Updated all interface elements for clarity and consistency

Added support for themes in macOS 10.14 Mojave

Renamed “Project Properties” as “Project Settings” to avoid confusion with element properties

Renamed the “Drawing Manager” as “Resource Manager”

Reorganized the main menu bar: in HighDesign Standard and Pro the “Organize” menu is replaced by “Project”; all the items pertaining the project, such as Project Settings, Resource Manager, Groups, Symbols, Layers and Sheets are now in the Project menu

Main tool bar: tools methods are now also available on a popup window

Main tool bar: reorganized some tools for consistency.

Zoom, Pan and Zoom to Fit commands can now be displayed on a dock anchored to the margins of the drawing area

Properties Bar: added a button that opens the tool inspector as appropriate by current tool or selection

Properties Bar: the Layers menu provides more options

Added more help messages for drawing and editing tools

Tool Inspector: each tool that has advanced settings now opens its own independent Settings panel

The Tool Inspector now informs whether the displayed settings are defaults or selected instance settings

Side Bar: panels can now be dragged off as floating panels and on again, reordered, closed by contextual click

The Side Bar can be collapsed on the side. When collapsed, the panels open as docked pop-up windows.

The main contextual menu can be opened over elements by holding down the Alt (Option) key

The contextual menus of drawing tools now open as classic list menus and close automatically when the cursor exits the menu

The Color palette for lines and fills is now larger

Revised the structure of the project: made a clearer distinction between application preferences and project settings; Improved the access to project resources

Redesigned the object hierarchy: “Object”, “Element” and “Building Element”. Also, object types are now called “Classes” and internal sub-types are “Families” (e.g. basic or compound wall)

[PRO] Added new sheet types Detail and Layout, in addition to Drafting Sheet (referred to as “Sheets” in previous versions)

[PRO] Detail Sheets have an optional underlay that displays the original drawing enclosed by the associated callout

[PRO] Layouts are sheets used for publishing and can display drawing objects, viewports and title blocks.

[PRO] Completely redesigned the Project Information panel of Project Settings. The new panel include properties for client, project location, project phase and status, and more.

Added ability to export and import layer sets as .xml files

Completely redesigned: Object Info now features collapsible, thematic panes

When no object is selected, Object Info displays information of the current sheet

Enhanced geometric editing: rectangles can be deformed and many other enhancements

Added Information pane to display and edit non-graphical information associated to the selected object instance

Improved the visual feedback of snaps

Snap to Grid and Snap to objects have a better integration with each other: clicks intercepted by objects are no longer hijacked by grid nodes

Length input now accepts “+” and “-” increment values: e.g. while drawing a line, pushing L and entering “+20” adds a value of 20 to the current length.

Improved the visual feedback of the relative center command (insertion point at distance)

Fixed double lines

Rectangles can now display diagonals as an option

Symbols: added Attributes to attach editable labels to symbols

Full support for verbal drawing scales (e.g. 1“ = 1'-0”)

Improved the Drawing Scale dialog with more options

New Drawing View mode (under the View menu) “Wireframe by layer”

Improved text padding

Auto-fit is now a property of the text instance: text blocks with auto-fit now automatically adapt their size to the contents

Added mid-point handles to text blocks.

[PRO] New Tag annotation method: tags automatically display information associated with certain element types. Hatches, Symbols and all building elements support tags.

Detail Area (previously “Print Area”): revised the appearance; becomes a Callout when associated to a Detail

[PRO] Callouts are detail areas linked to a detail sheet. It is possible to navigate back and forth between a Callout and its Detail Sheet.

[PRO] Viewports are windows that display a part of a drawing in a layout

[PRO] Title Blocks are special symbols with attributes that can be inserted on a layout

Redesigned color filters now can be applied to print, publish to PDF and layout viewports

Walls: Improved support for the “Joints” option

Walls: leading side and Invert sides are now instance options, and as such can be found in Object Info

Windows/Doors: improved input of rough and nominal widths

Windows/Doors: redesigned the Reveal and added Slanted and Splayed reveals

Windows/Doors: redesigned the Frame Dimensions section with more control over sizes and offsets

Doors: added glass panel type

Windows/Doors: added control over interior and exterior casing and casing sizes

Redesigned Styles; added Building Element Types, a special style for building elements;

Styles and types are now completely integrated into the project

Styles and types are accessible from any tool settings panel and define the instance settings

Right-click a tool icon on the main toolbar to quickly open the Style Chooser

New Styles & Types pane in Resource Manager. Styles and types can be saved in a custom library.

Building Element Types include information such as Tag and Description. These data can be displayed by Tag annotations

New command Create Building Element Types that will automatically extract and create types in the current project

Supports DXF & DWG® 2018/2019

Redesigned the way drawings and sheets are exported to DXF/DWG

DXF/DWG: added support for Block Attributes, Layouts and Viewports

Improved Publish to PDF

Print adds the ability to scale the drawing by a fixed percent amount