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WHAT'S NEW FOR WINDOWS COMPASS
===========================================================================Newest===========================================================================
1. Cave Editor (1-31-10). Fixed a problem in the Editor where if usedthe Geographic Calculator to calculate Declination, any changes you havemade to the header would be lost.
2. All Programs. (1-31-10). The Geocalculator was updated to include themagnetic declination models through 2015.
3. SVGExporter. (3-20-10). There is new Cartography tool to help yougenerate finished maps from Compass. The SVGExporter allows you to export SVGmap to programs like Inkscape or Illustrator. The SVG Exporter also allows youto merge new data into an existing map. It also allows you to update an existingmap with new data. The program handles moving, rotating, scaling and warping ofyour existing maps to handle changes in the data, new surveys, resurveys, blunder removalor just changing the map format.
4. Sketch Map Editor. (3-20-10). There is new Cartography
tool to help you generate finished maps from Compass. TheSketch Map Editor allows you to edit your sketch map imagesto make them easier to use. You can trim them, adjust thecontrast, remove smudges, scale and rotate the sketches. Youcan also merge multiple maps into a single image that iseasier to handle and load into drawing programs for tracing.Finally it will warp the image so the stations marks exactlymatch the positions of in the actual plot file.
5. Cave Editor. (8-31-10) There is now an option to copy theSurvey List to the clipboard. This includes comments anddate, in the order they are displayed.
6. Project Manager. (9-8-10). Fixed a problem where the compiler wouldnot accurately calculate the magnetic declination based on the date.
7. Cave Editor. (9-11-10). Made the columns in the editor resizeable. You can adjustthe column width by dragging the seam between columns at the top of the editor screen.
8. SVG Exporter. (10-7-10). Fixed a problem with the ScaleBar in Metric mode.
9. Viewer, CaveXO. (10-7-10). Fixed a problem with the LRUDorientation on Vertical shots.
10. Project Manager. (1-1-11) Fixed a problem with the SEF import whereshots with missing "To" stations were not handled properly.
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1. Project Manager (3-26-08). I have made severalimprovements to the way Compass handles the creation of new
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surveys. In the past, the editor took its default formatfrom current survey format. This could cause problems whenyou wanted to save other default, but not change the defaultsurvey format. As a result, the Editor now has a separateoption that allows you to explicitly set the default formatfor new files. This is the only way you can set the defaultformat. (As a result, you will need to set and save thesetting the first time you use the new version.)
In addition, the Project Manager now takes its defaultsetting from the Editor's settings when it creates a newfiles.
2. Project Manager/Viewer (7-18-08). There is now an optionto display cave maps in Google Earth by exporting KML files.In addition, the Geo-reference information entered in theProject Manager is now propogated through out all theprograms.
3. All Programs. (9-2-08) Fixed a problem with all programswhere some objects, especially grids, were the wrong size ifyou ran the video display at a resolution other than 96 dpi.One side effect of the problem was that some buttons andother objects on the screen would be invisible because they
would be pushed off the screen or covered up.
4. CaveXO. (9-2-08). The OpenGL version of CaveX now hasmore sophisticated lighting and materials controls. Forexample, you can now setup 8 lights instead of the original1.
5. Viewer (9-7-08). Cleaned up the Complex dialog to make iteasier to use. The window is now resizeabe; the grids sothey expand as the window expands, which displays moreitems. I also improved the way the selecting andhighlighting works.
6. Project Manager (9-7-08). Cleaned up the Fixed Stationsdialog box to make it easier to use. The window is nowresizeable; the Fixed-Station grid expands with the windowto display more items and the columns are now resizeable.
7. Cave Viewer (2-24-09). Added a feature that displays thestation coordinates next to the station.
8. Cave Viewer (2-25-09). Added features that allows thestation coordinates to be displayed as either UTM, Long/LatDegrees or Long/Lat Degrees, Minutes and Seconds.
9. Project Manager (4-21-09). Compass now has the option of
handling situations where two or more fixed station lay indifferent UTM zones.
10. Project Manager (5-3-09). Improved the Geocalculatorworld map with a higher resolution image of the earth. Itwill also display UTM zones and/or Longitude and Latitudeline on the map. Finally, it also allows zooming the map formore resolution.
11. Project Manager (5-4-09). Cleaned up several human
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interface issues to make the program easier to use. The NodeEditor now does not convert between Meters and Feet unlessspecifically configured to do so. You can also double clickon Tree Item to make it easier to perform tasks such asediting, compiling and entering fixed stations.
12. Project Manager (7-7-09). There is now an option todisable the use of declinations. This is useful if you wantto create a map referenced to magnetic north.
13. Viewer (8-27-09). Fixed a problem where extraneous lineswould appear in the plot if some of the Fill Passage Modelswere enabled.
14. Project Manager (10-7-09). Fixed a problem where thesurvey statistics could be altered by suspended shots. Forexample, the lengths individual surveys in the surveystatistics section could be off by the difference in lengthbetween the actual shot and the suspended shot.
15. Project Manager (10-8-09). The Project Manager now savesa default setting for the "Compile When" and "Close When"options. That means that you can set the program to defaultto Always Close and Always Compile the program.
16. Viewer (10-8-09). The Viewer now has the option ofopening "Maximized" so it fill the whole screen.
17. Viewer (10-8-09). The Station Labeling options in theViewer now apply to Elevation, Station Coordinates and ShotParameter options. For example, this means that you can setStation Coordinates to display every N-number of shots sothe display is less cluttered.
18. Viewer (10-12-09) Fixed a problem where if you rightclicked on the a survey and chose to use the Edit feature,the Viewer would close when the Editor opened. The same
thing would happen in you tried to edit the survey from the"Find Survey" dialog.
19. Editor (12-06-09). Improved the "Survey Search" optionso the dialog box is not modal and stay on top. This allowsyou to find a survey and edit it without closing the dialogbox.
20. Viewer (12-11-09). The Viewer now supports coloring thepassage modeling in the Complex Plotting Feature.In the past, the Plot Sections and Plot Surveys only coloredthe center line when the passage option was enabled. Now the wholepassage can be colored if Passage Modeling mode is set to 3D Polygon.
21. Viewer (12-14-09). The Viewer now supports highlightingloops in the plot. You can individually select each loop fordisplay. The program uses an optimizing algorithm that findsthe set of loops with the shortest individual loop lengths.
22. Project Manager (12-22-09). Fixed a problem that occurred whenyou had a mixture of Links and Fixed stations. The Links, which cannotbe georeferenced, were setting the zone to 31 during compilation. Thiscaused a problem exporting KML files.
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===========================================================================12-30-07===========================================================================
1. Cave Editor. (2-20-07) The Editor buffer has beenincreased from 5000 to 10,000 shots. This was done to handlethose rare instance in which you have more than a fewhundred shots in a survey.
In general, you should not have more than a few hundredshots in a survey. The typical survey team can only survey afew hundred shots in a day, so the only way you can havemore the a couple hundred shots, is if you combine thesurveys of more than one team or more than one date. Thisdefeats the purpose of splitting the cave into separatesurvey's. You should always start a new survey whenever youchange the area the survey covers, the date is different orthe survey team is different.
2. Viewer (5-22-07) Fixed a problem in the Viewer where youcouldn't go from the Viewer to the Editor for certain filesand paths.
3. Editor (5-22-07). Added feature in the Editor thatdisplays detailed information about the file that iscurrently open, including dates and command lineinformation.
4. Project Manager (5-31-07). Added a feature to produce"Developed" or "Unfolded" profiles. The feature producesplot files where all the passage are set to the sameazimuth. This effectively flattens the profile view of thecave. This allows you to see the full profile of the caveeven when the passages twist around so them come directlytoward or away from the screen.
5. Project Manager (6-3-07). Fixed a very subtle bug thatoccurred if you had at least two fixed stations, you wereusing UTM convergence rotation and you were closing the cavewith a fairly large error. Under these circumstances, theConvergence Rotation would get applied twice causing theloops not to be close properly.
6. Viewer (6-8=07). Made the Find Survey Dialog more usableby making the dialog resizable, so grids of data could beexpanded for easier viewing.
7. CaveX (8-20-07). Because Windows Vista does not supportDirectX Retained Mode, there is a new version of CaveX
called CaveXO which uses OpenGL. OpenGL works under allversions of Windows.
8. All Programs (8-20-07). All the Compass Help files havebeen converted to CHM help file format. This was necessaryto in order for Compass to work properly unders WindowsVista.
9. Project Manager (8-27-07). There is now a new option thatdisplays statistcal information about all the "Sections" in
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a Project.
10. All Programs (8-30-07). Made a number of changes to the wayall programs install so they can be installed and used under a lowerprivilege account.
11. Project Manager (8-20-07). A number improvements weremade to the statistics display.
12. CaveX (11-3-07). The new version of CaveX (CaveXO) can now read and writeX-Files.
13. Viewer (12-9-07). Fixed a problem where if you tried toprint a plot with thick lines using the Complex Plottingwith Station Labeling turned on, only one survey would printwith the thick lines.
14. Viewer. (12-9-07). Added an option to the Complex Plotting Featurethat allows you to select a full palette of colors for the Survey andSection coloring options.
15. Editor. (12-30-07). There are two new block modify features. The first oneis used to come up with relevant surveys names for files where the surveynames have been omitted. It does this by analyzing the survey shots.
The second feature allows you to rearrange the LRUD data when it wasincorrectly entered.
===========================================================================9-17-06===========================================================================
1. Project Manager (11-2-05). Fixed a problem wheresuspended shots were not included in the per-surveystatistics.
2. Viewer. (11-27-05) The Viewer now saves various station
handling options such as the Station Mark Shape, the StationMark Size, etc. This allows you to configure defaultsettings for these options.
3. Viewer/CaveX. (12-11-05) Fixed a problem with the 3DExporter that limited the Station Names (and other strings)to eight characters when Station Names can be up to 12characters.
4. Project Manager. (1-4-06). Added an attached error logthat automatically displays during compliation or loopclosing. This make it easier to get to the error log andmake you more aware of error conditions.
5. Cave Editor. (1-21-06) The Editor now has two newfeatures that allow you to make changes to Station Namesacross a large number of shots. The options allows you toadd Prefixes and Postfixes to Station Names. The optionsalso allow you to remove Prefixes and Postfixes to StationNames. The option can be applied to assortments of wholesurveys and a range of shots within surveys.
6. Viewer. (2-28-06) The Viewer now has a new option that
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will fit the cave to the current screen size. This allowsyou to view the whole cave when even when the Viewer windowis small.
7. Editor. (2-28-06) When deleting a survey, the highlightnow moves the previous entry rather than to the beginning ofthe list. This makes it easy delete several surveys becauseyou don't have re-find your place in the list.
8. Editor. (2-28-06) Fixed several minor problems in theAdvanced Survey search feature.
9. 3D Converter (2-29-06). Fixed a problem in where theprogram would omit stations with the same name only one wasupper case the other lower case.
10. 3D Converter. (3-27-06). Moved the "Unit" option off ofthe Misc Page and put it in a more obvious place where it isvisible from the export options.
11. 3D Converter. (3-28-06). Fixed a problem where theElevations in some Shapefile DBF files were not converted tometers when the Meters option was selected.
12. CaveBase. (4-27-06) Added a new feature to CaveBase thatallows you to add, delete or move fields in an existingdatabase without losing data.
13. Viewer. (6-25-06). Fixed a problem that occurred whenyou were trying to enter a search string in a "Search/Find"dialog box. If any of the characters in the search stringwere one of the Menu Shortcut keys, the character would notbe entered, and the Action associated with the short cutwould be carried out.
14. Editor. (7-15-06). Fixed a problem where clicking on theresults of an advanced search would take you to the wrong
survey if the surveys were not in the original order, suchas sorted by date.
15. Project Manager. (8-8-06). Fixed an unintializedvariable problem that could cause small inaccuracies thestatistics reporting.
16. Project Manager. (8-15-06). Improved the file-openingdialogs so they can be expanded to view more files andfolders.
17. Editor. (8-15-06). Increased the editors shot capacityfrom 1500 to 5000 shots. Also added a feature to warn the
user that the too many items have been pasted into theeditor and the buffer overflowed.
18. Project Manager. (8-24-06). The "Custom Export" optionnow allows you to export the closing shots a separate partof the list.
19. Viewer. (9-16-06). The Viewer now has the ability to displayshot information such as azimuth, length or inclination next toeach shot.
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20. Project Manager. (9-16-06). The Project Manager nowdisplays distance from the entrance for each station as apart of the statistics display. This is not the straight-linedistance from the entrance, but the actual walking distanceto reach the station
21. Viewer. (9-16-06). The Viewer will now display thedistance to the entrance in the "Find Survey/Station" tool.This is not the straight-line distance from the entrance,but the actual walking distance to reach the station
22. Viewer. (9-16-06). The Viewer will now color surveys bytheir distance from the entrance. This is not thestraight-line distance from the entrance, but the actualwalking distance to reach the station.
23. Viewer. (9-17-06). The "Complex Plotting" of the Viewernow allows you to selectively color passages according to theirdistances from the entrance. This allows you to create colormaps showing time or difficulty in reaching certain zones of thecave.
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1. Viewer. The Measurement Tool now displays commas inthousands place. This makes it easier to read the very largenumbers that are displayed when the cave is referenced togeographic coordinates.
2. 3D Exporter. Fixed a bug in the Shapefile exporter whereif the program was set to meters, the bounding box was stillexported in feet.
3. Viewer. The Viewer can now read GIF, PNG, TIFF and JPGfiles for bitmap backgrounds.
4. Viewer. Normally, the Viewer displays all passages walls,even though they may face away from the user and may behidden by the front wall. As a result, the Viewer now has a"Hide Back Walls" option. When the is enabled, passage wallsfacing away from the user are not displayed. This makes thedisplay less cluttered and makes it easier to pick outindividual passages. It also speeds up the display
5. 3D Exporter (12/29/04). Fixed a problem where the Exportercould not be run twice without restarting the main program.
6. All Compass Programs (12/29/04). All programs now show thename of the file they work on in the Icon on the Windows Taskbar. This makes it easier work with multiple copies ofCompass running working on different caves.
7. CaveBase (12/29/04). Fixed a problem where CaveBase wouldcomplain if you used the "Reopen" menu to view and aliaseddatabase.
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8. 3D Exporter. (1-8-05). Fixed a problem where if youexported a DXF file, the "Save Dialog Box" would not becorrectly set for Shapefiles.
9. SDTSConverter. (1-16-05). Added a feature that suggests afilename based on the DEM Title. This makes it easier toconvert a group of files without having to look at thecontent of the file to figure out which quadrangle it is.
10. Declination. (1-20-05). The magnetic models forcalculating declination have been updated to with latest IAGAdata. This means that Compass can now generate magneticdeclinations until year 2010.
11. 3D Exporter. (1-26-05). Fixed another problem whereShapefile data was output as feet even though meters wasselected.
12. Viewer. (2-1-05). Fixed a bug that had crept in thatwould not allow you to save Rose/Depth graphs to files.
13. Project Manager. (2-3-05) The Blunder Detection dialogbox can now be expanded so that more entries can be viewed inthe lists.
14. Editor. (2-6-05) Added a feature that allows the Editorto search for any Station Name, word in a Comment or anysurvey Team Members.
15. 3D Exporter. (2-7-05). The Exporter can now mark stationlocations witn a circle. The circle can transparent oropaque.
16. Viewer. (2-7-05). The Viewer can now mark stations withcircles as well as triangles.
17. Viewer. (2-10-05). Fixed a size problem with passage wall
marks.
18. Project Manager. (2-25-05). The survey statistics sectionnow shows Total Length, Total Shots, Included Length,Included Shots, Excluded Length and Excluded Shots.
19. Project Manager. (3-5-05) The lists in the Statistics andBlunder Detection windows now support wheel mice and hotscrolling. (Note: you may need to click on one of the cellsin the list before it will respond to the Wheel Mouse.) Also,right click context menu has been added to the Status Dislay.
20. CaveX. (3-12-05) CaveX now has the ability to generated
3D Rose-Depth diagrams. These full 3D models that can panned,rotated and zoomed, which allows them to be viewed from anyangle. 3D Rose Diagrams are much more useful than ordinaryRose Diagrams because they allow you to see passage trendsthat only exist at certain depths in the cave.
