New Features
- New HighDesign LT edition.
- Announced Windows 10 / Windows 8 support, currently in beta testing.
- Sheets are now available in HighDesign Standard.
- [Pro] New automatic alignment for columns and pillars for easier creation of structural grids.
- New Image Texture hatch type. Textures are now available as hatch sub-types, in addition to linear hatches and vector patterns.
- Double lines now join with previous segments.
- Alignment constraint now supports tangent to circles and arcs. It is now possible to begin a line keeping it tangent to a circle or arc.
- The Hatch tool now has two methods for creating polygonal and circular islands.
- New Purge command in the Help menu.
- New line types: grass, ridge (top), ridge (side), border with line.
- Drawing Manager: added filter buttons to ease the selection of resources.
- Added alert when attempting to insert a hosted object into a non-host object.
- New "invalid" icon shows when attempting an operation on an invalid object or unallowed location.
- New object highlight option highlights the selectable object under the cursor. This option can be disabled in Preferences > Drawing.
- New Sheet highlight shows the bounds of the sheet when hovering on it in the Sheets panel.
- New Garage Doors symbols.
- Radial dimensions now provide a Prefix field.
- Polyline segments can be edited by stretching the midpoint.
- With fractional units, drawing scales provide new display options for pre-formatted values.
Changes, Fixes and Miscellaneous Improvements
The following issues have been resolved in this release:
- Groups now update their pen color and weight correctly.
- Revision cloud now updates pen color.
- Improved Trim: better support for rectangles; no longer applies to non-intersecting objects.
- Improved reliability of project files.
- Polyline: improved editing; it is now possible to modify a segment via Object Info by changing a vertex' type, bulge and radius; polylines can now be closed with a check-box; polylines saved in a file now take much less memory.
- Presets are now named "Type Presets".
- Preset menus for walls, columns, doors and windows now show a thumbnail.
- [Pro] Columns: added handles and snap points to midpoints.
- DWG/DXF: added support for SOLID entities.
- DWG/DXF: much improved support for layouts. (Standard/Pro)
- Radial menu: fixed position of sub-menus.
- Selection rectangle: exclusive selection can now be activated by dragging the rectangle from bottom to top.
- The Group command now preserves the Z-order of the selected objects.
- Fixed behavior of name field in Drawing Manager.
- The Window menu now lists the project windows in a fixed, by-project order.
- Reorganized the Print window and improved UI.
- [Pro] Template chooser and Templates preferences panel: added thumbnails and short descriptions.
- [Pro] Walls: improved connections, especially on multiple nodes; improved support for allowed start and end joints.
- Minor UI improvements to tables and toolbar colors.
- Calculate Area now returns the sum of the selected objects if multiple closed shapes are selected.
- Improved synchronization between Object Info and hatch editing.
- Improved formatting of feet and fractional inches.
- Numeric input: entering dot (".") or a comma (",") now activate the Length input.
- Calculate Area exludes islands from the calculation.
- Stretch no longer moves doors and windows that were outside the selection region.
- Decimal units now report the extra zeros and should no longer round the last digit.
- Radial dimensions: improved frame, alignment; added the ability to edit the landing size via Object Info.
- Snap to grid is now sensitive to zoom level.
- [Pro] Fixed intersections between walls with variable thickness.
- [Pro] Fixed scaling of composite walls.
- Improved Merge sheets and added undo/redo support.
- Fixed support for embedded pictures when saved as PNG with alpha channel.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes.