2015.0 #
New Features, Changes and Improvements #
- Redesigned interface of the main window and many accessory windows.
- Sidebar.
- Radial menu.
- Layers panel.
- Input bar.
- Themes.
- Support for full screen.
- Full support for Retina displays.
- Multiple documents.
- Support for multiple displays.
- Compatibility with DXF/DWG® 2015.
- Quick Info about type and layer of object.
- Automatic perpendicular, parallel and intersection alignments.
- Smarter selection via contextual menu and Object Info.
- Tool properties Inspector window.
- Polyline tool with linear and circular segments.
- Regular Polygons.
- Arc by Tangent.
- Spline tool.
- Smart Annotation tool.
- Styled text paragraphs.
- Vertical text alignment.
- Ordinate dimensions.
- Enhanced elevation dimensions.
- Enhanced symbols.
- High-resolution images can now be displayed at screen or print resolution.
- Enhanced scrolling and panning and support for gestures.
- New options for linear hatches.
- Pattern hatches.
- Ability to open holes inside a hatch.
- Gradient fills with multiple colours and varying opacity.
- Ability to apply the fill to all closed shapes such as circles, polygons, rectangles.
- Templates (Pro).
- Application Preferences and Project Properties.
- Enhanced walls with interior/exterior side, variable widths, optional joints (Pro).
- Enhanced windows with scale-adaptive details.
- Redesigned Trim tool.
- Redesigned Fillet & Chamfer.
- Grid with subdivisions.
- Customisable UI colours.
- Repeat Last Action command.
- Sheets have their own unit and origin (Pro).
- Welcome window.
- Guided Tour.
- Repair Document command.
- Drawing Manager now lets you add resources to the project.
- Render (Pro).
- Enhanced and easier Photogrammetry setup process (Pro).
- Option to correct perspective of the Photogrammetry image (Pro).
- Enhanced Adjust Image tool (Pro).
- New Insulation line type.
- Line type scale factor.
- More pen weights.
- Direct Select & Move.
HighDesign 2015.1 #
New Features, Changes and Improvements #
- Hatches: Speed optimisations.
- Project defaults for units, colours and grid applied to new documents and “Auto” templates.
- Workspace Preferences: added full-size crosshair option
- New long-click feature: press and hold the pointer to pan the canvas.
- Snap to grid now automatically excludes the other snaps if they are disabled.
- The Welcome window now provides tabs to access files, templates and examples.
- Filled shapes and images can be selected with a click inside of the Arrow tool.
- New Area units section in Project Properties.
- Print: new option to exclude fills from the monochromatic option.
- Hatch Inspector: added hatch colour distinct from stroke.
Resolved Issues #
- Temporary items are cleaned when the app closes
- PRO: Custom presets did not load correctly
- PRO: Styles that include presets did not load correctly
- Double-clicking a text with the Arrow tool now allows to close the box by clicking outside.
- PRO: Improved conversion of walls, doors and windows from older documents.
- Improved synchronisation of colours in older documents.
- Improved DXF/DWG conversion.
- Horizontal orientation applied to new dimension labels.
- PDF: improved export of vertical labels.
- PRO: Improved transfer and duplicate objects to sheet.
- Improved parsing of fractional feet and inches input.
- Welcome Window: Fixed special characters in Recent file names
- Layer Manager: fixed synchronisation between selected layer and Delete button
- Layers: improved safety when loading duplicate layers.
- Grouped symbols did not load correctly.
- The Snaps panel now opens in new sessions if it was previously used, regardless of the sidebar status.
- Improved the option “Snap to Grid disables other snaps”.
- Default text units for text and dimension objects are now properly stored in the preferences.
- Hatch tool: Fit To Arc editing now works correctly.
- Rectangles, Groups can now resized proportionally.
- Texts, Annotations: fixed scale operations.
- Miscellaneous fixes
HighDesign 2015.2 #
New Features, Changes and Improvements #
- [PRO] The Save As Template command now saves directly to the User Templates folder without opening the file save dialog.
- Symbol Inspector: controls are now disabled when there is no symbol selected.
- Drawing Manager: the linetypes and hatches panes now have a control on the left margin to access the resources list.
- Text tool: changing tool when the text insertion box is open now creates a text object.
- It is now possible to switch between editing tools at any moment, either via the Edit bar or the menu shortcuts.
- After activating an editing tool via a toolbar button, clicking the button again cancels the action.
- Workspace Preferences: added the option to restrict editing to the Arrow tool.
- [PRO] Walls: added a visual cue on the leading side and vertex
- Enhanced Repair Document tool.
- New Mask Other layers function and button on the Layers pane to show only the current layer and restore the status after.
- Fillet and Chamfer can be activated without preselected objects and applied consecutively.
- Added help info for Edit tools in the Status bar.
- Input fields in the Input bar now highlight their locked status when coordinates or an alignment condition are locked.
- The Rotate tool now accepts numeric input to set the rotation angle.
- [PRO] New Rebuild Wall tool in the Tools menu.
- Object Info now modifies by default all selected objects of the same type. To modify only the current object, open the pop-up menu on the panel header and choose “Apply Only to Current Object”
Resolved Issues #
- The Pan tool changes the cursor as soon as activated.
- The Polyline no longer selects with the exclusive Selection tool under certain circumstances.
- Groups: fixed pen weight assignment from the Properties bar.
- Open arrowheads did not use the same pen weight as the line.
- Move, Nudge, Duplicate, and Multiply no longer deselect the objects after.
- [PRO] Walls: fixed mirroring.
- [PRO] Walls: editing a wall from the start point no longer changes the position of its doors and windows.
- [PRO] Walls: improved Undo/Redo after editing.
