File: Readme.txt, Notes for Irricad Pro V10.62 Date: Thursday 24th March 2011. Contents ------------- 1. Bug fixes and additions. 2. Installation. 3. Suggested Minimum Computer Requirements. 4. Additions to the Manual. 5. Known Problems. 6. Installing USB dongle version. 7. Contact Information. 1. Bug Fixes and Additions ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 10.60 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Improved the speed of processing (in management, connectivity check, zone design ...) for zones containing polyline tapes. 2) Fix a problem where the default image rotation angle was set a previously used value and was subsequently not able to be changed. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 10.58 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Fixed a problem where if labels were edited via the change dialog (i.e. size, orient ...) they would become disassociated with the linked object and would not be deleted or regenerated correctly. 2) Fixed a minor bug where the selection filter was turned off, in some circumstances, by the second or third click in some CAD tools (e.g. move). 3) The diameter units are now populated correctly via the "Units->Diameter" keyword in Design reports. 4) Fixed a bug where a sprinkler block entity's outlet list was not updated after a compress or merge. This would result in the outlets remaining (either in an unconnected block or "Extra" outlets in a connected block) if "Create Laterals" was toggled or the block deleted. In addition the flow for the ACTFLOW label would be displayed as the nominal flow. 5) Fixed a bug where labels could become disassociated with their linked object after a compress or merge. 6) Fixed a bug in unconnected block entities. Symptoms were:- Changing the submain depth would also change the depth of some Lateral pipes. Toggling "Create Laterals" would remove some lateral pipes. Only effected blocks where the submain was not on the ends of laterals. 7) Fixed bug for Sprayline block entities where the linetype, width, layer and colour not maintained correctly when changing items (in the block dialog) that didn't require the laterals to be remade. (e.g. changing the submain pipe used). 8) Fixed a problem where supplier codes with three or less characters were not recognized when using the "Multiplier" costing option. This would cause a "153" warning during costing/BOM reporting. 9) Added a "Y/N" confirmation for elevation interpolation. 10) Fixed a bug with the "Even Flow" manifold option where the incorrect number of manifolds where positioned for some block entities (where laterals not end fed). In addition made changes to make flows more even for this option. 11) Fixed a problem where "Unloading" symbols could remove existing instances of symbols without any checking. This would happen if the symbol(s) unloaded were not the currently selected item. Also fixed a minor cosmetic problem in the symbol preview that could occur after unloading symbols. 12) Fixed a crash that could occur when panning (either via the mouse wheel or "Dynamic Pan" tool) during various CAD tools (e.g. Move). Also made a change so that panning doesn't terminate CAD tools. 13) Made a change so that the focus is automatically returned to the main Irricad view when the cursor is moved off the layer manager window. Previously it was necessary to "click" in the main window. 14) Incorporated an Update to the VCADD engine. This fixes problems that could be encountered on some computers when printing designs containing large images on larger paper sizes. Also addresses a bug where not all dimensions/leaders/Datums were exported to DWG/DXF files. 15) Addressed some problems related to UnDelete that could cause:- Problems where connectivity checks could fail because control valves were set as Zone or Mainline rather than "Zone + Mainline". IDE_MAN_351 ("Zone item in mainline") warnings. Problems with connections after undeleting items. 16) Fixed a bug where #Shift# label keyword didn't display the system flow/shift for unconnected blocks. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 10.54 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Items belonging to a tape or sprayline Block entity may now be moved if the "Shift" key is held down while operating the Move Tool. Note that to do this must be pressed when the move is activated i.e. If items are selected first then hold shift down when clicking the move tool (or when selecting it from a menu). If items are not selected initially then hold shift down when clicking the item to move. 2) Items belonging to a tape or sprayline Block entity may now be deleted if the "Shift" key is held down while operating the Delete Tool. The operation is similar to the move tool. If items are selected first then to delete a single block item hold shift down when clicking the delete tool (or when selecting it from a menu) or pressing the DEL button. When multiple items are selected hold the shift key down when clicking to the confirmation message. If items are not selected initially then hold shift down when clicking the item to delete. 3) Fixed a problem where the colour specified for leaders was ignored (was fixed as Red by default). 4) Added a "Remove Orphan Nozzles" utility to the database editor. Accessible from the Utilities menu in the Database Editor this utility removes from the database any nozzles that are not currently assigned to Outlets. 5) Added LDAT keyword for plot templates - prints the current date in the Windows long date format. 6) Fixed a problem where the symbol size for a Water supply could not be changed to a value greater than 9. 7) Fixed problem where layers that contained items, but were not visible, could be deleted without any warning issued. This would only occur if multiple layers were selected and the first layer in the selection contained no items. 8) Fixed a bug where valves created automatically in Block Entities were not connected to the submain. This would only occur in certain situations when a selection filter was active. 9) Fixed a problem, introduced in V10.5, where layers were not merged correctly when importing DXF/DWG/VCD files. 10) OLE items are now printed last (i.e. on top) as per version 10. 11) Multiple improvements to the handling of Min/Max zone pressure labels: Fixed a problem where the labels were not cleared correctly after a design was saved; Ensured that pressure labels and symbols can be removed after being moved; Delete pressure labels and symbols when CVs or Blocks removed. 12) Changes to fix problem that occurred when a new "Layer View" was made but the layer list was not updated. 13) Improved the memory management used for OLE items when exporting to PDF. This fixes a problem where OLE items and images were not displayed in the resulting PDF file. 14) Fixed a bug that occurred when moving a hydraulic item attached to a pipe. If the move was canceled by pressing then the item was visually disconnected from the pipe(s). 15) Minor change so that the current text in the dialog for the text tool is automatically selected when the tool is initialized (as per V9.5). 16) Added "F" (for flushing) pipe usage code. Pipes marked with this code are treated the same as those marked with "Z" except that they are not available for automatic selection during Zone LP or Velocity design. Note that a pipes usage should not include both the "Z" and "F" codes. 17) Fixed a problem that could occur when accessing a dongle over slow networks or internet connections. Symptoms were general slowness with intermittent "freezing"and pop-up dialogs taking a long time to appear (pressing the key would cause them to display). 18) Fixed a minor bug where it was not possible to make changes to an embedded image if the source image file was not in it's original location. A warning message to this effect was issued. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 10.50 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Change maximum allowable wire size to be 1000.0 in database editor. 2) Fix minor problem introduced in 10.5 where "Save changes" message generated when no changes made. 3) Change format of "Design Date" (in "Settings/Design Details") to use the current Windows short date format. 4) Change the format of "CDAT" plot layout keyword to Windows short format. 5) Fix cosmetic bugs in HGL display when various options toggled. 6) In database item selection dialogs items present but disabled in the external database are now displayed in green. Missing items shown as red (no italics) and the current item shown in bold. 7) Preview added to line type dialogs in database editor. 8) Fix bug in 10.5 where layers from an imported file were added to existing layer groups. 9) Fix a crash, introduced in 10.50, where saving "Untitled" could cause a crash. 10) Minor changes to avoid strange behaviour of check boxes in new layer manager. 11) Fixed a crash that could occur if CTRL key was depressed when the Move tool was selected. 12) Fixed a crash that could occur if CTRL key was depressed and a single snap selected to locate the reference point for moving. 13) Fixed a problem where pipe pressures could be misreported (design/analysis correct otherwise) in some circumstances in looped systems containing PRVs. 14) Fixed a problem where changing copied block entities could give incorrect results in some circumstances. This was most noticeable for blocks with the "Set Distance" sub-main option. 15) Fixed a minor problem that could leave some block items selected if a copy operation was aborted (via ) part way through. Generally this would only occur if the items were on hidden layers and a left click issued, after the , and before exiting the tool. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 10.16 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Improved the import/Export of DXF/DWG files:- Files containing layout spaces can now be directly imported; Irricad now supports up to and including AutoCad 2009 formats. 2) Image handling in Irricad has been extensively updated, and a number of new image functions are available. Changes include:- - Images can be added to symbols, including plot layouts (e.g., adding logos); - The image import dialog now includes a preview window, making image selection easier; - Images can now be edited, rotated and mirrored like any other Irricad object (double-click, Change tool); - Allow editing of image height and width; - Transparency is supported in GIFs and PNGs; - Images can now be embedded directly into the design; Old style images are automatically converted to new style images when a design is opened in v10.5. 