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File: Readme.txt, Notes for Irricad Pro V12.02Date: Wednesday 12th September 2012.

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1. Bug fixes and additions.2. Installation.3. Suggested Minimum Computer Requirements.4. Additions to the Manual.5. Known Problems.6. Installing USB dongle version.7. Contact Information.

1. Bug Fixes and Additions

-------------------------------------------------Bug Fixes and Additions Since 12.00-------------------------------------------------

1) Fixed a bug introduced in V12 that could occur when opening text dialogs ("Draw Text", "Label" Settings etc.). A "The parameter is incorrect" warning would be displayed. Caused by a specified font missing.

2) Minor problem fixed in "Show Allowable Submain Position" tool. Very long (normally caused by odd elevations) tapes/SL could cause problems.

3) Allow for lineTypes and widths in existing items not existing. This avoids "The parameter is incorrect" errors.

4) Fixed a problem, introduced in V12, which would occur when the system decimal separator is a comma (e.g. European locales). Irricad now works internally with the standard English separator (i.e. a decimal point "."). This means that in all Irricad data entry fields a point should be used for the decimal separator. In the future we hope to allow for different input locales.

5) Fixed a crash that could occur, very occasionally, when opening the "Zone Design Configuration" dialog.

6) Correctly account for varying warehouse code lengths when converting old V6 databases.

7) Improved the "Pipe Fitting Matching Table" by making the dialog resizable with autofit columns.

8) Fixed a problem in the "Riser Selection Rules" dialog that occured with userselected risers. Also made the dialog resizable with autofit columns.

9) Added Y, X, Z point order options for CSV/Txt importing.

10) Correct minor rounding issues in Object Info for hydraulic information withlarge coordinates.

11) Enabled mouse wheel scroll in "View Errors".

12) Minor fix so that "Irricad is already running" warning is displayed correctly.

13) Added improved French translations.


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14) Minor change so that the visibility of only those layers changed in the layer manager are updated on screen (rather than all layers).

15) Added the ability to sort the layer manager grid. Double clicking on columnheaders will cycle between the default, ascending and descending sorts.

16) Fixed a minor bug in Import Contours where text files with an upper case extension (i.e. .TXT) wouldn't import.

17) Added valve elevation, mode (none, lateral, submain or manifold) and description fields to those available in zone reports.

18) Added "CVALVEDESC" label keyword for Irrigation Blocks to display the control valve description. Note that management needs to be completed before labelingusing this keyword.

19) Minor cosmetic fixes in some design reports to allow space for (US GPM) in headings.

20) Increased, by three times, the "Maxy" limit in Network analysis. This prevents "IDE_DES_471" warnings occurring on large highly looped systems.

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Bug Fixes and Additions Since 11.12-------------------------------------------------1) The Irricad user interface (menus, dialogs, prompts, reports, templates and screen messages) may now be displayed in English, French or Spanish. Normally the language is specified at installation but it may also be changed via the "Settings/Language" menu. Additionally the UI language can be specified in the "Tool/Language" menu for the database editor, report editor and error viewer. Languagespecific versions of the plot layout and report templates are available and located in appropriate sub-folders of the standard locations (e.g. "Symbols/Templates/Spanish", "Reports/Spanish"). These may be enabled by changing the "Plot Layout Path" and "Reports Path" in the miscellaneous section of "Settings/Drawing" appropriately or, alternatively, by copying the required templates into the standard locations.

2) Added support for Autocad 2010/2012 format DWG/DXF files.

3) Added a new tool ("Reports/Show Allowable Submain") that gives a visual representation of the possible sub-main locations (assuming that suitable pipe sizesare available) such that hydraulic design constraints are met. The optimum position may also be shown. See the release notes for more information.

4) Zone Flow maps ("Reports/Show Zone Flow Map") may now be displayed in addition to Zone Pressure Maps. See the release notes for more information.

5) Legends for Zone Pressure/Flow maps are now displayed on the dialog and can optionally be created on the design.

6) User attributes may now be assigned to Electrical items.

7) A facility has been added to assist with selection when items are in close proximity. If the "Ctrl" key is held down while selecting items, with the "SelectObject" tool, a context menu will appear that lists all items close to the click point. Cycling through the list highlights individual items which will be selected when the menu entry is clicked.

8) Added a path setting for the reports template directory. See "Settings/Drawin


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g/Miscellaneous/Reports Path". When this setting is changed the reports menus are automatically rebuilt to reflect the templates available in the selected folder.

9) Added the ability to specify the name of the layer attribute (defaults to "Layer") when importing ESRI shape files (.SHP).

10) The Winicad.ini and Irribase.ini files are now located in the "\Config" subfolder (previously located in the C:\windows folder). These files store user settings for toolbar layout, most recently used files and language settings etc.

11) Added some accelerators for adding, deleting and editing components in the database editor.

12) Fixed a minor bug in the Hydraulic Gradeline Tool where the position of thesubmain locator could be incorrect in some circumstances.

13) Ensure that elevations imported from DXF files are placed on the ELEVATIONSlayer.

14) Fixed a minor problem in the Hydraulic Gradeline tool that occurred when pipes with the same colour changed class. A step change in the pressure limit isnow displayed.

15) Fixed a problem when globally changing outlets where the wetted radii had been previously changed manually.

16) Fixed a bug where the Distance and angle were not displayed on the status bar for Select Lasso with the "Z coord" option on.

17) Fixed a minor problem where after running "Calculate Contours" there was nocurrent tool (an extra click was required).

18) Improved the performance of "Reset Distance" (F9).

19) Minor change so that the report window initially opens full screen on the same monitor as Irricad when using dual monitor systems.

20) Remember the last path used for this session in the report editor.

21) Fixed a problem when copying and pasting on the "Query" tab in the databaseeditor. 22) Added an error message to the Hydraulic Gradeline tool when invalid connections are detected. 23) ContourCreator - Allow for importing polylines with greater than 3748 vertices. Vcadd seems to have this as a limit so split them up.

24) Changes to ensure that the elevation interpolation error 481 is displayed.

25) Fixed a problem in the databases editor grid when deleting items that were selected by dragging from the bottom to the top. The items below the selection were deleted.

26) Display line widths and colours for wires in the main database editor grid.

27) Support for calculated the required inlet pressure to achieve a specified flushing velocity has been added. Parameters controlling this have been added to the "Design/Parameters/Hydraulic" tab. Results can be seen in a new "Zone Flushin


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g" report. See the release notes for more information.

28) Minor fixes to the display of Q vs H graph for outlets, in the database editor, when certain units were selected.

29) Enabled delete and backspace in the database editor data "grid".

31) Added "OUTSPACE" label keyword for outlet spacing in spraylines and sprayline blocks.

30) Enable sprayline keywords for use in block labels (OUTDESC, OUTLABEL, OUTSPACE).

31) Added FLUSHID label keyword (Manifold ID).

32) Actual pipe diameters are now available in hydraulic reports (as Item->Size2).

33) Fixed a bug where 493 errors (the location was shown as 0.0,0.0) were generated when running detailed analysis on a Mainline containing multiple Water Supplies.

34) Fixed a problem in the lateral conversion tools (spraylines to tapes etc.) so that irrigation block entities are now updated correctly.

35) Minor fix so that LWPOLY contours are closed correctly when importing elevations from a DXF file.

36) Changes to avoid dongle timeouts that could occasionally occur when the machine was busy (typically this would cause the serial number to be set to 0 in the title bar).

37) Fixed a minor problem in the Valve/Outlet connector tool where valves/outlets directly on pipes would not connect correctly.

38) Fixed a bug in the move tool when moving connected hydraulic items subsequent to using to quit a move.


1) Fix a bug where valve elevations could be incorrect for the last zone if a design previously contained more zones.

2) Fixed a problem where only last line was pasted to excel after copying data from the database editor grids.

3) Fixed a problem where using the Elevation attribute for 3D shape files didn't work when importing contours.

4) Fixed a bug introduced in 11.10 where the long and short date plot template keywords (CDAT and LDAT) were using the GMT date. This would mean that in certain locations at certain times of the day the date shown on the plan could be in error by one day.

5) Fixed a similar problem to 4) above when setting the default design date for


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a new design.

6) Changed the line type definition of "Dashed48" to device based to avoid slowredraw problems in some cases.

7) Suppress debug.txt output when running old AEI elevation method.


1) Make sure pre V11 designs have the AEI DEM method set.