21. Viewer. (3-16-05). The Viewer now has the option ofscaling metafiles. This gives more control of the scaling andimage size when metafiles are imported into drawing programs.
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22. Editor. (3-20-05). Fixed a problem that occurred where ifyou entered new data and then inserted a new shot withoutleaving the cell, the new data would be lost.
23. Viewer. (3-20-05). Fixed a problem where the saving ascaled bitmap would cause the cave to be scaled too large.
24. Viewer. (3-20-05). The interface for the Viewer has beenreworked so there are now scrollbars on the screen when theViewer window has not been maximized. This allows you toscroll to any part of the cave plot without expanding thewindow.
25. Viewer. (3-21-05). There is now a miniture 3D Compass onthe tool bar that can be used to rotate the cave in 3D space.This makes it easier to do rotation without opening thelarger 3D Compass.
26. Project Manager. (3-21-05). Made several improvements tothe Blunder detection routines. These include displaying theoriginal Azimuth, Length and Inclination with each blunderedshot candidate. This makes it easier to select the likelyblunder. For example, let's say the program suggests that a10-degree inclination adjustment on a shot will close the
loop. This means that simply changing the sign on a 5-degreeinclination would fix the error. If the shot has a 5-degreeinclination, it is a very likely candidate to be blundered.
27. 3D Exporter. (5-3-05). The 3D Exporter will now exports alabel that displays the cave depth at each station in the DXFfiles.
28. Project Manager. (5-25-05). The Project Manager now has apopup menu that will appear when you right click on theProject Tree. The popup menu gives you easy access to mostcommon commands.
29. Project Manager/Editor. (5-25-05). The Geocalculator hasbeen improved so it is easier to enter Longitude andLatitude. In the past, the auto-correct feature of theprogram would change several numbers at once if you enteredan invalide Longitude or Latitude.
30. Editor. (6-25-05) Fixed a problem with the "AdvancedSearch Feature" where it would not work properly whenEuropean number formats were used. For example, in manyEuropean countries, a comma "," is used as a decimal point,whereas a period "." is used in the US.
31. Project Manager/Editor. (6-25-05) Fixed a problem where
Editor would report that the Geographic Position was not setif the computer was set to European number format. (Seenumber 30 above.)
32. GTFViewer. (7-11-05) The GTFViewer now has the ability toadjust brightness, contrast and gamma to improve the qualityof an image.
33. Viewer. (8-6-05) The Viewer now has a right-click contextmenu that allows you carry out commands more quickly.
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Currently the menu includes the option to identify the surveyunder the cursor. There is also the option of editing thesurvey under the cursor.
34. Viewer. (8-9-05) The Viewer's Complex Plotting Featurehas more options for Surveys and Sections. Surveys can now beselectively displayed using Color-By-Depth. Sections can beselectively Excluded, Colored, Show Stations or Colored ByDepth. This makes the Section and Survey options symetrical.
35. Viewer. (8-13-05) The Viewer's Complex Plotting Featurenow allows you to selectively plot Sections or Survey usingthe 2D and 3D passage modeling features of Compass. This isuseful for plotting cave passages along with surface terrain.
36. Viewer. (8-14-05) Several features were added to Viewer'sComplex Plotting Feature. First, Passage Wall Modeling can beindependently applied to any survey or cave section. Second,you now have independent control over labeling stations sothat station labels can be added to any of the other options.
37. Viewer. (8-20-05) Several new features were added to theViewer's Complex Plotting Feature. First, the tops andbottoms of the Depth colors can be set based on the top and
bottom of the selected surveys and sections. Second, theability to adjust each band's width had been improved so thatthe bands can be narrower. There are also features that makeit easier to select individual bands.
38. Viewer. (8-20-05) The Viewer now has the ability to colorthe cave according to the distance from the user's viewpoint. By using a gradient of 23 colors, the program createsillusion of 3D passages with the need for colored glasses.The option includes a white-black color scheme for blackscreens, a black-white scheme for white screens and ared-blue scheme for enhanced 3D. You can also create your owncustom color schemes. The display is also "Depth-Sorted" so
the near passage appear on top of far away passages, nomatter what the original survey order was.
39. Project Manager. (8-21-05) The Project Manager now savesthe UTM Datum along with the Geographic Location. Also, adefault Datam is saved with the "User Defaults."
40. All Programs. (8-24-05). The Geocalculator now hasseveral improvements in the way Datum conversions arehandled. The main change is that it uses the Molondenskytransform for more accuracy when converting between datums.
41. Project Manager. (9-6-05). The Project Manager now allows
you to save a default setting for Meter vs. Feet so thatall parts of the program default to the specified units.
42. Project Manager. (9-17-05). Fixed a minor problem wherethe first station in the plot file is not necessarily theorigin of the cave.
43. Project Manager. (10-13-05). Project Manager now allowsthe user to select a default directory where most cave filesare kept. The program then automatically uses the default as
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the starting point you go to open a file.
44. GTFViewer. (10-24-05). The GTFViewer will now save imagesas GeoTiff images. This will allow you to register any imagewith geographic coordinates and scales.
45. Viewer. (10-27-05). The Viewer now supports the option oflocking bitmap images to the cave. This is useful for tyingtopographic maps, aerial photographs and other maps ordrawings to the cave. Once the image has been registered, theimage will expand, contract, shift and rotate synchronislywith cave. There is also the option of editing, triming, andresizing the image. You can also adjust the contrast,brightness and gamma of the image. This is useful forcorrecting overly dark or light images and improving itreadability.
46. Project Manager. (10-27-05). Fixed a problem with theProject Manager where it would not save the state of theConvergence option if it had been turned on and then turnedoff. In other words, if you enable Convergence, saved thefile and then turned it off, you could not save the fact thatit had been turned off.
45. Project Manager. (10-27-05). Added a feature to the StatisticsSection that allows custom export of information to databases andspreadsheet. The feature allows you to create Coma or Tab-Delimitedtext files that can be imported into most data bases and spreadsheets.You have complete control over which data items are exported.
46. Viewer. (10-29-05). Improved the Drag Mode zooming feature to makeit smoother and to work over a larger range.
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1. Viewer. The DXF Exporter now has the option of puttingpassage marks at either the From or the To stations.
2. Project Manager. Fixed a problem where fixed stations didnot purge the station list which caused station name collisions withsome files. The program now properly handles both links andfixed stations.
3. Project Manager. Fixed several problems with file handlingin the Project Manager.
4. CaveX. CaveX now has a "transparency" option, which allows
you to see through the passage walls so you can see thesurvey shot line, survey stations and other nearby passages.
5. CaveX. There are several improvements to CaveX's scalingand zooming, which makes it easier to fly through thepassages.
6. Project Manager. Reduced the Project Managers use of CPUtime while the Editor is running. This reduces the program'sdemands upon the system and makes other applications more
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responsive.
7. Project Manager. Fixed some minor problems with thedefault date and location for Geographic Calculator.
8. Viewer. Added complete passage modeling options includingOctagnonal passage shape, merged prism ends and cornerrounding.
9. Viewer. Fixed a bug in the Find Stations tool where thecursor would not move back to the nearest station if it wasmoved a short distance from the station.
10. Viewer. Fixed a problem where the Viewer would not centeron a station with certain video drivers.
11. Viewer. Several improvements were made to the way theViewer responds to mouse movements and button clicks. TheViewer now longer get stuck in drag mode with the viewchanging everytime the mouse is moved even when all thebutton are up. The automatic update works better in variousdragging modes.
12. Viewer. The Viewer now supports a wheel mouse for
zooming.
13. Viewer. The Viewer can read TIFF, JPEG, and Metafiles forbackground images. The Viewer also has a dialog box thatallows you to preview the images before loading.
14. Project Manager/Editor. Fix a problem that made itdifficult to enter certain UTM coordinates. The problemoccurred because the program tried to automatically correctfor invalid UTM values. Now it just displays an errormessage.
15. Project Manager. There are now two buttons on the Project
Manager. One processes and displays the whole project and theother only processes and displays the highlighted item. Thismakes it less confusing and clearer what item is beingprocessed and displayed.
16. Editor. To simplify entering shot flag information, theEditor copies the flags from the previous shot, when youcreate a new shot. There is now an option to disable/enablethe feature.
