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HighDesign R5.2.1 Release Notes
- Removed a safety check that could prevent files with damaged objects from loading correctly.
- The tool settings window now adapts correctly when the system UI theme changes while it is open.
- Miscellaneous fixes and improvements.
HighDesign R5.2 Release Notes
New Features, Changes & Improvements
- Ready for on macOS 10.15 Catalina and Windows 10 version 1903.
- Hatch: added new Apply Hatch method to add a hatch with one click over a shape (rectangles, polylines, polygons, circles, arcs, ellipses, curves) or inside a region enclosed by walls.
- Added alignment guides during the insertion of fixed-size viewports.
- Viewports can now be created by dragging and dropping a sheet from the project browser onto the layout.
- Viewports: the New Viewport button deselects any selected viewports before opening the New Viewport dialog.
- Floating panels are now hidden when a Save As dialog is open.
- HighDesign LT can now open and save DWG drawings (model space only).
- DXF/DWG Import: added support for ByLayer line-types.
- DXF/DWG Import: improved the conversion of entities from 3D space to 2D plane.
- Screen rendering speed is approx. 18% faster.
- Faster selection and deselection of objects.
- With Snap to Intersections, object vertices and control points have always the precedence regardless of their Z-order.
- Welcome window: added a Quit button; Project settings and Resource Manager buttons are disabled when no project is open.
- HighDesign for Windows: closing the project window no longer causes the application to exit if no other project windows are open; instead, the Welcome window opens.
- Associative elements now display the caution triangle for a broken connection only when selected.
User Interface
- Object Info: the “More text” button after the description field was not aligned correctly when the window was resized.
- macOS Themes: switching to a different theme than the system now updates the background color of some dialogs.
- Fixed German localization of Viewport dialogs.
- Mac: improved the appearance of the title bar on dark theme.
- Slightly expanded the layout of the top toolbars on the main window.
- Improved the light theme.
- Windows: when the theme is set as by system, HighDesign now properly launches with dark or light mode according to the user Personalization settings.
Fixes
- Object Info: the ID pane could throw an internal exception on selecting an element when the pane was loaded in a floating window.
- Layouts: renaming the current layout updates immediately the title block if present.
- Viewports: editing a viewport now opens the normal settings panel instead of the modal dialog.
- Viewports: the Viewport settings panel now correctly allows to edit the name of the selected viewport.
- LT: the radial menu did not open correctly.
- Opening a DXF no longer leaves the .dxf extension as part of the HighDesign document name.
- The project grid did not retain the selected custom color.
- Project Settings > Grid: pushing Cancel could revert the grid colour to automatic.
- LT: the Layers panel is now always visible.
- Fixed internal error in Tag styles.
- Deleting a layout with a title block correctly removes the title block reference from the project.
- DXF/DWG Import: setting a drawing scale now works correctly.
- Details: snap to underlay bounds and contents is only available when the underlay is visible.
- Tag styles did not work correctly immediately after creation, but only when loaded from file.
- The command Window > Panels > Restore Defaults did not save the updated ui profile.
- Rectangles, Viewports and other rectangular objects can now be resized by dragging one side without having to use one of the middle handles.
- macOS Mojave: the text input area now opens with the correct background color regardless of the system theme.
- Detail Area: the input field used for renaming is slighly larger so that it can show the text on one line.
- Sidebar: expanding the sidebar restores the correct tab.
- Project Settings: fixed some minor issues in the Units pane.
- On project loading, fixed reference, sizing and position of symbols contained in groups.
- Fixed a possible cause of hatch types suddenly disappearing.
- Improved the alignment of arrows on cubic bezier curves.
- Object Info updates its content immediately when dragged out of the sidebar.
- Object Info no longer shows the “Keep Proportions” button when not applicable.
- Polyline: Arc by Centre now works correctly again.
- macOS Catalina: opening a color picker twice could crash the application.
- Mac: gradients display their control points again.
- Mac: the color picker on the Gradient palette did not work correctly.
- The witness line of linear dimensions can now be edited and flipped without constraints.
- Fixed the display of special lines on high-resolution screens.
- Windows: improved the behavior of the Welcome window.
- The open windows menu could list a project window twice.
- Windows: the close button on floating windows is more responsive.