2) Fixed a bug, introduced in V10.5, where connections for hydraulic items wereincorrect when using multiple copy for a second time on same items (e.g. after <ESC> or stopping the tool).

3) Fixed a bug, introduced in V10.5, that occurred when an outlet with a wettedradius was deleted then undeleted. The connections where incorrect and could cause a crash in some circumstances or corruption after a repair.

4) Improved the convergence in Detailed analysis for tape blocks.

5) Fixed a bug, in the Database editor, where pasting partial records didn't wor

k correctly. Also occurred when pasting individual cells.

6) Fixed a crash, in the Database editor, when entering more than 4 characters into a the supplier code field in the Grid window.

7) Make sure supplier codes in the Grid window are checked for validity.

8) Fixed a bug, in the Database editor, where items in an assembly were not copied when using paste component on assemblies. This only occurred when using copy/paste component in the same database.

9) Fixed a bug, in the Database editor, where the nozzles associations of an outlet were not copied when using paste component on an outlet. This only occurred

when using copy/paste component in the same database.

10) Fixed a crash that would occur when clearing pressure map symbols in designs that contained a mainline outlet. This problem would also occur when attempting to create a pressure map symbol for a mainline outlet.

11) Allow for mainline outlets in show pressure map to avoid crash.

12) Fixed a crash that would occur when using "Clear Pressure Map" in a design containing mainline outlets.

13) Fixed a minor problem in block subdivision where, in some circumstances, "child" blocks didn't completely span the parent block. Only occurred when slicing

blocks with nearly horizontal laterals.

14) Fixed a bug when using the ROLLS/ROLLS3D keyword in labels with US units.

15) Minor cosmetic changes to tab order in some hydraulic dialogs.

16) Fixed a minor problem where the date for CDAT and LDAT plot template keywords was incorrect on some systems.

17) Fixed a bug when editing irrigation blocks with two flushing assemblies per


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manifold. Previously attempting to change both assemblies to the same valve would not work.

18) Minor improvements to copy/paste functionality in the database editor.

19) Fix minor problem where the "-" and "+" buttons on the keypad could not be used to type in coordinates. They were used as accelerators for zoom in/out, the and keys are now used for this.

20) Fixed a bug where repairing after a "File/Compress" could cause strange pipe connections. "COMPRESS 2/Message: Duplicate UIDs" errors would be generated during the compress.


1) Fixed a problem introduced in 11.06 where adding hydraulic items after an initial elevation interpolation would cause all Hydraulic items to be set to 0.0. This only happened with the ABOS elevation interpolation method.

2) Fixed a minor problem on dual monitor systems where warning messages and the"Copy" dialog could be displayed in the wrong position.

3) Changes to better handle errors in the database editor Query window so as toavoid crashes.

4) Fixed a bug in the database editor where new outlets that had been added would not appear in the Outlet dialog lists in Irricad.

5) Fixed a minor problem where elevations were not automatically re-interpolated if the .DEM file was missing.


1) Fixed a minor bug in subdivision the tool when using the "Row" slice option on blocks with groups. Gave unpredictable results in V11.

2) Fixed a problem in the contour creation tool where in some circumstances (e.g. negative elevations) contour lines would not be created.

3) Fixed a bug in the Database Editor where the previous "Copy Component" actions were retained when "Paste Component" was used.

4) Changes to handle 3D shapes files containing one field when importing contours.

5) Fixed a minor bug where deleting all elevations didn't remake the DEM or reset elevations. Only occurred for the ABOS method.

6) Changes to allow for Elevation field types other than N (numeric) when importing contours from shape files.

7) Enabled the automatic transfer of curve fitting parameters to the Tape details dialog.

8) Fixed a problem in the change dialog for Images. Changing the width with "Loc


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k Ratio" enabled would calculate the image height incorrectly if the units werenot metres.

9) Allow for block entities with only one lateral. This fixes a crash that could occur when subdividing blocks.

10) Enabled pasting data from external sources in the database editor.

11) Fixed a minor problem where certain types of fittings, with blank usage codes, could be used during computer fittings selection.

12) Changed the flow unit displayed in the database editor detail dialogs for valves, other hydraulics and pumps to the "System/Zone Flow" setting.

13) Improvements made to the Query window of the database editor. Multiple queries can now be executed in one operation by delimiting them with the ~ character.


1) Added a function to draw pipe reduction symbols. This tool is accessed from the "Draw" menu, for more information see the V11 release notes.

2) Added a setting for the supplementary character set (Settings/Miscellaneous). This, in conjunction with the Windows "Language for Non-Unicode Programs" setting (Control Panel/Regional and Language Options), allows non-western character sets to be displayed correctly. In addition this setting also controls the "Codepage" used when exporting DWG and DXF files (R2004/2006 and older formats). For more information on using this feature refer to the V11 release notes.

3) The "Tools" menu has been split into "Modify" and "Tools".

4) User defined attributes have been enabled for pipes, spraylines and tapes.

5) The default values for, the maximum number of iterations for LP and Detailedanalysis and Max Contours for interpolation, have been increased.

6) The settings for leader and dimension fonts are now saved. Previously they would revert to "Times Roman".

7) DEM Elevations is now the default for the Tape Elevation method.

8) Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when loading a design containing OLE items where the external database was missing.

9) Ensure that items missing from the external database (Red) and not enabled (Green) are displayed correctly in Block Entity dialogs.

10) Fix a minor problem where items missing from the external database (i.e. int

ernal only) could be used to create new hydraulic items.

11) Improved accuracy of the area calculations used in Object Info.

12) Fix a minor problem where seed Fill/Hatch tools would not reinitialise if they failed.

13) Fixed a minor problem in the HGL tool when some entities had no elevation set.


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14) Changed the location of swap files used in the report viewing process to the windows temp folder. This stops the possible accumulation of .MF and .MFT files in the main Irricad folder or occasionally on the desktop.

15) Made changes to the Move Tool to prevent crashes when other tools are accidentally launched during a move operation.

16) Stop some select tools (e.g. Select Last) being launched during editing operations (e.g. rotate, copy ...). This could cause odd deletions and crashes in some cases.

17) Changes to allow for importing Global Mapper DXF files without causing problems in some other situations.

18) Make sure "Isometric" mode is off when opening an existing design.

19) Minor change to accommodate larger coordinate in some error messages.

20) Improved the speed when saving or selecting "File/New" for designs containing large numbers (>1000) of symbol definitions.

21) Fix problem where importing an image file from another disk (compared to the location of the design) causes the image to disappear.


1) Added a function to calculate contours from spot heights. This is accessed from the "/" menu and will create "read only" contours. These contours are for presentation purposes only and are not used in the calculation of elevations for hydraulic items. For more information see the V11 release notes.

2) A new method of interpolation/DEM generation has been added in this version.Based on SurGe method the calculated DEM gives a much improved representation of the ground surface between data values. In addition the generation of the DEM grid is many times faster that the previous method and is not restricted to a lim

it of 32750 contour segments. The new SurGe method is now the default See the release notes for more information.

3) Added new pressure map tool ("Reports"/"Show Pressure Map"). This tool showsgraphically the distribution of pressures within a zone. See the V11 release notes for more information.

4) Added valve summary dialog ("Reports"/"Valve Specification Summary"). Used after Zone/Valve analysis this feature shows a tabular view of all zone valves, zone flow and allowable flow ranges allowing easy re-selection of suitable control valves. . See the V11 release notes for more information.

5) Added support for importing elevations from DXF files generated by Global Map

per.

6) Fixed a problem that would occur when changing to multi pipe labels for pipes that had existing single labels. All single labels for the pipes in question are now removed prior to re-labeling.

7) Display of the grid in the 3D Dem view is now disabled by default (the grid for the new interpolation method is much finer and can obscure the 3D view). Thevisibility of the grid can be toggled by pressing the "G" key.


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8) Major changes have been made to the database editor to improve it's useability. See the V11 release notes for more information.

9) All line widths and line styles are now displayed graphically in all dialogs.

10) In text dialogs a TrueType icon is now displayed, where appropriate, to font drop down lists.

11) To aid selection the allowable flow range (from the database) is now displayed in the valve drop down lists.

12) Increased the maximum length of warehouse codes to 32 characters. See the V11 release notes for more information.

13) Added location "hyper links" to some Irricad error messages.

14) Added more information to the "Valve out of Flow Range" warning message.

15) Improved the creation of HGL for unconnected blocks. 16) Fixed a crash that could occur when converting lines to pipes/cut-pipes.