17. ExTierra. ExTierra is a new Terrain modeling program thatcan create realist 3D images of the earth's surface using DEMfiles. The images support coloring, shadowing and texturing
and can produce real-time animation speeds of hundreds offrames per second with a good graphics card. The terrain canbe overlain with topographic maps and aerial photographswhich give extremely realistic views of the surface that looklike you are literally flying over the land.
18. All Programs. There is now an integrated 3D compositingengine in all Compass programs. This enables all Compassviewers and to produce sophisticated 3D models of cavepassages.
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19. Viewer, CaveX. These two programs now have an integratedexport engine which handled exporting DXF files, Shapefilesand VRML files. VRML files are the big new addition. VRMLimages can be used post 3D Cave Image on the internet. SinceVRML Viewers are available for all types of computers andoperating systems, they can be used view cave images onvirtually any computer.
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1. Project Manager. The Project Manager now calculates thesurface area of all the passages in the cave. This can beuseful calculating the area available as habitat for cavedwelling animals, calculation heat transfer to between rockand air, etc.
2. Viewer. Fixed problem where the Viewer did not display theprint dialog before printing and also did not display the"Print To File" option.
3. DEMReader. Fixed a problem where the DEM Reader would not
properly display the corner locations on some for DEM Files.
4. Editor. Fixed a problem that caused a floating point errorif you tried to repair a shots that had been entered asinclination but was really depth gauge.
5. Editor. Added an option that allows you to repair depthgauge units where the values were entered as meters or feetincorrectly.
6. Project Manager. The Blunder tools now gives you thechoice of displaying data in either meters or feet.
7. SDTSCon. There is a new program that converts SDTS DEMfile to the old DEM format. It is faster and more errortolerant than other programs.
8. Project Manager. Fixed a problem where the statisticdisplay columns did not alway align vertically.
9. Project Manager. Fixed a problem that occurred if youcompiled the same data twice with out restarting the program.If you did this on some caves, the statistics would beslightly different between compiles.
10. Editor. The automatic station incrementing function now
leaves all leading zeros in tack.
11. Geo Tiff Viewer. The Viewer now has the ability tomanually scale imnages. This allows you to do measurement onimages that don't have the usual GeoTiff scaling andcoordinates.
12. CaveX. CaveX can now saves screen images as bitmap files.
13. Viewer. The Viewer now offers the option of tilting the
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whole cave in addition to tilting the color and the DepthExclusions. This allows you to remove any tilt to the cavecaused by geological uplift.
14. Project Manager. Fixed a problem with the Loop Closerthat would cause distortions when closing long stringsbetween fixed stations.
15. New Discounts. Groups discounts for Compass products hasbeen increased by 5%.
16. GTFViewer. The viewer now shows compass angle along withthe other measurements.
17. CaveX. The program now show more accurate Yaw, Pitch andRoll values.
18. Project Manager. The Project Manager now includes PassageFloor Area as part of its statistics.
19. All Programs. The resource useage of all Compass programshas been reduced. This is especially useful for people whoare using Windows 95, 98 or ME because these operatingsystems don't allocate resources very efficiently. This makes
Compass more stable under these operating systems. Also meansthat you can open up to four copies of the Viewer withoutdepleating resources under Win98. (Note: this was never anissue under WinNT, 2000 or XP.)
20. Viewer. The Complex plotting feature now allows you todisplay a list of all that surveys that have been included inthe complex plot. This is useful for picking out the surveysthat pertain to certain parts of the cave or have certaincharacteristics.
21. Viewer. The Complex Plotting Feature now allows you toselect specific parts of a cave to analize the tilt of the
passages. This allows you to compensate for the regional dipof the cave based on specific parts of the cave.
22. Project Manager/Editor. The Geographic Calculator nowcalculates magnetic declination based on the IGRF and DGRFmodels, covering a range of date from 1900 to 2005. Thisallows you to enter accurate declination for any location andany modern date. The Project Manager also has a feature thatoverrides the entered declinations and calculates them foreach survey during the compile and closing process.
23. CaveX. CaveX has improved movie capture controls thatallow you to set up the file in advance and then trigger the
start and end of capture with a single button click. Thismakes it much easier to setup and then capture movieanimations.
24. CaveX. The help file for CaveX have been extensivelyrewritten.
25. CaveBase. CaveBase has been convert to a 32-bit program.It has an improved windows layout, making it easier to viewand edit the data. There is improved support for Access
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databases. The latest version of the Borland Database Engineis now distributed with Compass.
26. DEM Reader. There a number of improvements to the DEMReading including a number of bug fixes, improved screenlayout, and rewritten help files.
29. Editor. The number of shot that can be edited in a singlesurvey has been increased from 500 to 1500.
30. AURIGA SUPPORT FOR COMPASS. Auriga is a program thatallows you to enter and plot cave data directly into a Palmcomputer. Since Palms computers are small, light andinexpensive, they can be carried underground and are theperfect surveying tools. Auriga now has features that allowyou export the cave data to Compass. For more information,follow this link:
http://www.speleo.qc.ca/auriga
31. CaveX. CaveX now has improved passage modeling. Cornershave been made smoother and more precise. There are alsofeatures that handle vertical passage properly.
32. Shapefile Export. Shapefile Export. Compass now can to dodirect exports of Shapefiles, which allow cave data to beread into ArcView and other ESRI programs. The exportincludes nine different parameters so that different aspectof the cave passages can be viewed separately in the GISprograms. The options include 2D and 3D passage modeling.Having Shapefile export in Compass allows you to use freeERSI software such ArcExplorer.
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1. ALL PROGRAMS. Windows allows two basic font scalings. Themost common is 96 pixels per inch. The other is 120 pixelsper inch. Some parts of COMPASS were improperly scaled whenthe Windows was in the 120 pixel mode. As a result, allCOMPASS program have been improved so they work better withthe large font modes.
2. VIEWER. The Viewer can export the Rose Diagrams and theDepth histograms as Windows Metafiles. This produces muchhigher quality images in word processor and publishingprograms.
3. VIEWER. The Viewer now has an animation option that allows
you to create movies much easier than before. The animationoption allows you to set a series of points that define theanimations sequence. The program then produces a series ofintermediate points that creates a smooth, realisticanimations sequence.
4. GENERAL. Jim Olsen has created a new program that convertCOMPASS files to Adobe Acrobat files. This is very useful forcreating finished maps from COMPASS data. The web address is:http://www.caversdigest.com/software.htm
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5. ALL PROGRAMS. Solved a problem where files with path nameslonger than 80 characters could cause a problem. Path namescan now 255 characters long.
6. VIEWER. Some versions of Windows cannot handle bitmapslarger than about 16 megabytes. In the past, the Viewerwouldn't allows you to try to save bitmaps larger than 16megabytes. The Viewer will now warn you, but still allow youto try.
7. VIEWER. The Viewer now has a features that helps drawpassage models for vertical or near-vertical passages. Whenthe feature is turned on, the program substitutes west, east,north and south for Left, Right, Up and Down respectively.This gives more realistic models for steep passages. You alsohave the choice of selecting a threshold angle at which thevertical modeling takes place.
8. VIEWER. The "Views" option in the Viewer now saves thepassage wall modeling mode. Previously generated "Views" willnow be obsolete.
9. PROJECT MANAGER. Fixed a problem with the some of the
icons would no display properly.
10. VIEWER. Fixed a problem where the Viewer did not saveEnhanced Metafiles correctly or set the right extension.
11. DEM Reader. Fixed a problem that would not allow the DEMReader to read certain large, 10-meter resolution files.
12. Project Manager. Fixed a problem were the Loop Closerwould not close traverse between fixed stations.
13. Project Manager. Added a tool for importing CMAP files.
14. Project Manager. The program now has the ability todisplay a chart of station sequences. This makes it easy tofind what station names have been used and what names arecurrently free. Thanks to Peter Bosted for the idea and thebasic algorithm for accomplishing it.
15. Project Manager. The SEF export tool now has the optionof omitting the directory structure from the SEF file. Someprograms don't handle SEF directory commands properly.
16. Project Manager. The statistics display can now show alist of excluded shots and excluded shots are now displayedin the station sequence option.
17. Project Manager. Fixed a problem where a multi-cavesystem with fixed entrance locations would not closeproperly. The closer would link duplicate stations together.
