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| HighDesign 1.7.1 Release Notes |
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New Features and Improvements
- Added a new method to set a constrained length: during the construction of a linear object, you can now press the numeric keys on the keyboard to activate direct Length input.
- Added the Alignment commands to the contextual menu.
- Object members of a group can now be selected and edited separately by holding down the Command key with the Arrow tool.
- Groups: holding down the Command key now highlights the group bounding box or the member currently under the pointer. Command-click with any drawing tool selects the current object inside a group.
- Fractional units can now have a precision ranging from 1/2 to 1/64.
- Project Views now include the preview. Hovering the mouse cursor over project views in the Views palette now opens a floating thumbnail of the view. Views stored in pre-1.7.1 projects must be activated once in order to display the preview.
- Document Info: added a read-only field with the location on disk of the current file. The text can be dragged and dropped or copied.
- Added a new Copy As Image item to the Edit menu. This command creates an image of the selected objects on the current background and puts it onto the clipboard.
- DXF Import: added support for SOLID entities.
- Added a new "Opening angle" option for single and double swinging doors. The opening angle can be set to any value between 5° and 90°.
- Text wrapping in paragraphs is now improved and more consistent between antialiased and non-antialiased modes.
Changes and Optimizations
- Text redraw is more than 100% faster.
- Resizing a rectangle via Object Info now applies the resize relative to the current point.
- Improved the speed of snap in drawings with many groups.
- Alerts about invisible layers and sheets are now displayed as overlays at the cursor location.
Fixes
- Find panel: the Sheets menu now includes the "All sheets" item.
- Fixed an internal error in DisplayWall.
- Right-aligned text is now displayed correctly.
- Object Info: moving a line by its mid point did not work correctly.
- It is no longer possible to create corrupt construction lines, and those already created are discarded when loaded from file.
- The buttons that control layer visibility and lock on the main window are now synchronised with the layer shown on the left.
- Editing subgroups could cause selection errors and incorrect group bounds.
- Scrolling during the construction of a multiple bezier curve did distort the current profile.
- Getting and setting attributes of linear dimensions now includes the extension lines.
- The selection rectangle of the Arrow tool and the Select All command no longer select hidden print areas.
- Hidden print areas are not included in the Fit to Screen command.
- Left aligned annotations no longer extend beyond the leader line.
- Moving or resizing an image did not update the selection highlight on the rulers.
- Pushing the spacebar in Object Info could occasionally cause internal errors.
- The Join command no longer fails in certain conditions.
- Fixed a problem that caused linear dimensions to be damaged by the first edit.
- Grouped objects now honor the All Colors to Black when printing.
- In Print Preview, the All Colors to Black option now remembers its previous state.
- Pushing the spacebar while changing the name of a sheet no longer closes the input field.
- Changing the properties of an angular dimension could inadvertently change the position of the text label.
- The Create Image options dialog now properly lets the user select a linetype.
- Rotated texts now show correctly at small zoom factors.
- Rotated texts were displayed with a slightly lighter color.
- Solved a situation where elevation dimensions could lose their 0.0 level.
- Text labels created by the Calculate Area command and by dropping text were invisible.
- Fixed a number of internal errors.
- The program now remembers the preferences for fractional units rounding.
- Fixed an internal error that could occur when the app was closed.
- On Mac OS 10.3.9, the Views palette caused a crash when loading the thumbnails of project views.
- Text labels displayed annotations in two lines.
- Pushing the spacebar while renaming a view could unexpectedly close the input field.
- Group members return to their original layer when ungrouped.
- Explode now works correctly with walls.
- DXF Import: under certain conditions, some blocks could lose one item.
- Custom dashed lines would not display correctly under certain circumstances.
- Adjusting the control point of a text whose font had been changed could cause the characters to display condensed.
- Fixed an internal error in vObject.Scale
- Hatch boundaries are audited when the project is opened from file.
- DXF: improved reading and writing of ellipses.
- Setting wall attributes from another wall no longer activates the Hatch attribute by default.
- DXF output: some characters in the layer name were not accepted by AutoCAD.
- DXF output: fixed a problem with dimensions in the R12 version.
- The Sheet Size window now correctly accepts the input of custom values.
- Undo and Redo pasting walls with windows now works correctly.
- Editing a wall did not update the location of its midpoint.
- Undo and Redo menu items were always enabled.
- The bounds box of pictures was not displayed correctly at certain zoom factors.
- Sheet names in the Find panel now display with the correct text encoding.
- Convert to Wall now joins the wall created on connected segments of lines or polygons.
- Extrude walls now works correctly.
- Photogrammetry: in the projection window, save and export commands now work as expected.
- Items of the Walls submenu were not enabled accordingly to the current selection.
- The current line no longer disappears after setting the constrained length and pressing Return.
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