Microspot DWG Viewer Changelog

What's new in Microspot DWG Viewer 2.0

Jan 10, 2018
  • Full macOS High Sierra compatibility brings all the power and efficiency of the latest macOS.
  • Application rewritten using modern Cocoa and Swift technologies bringing more speed and efficiency.
  • Updated interface using dark HUD (heads up display) style making it much easier to navigate and work with.
  • Implemented the new Cocoa text engine for rendering and editing.
  • Access to the macOS text panel for fonts, styles etc bringing a more familiar and modern approach to text.
  • Use of the system text engine for spell checking.
  • Added a new Measure tool for measuring between two points on the drawing.
  • Zoom now controlled and displayed in percentages.
  • Manually enter your own zoom percentage.
  • Attributes palette added.
  • New Tab Bar for viewing your documents in one single window.
  • You can now change the border, fill colors, lines styles and line weights of the selected items.
  • Redesigned and restructured palettes for better interfacing.
  • Share facility for sharing files using the system share technology.
  • Editing the settings for attributes ellipses and text.
  • Load the layouts and model space from within the current document makes it faster and easier.
  • Save your annotated documents as ANN files for editing annotations later.
  • Open, view and annotate MacDraft (md60) documents.
  • Integration of the MacDraft rendering engine for faster display of files.
  • MacDraft graphics engine updated, transitioning from QuickDraw.
  • Automatic opening of DWG files means you no longer have to know the settings you need (you can still define the scale and units if you want to).
  • Single key shortcuts for selecting the tools.
  • Updated UI icons.
  • Centered Drawing area makes a cleaner document environment and a smoother working area.
  • New and improved scaled rulers.
  • Improved support for AutoCAD DWG files.
  • Supports full screen display.
  • Supports AutoSave.
  • Supports Retina Displays.
  • Fixed various legacy bugs and file related issues.

New in Microspot DWG Viewer 1.7.6 (Jun 18, 2014)

  • Improvements:
  • Support for AutoCAD AC 1027 (2013/2014) file format.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed several Mac OSX specific issues.

New in Microspot DWG Viewer 1.7.5 (Feb 6, 2013)

  • New Additions:
  • GateKeeper incorporated to allow running of the app under Mac OSX 10.8 or later.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a bug where pasting annotations containing ovals to document at different scale did not paste correctly.
  • Fixed a bug where duplicated annotations/ovals did not move on the same grid as the original annotations/ovals when zoomed in.

New in Microspot DWG Viewer 1.7.4 (May 31, 2012)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Suppressed an unnecessary dialog appearing when opening read-only dwg files. Improved compatibility with reading of dwg files. Minor bug fixes with specific dwg files. Fixed Mac OSX Lion specific issues.

New in Microspot DWG Viewer 1.7.3 (Feb 16, 2012)

  • Improved compatibility with the reading of DWG files.
  • Minor bug fixes.
  • Updated documentation.

New in Microspot DWG Viewer 1.7.1 (Oct 25, 2011)

  • Allows multiple opens of the same dwg file.
  • ʻSave to PDF with annotationsʼ renamed
  • ʻExport to PDF with annotationsʼ
  • Fixed an issue which caused DWG Viewer to crash when using the Text tool.
  • Fixed an issue which caused Tool palettes not to show after hide/show of DWG Viewer. Fixed an issue which caused Registration Information not to show via the help menu. Fixed a bug where selection was not visible when doing select all for edited text.
  • Fixed a bug where any portion of the oval object that was off the document not to show when object moved fully into the document.
  • Fixed several file specific crash issues Fixed several Mac OSX Lion specific issues.