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 ==Change History== ==Change History==
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 +**Version 6.9.1.10**
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 +  * This version of TAD now exports to DXF in three ways. Two of them were available earlier too:  One was to export as simple lines, and the other exported as 3DFACES The 2nd method is useful for importing into rendering software. The third method available now is when you use the main DXF export function under the //File// menu. If you happen to use a filename that ends in //...3D.dxf// then it will export the data as extruded polylines. NOTE that it will NOT place end "caps" on the extrusions. It will also NOT place the pinned objects into the right location (Pinning is properly done only when you export as 3DFACES) Read our extensive documentation regarding [[exportdxf|DXF export here]]
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 +**Version 6.9.1.8**
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 +  * TAD 's help system no longer uses the old Internet Explorer. This is because Microsoft has discontinued it. Instead you must have Chrome (or Chrome compatible browser such as Brave or Chromium) installed on the computer. You can choose between Chrome or Brave or Chromium from the application settings. TAD usually will detect the browser location and start it in "app" mode (i.e. without address bar) so that you can have a distraction free experience when reading the help file. In some cases, TAD may not be able to locate the browser it needs to use. In that case, you can place a special text file with just one line: That contains the browser executable fullpath. The name of the file is chrome.location.txt or brave.location.txt or chromium.location.txt  Such a file must be in the same folder as the main executable of TAD
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 +**Version 6.9.1.6**
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 +  * TAD now has 2 kinds of interfaces. When you start TAD (or when there are no models active) you can go to the Help menu and switch TAD into a "Ribbon menu" mode that some may find easier. To switch back, again no models should be active. Go to the "Help" tab and switch back using a button there.  TAD installation is now very easy. It does not bother you with any authentication. But when you run TAD for the first time, it will check your Discord credentials used at our teamTAD community there. Or you can run TAD in demo mode by giving a valid email address.  
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 +**Version 6.9.0.1**
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 +    TAD now has an internal group chat which is quite powerful for people working in an office to chat with each other. Even if the users are spread across the Internet. Sending group messages can be done only from within TAD. But we are soon implementing a feature that someone in the group can read messags from outside inside a browser (cant send messages though). Useful for an architect to read ongoing chatter happening inside an office. Along with that; as before, you can also configure TAD to embed your office chat (such as Slack, etc) if it can be run inside an IE window inside TAD (Some chats may not allow this, as IE is often considered pariah).  It also has several UI fixes. The old textured background is now gone.  When you start TAD; the main background color would be as per the time slot of the day. We've divided a 24 hour into 5 slots of time //(midnight - 7 am, 7am - 12noon, 12 noon-7pm, 7pm - 10pm and  10pm to midnight)// ; and each has its own color. You can customize it by writing the hexadecimal (these starting with $  E.g Fuschia would be $FF00FF) -- write 5 lines in a file  called backcolors.txt and saving it in the same location as that of the main executable (the //bin// folder) Of course if you always want the same color; all the 5 lines would be the same in that file -- but you need to give 5 colors. Cannot skip any line.
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 +**Version 6.8.9.1**
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 +  * TAD version 6.8.9.1 released. It has a powerful "Multipage Output" capability: Create a PDF/SVG with many pages; each page containing a drawing of some part (or whole) of TAD files, in scale!  As this is a brand new feature; there could be some suggestions/issues. Let us know
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 +**Version 6.8.9.0**
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 +  * This has a major feature: The TAD Workbook. Now TAD gives you a mini-spreadsheet for you to pick up values that TAD calculates for you. You can even use the usual Excel formulae such as "=sum(...)" etc and perform calculations. The workbook can be saved separately. Note that all these advanced features of TAD uses a "token" system. You can fetch a time-limited token from https://tad.in.net/goodies We are trying to collect some funds before we go open source. Hope you will support us!