18. CaveBase. There is now an example database for FulfordCave included with with CaveBase.
19. CaveBase. The program now allows the window to beexpanded to full screen size. This allows you to see more
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items in the database table.
20. CaveX/Web Page. Microsoft has discovered a securityproblem with the XWeb control and Internet Explorer. The webpage now has information about resolving this problem.
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1. Viewer. Fixed a problem where the station labels woulddraw outside the "Paper" in the Print Preview window.
2. Editor. Fixed a problem where the Editor would display ablank cave name when a new survey was created.
3. Viewer. The Exclude Extents option of the Complex Plottingfeature now allows you to zoom in on the Windows. This makesit easy to visually set more precise clipping boundries.
4. Viewer. All the pan, zoom and rotate buttons in the PrintPreview dialog will "auto-repeat" if hold you them down for ahalf second. This makes it much easier to position the caveon paper.
5. CaveBase. Fixed a problem with CaveBase where it could notconnect to the new 32-bit version of the Viewer.
6. Viewer. Viewer now has the ability to display multi-pageprint preview and print all the pages in one operation. Thisis useful when you are printing caves at a scale that willtake up more than one page. The preview will display up to100 pages simultaneously, with each page placed in a grid soyou see how the cave layouts on pages. These are perfectlyscaled pages that show an exact model of the what will appearon the page, including rotation, colors, labels and passagewall modeling. You can micro-adjust the position on the pages
7. Credit Card Registration and Ordering. You can now doCOMPASS registeration online using Visa or Master Card. Thisis especially useful for overseas users because it avoids theproblems of currency conversion and sending money through themails.
8. Project Manager. Fixed a problem where passage dimensionswould be wrong if you closed shots where the From and Tostations were reversed.
9. Viewer. Fixed a problem where the Quad Labels woulddisappear or do strange things if you zoomed in too far. Also
fixed a bug where the Reference Setting and Corner Settingwould not work properly if the Decrement options were on.
10. Editor. Fixed a problem with the new editor where itwould not limit the length of stations names to 12characters.
11. Editor. Fixed a problem that caused problems saving newlymodified data. If the "Read Only" attribute were set on a"*.DAT" file, or the backup file (*.BAK), the editor could
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not save the changes in the editor. This could happen if thedata came from a CD-ROM other data source that set the readonly attributes of files.
12. Editor. Fixed a problem where the Editor would not noticechanges made just by the Delete key.
13. DEM Reader. The DEM Reader will now copy data from EditGrid to the Windows Clipboard. This can be useful puttingterrain data into spreadsheets and other programs.
14. Editor. You can now navigate the edit using Tab characterto move to the next cell and Shift-Tab to move to the lastcell.
15. PayPals. Now supports zero fees for international orders.
16. Viewer. The Viewer now gives you the option of removingthe dotted line crossbars that appear in the passage modelingwhen mark stations.
17. Project Manager. The compiler now converts negative shotlengths to positive for the purpose of totaling cave lengths.(Apparently, there is old data that contains negative shot
lengths.)
18. Editor. Fixed several other problems that caused problemssaving data under certain operating system conditions.
19. General. The Section Name is based on the name of eachdata file. As a result, the size of the Section Name has beenincreased to 20 characters to make it more compatable withlong filenames.
20. DEMReader. Fixed several bugs in the option for copyingand pasting to the Edit grid.
21. DEMReader. The DEMReader will now save users default suchmeters/feet and all the plot options.
22. Viewer. The pen thickness option in the Printer OptionsWindow, now applies to station marks. This makes the markseasier to see on a high resolution printers.
24. Viewer. The station marks are now scaled in Pointsinstead of Pixels to give a more consistant display.
25. Viewer. The Printing routines have been rewritten toimprove their reliability and performance. For example, theroutines have been rewritten so they more faithfully
reproduce bitmap colors.
26. Viewer. Some large format printer and plotters havedefective drivers that cause problems if you try to print onpaper larger than 32 inches in any dimension. The Viewer nowhas an option that compensates for this problem by loweringprint resolution.
27. Project Manager. There are several improvements to theProject Manager display. The "Project Tree" displays a
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specialized icon for each type of data in the project. Also,there is now a special icon that allows you to tell at aglance that a data file has fixed stations or linksassociated with it. The "Project Tree" is also much fasterupdating and searching, which is useful for large cavesystems.
28. Project Manager. The drag-and-drop capability in theProject Tree has been improved so that it works morenaturally and intuitively.
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1. General. All COMPASS programs have been converted to32-bits. This makes all COMPASS programs several timesfaster. It also means that there is complete support for longfilenames.
2. General. COMPASS is now completely integrate into Windowsshell including the ability to double-click on files toprocess cave files. It also includes the ability to createnew survey files and project files from the Windows context
menus.
3. General. All COMPASS program have new and moreprofessional installation programs which handles integrationwith the operating system.
4. General. Over the years, the COMPASS help files grownhaphardly as new feature were added. As a result, they weredisorganized and there were many typos and spelling errors.All the main COMPASS help files have been complete rewrittenand reorganized, with many more hyperlinks and moreinformation. There are now more than 480 pages of help in themain COMPASS help documents.
5. Project Manager. The Loop Closer and Compiler have beenintegrated into the Project Manager. This makes COMPASSeasier to use and gives better access to statistics andblunder location tools
6. Project Manager. Project Manager is three times faster,compiling and closing all 108 miles of Lech in 26sec onPentium 450.
7. Project Manager can now be expanded to full screen forbetter viewing of the surveys and settings.
8. Project Manager. Statistics and Blunder Finding optionshave been vastly improved. Both Compile and Close statisticshave been integrated into Project Manager. Paging has beeneliminated and all statistics are displayed on a singlescreen. The statistic window can be expanded to full screen,for easier viewing. It is also much easier to generatestatistics and validate that the loops are being closedproperly.
9. Project Manager. The Compiler now displays 2D error
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information as well as the usual 3D information. The 2Dinformation only includes north and east aspects of a looperror, excluding the vertical. This is useful for focusingseparately on compass/length errors versus inclinationerrors. It is also useful for caves where the inclinationmeasurements are significantly inferior to the othermeasurements.
10. Project Manager. The Compiler now displays additionalstatistical information for survey loops. This includes thenumber of shots per loop and various error values per shot.
11. Project Manager. Fixed a some inaccuracies in thestatistics including problems with area, volume and metersconversions.
12. Project Manager. The loop display in the blunder detectorcan now be copied to the clipboard for display in anotherdocument.
13. Project Manager. The "Tie-In" blunder detecting tool nowdisplays the "from" station to more clearly deliniate whichshot is adjusted.
14. Project Manager. The Blunder detection routines now havethe option of finding the next worst blunder. This allows youfind the worst blunders in sequence and focus on fixing theworst problems first.
15. Project Manager. The Blunder detection routines now saveor print the loop stations along with the rest of the blunderanalysis information.
16. Project Manager. Increased the number of fixed stationsthat can exist for a single data file to 500.
17. Project Manager. Made several improvements to the SEF
import and export tools including exporting COMPASS flags.
18. Project Manager. The Compiler now allows you to breakloops at the closing shot. This allows you to visually seethe effect of loop errors. To make the closing station easierto see, the is enclosed in square brackets.
19. Project Manager. Fixed a problem in the Project Managerwhere the Copy Project option would try to copy survey namesif the Project Tree was expanded to show surveys.
20. Project Manager. Improved the drag and drop capabilitiesof the Manipulate Survey option to make it match the standard
Windows behaviour.
21. Project Manager. Fixed a bug where the Fixed Stationoption would not handle negative UTM zones in some cases.
22. Project Manager. The Project Manager has ability todirectly rename project files and survey files directly.
23. Project Manager. Inserting exiting file does not leave"?" if you exit without selecting.
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24. Viewer. The Viewer is now 20 times faster than theprevious 16-bit version. This is due to the use of 32-bitcode and new special optimizations. Currently I am getrefresh rates of 12 fps on 106 miles of Lechuguilla Cave andthe refresh rate is even faster as you zoom in. On top ofthis, CaveX is even faster.
25. Viewer. The Viewer now supports exporting WindowsMetafiles. Metafiles have advantages over bitmaps becausethey can be resized without losing pixels or creating jaggedlines. The Viewer can export both Regular and Enhancedmetafiles. This makes it compatable with many differentdrawing and CAD programs that can import metafiles. EnhancedMetafiles produce very high quality printouts which are muchbetter suited for publication.
