DATE 

SINCE 

ROUTINE 

DESCRIPTION OF CHANGE

02/26/2001

981230

AREA COMPUTATIONS

Fixed a bug that occurred if the first point in a traverse was assigned using EA (Enter & Assign) but ST (Start At) was never used to set the original occupied point. Under this circumstance, the accumulated area was incorrect, usually stated as a much larger area.

02/26/2001

981230

INSTALLATION

Revised the installation for stand-alone CD's and diskettes to contain the Contour It copy protection and demo tracking.

02/01/2001

981230

EXPORT TO SC2001

Added an option to the File\Export menu to transfer jobs (both coordinates and drawing) to the new Simplicity CAD 2001 program.

981230

STADIA REDUCTIONS

Modified the data entry screen to prompt for the Top Hair & Bottom Hair readings in the Traverse, Side Shot, Enter Diagonal, and in the Traverse Close routines. Also changed the order of the prompts.

12/12/2000

981230

INSTALLATION

Added a shortcut icon in the Simplicity Systems program group that points to the manuals on the Surveying Series (Survey Pac) CD-Rom.

PRINT COORDINATES

Changed the error message so it contains the actual error number and description.

TANGENT ARC ROUTINES

Computing a tangent arc immediately after another arc now works correctly.

11/03/2000

981230

ALL SAVE ROUTINES

Save routines have an added check to cancel any in-process drawing command before saving the file. Previously, if it was in the middle of a routine that had put the drawing into Cartesian coordinates, the drawing would get shifted off its coordinate base when the drawing was saved.

981230

COMPONENT TABLE

It now properly scales the components before placing them in the table.

981230

CONTOUR IT

Implemented Demo protection for Contour It so a Contour It demo can be distributed on CD. To upgrade Contour It from a demo to full-working, right-click on the Contour It button in the top toolbar or use routine code "CU" (Contour Upgrade). When Contour It is a demo, the contour map and volume files WILL NOT be imported into "Sight" Survey.

981230

CONTOUR IT BUTTON

Routine now cancels any in-process drawing command. Previously, if it was in the middle of a routine that had put the drawing into Cartesian coordinates, the drawing would get shifted off its coordinate base when the Contour It routine was run.

981230

COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION

Fixed a bug where only the base point(s) would get transformed if the Export Coordinates routine had been used prior to running the CT routine.

981230

CUSTOM ASCII IMPORT

Null Value field now accepts a negative value.

981230

IMPORT CUSTOM ASCII

Added an option for special processing of a space delimited file. If the file doesn't come in properly, enable the check box that says "Use Special Processing" and try to import the file again.

981230

INSCRIBE ARC ROUTINES

If a traverse contains an inscribed arc, upon using Traverse Close it will now properly prompt that the traverse cannot be balanced. Making this change also fixed the problem of the area being overstated on some traverses when the Traverse Close routine was used after the Inscribe Are routine.

981230

NO POINTS IN FILE MESSAGE

Fixed a lost focus error that occurred whenever a "No points in file" message popped up.

981230

PAN TOOLBAR BUTTON

Routine has been fixed so that it can be used in the middle of another drawing function. Previously it terminated the drawing function that was in process. Also, the program no longer locks up when using short PAN while drawing polylines.

981230

PLACE COORDINATE LIST ON DRAWING

Fixed a bug where only the header line of the coordinate list would get placed in the drawing if the Export Coordinates routine had been used prior to placing the Supplemental Coordinate List on the drawing.

981230

POLYLINES

Program no longer locks up when using short PAN while drawing polylines.

981230

PRINT COORDINATES

A Blank Point Scan will be sent to the printer after the coordinates print IF the setting "BPScanToPtr=1" is added to the COGO.INI file.

981230

RECENTER PAPER

Added a warning message that using UNDO (OO) after a Re-center Paper command can shift the drawing. Message will appear anytime CE or the toolbar button is used. Will not appear when selecting from the [Start] menu. To avoid having the message appear, insert the setting "NoRecenterWarning=1" into COGO.INI file.

