| Version 3.0 -- (Built 01/17/04) |
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| The 01/17/04 build improves the appearance of the rope passing through the Brake Bar Racks (5 and 6 bar). |
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| Version 3.0 -- (Built 01/14/04) |
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| The 01/14/04 build improves the appearance of the rope passing through the Ascender. If you have existing systems that
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| Version 3.0 -- (Built 01/05/04) |
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The 01/05/04 build fixes a problem where the Edit->Copy->Large command could fail.
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| Version 3.0 -- (Built 12/24/03) |
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The 12/24/03 build fixes a rarely encountered problem where the software could crash.
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| Version 3.0 -- (Built
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Version 3.0 was first released on 12/01/03. The new features in version 3.0 are explained below.
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Force Calculations
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- With a click of your mouse you can calculate the forces that are applied throughout a system.
- The forces can be displayed on your screen (as shown to the right), or displayed in mouse ScreenTips (as shown
below).
- The forces can be calculated in kilograms, kilonewtons, or pounds.
- The mechanical advantage and maximum load are displayed on the Status Bar.
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- Flexible options let you specify:
- The weight of individual gear such as loads and litters (you can even specify the weight of a single carabiner),
- The friction of gear (including carabiners, pulleys, and brake bar racks),
- Where force labels are displayed, and
- Whether forces should be automatically recalculated.
- The force calculations understand the complexities of friction, prusiks, the difference between raising and
lowering, etc. For example, the forces on a typical 3:1 system are much different when raising than when lowering
(when the "ratchet" prusik catches the load).
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New Gear Panel
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- A new Gear Panel, shown to the left, uses an "Outlook-style" toolbar to separate the gear by category. For example,
all of the anchors are now grouped together.
- A new Options dialog lets you remove rarely used gear from the Gear Panel. For example, a fire service might remove
the piton from the list of gear.
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New Properties
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- New Properties dialogs display important information, such as details on the forces being applied to a single piece
of gear. You can customize the weight, friction, and breaking strength of each piece of gear from within this dialog.
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- You can also change the gear's rotation, flipping, and sizing from the new Properties dialog. Of course, you can
still change this information using the mouse as in version 2.0.
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| New and Enhanced
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- A New Brake Bar Rack has been added. This rack has six bars and is NFPA certified. The five-bar rack from previous
versions is still available.
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- A Tire has been added as an anchor. Pull the Engine up to the roadside and throw a rope around the wheel!
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- Text can now be Rotated in any direction.
- Text is now edited from the Properties dialog to be consistent with the other gear.
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- Webbing can be displayed in multiple colors. This is also edited from the new Properties dialog.
- You can now change the width of rope and webbing.
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Clipboard Support
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- You can now copy the workspace to the clipboard. This is great if you are working with PowerPoint, as you no longer need
to crop RescueRigger's menus and borders from the image. In fact, most of the images on this page were captured with RescueRigger's
new clipboard commands.
- When you copy the workspace to the clipboard, you can copy it as small (good for email), medium (good for computer presentations),
or large (good for desktop publishing).
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| Other Improvements |
- The RIG file extension is now registered with Windows when you install RescueRigger. This lets you double-click on
any RescueRigger file to quickly open it.
- The Insert menu has been rearranged to group the gear into categories.
- The sample files have been updated to reflect the above changes.
- There is a new file format. Version 3.0 can read files from previous versions, but files created with version 3.0
cannot be read by earlier versions.
- Dozens of other minor enhancements were made.
- The information in the Help file has been updated to include the above changes.
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