26. Viewer. The Viewer will now save cave movies as WindowsAVI. This allows them to be displayed on any movie viewer andthey can also be converted to other formats like MP3 fordisplay on the web.
27. Viewer. Added 64-bit numerical precision to stationcoordinates in order to handle large offsets generated by UTM
coordinates.
28. Viewer. DXF files can now be exported in either feet ormeters.
29. CaveX. CaveX now offers the option of creating a defaultpassage size for those passages where the LRUDs are missing.The feature can be turned on or off and the default size isselectable.
30. CaveX. Menu system has been reorganized and simplifiedfor easier use.
31. CaveX. CaveX now has the option of saving AVI movie filesof your the 3D cave models. When you turn on the AVI mode,all movements and changes are saved to the movie. This meansthat you can fly through and around the cave and everythingyou see will be saved in the movie. You have complete controlover the frame rate and you can set movie capture to stopafter a certain number of frames or a certain time.
32. DEMReader. More and more DEM files are being distributedwith file format defects. This usually renders the filesunusable. However the COMPASS DEM reader will handle fivedifferent DEM file defects. This will allow you to use manyDEM free and inexpensive files. The DEMReader will handle the
following flaws. 1) Missing map-corner information. 2)Descrepancies between map corner locations and profilelocations. 3) Modulo 1024 byte blocks terminated with CR/LFs.5) Modulo 1024 byte blocks terminated early with LFs.
33. DEM Files. The USGS has turned all its data distributionsover to a private company. The data is still available freeand they have more complete coverage. However, the data ismore difficult to find and download. For completeinformation, refer to the COMPASS web page.
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(http://fountainware.com/compass).
34. DEMRead. You can now paste grid points into the DEMreader from the clipboard. This allows you to importelevation data from spreadsheets and databases.
35. DEMRead. You can now export the grid data as standardsurvey DAT file. This gives you another mechanism forcreating a surface grid.
36. Editor. Fixed a bug where the Editor would not allow youto enter Inclinations of 100 Grads. Also fixed a bug wherethe Editor would not display the units label for Gradscorrectly.
38. Editor. Fixed a bug where the Editor would not use thedate if it was entered from the "Survey Calendar."
39. Editor. Improve date handling. Converts two digits datesto 1900 or 2000 based dates depending on the current year.
40. Editor will now handle 500 shots per survey.
41. Viewer. The Viewer now has a special features that
automatically captures movie frames each time the imagechanges. This allows you to capture movies on-the-fly as youpan and zoom through the cave. This makes it easy to createrealistic movies.
42. Editor. There are now repair options for measurementsthat were entered as degrees but were actually depth gaugeand vice versa.
43. Many other small changes, bug fixes and cosmeticimprovements.
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1. Compiler. The Compiler now produces five new staticalmeasurements. These include, Surface Length, Surface Width,Surface Area, Enclosed Volume, and Volume Density.
2. Compiler. Fixed a bug where the statistics for each surveydid not properly count suspended shots.
3. COMPASS CD. The COMPASS CD now has many more itemsincluding more DEMs and the Microsoft DirectX-7 installationpackage.
4. Editor. Fixed a problem where the Editor would notcorrectly handle Quad style compass values where the seconddirection was East.
5. Project Manager/Compiler. COMPASS now allows you tocalculate the UTM Convergence Angle for a location and rotatethe cave plot to match the UTM grid. A separate ConvergenceAngle can be applied to the data in different parts of thesame Project to compensate for grid changes over distance.
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6. Project Manager. The Geographic Calculator now allows youto select West, East, North and South buttons to specify thedirection of Longitude and Latitude. In the past, you had tospecify plus or minus to do this. This makes Longitude andLatitude settings more logical and easier.
7. Viewer. The Viewer now has a simple and more logicalmethod of setting colors and fonts. The colors and fontsappear in a list with a more detailed description of whatthey are for. There is also a sample of the color or fontnearby. This makes it more intuitive to set these options.
8. Viewer. The Viewer now puts a grid in the background ofthe Shadow Box showing the dimensions of the box. You canturn off the box leaving the grid alone for geographicallygridded and labeled maps. You have complete control of thecolor, font, line and background of the grid.
9. Editor. Repaired a problem with the international commadecimal point and and header values.
10. Compiler. Fixed a bug where the last survey would not bedisplayed in the Sorted Survey List in Statistics.
11. Viewer. Fixed a bug where the Edit option in the FindDialog would not edit the correct file.
12. Compiler. Fixed a bug where the survey statistics wouldbe offset by one survey.
13. Viewer. There is now a 32 bit version of the Viewer whichis about 10 times faster than the 16 bit version. It willalso export bitmap images that have about three times moreresolution.
14. Viewer. The DXF export option now allows you scale the
exported image. This is useful with drawing programs thathave limited scaling capabilites.
15. Web Page. There are new links to DEM files, with morecomplete coverage of the United States. The cost fordownloading 7.5 degree version DEM is only $5.00.
16. Viewer. The Viewer now allows you to set the "exact"Pitch and Yawl rotation values for the cave. This is inaddition to the other "exact" scale values. This means thatyou can set all parameter for recreating a specific view ofthe cave.
17. CaveX. Fixed a problem where the program failed to runproperly with some installations of DirectX. The fix alsoimprove the lighting and fog effects.
18. CaveX. In the past CaveX would not display caves thatrequired more than 64,000 polygons to display the passagewalls. The program now allows meshes of unlimited size. Thiswill allow you to view extremely large caves such asLechuguilla.
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19. CaveX. Improved CaveX so that it can be as much as 10faster. Currently I'm able to render all 108 miles ofLechuguilla Cave with full passage modeling, Gourad shadingand limestone textured passage walls at 20 frames per second.This is a drawing rate of over 2,000,000 polygons per second.
20. CaveX. Improved the way that CaveX deals with installeddevice drivers which allows you to select individual driversand test which one works best.
21. CaveX. Changed the initial scaling so you can get closerto the cave without moving through the walls.
22. Viewer. Fixed a problem where when the "Water Direction"feature of the Rose Diagram was enabled, clicking on thediagram would not highlight or count the correct passages.
23. CaveX. Improved the color rendering in 8 bit graphicsmodes.
24. Project Manager. Made it easier to enter Fixed Stationsand Links in the grid. You can now move from cell to cellusing the Enter key or the Tab key.
25. Editor. The survey header comments had been increased to80 characters.
26. Editor. The Editor now has the option of setting flagsfor multiple blocks of surveys simultaneously. You have theoption of Inserting, Replacing or Removing specific surveyflags.
27. Project Manager. In the past when the Project Manager wasrunning one of the COMPASS subprograms, it would monitor thesubprogram waiting for it to terminate. This wasted lots ofCPU cycles and would sometimes slow down other programs. Theprogram now uses very few CPU cycles to monitor the
subprogram and when the subprogram terminates, the ProjectManager is returned to center-screen.
28. Web Page. There is now a document posted on the web pagethat describes the use of Canvas (a drawing) program for thegeneration of digital cave maps.
29. CaveX. CaveX now supports color by depth options similiarto those available in the COMPASS Viewer.
30. CaveX. CaveX now support the ability to simulate various"materials" when displaying the passage walls. Material rangefrom highly reflective surfaces such as platistic or polished
metal, to dull surfaces like paper or wood.
31. Viewer. Fixed a problem with the DXF export. When ProfileMode was used, the passage model was incorrect. Since theProfile Mode is a 2D mode, only the Up and Down tick marksare now exported.
32. Project Manager. Fixed problem where empty comments couldcorrupt the exported file.
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33. Editor. The Repair option now allows you to work on foreand backsight values separately. This makes it possible torepair large blocks of data where only one measurement isbad.
34. CaveX. CaveX now has "Look At" button that causes theviewer to smoothly pan and rotate until it is lookingdirectly at the center of the scene. It also rotates theimages so the top of the object is aligned with the top ofthe screen. This is useful when you have panned, zoomed orflown to position where you can't find the cave. Also, thereis a button on the Joystick which does the same thing.
