New Features, Changes and Improvements
- New user inteface: the drawing tools bar can now arrange the buttons in two columns as needed. Some icons are also re-arranged for a better logical order.
- Tool icons now have a pop-up menu of available methods.
- Project Browser: replaces the Sheets panel, lists all the items that make up the project.
- Details: new sheet type for 2D details. Renamed the "Print Area" tool to "Detail Area".
- Layouts
- Viewports
- Title Blocks
- Symbol Attributes
- Preferences: redesigned the Shortcuts panel
- New Project menu replaces the old Organize menu.
- The Drawing Manager is now named Resource Manager.
- Doors and Windows are now independent objects, with their own tools.
- Added more options for doors and windows: reveal type, frame sizes, casing, glass doors, trim width and thickness.
- Redesigned Object Info panel: new UI, sheet and object support; shows geometry, information and text attributes where applicable.
- Zoom, pan and fit to screen functions are now also accessible via on-screen buttons.
- Redesigned sidebar: the panels can now be reorganized, dragged off as floating panels or added.
- The Sidebar can now be collapsed to vertical tabs and pop-up panels.
- Updated the appearance of buttons, menus and windows.
- Compatible with macOS Mojave.
- Compatible with Windows 10, April 2018 update (1803).
- DWG: added support for DWG/DXF 2018.
- Styles were entirely redesigned and organized in Graphic Styles for drafting and annotation objects, and Types for building elements; the user can now create libraries of custom styles;
- New Tag annotation method.
- Building elements have an ID section in Object Info with fields for Name, ID and Tag.
Resolved Issues
The following issues have been resolved in this release: