More details about copycave

Licence: Freeware
Languages: German and English
Size (zipped): about 15 MB

OS:  
Windows    XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11
MacOSX presumably till macOS Mojave Version 10.14
thereafter 32-bit libraries are missing
Linux tested with:
Debian 8.8
Knoppix 7.2
in newer distributions 32-bit libraries are missing.
An easy solution ist to install "wine" and run copycaveWINDOWS.exe with it.

 

The program package is "portable", which means after unzipping it you can use it on any computer without installation.

Any cave is represented by one directory that contains the survey data (daten.txt) and the drawing (gp).
When calling "Show/Draw Map" you do not select a file but that directory.
The concept is, that anything that belongs to that cave goes to this directory. Printings are also put there as PDF-Files.

They have names like: 250projection-0-5.pdf
The first number stands for the scale 1:250, projection-0 states the "Level" and 5 is the page number.

Importing data from therion files is still some kind of experimental. Don't expect too much from that feature. Exoprting data to therion works good.

The heart of the program package is "hoehle.w42", programmed by Dietmar Heinrichs. It runs under Tcl/Tk. Everything is included in copycave for any of the three operating systems.

Best of luck!
Gerhard Meidinger

 

 

On some 64-bit distributions of linux 32-bit libraries have to be added:
Ubuntu linux: (Copy the line and insert it in a terminal window using the right mouse button)

sudo apt-get install lib32z1 libgtk2.0-0:i386 libidn11:i386 libglu1-mesa:i386 libxmu6:i386

Alternative: (Copy the lines and insert them in a terminal window using the right mouse button)

sudo -i
cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d
echo "deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring main restricted universe multiverse" >ia32-libs-raring.list
apt-get update
apt-get install ia32-libs

SUSE linux: (Copy the line and insert it in a terminal window using the right mouse button)

sudo zypper install Mesa-libGL1-32bit libGLU1-32bit libgtk-2_0-0-32bit libgthread-2_0-0-32bit libSM6-32bit libpng12-0-32bit

Last Changes:

Version 1.5.1: (15. August 2018)

  • Coverpage improved. Second line in "Survey:" with "Deckblattangabe9:".

Version 1.5.0: (12. June 2017)

  • Optiontion "File -> Colour for other Levels" added. Visability of parts in not selected levels can be improved on the screen an in PDF.
  • Changed layout of base window.

Version 1.4.1: (21. September 2016)

  • The cover page is now always produced in the correct size.
  • Altitude on the cover page is a single figure now.
  • Some optical improvements.

Release 1.4.0: (12. September 2015)

  • 3D-Mode can be toggled to fullscreen now by key F and besides mouse the object can now be rotated with the keys X and Y. Use shift for backwards. This is quite useful if you want to make screenshots for a movie.
  • For import of alien data columns can be switched in the survey list and dummy names can be created automatically for missing "to"-measure points.
  • In the survey list an overview of commands and an example was added.
  • Improved help functions.

Release 1.3.3: (26. August 2013)

  • Using Locationpoint now really works.
  • Function "Read Survey Data" improved.

Release 1.3.2: (10. April 2013)

  • Function to create Bitmaps improved.
  • In the survey sheet you can now also use spaces to separate data.
  • Physical screensize is now evaluated automatically.
  • Scaling of printouts improved.
  • Area is now visible immediately after start.
  • And thanks a lot to Florian Schwarz for his detailed bug report.

Release 1.3.1: (03. December 2012)

  • Some translations to english adapted.

Release 1.3.0: (30. November 2012)

  • The cave can now be examined 3D with very little effort. To every peace of corridor a tube is assigned with a diameter controlled by "3D -> Diameter".
  • Rotating algorithm in 3D view is improved and L-button switches different lighting situations.
  • Printing now produces PDF files istead of Postscript before.
  • Printouts come with relative coordinates instead of absolute. You can now use UTM and alike ones for coordinate system.
  • Some Tcl/Tk instructions do not work in Mac OS X (e.g. stipple). That is why fillings are displayed differently. But now they do work in OS X and data are completely compatible with Windows and Linux.

Release: 1.2.14: (17. August 2012)

  • Now you can draw a line with single clicks if you hold Ctrl/Strg-key.

Revision: (23. March 2012)

  • Example map added to underlay in area

Release 1.2.13: (10. November 2011)

  • Improved 3D Construction
  • Now you can move 3D image with right mouse button.
  • Keys adapted.
  • Improved program display in Linux.
  • Now caves are saved in the folder "caves" by default even when german language is selected. If the folder "hoehlen" exists, this folder will still be used if language is switched to german.

Release 1.2.12: (26. October 2011)

  • Now you can switch between German and English version of copycave.
  • Tcl/Tk files are included for any OS to make it more simple for the user.

Release 1.2.11: (8. October 2011)

  • In Release 1.2.10 using Linux it could happen, that the 3D window opened empty and was not displayed correctly until any user action. This is corrected now.