3) A new "dockable" layer manager has been implemented. This replaces the right click function in previous versions (the visibility of the layer manager may be controlled via the right click menu). The layer tab under "Settings/Layers" has also been redesigned. 4) Layers may now be marked as 'Printable' or not. If this flag is not set items in the particular layer will not be printed. Note this also applies to "Export to PDF" although the preview will still display layers that aren't "Printable". 5) Two new functions have been added to the Layer manager. The Groups feature allows different arrangements of layer visibility to be saved under a single name. To make a new group simply move to the groups tab, enter a name into the dialog and click the "Add Group" button. The current visibility for all layers is saved and can be applied by either double clicking on the group name or right click and "Activate" group. The lower pane of the manager indicates which layers are visible in the group (a green icon indicates that the layer contains entities). Layers may be added or removed from the group by using right click or the two buttons at the bottom of the dialog. The "Views" feature assigns a name to the current zoom state, double clicking or right click will then move to these stored states. Note that if there is a "Group" with the same name as a "View" then when that view is selected the corresponding layer group will also be applied. Checking "Auto Sync Layer Groups", when creating a "View", will automatically create a "Group" with the same name. 6) The "Rotate" tool now allows rotation angles to be entered via the keyboard. Simply type in the angle (e.g. 30 NOT <30) and press enter while the tool is active. 7) Implemented 'Outlet Connector' tool. This new tool (Tools|Connect Outlets) is analogous to the existing "Connect Valves" tool and automatically connects outlets to the nearest piece of mainline or zone pipe, depending on the outlet type. 8) Added an export data function to the HGL tool - exports to XLS, TSV and CSV. 9) Added a preview when drawing hatches. 10) Added a preview to the Draw Symbol dialog. 11) Added a registry only parameter to allow for inexact matches when updating items from the database (this occurs automatically when a design is opened). Inexact search allows either the component description or the warehouse code to differ and is only performed if an exact search for a component fails. The "ExactComponentMatching" value in the "HKCU\AEI Software\Irricad\Appsettings\Misc" key controls this behavior. If set to "0" (default is "1") then inexact searching is enabled. 12) If a database component is not found in the external database, Irricad will now display the correct item description in combo boxes instead of defaulting to the first item in the list. The description will show in a red font to indicate to the user that it was not found in the database. If a database component *is* found in the external database, but it is switched off (usage code ‘N’), Irricad will display the item description in a green font. The current item in the list is now displayed in bold text. 13) Improve the pasting coordinates into dialogs (e.g. "GoTo Coordinate") including allowing pasting from the right click menu. 14) Fix minor bug in the Database Editor curve fitting utilities where the captions were incorrect. 15) Fixed a minor bug in "Assign Zones to System Flows"- only add a zone to system flow if it is not already present. 16) In "Block Entity" tools improved the upstream/downstream positioning of manifold assemblies in some circumstances. 17) Symbols may now be created with an initial rotation angle. 18) Ensure that the HGL displays properly when there is a change of pipe (colour) at a pressure discontinuity (a PRV or a pump). 19) Entities that are moved to invisible layers are now automatically deselected. 20) Assemblies are now marked in the database lists with a much more visible icon. 21) Added warning messages to help distinguish 2D vs 3D files when importing contours from .shp files. 22) In the "Assign Zones to System Flows" tool disable 'assign zones' and 'clear assignment' items in the AssignZones right-click menu when no zones are selected. 23) Improved Zone minimum/maximum pressure labeling so that existing labels are now removed when using the "Selected Valves" option. 24) When a point item is deleted, replacement junctions are now places on the junction layer. 25) The "Running Snaps" button now reflects the current running snaps status. 26) Minor fix to ensure that a "\" is appended to the "Backup Folder" in "Settings/Miscellaneous". 27) Fixed a problem that could occur occasionally when labeling multiple pipes - labels would appear to be repositioned and existing labels were not removed. 28) Fixed a problem in labeling where changing the location (e.g. from "Above" to "Inline") would not have any effect. 29) Prevent water supply number incrementing when tool is canceled. 30) Added "Clear Management" function. 31) Fix minor bug in "Cut Lasso". Previously if an option apart from "Cut" was selected and then another Cut Lasso initiated then option formerly chosen would persist unless the radio buttons were re-clicked. 32) Fixed some conditions that could occasionally cause random crashes e.g. on CTRL-A (Select All), on double , on double click. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 10.14 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Fixed a very obscure bug that would cause "Draw Plot Layout" to crash when was clicked, also would cause "File/Repair" to crash. Only occurred in designs where block entities had somehow become corrupted. 2) Fixed a problem in "Cut Pipe". In some circumstances the cut pipe would not connect to laterals that were part of a block entity, especially when spanning multiple blocks. 3) Minor change to improve the startup speed of tools when running on network systems. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 10.12 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Made a change to improve loading speed of older non-graphical management options (e.g. "Assign System Flows to Zones"). 2) Fixed a problem in "Assign System Flows to Zones" that could occur occasionally on some machines. The dialog would appear to freeze and operate incorrectly. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 10.10 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Minor fix was made to use the absolute value of the dynamic headloss when calculating min/max headloss for mainline labels. 2) Change to allow the pressure, at junctions on the end of tapes, to be displayed in both labels and object info. 3) Fix bug introduced in V9.24. It was possible, although very uncommon, to get error (IDE_MAN_309) incorrectly when running any of the Management options on a design where a lot of Water supplies had been deleted and replaced or renamed. This only occurred if the total number of old and new Supplies exceeded 10. 4) Fixed a problem, introduced in 10.06, where clicking on either the "Water Supply Times" or "Zone Operating Times" dialogs would cause a crash. 5) Fixed a problem where the boundary entity of a Sprayline block could be deleted if the block was edited and then the dialog exited via . If the Sprayline block tool was subsequently opened and exited via the boundary entity could be deleted. 6) Fixed a minor bug when editing a Sprayline Block Entity. If the Riser was changed to "No component" the change was not updated. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 10.08 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Fixed a bug in mainline labels where in some circumstances (negative flows) max/min flow labels were not correct (set to 0.0). 2) Re-enabled the "No. Manifolds (Even flow) option on the flushing tab for block entity tools. This option was inadvertently disabled in V10.0 3) Fixed a minor problem introduced in V10.06. Multiple warnings would be issued when exiting from the "Assign System Flows to Zones" dialog ("Design\Other Management Options") when system flows were not assigned to some zones. 4) Allow assignments for zones to be cleared in "Assign Zones to System Flows". This is done by either entering 0 or blank into the "Assign System Flows to Zone" dialog or selecting a zone and then "Clear Assignment" on the right click menu. 5) Minor fix to allow "Import Contours" to work on 3D .SHP files that do not contain a numerical elevation field. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 10.04 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Fixed a bug where using the "centre" valve option for block entities placed the Valve incorrectly (by a lateral spacing). 2) Fixed a bug re-introduced in V9.5 that could cause block entities to become corrupted after canceling from a "Change Type" dialog. 3) Fixed minor bug where Block entity Control Valves connected using the Valve connector tool could not be moved. 4) Enabled NOMFLOW, ACTFLOW, VALVEPRESS, MINEMITPRESS, MAXEMITPRESS and MEANPRESS for unconnected blocks. 5) Enabled VALVEPRESS label keyword for control valves. This gives the downstream (i.e. Zone) pressure for a valve. 6) Fixed a problem that could occur with multiple separate water supplies. If the last system flow contained a Water Supply that did not have pressures specified then this setting would be applied to the Water supplies in the preceding systems flows (i.e. the Supply pressure would be calculated by Irricad despite being fixed in the Water Supply dialog). 7) Ranges of system flows can now be specified in the "Assign Zones to System Flows" and "Assign System Flows to Zones" management options. Note that in the tabular "Assign System Flows to Zones" option a range is identified by -ve numbers. For example to specify that a Water supply operates on System flows 2 to 12 and -2 and -12 would be entered in the first two columns. This is especially useful, in designs with multiple supplies, when the number of systems flows a water supply operates on is more than 17. A total of 9 ranges can be assigned to an item, this applies to both zones and water supplies. 8) Show the angle and length for pipes in object info when debug mode not selected. 10) Fixed a bug, introduced in V10, where importing DXF/DWG files into a clean design could crash. This would only occur when the source DWG/DXF had no named layers and all entities in the file were in layer 0. 