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Changes for v8 Beta - v8

  • Added: Terrain editor
  • Added: Sun shadow
  • Added: Browse project files while seeing thumbnails
  • Added: Black & White drawing (may be helpful for real estate agents)
  • Added: Zoom to selected objects (Ctrl + '+')
  • Added: Capture video in 3D viewer is back, w/ selectable codec
  • Added: New objects - Flower, Rounded Block, Billboard, Wardrobe
  • Added: Select field of view for 3D
  • Added: Define Skybox for 3D
  • Added: Alternative way to set object 3D rotation
  • Added: Set custom wall alignment (thickness on left and right)
  • Added: Touch mode for Windows touch screens
  • Improved: Additional object or texture libraries management
  • Improved: Dimension lines for doors and windows start at wall edge
  • Improved: Layers on/off enabled in side view
  • Improved: High DPI display support



Changes for v7.5.9 - v7.6

  • Fixed: Possible crash in 3D Viewer
  • Fixed: Frozen mouse wheel / key input in 3D Viewer after Alt+Tab
  • Added: OpenGL info in About box



Changes for v7.5.8 - v7.5.9

  • Fixed: Do not offer 3D thumbnails for 2D-only library objects
  • Fixed: Possible crash when texture image file not found or corrupted



Changes for v7.5.7 - v7.5.8

  • Improved: Increased drawing quality of images and textures in 2D
  • Improved: Export as image at 100% zoom option is back
  • Fixed: Several drawing-related bug fixes



Changes for v7.5.6 - v7.5.7

  • Fixed: Rotated multi-line labels
  • Fixed: Possible crash while printing



Changes for v7.5.5 - v7.5.6

  • Fixed: Shift+Mouse wheel to scroll horizontally
  • Fixed: Position of color picker window



Changes for v7.5.4 - v7.5.5

  • Fixed: Print in scale
  • Fixed: Printing of dashed lines



Changes for v7.5.3 - v7.5.4

  • Fixed: Export as webpage with 3D
  • Fixed: Esc in special editors ends current action, not entire editor



Changes for v7.5.2 - v7.5.3

  • Fixed: Label font size for projects in meters
  • Fixed: Group toolbar button should not appear in special editors



Changes for v7.5 - v7.5.2

  • Fixed: Displaying Price value in the Object listing



Changes for v7.5 Beta - v7.5

  • Added: Subpages in the object library
  • Added: Dedicated Symbols library page
  • Added: Rounded walls
  • Added: Wall can be invisible (will only divide floor surfaces)
  • Added: Add your comments to project (TO DO list, ideas, etc.)
  • Added: Print to PDF
  • Improved: More flexibility when docking tool windows (layers, comments...)
  • Fixed: Mirroring walls



Changes for v7.4.2 - v7.4.3

  • Added: Pinch-to-zoom gesture on OS X
  • Improved: Objects orientation after mirroring the project
  • Improved: Selection markers a bit larger



Changes for v7.4.1 - v7.4.2

  • Added: 4 new types of window (Appearance)
  • Fixed: Opening old project files with textures saved with absolute path
  • Fixed: Bug fixes and small improvements



Changes for v7.4 - v7.4.1

  • Improved: Rotate doors by dragging green corner with mouse
  • Fixed: Bug fixes



Changes for v7.3.1 - v7.4

  • Added: Object rotation done by dragging green corner
  • Added: Control point properties dialog window in Polygon editor
  • Improved: Setting up 3D viewpoints done in a special editor mode
  • Improved: Switching to Explore mode in 3D moves to Front top view
  • Improved: Line color shown in Object listing when fill is transparent
  • Fixed: Grouped labels visible even if group caption set invisible
  • Fixed: Bug fixes



Changes for v7.3 - v7.3.1

  • Fixed: Grouped doors in 3D
  • Fixed: 3D viewer crash on old graphics cards with OpenGL 1.4



Changes for v7.3 Beta - v7.3

  • Improved: Objects with 3D rotation shown correctly in Side editor
  • Improved: Soft Shadows + Anti-Aliasing enabled for Intel GPUs in the 3D viewer
  • Improved: Game-like navigation in the 3D viewer (WASD + mouse)
  • Improved: 3D viewer consumes less memory
  • Improved: Doors can be grouped (interactive furniture)
  • Improved: Detect file changes on disk and offer its reload (e.g. in Dropbox)
  • Fixed: Import objects invoked from Browse User Library window
  • Fixed: Possible bug when saving very large projects



Changes for v7.2.6 - v7.2.7

  • Fixed: Crash when adding a dimension line to a wall
  • Fixed: Bug when generating 3D



Changes for v7.2.4 - v7.2.5

  • Fixed: Two possible crash-bugs



Changes for v7.2.3 - v7.2.4

  • Improved: Registration details stored in a more robust way



Changes for v7.2.2 - v7.2.3

  • Fixed: Caption for imported objects will not include the file path
  • Fixed: Object lightness (3D) same when covered with tiling or non-tiling texture



