File: Readme.txt, Notes for Irricad Pro V9.50 Date: Friday 12th June 2009. 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 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) Fitting 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 canceling 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 the could occur when using keyboard entry in copy tools. 12) Fixed various problems that could occur when some temporary files were readonly. 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 it's 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 the 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 vicer 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 it's 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 a 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 a 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 AdditionsSince 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. USB dongles MUST NOT be connected during 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 under Windows NT/2000/XP Administrator privilege is required to install Irricad. When installing under Windows Vista "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's online help is Windows HTML, this requires Internet Explorer V3.02 or later. Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista already have this browser incorporated. Internet Explorer V4 can be installed from the IE4 directory on the IRRICAD CD if required. 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) Intercept field added for normal control valves. NOTE: Old DOS databases cannot convert this new field so you need to check and edit converted databases as required. 4) Irricad 7 can convert symbols from Irricad versions 6. If you wish to use a symbol from previous versions of Irricad, the symbol must first be converted to the Irricad 6 format. Symbol files are automatically converted when they are selected in Irricad 6. 5) It's not possible to use " Change " on Hatch, fill, dimension, and leaders. 6) 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. 7) 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. 8) If you create a design, save it, then subsequently delete some of the components in the design from the database. If this design is then re-opened and you cancel from the updating internal database messages ("Internal database item not found in external database ") you will get the following problem: Selecting one of these items then "Change" will incorrectly show the item as the first thing in the dropdown list. Moreover, if you then click Ok Irricad will change the item to that shown. However, Object Info does show the correct information. 9) In the Move, Copy and Rotate tools snaps are disabled. This is temporary due to a problem and will be fixed in a subsequent upgrade. 10) 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. 11) 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. 12) 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. 13) "Fills" in database symbols used for outlets don't get set to the correct colour they stay white. This will be corrected in a subsequent release - temporary solutions are: a) replace the fill by a series of lines in the symbol. b) Change the colour of the fill. In both these cases the symbol can be loaded from the SYMBOLS\DATABASE folder, an instance placed and then exploded, then the changed symbol saved. Database symbols should be contained within a 100 x100 inch square (2.54 x 2.54 m), when the symbol is placed this size should be specified. It's also best to check "use placement colour" when placing database symbols. 14) 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. 15) The IRRICAD Setup program crashes with a Windows "Failed to self register MSCOMM32.OCX". This is caused by an your operating system having an old version of OLEAUT32.DLL. Simply restart your computer and run the Irricad installation program again. 16) There is a potential problem when a V6 design is converted that contains imported (from DXF file) symbols. If any of the imported symbols have the same name as Irricad 7 database symbols, used in the design, then the corresponding database items will probably have very large symbols in the converted design. Contact your technical support for solutions. 17) When converting old Version 6 designs make sure that the database you wish to use for the conversion is selected as the default (i.e. in "Settings/Irrigation Design Specific" browse to the database and click the "Set as Default" button) before converting the design. 6. Installing the USB Dongle Version -------------------------------------------------- Note that USB dongles are not supported under Windows NT 4 and some versions of Windows 95. Also note that the USB dongle MUST be removed before installation. The driver is installed as part of the Irricad installation procedure. If you need to install the driver manually then run Sentinel Protection Installer 7.2.1.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) Sentinell SuperProServer (only required on the Workstation/server that has the dongle attached,for a network installation) d) Sentinell 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: Gvellotti@netafim.com.au Phone: [61] 8 8267 4222 Fax: [61] 8 8267 4299 New Zealand and International AEI Software Email: support@irricad.com Phone: [64] 3-325-3718 Fax: [64] 3-325-3725 Web: www.Irricad.com