11) Fixed a minor bug where correcting duplicate zone names wasn't reflected in the Zone Design Config dialog. 12) Made minor improvements to the operation of prompt strings displayed for menu items. 13) Fixed a bug, introduced in V10, were "Snap Centre" (selected from the right click menu) needed 2 clicks to work correctly. 14) If no slices and no cuts are selected in the subdivision tool the original parent block is now regenerated and any sub-blocks deleted. This could give unpredictable results in previous versions. Note that setting options in the subdivide dialog so only one sub-block is produced is not recommended since the results may be unpredictable. 15) Fixed a bug when importing elevations, the resulting contours would appear to be "stepped". This occurred with files containing very large coordinates. 16) Fixed a minor bug introduced in V9.50 where the Nominal flow wasn't displayed for the ACTFLOW label when an irrigation block hadn't been designed. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 10.02 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Made a change so that toolbar customisations were retained for old versions. 2) Fixed a bug where hy_min... type labels didn't work correctly when applied to junctions. 3) Enabled the HY_PRESS and HY_PABS keywords to be the downstream pressure for Control Valves. 4) Fixed a crash that could occur when dragging buttons during toolbar customisation. 5) Fixed a long standing problem when the symbol file for a hydraulic item was not found. Previously selecting a replacement symbol was unsuccessful and the warning would be repeated for all instances of the symbol. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 10.01 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Minor fix so that spot heights are selected when the selection filter "Type" is set to "Spot Heights". 2) Changes to make sure that emitter positions in Sprayline Block entities are preserved after subdivision. 3) Fix a bug in Sprayline Block entities where the reference emitter location was not retained after a design was reopened. 4) Improved the merging of management and hydraulic information when designs are merged. 5) The report viewer now is shown maximized with an Irricad icon. 6) Added options for merging drawing and elevation data to the File/Merge dialog. 7) Fixed bug where "Extra outlets" in Sprayline Block entities were counted twice when calculating the flow for block labels. 8) Added "NUMEMIT" label keyword - displays the number of emitters in a block entity. 9) Fixes a minor bug where the "Big" and "Cool Look" icon states weren't being saved. 10) Updated "Merge" function to include OLE items. 11) The "File/Compress" function now preserves management and design information. 12) Fixed bug where using "Cut-pipe" and snap parallel and then connecting onto a tape caused a connection problem (the connection in to the on end of the tape). 13) Correctly translate the reference emitter location when rotating Block Entities. 14) Prevent "Cut Lasso" from crashing when no hydraulic objects are selected. 15) Added Mirror and Offset copy tools. 16) Enable copying of hydraulic entities for all copy tools. 17) Changes to allow Manifold scope to be modified when editing Block Entities. 18) Fix a problem where changing Prevent block scope edits from remaking the laterals. 19) Implement Trim, Extend and Z-Order (Bring to Front/Back) tools. 20) Allow the location of the Backup folder to be specified ("Settings/Miscellaneous"). 21) Check that the .VCD and .MDB files are present before trying to open the design and issue "sensible" errors if they are not. 22) Fixes a minor bug where after opening an existing design the first click of the select object tool was ignored. 23) Added Cut Lasso based "Trim Elevations" tool. 24) Made changes to help prevent settings in the registry reverting to the defaults in some circumstances. 25) Fixed a minor problem where running a user tool would slow down the operation of Irricad. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 10.00 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Fix crash in the Gradeline tool that happened when only one pipe was selected that had a PRV attached to it. 2) Enable the automatic pasting of coordinates into "Go To Coordinates" and into the "Settings/Grid Origin" dialogs. This means that a coordinate string copied from the "Object Info" screen which includes both X and Y coordinates, units and descriptors (e.g. "x = 25.28 m, y = 8.46 m") can be inserted in one action into the appropriate fields in these dialogs. Note that the copied string can only contain two numbers for this function to work correctly (i.e don't include the "P1:" from object info when selecting the coordinate string). 3) In "Design Parameters" the last visited tab is now remembered. 4) Corrected the X/Y aspect ratio for the 3D Dem report window. 5) Added FLOWPERAREA label keyword (Flow per unit area) for Irrigation blocks. 6) Improve redraw speed when un-deleting especially when blocks are undeleted. 7) Added the z-coord to the Info panel. This displays the elevation, calculated from the DEM, at the current mouse position. If the DEM has not been created then "No Elevation" is displayed. 8) Allow the minimum/maximum emitter pressures from the zone design configuration dialog to be copied to the clipboard as two tab-separated numbers. This means that when values from the table are pasted into Excel separate columns will be created for each of these values. 9) Fixed a crash on when saving onto FAT32 drives. 10) Fixed a problem (introduced in 10.0) where changing a Valve etc. in a sprayline block entity could cause the outlet positions to change. 11) Fixed a bug when subdividing blocks with triangular, rectangular offset and group spacings. Previously the outlet positions not retained correctly in the sub-blocks created. 12) Fixed a problem (introduced in V10.0) where submains were not connected to laterals if the sprayline layer was not visible. 13) Added label keywords for absolute pressure (HY_MAX_PABS, HY_MIN_PABS, HY_PABS). 14) Made changes to prevent spurious empty layers being created, at the end of the layer list, when importing DXF/DWG files. 15) Display the full path of MRU files in the status bar. 16) Made changes to improve the display of ToolTips for different Windows language settings. 17) Made some improvements to the distance and angle display in the status bar after perpendicular and parallel manual snaps used. 18) Fix a problem where snaps were disabled, in the right-click menu, after a perpendicular or parallel manual snap. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 9.56 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Hatches and Fills can now be edited. The colour can be changed for an existing Fill whilst the colour, line thickness, line style, and pattern may be changed for Hatches. 2) The text dialog (used for "Draw\Text" and label settings) now displays the actual fonts, styles and colours specified. This is particularly useful to get a visual indication of how labels will look. 3) More comprehensive hydraulic labeling has been included with the introduction of many new label keywords for pressures, flows, headloss etc. Please see the release notes for more details. 4) The position labels that have been moved manually is now retained. 5) Fixed a minor problem where the placement of "Block" labels and text in graphical management was incorrect in some cases with very large coordinates. 6) All hydraulic and electrical items can now be created from relevant drawing items. See the release notes for more details. 7) Design details are displayed in the Windows file properties (visible in Windows Explorer and "File/Open") of the Irricad design file. This allows designs to be more readily identified. Note that this facility is only available on drives that use the NTFS file system, FAT32 (Windows 98 etc.) drives do not allow file properties to be stored. 8) It is now possible to specify an unconnected sprayline block entity. See the release notes for more details. 9) A "User Attributes" text field has been added to control valves, water supplies and miscellaneous hydraulic items. It allows user-defined information to be attached to these items subsequently displayed in labels and reports. See the release notes for more details. 10) Prevent OLE items with zero height or width from being created. Also ensure that printing and exporting to PDF ignores OLE items with zero height or width. Note that "File Repair" will attempt to repair of OLE items with degenerate rectangles. 11) Minor change so that the automatic zone number isn't incremented after canceling from the "Zone Name" dialog. 12) Holding the "Shift" key down when placing a zone valve, mainline outlet or mainline spraylines now doesn't show the Name dialog but accepts the default name. 13) Improvements have been made to the sizing of the "Zone Design Configuration" dialog. Also the space bar can now be used to toggle check boxes. 14) A keyword combo box has been added to the labels text dialog. This combo box displays and describes the available label keywords, and allows them to be easily inserted by pressing . 15) The current label text settings are shown in a button tooltip on the "Label Settings" page. 16) Irricad designs may now be merged together using the "Merge" option in the File menu. This function will merge the drawing and hydraulic objects, as well as fittings. 17) Allow correctly for discontinuities in Hydraulic gradelines caused by in-line pumps and PRVs. 18) Added the ability to create report templates that save directly to a file, this is accomplished by adding keywords to the "Report Options" in the report template editor. Possible keywords are:- #CSV# - Excel comma separated values; #TSV# - Tab separated values; #TXT# - standard text file; #XML# - text file where all leading and trailing blanks are removed also blank lines. 19) Fixed a crash that could occur when subdividing sprayline blocks that contained extra outlets. 20) Added Group spacing, number laterals per group and row spacing (= lateral spacing if no groups) keywords for block entity labels. 21) Designs can now be saved in the format of all previous versions of Irricad (to Version 7). This functionality is now located under the "File/Export" menu item and will save a copy of the current design, in the specified format, to the designated file. 22) ESRI SHP files (including those where the coordinates are Latitudes and Longitudes) can now be imported directly into Irricad. This facility works for both a normal "Import" and "Import Contours". See the release notes for more details. 