List of advancements of Cenon CAM versions 3.8x.

• Text, Fix: editing text now works in changing scales
• Inspector (Apple): Inspector now resizable
• Help (Apple): PDF-Documentation is available via the Help Menu
• Apple: Window background is transparent now (not white like document)
• CAM-Panel (Apple): Switches are now On/Off with Switchboxes,
  Tool-Details: Adjust-Switch is now On/Off
• Apple: Saving Cenon documents as ASCII-Propertylist is active now (Preferences Switch) ...but does nothing.. maybe later? (ask Apple)
• Apple, Fix: Calculation of tracks for vertical centered Text places text at correct position
• Improvements of Punch, Join, Pickout, ...

• Apple, Fix: Calculation of tracks for vertical centered Text places text at correct position
• New: menu item "Display -> Show/Hide Coordinates" to toggle the presence of the coordinate box of document (more space)
• Inspector: Lock switch for crosshairs
• Gerber-Export: improvements with multiple layers
• DXF-Import: improvements with closed Polygons
• Contour calculation improved
• Apple, Fix: arcs with zero line width are printed with default line width
• Apple, Fix: Build Contour of vertical centered Text positions result correctly
• Apple, Fix: move graphic objects with cache, scaled (workaround)
• Apple, Fix: move vortex of graphic objects with cache, scaled (workaround)
• Apple, Fix: rotate graphic objects with cache, scaled (workaround)
• Cenon.ph: New Domain registered

• Tangential Knife: before lowering the knife without XY-Vector, the knife will be turned in the direction of the next vector (Lines so far).
• Tool-Dimaters are supported up to one meter
• Fix, Layer-Details: for Step-Wise lowering, the number of steps is limited to 99
• New: Batch printing (Multiples) added, including serial numbers
• New: Contour-Panel:
  switch, whether to replace the source graphics (or keep it)
  Panel has now it's own Unit Popup
• New: convert TextPath to Path
• New, Editing: with Control + Mouse you can drag Curve points within a path
• TransformPanel: now with a nice bar of Icons to look better
• Undo: number of undos increased to 25 instead of 10
• DIN-Import: for Excellon, the tools can be defined within the file
• Fix, Curve-Inspector: display correct points for selected handles
• Fix, HPGL-Import: Labels fixed
• Fix, Join:
  two paths or polylines are joined by keeping the order
  Undo with two closed paths corrected
• Fix, Path: Undo works when moving several points in a path
• Fix, Arc: 360 degree snap works better now
• Fix, Snap: snapping to itself removed
• Fix, Select: Selecting a point no longer creates a move point undo step
• Fix, Punch: Undo added for groups
• Fix, Punch: Undo without crash
• Fix, Inspector: changing color on non-editable layer leaves color well with correct color
• Fix, Layer-Inspector: redraw Layer, if non-editable and visible layer is turned to editable
• Fix, Text: editing at the top of a window now scrolls the text to visibility
• Fix, DXF-Import: close of polylines corrected to work in all cases
• Apple, PDF-Import: works on Power PC with OS X >= 10.4.7
• GNUstep: Our patch for loading images from it's bundle has been applied
• More details

• New, PCB: New raster algorithm for fast and error free calculation of printed circuit boards with line filling.
• Layer-Panel: don't allow a tool for special layers like Leveling or Clipping
• Leveling: new option #LEVT to keep the tool during leveling
  "#LEVT 1" will keep the tool, a missing entry or 0 will deselect the tool before starting leveling.
• Leveling: If origin is lower/left, we don't add the height of the rectangle
• Output: more tolerant with multiple instruction commands
• Fix, CAM-Preferences: Setting of Device works at once
• Apple: instant display of output tracks
• Apple: Universal Binaries
• Pfad, Arc Editing: Snap to own points implemented
• Join Improvements and fixes
• Gerber-Import: special treatment of Eagle deviation from specifications
• Editing: The first click to an object will select the object but not the control point
• PS-Import: glyphshow operator added
• Fix, Batch production: change of limits repaired
• Fix, Punch: ignore text
• GNUstep: Flatten text works again with new GNUstep libraries
• GNUstep: Improved display with antialiasing
• GNUstep: some fixes
• many more improvements

• Control-Panel: New button to get machine position from CNC controller. This allows setting of the starting position at the machine.
• Control-Panel: Revolution and Feed can be altered relatively during output
• CNC950: Canceling the output during long vectors is now much improved (no delay)
• Fix, CNC950: When Canceling the output a clean situation is restored
• Fix, CNC950 (#THR 0): wait for the machine before manual tool change
• Fix, CNC950: Levelling measures last row
• Fix, XYZ-Config: #SWn is restored to default when loading a configuration without
• GNUstep, CAM-Panel: Resizing of the panel now works
• Batch-Production: Moving of the master graphics to Null is an option now. The Master graphics moves to the cross hair origin now (not absolute Null).
• Batch-Production: The distance from object to object can now be set absolute as well as relative.
• Contour Fill: Filling without gaps for much less overlap
• Safety, Layer-Panel: Correction and Fill-Icons are only active for layer which are visible and editable.
• Fix, Magazine: Special parameters of thread cutters are saved
• Fix, Output: Output of rectangles accounts for the cutting direction
• Fix, Sinking: inverted cutting direction (clockwise). Direction arrow can be displayed for sinkings.
• Fix, Combi-Thread-Cutter: Cutting of holes inverted (clockwise)
• Fix, Combi-Thread-Cutter: vertical lowering (approach angle = 0) only with 10% of feed
• Layer-Details: Approach angle may be 0, which results in vertical lowering (like 90°)
• Fix, CAM-Panel (Apple, GNUstep): Coming back from Layer-Details and Tool-Details by click on the same Tab.
• New, Import: Import to existing layer by comparing layer names
• New, Import: Import to existing layer by comparing colors with objects on the layer
• Preferences: New entry "Select by border" to select filled objects at border only
• Copy/Paste: lock is not copied
• PolyLine: allows snap to own points
• Fix, DXF-Import: closing of a PolyLine with an arc added
• Fix, DXF-Import: fill color of stroked objects now defaults to stroke color
• Fix, Punch with Rectangle: rectangles with rounded corners are displayed correctly
• Fix, Rotate: more precise (excenter removed)
• Fix, Apple: Contour of mirrored text is now placed correctly
• Apple: Graphics cache is now available (Preferences switch is active)
• Apple: Preferences switch to turn off Antialiasing activated
• Fix, Radial Fill: fill center is saved correctly
• Fix, Radial Fill: center stays inside box, when object is rotated
• Fix, Group: grouping with activated color well doesn't change color
• Copy/Paste: PDF Pasteboard Type added for Apple