ASAP 2005 (September 2005) Release Notes File
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Late-breaking information about this release of BRO ASAP™.

This document contains information that may not exist in other ASAP information products. It discusses some of the significant changes in this release of software.
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Build 05V1R3 

KERNEL
VERSION
ASAP now provides the VERSION command which writes the ASAP Kernel version message to the console.

ARRAY
The ARRAY command now recognizes common variants of the option RAN, such as RANDOM.

WIDTHS
WIDTHS now defaults to a value of 1.0 for BEAMS INCOHERENT and a value of 1.6 for BEAMS COHERENT.  Non-default values of WIDTHS therefore must be explicitly set after the BEAMS command.

SAMPLED
ASAP no longer abnormally terminates during direct creation of SAMPLED data, as happened in all earlier versions if the distribution filename were already in use.

Resource Release
ASAP no longer abnormally terminates during a rare scenario of Kernel resources release.

GUI
CATIA
ASAP now supports import of CATIA Catpart and Catproduct files created within CATIA releases V5R13, V5R14 and V5R15.

BUILDER
ASAP limits the inclusion of Builder (*.enz and *.enx) file extensions from the ASAP projects.

ASAP no longer abnormally terminates when using Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V on blank lines

User interface fixes include updating default values, clarification and re-positioning of column for the following commands:
WINDOW
TUBE
GRID POLAR
COATINGS LAYERS
COATING MODELS
COATINGS PROPERTIES
COATING
MEDIA

Calculate Flux Distribution 
ASAP now generates correct script for the Calculate Flux Distribution dialog.

Light Source Library Wizard
The Wizard page, Source Geometry Setup - Create Raysets, now correctly accepts user input and creates raysets.