23) Added new toolbars with many new icons including large icons and popup menus. Also enable current tool and current snap toolbar indicators. 24) Added customize context menu when right-clicking in any toolbar docking area. 25) Allow the minimum/maximum zone pressure label text to be edited. 26) Enabled the use of multiple coloured symbols for Valves etc. If a symbol is specified with the "BYBLOCK" colour in the database editor then the symbol will be displayed in Irricad using the colours contained in the symbol definition. 27) Designs with multiple but separate water supplies can now be fully analysed (and LP Design used where appropriate) directly. It is no longer necessary to "join" the separate systems with notional pipes. 28) Drawing and Contour data from CSV files can now be imported into Irricad. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 9.54 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Fixed a problem where very occasionally, in designs with very large coordinates and spot heights, elevation interpolation wouldn't use the closest spanning contours when calculating the elevation for some points. 2) Fixed bug, introduced in 9.50, where fittings selection would fail (a 187 warning, followed by 1104, would be issued) for outlets with risers on the ends of pipes. 3) Fixed some problems where items would not be connected when using the block tools with the lateral or junction layers were turned off. 4) Added keywords to costing reports for the coordinates of unconnected pipes and spraylines. This means that a report can be created listing the locations of all unconnected items in a design. 5) Minor change so that the minimum and maximum allowable pressure for miscellaneous hydraulic items, and pumps is set to 0.0 in design pipe reports. 6) Added the ability to globally change scope (Design + BOM etc.) for all hydraulic items at one time. To do this select the items required and then use the "Change" tool (not "Change Type") and adjust the "Scope" field. Note that objects that do not have scope (drawing items, junctions etc.) are unaffected by changes to this field. 7) Fixed a problem in mainline grade lines where the intermediate pressures, along a single pipe segment, were not displayed correctly for mainlines when elevations were present. 8) Fixed a bug where Zone Design would fail after a mainline Grade line was displayed (warnings IDE_MAN_330 and 331 would be issued). 9) Fixed a minor bug where a prompt for an unnamed database symbol could sometimes appear when using "Move Point" on a sprayline block entity. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 9.50 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Fixed a bug in automatic manifold creation that could occur in odd shaped blocks and non-straight submains. 2) Enabled click on a block component to select a block entity when using the subdivide tool. 3) Fixed a minor bug where changing manifolds and submain field (e.g. depth), at the same time, would cause the manifolds not to be created. 4) Fixed a bug (introduced in 9.50) where the elevations of miscellaneous hydraulic items weren't being set correctly if they were added after the initial elevation interpolation. This would cause odd pressure differences in Object info and design reports unless a manual re-interpolation was run. 5) Fixed a crash when the key was held down. 6) The dialog for the "Highlight Elevations" tool now displays the correct location if the first contour/spot height is the minimum/maximum. Previously 0.0,0.0 was shown in this case. 7) Fixed a minor bug where the boundaries of block entities created from drawing/imported polygons were not being simplified (reducing the number of vertices). 8) Fix a bug where selection filter wasn't working in some circumstances. 9) In the database editor increased the limit for "% above" flow/pressure tolerance for Outlets to 2000%. 10) Re-enabled "Default Name" item on right click menu for Control Valves and mainline outlets and spraylines. 11) Changed selection filter so that it works correctly when multiple filters are chosen. Also only select contours if the Hydraulic group chosen (not Zone or Mainline). Allow for BYLAYER items correctly in the Selection Filter. 12) Fix a bug introduced in 9.50 where the length of polyline tapes were not calculated correctly when the "Slope Elevation" method was selected. 13) Toggling the elevation in the "Hydraulic Gradeline" dialog now adds or removes elevations from the data sets, as opposed to just showing or hiding the elevation series. 12) Fixed a minor bug where "Show Zone Pressure Limits" for "All Valves" failed when a selection filter was set (active or inactive). 13) Fixed a minor bug where in some circumstances, if spot heights were present, a contour line outside of those spanning a point could be used when interpolating the elevation. 14) Allow m3/hr for outlet flows in Units settings. 15) Allow for PRVs upstream of pumps and misc hydraulic items. 16) Fixed a very old bug where occasionally allowances for an upstream PRV were not made for items in a looped part of a system (Note PRVs may not be placed in looped parts of a pipe system). 17) Fixed a crash, caused by broken drawing objects, that could occur when using Change or Change type. 18) Improved the creation of automatic manifolds for odd shaped blocks. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 9.26 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Irricad databases can now be edited and save in newer versions of Microsoft Access. Additional versions now supported are 2000, XP (2002), 2003 and 2007. Note that once a database has been converted to the newer format it will no longer be able to be used in previous versions of Irricad (i.e. earlier than V9.50). 2) Improved panning stability and fixed a bug where the design would "disappear" when using mouse wheel panning. 3) The "Go To Coordinates" dialog now retains the last set of coordinates. 5) The Object Info tool dialog has been improved:- allows multiple windows open, improved formatting, added a hydraulic info on/off switch. Elevation change for pipes/tapes/spraylines is displayed in both pressure and elevation units (when the units are different). 6) Scope flag added to many hydraulic items this allows for "BOM only" items which are included in costing/bom reports but not included in hydraulic design and "Design Only' items which are treated normally in the design process but are not shown in the BOM/Costing reports. 7) Snaps are now enabled for the "Move" tool. 8) Uniformity values (Eu, Du, CU, mean emitter flow and number of emitters) are now automatically calculated and available in the Zone reports. Two new zone design summary reports have been added to "Zone Design Reports", they are "Zone Design Summary (Uniformity 1 Emit)" and "Zone Design Sum. (Uniformity Multi Emit)". Both reports display the same results with the "Multi Emit" version allowing for varying number of emitters per plant (between 1 and 10). Note Zone Analysis or Design need to be rerun to make the uniformity values available in existing designs. It is possible to suppress these calculations if required by altering a registry key (contact your local Irricad representative for information). In addition the emitter flow values, used in the uniformity calculations, for each zone can be directed to a file for external analysis. Enabling this feature is also via a registry key. 9) A new field for COV has been added in the database editor for Tapes and Nozzles. 10) Flushing manifolds can now be automatically added using the Block Entity tools. For more information see the 9.50 release notes. 11) A dynamic layers menu has been added to the default right-click menu. This provides a quick way to enable or disable layers. It also includes two shortcut functions 'Hide Layer' (Ctrl+Shift+H) hides the layer of the currently selected item, while 'Show Layer' (Ctrl+Shift+L) re-shows the last hidden layer (the menu shows which layer will be hidden or restored). 12) Fixed a problem where duplicate layers could not be removed in existing designs. 13) Improved performance when applying "Change Type" to a large number of items. 14) Enabled "Double-Escape" function to return to the default "Select Object" tool, this will also clear the current selection. 15) Fix a problem in detailed analysis where, in certain circumstances, PRVs were not treated correctly. 16) Updated the HGL tool to allow mainline pipes. Also added copying, printing, saving and printing functions into the HGL dialog. 17) Allow bitmap data on the clipboard to be Inserted/pasted into Irricad. This enables copy and paste of HGL charts. 18) The serial number of the Irricad dongle is now displayed in the program title. 19) When creating Min/Max pressure labels for selected valves labels for other valves are no longer cleared. Note that any exiting labels for the selected valves are also not cleared and need to be deleted manually before operating the tool. 20) Three new panels (Info, Snap, and Selection Filter) have been added to the status bar. All the panel options can be selected by right clicking the panel to access a popup menu, or left clicking to cycle through the available options. For more information see the 9.50 release notes. 21) Changes have been made to the "Select Object" tool. Clicking and dragging now operates as a "Select Window" tool. In previous versions the default behaviour of selection tools was to add any items selected to the current selection. In this version it is possible to make the selection tools act where selecting items also deselects the current selection. This mode is enabled by unchecking the "MultiSelect" option in the "Settings|Mouse" tab. Note that this tab has been renamed from "Wheel|Scroll". 22) Pressing the Alt key when selecting an object that is part of a block entity (e.g., lateral) will select the block entity itself. 23) Fixed an obscure bug where using "Change Type" on a combination of tape and spray block entities could cause problems. 24) The y-axis on HGL graphs has been changed to elevation rather than pressure units (converts pressures to equivalent hydrostatic elevation). 25) Irrigated Areas can now be created from polylines and curves (in the same way as the block entity tools). 