What's new

September, 2021: CAD VCL Multiplatform 15.0

•Support for FireMonkey.

•Support for Embarcadero® RAD Studio 11 Alexandria.

•Replacement of Open Cascade Technology by our own 3D kernel:

oimproved reading of SAT, SLDPRT, X_T, X_B, OBJ, STL formats;

oadded support for FSAT, SAB, SMT, IPT formats;

oadded export to SAT format;

oimproved export of STEP, DWG, DXF formats.

•Improved import of DWG and DXF formats:

oimproved support for МTexts and Texts;

oimproved support for Hatches;

oimproved display of SHX fonts;

oimproved support for ACIS objects;

oimproved support for Dimensions and Multileaders;

oimproved reading of VPort and drawing extents.

•Improved export of DWG and DXF formats:

oadded saving of ACIS objects;

oimproved saving of VPort.

•Improved display of vector formats (DWF, HPGL, CGM, SVG).

•Improved export of SVG format:

oimproved export of texts and hatches.

•Improved G-code generation from DWG and DXF files.

•Bug fixes.

 

June, 2020: CAD VCL 14.1.1

•Support of Embarcadero® RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney.

 

January, 2020: CAD VCL 14.1

• Support of Parasolid formats (*.x_t, *.x_b) and SolidWorks formats (*.sldprt);

• Improved import of DWG and DXF files;

• Improved import of DWF, CGM, SVG, HPGL files;

• High-quality automatic regeneration of objects;

• Improved G-code generation from DWG and DXF files;

• Bug fixes.

 

December, 2018: CAD VCL 14.0.5

•Support of Embarcadero® RAD Studio 10.3 Rio.

 

September, 2018: CAD VCL 14.0

•Improved import and export of DWG and DXF files:

oadded support of annotative objects;

oadded reading of hyperlinks for entities;

oimproved Insert support;

oimproved Clipping support;

oimproved Texts and MTexts support;

oimproved display of SHX fonts;

ospeeded up loading of DXF files;

oadded export to AutoCAD DWG 2010;

•Improved display of 3D files:

oadded a new mode of surface display: Hidden lines;

oadded display of 3D model edges;

oimproved reading of SAT files;

oimproved reading of OBJ files;

oimproved reading of STL files.

•Improved export of HPGL files:

oadded saving of lineweights.

•Improved export of SVG files:

oadded saving of texts.

•Improved export of PDF files:

oadded saving of fonts;

oadded option for saving to raster PDF files;

•Other improvements:

oadded option for automatic regeneration;

oimproved import of DWF, HPGL, CGM and SVG files;

oimproved G-code generation from DWG and DXF files.

•Bugs fixes.

 

May, 2017: CAD VCL 12.0

•Support of Embarcadero® RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo

•Import of AutoCAD® DWG 2018

•Export via Windows Metafile improved

•Export to G-code added

 

June, 2016: CAD VCL 11.2

•Support of Embarcadero® RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin

 

December, 2015: CAD VCL 11.0

•Support of Embarcadero® RAD Studio XE8, RAD Studio 10 Seattle

•Export to DWG 2004

•Reading of IGES formats improved

•Support of Big SHX Fonts (for Asian characters)

•Import and export of the XClipFrame variable into DWG and DXF added

•Export of the SPATIAL_FILTER object added

•Controlled and Preset properties added for the TsgDXFAttdef entity

•The image fragment obtained from DWG and DXF files while converting to metafile has become more precise

•Multiline text (Mtext) import improved

•Color import in DWF improved

•Checking whether the Ray and XLine entities are included into the box

•Creation of the hyperlink for the Text and Attrib entities

•DWG and DXF import and export improved

•Reading of DWG/DXF 3D surfaces.

•Third-party applications EED of the imported drawing is retained

 

June, 2014: CAD VCL 10.0

•Embarcadero® RAD Studio XE6 support

•Drawings visualization speed is increased (up to 10 times on big files)

•AutoCAD DWG/DXF loading speed is increased considerably

 

October, 2013: CAD VCL

•The components CAD Import VCL and CAD Export VCL are combined into one complete library that is called CAD VCL. At the same time each component can be also used separately.

