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We’ve also released new improvements for Mech-Q.
Here are just a few things you will find in the new version 4.
Mech-Q is now compatible with the latest AutoCAD release plus older versions are supported too
Our AViCAD Standalone (which includes Mech-Q) is also compatible with AutoCAD
Piping 3D – Major upgrade, speed improved by 40-50%
Ducting 3D – Major upgrade, speed improved by 40-60%
Mech-Q is an engineering add-on for AutoCAD and Briscad. IntelliCAD is also supported along with our complete CAD standalone with Mech-Q we call AViCAD.
Our latest release Mech-Q version 4 contains:
Piping:
Data “List” function – significant speed upgrade
Improved loading speed
Added Threaded: #300 psi
Several minor improvements
Added new Piping 3D tools
Ducting:
Round & Flat-Oval – 16 New Shapes added
Auto-Add Cushion Heads to Diffusers
3D Dampers added
Upgrade to Ducting Layers
Allow color override according to layer prefix
Ducting BOM improved
Ducting interface function – improved
Speed improvements
Other stuff we improved:
Structural Hand railing: update Kick-Plate design
3D Fasteners improved
OSMODE and Ortho setting retained drawing to drawing. Removed point entity at the origin
Several bugs and problems fixed – all modules
We’ve also released new improvements for AViCAD.
Here are just a few things you will find in the new version.
You can now create your leaders in AViCAD with a variety of arrows, segments, and content, including text and blocks with attributes. Unlike AViCAD’s previous leader objects, MLEADER is a single object which is easy to adjust, also with GRIPS.
AViCAD now supports the latest DWG format
Added Multileader as the new annotative object
Added zero-margin printing. Available through the Printer Configuration Manager > Modify standard Paper Sizes (Printable Area)
Implemented Object properties evaluation. Lists of the properties of a selected object are available as fields.
Fixed the visualization issue that occurred when dragging objects in editing commands (e.g. Move, Copy).
Fixed the lagging issue that occurred with editing commands on large drawings (e.g. DELETE, TRIM).
Improved performance when copying a large number of objects.
Improved performance using blocks in REFEDIT/REFCLOSE.
Fixed some crashes and drawing exception errors that occurred on opening
Improved performance using drawings with Xrefs
Our latest release AViCAD version is 2024
AViCAD is a CAD alternative with everything you need built in. It’s a complete CAD standalone with Mech-Q and hundreds of other tools.
Implemented Object properties evaluation, now it’s possible to create FIELDs compatible with AutoCAD and evaluate properties
Fixed Display grips of clipped block references with XCLIPFRAME variable off
Fixed preview during drag of XREF
Fixed Block wrong move after REFEDIT
Fixed DIST command issue with rotated UCS
Implemented hatch stretch and grip edit for hatches created selecting entities
Fixed display of XREF after a cancel of the REFEDIT command
Fixed QSELECT dialog in some drawings
Fixed TRIM with SHIFT and EXTEND with ENTER
Fixed freeze selecting polylines and hatches, a new method to calculate the area of a polyline
Fixed crash trimming HATCH
Removed the “Reset” button in Customize dialog
Fixed display of entities on locked layers
Fixed select of ESNAP from SHIFT+RCLICK menu using keyboard shortcut
Fixed selection of items in the options list of dynamic input
Fixed REFEDIT > DISCARD some blocks are deleted
Fixed Text entering is under images
Fixed join of collinear segments
Fixed insert of XREF without path
Fixed undo of changes to 3D solid properties from palette
Fixed dimstyle and textstyle combo in the toolbar and property palette
Fixed crash while closing with multiple drawing
Fixed error when breaking walls on EasyArch
Fixed DIMLINEAR – “Invalid input” when trying to insert Mtext/Text after DIMLINEAR->Horizontal and DIMLINEAR->Vertical by passing the correct state parameters
Fixed exception using dynamic block grips and fixed restore of ORTHOMODE using grips
Fixed exception in REFCLOSE command makes it impossible to continue to work
Fixed lag and slowdown in creating objects, with selection window and other operations when some other process uses CPU heavily ( > 90%)
Restored FILEDIALOGS variable to control choose file dialog with every file extension
Fixed exception with REFEDIT on a block containing a dynamic block
Fixed import button in SCALELISTEDIT dialog called from the status bar
Fixed autocomplete dialog layout
Fixed drag of blocks with dragdetail > 0
Fixed drag of objects during MOVE, COPY, SCALE, etc … with great coordinates
Fixed evaluation of field “ObjectName”
Fixed crash opening drawing with fields
Fixed height of toolbar using “classic” UI on 4k monitors
Fixed size of icons in layer palette with 4k display
Fixed size of layer Icons with 4k monitor
Fixed locked layer selection in commands (MOVE, COPY, etc) after changes to TRIM on block
Fixed FILLET between XLINE
Fixed crash at close time
Fixed selection of clipped viewport with its polyline
Fixed selection of viewport in the layout
Disabled QLEader attachment options when “Underlay” is checked
Fixed trim of circle or arc with the rectangle as boundary
Fixed TRIM and EXTEND with blocks selecting with window
Fixed area of hatches with a simple island
Fixed Czech capital letters in the command line
Fixed lag after edit commands (eg: DELETE, TRIM)
Avoid crash when superhatch cannot detect intersections in boundary detection
Removed XREF dependent layer from DIMLAYER combo in dimstyle dialog and ribbon/toolbar
Filtered XREF-dependent layer in-layer combo in HATCH dialog
Removed the background white rectangle from print
Fixed area in properties and list for polyline and 2dPolyline objects
Improved performance of copying a large number of objects
Fixed a crash when inserting a door/window with no wall (using EasyArch)
Fixed selection with the PREVIOUS option
Fixed selection of source object in MATCHPROP command
Fixed HATCH area calculation using the region method
Fixed performance of DIMSTYLE dialog with many Dimension styles in quite a large drawing
Implemented selection of entities on a locked layer
Resized linetype, lineweight, and color ribbon combo box
Improved performance of REFCLOSE with refedit preview
Added symbol menu in the context menu for single-line text edit
Fixed cone radius, height, and center z into the property palette
Hidden some fields from the list in the “FIELD” dialog
Fixed crash opening drawing with clipped XREF
Fixed slow selection in drawing with clipped xref
Fixed selection of block reference with window selection mode
Fixed crash saving modify to an xref using REFEDIT
Fixed visualization of faded objects (placed on a locked layer, XREF, or during refedit), on some drawings such entities disappear
Fixed text not aligned in the middle of the QLEADER command
Fixed the MTEXT option that didn’t start the MTEXT command in the QLEADER command
Added Rename and Delete buttons in the WSSETTINGS dialog to rename and delete workspaces
Changed the default value of “Path options” in the “Modify Transmittal Setup” dialog, now by default, all files are placed in one folder and not organized in a folder structure
New video walking you through the 2D Piping part of Mech-Q