26) In Graphical Management the order that yellow and orange are used to denote system flows has been swapped. 27) Fixed a minor bug where the .dzn file was zero length. This would cause an IDE_DES_444 (I/O Status -999) error. 28) Fittings are now selected for two-ended items (e.g. Misc Hydraulic) that are only connected on one side. 29) Fixed a problem in the Irrigation Area tool - apparently random "snaps" would occur some to 0,0. 30) Fixed a similar issue to 29) in all block tools. This would occur in some circumstances after issuing a "Snap to End". 31) Re enabled "Place" on the right click menu for hydraulic tools. 32) Made changes to the construction of the splash screen to reduce the chance of multiple instances of Winicad.exe occurring. 33) Added a link to the Irricad web site to the Help menu. 34) Fixed a problem that could cause a "flashing" cursor in the toolbars in some situations. 35) Improved the drawing of the circular cursor. 35) Increased the number of recent files to 8. 36) Fixed a problem where, in some circumstances, the locations of sprayline outlets would be incorrect after changing the sprinkler/nozzle in a spray block entity. 37) Fixed a minor bug where the laterals would revert to vertical if the lateral direction in a block entity was changed and then a "child" tool selected (clear selection, zoom tools). This only occurred when changing using the "User Defined" option. 38) Fixed an infrequently occurring problem where the area of block entities, displayed in reports, was incorrect. 39) Fixed a bug when an Auto-Backup ran during the creation of block entities. In some circumstances the boundary could disappear, or become disassociated from the block laterals. 40) The dongle version number is now shown in "Help About". 41) Made a change to the database editor so that fractional numbers of items can be added to assemblies. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 9.24 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Fix a minor bug where Outlet connectivity could fail in very large designs with many changes made. 2) Fix a bug in the HGL report where the lateral pressure band was incorrect in some cases. 3) Fix a bug where the HGL curve for spraylines was incorrect. 4) Enable rounding for all labels. 5) Fixed a minor bug where OLE items and images were not exported to PDF files in some circumstances. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 9.22 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Fixed a bug introduced in 9.16 where the auto backup feature was not saving all design files to the backup folder. The symptoms would be a "DBS 5" error being generated when attempting to open a backup design. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 9.20 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Fixed a crash that would occur if "Delete Type" was used to delete Block entities and then a zoom tool was selected (e.g. Zoom All). 2) Fixed a problem where Irricad would "hang" when the "Hydraulic Grade Line" tool was used when the current pressure units were anything other than metres. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 9.16 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Fixed a problem that would cause an access violation crash when trying to perform management functions with more than 10 supplies. 2) Added the ability to automatically create a Management symbol (a symbol of the current graphical management). See "Draw/Management Symbol" - note the menu item is disabled when not available. - See the release notes under the "Help" menu. 3) Improved the resizing of System Flow dialogs. 4) Fixed bug introduced in 9.16 were Spray Block dialogs didn't work correctly. 5) Hide unused items in Spray block dialogs. 6) Hide Arc orientation in Tape Block dialog. 7) Changed the limits for warnings about outlet spacing in block dialogs. 8) Suppressed spacing warning for drippers in Block dialogs. 9) Added automatic generation of pipe stubs for submain and control valves in block entities. See the release notes under the "Help" menu. 10) Added a facility to graphically display the position of the maximum and minimum emitter pressures in a zone ("Reports/Show Zone Pressure Limits"). See the release notes under the "Help" menu. 11) Added an option to the block entity valve position. The valve position can now be specified as a percentage of the submain length. 12) Added the ability to round label values to a closest value and by roll lengths. New keywords are "ROLLS" and "ROLLS3D". See the release notes under the "Help" menu. 13) Added a tool that displays the hydraulic gradeline for spraylines, tapes, submains and mainline pipes ("Reports/Hydraulic Gradeline"). 14) Fixed a bug that could cause block entities to become corrupted (e.g. lateral spacing set to zero). This occurred when cancelling from the change or change/match dialog (when using change type) and then selecting some tools (e.g. Clear Selection, Zoom Window). 15) Make OLE objects print first in PDF files, so that they don't obscure the design. 16) Ensure that the Valve Connector does not create very short pipes. Instead it now connects valves directly to the mainline if they are very close. 17) Fixed a minor bug where some block entities didn't appear to be closed. 18) Added a Water Supply elevation field to mainline reports (Sysflow->WSElevation). 19) The headloss through a control valve is now available in the MLItem->Outloss mainline report field. 20) The minimum and maximum emitter pressures (and their positions), in a connected sprayline, are now calculated. These calculations are based on the actual flow and take into account the DEM elevations at the emitters. 21) Allow for zones spanning multiple Irrigation Areas (e.g. a zone made up of multiple block entities) when calculating area and water requirements. A zone may span a maximum of 10 areas. Note that the V7 style reports (if enabled) still only allow for zones being in one area. 22) Changed the 489 warning ("Tape pressure range cannot be met for conditions given") to logging only (warnings can be seen under "View Errors"). A single warning message, for each zone, is now displayed on screen if necessary. 23) Added a "band" to the submain gradeline to display the minimum and maximum pressures on individual laterals. 24) When loading a design Issue warning if an assembly contains no items. This avoids the confusing "Item is an assembly of itself" warnings in this case. 25) The text colour for labels can now be specified ("Settings/Labels/Text"). 26) Added settings for the minimum and maximum zone pressure labels. These settings are located in "Reports/Report Settings". 27) The management symbol is now automatically saved so that when a design is reopened management does not need to be re-run in order to draw the symbol. 28) Fixed a problem where "Extra Outlets" would not correctly 'belong' to a block entity (this could cause connectivity problems). 29) Added functionality to allow pipes, created with the "Zone Pipe" tool, to belong to block entities they connect to (e.g., so that manual submain pipes also 'belong' to the block). 30) Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when more than 963 symbols/labels were used in a design. 31) In the database editor the "Save Changes" and "Quit" buttons are disabled when working with an assembly. This fixes a problem where assemblies containing no items could be created. 32) Fixed a bug where the "Length3D" and "Rolls3D" label keywords only calculated 2D lengths. 33) Fixed a problem where the allowable pressure ranges in "Zone Design Configuration" were not used in a limited number of situations. 34) Any selected entities on invisible layers are now deselected. 35) Use the DEM method to get the elevation of any new junctions created as part of the sprayline sizing process. This fixes a possible problem in the hydraulic gradeline tool. 36) Fix bug where changing the outlet in a sprayline block entity, but not the lateral or outlet spacing, would look for a blank symbol. 37) Fixed a minor problem which could cause pipes to be individually labeled after initial labels were deleted. 38) Increased to 25 the maximum number of Areas a Zone can span. 39) Fixed a problem that could, in certain circumstances when a mainline includes a misc hydraulic item, cause the required water supply pressure to be calculated incorrectly. Note this problem only occurred in 9.12+ Beta versions. 40) Fixed a minor problem in the new valve connector tool when valves had been moved and the tool rerun. 41) A utility to "clean" fields in databases has been added to the database editor. This utility is used to correctly format fields in the database after directly importing data via Access. It is not necessary to use this if data has been entered via the Irricad database editor. To use the utility simply:- a) Close the current database. b) Select "Clean Fields" from the "Utility" menu. c) Choose the database and click the "Clean" button. d) When the progress bar stops the operation is complete. e) "Cancel" exits from the utility. A backup of the original database will be created (~tmp then the database name) this may be deleted when required. 42) Changed the way Zone Design operates when zones turned off in Zone Design Configuration. It is no longer necessary to design all zones initially. This also fixes a problem where the maximum number of lateral/submain sizes was ignored the first time zone design was run. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 9.11 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Added OLE functionality. This means that items such as Irricad reports, spreadsheets, documents etc. can be inserted into Irricad. There are two ways of doing this either by "Edit/Paste" or "Tools/Insert OLE". In both cases the required data needs to have been copied to the clipboard in the appropriate application (e.g. the Irricad report viewer) or a file copied in "My Computer"/"Windows Explorer". When "Paste" or "Insert OLE" is chosen the size and shape of the OLE object is selected by specifying two corners of a rectangle. "Insert OLE" allows multiple instances of the object to be inserted while "Paste" allows only one. It is a restriction of OLE that only the first page of the copied data can be displayed. Irricad allows OLE data to be displayed, printed and exported to PDF. NOTE: in order for Irricad reports to be displayed correctly an application that can render RTF data, including tables, must be installed on your system - examples of suitable applications are MS Word, Open Office etc. 2) Line widths of placeholder lines in pipe legend templates are now used when pipe legends are created as part of "Draw/Plot Layout". 