35. Viewer. The Passage Model Dialog now has a "View" buttonthat allows you to see any changes before exiting.
36. CaveX. CaveX now has the option of copying the images tothe clipboard.
37. All Programs. COMPASS now gives you the choice of usingthe International Foot or the US Survey Foot when displayingor converting data. While the International Foot is used formost measurements, the US Survey Foot is widely used formaps, surveys and benchmarks.
38. Compiler. Fixed a problem where the statistic wouldreport the station count to smaller than was actually in thecave.
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1. Viewer. The Viewer now allows you to mark the passagewalls from the orientation of the TO station.
2. CaveBase. CaveBase now has an option that allows you to
encode a date as a part of the query.
3. Compiler. The Compiler now list the overall average STDfor all the loops in the file. This gives you a single numberthat rates the overall quality of all the loops in the cave.
4. All Programs. Fixed a problem that caused small errorswhen converting feet to meters and vice versa. The problemwas caused by the fact that both the "International Foot" andthe "US Survey Foot" were used to do meter conversions. Thedifference between these two conversions is very small(.000000609601), however when you are converting very largenumbers like the UTM coordinates it is enough to accumulate
one digit of error in the result.
5. Viewer. Fixed a bug where the Set Scale, Magnifcation andRotation did not reset if you hit cancel when the metersscaling options were enabled.
6. Viewer. Fixed a bug where a database query with only onehit could cause problems if plotted with using a range ofsymbol sizes.
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7. Editor. Made small improvements to the way the Cutting,Copying and Pasting works with rows of data.
8. CaveBase. Fixed a problem where CaveBase would notcorrectly handle certain date values when transmitting themto the Viewer.
9. All Programs. Increased the accuracy of the data stored byall COMPASS programs to at least two digits past the decimalpoint. In the past the data stored gave an accurracy of about0.6 inch or 15mm. Now the accurracy is at least 0.06 inch or1.5 mm.
10. Editor. Fixed a bug where the Backsight Validationfeature would not correctly validate a file unless at leastone survey had been read into the editor.
11. Editor. Added a option that puts the highlight on theFrom Station whenever a new shot is created. This makes iteasy to override the Automatic Station Sequencing feature andenter a different Station Name.
12. Viewer. Fixed a problem with the DXF exporter whichoccurred if a survey name had an asterix "*" in it. The DXF
exporter converted the survey name to a layer name andAutoCad would not accept the asterix "*".
13. Viewer. Added features to the DXF export feature thatallows more parts of the drawing to be exported as separatelayers. You can now associate the Passage Wall modeling andthe Station Labels with each Survey layer. This enables youto turn off all the layers except for one or two surveys andsee all the labels and passage walls associated with thosesurveys. You can also have a separate Passage Wall layer andStation Label for each survey. This way you have completecontrol of the color and can individually and separately turnon and off stations, passage walls, and surveys.
14. Viewer. The Viewer now supports displaying databasevalues as numerical values as well as varying symbol sizes.Numbers can be in fixed or scientific notation format, withcomplete control over the number of digits.
15. Editor. The Editor now uses Tabs as the delimiter when itCopys, Cuts, or Pastes to and from the Windows Clipboard.This makes it more compatable with external Windows programslike Excel.
16. Compiler. There are four new statistics presented in theCompiler. The first is cave volume which is calculated based
on passage diameter and shot length. The second is AveragePassage Diameter. This is a measure of the size of thepassage in the cave. The third statistic is AverageInclination. This gives a general estimate of how verticalthe cave is. The final statistic is Difficulty. It combinesthe Average Passage Diameter and Inclination to give anestimate of difficult it is to move through the cave.
17. Compiler. There are now options in the Blunder Detectiontools that allow you to search for stations, shots, and
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closing shots in the loops. You can also find the worst loopin the survey.
18. All Programs. The Survey Name fields has been increasedfrom 8 to 12 characters.
19. Compiler. The Compiler statistics now includes a list ofeach survey in the cave and the length, number of shots andaverage shot length for for each survey.
20. Cave Editor. The Editor allows you to search through asurvey file for the surveys where a specific station isfound. You can now double click on any of the surveys thatare found and the program will automatically highlight thespecific survey. This makes it easy to find and edit thatsurvey.
21. Viewer. The Viewer now saves all the Quad Map settingswith the "Views" information. This means that you can set upany number of quad map patterns and save them for laterrecall.
22. Compiler. The Compiler now allows you to search for anystring in the Statistics section. This makes it easier to
find loops, stations, shots, and surveys in the statistics.
23. Project Manager. In the past, you had to use a DOSprogram to import or export COMPASS files. The ProjectManager now supports import and export to SEF file.
24. Project Manager. The Geographic Reference part of theProject Manager now supports 24 goedetic datum formats. Theaccuracy and precision of the numbers displayed have alsobeen improved.
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1. Editor. I fixed a problem where the Editor would domultiple replaces on the same cell, if the cell was on theedge of the display and the search string contained the samecharacters as the replacement string.
2. Viewer. The Azimuth Rose, Inclination Rose and the DepthHistogram now have the option of spacing the grid lines oneven multiples.
3. Editor. The Editor now checks for embedded spaces instation names.
4. Viewer. In the complex plotting option, the symbols arenow centered on the lower left corner of the of thecharacter. This means that there is no longer an empty spacebetween the character and the target station.
5. Project Manager/ Editor. Fixed a bug where these twoprograms would lock up if they tried read certain defectiveCOMPASS files. Specifically, if would lock up if the file wasmissing a form feed.
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6. Viewer. The Viewer now saves the refresh mode as a part ofthe user defaults. This means that you can select a defaultrefresh mode and the program will come up in that mode.
7. Compiler. Fixed a problem that could cause the computer tolock up if a survey file is missing a form feed.
8. CaveX. There are many changes to CaveX including improvedrending and editing features. The scene diagram is easier toaccess. The program can now render the cave image in profilemode. This makes the cave images more compatable withstandard 3D editing programs.
9. CaveX. Now makes it easier to save the images to DirectXfiles. Internal textures can be saved with the X files.
10. Viewer. There have several improvements in the the Roseand Depth graphs. You now have more precise control over theband thickness. Also, vertical shots were included in AzimuthRose diagrams. This created an inordinate number of 90 degreeshots.
11. Viewer. There is now a new feature that allows the Viewer
to use a rainbow spectrum of 24 colors for coloring by depth,date etc.
12. DEM Reader. The DEM reader has been completely rewrittenusing 32 bit code. This allows you view and edit DEM files attwice the resolutions as before. It also means that DEMReader is a 32 bit program and will not run under Win3.1. Ifanyone is still using Win3.1, send me email and I can postthe old version.
13. Loop Closer. The Loop Closer can now close loops acrossmultiple files. This enables you to close large cave systemswhile still maintaining the data is smaller more manageable
files.
14. Project Manager. The Project Manager now has feature thatallows you to copy projects to other directories, drives orfloppy disks. This make it easy make copies of the projectand share your data with other people.
15. All Programs. The various search features in the Editor,Project Manager, and Viewer have been improved so they areeasier to use.
16. Viewer. The "Find Stations/Surveys" tool now operates sothat all parts are synchronized. This means that when you
locate a station, the corresponding survey and sections areshown. This makes it easy to find which stations, surveys andfile belong together.
17. Viewer. The Viewer now has the ability to select a surveyor section of the cave and go directly to the Editor to viewor edit the corresponding raw survey data.
18. Project Manager. The Project Manager now makes it easierto insert or delete links with a single button click.
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19. Loop Closer. The Loop Closer has improved capabilities indealing with fixed stations. Several problems were fixedwhere certain combinations of fixed stations caused incorrectclosure.
20. Editor. The Editor can now validate backsights for allthe surveys in a file as well as a single survey.
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1. CaveBase. Repaired a bug where CaveBase would notcorrectly transfer data to the Viewer, if the RegionalWindows settings used commas as the decimal separator.
2. CaveBase. CaveBase now saves the last five files you usedin the file menu. This makes it easy to open recently usedfiles.
3. CaveBase. The Query Builder in CaveBase now has an optionbox that allows to enter "Target" values with a click of asingle button.
4. Viewer. The Viewer now has the option of exporting DXFfiles without putting each survey on a separate layer. Thisis useful for drawing programs that don't handle layersproperly.
5. Viewer. The Viewer now has the option of exporting "TickMarks" at the LRUD points instead of the full polygon models.There are also several options for the way the marks aredisplayed.
