RELEASE 4.0 Product Notes

March 2007

The following changes have been made to DAT/EM products. Please review these items before installing your update.

As always, DAT/EM welcomes comments and suggestions from you, our clients, so please don’t hesitate to contact our support department at support@datem.com, or by calling in or faxing us with your requests.

Release 4.0 is compiled specifically for Windows 2000 and XP. Windows VISTA is not supported at this time.

Release 4.0 is compatible with the following CAD versions:

AutoCAD: *R14, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

MicroStation: *Ustn J, MicroStation V8 2004 Edition

ArcGIS: *ArcMap 9.1, ArcMap 9.2

*These versions are available but no longer supported. No further development will occur.

PLEASE NOTE: If you are thinking about purchasing a 64-bit computer, please contact DAT/EM. There are newly pending drivers associated with hardware and software. Special considerations for compatibility are necessary when using this newest option in hardware technology.

Summit Evolution

1. DiAP models may be imported into Summit using the .mod file. Images may be .sis, .sys, or .sjs. Image conversion is not necessary, but tiled tiffs may be slightly faster. If Image Creator is used to add zoom pyramids from these images and create tiled tiffs, DAT/EM stores the pixel scale from the header of the DiAP images in a private tiff tag. In this way, if images are converted, Summit can still import the .mod file.

Select File->Import and select the “ISM DiAP Models…” option.

Click “Add” to add one or more .mod files. Define the Summit project name and a folder to store it in, then click “Create Summit Project”.

2. Summit Viewer Edition has been enhanced. Now you can (1) automatically load adjacent stereo models, (2) activate Terrain Mode so the cursor follows the surface based on a loaded DTM, and (3) collect vectors using standard Capture tools. To digitize objects in 3D, the terrain mode must be active, and the elevation assigned is the interpolated value from the DTM that is loaded. Editing tools are available, based on the CAD interface purchased with the Viewer.

3. DiAP footdisk communication was not working properly and this was fixed.

4. DiAP’s .sdt binary DTM format was added to the dialogs opening DTM data. The format can be used directly, or can be converted using the point translator, LandscapePointTrans.exe.

5. Tools->Options->File Locations were not correctly directing default paths as assigned. This was fixed.

6. Camera fiducial patches were sometimes listed as “no” in the “Has Patches” column of the automatic interior dialog when, in fact, they did exist. This was corrected. Remember, the fiducial patch images are always stored with the camera file(s) for the project.

7. Four-band imagery is now supported in Summit and OrthoViewer.exe. The OrthoViewer.exe window has an option under the View pulldown menu to show the 4^th band. You can open 4-band imagery in Summit, but the 4^th band cannot be viewed. Image Creation.exe will NOT compress 4-band imagery. JPEG compression does not support 4 bands, therefore compression is not possible.

8. Clip Scope, a setting in Summit Options->SI to remove the display of objects surrounding the cursor, was changed to ignore temporary contours generated by Terrain Visualization. Also, as the area around the cursor was enlarged, some objects were completely disappearing. This was corrected.

9. On-the-fly image histogram adjustments are improved in both speed and display quality.

10. A bug causing Terrain Visualization to crash was fixed.

11. In the Project Viewer Options->Image tab a new setting for Image Pixel Size is provided to adjust the size of the image used in the viewer image display.

12. Grayscale Indexed Color .tif images are supported.

13. Terrain Visualizer has been improved.

New settings include:

a. Uniform Grid. Similar to a TIN, but creating a uniform triangulation of the DTM, Uniform Grid offers more robust smoothing. There are 4 levels of smoothing – None, and 3 additional levels with increased smoothing effects. Both the contours and the surface may be smoothed. With each higher smooth level, a greater distance from the point(s) is considered. At the highest level, half the grid size is averaged for significant smoothing.

b. Spline Lines. Spline smoothing adds vertices and smooths the contour. Spline smoothing doubles the amount of time to generate contours because aggressive checks are made to guarantee no lines cross.

c. Fast Generation Mode, when activated, will speed up contour display. To maximize performance, spline smoothing is not applied and minimum area contours are not detected.

14. ADS40 project setup has been streamlined by adding two buttons to the Project Edit dialog for ADS40 projects. “Add Multi Using Sup” and “Add Multi” buttons allow multiple image selection and the ability to search for files according to paths in the .sup files.

The second method of searching for files related to an image is based on image name. Each of these search methods provides added benefit to setting up large ADS40 projects with several images and supporting files.

15. Some Stealth Z-mouse communications were intermittently broken. Changes have been made to both hardware for new devices, and software in this release, to resolve these issues.

16. A correction was made to prevent Summit from crashing if a Summit project was opened from Windows Explorer with major path discrepancies.

17. Sample ADS40 imagery exhibiting both 16-bit and 12-bit data resulted in a setting added to Image Creation to force the imagery to 12-bit. If multiple bit configurations are detected within a single image, the imagery does not display properly unless processed with this option checked on.