3) More Keywords have been enabled for use in Plot Templates, those added are:- #EDATE# - End Date, #SDATE# - Start Date, #ADATE# - Acceptance date, #REPCO# - Rep Code, #REPNM# - Rep Name, #LHRS# - Labour Hours, #MILE# - Mileage, #ICOST# - Installation Cost, #SIGNT# - Signitary, #SIGTL# - Signitary Title, #LCOST# - Labour Cost, #MCOST# - Mileage Cost, #TAXR# - Tax Rate, #COSN# - Company Short Name, #COLN# - Company Full Name, #BRCO# - Branch Code, #BRNM# - Branch Name, #BRPH# Branch Phone, #BRFX# - Branch Fax, #BRAP# - Branch After Hours Phone, #BRCT# - Branch Contact. 4) A tool that automatically connects control valves to the nearest mainline has been added. To run this, select "Connect Valves" from the "Tools" menu. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 9.10 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Fix a bug where using a manual snap would stop a polyline being closed (e.g. in block tools). 2) Added an "OutletFlow" field for mainline reports. Also fixed a minor problem in mainline design summary report when running VIH outlets had -ve heads, these previously were not displayed in the report. 3) Added extra information about the number of contour segments during "Import Elevations". The number of raw and simplified segments is now shown. 4) Changed the recommended minimum pressure to 1.0 m in tapes and tape block dialogs. 5) Fixed a bug where using snap parallel would be cause a pipe to be disconnected. 6) Made a change to LP that fixes a number of odd "LP failed to find solution" problems. 7) Fixed a problem where the representations of contours and block boundaries would disappear when drawn on top of Images. 8) Fixed a problem that could give error 356 for some child blocks during zone reports. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 9.08 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Fixed a crash (introduced in 9.09) that would occur if drawing objects were selected and then the Label tool applied. 2) Fixed a minor bug when slicing in the subdivide tool. Previously, with the "Perpendicular to Laterals" option selected, subdividing blocks with vertical laterals could "miss out" part of the parent block. 3) Enabled more keywords for Plot Templates:- #DDES# (Design Details Description), #CLSN# (Client Details Short Name), #CLAD# (Client Details Address), #CLHP# (Client Details Home Phone), #CLPH# (Client Details Work Phone), #CLFA# (Client Details Fax), #CLCO# (Client Details Code (3 chars only)). ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 9.07 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Fixed a problem introduced in 9.07 where the colour of tapes in a tape block entity were incorrect. 2) Allow for zones with single centre fed laterals in "Assign Zones to System Flows", in previous versions these zones were not displayed. 3) Improved the display of single lateral zones in "Assign Zones to System Flows". 4) Ensured that Sprayline Block outlines are created on the Irrigation Areas layer by default. 5) Fix a minor bug in "Zone Design Configuration" where the D/S zone pressure was not allowed to be 0.0 in some circumstances. 6) Nominal flows for Sprayline blocks are now calculated for Block Labels and the Subdivision tool. 7) The design default lateral line width is now used for Block Entities (if is selected). 8) The design default zone line width for is now used for submain pipes in Block Entities. 9) line width now functions correctly in Block Entities. 10) Allow the DEM to be calculated regardless of the presence of tapes or the DEM calculation mode. 11) Fixed a crash that could occur when using keyboard entry in copy tools. 12) Fixed various problems that could occur when some temporary files were read only. 13) Fixed a bug where manually implemented perpendicular and parallel snaps on hydraulic objects would place items in the correct location but would not "attach" to other hydraulic objects correctly. 14) When labeling pipes, with the "Combine Pipes" option set, Zone and Mainline pipes are now considered independently. This means, for example, that submain connected to an inline valve doesn't force multiple labels in the mainline pipes at that point. 15) Fixed a bug when labeling pipes, with the "Combine Pipes" option set and using the #Length# keyword, where in some circumstances the length of a pipe segment could be counted in two labels. 16) Fixed a minor problem where the "Delay Time" for warning message reverted to its default value unless the "Design Parameters" dialog was accessed and "OK" clicked. 17) Fixed a problem in the "Datum" and "Leader" tools (introduced in 9.07) 18) Fixed a bug where a DEM from a previously loaded design could be used in a design with no elevation information. 19) Fixed a problem where the DEM was not recalculated if all Elevation information was removed from a design. 20) Fixed bug where the actual Valve pressure and minimum/maximum emitter pressures were not displayed in "Zone Design Configuration" in some circumstances. 21) Fixed a crash that could occur when using keyboard entry in the Move and Rotate tools. This only occurred when a selection was present and the "Offset Point" was specified via the keyboard. 22) Made a change to Zone LP Design so that if the Valve pressure is set (in "Zone Design Configuration") then this pressure is fixed during the LP process. Previous versions allowed the resulting valve pressure to vary up to the specified pressure. This method has the slight disadvantage that LP may fail if an inappropriate valve pressure is used. 23) Fixed a crash that would occur during Block creation/editing if another tool was selected (e.g. the select tool) while waiting for input when manually specifying a submain or lateral direction. 24) Fixed a minor long standing bug that could cause headlosses in "*** No Pipe Selected ***"pipes with apparently no flow. 25) Fixed a problem where running a Zone Design would cause 187 errors followed by an error reading the temporary.zne file. This only occurred with certain databases and in a design that contained segments of pipe with no flow. 26) Undelete is now disabled after any design/costing run. This avoids a potential crash when undeleting items. 27) Fixed a problem that could occur, in a new design containing spraylines, if "Assign Zones to Systems Flows" was run. Zone design would then produce OOP_7 errors. Once the design was saved (either before or after "Assign Zones to Systems Flows") the problem would not occur. 28) Fixed a bug, introduced in 9.08, where relabeling pipes with the "combine pipes" option didn't work correctly. 29) Fixed a minor problem which could prevent that last lateral in the last sub-block from being created when slicing blocks. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 9.04 ------------------------------------------------- 1) The lateral direction of Irrigation Blocks can now be changed. 2) The submain direction (when using the distance option) for Irrigation Blocks can be changed. 3) Irrigation Block entities may now be sprayline blocks (Zone/Spray Irrigation Block) 4) The Change/Match dialog has been changed to a grid format. 5) The contour limits message has been corrected when no elevations are imported. 6) Changes to allow multiple editing of Spray Irrigation Blocks. 7) In colour contours fix the minimum/maximum to display correctly when using U.S. units. Add the location for the minimum and maximum values. 8) Fix a problem in colour contours where the colour of spot heights were not changing. 9) Create or recalculate the DEM if it is not present or is out of date when running the "3D Dem View" report. 10) In Zone Design Configuration fix bug where depths and Outlet Connection losses not accounted for when displaying the minimum and maximum emitter pressures. Also improve the checking for Min/Max allowable pressures. 11) When creating a Block (Tape or Sprayline) make sure the block polyline is visible during zooms. 12) Enable standard drawing snaps for hydraulic tools. 13) Added Undo Vertex when drawing polyline items (applies to all hydraulic and drawing "Polyline" tools). 14) Enable running snaps for hydraulic tools. 15) Allow any line to be used when specifying the submain direction (i.e. not just block boundaries). 16) Fixed a minor problem that could cause zero length submain segments and duplicate junctions when making a submain with the "distance" option in some circumstances. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 9.03 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Fixed a problem where management reports were not displayed after using the "Zone Times" management options. 2) Fixed a bug that would cause multiple sub-main segments if a block with a centre or Set Distance auto submain had the valve position changed. 3) Stop Hydraulic items being changed into irrigation blocks. 4) Fixed a minor bug where changing the submain for an Irrigation block would cause all junctions to have the "permanent" flag set. 5) Fixed a bug in the "Submain distance" option of Irrigation Blocks. This could occur if the distance selected was longer than some laterals and therefore the submain "snapped" to ends of these laterals. This could cause very small or 0 length tapes in block entity. 6) Fixed a bug where zone hydraulic items could connect to mainline items (and vice versa) using "Snap to ...". 7) Allow for converting tapes in Irrigation Blocks to spraylines. Note spraylines in Blocks are not fully supported yet. 8) Fixed a bug where the location of the minimum and maximum emitter in the Zone Summary report would always be on the first lateral for PC tapes/Outlets. 9) Elevations are now re-interpolated automatically when the "Elevation Calculation Method" is changed to DEM elevations or when the "DEM Grid Size" changes. 10) "Re-interpolate Elevations" on the "Design" menu now re-interpolates all elevations (not just new Hydraulic Items). 11) Enable "Change" for tapes that are part of a block. Note only Layer and Line Thickness can be changed. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 8.72 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Added Highlight Elevations tool. This tool allows contours to be colour coded by elevation. For more information see the Release Notes under the Help menu. 2) Many changes have been made to the "Zone Design Configuration" dialog to improve its functionality. For more information see the Release Notes under the Help menu. 3) Fixed a bug which after an Irrigation Block was changed could cause the number of rows, in a block label, to be displayed incorrectly. 