981230

TRAVERSE RIGHT OF WAY

No longer places bogus offsets for points that are in a straight line.

981230

TRIMMING CUSTOM SYMBOLS

Reduced the trimming radius on custom symbols so the gap between symbol and lines wouldn't be so big when customer uses smaller symbols. It used to use the same distance as the large circular symbols, now it uses the same distance as the small circular symbols.

05/04/2000

981230

CAD WINDOW

The program will now "beep" when a disabled command is selected while in the middle of a drawing command. Also, any in-process drawing command will now be cancelled if the user clicks on the CAD [Start] button, File Save button (on the top toolbar), or if the user selects the Save or Save As commands from the File pull down menu. (Prevents a drawing file from accidentally being saved in Cartesian coordinates.)

981230

GENERAL

Fixed several "lost focus" errors which caused the user to have to click on the Traverse Entry window before keystrokes would be accepted. The problem occurred after double-click editing of text and when shelling to other programs such as Contour, LegalEase and Collector Connector. It also occurred when clicking to the right of the last icon on the top toolbar.

981230

INSCRIBE ARC ROUTINES

Enhanced the routines to work with obtuse curve data. If curve data indicates an obtuse curve, the text output and drawing data will also reflect it.

981230

INSTALLATION

Symbol files were added with same symbols but different colors and line weights. Files are named SymDkbg.drg, SymDkbgT.drg, SymLtbg.drg, SymLtbgT and SymOrig.drg.

981230

OAKWOODS EXAMPLE

Improved look and layering of sample drawing.

981230

PERPENDICULAR OFFSET

Made a change to the tolerance to avoid a rare "No Solution" possibility that occurred if a point was near .001 units away from the line.

981230

POLYLINES 

When drawing polylines, the [Cancel] button is now inactive and you must press <Esc> to cancel the routine. This was necessary to avoid a problem in the CADControl when interrupting the Draw Polyline routine.

981230

REGISTRATION FORM 

Changed "Floppy Disk Size" heading to "Disk Size" and removed reference to "inches" for CD-Rom installs.

981230

SIDE SHOTS 

If the Slope Prompt gets shut off, future Side Shots will have a zero elevation instead of the elevation of the previous side shot.

981230

STARTUP DRAWING 

Improved the Startup.Drg file by removing the ruler, removing unused layers, setting units. Only gets copied to hard drive if no changes have been made to the original Startup.Drg file on your PC.

981230

TEXT OUTPUT WINDOW 

For new installations, the Icon Toolbar and the Ruler in the Text Output Window will now default to OFF. If you want these ON, you must right-click in the Text Output Window use the toggles on the Properties menu. This setting is saved in the config file.

981230

TRAVERSE ADJUSTMENT 

Fixed a problem with the backsight bearing when rerunning a traverse where the backsight had been entered using the "EB" routine. (This problem did not occur if the backsight had been entered using the "EP" routine, or if the user had inversed from the backsight point to the STart At point.)

Added a "Raw Data Saved" message to the Text Output for an improved audit trail.

The Least Squares button is now grayed & unavailable (like the other adjustment buttons) after an adjustment routine has been run.

03/16/2000

981230

INSTALLATION 

Modified for distribution & installation via
CD-Rom.

02/07/2000 

981230 

CONTOUR IT 

Due to popular request, when bringing back a second contour map from Contour It onto a drawing, the first contour map will now be deleted. Any entities on the following layers are deleted: Triangles, Contours, ContLabels, Breaklines, and Border. If you do not want existing contour maps deleted when bringing back a second contour map, you must edit the COGO.INI file to contain the following entry: DELCONTOURLAYERS=0

981230 

LINE WIDTH 

Now allows a Line Width of 0 (zero) for improved compatibility with AutoCAD.

981230 

SAVE DRAWING AS

Improved AutoCAD DXF transfer in the "Save Drawing As" routine and added an option to add COGO point elevations to the DXF file. For increased AutoCAD compatibility, we recommend transferring files using the DXF format instead of DWG. The default extension has been changed from DRG to DXF. The routine is no longer available on the from the File menu on the Drawing Window Start button, it must be accessed using the "XF" routine code.

