Revision History

This page summarizes the changes, enhancements and fixes to the Qckvu3 for Windows program.

3.37 [11/30/2011]

corrected some issues related to revisions in the underlying QISLIB engine.

3.36 [07/25/2011]

Expanded the grid settings edit box to allow smaller grid values.

Fixed a bug where .OAS files were not being opened correctly.

3.33 [08/16/2010]

Qckvu3 Windows 64 bit is now available. Users can now load extremely large GDSII and OASIS files on Windows 64 based computers.

3.32 [08/06/2010]

Internal updates to support latest Plug-in modules.

3.28 [07/13/2010]

Added a marker option to the Zoom Area bar.

Added a Structure Parents bar which shows the parents of the currently selected structure.

Added support for the latest plugin API to synchronize with the Unix/Linux version.

Added the ability to save and load GDSII cache files.

Added an Open Filters dialog to the File menu which adds support for input filtering: a layer filter, loading files to memory, quad size and pruning empty cells.

3.27 [07/02/2010]

Added support for flexlm licensing using the ARTWORK_LICENSE_FILE environment variable. This allows the user to set ARTWORK_LICENSE_FILE instead of LM_LICENSE_FILE thus avoiding potential conflicts with other software tools still using LM_LICENSE_FILE variable.

Added support for Qckvu3 Lite and Upgrade licensing.

Added the ability to specify the structure display filter color from the Filter toolbar. Previously the fill color was hardwired to black.

Added new Transform View functionality to the View menu. The interface is a dockable dialog bar which supports translation, mirroring, rotation and scaling.

Added a Licensing dialog to the Help menu to show which licenses are in use by Qckvu3.

3.26 [06/25/2010]

Updated the plugin-API.

Re-built the Extract GDSII plugin to work with the latest plugin API.

v3.25 [02/10/2010]

Added support for Copy/Paste CtrlC/CtrlV for copying information from and to Qckvu3 screens.

Fixed a crashing bug with the Extract GDSII plug-in.

v3.24 [02/10/2010]

Added new Zoom Area under View menu. It is implemented as a bar, so it can be docked like the other bars, or floated modelessly.
Supports three ways to specify the area. Compatible with Qckvu v2.7x, can use the X key to show/hide.

Copy to clipboard now available under View menu or using Ctrl-C. Copies visible client view to the clipboard which can subsequently be pasted into another application.

Qckvu3 now supports plotting. User can select the printer to plot to, scale, page size, window or extents etc.

v3.22 [01/06/2010]

Fixed a bug which was crashing Qckvu3 when using the arrow keys in the Layers Bar.

The single toolbar has been broken into a set of smaller toolbars. These can be switched on and off using a new View|ToolBars menu item.

Added support for highlighting structures.

Fixed a bug in the installer which caused corrupt license file in node locked mode.

v3.21 [07/30/2009]

Fixed unit display issue.

PDF manual is now available.

v3.17 [06/16/2009]

custom plug-ins can now be licensed through Qckvu3 on Windows.

v3.16 [06/12/2009]

Added support for plug-in API calls including the layer control services.

v3.15 [05/28/2009]

Added text scaling functionality.

Added the draw marker support to the plug-in manager.

v3.14 [04/14/2009]

Updated installer to support USB key locking.

Updated the plug-in manager to support the latest header files and to bring the windows version into alignment with the Linux/UNIX version. NOTE: the complete set of services has not been fully implemented as of this release.

v3.12 [02/06/2009]

Added angle from the x-axis data to the information displayed by the measure tool.

v3.11 [01/27/2009]

Updated to the latest QIS library.

v3.10 [12/23/2008]

Added options to measure (snap) to an object's edge, center and edge midpoint. Added an option to measure at multiple of 45 degrees.

v3.09 [11/10/2008]

Added support for plugins and added a plug-in for extracting a window of data from the design to GDSII.

Added the flexlm license modules for node locked and floating licenses.

v3.08 [10/03/2008]

The first version of Qckvu3 on Windows released for internal testing.