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Online Since 24/09/2000


Last modified 26/01/2012


PowerClic last version : 7.14

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    VERSION 1 (1992)
    Internal version. Command emulation only. It doesn't work with all entities.

    Version 2 (1995)
    Internal version. Real commands. Works with all 2d entities.

    VERSION 3.0 (1997) :
    1st commercial version. Features menumaker, block-macro link and controle.
   
    VERSION 3.1 :
    o Versions 12,13,14 Dos/Win on a single floppy.
    o New fast display icon.
    o Macro editor echo bug fixed.
    o Saving of permanent object snap mode.
   
    VERSION 3.2 :
    o New install including an automatic menu creation procedure (PWR_CLIC.MNU)
      for non-listed pointing devices.
    o Users settings saved in PW_MENU.CFG
    o Power Clic alerts for non-loaded default menu.
    o Adhesive reminder provided.
    o Support for LEADER entities (reference line) and TOLERANCE (V 13 and 14)
    o Support for modified quotation styles of DIMENSION, LEADER, TOLERANCE entities(V 13 and 14)
   
    VERSION 3.25 : Productivity!
    o Responding time tremendously lowered by the optimisation of the core (100% faster!)
    o Icon display speed increased + removal possibilities.
    o New test procedure for 3° key mouse button.
    o Power Clic automatically loads the specified menu according with pw_menu.cfg.
    o Dialog control follows users settings.
    o Quotation and hatching dialog bug fixed.
    o Increasing the IP command.
    o Call of an external block directly from within dialogue control.
    o Saving the last library path.
    o New variables !PW-SER(serial) and !pw-chemin-bloc (library path) .
   
    VERSION 3.25a (29/10/1997) :
     Only for version 14:
    o Polylines treatment bug fixed.
    o Installation bug fixed.
   
    VERSION 3.25b (13/11/1997) :
     Each versions:
    o Selected block ratio saved for using with block/prg link.
    o Selected block trace saved for using with block/prg link.
    o Menu complete path used through PWR_CLIC.CFG for launching a multi config.
   
    Only for version 14:
    o POLYGONS, RINGS, ELLIPSES and HATCHS treatment bug fixed.
    o Contextual update of the PowerClic dialog Control dialog box.
   
    VERSION 3.26 (03/1999) :
    fixing problem of 3.25 after 1 year of use without modification .
    o OSMODE loose (again ...)
    o Bug when unknown block in control dialog
    o works with international version of AutoCAD
    o width of rectangles and polygons in dialog control
    o load MNS else to MNU
   
    VERSION 3.27 (15/02/2000):
    o Installation on your the hard disk you want
    o save every system variable on error
    o works with Polylines with acad ver 14
   
    VERSION 3.28 (13/10/2000) :
    o Bug fixed in prog/block : Missing of the last command
    o Installation upgrade works better.
    o Icon menu for windows versions.
    o Authorization number independent of AutoCAD serial number.
   
    VERSION 4.00 (29/09/2000):
    o extended possibilities of dialog control to :
       - select all matching elements
       - modify all matching elements with wanted properties
       - select/modify inside a manual selection.
    o exclusive ability to modify Multilines (Style and scale)
    o enhanced automatic cut/rotate and numbering block insertion functions :
        PW_ANG_BL : automatic cut & rotate
        PW_INC_BL : Alphabetical or numerical increment
        PW_INC_CUT_BL : a mix of 2 above
    o Windows Setup & uninstall
    o WINHELP documentation
    o New directories for macros, and personalization.
    o You can work with Angle units of your choice
    o Feature Undo functionality.
    o Toolbars & contextual menus enabled.
    o Can work with all kind of angle units.
   
    VERSION 4.10 (15/11/2000) :
    o Menumaker can run directly from icon menu
    o Fixed bugs for select&modify commands.
    o Plotsyle & lineweight support
    o Better UCS support.
   
    VERSION 4.11 (17/11/2000) :
    o Intellicad support
    o Installations bugs fixed
    o UCS support enhanced
   
    VERSION 4.20 (06/03/2001) :
    o You can now select entities regarding to "wanted" properties, else to "source" properties.
    o New Edit custom icon menu feature
      (this is paradise for autolisp hackers )
    o English support
    o Easier upgrade, easier installation, with less steps.
    o Registration simplification : Shareware automatically turn to Freeware.
    o You can hang multiple directories for customized icon menu : See the help chap 3.35 tos see how to.
    o Access to Powerclic using F11 & F12 keys.
    o Preferences dialog ehencement.
    o PowerClic main menu includes new features, like toolbar loading, register or init_menu
    o With acad 2000, PowerClic launch using acaddoc.lsp else to acad.lsp
    o Fixed Autocad freeze when choosing another plot-style.
          
    VERSION 4.21 (23/03/2001) :
    o Added features to text increment functions to be shared with PWRTEXTOOL addons.

    VERSION 4.21 (23/03/2001) :
    o Added features to text increment functions to be shared with PWRTEXTOOL addons.

    VERSION 4.22 (07/11/2001) :
    o Support Autocad 2002 during installation.
     o Tutorial now downloaded separately.

