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Office2CAD version history
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Office2CAD Version
8.52 Upgrade Guide
Released
on Sep. 25, 2005
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This Upgrade Applied for
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This upgrade applies to Office2CAD for AutoCAD 2000, 2000i, 2002,
2004 ~ 2007
Office2CAD for MicroStation V8.0, 8.1, 8.5
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What's New in Office2CAD 8.52
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Office2CAD for AutoCAD à
Bug fixed. Office2CAD now imports Center Across Selection cell
alignment properly.
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Office2CAD for MicroStation à
Bug fixed. Office2CAD now imports Center Across Selection
cell alignment properly.
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How to Upgrade
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Run installer below and select Upgrading option

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Office2CAD + AutoBlock V8.50 for AutoCAD
2000, 2000i, 2002, 2004 ~2007
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Feel free to email CADTool at info@cadtool.net if you have any problem on the upgrade
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Office2CAD and AutoBlock Version Histroy
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Office2CAD for AutoCAD 8.52 Released
on Sep. 25, 2005
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Office2CAD for AutoCAD à
Bug fixed. Office2CAD now imports Center Across Selection cell
alignment properly.
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Office2CAD for MicroStation à
Bug fixed. Office2CAD now imports Center Across Selection
cell alignment properly.
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Office2CAD for AutoCAD 8.50 Released
on Aug. 13, 2005
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Import Excel cell shading and pattern. More details ...
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Excel cell shading and pattern can be mapped as any ACAD hatch
pattern when imported.
More details ...
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Office2CAD for MicroStation à
Word Import is added
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Office2CAD for AutoCAD à
Import image from Excel into AutoCAD. More details ...
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Word Import bug fixed More
details ...
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Numerous improvements on Excel shapes import, adding more shapes and fixing some bugs
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Office2CAD for AutoCAD 8.25 Released
on Jun. 26, 2005
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Bug fixed.
When
import/update multiple tables in a drawing, the program brings
in previous imported table.
The
bug has been lurking for long time. It's difficult to reproduce
because it only occurs in less than 5% of total
imports/updates and
most of the time applies to high CPU speed computer. It's
fixed now.
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Office2CAD for AutoCAD 8.20 Released
on Jun. 05, 2005
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Office2CAD
for AutoCAD 2006 released
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When
update tables, the current open Excel files will not be closed
down after update *
Office2CAD for AutoCAD à
Add
new command CADTool >> Update Excel Link for
users to update Excel link.
For details please refer to tutorial
How to update Excel link
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Bug fixed. Excel
hidden comment text now will not be imported
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Bug fixed. Run
time error '13' Type mismatch error has been fixed in Word
Import
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Office2CAD for AutoCAD 8.01 Released
on Jan. 22, 2005
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Word
Import now can import subscript/superscript and Symbol fonts like
alpha, beta and
omega.
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Bug fixed. In
previous versions, CADTool > Reset Excel Last Used Cell
command may
cause Excel to be in hidden mode and fail to display
properly. This bug now has been fixed.
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Office2CAD for AutoCAD 8.00 Released
on Jan. 08, 2005
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Word import can retain all format in Word file.
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Word import can be grouped as one entity in AutoCAD.
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Office2CAD for AutoCAD 7.56 Released
on Nov. 23, 2004
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In
previous versions Office2CAD purges the drawing before every import,
which may
causes inconvenience to users.
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Starting
from V7.56 Office2CAD no longer purges the drawing during each
import.
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When
update imported tables, all opened Excel files are automatically
closed after
completing update. Save
users time on closing them manually.
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Office2CAD for AutoCAD 7.55 Released
on Nov 12, 2004
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Bug fixed. When
there are multiple tables imported into multiple paper spaces,
"Update All
Tables" command causes all tables to be placed
on the current active paper space.This
bug now has been fixed.
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Office2CAD for MicroStation 5.03 Released
on Nov 12, 2004
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Office2CAD now works with MicroStation V8.5 2004 Edition.
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Office2CAD for AutoCAD 7.53 Released
on Sep 22, 2004
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Bug fixed. Updating
table causes Excel file to be locked or read only. Users have to
use
Excel Clean Up command to free the locked
Excel file frequently. This is a major bug and now it was fixed in
the new
V7.50 version.
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Office2CAD for AutoCAD à
Add a
new import mode. Users now have three import modes to choose from.
For more details refer to http://www.cadtool.net/tut_update_mode.htm
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Add a check box in symbology form allowing users to choose if they
want to import Excel
drawing components or not.
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AutoBlock for AutoCAD à
Add Save
Linked Block and Load linked Block command
in AutoBlock.
For more details refer to How to link once and
insert multiple times in other drawings
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Office2CAD for AutoCAD 7.10 Released
on May 3, 2004
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Adding
Office2CAD for AutoCAD 2005 version
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Office2CAD for MicroStation version processing speed now is 30~100 times
faster
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Office2CAD for AutoCAD 7.00 Released
on Jan 18, 2004
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Office2CAD
is now capable of importing Excel drawing components such as line,
circle,
rectangle, arc and arrows etc. More
details
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Office2CAD for AutoCAD 6.00 Released
on Dec 25, 2003
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In the
past if user has 10 schedules in a drawing, the update will cycle
through all 10
schedules even if there is only 1 schedule needs to be
updated.
In the new
V6.00 version, Office2CAD can detect which schedule's Excel file has
been modified and thus only update the
modified one. It's a significant
improvement in terms of time saving.
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Office2CAD for AutoCAD 5.50 Released
on Nov 30, 2003
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Office2CAD V5.50 saves 30% time on import/update Excel spreadsheet
compared to
previous V5.03 version.
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Office2CAD for AutoCAD 5.00 Released
on Nov 10, 2003
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There is a significant improvement from Office2CAD V2.55 to V5.00. The
Excel
import/update speed is 10 times faster!
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Office2CAD for AutoCAD 2.55 Released
on Oct 7, 2003
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Add new feature which allows user to capture the changes of adding/deleting Excel
rows/columns during update
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User is now able to import Excel dashed border line
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Office2CAD for AutoCAD 2.10 Released
on Oct 1, 2003
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User now can import Excel schedule and Word text into both Model Space and Paper
Space
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Office2CAD now can remember user's previous Excel to ACAD font mapping and save time
for re-mapping font
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Bug fixed: some users get AutoCAD locked up when working in MDI mode. Now this bug
has been fixed.
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Office2CAD for AutoCAD 2.00 Released
on Sep 15, 2003
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Fully support AutoCAD MDI mode. User now can open multiple drawings and use all
Office2CAD functions in multiple drawings concurrently.
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User now can group all import contents into one block if the check box shown below is
checked.
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New CADTool >> Explode Group menu to explode a group, check this tutorial for details
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Imported empty cells now are coded as "*CT_E*" text and placed on "CT_Empty" layer and
this layer is always turned off. Previously empty cells were coded as " " text and user can see ghost text in ACAD. The
previous approach is hard to manage and this change intends to improve this.
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Fonts' width/height factor in all user predefined TextStyles will not be changed during Excel
importing. Previously all TextStyle's width/height factor is controlled by font height and width input in Symbology Dialog
Box. Now these inputs only control Office2CAD created TextStyles. This change gives user more flexibilities to control font
styles. For example, table title, header and content text can have different width/height font ratio.
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