01/18/2000

981230 

SERIAL NUMBER 

Changed the Serial Number format to include the full 4-digit year. The format is now YYYYMMDD-Version-HHMM. Required slight changes to the System Info screen, Text Output header and Registration Form to accommodate the larger field.

991214 

ALL TRAVERSE - TYPE ROUTINES, COPY BLOCK, RENUMBER POINTS,
MERGE COORDINATES

Fixed the Point Overwrite prompt so it pops up when it should if an existing point is about to be overwritten. The problem only occurred in serial number release 991214.

991214 

INSCRIBE ARC 

Fixed the Curve Direction prompt so it pops ROUTINES up when it should. The problem only occurred in serial number release 991214.

991214 

INTERSECTION

Fixed the "Which Point?" prompt so it pops up ROUTINES when it should on the intersection routines that have two possible solutions: AA/AB/AD/BA/BD/DA/DB/DD. The problem only occurred in serial number release 991214.

991214 

TRAVERSE ARC 

Fixed the pop-up prompt that appears when the Center Point does not have coordinates assigned so that it pops up when it should. The problem only occurred in serial number release 991214.

12/14/99

981230 

COGO CONFIGURATION

The "Restore All Defaults" command can now only be used when a job has no points. Also fixed a cosmetic problem that caused the four last-used filenames to be doubled-up at the bottom of the file menu after using this command. The Text Output window formatting toolbar and pop-up menu are now available after using this command.

981230 

DIST-DIST INTERSECT 

Fixed the button captions to correctly show that pressing <0> is for CCW and <1> is for CW and <2> is for Cancel.

981230 

EDM (MINING OPTION) 

Fixed a bug in the elevation calculation when using the EDM - Mining Option Slope Type. Prior to this fix, the instrument height had to be entered as a negative value for the routine to calculate correctly.

981230 

EXPORT COORDINATES 

Fixed Surveyor II format: Was not exporting the point descriptions. Will no longer export the automatic created backsight points unless the file being exported to is a Sight Survey file.

981230 

EXPORT TO SC2000 

Added an option to the File\Export menu to transfer jobs (both coordinates and drawing) to the new Simplicity CAD 2000 program.

981230 

IMPORT COORDINATES 

Traverse PC format: Fixed importing coordinates, wouldn't import a file if it contained point numbers under 10.

981230 

INTERSECTION 

Fixed the button captions to correctly show ROUTINES that pressing <0> is for the <A> point; pressing <1> is for <B> point; and pressing <2> is for Cancel.

981230 

SYSTEM INFORMATION 

Added a command to the System Information screen to prepare a system report which contains system and file information for use in troubleshooting.

10/05/99 

970902 

EXPORT COORDINATES 

Fixed a bug when exporting ALL points to a Sight Survey file type that caused the created file to be empty.

09/30/99

981230 

COORD.

Fixed the endless loop error "You have left a TRANSFORMATION box blank that requires a point number" that occurred if an invalid routine code was entered at either the Base Point or 2nd Base Point prompts.

981230 

COPY BLOCK 

It now copies the station values to the new point locations.

981230 

DEFINED FIGURES 

Fixed "Error #3022 Can't have duplicate keys; index changes were unsuccessful" that occurred if the default figure name already existed. (If there were 2 figures already defined, the next default figure name is FIGURE #3, but if one of the existing figures was actually called FIGURE #3, the error occurred.) It now checks if FIGURE #3 exists, and will use the next available figure number as the default.

981230 

DT ROUTINE 

Fixed an error that occurred only when Sight Survey was started with the screen so small that at least one of the 5 drawing icons on the main toolbar was NOT displayed, and the user ran the DT routine to disable the drawing output.

981230 

EDIT COORDINATES 

Removed the leading spaces from the point number when selecting the [Use Point] button. 

981230 

POINT PLOT 

No longer plots the automatically created backsight points to the CAD screen.

981230 

PRINT COORDINATES 

Adjusted the report format so that when the Northings are too large to fit in the allotted space, the descriptions & stations will be moved over so that the Northings always fit.