     VERSION 4.50 (18/12/2001) :
      o You can change theme through the main menu.
        The listing of available themes is dynamically updated.
      o Joker characters (* and ?) in the PW_DIA dialog box.
     o Automatic update of choices listings when a new layer, style or block is detected.
     o Current theme is saved in PowerClic.ini file

     VERSION 5.00 "Alix" (beta) (07/01/2002) :
      o Extended possibilities in slide menus:
        - Each feature of the model is saved in the /SYM directory of the current theme.
           It allows you to accede to a menu entities from any drawing (a kind of transparent DesignCenter).
        - In the slide menu, a comment line describes menus, and gives informations for manual edition.
        - In the PowerClic main menu, a global factor can be dynamically altered.
          It gives informations concerning your current scale, in order to apply this factor to all
          the layer menu entrances (scale block, text scale, polylign width...).
          The concerned variables listing is personalizable in the Powerclic.ini file.
     o Improvement of the Dialog Control, with the "All/None" Toggle.
      o Initializing the pw-midzoom variable at 'T' allows the use of Mbuttonpan when a command is activated.
      o Comments are saved in .ini files.
      o Plug-in access in PowerClic Dialog Control :
      A plug-in is a command you can describe yourself, and which applies to the previous selection set.
      You can directly apply a command to a PowerClic created selection set (altered or not ...):
      Possibilities are huge, and you will quickly become a Power plug-in follower!
      o Each lisp file situated in the plug-in directory will be automatically loaded.
      o PowerTexTools is a part of PowerClic. Its possibilities have been extended.
        3 new commands have been specialy dedicated to the only number dialing.            
      o Improvement of errors management, of variables reloading.

     VERSION 5.02 "Alix" (beta) (18/01/02) :
      o Global factor not saved in the .ini file : the bug is fixed, + concerned variables listing deactivated.

     VERSION 5.10 "Parliament" (beta) (25/01/02) :
      o Plug-ins reloading after re-init.
      o Management of prog/bloc and prog/entity links :
        As from now, before starting the command, an initialization of features is done.
        It allows developers to focus on the function, and also, in the layer menus, to keep the same profit for
        the linked entities than the others.
     o Polygon, rectangle, recognition improved.
      o Plug-ins apply to a "modif zone" selection.
      o SCU management improved.

     VERSION 5.11 "Parliament" (beta)
      o Selection / modification of POINTS corrected.

     VERSION 5.12 "Parliament" (beta)
      o The global factor applies to the DIMSCALE variable.
      o The error function starts when you escape from complex commands (dimensions...)
      o MBUTTONPAN automatically set to 0 if PW-midzoom is defined in the POWERCLI.INI file
      o If you decide tu use MBUTTONPAN all the while, delete the 'pw-midzoom=1' line in INI. file

     VERSION 5.15 "Funkadelik"
      o Warning : global factor variable "tr-facteur-global" replaced by par "pw-facteur-global"
      o Possibility of transformation/selection anonymous blocs.
     o PLINEGEN value follows the polylign and lwpolylign code 70 (Generation of the type of line)
      o Improvement of the dialog control box visibility.
      o Management of images entities.

     VERSION 5.20 "Atomic dogs" 23/10/2002
      o Management of layer menus extended :
          - Possibility of research between menus
          - 8 images menus by theme.
      o Modification of pw-midzoom variable directly in the main menu.
      o Possibility of adding a suffix to layer names provening from the image menus in the main menu.

     VERSION 6.00 "Cosmic slop" 20/12/2002
      o Validation of V 5.xx.
      o Simplification of the install process.
      o Installation lightning.
      o Management of Mbuttonpan at 1, repairing of Mbuttonpan support by pw-midzoom.

     VERSION 6.01 "Dirty language" 14/01/2003
      o Use of VLX format.
        (it is the  end of PowerClic for standard V14, there is no more DosLib.arx).
      o New icones zoom 'Previous - Next' fot the 'CrossEntitiesZoom' plug-in in the tools bar.

     VERSION 6.10 04/06/2003
      o Correction of menu pop0.
      o Plug-ins corrections. You can include a help for the plug.
        Warning : You have to refer to chapter 10 if you want to update your pw_pluggin_register instructions.
      o The layers suffix in slide menu is now a layer substract:
        For instance : A menu entry with layer defined as "Netware"
     

  layer substract = ""       -> "Netware" (Unchanged)
        layer substract = = "project" -> "project" (substitution)
        layer substract = = "*_sol1" -> "Netware_sol1" (suffix)
        layer substract = = "sol1_*" -> "sol1_Netware" (prefix)
      o The action "selection in a group" allows a selection by filter with jocker, on a user-made selection set.
      o Replacement of the rectang command by an orientated rectang command.

     VERSION 6.11 01/10/2003
      o "Selection in a group" action bug fixed when combinated with a plug.
      o New plug-ins (blockandattrib file)
      o MNPW.DCL,PW_DIA.DCL,PW_MENU.DCL and PW_UTIL.DCL dialogs are loaded at starting, and never deloaded.