4) Fixed bug where applying the label tool to a selection didn't return to the parent tool. 5) Added function to display the DEM grid in 3D. For more information see the Release Notes under the Help menu. 6) Fixed a minor bug where some Sprayline settings were not saved correctly. 7) Fixed minor problem that could an error when the inlet pressure of tapes was negative. 8) Fixed a bug where no LTO would be selected when no Tees were enabled in the database. 9) Incorporated a new version of the report writing/viewing engine. Only minor cosmetic changes including enabling the mouse wheel in the report viewer. 10) Fixed a long standing bug where after cutting using "Cut Lasso" sometimes not all pipes/tapes/spraylines within the lasso were selected for changing or deleting. 11) Made changes to the "Convert to Elevations" tool so that only items on visible layers are considered when attempting to join lines to create contours. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 8.71 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Fixed a problem that occurs under Windows Vista where the "Printer" button is hidden in the "Plot Layout Dialog". 2) Stopped unnecessary "Do you want to save" warnings when exiting from a clean design. 3) Fixed a crash when labeling blocks, with no laterals, using the "ValvePress" keyword. 4) Fixed a crash that would occur when Importing an image (with relative path selected) after an auto backup ran. 5) Fixed a problem introduced in 8.13 where items used to make a symbol had their layer changed to 0. 6) Fixed a bug when adding more than one sub-block together in the subdivision tool. 7) Fixed a problem that would cause the block flow in a label to be displayed as "Nominal" for the last zone analysed. 8) Fixed a minor bug where Mainline outlets that weren't running were displayed in some Mainline Design reports. 9) Added panning via the mouse wheel button (by clicking and dragging the mouse wheel). 10) Fixed a problem that could cause LP design to fail when rerunning the design. 11) Increased the maximum number of areas that can be enclosed by another to 1000. This could cause an IDE_MAN_359 warning to be displayed in reports. 12) Fixed a problem that occasionally would cause a crash when creating Blocks from curves. 13) Changes to remove unnecessary points from polygons/Curves before creating Blocks. This fixes a crash in reports that could occur occasionally. 14) Fixed a problem where areas weren't displayed for some blocks in reports. 15) Increased the maximum number of Irrigation Areas to 1001. 16) Fixed a bug where an IDE_DES_400 (difficulty opening design file) warning could be generated when running zone design after labeling blocks. 17) Allow Irrigation areas to be labeled using the Irrigation block label settings. 18) Changes to better allow for multiple enclosed areas. Irricad now uses a new method to determine if areas are overlapping that allows for a very small amount of overlap. This helps overcome IDE_MAN_358 (overlapping areas) warnings when running reports. 19) Fixed a problem where Mainline LP design would fail in some circumstances. 20) Changes made to improve Zone LP design when the number of submain sizes is restricted. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 8.70 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Improved combining pipe labels - previously there were some circumstances where pipes weren't combined when they should have been. 2) Added "Check Label Length" and "Label Length Allowance" fields to the Label settings tab. These values were previously only available by editing the registry. They are now saved for each design. 3) Fixed a bug that could cause a crash/hang when creating labels (containing the ValvePress or Shift keywords) for Irrigation Blocks when management or design hadn't been completed. 4) Changed the error value displayed for some Label keywords to "NA" (previously would be a -ve number). 5) Changes so that the nominal flow is displayed for the ACTFLOW keyword if design is incomplete. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 8.68 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Fixed a problem in Graphical Management with multiple Water supplies where the assignments for the water supplies WS were mixed up with those for zones. 2) Added a method to "simplify" contours by reducing the number of line segments. This method is used both for importing contours from DXF files and the "Convert to Elevation" tool. Two new parameters to control this feature have been added in "Settings/Irrigation Items". See the release notes for more detail. "Import Contours" will now issue a warning if the number of segments exceeds the number allowed during interpolation. 3) "Import Contours" now allows for multiple entities sections and also for LWPOLYLINE DXF entities. 4) Fixed a bug in the creation of blocks with headlands/sideLands where in some circumstances the wrong value was used. 5) In "Design Parameters" changed the recommended minimum for velocity to 0.1 m/s and recommended minimum/maximum for lateral length to 1.0 and 100.0 m respectively. 6) Fixed a problem when after using the change tool on an Irrigation block the automatic area number was set back to 1. 7) Added checks so that an Auto generated name doesn't exceed 20 characters. This helps avoid duplicate zone names for subdivided blocks. 8) Added handling of the Automatic valve placement when Tape blocks are subdivided. 9) Fixed a problem where layer names that differed only by case caused duplicate layer names in layer manager. 10) Fixed a problem that occurred when an Irricad derived dxf/vcd/dwg file was imported more than once. This caused duplicate layers to be created. 11) Fixed a problem where pressure checks at the conclusion of design didn't use minimum/maximum emitter pressures for tapes. In some cases this meant that an out of range warning wasn't generated during design although these were correctly listed in the reports. 12) Added new Label keywords for Tape Blocks "ACTFLOW","SHIFT","MINEMITPRESS","MAXEMITPRESS","MEANPRESS". See the release notes for details. 13) Label Settings are now design based. This means it is now possible for each design to have a unique set of label settings. 14) All settings for the dialogs of Hydraulic tools are now saved with the Design. See the release notes for more details. 15) The subdivision tool has now been enabled for indented blocks. See the release notes for more detail. 16) The subdivision tool can now handle tape blocks with grouped laterals. See the release notes for more detail. 17) The subdivision tool has been changed to avoid duplicate laterals when slice gaps are zero. 18) The "Zone Design Configuration" option now appears before Zone Design in the Design menu. 19) The "Zone Design Summary" and "Zone CV Table" reports are now ordered by Zone name. In addition the calculation of percentage pressure and flow ranges has been changed to 100*(Max - Min)/Max rather than 100*(Max - Min)/Nominal or 100*(Max-Min)/((Max+Min)/2). 20) Similarly, zones are sorted by name in the "Mainline Summary Report" and "ML Design Pipe Report - Nodes". 21) This version upgrades the version of VisualCadd Dlls to V5.06.137. The significant changes in this version of Vcadd are:- a) Added a fix for a memory conflict bug that is occasionally reported and results in an error message of "Dll Load Error" and failure of Visual CADD to launch. b) Fixed a rare crash after some dialogs were closed. c) Fixed a problem with incorrect scaling on DWG export of Curves and Bezier. d) Fixed bugs on dimension part colors for DWG/DXF export. e) Fixed bugs on default color mapping for DWG/DXF import/export. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 8.67 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Fixed a bug where the flows calculated during design could be incorrect for pressure compensated tapes. This problem would only occur in certain circumstances on steep downhill slopes. 2) Added a separate replace check box for Water Supplies when assigning systems flows in Graphical Management. 3) When the graphical management process is initiated it now removes any existing Zone Symbols from the temporary layer. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 8.66 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Fixed a bug that caused a "Problem in internal symbol table. Please run File|Repair." warning. Designs could then become corrupted (hydraulic items would appear to be drawing items, repair would break connections etc.). This problem would only occur when a design was opened after opening another design. If Irricad was restarted or File/New selected before opening a design this would not occur. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 8.64 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Fixed a bug where "Print Selected" option in "File"/"Print" no longer worked. 2) Fixed a minor problem that could cause Irricad to apparently "hang" (was actually just slow) when updating labels with many items selected. Note that it is not necessary to have any items selected when using the "Update Labels" tool. 3) Added a new Graphical Management tool - Assign System Flows to Zones. See the release notes under the Help menu. 4) Added Auto Valve positioning in the Irrigation Block Tool. See the release notes under the Help menu. 5) Fixed a bug when using "Change Type" to change the submain of Irrigation blocks. The colour of pipes changed but the pipe type wasn't actually changed. 6) Fixed a problem where a 187 error would be generated in Zone Design after an Automatic submain in an Irrigation Block was changed (via change/change type on the block). Computer sized pipe now gets the correct colour (not cyan) in this case also. 7) Fixed a bug where importing a DXF/DWG/VCD file into an empty but saved design caused Irricad to "Hang". ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 8.61 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Fixed a problem in mainline reports where the Zone velocity limit was being used instead of the mainline one. 2) Improved the way outlet symbols are exported to Autocad files so that the display of these symbols is controlled by the correct layer. 