New Features, Changes and Improvements
- Added new Snap To Symbols option to allow snapping to the elements of symbols.
- Added support for multiple-nested symbols.
- Symbols can now include dimensions.
- The insertion point of symbols now acts as center of modifications such as mirroring and rotation.
- Fractional Feet and Inches now default to inches when only an integer number is entered.
- New Restore Selection command. This command re-selects the objects of the previous selection.
- Speed optmizations for scrolling, zooming, dashed lines, hatches, walls.
- Linear dimensions now snap to the height of the previous dimension, to set the witness lines at the same height with ease.
- Text blocks now have an auto-fit option that automatically adjusts the object size after insertion.
- The Symbol inspector now lists the symbols of the current document.
- DWG/DXF compatibility: improved import of blocks, linear dimensions, rotated texts, leader lines; improved export.
- Duplicate, LinearMultiply, PolarMultiply and Duplicate to sheet now include wall openings even when not selected.
- The Sheets pane now supports duplicate with Alt key down.
- Object Info and Inspector are now synchronized.
- The background color chosen in Project Properties is now the default color for new documents.
- Stretch is now faster and includes more objects.
Resolved Issues
The following issues have been resolved in this release:
- Closed miscellaneous errors.
- Fixed the behavior of hatch scale sliders in Wall and Column inspectors.
- The Hatch inspector now reloads the listed hatches after closing the Drawing Manager.
- Fixed errors in linear dimensions.
- Fixed reading of symbols in 1.8 format.
- The resize cursor used during editing no longer override the normal snap cursors.
- Fractional feet and inches now accept variations of the quotation mark character.
- Improved tab order in the Input bar.
- Fixed some situations in which the combination of fixed length and angle would not produce the correct result.
- Miscellaneous fixes to drawing constraints.
- Fixed problems of the Measure tool on retina displays.
- Object Info: fixed Scale by measure function.
- Fixed undo/redo after editing a polyline
- Fixed long click result when the mouse button was released without any movement.
- Enhanced the Repair Document command.
- Zooming with a trackpad no longer jumps to 0%.
- Fixed rendering of arcs of ellipse.
- changing the visibility of a layer in the Layers pane now correctly updates its properties.
- Export As PDF: some UI elements were not properly translated.
- Fixed scaling of arrow markers, linetype, annotations, radial dimensions, print areas.
- Annotations are now included in the Change Scale options.
- Object Info: the lock icon for Text objects is now placed correctly.
- The Cut command in Radial menu now works correctly.
- Symbol Inspector: the preview is now scaled so that all the vertices of the bounding box are visible at all rotation angles.
- Grouped symbols are now read correctly.
- Azimuth angles are now in the 0-360 deg. range.
- Symbol Inspector: changing the size before inserting a symbol now works correctly.
- Submenus in the Radial menu now open closer to their parent item.
- DXF out: fixed error caused by non-Ascii linetype names.
- PDF out: fixed generation of arcs and elliptical arcs.
- DWG out: fixed a situation that would overwrite a file with the extension ".dxf" instead of ".dwg".
- Symbols now fully support invisible stroke items.
- Walls and windows: fixed Undo/Redo after editing the vertex of a wall with windows.
- Added better error handling while resizing images.