17) Fixed connectivity problems when converting polylines to cut-pipes.


1) Improved the speed of processing (in management, connectivity check, zone design ...) for zones containing polyline tapes.

2) Fix a problem where the default image rotation angle was set a previously used value and was subsequently not able to be changed.

3) Fixed a bug where converting lines/polylines to pipes did not connect pipes correctly.

4) Fixed a bug (accidently introduced in V10.5) where the connectivity of hydraulic items would be incorrect when using copy tools to create more than one copyof hydraulic items.


1) Fixed a problem where if labels were edited via the change dialog (i.e. size, orient ...) they would become disassociated with the linked object and would no

t be deleted or regenerated correctly.

2) Fixed a minor bug where the selection filter was turned off, in some circumstances, by the second or third click in some CAD tools (e.g. move).

3) The diameter units are now populated correctly via the "Units->Diameter" keyword in Design reports.

4) Fixed a bug where a sprinkler block entity's outlet list was not updated after a compress or merge. This would result in the outlets remaining (either in an


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unconnected block or "Extra" outlets in a connected block) if "Create Laterals"was toggled or the block deleted. In addition the flow for the ACTFLOW label would be displayed as the nominal flow.

5) Fixed a bug where labels could become disassociated with their linked objectafter a compress or merge.

6) Fixed a bug in unconnected block entities. Symptoms were:- Changing the submain depth would also change the depth of some Lateral pipes. Toggling "Create Laterals" would remove some lateral pipes. Only effected blocks where the submain was not on the ends of laterals.

7) Fixed bug for Sprayline block entities where the linetype, width, layer and colour not maintained correctly when changing items (in the block dialog) that didn't require the laterals to be remade. (e.g. changing the submain pipe used).

8) Fixed a problem where supplier codes with three or less characters were not recognized when using the "Multiplier" costing option. This would cause a "153" warning during costing/BOM reporting.

9) Added a "Y/N" confirmation for elevation interpolation.

10) Fixed a bug with the "Even Flow" manifold option where the incorrect numberof manifolds where positioned for some block entities (where laterals not end fe

d). In addition made changes to make flows more even for this option.

11) Fixed a problem where "Unloading" symbols could remove existing instances of symbols without any checking. This would happen if the symbol(s) unloaded werenot the currently selected item. Also fixed a minor cosmetic problem in the symbol preview that could occur after unloading symbols.

12) Fixed a crash that could occur when panning (either via the mouse wheel or "Dynamic Pan" tool) during various CAD tools (e.g. Move). Also made a change so that panning doesn't terminate CAD tools.

13) Made a change so that the focus is automatically returned to the main Irricad view when the cursor is moved off the layer manager window. Previously it was

necessary to "click" in the main window.

14) Incorporated an Update to the VCADD engine. This fixes problems that could be encountered on some computers when printing designs containing large images on larger paper sizes. Also addresses a bug where not all dimensions/leaders/Datums were exported to DWG/DXF files.

15) Addressed some problems related to UnDelete that could cause:-Problems where connectivity checks could fail because control valves wer

e set as Zone or Mainline rather than "Zone + Mainline".IDE_MAN_351 ("Zone item in mainline") warnings.Problems with connections after undeleting items.

16) Fixed a bug where #Shift# label keyword didn't display the system flow/shift for unconnected blocks.


1) Items belonging to a tape or sprayline Block entity may now be moved if the "Shift" key is held down while operating the Move Tool. Note that to do this must be pressed when the move is activated i.e. If items are selected first


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then hold shift down when clicking the move tool (or when selecting it from a menu). If items are not selected initially then hold shift down when clicking theitem to move.

2) Items belonging to a tape or sprayline Block entity may now be deleted if the "Shift" key is held down while operating the Delete Tool. The operation is similar to the move tool. If items are selected first then to delete a single blockitem hold shift down when clicking the delete tool (or when selecting it from amenu) or pressing the DEL button. When multiple items are selected hold the shift key down when clicking to the confirmation message. If items are not selected initially then hold shift down when clicking the item to delete.

3) Fixed a problem where the colour specified for leaders was ignored (was fixed as Red by default).

4) Added a "Remove Orphan Nozzles" utility to the database editor. Accessible from the Utilities menu in the Database Editor this utility removes from the database any nozzles that are not currently assigned to Outlets.

5) Added LDAT keyword for plot templates - prints the current date in the Windows long date format.

6) Fixed a problem where the symbol size for a Water supply could not be changed to a value greater than 9.

7) Fixed problem where layers that contained items, but were not visible, couldbe deleted without any warning issued. This would only occur if multiple layerswere selected and the first layer in the selection contained no items.

8) Fixed a bug where valves created automatically in Block Entities were not connected to the submain. This would only occur in certain situations when a selection filter was active.

9) Fixed a problem, introduced in V10.5, where layers were not merged correctlywhen importing DXF/DWG/VCD files.

10) OLE items are now printed last (i.e. on top) as per version 10.

11) Multiple improvements to the handling of Min/Max zone pressure labels: Fixed a problem where the labels were not cleared correctly after a design was saved; Ensured that pressure labels and symbols can be removed after being moved; Delete pressure labels and symbols when CVs or Blocks removed.

12) Changes to fix problem that occurred when a new "Layer View" was made but the layer list was not updated.

13) Improved the memory management used for OLE items when exporting to PDF. This fixes a problem where OLE items and images were not displayed in the resulting PDF file.

14) Fixed a bug that occurred when moving a hydraulic item attached to a pipe. If the move was canceled by pressing then the item was visually disconnected from the pipe(s).

15) Minor change so that the current text in the dialog for the text tool is automatically selected when the tool is initialized (as per V9.5).

16) Added "F" (for flushing) pipe usage code. Pipes marked with this code are treated the same as those marked with "Z" except that they are not available for automatic selection during Zone LP or Velocity design. Note that a pipes usage sh


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ould not include both the "Z" and "F" codes.

17) Fixed a problem that could occur when accessing a dongle over slow networksor internet connections. Symptoms were general slowness with intermittent "freezing"and pop-up dialogs taking a long time to appear (pressing the key would cause them to display).

18) Fixed a minor bug where it was not possible to make changes to an embedded image if the source image file was not in it's original location. A warning message to this effect was issued.

-------------------------------------------------Bug Fixes and Additions Since 10.50-------------------------------------------------1) Change maximum allowable wire size to be 1000.0 in database editor.

2) Fix minor problem introduced in 10.5 where "Save changes" message generated when no changes made.

3) Change format of "Design Date" (in "Settings/Design Details") to use the current Windows short date format.

4) Change the format of "CDAT" plot layout keyword to Windows short format.

5) Fix cosmetic bugs in HGL display when various options toggled.

6) In database item selection dialogs items present but disabled in the external database are now displayed in green. Missing items shown as red (no italics) and the current item shown in bold.

7) Preview added to line type dialogs in database editor. 8) Fix bug in 10.5 where layers from an imported file were added to existing layer groups.

9) Fix a crash, introduced in 10.50, where saving "Untitled" could cause a crash.

10) Minor changes to avoid strange behaviour of check boxes in new layer manager.

11) Fixed a crash that could occur if CTRL key was depressed when the Move toolwas selected.

12) Fixed a crash that could occur if CTRL key was depressed and a single snap selected to locate the reference point for moving.

13) Fixed a problem where pipe pressures could be misreported (design/analysis correct otherwise) in some circumstances in looped systems containing PRVs.

14) Fixed a problem where changing copied block entities could give incorrect results in some circumstances. This was most noticeable for blocks with the "Set Distance" sub-main option.

15) Fixed a minor problem that could leave some block items selected if a copy operation was aborted (via ) part way through. Generally this would only occur if the items were on hidden layers and a left click issued, after the ,and before exiting the tool.

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Bug Fixes and Additions Since 10.16-------------------------------------------------

1) Improved the import/Export of DXF/DWG files:- Files containing layout spacescan now be directly imported; Irricad now supports up to and including AutoCad 2009 formats.

2) Image handling in Irricad has been extensively updated, and a number of new image functions are available. Changes include:-

- Images can be added to symbols, including plot layouts (e.g., adding logos);

- The image import dialog now includes a preview window, making image selection easier;

- Images can now be edited, rotated and mirrored like any other Irricadobject (double-click, Change tool);

- Allow editing of image height and width;- Transparency is supported in GIFs and PNGs;- Images can now be embedded directly into the design;

Old style images are automatically converted to new style images when a design is opened in v10.5.

