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| HighDesign 1.4.0 Release Notes |
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New Features
- OSX: added support for the scroll wheel in the main window to zoom in and out.
- Added support for proxy icons in the title bar (OSX only). The icon next to the title can now be dragged and supports command-clicking to open the path popup menu.
- Symbols settings window: views can be reordered by dragging an item.
- Symbols settings window: symbol files can be renamed by double-clicking their name in the "Folders" table.
- Symbols can now be inserted with a drag and drop from the library browser window.
- Symbols now support scale-independent insertion. If the "Scale-dependent" checkbox in the Library browser window is not selected, the symbol does not scale to the current drawing scale.
- Symbols can now be resized with the Arrow tool.
- Improved support for drag and drop: the main window now handles pictures, text selections, dxf files and dsn projects.
- DXF import: added support for MLINE entities.
- The quick info window showing the name of a sheet now accepts mouse clicks to switch to that sheet.
Changes
- Symbols originally drawn at a scale of 1:1 now default to scale-independent. That option can still be changed in the Symbols settings window.
- Batch Import DXF now keeps the progress window open while importing the drawings.
- Organize > Select Current Layer no longer applies to locked layers.
- Find tool no longer applies to locked layers.
- Organize menu, sheets: Transfer To and Duplicate To are now enabled only if there are selected items.
Optimizations and Improvements
- DXF import: linetypes are now interpreted more accurately.
- DXF import: layer names are now imported with the correct text encoding.
- DXF import: improved support for blocks.
- DXF import: TEXT entities now get the correct block height, even with small text sizes.
- DXF import: added support for angular dimensions.
- DXF import: hatch patterns are now interpreted more correctly.
- DXF import: linear dimensions no longer are erroneously set as aligned under certain conditions.
- DXF import: hatches now get their spacing according to the drawing scale.
- DXF import: multiline texts now honor the attachment point property.
- DXF import: multiline texts get the correct reference rectangle width even if not set in the file.
- DXF import: multiline texts now get the correct rotation angle.
- DXF export: improved support for angular dimensions.
- DXF: improved support for lineweights in versions 2000, 2000i and 2002.
- DXF import: TEXT objects now get their correct rotation again.
- HP-GL: improved support for text.
- HP-GL: improved support for arcs and circles.
- Faster DXF import.
- Faster redraw of dashed arcs, freehands and beziers.
- Speeded up the refresh of rulers.
- Text blocks are displayed as solid rectangles when scaled down to very small sizes.
- The Esc key now activates the Arrow tool if no other action is available.
- Arrows and marker-types no draw more consistently with all tools.
- The cursor icon now refreshes right after selecting a tool.
Bug Fixes
- The default hatch list no longer includes duplicate items.
- Text tool: the input field now properly resizes when entering new text.
- Undo/Redo Scale now properly resets the number of selected items.
- Moving items with Undo suspended caused an ID03 error.
- Undo/Redo Scale commands no longer activate the "Suspend Undo" option.
- Corrected the spelling of "Acknowledgements" in the About Box.
- Drawing Manager.Hatches: duplicate hatch no longer causes internal errors.
- Symbol settings window: setting the "Use Symbol Colors" and "Fills as Background" properties now applies correctly.
- Symbol settings window: deleting a view out of a symbol no longer shows a message with the wrong encoding.
- The standard toolbar button on OS X now works properly.
- Sheets palette: reordering the items in the table no longer shows hidden sheets.
- Fixed a bug with doors that could cause a crash or freeze the application.
- The Window/Door tool now searches correctly the nearest wall when inserting an opening.
- The bounds of doors are now calculated correctly.
- Opening the Print Preview window when the last selected print area was no longer available caused an error of type 03.
- Fixed an error of type 02 that occurred when the autosave could not write to the file.
- Rotated text should not cause anymore ID03 errors when printing.
- Resolved all possible causes of ID02 errors in the print process.
- Fixed an ID02 error in "LocateSymbol".
- Fixed an ID03 error in "vObject::DisplayDoor".
- Fixed an ID03 error in "vObject::Shift".
- Fixed an ID02 error in "PasteObjects".
- Editing a line with the Line By Center method activated now works properly again.
- OS 9: fixed a problem with the function used to set the start point at a given distance from one endpoint of a line.
- Fixed a glitch on freehand lines with arrows.
- Reordering an item in the Sheets palette could show hidden sheets next to that being moved.
- Calculate Area tool: with some units, the function could return a wrong result.
- Fixed an ID03 error in "vObject::DisplayWall".
- [FIX] The symbols palette again loads the current symbol's directory.
- The program could crash when using the Scale Drawing tool.
- Using the scrollbars while the Panning tool is selected no longer causes an incorrect update of the rulers and refresh errors on the drawing.
- Fixed an error 03 that occurred inserting a symbol with no selected view.
- After opening a document, the title of the main window now reports the name of the current sheet correctly.
- Duplicating a sheet via the contextual menu of the Sheets palette no longer shows hidden sheets.
- Fixed an error that could occur on clicking "Disagree" on the license dialog.
- The Section linetype now draws properly with partially off-screen lines.
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