Varkon

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: varkon_1.18A

Notes:
DOWNLOAD FILES FOR VARKON VERSION 1.18A
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Varkon sources:
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varkon_sources_1.18A.tar.gz
varkon_sources_1.18A.zip
(choose prefered compression format)

Varkon prebuilt binary for linux and windows:
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varkon_1.18A.tar.gz
varkon_1.18A.zip
(choose prefered compression format)

Varkon documentation:
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v_man.zip
m_man.zip



RELEASE NOTES FOR VARKON VERSION 1.18A
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Release notes for all releases can be found at:
http://varkon.sourceforge.net/relnotes.htm

Varkon function ABS() failed when called with an expression
as input.

Bug corrected in evmath.c and Varkon_1.17D distribution
files renewed 2003-04-04.

Varkon gemetric procedure CUR_CONIC( ) failed.

Bug corrected in excurve.c and Varkon_1.17D distribution
files renewed 2003-04-04.  

Mbsc failed when constants or parameter values where
declared in MBS with an expression as input.

Bug corrected and Varkon_1.17D distribution files renewed
2003-04-10.

Bug in PM corrected 2004-03-10 . Garbage collection failed
in Drawing mode. PM could grow uncontrolled until system
crashed.

Bug in  DB corrected 2004-03-10. Problem related to data
loss in big models (>10Mb).

Bug related to interactive delete corrected 2004-04-29.

Deleted entity was not automatically removed from the
display.

Maximum length of jobnames, partnames, groupnames and names
for coordinate systems has been extended to 31 characters.

Indexes for variables (arrays and matrices) are now 32 bit
integers meaning that it is now possible to declare and use
variables in MBS with indexes exceeding the old limit of
32768 (2**16). Max limit is now 2**32.

Sequence numbers and order numbers for ID:s
(#sequence_number.order_number.)  are now 32 bit integers.
This means that it is now possible to create entities with
higher ID's than before.

The WIDTH attribute can now be used also for B-planes.

A new entity type MESH has been added. A mesh consists of
vertices and optionally also edges and faces. MESH_ARR()
creates a mesh, SORT_MESH()  sorts the vertices. GETMSHH(),
GETVERTEX(), GETHEDGE(), GETFACE() and GETXFLOAT() can be
used to retrieve mesh data from the database. We use the
mesh entity in the CAD-research project to represent point
data measured from the surfaces of real world objects using
a laser scanner.

The sources for the Microsoft Windows version of Varkon
have been prepared for release as free software under the
same conditions as the Linux version of the system
(GNU/LGPL) and will be included in version 1.18A of the
source code distribution.

A bug related to points with the WIDTH-attribute set in
the Dyn-R window has been fixed.

Arc's are now correctly displayed in the Dyn-R window.

File paths including slashes "/"  (UNIX style) and/or
backslashes "\"  (Windows style) can now be used in both
the UNIX- and the Windows-version of the system. Varkon
automatically replaces any slashes with backslahes in the
Windows version of the system and contrary with the Unix
version. This faciliates multi platform support of
applications.

As set of routines to support communication with ABB
robots have been added (only UNIX version). The
communication is performed via RAP (Robot Application
Protocol), which in turn is implemented via RPC (Remote
Procedure Calls). To use the RAP-routines, they must be
included when building xvarkon, se
$VARKON_ROOT/sorces/makefile

ODBC support is now also available in the linux version of
varkon. See README_ODBC in the sources directory.

Database routines getdat_gm(), putdat_gm() and deldat_gm()
now also support data of type REF and VECTOR.


NOTE !!! Version 1.18A of Varkon is not fully compatible
with earlier versions of Varkon. MBO- or RES-files created
with version 1.17 or earlier will not work in 1.18A. All
other file formats like MBS, JOB, PLT, DOC, PID, MDF will
work without changes in 1.18.

To create MBO-files compatible with 1.18 you need to
recompile your MBS files with the MBS compiler included in
1.18. If you have jobs with MBO-files but no corresponding
MBS-files you need to decompile your MBO-files into MBS
format with 1.17 and then recompile the MBS files with 1.18.

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