     VERSION 6.12 23/11/2004 11:11:39
    o Added INIT_VAR, LOAD_APP and RUN_APP section in thematic.ini, to init lisp variable, to load and runlisp routines
    o Layers string length now limited to 50 chr, for 32 previously.
    o Added "dimscale" value into générald dialog
    o Changed directory tree, now themes are grouped in the THEMES/ directory

    VERSION 6.15 03/03/2005 19:45:54
    o Correction of dimscale bug
    o Updated pw_init_menu
    o Compatibility with Autocad 2004/2005
    o Updated online help
    o Updated PowerTexTools
    o Several new Plug-in

     VERSION 6.16 "April fish" 05/04/2005 19:14:45
    o fixed a big bug, appening when mbuttonpan = 1, an active gripset, and try to launch contextual action.
    Contextual action dialog freeze, and then Autocad crash.
    Now, a alert dialog protect user from this.
    o Toolbars now load properly.

    VERSION 6.16b, 21/04/2005 19:57:17
    o Upgraded english support, especially for plug-ins

    VERSION 6.16c 25/04/2005 14:40:05 
    o Make layer substract now work

    VERSION 6.17 09/06/2005 11:42:37
    o fixed layer containing spaces selection problem
    o Added "Automatic backing" to panels, making their customisation faster

    VERSION 6.20 22/11/2005 17:04:07 begin PowerClic 2006
    o Fixed  bug on plug-in "ent_scale" "ent_rotate"
    o Fixed scale problem between ansi and iso blocks working on MEASUREMENT, INSUNITSDEFTARGET,INSUNITSDEFSOURCE
    and  INSUNITS
    Two sections, [MEASUREMENT-ANSI] and [MEASUREMENT-ISO] have been added to PowerClic.ini
    o Fixed bug from  lisp editor that don't find lisp from panel.
    o Autocad 2006is so slow, Powerclic don't read each time layer, line and other table.
    You still need to use "re-load parameter" when you make change.
    But you can force it directly from contextual action dialog, entering an silly value.
    o Fixed troubles with groups

    VERSION 6.50 07/03/2006 16:22:12  PowerClic USB Key !
    Not so much new functionalities, but a revolution ! PowerClic can now be completely independent from an Autocad installation
    It can be run directly from an usb key, on any computer where Autocad 2000 to 2006 is installed.
    o An great new feature : PowerClic group extension, you can access from the command contextual menu.
    You can paste as group, remove from a group, add to a group ...
    o Access to Powerclic using F11 & F12 keys have been disabled. You must edit pw_toolbar.mns to turn it on.


VERSION 6.51
  o Fixed an installation bug with acad 2000 to 2002
  o Fixed an initialisation bug [MEASUREMENT-ANSI] and [MEASUREMENT-ISO]
  o Upgraded loading sequence

VERSION 6.52
  o Complete rebuild of loading sequence
  o MyTheme theme now work


VERSION 7.00
o Support Autocad 2007
o Menus management Arx replaced by a simple dvb file
o Now the only way to launch PowerClic is "PowerClic launcher" that make PowerClic realy "standalone" , and make it completely "USB Key ready"

VERSION 7.01
o changed pickfirst variable to make select zone available from contextual menu
Notice that PickFirst must be set to 1 to access PowerClic from contextual menu.
o Changed setvar system : From lisp instruction lisp "setvar" to the 'Setvar method (i wish best results)

VERSION 7.05 "Rectrue"
o Added an OnQuit event, that erase all .mnr and .mnc:
This supress the blanck icons problem when switching from 2000 to 2007 versions
o Integration of the "Rectrue" rectangle feature, PowerClic now, create some true rectangles.
o New PowerClic Group extension command "Newgroup" that simplify the group creation process, checking if selected
entities are not already belonging to an existing group.
o Added a configuration option to automatize PowerClic launch using acaddoc.lsp


VERSION 7.06
    o After "modif zone" or "select zone", entities are now correctly gripped.
    o Rectrue improved to react to stretching that let the "Rectrue" Rectangular.(!true-rectang-ver = "0.96")
    o Rectrue improved to manage commands that destroy "Rectangular statement" : TRIM, BREAK, CHAMFER, FILLET.(true-rectang-ver = "0.97")
VERSION 7.07
o Versions 2006 à 2007, entmake only for mline styles

VERSION 7.10
o Added support for theses entities:
  3DSOLID
    ACAD_PROXY_ENTITY
    ACAD_TABLE
    BODY
    MPOLYGON
    OLEFRAME
    OLE2FRAME
    WIPEOUT
    COVAWALL
    COVAGRADING
RTEXT
o MEASUREMENT-XXX init in powercli.ini
o Added ACADVAR-INIT section in Powerclic.ini to init Autocad Vars
o Improvement of PowerClic Group Extension

VERSION 7.11
o Added support for VERTEX entity

VERSION 7.12
o Works with version 2010, witheout VBA
o Improvement of rectangles "Rectrue".(!true-rectang-ver = "0.96")


VERSION 7.13
o support version 2011
o Added feature to create new layer in PowerClic dialog

VERSION 7.14
o support all customs entities as "UNKNOWN"