This page contains a running record of minor changes and/or bug fixes to the CAD Viewer 6.0 software. The software is being updated on a regular basis to the CAD Viewer 6.0 download page.  This page lists changes between updates.

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.46 - 14 Oct 2008

Fix: AutoCAD Pen 255 was printing black instead of white
Fix: Text invisibility flag was being ignored

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.45b - 11 Oct 2008

Wipeout, and Markup Blank background showing current Markup Pen color, instead of the background color.
(Affected versions A.45, A.45a only)

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.45a - 10 Oct 2008

PRINTCMD.INI was shipping with section wrongly named [PrintCmd] instead of [Print]
/PCONFIG command was not storing PrintAllLayouts setting

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.45 - 7 Oct 2008

Support for Inventor DWGs
Fix cross hairs, white/black text, or lines, may become invisible after toggle screen background color. Affected versions 6.0 A.43/A.44.
Fix DWF not working
Update to open design libs 2.6.3

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.44 - 29 Sep 2008

True Color support

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.42 - 19 Sep 2008

Fix: AutoCAD 2008/2009 MTEXT would display spurious formatting characters (actually internal formatting characters, e.g. Z_P_Xqc; etc) and also the formatting that should have resulted would be lost.

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.41 - 17 Sep 2008

Fix: QS attributes would become uneditable and produce wrong Attributes Export file output. (The error occurs in the situation where 2 or more drawings are open at the same time and the drawing with QS edits are saved after switching back and forward between the 2 open drawings.)

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.40 - 09 Sep 2008

Fix: some MTEXT formatting incorrect

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.39a - 27 Aug 2008

Fix: Zoom to dot on some drawings.
Fix: Early AutoCAD drawings (e.g. Rel 10 and prior) not being read if the drawing is very small

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.38 - 24 Aug 2008

Fix: Starting CAD Viewer while it is already running leaves MUTEX copies of itself in memory
- shows as remaining processes in Task Manager even though CAD Viewer has been exitted.
- symptom is starting CAD Viewer again nothing happens, requiring the running processes to be terminated in Task Manager

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.37 - 19 Aug 2008

Command line ability to include Model Space in Print All Layouts.
- To enable use PrintAllLayouts=2 in PRINTCMD.INI
Fix: Trial may expire immediately when installed on Vista SP1

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.36 - 14 Aug 2008

Fix: Save image with overlaying Markup or QA - not saving
Fix: Save image with overlaying Markup or QA may not save with markup pen color
Fix: Pan of .BMP images (affected version A.35 only)
Fix: Print All Layouts not working for command line printing
Fix: Markup Pen may have wrong color
Fix: Print option 'Black (no Gray Shades)' may cause crash

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.35 - 8 Aug 2008

Fix display of images with rotated view perspectives

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.34a - 29 July 2008

Shipped version of dwfcore.dll may cause error message 'missing MSVCRTD.dll'. Affected version CAD Viewer 6.0 A.34. (Note: CAD Viewer will still display '6.0 A.34' rather than '6.0 A.34a'. This is because the exe has not changed, only a different dwfcore.dll has been shipped in the download. Just make sure the download install file ends '..34a.exe' or '34ade.exe')

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.34 - 27 July 2008

Dynamic zoom cursor position may not stay in center of viewer window.

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.33 - 17 July 2008

Option to choose comma or semicolon as QS/QA Attributes Export separator.
Fix QA/QS attributes problem, loses numbers when saved and restored.
Fix export QA/QS Attributes may include anomalies.

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.32 - 14 July 2008

More work on UCS coordinates - display axes and coordinates in UCS coordinates.

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.31 - 12 July 2008

Fix: Introduced bug in handling of UCS in Layout viewport, may result in wrong positioning, affected version 6.0 A.30

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.30 - 8 July 2008

Fix: Command Line Zoom not taking account of USC origin

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.29 - 27 June 2008

Fix: CAD Viewer hanging when reading HPGL plot file containing unquoted message (MG command)

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.28 - 27 June 2008

Remember Touchup changes between Back/Forward
Take account of embedded TrueColor color in MTEXT
Fix: Software may hang if viewport has frozen Layers. Affected version 6.0 A.27b

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.27b - 22 June 2008

Fix: Software may crash on print selection
Vista icons
Update network server installation and client installer

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.26 - 28 April 2008

Turned on image frame in Model Space would be turned off in inserted Paperspace viewport.
Images in Model Space that are viewed in a viewport in PaperSpace would be in the wrong place or not visible.

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.25 - 26 April 2008

Fix: CAD Viewer may crash or abort when reading drawings containing Viewports, with or with the message:
"Corrupt Reference Symbol data. CAD Viewer terminating (code = 2)"
Affected versions 6.0 A.24, 6.0 A.24a.

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.24a - 22 April 2008

QA Export Attributes.
QA reload or re-edit drawing may not work (attributes not remembered)
Remember additional QA defaults.
Save drawing as Jpg was being output as grayscale instead of color
Software would quit if spline curve has large number of control points

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.22 - 8 April 2008

Fix: Open of TIF with saved QA Edits would cause the software to crash (affected versions ~ 6.0 A.09 through 6.0 A.21)
Fix: QA single digit numbers would not appear on first additions (affected version 6.0 A.21 only.)

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.21 - 7 April 2008

New: QA output keep QA num to QA parent symbol link between sessions
New: QA number will resize to fit within symbol (use QA Edit to change)
Fix MTEXT reading may occasionally cause crash (affected versions 6.0 A.12 through 6.0 A.20a)

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.20a - 28 March 2008

Fix introduced bug in 6.0 A.19, Markup text being added in White/Black instead of selected color.
Fix read back of stored QS symbols may cause crash. (Affected versions A.18 to A.20)

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.20 - 28 March 2008

Fixed: On Vista, multiple file selection would fail with error message "File not found (1), Please verify that the correct name was given".

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.19 - 27 March 2008

New: Handle MEXT inline change of color.
Fix introduced bug in A.17, tolerance/display scale incorrect on back/forward, would cause text to be replaced by a box at large scales, whereas it should only happen at small scales
Fix introduced bug in A.18, toggle TTF text button toggle may cause unpredictable behaviour
Fix some linetypes with symbols not displaying correctly (old bug going back to initial CV 5.0)

CAD Viewer 6.0 A.18 - 25 March 2008

New: Implement backwards (mirrored) display of True Type text.
New: Implement width scaling of True Type text.
New: Enter 'Extend' in the 'Licensed to' edit control to get a 14 day trial extension of the trial software. For already licensed CAD Viewer, enter 'Extend' in the 'Licensed to' edit control to get a trial extension of the CAD Viewer Markup functions.
Fixed: Some True Type text fonts were slightly the wrong height (6.0 A.16,17 only.)