HighDesign 2015 Release Notes

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

Resolved Issues

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