•Delphi XE4, XE5 support

•The CADExport demo application is renamed to the Add Entities Demo

•The Getting Started demo application with READY TO USE code examples is added

•CAD Import VCL and CAD Export VCL modules table is added

 

 

CAD Import VCL component:

July, 2013: CAD Import VCL 9.1

New features:

•Support of 3D formats: STEP, IGES, STL, ASIS SAT and BREP;

•Tsg3DDrawingNavigator component for displaying 3D files;

•Processing of splitted line types is improved.

 

November, 2012: CAD Import VCL 9.0

New features:

•Import of AutoCAD® DWG™ 2013 file format;

•Embarcadero® Delphi® XE3 support.

 

June, 2012: CAD Import VCL 8.1

New features:

•64-bit platforms support;

•Embarcadero® Delphi® XE2 support;

•Import of AutoCAD® 2012 DWG™ and DXF™ files.

 

January, 2011: CAD Import VCL 8.0

New features:

•CGM format support improved greatly;

•Support of AutoCAD® 2011 files added.

 

January, 2010: CAD Import VCL 7.2.5

New features:

•Import of DWG 2010 files;

•Snap by normal;

•SVG import principle is thoroughly improved and revised;

•Import of a big number of DIMENSION and DIMENSIONSTYLE properties is added;

•Displaying of arbitrary degree splines is added.

 

August, 2009: CAD Import VCL 7.2

New features:

•Import of DWF files.

•Import of DXF binary files.

•Every loaded entity has its own unique Handle.

•Complex line types.

•Image cutting in DWG/DXF files.

•Support of the INSERT with the specified number of the columns.

•Optimized by memory usage: CIRCLE, ARC, ELLIPSE, SPLINE.

•AutoCAD™ WIPEOUT entity is supported.

•AutoCAD™ MLINE entity is supported.

•AutoCAD™ HELIX entity is supported.

•AutoCAD™ TOLERANCE entity is supported.

•AutoCAD™ TRACE entity is supported.

•AutoCAD™ SHAPE entity is supported.

•Better displaying of the MTEXT, LEADER, ACAD_PROXY_ENTITY, SPLINE, LWPOLYLINE entities.

•Displaying of the ACAD_TABLE entity for DWG files.

•Better displaying of DWG, HPGL-2, PCL files.

•Older DWG files are supported (down to version "AC1002").

Bugs fixed:

•Incorrect XRef cyclic reference.

 

February, 2007: CAD Import VCL 6.1

New features:

 

May, 2006: CAD Import VCL 5.2.5

New features:

New classes are added:

 

 

CAD Export VCL component:

July, 2013: CAD Export VCL 9.1

New features:

•Export to AutoCAD® DWG™ file format;

•Export of MLINE entities is added.

 

November, 2012: CAD Export VCL 9.0

New features:

•Embarcadero® Delphi® XE3 support.

 

June, 2012: CAD Export VCL v.8.1

New features:

•64-bit platforms support;

•Embarcadero® Delphi® XE2 support.

 

January 2011: CAD Export VCL v.8.0

•Bugs fixed.

 

January 2010: CAD Export VCL v.7.2.5

•Export to PDF extended options are added.

 

September 2009: CAD Export VCL v.7.2

•New direct export conception: creation of TsgCADImage object, its entities and export using one of TsgCADtoXXX classes (where XXX is output format). Direct export based on methods of TsgDXFExport class is obsolete, but accessible still.

•Every exported entity has its own unique Handle.

•New functional is added: export to binary DXF, CGM, HPGL/2, PDF, SVG, SWF file formats.

•Export to DXF three-time faster.

•PDF file received by export have size reduced approximately tenfold.

 

March, 2007: DXF Export VCL v.6.1

 

June, 2006

The work with combinations of GDI "coordinate's transformation" functions: SetMapMode,  SetViewportOrgEx, SetWindowExtEx, SetViewportExtEx, SetWorldTransform has been improved.

 

May 2006: DXF Export VCL v.5.2.5

New!!! Point type TexpPoint serves for better precision.

New function added:

The following properties and procedures have been added to TsgDXFExport class:

 

July, 2005

DXF Export VCL 5 has many bug fixed, especially with metafile REGION processing. There are new possibilities to add DIMENSIONS: