Latest Updates Tech Support Feedback User Forum ilexsoft eNews HighDesign 1.6.0 Release Notes New Features And Improvements Added a new preference option in the Units panel to choose the appropriate decimal separator, e.g. "0.001" or "0,001". Paste: a dialog lets the user choose to paste at the original location of the objects or at the center of the current view. Paste command: added the option to flatten the layers of the pasted items to the current layer. Dashed lines now draw continuous end caps, so to create solid corners. Dots in dashed lines no longer change to segments when zoomed. Arcs and circles are now drawn more accurately. Dense hatch patterns are now displayed as semi-transparent fills when the step or the zoom level are too small to display it correctly. Added a progress bar on the main window to show the progress of lengthy export operations. The automatic Check for Updates now checks for network availability before sending the request to the ilexsoft.com server. Printing now supports transparency of images, fills and rectangles. The Print Area tool now shows the size info box during drawing. The Print Area tool now shows preset page sizes. Printing: improved overall quality of the printouts, especially for circles and oblique lines. Faster printing process. Image resizing tools, like Scale Drawing and the Arrow tool, now use the high-quality, Bilinear scaling algorithm. Faster picture rotation. Rotated images redraw up to 6x faster. Faster rotation of high-resolution images. Drawing Manager.Layers: when deleting one or more layers, a dialog lets the user choose whether the objects on those layers should be deleted as well or moved to another layer. After setting a new layer to a selection, an info window pops up displaying the number of edited objects and the new layer. Drawing Manager.Layers: properties can now be changed for unselected layers too. HighDesign is now a Mach-O application (previously it was PEF). This makes it instantly compatible with future Intel-based Macs via Rosetta. Also, several fixes have been made to prepare it for the Universal Binary format. Drawing Manager, Colors panel: setting the Connect Penweights option now applies to existing objects too. Project Info is now a sheet window. Walls tool: it is now smarter at picking the right start or end wall when creating a new one. The scroll range of the scrollbars on the main window is now wider and proportional to the current zoom factor. Tool Properties panels now allow multiple edits of the same object without the need to close and re-open the panel. Improved the layout and adherence to the Aqua interface of all the Tool Property panels. Missing symbols now show a help tag with the name of the symbol that should be loaded. Filled and hatched walls now redraw 14% faster. Screen redraws are 15% faster overall. PDF export did not work correctly with very large files. PDF settings dialog: the Subject field is now filled with the document's title if no other data is available. PDF: dashed hatch patterns are now more accurate. PDF: polygons did not keep their arrowheads. PDF output: rotated text blocks and dimension labels are now positioned more accurately. Fixes And Changes Select All no longer selects items on the current sheet if it is not visible. Opening the Print Preview dialog with no selection and when the previous setting was "Print Selected Items" could cause a crash. Print Preview calculated the bounds of the drawing including reference points that were not printed. Print margins now display with the correct width and height. Rotated dimension labels now print without the white background. Organize > "Duplicate Items To" and "Transfer Items To" now scale the items if the destination sheet has a different scale than the original. Redoing a new wall no longer attempts to connect it to walls on other sheets. Exploding a hatch with too close a step is now safer and prevents an ID02 error from occurring. Undoing a Convert to Wall command no longer leaves gaps on walls connected with the undone wall. The witness line of exploded dimensions now keeps the correct line style. Annotations: text is now correctly aligned to the left or the right depending on the direction of the leading line. Annotations with vertical line did not redraw correctly. Annotations: now show the correct text on the first redraw instead on the second. Explode: multiline annotations no longer get shifted to the right. Explode: dimension lines no longer get a dashed pattern instead of the continuous line. Mirrored text blocks are no longer displayed outside their box. Angles expressed in degrees, minutes and seconds no longer get rounded when displayed on screen. Integer numbers in dimensions and rulers now display without the "." separator at the end. The starting point of freehand lines was ignored by the snap function. The Split function now makes sure the parts inherit the exact same properties of the original line. The Hatch Selection command did not work properly with rectangles. Info windows now display the message with the correct text encoding. Fixed a problem of the Print function introduced in 1.5.1b2 that caused incorrect results on printouts. The internal edge of frame windows no longer extends beyond the casing lines. Rotated texts and dimension labels now honor the Antialiasing status. Fixed a bug that occurred when opening the Print Preview dialog after deleting a print area that was previously used. Dialogs that are used to load an image now correctly filter out all non-readable files. Zooming in with the mouse wheel from a factor less than 1% now correctly increases in steps of 0.1% instead of jumping to 1%. The Open dialog now correctly shows readable filetypes only. The L label showed an incorrect value when selecting a circular arc. The main drawing area no longer shows horizontal white lines when scrolling vertically and the background color is different from white. Offset and other editing tools: right clicking before starting the edit action no longer leaves the tool in active state. Offset: the mouse cursor does not change when placed over an intersection. Hatches now redraw more correctly at higher zoom levels. Text wrapping did change by one word at different zoom levels. Scale Drawing dialog: input fields now support cut, copy and paste commands. Undo multiply no longer leaves the original items selected with hidden handles. Scroll-wheel zooming: increased the steps above a factor of 1000%. Arrow tool: selecting via the selection rectangle now highlights grouped items too. The application now attempts to create the Support folder inside the app folder when ~user/Library/Application Support/ is not accessible. Fixed a problem with high resolution images loaded from file introduced in fc2. The Fit To Page command now is smarter at handling drawing with no height or width. Offset: clicking on the source item now resets the tool. The last vertex of a polygon is now editable again. The program now remembers correctly the location of the symbol library. Fixed an internal error in "WndDoorDlg.open". Fixed an internal error in "Edit::Duplicate.penmove". Fixed an internal error in "MainWindow::EnableEditButtons". Fixed an internal error in "MainWindow.enableMenuItems". Fixed an internal error in "DeleteObject". Fixed an internal error in "Move". Fixed an internal error in Edit::Duplicate.penmove. Fixed an ID02 error when applying an angular dimension to an arc. Images no longer "wobble" when zooming in and out. This was particularly visible at high zoom levels. Documents with walls and windows are subject to an audit when opened. Undo Delete: improved handling of walls and windows. Undo Delete: deleted print areas did not show up in Print Preview. Undo Delete: windows removed when the parent wall is deleted now are restored correctly. Fixed a possible crash that occurred on OS X 10.2.8 when closing the tool properties panels. Tangents to Two Circles: solved a problem that occurred when the two circles were aligned on the horizontal axis. Circles rotated by 90 degrees could degenerate into points. Fixed a graphical error with some open arrow types. Walls are checked for duplicate window and doors when loaded. Selecting an object when its Tool Properties panel was open did create a new, duplicate panel. Fixed a situation where clicking the right mouse button while panning with the middle mouse could generate a confusion in the program events. Selecting an object when its Tool Properties panel was open did create a new, duplicate panel. Lines created by the Offset command from grouped source lines no longer keep a reference to the original group. Removed the option "Double Buffering" from the Preferences window. Double buffering is now off by default on OS X. Dimension labels now honor their positioning when moved outside of small witness lines. Walls: edited walls now display by the correct leading side. Editing a wall did not update the Document Modified flag. Find dialog: the linetype menu now handles reordered line-type lists correctly. Symbols: hatches now honor the color of the parent symbol. Fixed several memory leaks introduced in earlier betas. Improved support for Apple's Mighty Mouse. Arrow tool: using the selection rect on a hidden sheet now refreshes the screen properly. PDF: windows and doors did not use their parent wall pen-weight. Selecting objects via the Find dialog now enables the Editing buttons in the toolbar. Exploded rectangles now include their fill. Calculate Area did not apply to Rectangle objects. The preview image displayed in Print Preview no longer includes the margins of sheets after the first. Rectangle fills are now displayed more accurately. Consecutive walls produced wrong intersections when edited. Sizes and dimensions of tool settings and other preference properties are now displayed with 3 decimals when decimal units are used, regardless of the settings in the Units preferences panel. These settings now apply to user input and objects only. This prevents situations where, for instance, the width of a wall is displayed as "0" when it should be "0.3". home | products | downloads | support | about us | store Privacy Policy | Copyright © 2002-05 ilexsoft. All Rights Reserved.