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 +**Version 6.8.8.8** 
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 +  * A small bug in the free rotation of object/s by dragging the 2nd helper around the architect is now removed. Another tiny bug on creating shapes on a grid also solved. Several UI improvements have been done. Now the splash screen goes off on its own (the first time only) in a minute. A digital clock  is available on the splash screen when you click on "Help|About" 
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 +**Version 6.8.8.6** 
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 +  * Now when you switch on the grid, if you use the mouse to create objects; the size would be based on multiples of the stepsize. A tiny bug in the last step size has been corrected now
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 +**Version 6.8.8.5** 
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 +  * Now dragging objects over onto the "architect" is more nuanced. TAD determines which of the four corners of the architects shape should the first helper snap on to! Now, by default TAD does NOT move the architect when dragging objects. If you want the older behaviour, you can go to the application settings dialog and uncheck that checkbox. Lots of small UI improvements and speed improvements
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 +**Version  6.8.8.4**
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 +  * Small UI improvements, and one major functionality improvement: Now if you drag a rectangle on an empty area of the site; a new rectangle object can be created in current class. (Earlier, it used to change the stepsize of the architect) So for creating new shapes you need not go thru the //create// menu. So now, to change architect stepsize, dragging a rectangle in an empty area of the site, with the ALT key pressed will change the architect's stepsize. 
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 +**Version  6.8.8.0**
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 +  * Lots of UI improvements. TAD now can associate a database (such as an SQlite database or even others) with the model being worked on. That will allow you to fill out properties of classes/objects in lot of finer detail. Message boxes that gets displayed in TAD is now changed. It can make use of the translation service from Bing or Google. A simple token system to activate some of the functionalities in TAD has been put in place. You can get these tokens free or as per your donation, from https://tad.in.net/goodies
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 +**Version  6.8.7.4**
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 +  * Now you can give a full calculation when setting height or level of class or object. Note that you can always mix in ft and inches into any calculation. Internally, TAD will convert everything to meters. So if you give //0.3+1'3.25"// It will use the value as  //0.68735// That means it intelligently detects 1'3.25" and converts that part into meters.  A //directory watch// feature is now available to keep a watch on the folder which is used for collaborating between others working with you on TAD. Lots of small UI/Ux improvements, and lots of improvements in the documentation too
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 +**Version  6.8.7.0**
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 +  * This is a major milestone! Now multiple designers can collaborate on the same project; even if the collaborators are across the Internet. See the documentation on collaboration here http://docs.teamtad.com/collaboration Now searching both classes as well as objects are possible. Start the commandline with the backslash; and if there is one backslash then the search is for class; if it starts with two backslashes; it is for an object. You need not specify the complete name of the class or the object -- the initial letters will do. Also, if you give an empty search (using one backslash for last class search or two backslash for last object search) then the respective previous search is repeated
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 +**Version  6.8.6.6**
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 +  * TAD' "Lock the sub-tree of the current class" feature now more refined and mature. Some subtle bugs were removed. This is in preparation for the next major version; which will see a  new kind of collaboration. 
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 +**Version  6.8.6.0**
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 +  * TAD now has a "Lock the sub-tree of the current class" feature. This is useful to focus your edit/creation only in one part of TAD file. This version has improved the "grid" feature too -- Now when you switch on the grid, if you move the "architect" using the mouse, it gets magnetically attracted to the nearest grid point. 
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 +**Version  6.8.5.7**
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 +  * A new feature introduced. Now you can search for a class by starting a command (yellow popup command line) with a backslash. TAD will search for the class by the name given after the backslash. It will try to search for an exact match -- or at least the first one that whose initial part of the name matches the search. If only backslash is given, then the last search term is again searched to the next one. The installer is now  more sophisticated. You can do practically all the registration and authentication just-in-time as the installer gets started. So the old registration form is now removed from the main website. Email is now optional, as your registration is verified using an OTP (called e-code in our case) via the Discord teamTAD community.
