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CADEMIA Version 4.0 RC1: Change Log
Professional part management: Until now, only a very limited amount of standard
parts were available in CADEMIA. An agreement has now been made for CADEMIAusers to use the CADENAS PARTcommunity platform. This Internet platform contains numerous part catalogues of well-known manufacturers. The platform can be
visited by a standard WWW browser. The parts arefound by specifying search criteria and are then downloaded to the local file system. DXF files and raster images are
particularly useful for CADEMIA. The usage of the PARTcommunity is free forCADEMIA users.
We very much appreciate the joint venture with CADENAS. We are confident that the
PARTcommunity platform is a key factor to using CADEMIA even more efficiently
from now on.
Componentgroups: From now on CADEMIA components like lines, paths, texts
and images can be united as an arbitrary complex group. The behaviour of a group is
comparable to the behaviour of a single component.For instance, a group is graphically rendered, it can be selected, the coordinates can be transformed or the graphical attributes can be changed. Since groups can be grouped themselves it is possibleto create hierarchies. Once selected, groups are recognized by the round control
point symbol. Segment control points are generally omitted.
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Adding of groups: New groups can be added to thedatabase. Entities from a DXF
file, components described by a CADEMIA macro, or existing components can be
combined in a group. Existing groups can be ungrouped again.

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Editing groups: To edit agroup it has to be opened. An open group is recognized
by an entry in the status bar and by the orange colour of the coordinate system
and the temporary geometry. All CADEMIA commands refer to theopen group.
For instance, components are automatically added to the open group. To terminate the editing of the group it has to be closed. After the group is closed the containing group is...