A list of the changes introduced previously by RelMo 2008 is provided here.

As always we welcome any comments or suggestions you might have and hopefully we can include these ideas in future releases. Please post any comments you might have to the RelMo forum.

Updates
Underline and strikeout text are now supported throughout RelMo, not just in the Layout Pages.  An additional toolbar icon for strikeout text has been added to the Layout Page format toolbar.

Survey text ‘remembers’ the last user font, style, colour etc so that additional items of survey text are consistent without superfluous user interaction.

Point numbers can be displayed in 2D views.  RelMo index numbers or original survey point numbers are supported.  Bear in mind RelMo index numbers are only created when the file is saved and may well change between sessions due to addition and deletion of points.  (They are initially created with the index number of 0)  Also if an object wasn’t created from an XYZ or 001 file import, then it will not have original survey point numbers and nothing will be displayed – THIS IS NOT A BUG!!  Display of point numbers is controlled by two new commands in the points menu – Show Point Numbers and Point Number Display.  Show point numbers is also an option in the Display menu.  The Point Number Display command allows the user to change various settings.  NB: point numbers are not be displayed in plans, since this would require the program to save the current active object when displaying a view.  Without a file format change, this is not possible.

Control bar panels now work whether or not they are docked to the main window.  Floating toolbars can now be used.

When adding an animation control point, if the user selects ‘AutoLevel’ then the pitch and roll boxes are greyed out since these are obviously ignored if the program is going to calculate it’s own values.

Point and line symbols can be converted into proper RelMo objects – a copy is created and placed into the root object.   This can be accessed from the context menu in the Objects Control Panel.

Play in Reverse or Play Backwards command is now available in full screen mode.

Tool bar icons for the Show 3D triangle and Show 3D Text commands have been added.

Users can now export a file containing the original survey data.  This will be useful when trying to recreate load files from existing RelMo survey files.  It can’t recreate the station setup data, but the point observation data is transferred properly. 

Users can also now generate a list of the points in use throughout the survey along with the type of point (survey, auto-created during import, auto-inserted, user generated) plus whether or not the point has ever been moved.  This makes it very easy to spot whether someone has tampered with the data at any stage.

Option added to program options general page to set the location of log files.

Bug Fixes
In RelMo3 files (*.rlv) Windows did not always display the correct RelMo3 document icon in Windows Explorer.  This has been fixed, BUT will require an administrator to run the program and then close it again, otherwise the relevant parts of the registry will not be updated.

In 3D views (especially RelMo3) complex points were not always displayed.  This has been fixed.

The wrong command for Show Triangles was linked in RelMo3.  This has been fixed.

Plain coloured (no texture) triangles were not consistently displayed in 3D views unless a 3D symbol was also present in that object.  Usually a texture was visible on the plain text coloured triangles.  This has been fixed.

Text editing in 3D is now possible again.  Bug fixed in display where the reference points were not displayed.

Bug fixed in resolving point ambiguity dialog when adding dimensions.