18. The ability to read in control files with multiple line entries was added.

19. Rotated ADS40 imagery is processed by using information from supporting files such as the <image_name>.ads file.

20. Refraction correction was added for aerial projects. There is a new checkbox in the Project Edit dialog for this project type.

21. Earth Curvature was not applied for digital camera projects. This was fixed.

22. A correction was made to orientation for images with different rotations paired together to obtain stereo.

23. MoveToGround would display points not in the current model. If auto-load-next-model was active, this could cause Summit to drive to an unrelated point location. MoveToGround was improved to display only points within the model. If “Show All” is checked, and auto-model-move is active, Summit will drive to the correct coordinates for the point chosen, anywhere in the project.

SuperImposition

MicroStation S/I

AutoCAD S/I

No changes.

Capture for ArcGIS

NOTE: This is the first DAT/EM release supporting ArcGIS version 9.2. Recommended versions of ArcGIS are 9.1 and 9.2.

1. In the Summit Evolution Button Manager, the Generic CAD - Tentative setting is now active for use with ArcMap. This button causes the Summit Evolution cursor to move to a snapped-to point. The move is XYZ if 3D snap is on; the move is XY if 2D snap is on; the cursor does not move if snap is off.

2. This item may have been active in previous versions, but was not documented for ArcMap. The Summit Evolution Button Manager can support a series of keyword sets on a single “Type=User CAD” button. Separate each keyword set with a semi-colon character (;). Do not add a space before or after the semi-colon (;). Each time the button is pressed, the next keyword set is activated, cycling back to the first set after the last set is used.

· Example 1: Scroll through DAT/EM drawing modes.

Summit Evolution Button Manager, Intended for use with ArcMap, Type=User CAD.

Action=draw Stream;draw PointToPoint;draw arc;draw Square;draw trace;

· Example2: Scroll through DAT/EM snapping options.

Summit Evolution Button Manager, Intended for use with ArcMap, Type=User CAD.

Action=Snap2d;Snap3d;SnapOff;

3. SHIFT FEATURES was not accepting user-defined elevation fields as well as elevations on each vertex. This was corrected.

4. A change in Release 3.10 when multiple input devices was added caused the DRAG button configuration to fail. This was fixed.

Capture for AutoCAD

NOTE: All changes apply to AutoCAD 2000-2007 versions unless stated otherwise. This is the first release supporting AutoCAD 2007.

1. AutoCAD 2007 required several changes and a recompile of DAT/EM software. If you experience any problems using AutoCAD 2007 with Capture or MapEditor, please notify DAT/EM support.

Capture for MicroStation

Changes apply to Capture for MicroStation V8/2004 Edition series only. MicroStation V8 version should be 08.05.00.64 or higher.

This is the first release to install for MicroStation XM. However, testing has not been completed and it is considered a beta release right now. You are welcome to use Capture for MicroStation XM and report any problems to support@datem.com. However, at this time DAT/EM cannot recommend Capture for XM for map production. (Note: Bentley recommends that hyperthreading be off in the PC BIOS for best performance.)

1. EDSYMBOLOGY has been removed from the command list. The functionality is available in CHANGE ATTRIBUTES, as well as additional options. CHANGE ATTRIBUTES is not a new command. If you currently use EDSYMBOLOGY on a keypad or other customized tool, please modify it to call CHANGE ATTRIBUTES.

2. Bentley recommends that hyperthreading be turned off in the BIOS of the computer running MicroStation V8 XM Edition. There are some reports of sluggish response in XM. Bentley has already released an update. Please check their web site for additional information regarding this new version and update as necessary.

3. XYZOUT is in the process of having a facelift and is still being debugged. If you have suggestions for this command that you wish to submit, now is a good time to get this into the software, so please contact support.

Selection sets are supported. Shape functionality has been deactivated, but should be available in future releases. Known problems include: delimiter(s) at the end of file entries; points exported as strings with two same XYZ coordinates; some indexing problems with levels exceeding 63; level names exported as numeric levels only (an option will be added).

4. CROSSCHECK is undergoing some additional testing and review. If you experience a problem using this command, please contact DAT/EM support.

5. XYZIN is currently being tested for rewrite. If you have trouble using the existing command, please contact DAT/EM support for an update on the status. Also, if you have input files that were not supported previously, please contact support with more details.

6. DATDRAW CHANGE SETTINGS, including the “Use Attributes” checkbox in the DATDRAW dialog, has been deactivated. The command was locking up MicroStation. A solution will be provided in the next release. Other DATDRAW commands work well.

7. Editing cells with EZ caused a scale change. This was corrected.

8. Occasionally, menus added to the MicroStation menu bar when an application is loaded would either not appear at all, or appear several times, once for each time the application was loaded. This has been fixed.

9. TOUCH BATCH can fail to detect multiple crossings along the same object.

10. Bspline curve objects are now supported in DAT/EM object processing tools.

11. MapEditor’s Parameter File Editor will sort entries in default processing order. The Sort button has been modified to “Default CMD Order”. This option will reorder each command entry of the parameter file currently being edited. Although there is more than one possible sort order for processing, a default has been established as follows.