3) A new "dockable" layer manager has been implemented. This replaces the rightclick function in previous versions (the visibility of the layer manager may be

controlled via the right click menu). The layer tab under "Settings/Layers" hasalso been redesigned.

4) Layers may now be marked as 'Printable' or not. If this flag is not set items in the particular layer will not be printed. Note this also applies to "Exportto PDF" although the preview will still display layers that aren't "Printable".

5) Two new functions have been added to the Layer manager. The Groups feature allows different arrangements of layer visibility to be saved under a single name. To make a new group simply move to the groups tab, enter a name into the dialog and click the "Add Group" button. The current visibility for all layers is saved and can be applied by either double clicking on the group name or right clickand "Activate" group. The lower pane of the manager indicates which layers are v

isible in the group (a green icon indicates that the layer contains entities). Layers may be added or removed from the group by using right click or the two buttons at the bottom of the dialog.

The "Views" feature assigns a name to the current zoom state, double clicking or right click will then move to these stored states. Note that if there is a "Group" with the same name as a "View" then when that view is selected the corresponding layer group will also be applied. Checking "Auto Sync Layer Groups", when creating a "View", will automatically create a "Group" with the same name.

6) The "Rotate" tool now allows rotation angles to be entered via the keyboard.Simply type in the angle (e.g. 30 NOT


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11) Added a registry only parameter to allow for inexact matches when updating items from the database (this occurs automatically when a design is opened). Inexact search allows either the component description or the warehouse code to differ and is only performed if an exact search for a component fails. The "ExactComponentMatching" value in the "HKCU\AEI Software\Irricad\Appsettings\Misc" key controls this behavior. If set to "0" (default is "1") then inexact searching is enabled.

12) If a database component is not found in the external database, Irricad willnow display the correct item description in combo boxes instead of defaulting to the first item in the list. The description will show in a red font to indicate to the user that it was not found in the database. If a database component *is* found in the external database, but it is switched off (usage code N), Irricad will display the item description in a green font. The current item in the list is now displayed in bold text.

13) Improve the pasting coordinates into dialogs (e.g. "GoTo Coordinate") including allowing pasting from the right click menu.

14) Fix minor bug in the Database Editor curve fitting utilities where the captions were incorrect.

15) Fixed a minor bug in "Assign Zones to System Flows"- only add a zone to syst

em flow if it is not already present.

16) In "Block Entity" tools improved the upstream/downstream positioning of manifold assemblies in some circumstances.

17) Symbols may now be created with an initial rotation angle.

18) Ensure that the HGL displays properly when there is a change of pipe (colour) at a pressure discontinuity (a PRV or a pump).

19) Entities that are moved to invisible layers are now automatically deselected.

20) Assemblies are now marked in the database lists with a much more visible icon.

21) Added warning messages to help distinguish 2D vs 3D files when importing contours from .shp files.

22) In the "Assign Zones to System Flows" tool disable 'assign zones' and 'clear assignment' items in the AssignZones right-click menu when no zones are selected.

23) Improved Zone minimum/maximum pressure labeling so that existing labels arenow removed when using the "Selected Valves" option.

24) When a point item is deleted, replacement junctions are now places on the junction layer.

25) The "Running Snaps" button now reflects the current running snaps status.

26) Minor fix to ensure that a "\" is appended to the "Backup Folder" in "Settings/Miscellaneous".

27) Fixed a problem that could occur occasionally when labeling multiple pipes - labels would appear to be repositioned and existing labels were not removed.


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28) Fixed a problem in labeling where changing the location (e.g. from "Above" to "Inline") would not have any effect.

29) Prevent water supply number incrementing when tool is canceled.

30) Added "Clear Management" function.

31) Fix minor bug in "Cut Lasso". Previously if an option apart from "Cut" was selected and then another Cut Lasso initiated then option formerly chosen would persist unless the radio buttons were re-clicked.

32) Fixed some conditions that could occasionally cause random crashes e.g. on CTRL-A (Select All), on double , on double click.


1) Fixed a very obscure bug that would cause "Draw Plot Layout" to crash when was clicked, also would cause "File/Repair" to crash. Only occurred in designs where block entities had somehow become corrupted.

2) Fixed a problem in "Cut Pipe". In some circumstances the cut pipe would not c

onnect to laterals that were part of a block entity, especially when spanning multiple blocks.

3) Minor change to improve the startup speed of tools when running on network systems.


1) Made a change to improve loading speed of older non-graphical management options (e.g. "Assign System Flows to Zones").

2) Fixed a problem in "Assign System Flows to Zones" that could occur occasionally on some machines. The dialog would appear to freeze and operate incorrectly.


1) Minor fix was made to use the absolute value of the dynamic headloss when calculating min/max headloss for mainline labels.

2) Change to allow the pressure, at junctions on the end of tapes, to be displayed in both labels and object info.

3) Fix bug introduced in V9.24. It was possible, although very uncommon, to geterror (IDE_MAN_309) incorrectly when running any of the Management options on adesign where a lot of Water supplies had been deleted and replaced or renamed. This only occurred if the total number of old and new Supplies exceeded 10.

4) Fixed a problem, introduced in 10.06, where clicking on either the "Water Supply Times" or "Zone Operating Times" dialogs would cause a crash.

5) Fixed a problem where the boundary entity of a Sprayline block could be deleted if the block was edited and then the dialog exited via . If the Spray


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line block tool was subsequently opened and exited via the boundary entity could be deleted.

6) Fixed a minor bug when editing a Sprayline Block Entity. If the Riser was changed to "No component" the change was not updated.


1) Fixed a bug in mainline labels where in some circumstances (negative flows) max/min flow labels were not correct (set to 0.0).

2) Re-enabled the "No. Manifolds (Even flow) option on the flushing tab for block entity tools. This option was inadvertently disabled in V10.0

3) Fixed a minor problem introduced in V10.06. Multiple warnings would be issued when exiting from the "Assign System Flows to Zones" dialog ("Design\Other Management Options") when system flows were not assigned to some zones.

4) Allow assignments for zones to be cleared in "Assign Zones to System Flows".This is done by either entering 0 or blank into the "Assign System Flows to Zone" dialog or selecting a zone and then "Clear Assignment" on the right click menu.

5) Minor fix to allow "Import Contours" to work on 3D .SHP files that do not contain a numerical elevation field.


1) Fixed a bug where using the "centre" valve option for block entities placed the Valve incorrectly (by a lateral spacing).

2) Fixed a bug re-introduced in V9.5 that could cause block entities to become corrupted after canceling from a "Change Type" dialog.

3) Fixed minor bug where Block entity Control Valves connected using the Valve connector tool could not be moved.

4) Enabled NOMFLOW, ACTFLOW, VALVEPRESS, MINEMITPRESS, MAXEMITPRESS and MEANPRESS for unconnected blocks.

5) Enabled VALVEPRESS label keyword for control valves. This gives the downstream (i.e. Zone) pressure for a valve.

6) Fixed a problem that could occur with multiple separate water supplies. If the last system flow contained a Water Supply that did not have pressures specified then this setting would be applied to the Water supplies in the preceding syst

ems flows (i.e. the Supply pressure would be calculated by Irricad despite being fixed in the Water Supply dialog).

7) Ranges of system flows can now be specified in the "Assign Zones to System Flows" and "Assign System Flows to Zones" management options. Note that in the tabular "Assign System Flows to Zones" option a range is identified by -ve numbers. For example to specify that a Water supply operates on System flows 2 to 12 and -2 and -12 would be entered in the first two columns. This is especially useful, in designs with multiple supplies, when the number of systems flows a water supply operates on is more than 17. A total of 9 ranges can be assigned to an ite


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m, this applies to both zones and water supplies.

8) Show the angle and length for pipes in object info when debug mode not selected.

10) Fixed a bug, introduced in V10, where importing DXF/DWG files into a clean design could crash. This would only occur when the source DWG/DXF had no named layers and all entities in the file were in layer 0.

11) Fixed a minor bug where correcting duplicate zone names wasn't reflected inthe Zone Design Config dialog.

12) Made minor improvements to the operation of prompt strings displayed for menu items.

13) Fixed a bug, introduced in V10, were "Snap Centre" (selected from the rightclick menu) needed 2 clicks to work correctly.