3) Changes made so that outlet flow variation can now be displayed. Added a revised Zone Design Summary report that includes the flow variation. 4) Fixed a bug where the row option for slices didn't work correctly with the multiple option. 5) Tidy up warning messages when starting the Subdivision dialog when values are out of range. 6) Implement Irrigation blocks for all Irrigation Area functions arc orientation, water requirements etc. 7) Added ZoneArea field to Zone Design reports. Note this only allows for zones being in one area at the moment and will only be populated when a zone is inside an Irrigation Area or Irrigation Block. 8) Added Control Valve Table report. 9) Made changes so that the location of the minimum and maximum emitter in a Zone can be displayed in Zone reports. The coordinates of these are in ZoneItem->X1,Y1 and ZoneItem->X2,Y2 and are located in the last record outputted for each zone with a ZoneItem->Type of 32768. 10) Added a new Zone Design Summary Report (report template ZONEDESIGNSUM863.FPC) that includes the location of the min/max emitter. 11) Fixed a minor bug introduced in 7) that could cause Zone Design reports to crash when a zone wasn't inside any Irrigation area. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 8.08 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Fixed a bug where some settings weren't retained in VisualCadd when this was also installed. 2) Fixed a problem that could very occasionally cause a crash when saving designs. 3) Fixed a bug where fittings selection errors for unconnected items weren't being reported. 4) Removed numbers that appeared in the line type combo box. 5) Fixed a bug where hydraulic connections could become confused when copying items that have been labeled. 6) Added a facility so that multiple pipes can have a single Label (e.g. sub-mains). For more information please refer to the release notes under the Irricad "Help" menu. ------------------------------------------------- Bug Fixes and Additions Since 8.03 ------------------------------------------------- 1) Added UIDs to allowable reports fields. 2) Fixed bug where using the CTRL key when moving Items could cause a strange state where the CTRL key seemed to be stuck down. 3) Fixed a problem where one page reports would not display until they were scrolled in some way. 4) Added "Save as Version 7" option. 5) Fixed a bug where nominal pressure wasn't in the correct units in Zone Summary reports. 6) Make changes so that error 482 only appears once. 7) Set all layers editable and snappable after loading a design. 8) Fixed a problem that occurred when the horiz/vert corrections in the Vcadd.ini aren't 1. 9) Fixed a bug when floating Toolbars were visible. An extra click was required before rubber banding etc. worked. 10) Change default label keywords for control valves, junctions, contours and spot heights. 11) Unit Settings now saved when the dialog is exited. We need to do this in case the Database editor is opened. 12) Fixed a crash that could occur when saving plot templates as designs. 13) Fixed a bug in the old Job Report where the ClientName was being overwritten by the 2nd Job Address line. 14) Fixed a problem that could cause intermittent crashes when displaying reports with more than 80 characters of design notes. 15) Make sure all Layers are marked as printable. 16) Changing the paper size in "File/Reports Print Setup" changes the paper size when reports are viewed and/or printed. 17) All fields on the "Design Details/Miscellaneous" tab are available now in the report editor. 18) The Client "Home Phone" and "Code" are available now in the report editor. 19) Add check in CheckCadEntities to make sure All items are in valid layers. 20) Fix problem in CheckCADEntities when checking for bad layer. For some reason calling GetProperties() causes GetEntity to stop when the layer is bad. Use new Get/SetLayer functions instead. 2. Installation ------------------- Insert CD-ROM in drive, and through the Windows File Explorer, run the install program "setup.exe" by double clicking it. (It is suggested that all other applications should be closed down before installing). Simply follow the instructions provided by the install program. It is necessary to have parallel hardware keys (dongles) connected during the installation. If you wish to install a Network version of Irricad please contact your technical support. This version of IRRICAD requires a SuperPro type dongle that is enabled for version 9. If you do not have a SuperPro dongle or it has not been enabled for version 9 do not continue with an upgrade installation. Note that Administrator privilege is required to install Irricad. When installing under Windows Vista/7 "User Account Control" prompts may appear, you should select "Allow" to continue the installation. Under certain conditions, when running Irricad for the first time, it is possible for a "Dll Load Error, A required Dll VCBase32...." followed by a "Cad 5" error to occur. In this situation simply rerun Irricad and the problem will not occur again. Irricad can be uninstalled by Add/Remove programs in "Control Panel". 3. Suggested Minimum Computer Requirements --------------------------------------------------------------------- Pentium class computer, minimum 256Mb Ram and 100Mb free hard disk space, 15 or 17 inch colour screen, monitor and video card capable of at least 800x600 recommended, CD-ROM drive or 1.44Mb floppy drive, 2 or 3 button serial Mouse Systems or Microsoft compatible mouse. The system should run Windows 98, Windows 2000, XP or Windows Vista. Note that Irricad 9 needs the current screen resolution to be at least 800x600. It will run at 640x480 but many of the dialogs will be obscured. The resolution can be changed in " Start "/" Settings "/" Control Panel "/" Display "/" Settings ". 4. Additions to the Manual -------------------------- Direct Plot --------------- IRRICAD contains both a Print and Plot command. The print command utilizes the standard Windows drivers for output to the device. The plot command is an internal routine allowing more control over vector output devices by bypassing the Windows drivers. Each of these commands maintain separate default settings for the print output such as scale, orientation and page size. The 'Direct Plot' option should not be used unless the following situations are evident: 1. You do not have a Windows driver for your plotter/printer. 2. You have a Windows driver for an HPGL plotter but it does not work very well. If a Plot Layout is required select Draw/Plot Layout before File/Direct Plot. Select a Windows printer driver in the Plot Layout dialog which will support the paper size you wish to print. Other -------- Other changes to the manual are now contained in the "Release Notes" section of the "Help" menu in Irricad. 5. Known Problems/Notes ------------------------------------ 1) An extra outlet can be created on very short laterals (last one of a triangular block) even though they are turned off. This is by design so we don't get a short sprayline with no outlets. 2) When using Draw/Symbol to place symbol on screen, symbol may not be placed exactly under the window drawn. This is caused by using a VisualCadd symbol whose insertion point is not the centre. 3) Its not possible to use "Change" on dimension, and leaders. 4) In Draw/Plot Layout the setting for template text with options truncate, word wrap or neither (default = word wrap), have no effect on the template text that is generated. 5) The riser selection rule window does not re-size. When you set a depth to user selected you need to scroll back to the left to see the first column. 6) There is a bug in Zone LP design. What happens is the valve pressure gets set to zero and you will get messages about negative pressures and so on. It only occurs very occasionally when there is a big difference in pipe sizes a known situation is when the two lowest enabled zone pipes are 4.0 poly and 40 mm PVC class 9. This is very unlikely to occur but the solution is to make sure that there are not large gaps in the range of enabled pipes, or set the valve pressure. 7) If a pipe type, which is in use in the database, is deleted from the pipe fitting matching table it is still available for selection in the database. When the matching table is again accessed in IRRICAD the pipe type you removed will appear back in the list. This is because the database editor adds an item to the pipe type matching table if it detects an unknown pipe type. 8) In some circumstances when LP design is unable to find a solution an "OOP 7 warning" is generated. This is caused by an internal problem when the LP warning message is constructed. One of the pair of coordinates on the following message will be (0.0,0.0) but there is no other effect, the warning is correct. 9) There is a minor problem when using "Digitizer"/"Reference" if "No" (or Cancel) is selected when the scales differ. IRRICAD will then expect the second reference point to be entered, reselecting "reference" will fix this. 6. Installing the USB Dongle Version -------------------------------------------------- Note that USB dongles are not supported under Windows NT 4 and some versions of Windows 95. The driver is installed as part of the Irricad installation procedure. If you need to install the driver manually then run Sentinel Protection Installer 7.5.0.exe which will be located in the \Driver folder on the Irricad CD. Depending on the type of installation it is not necessary to install all the options (using the "custom" installation option) for the dongle driver:- a) Parallel System Driver (only required for a parallel dongle) b) USB system driver (only required for a USB dongle) c) Sentinel SuperProServer (only required on the Workstation/server that has the dongle attached, for a network installation) d) Sentinel SuperPro Monitoring Tool (not necessary - used for troubleshooting). 7. Contact Information ------------------------------- Any suggestions, criticisms and bug reports are welcome; please pass these directly on to us or to your local technical support. US and South America: Nelson Irrigation Corp. ATTN: Software Support Email: support@nelsonirrigation.com Phone: [1] 509-525-7660 Fax: [1] 509-525-7907 Australia: Netafim Australia Email: mbinder@netafim.com.au Phone: [61] 8 8267 4222 Europe: Netafim Europe Email: irricadsupport@netafim.com Phone: [972] 8 647 4747 Fax: [972] 8 647 3983 New Zealand and International AEI Software Email: support@irricad.com Phone: [64] 3-325-3718 Fax: [64] 3-325-3725 Web: www.Irricad.com