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@AICodeForgedev AICodeForgedev released this 17 Oct 23:31
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CADaddy 0.7.5: an electrical symbol library, editing multiline text in place, and a fix that kept text masks from being lost.

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New

  • Automatic updates. From this version on, CADaddy checks once a day for a newer release. When one comes out, a small card offers to update; CADaddy downloads it, checks its SHA-256 fingerprint and installs it when you close the app (or right away with Restart Now). Help ▸ Check for Updates looks now, and Options ▸ Preferences turns the daily check off. Only the request for the latest version number goes out. On Linux this works with the AppImage; the .deb shows a download link.
  • Electrical symbol library: 33 symbols drawn for CADaddy, in the Symbols palette next to plumbing.
    • Devices placed at your drawing's scale: duplex, quad, GFCI, weatherproof, dedicated and 208/240 V receptacles, floor box, single-pole, 3-way, 4-way and dimmer switches, occupancy sensor.
    • Lighting at real size: 2x4 and 2x2 troffers, downlight, wall sconce, strip light, exit sign, emergency light.
    • Power: panelboard, disconnect, transformer, junction box, motor connection, home-run arrow.
    • Low voltage and fire alarm: data, phone and TV outlets, smoke and heat detectors, horn/strobe, pull station, fire alarm control panel.
    • Devices have circuit, panel and mounting-height fields; fixtures a type tag and circuit; panels a name and voltage. Hidden trade and type fields let counts and schedules total them.
  • Edit multiline text in place: double-click a paragraph of text to edit it right in the drawing, with its formatting kept.
  • New drawings start with a viewport on Layout1 and Layout2, as in AutoCAD, so plotting a layout no longer gives a blank page.

Safer with your files

  • Saving a drawing to a file that's open in another tab is refused. Before, it overwrote that drawing's work.
  • Background masks on multiline text are kept when you open and save a drawing.
  • AUDIT no longer deletes zero-length lines (they're valid and plot as dots).

For estimating and takeoff

  • Data Extraction counts blocks inside arrays and inside other blocks, so a panel schedule built from arrayed or nested devices adds up.
  • Typed architectural distances take the dash form: 6-1/2", 5'6-1/2".
  • AREA and LIST report areas as square inches and square feet in architectural units (11520.0000 square in. (80.0000 square ft.)).

Fixes

  • These commands now prompt when typed instead of reporting a missing value: COLOR, LWEIGHT, LTSCALE, LIMITS, BASE, FIND, GETVAR, LAYISO, LAYMCUR, LAYMCH, BREAKATPOINT. ABOUT, QUIT and EXIT work.
  • PEDIT: pedit m all y j 0 joins lines into polylines, and selection words like L work at "Select polyline".
  • A keyword typed at a selection prompt wins over Last/Previous: COUNT's L is List.
  • Prompts no longer say "or or [...]".
  • EXPLODE keeps layer 0 and ByBlock objects as defined, as AutoCAD does.
  • Ortho and Polar tracking turn each other off.
  • Turning off the current layer from a palette asks first.
  • Command-line errors read as plain reasons.
  • Stacked fractions no longer touch the number before them (20'-0 ½").
  • An xref that doesn't load says why, including to AI agents.
  • The command-line tool is now named cadaddy-cli, and its log file cadaddy.log. On Linux, settings live in ~/.config/cadaddy.
  • The installers include the licence terms and third-party notices.

Check your download

SHA-256 fingerprints (Windows: Get-FileHash FILE -Algorithm SHA256; Mac: shasum -a 256 FILE; Linux: sha256sum FILE):

  • CADaddy-Linux.AppImage: 91e4645ef0596622955418f71bba9ff5fb50894af8cee03384d33677dd242144
  • CADaddy-Linux.deb: a125f1fd5fe631d94e46b2cb8608da80d2a4557090317f98f6f9ba0f6582216e
  • CADaddy-Mac.dmg: 5898e145c8d1fc5b96dc200975d8e09ff6ea5b89c4da49ac14563a231fa4dcfa
  • CADaddy-Windows.msi: 8b4a3e8ab751dc379a6d9933d22a1d8be890743f1be4ff2fab16f8ea0e9ed473
  • CADaddy.mcpb: b2738b55cc86f45c266618b1012ca1365a1b150a436aca7556b581f475fdf6c1

CADaddy is free to use, including for commercial work (terms).

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