14) If no slices and no cuts are selected in the subdivision tool the original parent block is now regenerated and any sub-blocks deleted. This could give unpredictable results in previous versions. Note that setting options in the subdivide dialog so only one sub-block is produced is not recommended since the resultsmay be unpredictable.

15) Fixed a bug when importing elevations, the resulting contours would appear to be "stepped". This occurred with files containing very large coordinates.

16) Fixed a minor bug introduced in V9.50 where the Nominal flow wasn't displayed for the ACTFLOW label when an irrigation block hadn't been designed.


1) Made a change so that toolbar customisations were retained for old versions.

2) Fixed a bug where hy_min... type labels didn't work correctly when applied to junctions.

3) Enabled the HY_PRESS and HY_PABS keywords to be the downstream pressure for Control Valves.

4) Fixed a crash that could occur when dragging buttons during toolbar customisation.

5) Fixed a long standing problem when the symbol file for a hydraulic item was not found. Previously selecting a replacement symbol was unsuccessful and the warning would be repeated for all instances of the symbol.


1) Minor fix so that spot heights are selected when the selection filter "Type"is set to "Spot Heights".

2) Changes to make sure that emitter positions in Sprayline Block entities are preserved after subdivision.


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3) Fix a bug in Sprayline Block entities where the reference emitter location was not retained after a design was reopened.

4) Improved the merging of management and hydraulic information when designs are merged.

5) The report viewer now is shown maximized with an Irricad icon.

6) Added options for merging drawing and elevation data to the File/Merge dialog.

7) Fixed bug where "Extra outlets" in Sprayline Block entities were counted twice when calculating the flow for block labels.

8) Added "NUMEMIT" label keyword - displays the number of emitters in a block entity.

9) Fixes a minor bug where the "Big" and "Cool Look" icon states weren't being saved.

10) Updated "Merge" function to include OLE items.

11) The "File/Compress" function now preserves management and design information.

12) Fixed bug where using "Cut-pipe" and snap parallel and then connecting ontoa tape caused a connection problem (the connection in to the on end of the tape).

13) Correctly translate the reference emitter location when rotating Block Entities.

14) Prevent "Cut Lasso" from crashing when no hydraulic objects are selected.

15) Added Mirror and Offset copy tools.

16) Enable copying of hydraulic entities for all copy tools.

17) Changes to allow Manifold scope to be modified when editing Block Entities.

18) Fix a problem where changing Prevent block scope edits from remaking the laterals.

19) Implement Trim, Extend and Z-Order (Bring to Front/Back) tools.

20) Allow the location of the Backup folder to be specified ("Settings/Miscellaneous").

21) Check that the .VCD and .MDB files are present before trying to open the design and issue "sensible" errors if they are not.

22) Fixes a minor bug where after opening an existing design the first click ofthe select object tool was ignored.

23) Added Cut Lasso based "Trim Elevations" tool.

24) Made changes to help prevent settings in the registry reverting to the defaults in some circumstances.

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n of Irricad.


1) Fix crash in the Gradeline tool that happened when only one pipe was selected that had a PRV attached to it.

2) Enable the automatic pasting of coordinates into "Go To Coordinates" and into the "Settings/Grid Origin" dialogs. This means that a coordinate string copiedfrom the "Object Info" screen which includes both X and Y coordinates, units and descriptors (e.g. "x = 25.28 m, y = 8.46 m") can be inserted in one action into the appropriate fields in these dialogs. Note that the copied string can only contain two numbers for this function to work correctly (i.e don't include the "P1:" from object info when selecting the coordinate string).

3) In "Design Parameters" the last visited tab is now remembered.

4) Corrected the X/Y aspect ratio for the 3D Dem report window.

5) Added FLOWPERAREA label keyword (Flow per unit area) for Irrigation blocks.

6) Improve redraw speed when un-deleting especially when blocks are undeleted.

7) Added the z-coord to the Info panel. This displays the elevation, calculatedfrom the DEM, at the current mouse position. If the DEM has not been created then "No Elevation" is displayed.

8) Allow the minimum/maximum emitter pressures from the zone design configuration dialog to be copied to the clipboard as two tab-separated numbers. This meansthat when values from the table are pasted into Excel separate columns will be created for each of these values.

9) Fixed a crash on when saving onto FAT32 drives.

10) Fixed a problem (introduced in 10.0) where changing a Valve etc. in a sprayl

ine block entity could cause the outlet positions to change.

11) Fixed a bug when subdividing blocks with triangular, rectangular offset andgroup spacings. Previously the outlet positions not retained correctly in the sub-blocks created.

12) Fixed a problem (introduced in V10.0) where submains were not connected to laterals if the sprayline layer was not visible.

13) Added label keywords for absolute pressure (HY_MAX_PABS, HY_MIN_PABS, HY_PABS).

14) Made changes to prevent spurious empty layers being created, at the end of t

he layer list, when importing DXF/DWG files.

15) Display the full path of MRU files in the status bar.

16) Made changes to improve the display of ToolTips for different Windows language settings.

17) Made some improvements to the distance and angle display in the status bar after perpendicular and parallel manual snaps used.


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18) Fix a problem where snaps were disabled, in the right-click menu, after a perpendicular or parallel manual snap.


1) Hatches and Fills can now be edited. The colour can be changed for an existing Fill whilst the colour, line thickness, line style, and pattern may be changed for Hatches.

2) The text dialog (used for "Draw\Text" and label settings) now displays the actual fonts, styles and colours specified. This is particularly useful to get a visual indication of how labels will look.

3) More comprehensive hydraulic labeling has been included with the introduction of many new label keywords for pressures, flows, headloss etc. Please see the release notes for more details.

4) The position labels that have been moved manually is now retained.

5) Fixed a minor problem where the placement of "Block" labels and text in graphical management was incorrect in some cases with very large coordinates.

6) All hydraulic and electrical items can now be created from relevant drawing items. See the release notes for more details.

7) Design details are displayed in the Windows file properties (visible in Windows Explorer and "File/Open") of the Irricad design file. This allows designs tobe more readily identified. Note that this facility is only available on drivesthat use the NTFS file system, FAT32 (Windows 98 etc.) drives do not allow fileproperties to be stored.

8) It is now possible to specify an unconnected sprayline block entity. See therelease notes for more details.

9) A "User Attributes" text field has been added to control valves, water suppli

es and miscellaneous hydraulic items. It allows user-defined information to be attached to these items subsequently displayed in labels and reports. See the release notes for more details.

10) Prevent OLE items with zero height or width from being created. Also ensurethat printing and exporting to PDF ignores OLE items with zero height or width.Note that "File Repair" will attempt to repair of OLE items with degenerate rectangles.

11) Minor change so that the automatic zone number isn't incremented after canceling from the "Zone Name" dialog.

12) Holding the "Shift" key down when placing a zone valve, mainline outlet or m

ainline spraylines now doesn't show the Name dialog but accepts the default name.

13) Improvements have been made to the sizing of the "Zone Design Configuration" dialog. Also the space bar can now be used to toggle check boxes.

14) A keyword combo box has been added to the labels text dialog. This combo box displays and describes the available label keywords, and allows them to be easily inserted by pressing .


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15) The current label text settings are shown in a button tooltip on the "LabelSettings" page.

16) Irricad designs may now be merged together using the "Merge" option in the File menu. This function will merge the drawing and hydraulic objects, as well as fittings.

17) Allow correctly for discontinuities in Hydraulic gradelines caused by in-line pumps and PRVs.

18) Added the ability to create report templates that save directly to a file, this is accomplished by adding keywords to the "Report Options" in the report template editor. Possible keywords are:- #CSV# - Excel comma separated values; #TSV# - Tab separated values; #TXT# - standard text file; #XML# - text file where all leading and trailing blanks are removed also blank lines.

19) Fixed a crash that could occur when subdividing sprayline blocks that contained extra outlets.

20) Added Group spacing, number laterals per group and row spacing (= lateral spacing if no groups) keywords for block entity labels.

21) Designs can now be saved in the format of all previous versions of Irricad (to Version 7). This functionality is now located under the "File/Export" menu it

em and will save a copy of the current design, in the specified format, to the designated file.

22) ESRI SHP files (including those where the coordinates are Latitudes and Longitudes) can now be imported directly into Irricad. This facility works for botha normal "Import" and "Import Contours". See the release notes for more details.

23) Added new toolbars with many new icons including large icons and popup menus. Also enable current tool and current snap toolbar indicators.

24) Added customize context menu when right-clicking in any toolbar docking area.