Changes for v7.2.1 - v7.2.2

  • Fixed: Wall thickness in new projects when having default unit other than cm



Changes for v7.2 - v7.2.1

  • Fixed: Storing font size, when using comma as the decimal separator



Changes for v7.1.2 - v7.2

  • Improved: Left panel design
  • Improved: Texture window
  • Added: "Edit" section in Left panel w/ selected object, floor color (texture)
  • Added: Tile brick design
  • Added: Tiles: switch tile joints on/off, select their color
  • Added: Tiles: Checkered tile design supports two textures
  • Added: Certain tile textures may be modified with custom colors (stencils)
  • Added: Hold Shift to resize objects while keeping the aspect ratio
  • Improved: Toolbar color on Windows 8
  • Improved: Export to Image supports JPEG image format
  • Fixed: Bug fixes



Changes for v7.1.2 - v7.2 Beta

  • Improved: Left panel design
  • Improved: Texture window
  • Added: "Edit" section in Left panel w/ selected object, floor color (texture)
  • Added: Tile brick design
  • Added: Tiles: switch tile joints on/off, select their color
  • Added: Tiles: Checkered tile design supports two textures
  • Added: Certain tile textures may be modified with custom colors (stencils)
  • Added: Hold Shift to resize objects while keeping the aspect ratio
  • Improved: Toolbar color on Windows 8
  • Fixed: Bug fixes



Changes for v7.1.1 - v7.1.2

  • Fixed: Save project was crashing on some computers after a few months
  • Fixed: 3D Viewer shows strange geometry on some systems, restoring version 7.1.0



Changes for v7.0.5 - v7.1

  • Improved: Window size not changed when snapped to left/right screen border Enables to have 2D editor AeroSnapped to left, 3D view to right
  • Added: Tiling texture for rectangle and tilted surface objects
  • Improved: Unified F5 shortcut to open/refresh 3D view
  • Fixed: Edit from side: Selecting print area and Page layout disabled
  • Fixed: Mouse cursor when selecting print area
  • Fixed: Align objects left/right with respect to project



Changes for v7.0.4 - v7.0.5

  • Fixed: Texture mapping on tilted surface object
  • Fixed: Hiding a layer refreshes the object listing window
  • Fixed: Handling of textures when new project was not saved yet



Changes for v7.0.3 - v7.0.4

  • Added: Set ground z-pos, enabling cellars and swimming pools
  • Added: Sound clips in OGG file format
  • Improved: Select texture for grouped objects
  • Fixed: Saving to files with non-english characters in 3D view
  • Fixed: Printing of the grid
  • Fixed: Ctrl+A skips all door types, windows and wall openings



Changes for v6.0.3 - v7.0.2

  • version 7.0.2 (2012/6/26)
  • Fixed: Saving of single-room projects made in wizard
  • Fixed: 3D scenes with objects smaller then 1 mm
  • Fixed: Printing of rotated captions
  • Fixed: 3D rendering improvements on Intel graphics
  • version 7.0.1 (2012/6/21)
  • Fixed: Use only one 3D viewer window (failed on some computers)
  • Fixed: Line artifacts in shadows in 3D on Intel graphics
  • Improved: F5 shortcut refreshes 3D view
  • version 7 (2012/6/17)
  • Added: Tiling textures on floors and walls
  • Added: Built-in 3D Viewer
  • Added: Texture library, customizable with built-in textures
  • Added: New file format that includes also all textures used in the project in one file. Backward compatibility (versions 1 - 6) kept.
  • Added: 3D Viewer has instant 3D refresh which keeps camera position
  • Added: Viewpoints can be added directly from 3D Viewer
  • Added: Viewpoints drawn onto the project, it's possible to edit them there
  • Added: 3D Viewer can save viewpoint walkthrough to movie file
  • Added: 3D Viewer supports 3Dconnextion devices (3D mice)
  • Added: New object - Mirror, showing the real reflection in 3D Viewer
  • Added: New object - QR Code
  • Added: Sound clips can be assigned to object, played in 3D
  • Added: Polygon object supports 3D rotation
  • Added: Tiling texture available on polygon object
  • Improved: Reliable colors of textured objects in 3D
  • Improved: TV, LCD and All-in-one computer can display any custom image
  • Improved: Doorframe available for wall openings
  • Improved: Sliding door and pocket door support selection of handle types
  • Improved: Garage door opening into inside
  • Improved: Drawing of windows in 2D
  • Improved: Objects w/out 3D thumbnail show front side view in Library window
  • Improved: Grid has selectable line style and is drawn below floor texture
  • Improved: Objects with Link attribute are clickable in 3D
  • Improved: Export grouped object listing into clipboard
  • Improved: High DPI monitor support in the entire application



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