6. CaveX. CaveX now supports the use of joysticks. Thisallows you to fly in realtime around and through the cave
passages.
7. Viewer. The Viewer now allows you to export a scale barand north arrow with DXF file.
8. Viewer. The Viewer has improved "Views" capability,including simplier editing, and saving.
9. Cavedit. The "Block Survey Modify" feature now allows youto change the the Units settings for large blocks of surveys.
10. Viewer. The Viewer now supports modulo depth bar ticks.This means that the depth bar ticks can be placed so that
they occur at even intervals like 10, 20, 30, or 25, 50, 100,etc.
11. Compiler. The Compiler now keeps track and displays thelongest and shortest shots in the cave.
12. Viewer. The Viewer now supports a profile mode for DXFexport. This is useful for 2D drawing programs that cannotrotate the drawing in 3D.
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13. Viewer. The Viewer can now transfer selected surveys fromthe "Find Survey" tool to the "Complex Plotting" options.This enables to quickly find and selectively color surveys.
14. Viewer. The Viewer now has extensive support for graphingAzimuth and Inclination "Rose" Diagrams. It also has theability to create Depth Histograms. You have complete controlover the graphs including, the number of bands, bandthickness, the colors and fonts. The graphs can be resized tovirtually any size or shape. You can graph by frequency ortotal passage length. You can set a minimum passage length,which allows you to filter out the effects short passages andmore clearly see dominate patterns. You can also focus onspecific depths, which allows you to find different fracturepatterns in different rock straita. You can produce 90, 180,and 360 degree diagrams. The 360 degree roses can use thepassage slope to show water flow direction. You can click onany of the graphs to highlight all the passages in the cavethat match mouse position on the graph. You can move themouse accross any of the graphs to get exact angle, magnitudeand depths. All graphs can be copied to the clipboard orsaved to a file.
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1. CaveX. CaveX has improved rotation and pan controls. Thereare now pan and rotations buttons on the tool bar. There arealso improved frame pan and rotation, including object andcamera referenced rotations.
2. CaveX. CaveX now has a one step texturing proceedure. Theprogram now has a built-in limestone texture that gives arock-like appearance to the passages.
3. Compiler. The Compiler now allows you to print the list of
errors that appears in the error log.
4. Viewer. The Viewer now has the ability to save movie filesto disk. There is now much more extensive ability to edit themovie frames.
5. Compiler. The Compiler can now save a set of defaultsettings. This means that you can set the Compiler to runwith a specific set of value each time it runs, withoutmanually setting the options.
6. Compiler. I fixed a problem where the Compiler producedincorrect passage wall dimensions when when the LRUDs were
associated with To station and the shot was a backsight.
7. CaveX. CaveX now has the capability of flying around andthrough the cave image using simple mouse movements. I amcurrently getting solid modeling speeds of 20 frames persecond and 2 million polygons per second on 20 mile longcaves. With Gouraud shading and limestone photo texturing,the frame rate is still 10 frames per second and 600 thousandpolygons per second.
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8. Viewer. The Viewer can now export DXF files compatabilewith AutoCad versions 12, 13 and 14. The files can includepassage wall models, station labels and surveys as separatelayers. You even have control over each the layer's colors.
9. Viewer. The Viewer now has features that allow you to"fly" around and through the cave using simple mousemovements. It also now supports "live" tracking of the 3DCompass to give even smoother and more realistic rotations.
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1. Viewer. Improved the color rendering of the backgroundbitmap images. This results in more accurate color renderingof topographic maps as backgrounds to the line plots.
2. Compiler. Improved the error reporting for MAK files. Badlink stations are now reported with correct subfile.
3. Project Manager. Fixed several problems that occurred whenworking with projects that had some files in one directoryand some in another. This occurred where surveys were linked
in using the "Full Path" option.
4. Project Manager. Improved the file opening dialog box sothe user has a choice of All Cave Files, Make Files and DataFiles.
5. Cave Editor. Fixed several problems that can occur whenillegal characters are entered into the cave name, surveyname, survey comment, survey team and shot comments fields.This usually occurred when someone copied strings from theclipboard that had carriage returns embedded in them.
6. Viewer. The progam can now reconfigure itself when the
user changes screen resolution. This featue may not workunder Windows 3.1.
7. Viewer. Fixed a problem where the Shadow Box menus ceasedto work.
8. Viewer. The Viewer now has the ability to verticallymagnify the plot. This is useful where you are working with arelatively flat cave or cave that is broad. Increasing thevertical magnification allows you to see the subtle verticalfeatures in the cave.
9. Viewer. The Viewer now has the ability to set a exact
rotations in the same way it sets exact scales.
10. Cave Editor. The Cave Editor has been improved so that ittakes advantage of the higher resolution displays and largermonitors. The program allows the window to expand to fullsize and the various editing screens expand with it. In otherwords more rows and columns from the survey are visible onthe screen. This means, for example, on a 1024 by 768resolution display, 20 lines of survey and all columns arevisible without scrolling.
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11. Cave Editor. Fixed a problem where the editor could notsave a new file if the new survey name had a period in it.For example, the survey name "109.6" would cause a problem.The problem was caused by the program creating a filenamewith two periods in it ("109.6.DAT") and Windows rejects thisname without giving an error. The program now substitutesdashes "-" for periods.
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1. Viewer. Fixed a problem with "Views" feature where itwould not work properly in countries where a comma is used asa decimal point. I always seem to forget to deal with thedecimal point problem.
2. Cave Editor. Fixed a bug where Page Up, Page Down, Homeand End would lose a partially entered value.
3. Cave Editor. Fixed a bug where various repair optionswould not work correctly with missing data.
4. Editor, Project Manager, and Viewer. All three programsnow save the last five files you used in the file menu. Thismakes it easy to open recently used files.
5. Cave Compiler. Cleaned up the statistics display so thatthe columns line up, the number of stations is more accurate,and the headings are correct.
6. Cave Compiler. Fixed a bug where the Compiler would notcorrectly compile a file where all the shots in the lastsurvey were excluded. This caused the cave to disappear ifyou tried to zoom in from the Viewer.
7. DEM Reader. Fixed several bugs in the DEM Reader. Fixed aproblem where the bottom part of some 7.5 minute DEMs werecut off. Fixed several problems that occurred in countrieswhere comma is used as the decimal point.
8. Project Manager. The Manipulate Survey has option has beensimplified so there is less risk of losing surveys.Originally, the Manipulate Surveys option allowed you to opentwo data files and copy and move between them. With two filesopen, it was easy to lose track of surveys and accidentlydelete surveys. The current version only allows one sourceand one destination file. Only the destination can bemodified.
9. DEM Reader. Sometimes the area you are working with isnear the edge of a DEM files. The DEM Reader is now capableof merging two DEM files. This allows you to center yourterrain models on any location. Files can be merged east-westor north-south. A pan factor setting allows you to centeryour merged file location in the two files. You can alsocenter on corner by first merging east-west files, thennorth-south.
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10. Project Manager. Fixed a bug where the Project Managerdidn't properly enable and disable buttons if you deleted thelast file in a project.
11. Viewer. Fixed a bug that occurred if you switched toZoomed Mode, zoomed further into the cave and then switchedto back to Overview Mode. The result would be that theselection box would be the wrong size.
12. Viewer. The Viewer now has the ability to color cavepassages according to the size and shape of the passage. Theprogram analyzes the height, width, and cross sectional areaand can color passages that fit into categories. Thecatagories include: Crawlway, Stoopway, Walking, Fissure,Canyon, Tube, Borehole and Climbs/Pits. Coloring specificpassage types allows you to analyze the geology, andspeologenesis. For example, you can easily see areas wherethere are vadose canyons or phreatic tubes. You can also pickroutes through a cave that avoid crawlways, climbs or pits.
13. CaveX. There is now a new COMPASS program for viewingcaves called CaveX. CaveX uses Mircrosoft DirectX technologyto creates very realistic three-dimensional models of a cave.The capabilities include full three-dimension models with
smooth rounded walls, shadowing with moveable light sources,face coloring, background images and many other features. Thepassages can be textured with photographs limestone givingvery realistic, rock-like passages. Because of the speed andpower of DirectX, the models can moved and animated inrealtime.