25) Allow the minimum/maximum zone pressure label text to be edited.

26) Enabled the use of multiple coloured symbols for Valves etc. If a symbol isspecified with the "BYBLOCK" colour in the database editor then the symbol willbe displayed in Irricad using the colours contained in the symbol definition.

27) Designs with multiple but separate water supplies can now be fully analysed(and LP Design used where appropriate) directly. It is no longer necessary to "join" the separate systems with notional pipes.

28) Drawing and Contour data from CSV files can now be imported into Irricad.

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Bug Fixes and Additions Since 9.54-------------------------------------------------

1) Fixed a problem where very occasionally, in designs with very large coordinates and spot heights, elevation interpolation wouldn't use the closest spanning contours when calculating the elevation for some points.

2) Fixed bug, introduced in 9.50, where fittings selection would fail (a 187 warning, followed by 1104, would be issued) for outlets with risers on the ends ofpipes.


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3) Fixed some problems where items would not be connected when using the block tools with the lateral or junction layers were turned off.

4) Added keywords to costing reports for the coordinates of unconnected pipes and spraylines. This means that a report can be created listing the locations of all unconnected items in a design.

5) Minor change so that the minimum and maximum allowable pressure for miscellaneous hydraulic items, and pumps is set to 0.0 in design pipe reports.

6) Added the ability to globally change scope (Design + BOM etc.) for all hydraulic items at one time. To do this select the items required and then use the "Change" tool (not "Change Type") and adjust the "Scope" field. Note that objects that do not have scope (drawing items, junctions etc.) are unaffected by changesto this field.

7) Fixed a problem in mainline grade lines where the intermediate pressures, along a single pipe segment, were not displayed correctly for mainlines when elevations were present.

8) Fixed a bug where Zone Design would fail after a mainline Grade line was displayed (warnings IDE_MAN_330 and 331 would be issued).

9) Fixed a minor bug where a prompt for an unnamed database symbol could sometimes appear when using "Move Point" on a sprayline block entity.


1) Fixed a bug in automatic manifold creation that could occur in odd shaped blocks and non-straight submains.

2) Enabled click on a block component to select a block entity when usingthe subdivide tool.

3) Fixed a minor bug where changing manifolds and submain field (e.g. depth), at the same time, would cause the manifolds not to be created.

4) Fixed a bug (introduced in 9.50) where the elevations of miscellaneous hydraulic items weren't being set correctly if they were added after the initial elevation interpolation. This would cause odd pressure differences in Object info and design reports unless a manual re-interpolation was run.

5) Fixed a crash when the key was held down.

6) The dialog for the "Highlight Elevations" tool now displays the correct location if the first contour/spot height is the minimum/maximum. Previously 0.0,0.0was shown in this case.

7) Fixed a minor bug where the boundaries of block entities created from drawing/imported polygons were not being simplified (reducing the number of vertices).

8) Fix a bug where selection filter wasn't working in some circumstances.

9) In the database editor increased the limit for "% above" flow/pressure tolerance for Outlets to 2000%.

10) Re-enabled "Default Name" item on right click menu for Control Valves and ma


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inline outlets and spraylines.

11) Changed selection filter so that it works correctly when multiple filters are chosen. Also only select contours if the Hydraulic group chosen (not Zone or Mainline). Allow for BYLAYER items correctly in the Selection Filter.

12) Fix a bug introduced in 9.50 where the length of polyline tapes were not calculated correctly when the "Slope Elevation" method was selected.

13) Toggling the elevation in the "Hydraulic Gradeline" dialog now adds or removes elevations from the data sets, as opposed to just showing or hiding the elevation series.

12) Fixed a minor bug where "Show Zone Pressure Limits" for "All Valves" failedwhen a selection filter was set (active or inactive).

13) Fixed a minor bug where in some circumstances, if spot heights were present, a contour line outside of those spanning a point could be used when interpolating the elevation.

14) Allow m3/hr for outlet flows in Units settings.

15) Allow for PRVs upstream of pumps and misc hydraulic items.

16) Fixed a very old bug where occasionally allowances for an upstream PRV werenot made for items in a looped part of a system (Note PRVs may not be placed inlooped parts of a pipe system).

17) Fixed a crash, caused by broken drawing objects, that could occur when using Change or Change type.

18) Improved the creation of automatic manifolds for odd shaped blocks.


1) Irricad databases can now be edited and save in newer versions of Microsoft Access. Additional versions now supported are 2000, XP (2002), 2003 and 2007. Note that once a database has been converted to the newer format it will no longerbe able to be used in previous versions of Irricad (i.e. earlier than V9.50).

2) Improved panning stability and fixed a bug where the design would "disappear" when using mouse wheel panning.

3) The "Go To Coordinates" dialog now retains the last set of coordinates.

5) The Object Info tool dialog has been improved:- allows multiple windows open, improved formatting, added a hydraulic info on/off switch. Elevation change for pipes/tapes/spraylines is displayed in both pressure and elevation units (when

the units are different).

6) Scope flag added to many hydraulic items this allows for "BOM only" items which are included in costing/bom reports but not included in hydraulic design and"Design Only' items which are treated normally in the design process but are not shown in the BOM/Costing reports.

7) Snaps are now enabled for the "Move" tool.

8) Uniformity values (Eu, Du, CU, mean emitter flow and number of emitters) are


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now automatically calculated and available in the Zone reports. Two new zone design summary reports have been added to "Zone Design Reports", they are "Zone Design Summary (Uniformity 1 Emit)" and "Zone Design Sum. (Uniformity Multi Emit)". Both reports display the same results with the "Multi Emit" version allowing for varying number of emitters per plant (between 1 and 10). Note Zone Analysis or Design need to be rerun to make the uniformity values available in existing designs. It is possible to suppress these calculations if required by altering a registry key (contact your local Irricad representative for information). In addition the emitter flow values, used in the uniformity calculations, for each zonecan be directed to a file for external analysis. Enabling this feature is also via a registry key.

9) A new field for COV has been added in the database editor for Tapes and Nozzles.

10) Flushing manifolds can now be automatically added using the Block Entity tools. For more information see the 9.50 release notes.

11) A dynamic layers menu has been added to the default right-click menu. This provides a quick way to enable or disable layers. It also includes two shortcut functions 'Hide Layer' (Ctrl+Shift+H) hides the layer of the currently selected item, while 'Show Layer' (Ctrl+Shift+L) re-shows the last hidden layer (the menushows which layer will be hidden or restored).

12) Fixed a problem where duplicate layers could not be removed in existing designs.

13) Improved performance when applying "Change Type" to a large number of items.

14) Enabled "Double-Escape" function to return to the default "Select Object" tool, this will also clear the current selection.

15) Fix a problem in detailed analysis where, in certain circumstances, PRVs were not treated correctly. 16) Updated the HGL tool to allow mainline pipes. Also added copying, printing,saving and printing functions into the HGL dialog.

17) Allow bitmap data on the clipboard to be Inserted/pasted into Irricad. Thisenables copy and paste of HGL charts.

18) The serial number of the Irricad dongle is now displayed in the program title.

19) When creating Min/Max pressure labels for selected valves labels for other valves are no longer cleared. Note that any exiting labels for the selected valves are also not cleared and need to be deleted manually before operating the tool.

20) Three new panels (Info, Snap, and Selection Filter) have been added to the s

tatus bar. All the panel options can be selected by right clicking the panel toaccess a popup menu, or left clicking to cycle through the available options. For more information see the 9.50 release notes.

21) Changes have been made to the "Select Object" tool. Clicking and dragging now operates as a "Select Window" tool. In previous versions the default behaviour of selection tools was to add any items selected to the current selection. In this version it is possible to make the selection tools act where selecting items also deselects the current selection. This mode is enabled by unchecking the "MultiSelect" option in the "Settings|Mouse" tab. Note that this tab has been rena


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med from "Wheel|Scroll".

22) Pressing the Alt key when selecting an object that is part of a block entity (e.g., lateral) will select the block entity itself.

23) Fixed an obscure bug where using "Change Type" on a combination of tape andspray block entities could cause problems.

24) The y-axis on HGL graphs has been changed to elevation rather than pressureunits (converts pressures to equivalent hydrostatic elevation).

25) Irrigated Areas can now be created from polylines and curves (in the same way as the block entity tools).

26) In Graphical Management the order that yellow and orange are used to denotesystem flows has been swapped.

