· General:

o Increased Performance: A change in overall structure of the program to increase performance. Changes include, but are not limited to:

· Bitmaps optimized for faster redraw

· Database change for faster access, loading, reduced file sizes

· Restructuring to take advantage of Apple core performance increases including faster redraw times

· faster redraw in Overview Window

· Faster execution of menu commands

o QuickLook Previews: support for Mac OS X Finder level quick preview of drawings. Press Space Bar to view the last saved state of the PowerCADD 9 file. Previews are created for Legacy PowerCADD files when saved as PowerCADD 9

o Backwards Compatibility: Open all versions of PowerCADD 1 through 9 and PowerDRAW 6. 

o Cosmetic Changes: improved rendering of font sizes in various floating windows including Edit and Layer Windows. Larger tool palette icons

o Consistency of Interface: User interaction is consistent with all prior release versions of PowerDraw and PowerCADD (the big change here is, once again, there was no change)

o Documentation: Include link to PDF version of documentation from within the application for easier customer support and customer self help.

o Tools:

· Text Tools: Text is indexed for Spotlight Search in Mac OS X Snow Leopard

· Selection Filter: updated for End Cap object attribute

· Magic Wand: updated for End Cap object attribute

· Parallel Line: new option for multiple increments

· Parallel Offset: new option for multiple increments

· Eye Dropper: updated for End Cap object attribute

· Rounded Rectangles: Rotating a rounded rectangle is still a rounded rectangle, previously became a polygon.

· Menus:

o File Menu:

· New File Formats: Support to Open, Import, Place: EPSF, Postscript, Illustrator and numerous other raster and object level graphic formats.

· .dwg support:

· Read and Write for *.dwg release 2010 formats

· improved DWG interface, default selection of area to be translated if user doesn't select an area

· improved interface when saving files to reduce dialog boxes if a drawing has only one layer, or no sheets, no all visible layers

· improved reading of special characters, unicode (UU) symbols and stacked dimensions read correctly

o Preferences Menu:

· Magnetic Windows: turning this preference off now automatically demagnetizes all floating windows; previously they had to be manually torn apart after disabling this preference

· Share Usage Statistics: send statistics to Engineered Software on most use features to assist in refining product development

o Edit Menu

· Select Special: updated for End Cap attributes

· Exit Group: by default existing a nested group backs out one level at a time. Previously required creating a custom key command that included OPTION key to back out one level at a time

o Tool Menu

· Live Area: area and/or perimeter values inserted into the drawing are linked to the objects, values update on the fly as objects are resized or reshaped

· Auto Alpha: Knock out any color from a bit image and make them transparent

· Alpha Support: support for alpha channels (transparency) when Open, Place, Importing bit images from other applications with transparent backgrounds

· PDF To Objects: Convert postscript based graphics (EPSF, PDF, Postscript, Illustrator, etc.) to editable objects (bezier curves) or editable text

o View menu:

· High quality previews of all operations is now standard when moving objects

o Layout Menu

· Rename Sheets: more direct method of renaming sheet setups

· Guidelines: more direct method to delete individual guidelines, control click on a guideline to remove it

· Drawing Setup, Dimensions:

· new setting to specify offset of dimension text from the dimension line

· new setting to control display of leading zeros

o Attribute menu:

· End Caps: ability to apply a line end cap as an object attribute (previously an application wide preference)

o References:

· General: refined and simplified model for how the user interfaces with Referenced Drawings

· Management: new Reference Status Window describing status of all references in a drawing

· Masking: ability to create a rectangular or polygon shaped mask of a referenced drawing, displaying only desired portion of the drawing.

· Edit masks to change view port or see entire drawing with real time, live preview in the main drawing window

· Manipulating References: Referenced drawings behave just like any other PowerCADD object making it faster and easier to perform tasks such as scaling, moving, deleting, or rotating referenced drawings.

· Placing: live preview of reference being placed, insertion point is placed dynamically with all other references automatically using the same reference point (see manipulating references for moving a reference)

· Resolving Paths to References:

§ master drawing always displays last saved state of a reference, even if the link to that reference is broken

· extremely robust search engine for finding links to references that have been moved or renamed. Breaking a link to a reference is so robust that deleting the file is typically required to break a reference