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 +**Version 6 .8.5.5**
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 +  * A minor change regarding the system used for translation. Now to ensure that the Google translation system is used; add :g to the language. For example; if "hi" (hindi) is the language; then type hi:g in the language field and it will open the Google translator instead of the default Bing translator. This field is available both in the "Preferences" (also known as Settings) dialog, as well as on the "Tip of the Day"dialog 
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 +**Version 6 .8.5.4**
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 +  *  Translation service thru Google implemented was changed to translation thru Bing. There were some situations, when Google will NOT do the translation and you may get a blank page. So we changed the approach for translation. Now, we have worked out a system by which you would get a translation using the //Bing Translator// If you want to go back to the earlier Google translation; then set the language with an additional parameter: If  "fr" is the language you want the translation in; you can add "fr-g" to get the translation in Google instead of Bing. But as stated earlier; Google sometimes does not provide the translation in the internal browser inside TAD.  One more tip: You can use the application Settings //(Ctrl-Enter)// and set the parameter to open the translation in the regular browser  instead of the internal embedded one. In that case, you would always get the Google and Bing translation systems. In future, we will give more options.
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 +**Version 6 .8.5.0**
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 +  *  Translation service thru Google implemented. This is quite powerful.  Curl time out (-m parameter) is now respected. A file called curltimeout.txt is created in the bin folder and if needed, the user can adjust the timeout there. By default it is 9 seconds. Cleaned up Tips quite a lot. The "Fetch"button was not working and that has been rectified. Cleaned up bitmap display. Now you can browse to other folders where sketches are kept
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 +**Version  6.8.4.0**
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 +  *  Stepsize can be changed using the stepsize control itself. That accepts ONLY numericHelp hints for architect, and 2 helpers. Scaling of objects is now available One rare, tiny bug removedImproved some of the icons -- blue/purple theme generally. Suggestions welcome
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 +**Version 6.8.3.0** 
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 +  * A powerful and yet //localhost // server is now available in this version onward. This is used to drive the tutorials. We will supply donors a zip file containing the tutorials. If the donation is $15.00 USD or more, we will give the tutorials in your language of choice (via Google Translate) TAD Designer Lite now has a powerful macro system that can drive most of the UI actions from a browser that connects to the localhost server. A //localhost// server is one that works ONLY on your computer and nowhere else. So you are sure your data will NOT go to the Internet without your knowledge
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 + **Version 6.8.2.0**
 +  * Now you can import SVG paths (with flattened curves, if present) into TAD. [[inkscape|Explained here]]  The installation process is also a lot more smoother. Next version would be even more smoother!
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 +**Version 6.8.1.2**
 +  * TAD Designer Lite now has a powerful installation system. It will check if you have a membership at our teamTAD community at Discord. Once you install, you can run the software straightaway -- as the installer has done the job of authenticating you.  Those who were using the Mattermost chat system, if they upgrade, will need to take a membership at Discord. We have more information on [[discordserver|Discord on our documentation site here]], and there are very good reasons for shifting!
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 +**Version 6.8.1.0**
 +  * TAD Designer Lite now uses the [[discordserver|excellent Discord system for the teamTAD community]]. The older Mattermost based chat system has become too large, and slow. That chat would be reaching its end of life on Oct 31, 2020 and after that our teamTAD community would only be on Discord
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 +**Version 6.8.0.6**
 +  * Tiny bug in the bug/suggestion dialog. Now it works well.
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 +**Version 6.8.0.5**
 +  * Minor tweaks in the UI. 
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 +**Version 6.8.0.2**
 +  * From version 6.8 onward, TAD now has the capability of exporting the //entire// TAD model as computer language source code and binary. This is a very powerful feature and now TAD models can be worked upon using Javascript, PHP, Python, Lua, C#, C++ and so on... See this video  https://youtu.be/I-hFu8x6RfU and see the docs here http://docs.teamtad.com/doku.php/haxe 
  
 **Version 6.7.8.4** **Version 6.7.8.4**

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