HighDesign 1.8.2 Release Notes

New Features and Improvements

• Added four new hatch types: running bond, Flemish bond, English bond, and shingles.
• The Update Style button on the Styles panel now updates the selected style by the selection, if available. Previously it always applied the current defaults.
• Dashed lines used in hatch patterns now have an absolute origin.
• Grouped objects now retain their display order.
• Pasted objects now retain their display order.
• Dashed lines create solid intersections at any zoom factor.
• The center of circles and arcs is now highlighted whenever the cursor is inside their area.
• Several actions of the Styles window are now undoable.
• Moving the absolute origin of the drawing can be undone.

Changes and Optimizations

• Dashed lines used in hatches now have absolute origin.

Fixes

• Menus and buttons on the Sheet size dialog now working correctly.
• Symbols in merged documents now retain their appearance.
• Rotated texts are now displayed and printed correctly at any zoom/resolution.
• Hatches Manager: the Offset input field did not work correctly.
• Reordering project views did not set the File Modified flag.
• Project Views now remember their order more accurately when a file is opened.
• Object Info: tabbing between input fields no longer locks the next field.
• The Calculate Area command is now more accurate with shapes made of curved sides mixed with straight segments.
• DXF export: solved a formatting error caused by groups with invalid objects.
• Dimension objects and the corresponding styles did not match correctly.
• Leader styles did not store the 'landing size' property.
• Fixed several internal errors.
• Datum points inside groups now honour the 'Print Construction Objects' option of the Print Preview window.
• Older symbols containing groups were not displayed correctly.
• Printing now honors the current end caps settings.
• The arrows menu now shows the arrow size of the currently select item.
• The Duplicate Items to Sheet menu now deselects the original objects.
• The Transfer To and Duplicate To sheet menus now list the sheets in the same order as the Sheets window.
• The Polygonal Measure Tape no longer disappears during construction.
• Linear dimensions whose label is larger than the available space again draw the label outside of the dimension (broken in 1.8).