New Features and Improvements
- New Rectangle by Centre method
- Faster refresh during construction and editing of objects
- [PRO] PDF: added support for project views
- [PRO] PDF: added new, cross-platform filters
- Angular and Radial dimensions can now be fully associative
- Improved angular dimension construction and editing
- Texts and Annotations: added hexagonal shape; improved appearance and spacing of other shapes; changed Ellipse shape to Oval shape; improved support of border colour
- Annotations: improved position of label and edit box
- Object Info now shows a Properties button for objects that have advanced properties
- Print Area by default now shows only the page sizes that are appropriate for the current unit system
- Linear Dimensions: added new Automatic label orientation to have the label always oriented to top and left directions
Changes and Miscellaneous Fixes
The following issues have been resolved in this release:
- [Standard/Pro] DWG: the Import dialogue now correctly lists .dwg files
- [Standard/Pro] The DXF/DWG Import dialogue shows the scale menu again.
- DXF/DWG: improved support for PolylineMesh entities
- DXF/DWG: improved synchronisation of colours between AutoCAD and HighDesign palettes
- DXF/DWG: improved support for blocks
- DXF/DWG: improved support for aligned dimensions
- Polyline: Improved support for arrow markers
- Layers Manager: corrected the default tool menu
- Layers Manager: the count of objects on a layer is updated after changes
- Groups: Fixed behaviour of selection commands in the Edit Group workspace
- Groups: fixed the Add to Group command
- Search: misc. improvements and fixes
- New Project by Template: fixed refresh issue
- Fixed refresh and consistency issues in visual aid elements such as alignments, quick dimensions, info boxes, hot spots.
- Properties Bar, Fill colour menu: fixed refresh of Alpha slider
- Properties Bar, Marker buttons: corrected synchronisation with current default values
- Fixed tangent alignment to start object
- Fillet, Chamfer, Offset: misc. fixes and improvements
- Chamfer now uses the distance from the vertex as reference value. Previously it was the length of the chamfer line.
- Unit precision is now correctly restored when opening a project
- Fixed Delete Duplicates command
- Symbols: improved support for walls, doors and windows
- Printing: fixed support for pen weights options
- The Repair Document command no longer resets the grid unless strictly necessary