- Versatile Gear Rotation. Gear can now be rotated by dragging a "rotation
handle" (the blue dot shown to the right) with your mouse. The rotation is no longer limited to 90-degree
increments!
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- Gear Connections Enhanced. To compliment the ability to rotate gear, you can
now connect pieces of gear that are rotated at slightly different angles. This makes it easy to create realistic
systems.
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- New Gear Sizing. Gear can now be sized by dragging the new "sizing
handles" with your mouse. This allows you to size individual pieces of gear. You still use the zoom
commands to resize the entire workspace.
- New Flip Command. A new Flip command turns the gear over. This, combined
with the above rotation and sizing commands, gives you enormous flexibility when designing your systems.
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- Improved Properties Dialog. A new Properties dialog, which is accessed from the
shortcut menus, displays information in an easier to understand format.
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- New Rope Colors. You can now change the color of the rope to either
red, blue, or green. This is done from the new Properties dialog. When the color of the rope changes,
the color of the knots on the rope automatically change.
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- No Screen Flicker. The screen no longer 'blinks" when you drag gear. This is a noticeable improvement to people who have been using earlier versions of RescueRigger.
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- Enhanced Printing. You can now pick one of three different "print
qualities" (i.e., draft, good, and best). Choosing a lower qualify setting results in much faster
printing. Additional improvements were made to the printing to support more printers and to print faster.
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- New Arrow. An Arrow has been added to the Gear
Panel. When combined with Text, the Arrow helps you annotate your systems.
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- New Load Release Hitch. A Load Release Hitch (made with 8mm rope) has been
added to the Gear Panel.
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- New Load Release Strap. A Load Release Strap has been added to the Gear Panel.
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- New Prusik Minding Pulley. A Prusik Minding Pulley (with square side plates)
has been added to the Gear Panel.
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- New Rescue 8. A Rescue 8 friction device (with ears) has been added to the Gear
Panel.
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- New Rescucender. A Rescucender has been to the Gear Panel. The
Rescucender functions similar to a Prusik.
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- New Rigging Plate. A Rigging Plate has been added to the Gear Panel. The
plate allows one connection on top and up to three connections on the bottom.
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- Enhanced Rope Dragging. If you drag gear that is adjacent to the end of the
rope, the end of the rope will also be dragged. For example, if you drag the Hand shown to the right, the red
"rope tail" will also be dragged.
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- Raft Enhancements. You can now rotate the Raft. Combined with the
ability to rotate gear to different angles and to size individual pieces of gear (e.g., the carabiners shown
here), systems that contain rafts look much more realistic.
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- Enhanced Gear. The capabilities of several pieces of gear has been
enhanced. For example, the Figure-8 friction device now supports either one or two ropes, the Figure-8 Loop and the
Butterfly knot now support more than one carabiner, etc.
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- The number of days between automatically testing for an update has been changed from 7 to
30.
- After installing an update, you are now asked if you want to view the changes to the new
version (i.e., view this "history" page).
- Details about using RescueRigger in PowerPoint have
been added to the Help system.
- The Help command has been added to many of the gear shortcut
menus. This command takes you directly to help on the selected gear.
- The information in the Help file has been updated.
- The name of the Rope Grab has been changed to Ascender.
- The sample files that are distributed with RescueRigger have been updated to reflect the
above changes.
- Dozens of other minor enhancements were made.
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