What is New

On this page you find the lastest function of OCAD, which are described in this Wiki.
To use the newest verion of OCAD, please see the Service Update page to learn how to download it.
A rough overview over the last years shows the Timeline on your homepage.

File

• Create DTM from Google Maps API option added to New Map Wizard (18.0.0)
• Export KMZ: Opacity option added (18.1.0)
• Layer Info: Information about the imported layers added (18.1.4)
• New Map Wizard: New option to set the map rotation to magnetic north (18.1.7)

View

• 64x Zoom supported (18.0.0)

Select

• Save Selection , Reload Selection and Edit Selection added to Orienteering edition (18.0.0)
• Move neighboring segments and congruent vertices in one single step (18.1.2)

Editing Objects

• Smart Paste function. Option to create objects or move view (18.2.2)
• Snapping available in Orienteering Edition (18.1.0)
• Grouping of Objects available in Orienteering Edition (18.2.1)
• Paste Coordinates and Move View or Create Objects at the place of the coordinates (18.2.1)

Topology

• Remove Undershoots and Overshoots available in Orienteering Edition (18.2.1)

Map

• Symbol Set Report: New function added to export the symbol definitions in Excel file (18.0.0)
• Check Legibility to validate, if your map meets the ISOM 2017 requirements (18.0.0)
• Enable or disable the option Rotate layout objects when rotating a map (18.1.3)
• Rotate Map to Magnetic North and consider the declination (18.1.7)

Layout

• Move up and down layout objects with drag and drop (18.1.6)

Background Map

• Option to transfer the background map from another coordinate system when opening the aerial image from Manage Background Maps dialog (18.2.2)
• JPEG 2000 file format supported (18.2.2)
• Online WMS available in Orienteering Edition (18.2.1)

DEM

• Create Contour Lines: Create smoothed contour lines using topographic position index (TPI) (18.0.0)
• Create Contour Lines: Use different symbols for depressions (18.0.0)
• Create Contour Lines: Load symbols from template… for faster assignment to the different types of countour lines (18.0.0)
• Extract landform or vegetation point features directly from DEM (knolls, small depressions, prominent trees) with the Extract Features function (18.0.0)
• Vectorize automatically cliffs with the Extract Cliff Features From Black Pixels function (18.1.4)
• Import Wizard: Option to create vegetation base map from Lidar point cloud (18.2.1)

GPS

• Laser Rangefinder available in Orienteering edition (18.0.0)
• Automatically use GPS position for drawing (18.1.2)

Help

• Use the License Transfer Utility to deactivate your license on your computer and activate it on another one (12.2.0)
• The License Manager shows an overview about the OCAD licenses which are assigned to your organization (12.2.8)
• License Manager: It is possible to install additional Team licenses (18.2.0)

Course Setting

New Course Setting Project Wizard

• New Course Setting Project Wizard added. (18.2.2)

Compose Course

• Compose Course tool. Add Start, Add Control, Add Finish etc. tools added (18.2.2)

Options

• Option for Continuous Control Numbering added for one-man relays (18.0.0)

Preview

• Show all courses together in preview (18.1.5)

Course and Event Statistics

• Leg statistics option to hide legs used in one course only (18.1.5)
• Show number of runners per leg in Leg statistics (18.1.5)
• List of categories per course added to course and event statistics export (18.1.5)

Export

• IOF XML import added (course objects, courses, classes) (18.0.0)
• Export Courses in KMZ format and watch them later in Google Earth (18.1.2)
• Export Course Scheme as an ocd.-File (18.1.3)
• Copy the Course Scheme to clipboard as Bitmap (18.1.3)

Misc

• Expiry date added when starting OCAD (18.0.0)
• Expiry date in activation file (18.0.0)
• Silent reactivation added (18.0.0)
• Subscription Start Date added (18.0.4)
• Export: Export size A3+ added (18.2.0)
• XML Script, Shape Export: Parameter 'File' added (18.2.1)

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