- [PRO] Walls: improved intersections
- [PRO] Columns: improved handling of different drawing scales.
- Symbols: pasted symbols on sheets at different scale now correctly updates the bounding box.
- Units: fixed decimal/fractional feet and inches.
- Dimensions Inspector: improved consistency of controls.
- Improved accuracy of first click in click-drag method.
- Improved stability.
- DWG: improved handling of some files that could not be opened in earlier versions.
- DWG: improved compatibility, import of blocks, texts and multiple lines (MLINE).
- Fixed crash caused by Point objects.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes.
HighDesign 2015.2.1 #
- Ready for OS X 10.11 El Capitan.
- Fixed a situation that prevented Object Info from modifying an object if it was the only selected object.
- When creating dimensions, the snap gives precedence to normal objects.
- Improved Snap to Perpendicular with horizontal and vertical lines.
- Fixed a situation that could occur when creating or editing a symbol.
- The Layers pane now updates correctly after pasting objects with their own layers.
- Improved the behaviour of size fields on the Symbol Inspector and added synchronization with Object Info.
HighDesign 2015.2.2 #
The following issues have been resolved in this release:
- Speed optimizations
- Convert To Polyline now works with multiple closed shapes selected
- Improved Fillet and Chamfer for consistency and usability
- Fixes and improvements
HighDesign 2015.3 #
New Features, Changes and Improvements #
- Added new Snap To Symbols option to allow snapping to the elements of symbols.
- Added support for multiple-nested symbols.
- Symbols can now include dimensions.
- The insertion point of symbols now acts as center of modifications such as mirroring and rotation.
- Fractional Feet and Inches now default to inches when only an integer number is entered.
- New Restore Selection command. This command re-selects the objects of the previous selection.
- Speed optmizations for scrolling, zooming, dashed lines, hatches, walls.
- Linear dimensions now snap to the height of the previous dimension, to set the witness lines at the same height with ease.
- Text blocks now have an auto-fit option that automatically adjusts the object size after insertion.
- The Symbol inspector now lists the symbols of the current document.
- DWG/DXF compatibility: improved import of blocks, linear dimensions, rotated texts, leader lines; improved export.
- Duplicate, LinearMultiply, PolarMultiply and Duplicate to sheet now include wall openings even when not selected.
- The Sheets pane now supports duplicate with Alt key down.
- Object Info and Inspector are now synchronized.
- The background color chosen in Project Properties is now the default color for new documents.
- Stretch is now faster and includes more objects.
Resolved Issues #
The following issues have been resolved in this release:
- Closed miscellaneous errors.
- Fixed the behavior of hatch scale sliders in Wall and Column inspectors.
- The Hatch inspector now reloads the listed hatches after closing the Drawing Manager.
- Fixed errors in linear dimensions.
- Fixed reading of symbols in 1.8 format.
- The resize cursor used during editing no longer override the normal snap cursors.
- Fractional feet and inches now accept variations of the quotation mark character.
- Improved tab order in the Input bar.
- Fixed some situations in which the combination of fixed length and angle would not produce the correct result.
- Miscellaneous fixes to drawing constraints.
- Fixed problems of the Measure tool on retina displays.
- Object Info: fixed Scale by measure function.
- Fixed undo/redo after editing a polyline
- Fixed long click result when the mouse button was released without any movement.
- Enhanced the Repair Document command.
- Zooming with a trackpad no longer jumps to 0%.
- Fixed rendering of arcs of ellipse.
- changing the visibility of a layer in the Layers pane now correctly updates its properties.
- Export As PDF: some UI elements were not properly translated.
- Fixed scaling of arrow markers, linetype, annotations, radial dimensions, print areas.
- Annotations are now included in the Change Scale options.
- Object Info: the lock icon for Text objects is now placed correctly.
- The Cut command in Radial menu now works correctly.
- Symbol Inspector: the preview is now scaled so that all the vertices of the bounding box are visible at all rotation angles.
- Grouped symbols are now read correctly.
- Azimuth angles are now in the 0-360 deg. range.
- Symbol Inspector: changing the size before inserting a symbol now works correctly.
- Submenus in the Radial menu now open closer to their parent item.
- DXF out: fixed error caused by non-Ascii linetype names.
- PDF out: fixed generation of arcs and elliptical arcs.
- DWG out: fixed a situation that would overwrite a file with the extension «.dxf» instead of «.dwg».
- Symbols now fully support invisible stroke items.
- Walls and windows: fixed Undo/Redo after editing the vertex of a wall with windows.
- Added better error handling while resizing images.
HighDesign 2015.3.1 #
Resolved Issues #
The following issues have been resolved in this release:
- Fixed an error that would prevent HighDesign Standard from launching correctly.
HighDesign 2015.3.2 #
New Features, Changes and Improvements #
- Trim now can use the selected object as cutter.
Resolved Issues #
The following issues have been resolved in this release:
- DWG/DXF Import: texts with international characters are converted correctly.
- DWG Export: saving a file with non US-ASCII characters in the file path no longer causes the export process to fail.
- Exploding a block in an imported DXF/DWG drawing keeps the correct position.
- Walls: the options to disable joints did not work correctly on the sides of walls.
- Walls: fixed intersections with walls created by the middle axis.
- Annotations prompt the correct description when used on a wall object.
- The Explode command did not preserve the colors of the original objects.
- Dashed ellipses are now displayed correctly.
- Switching documents now closes the Text toolbar if open.
- The Page Format pane now retrieves the current printer margins.
- Trim no longer applies to hidden objects.
- JPEG files support resolutions higher than 72 DPI where the option is provided.
- Radial menu: fixed the position of sub-menus on retina displays.
- Corrected miscellaneous errors.