27) Fixed a minor bug where the .dzn file was zero length. This would cause an IDE_DES_444 (I/O Status -999) error.

28) Fittings are now selected for two-ended items (e.g. Misc Hydraulic) that are only connected on one side.

29) Fixed a problem in the Irrigation Area tool - apparently random "snaps" woul

d occur some to 0,0.

30) Fixed a similar issue to 29) in all block tools. This would occur in some circumstances after issuing a "Snap to End".

31) Re enabled "Place" on the right click menu for hydraulic tools.

32) Made changes to the construction of the splash screen to reduce the chance of multiple instances of Winicad.exe occurring.

33) Added a link to the Irricad web site to the Help menu.

34) Fixed a problem that could cause a "flashing" cursor in the toolbars in some

situations.

35) Improved the drawing of the circular cursor.

35) Increased the number of recent files to 8.

36) Fixed a problem where, in some circumstances, the locations of sprayline outlets would be incorrect after changing the sprinkler/nozzle in a spray block entity.

37) Fixed a minor bug where the laterals would revert to vertical if the lateral direction in a block entity was changed and then a "child" tool selected (clear selection, zoom tools). This only occurred when changing using the "User Define

d" option.

38) Fixed an infrequently occurring problem where the area of block entities, displayed in reports, was incorrect.

39) Fixed a bug when an Auto-Backup ran during the creation of block entities. In some circumstances the boundary could disappear, or become disassociated fromthe block laterals.

40) The dongle version number is now shown in "Help About".


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41) Made a change to the database editor so that fractional numbers of items can be added to assemblies.


1) Fix a minor bug where Outlet connectivity could fail in very large designs with many changes made.

2) Fix a bug in the HGL report where the lateral pressure band was incorrect insome cases.

3) Fix a bug where the HGL curve for spraylines was incorrect.

4) Enable rounding for all labels.

5) Fixed a minor bug where OLE items and images were not exported to PDF files in some circumstances.


1) Fixed a bug introduced in 9.16 where the auto backup feature was not saving all design files to the backup folder. The symptoms would be a "DBS 5" error being generated when attempting to open a backup design.


1) Fixed a crash that would occur if "Delete Type" was used to delete Block entities and then a zoom tool was selected (e.g. Zoom All).

2) Fixed a problem where Irricad would "hang" when the "Hydraulic Grade Line" to

ol was used when the current pressure units were anything other than metres.


1) Fixed a problem that would cause an access violation crash when trying to perform management functions with more than 10 supplies.

2) Added the ability to automatically create a Management symbol (a symbol of the current graphical management). See "Draw/Management Symbol" - note the menu item is disabled when not available. - See the release notes under the "Help" menu.

3) Improved the resizing of System Flow dialogs.

4) Fixed bug introduced in 9.16 were Spray Block dialogs didn't work correctly.

5) Hide unused items in Spray block dialogs.

6) Hide Arc orientation in Tape Block dialog.

7) Changed the limits for warnings about outlet spacing in block dialogs.


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8) Suppressed spacing warning for drippers in Block dialogs.

9) Added automatic generation of pipe stubs for submain and control valves in block entities. See the release notes under the "Help" menu.

10) Added a facility to graphically display the position of the maximum and minimum emitter pressures in a zone ("Reports/Show Zone Pressure Limits"). See the release notes under the "Help" menu.

11) Added an option to the block entity valve position. The valve position can now be specified as a percentage of the submain length.

12) Added the ability to round label values to a closest value and by roll lengths. New keywords are "ROLLS" and "ROLLS3D". See the release notes under the "Help" menu.

13) Added a tool that displays the hydraulic gradeline for spraylines, tapes, submains and mainline pipes ("Reports/Hydraulic Gradeline").

14) Fixed a bug that could cause block entities to become corrupted (e.g. lateral spacing set to zero). This occurred when cancelling from the change or change/match dialog (when using change type) and then selecting some tools (e.g. ClearSelection, Zoom Window).

15) Make OLE objects print first in PDF files, so that they don't obscure the design.

16) Ensure that the Valve Connector does not create very short pipes. Instead it now connects valves directly to the mainline if they are very close.

17) Fixed a minor bug where some block entities didn't appear to be closed.

18) Added a Water Supply elevation field to mainline reports (Sysflow->WSElevation).

19) The headloss through a control valve is now available in the MLItem->Outloss

mainline report field.

20) The minimum and maximum emitter pressures (and their positions), in a connected sprayline, are now calculated. These calculations are based on the actual flow and take into account the DEM elevations at the emitters.

21) Allow for zones spanning multiple Irrigation Areas (e.g. a zone made up of multiple block entities) when calculating area and water requirements. A zone may span a maximum of 10 areas. Note that the V7 style reports (if enabled) still only allow for zones being in one area.

22) Changed the 489 warning ("Tape pressure range cannot be met for conditions given") to logging only (warnings can be seen under "View Errors"). A single warn

ing message, for each zone, is now displayed on screen if necessary.

23) Added a "band" to the submain gradeline to display the minimum and maximum pressures on individual laterals.

24) When loading a design Issue warning if an assembly contains no items. This avoids the confusing "Item is an assembly of itself" warnings in this case.

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26) Added settings for the minimum and maximum zone pressure labels. These settings are located in "Reports/Report Settings".

27) The management symbol is now automatically saved so that when a design is reopened management does not need to be re-run in order to draw the symbol.

28) Fixed a problem where "Extra Outlets" would not correctly 'belong' to a block entity (this could cause connectivity problems).

29) Added functionality to allow pipes, created with the "Zone Pipe" tool, to belong to block entities they connect to (e.g., so that manual submain pipes also'belong' to the block).

30) Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when more than 963 symbols/labels wereused in a design.

31) In the database editor the "Save Changes" and "Quit" buttons are disabled when working with an assembly. This fixes a problem where assemblies containing no items could be created.

32) Fixed a bug where the "Length3D" and "Rolls3D" label keywords only calculated 2D lengths.

33) Fixed a problem where the allowable pressure ranges in "Zone Design Configur

ation" were not used in a limited number of situations.

34) Any selected entities on invisible layers are now deselected.

35) Use the DEM method to get the elevation of any new junctions created as part of the sprayline sizing process. This fixes a possible problem in the hydraulic gradeline tool.

36) Fix bug where changing the outlet in a sprayline block entity, but not the lateral or outlet spacing, would look for a blank symbol.

37) Fixed a minor problem which could cause pipes to be individually labeled after initial labels were deleted.

38) Increased to 25 the maximum number of Areas a Zone can span.

39) Fixed a problem that could, in certain circumstances when a mainline includes a misc hydraulic item, cause the required water supply pressure to be calculated incorrectly. Note this problem only occurred in 9.12+ Beta versions.

40) Fixed a minor problem in the new valve connector tool when valves had been moved and the tool rerun.

41) A utility to "clean" fields in databases has been added to the database editor. This utility is used to correctly format fields in the database after directly importing data via Access. It is not necessary to use this if data has been e

ntered via the Irricad database editor. To use the utility simply:-a) Close the current database.b) Select "Clean Fields" from the "Utility" menu.c) Choose the database and click the "Clean" button.d) When the progress bar stops the operation is complete.e) "Cancel" exits from the utility.

A backup of the original database will be created (~tmp then the database name)this may be deleted when required.

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nfiguration. It is no longer necessary to design all zones initially. This alsofixes a problem where the maximum number of lateral/submain sizes was ignored the first time zone design was run.


1) Added OLE functionality. This means that items such as Irricad reports, spreadsheets, documents etc. can be inserted into Irricad. There are two ways of doing this either by "Edit/Paste" or "Tools/Insert OLE". In both cases the requireddata needs to have been copied to the clipboard in the appropriate application (e.g. the Irricad report viewer) or a file copied in "My Computer"/"Windows Explorer". When "Paste" or "Insert OLE" is chosen the size and shape of the OLE object is selected by specifying two corners of a rectangle. "Insert OLE" allows multiple instances of the object to be inserted while "Paste" allows only one. It is a restriction of OLE that only the first page of the copied data can be displayed. Irricad allows OLE data to be displayed, printed and exported to PDF. NOTE:in order for Irricad reports to be displayed correctly an application that can render RTF data, including tables, must be installed on your system - examples of suitable applications are MS Word, Open Office etc.

2) Line widths of placeholder lines in pipe legend templates are now used when pipe legends are created as part of "Draw/Plot Layout".