981230 

RENUMBER POINTS 

It now copies the stations along with the renumbered points. It also now allows you to renumber just one point if you want. (It used to force you to renumber at least two points.)

981230 

TOP TOOLBAR 

Fixed an error that occurred only when Sight Survey was started with the screen so small that at least one of the 5 drawing icons on the main toolbar were NOT displayed, and the user double-clicked on one of the drawing icons that WAS displayed. If the screen is too narrow to hold all the toolbar icons when the program is loaded, the missing icons will now be displayed if the screen size is increased or if the screen is maximized.

981230 

WRITE LEGAL FILE 

Fixed an error that occurred only when Sight Survey was started with the screen so small that at least one of the 5 drawing icons on the main toolbar was NOT displayed, and the user ran the LF routine to write a legal file.

09/08/99 

981230 

COORD. 

Fixed the error "popup menu must have at least TRANSFORMATION one submenu" that occurred when pressing <Esc> from any of the data entry fields. It It will now correctly redisplay the menu.

981230 

CURVE TABLES 

Modified the routine so it uses the CAD Bearing Precision and CAD Distance Precision instead of the Text Output Precisions. Fixed the routine so that the round to "nearest degree" and "nearest minute" options work for the delta angle.

981230 

DRAWING PLOT 

Whenever the plot routines are used, the CAD Window will now become the active window, and will also be restored if it had been minimized, so that the prompts for the [Yes/No] questions can be seen by the user.

981230 

EXPORT COORDINATES 

Exporting to Lewis & Lewis, DCA & MTI 3000 was putting IEEE numbers in the elevation field. This had been fixed in V2 but not in V3.

981230 

LABEL AN ARC (AL)

Fixed the routine so that the round to "nearest degree" and "nearest minute" options.

981230 

OPEN JOB 

Upon opening an existing job, if the previous job had curves in it, the traverse adjustment routine would not run because it thought the new traverse also had curves in it. Caused by a variable not getting reset to false.

981230 

PROPERTIES WINDOW 

Fixed an endless-loop bug that occurred if "ZW" was the last routine code issued and <Esc> was pressed while the [Properties] Button on the CAD Window had the focus. The Properties Windows would open & close, and open & close, endlessly. Fixed an endless-loop bug that occurred if "PR" was the last routine code issued and the <Spacebar> was pressed while the [Properties] Button on the CAD  Window had the focus. The Properties Windows would open & close, and open & close, endlessly.

981230 

TRAVERSE ADJUSTMENT 

When beginning a new traverse, the STart routine was not automatically issued so the program treated the traverse as an open traverse, prompted for the foresight point, and wouldn't completely get rid of the angular error. Fixed by forcing the Enter & Assign and Traverse routines to automatically issue the STart routine if it's the first point in the file that is being assigned.

981230 

TRAVERSE RIGHT-OF-WAY 

Fixed a cosmetic problem with the captions at the top of the screen. (It was missing the caption for the "Backsight Point" so the other captions were off by one.)

06/01/99 

981230 

PRINT PREVIEW 

Corrected a problem with the wrong File menu item getting checked & unchecked on the menu during Print Preview. 

981230 

UNDERLINE

Fixed the problems with the underline and STRIKETHROUGH strikethrough text styles.

05/28/99

981230 

PROPERTIES WINDOW 

Fixed a bug where the new Properties Window was not getting properly updated to reflect some of the CAD settings.

02/24/99 

981230 

CLEAR COORDINATES 

It now deletes the stations along with the coordinates.

981230 

CLEAR STATIONS 

It now turns on stationing if they are off when this routine is run. Previously, if stationing was off, the stations were not cleared.

981230 

SPIRAL CURVES 

Added Spiral Curves as routine code SP to compute coordinates from a spiral curve solution.

02/19/99

981230 

CAD WINDOW TOOLBAR 

Disabled the text warning message.

01/02/99 

981230 

CAD WINDOW TOOLBAR 

Fixed the Dimensions button by adding the DIMS.MAC file.