block” in ELCAD projects did not work in certain constellations. If “Presigns =.+-/Add Automatically" was set in the project, the function was not executed once the content of the code numbers 1, 2 or 3 was defined in the form sheet with presigns.

For the symbol type 11, the function was not executed if the content of the code numbers 1, 2 or 3 in the symbol differed from the form sheet entries.

-    220718

If drawings of a project were output via “Save as/PDF/Compact PDF”, the program was aborted under Windows 10 if the name of the project had the maximum possible length of 32 characters.

-    220723

If multipolar symbols were placed on drawings via Autoconnect and, during the placement, the pen type was changed via the “S” key or the line type was changed via the “L” key, this change did not become effective for all connections. The same behaviour also occurred if the right mouse key was pressed during the placement and the abovementioned settings were made in the “digitalizing parameters” dialog.

4. Special information for operation under Windows 10

195626

On operating ELCAD/AUCOPLAN under Windows 10, build 1703 or higher, the screen refresh of the ELCAD toolbars was slow in combination with certain graphics cards. There are two alternatives to solve this issue.

-    Adjustment of the animation settings in Windows

One alternative to speed up the display build-up is to deactivate the setting "Play animations in Windows".

You will find this Windows setting under "Windows settings/Ease of access/Other options/Play animations in Windows".

-    Adjustment of the ELCAD settings in the file aucotec.ini

Another alternative is to change the display style of the ELCAD toolbars in the file aucotec.ini. In doing so, a "flat" representation will be selected.

To implement this adjustment, change the following switch in the configuration file aucotec.ini:

[WIN_Graphik]

Theme=1