3) More Keywords have been enabled for use in Plot Templates, those added are:-#EDATE# - End Date, #SDATE# - Start Date, #ADATE# - Acceptance date, #REPCO# - Rep Code, #REPNM# - Rep Name, #LHRS# - Labour Hours, #MILE# - Mileage, #ICOST# -Installation Cost, #SIGNT# - Signitary, #SIGTL# - Signitary Title, #LCOST# - Labour Cost, #MCOST# - Mileage Cost, #TAXR# - Tax Rate, #COSN# - Company Short Name, #COLN# - Company Full Name, #BRCO# - Branch Code, #BRNM# - Branch Name, #BRPH# Branch Phone, #BRFX# - Branch Fax, #BRAP# - Branch After Hours Phone, #BRCT# -Branch Contact.

4) A tool that automatically connects control valves to the nearest mainline has been added. To run this, select "Connect Valves" from the "Tools" menu.


1) Fix a bug where using a manual snap would stop a polyline being closed (e.g.in block tools).

2) Added an "OutletFlow" field for mainline reports. Also fixed a minor problemin mainline design summary report when running VIH outlets had -ve heads, thesepreviously were not displayed in the report.

3) Added extra information about the number of contour segments during "Import Elevations". The number of raw and simplified segments is now shown.

4) Changed the recommended minimum pressure to 1.0 m in tapes and tape block dialogs.

5) Fixed a bug where using snap parallel would be cause a pipe to be disconnected.

6) Made a change to LP that fixes a number of odd "LP failed to find solution" problems.


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7) Fixed a problem where the representations of contours and block boundaries would disappear when drawn on top of Images.

8) Fixed a problem that could give error 356 for some child blocks during zone reports.


1) Fixed a crash (introduced in 9.09) that would occur if drawing objects were selected and then the Label tool applied.

2) Fixed a minor bug when slicing in the subdivide tool. Previously, with the "Perpendicular to Laterals" option selected, subdividing blocks with vertical laterals could "miss out" part of the parent block.

3) Enabled more keywords for Plot Templates:- #DDES# (Design Details Description), #CLSN# (Client Details Short Name), #CLAD# (Client Details Address), #CLHP# (Client Details Home Phone), #CLPH# (Client Details Work Phone), #CLFA# (Client Details Fax), #CLCO# (Client Details Code (3 chars only)).

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1) Fixed a problem introduced in 9.07 where the colour of tapes in a tape blockentity were incorrect.

2) Allow for zones with single centre fed laterals in "Assign Zones to System Flows", in previous versions these zones were not displayed.

3) Improved the display of single lateral zones in "Assign Zones to System Flows".

4) Ensured that Sprayline Block outlines are created on the Irrigation Areas layer by default.

5) Fix a minor bug in "Zone Design Configuration" where the D/S zone pressure was not allowed to be 0.0 in some circumstances.

6) Nominal flows for Sprayline blocks are now calculated for Block Labels and the Subdivision tool.

7) The design default lateral line width is now used for Block Entities (if is selected).

8) The design default zone line width for is now used for submain pipes in Block Entities.

9) line width now functions correctly in Block Entities.

10) Allow the DEM to be calculated regardless of the presence of tapes or the DEM calculation mode.

11) Fixed a crash that could occur when using keyboard entry in copy tools.

12) Fixed various problems that could occur when some temporary files were readonly.


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13) Fixed a bug where manually implemented perpendicular and parallel snaps on hydraulic objects would place items in the correct location but would not "attach" to other hydraulic objects correctly.

14) When labeling pipes, with the "Combine Pipes" option set, Zone and Mainlinepipes are now considered independently. This means, for example, that submain connected to an inline valve doesn't force multiple labels in the mainline pipes at that point.

15) Fixed a bug when labeling pipes, with the "Combine Pipes" option set and using the #Length# keyword, where in some circumstances the length of a pipe segment could be counted in two labels.

16) Fixed a minor problem where the "Delay Time" for warning message reverted to its default value unless the "Design Parameters" dialog was accessed and "OK" clicked.

17) Fixed a problem in the "Datum" and "Leader" tools (introduced in 9.07)

18) Fixed a bug where a DEM from a previously loaded design could be used in a design with no elevation information.

19) Fixed a problem where the DEM was not recalculated if all Elevation information was removed from a design.

20) Fixed bug where the actual Valve pressure and minimum/maximum emitter pressures were not displayed in "Zone Design Configuration" in some circumstances.

21) Fixed a crash that could occur when using keyboard entry in the Move and Rotate tools. This only occurred when a selection was present and the "Offset Point" was specified via the keyboard.

22) Made a change to Zone LP Design so that if the Valve pressure is set (in "Zone Design Configuration") then this pressure is fixed during the LP process. Previous versions allowed the resulting valve pressure to vary up to the specifiedpressure. This method has the slight disadvantage that LP may fail if an inappropriate valve pressure is used.

23) Fixed a crash that would occur during Block creation/editing if another tool was selected (e.g. the select tool) while waiting for input when manually specifying a submain or lateral direction.

24) Fixed a minor long standing bug that could cause headlosses in "*** No PipeSelected ***"pipes with apparently no flow.

25) Fixed a problem where running a Zone Design would cause 187 errors followedby an error reading the temporary.zne file. This only occurred with certain databases and in a design that contained segments of pipe with no flow.

26) Undelete is now disabled after any design/costing run. This avoids a potenti

al crash when undeleting items.

27) Fixed a problem that could occur, in a new design containing spraylines, if"Assign Zones to Systems Flows" was run. Zone design would then produce OOP_7 errors. Once the design was saved (either before or after "Assign Zones to Systems Flows") the problem would not occur.

28) Fixed a bug, introduced in 9.08, where relabeling pipes with the "combine pipes" option didn't work correctly.


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29) Fixed a minor problem which could prevent that last lateral in the last sub-block from being created when slicing blocks.


1) The lateral direction of Irrigation Blocks can now be changed.

2) The submain direction (when using the distance option) for Irrigation Blockscan be changed.

3) Irrigation Block entities may now be sprayline blocks (Zone/Spray IrrigationBlock)

4) The Change/Match dialog has been changed to a grid format.

5) The contour limits message has been corrected when no elevations are imported.

6) Changes to allow multiple editing of Spray Irrigation Blocks.

7) In colour contours fix the minimum/maximum to display correctly when using U.S. units. Add the location for the minimum and maximum values.

8) Fix a problem in colour contours where the colour of spot heights were not changing.

9) Create or recalculate the DEM if it is not present or is out of date when running the "3D Dem View" report.

10) In Zone Design Configuration fix bug where depths and Outlet Connection losses not accounted for when displaying the minimum and maximum emitter pressures.Also improve the checking for Min/Max allowable pressures.

11) When creating a Block (Tape or Sprayline) make sure the block polyline is visible during zooms.

12) Enable standard drawing snaps for hydraulic tools.

13) Added Undo Vertex when drawing polyline items (applies to all hydraulic anddrawing "Polyline" tools).

14) Enable running snaps for hydraulic tools.

15) Allow any line to be used when specifying the submain direction (i.e. not just block boundaries).

16) Fixed a minor problem that could cause zero length submain segments and duplicate junctions when making a submain with the "distance" option in some circums

tances.


1) Fixed a problem where management reports were not displayed after using the "Zone Times" management options.

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tre or Set Distance auto submain had the valve position changed.

3) Stop Hydraulic items being changed into irrigation blocks.

4) Fixed a minor bug where changing the submain for an Irrigation block would cause all junctions to have the "permanent" flag set.

5) Fixed a bug in the "Submain distance" option of Irrigation Blocks. This could occur if the distance selected was longer than some laterals and therefore thesubmain "snapped" to ends of these laterals. This could cause very small or 0 length tapes in block entity.

6) Fixed a bug where zone hydraulic items could connect to mainline items (and vice versa) using "Snap to ...".

7) Allow for converting tapes in Irrigation Blocks to spraylines. Note spraylines in Blocks are not fully supported yet.

8) Fixed a bug where the location of the minimum and maximum emitter in the Zone Summary report would always be on the first lateral for PC tapes/Outlets.

9) Elevations are now re-interpolated automatically when the "Elevation Calculation Method" is changed to DEM elevations or when the "DEM Grid Size" changes.

10) "Re-interpolate Elevations" on the "Design" menu now re-interpolates all elevations (not just new Hydraulic Items).

11) Enable "Change" for tapes that are part of a block. Note only Layer and Line Thickness can be changed.

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