New in Stardraw Design 7.4

This latest version contains important new features and enhancements that significantly extend functionality and productivity for systems integrators
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New Features

  • Performance Improvements: up to 10x faster loading and saving projects, switching drawings and when performing certain drawing actions.
  • Backend Upgrades: including a switch from .NET 4.5 to .NET 9 and from SQL CE (now end of life) to SQLite.
  • ARM 64 Compilation: even faster operation for users running Macs with ARM M1 - M4 chipsets.
  • High DPI support: runs on any high resolution monitor(s), including 4k and above, with full support for Windows display scaling.
  • Auto-Labels: a global setting to add the Attribute(s) of your choice as dynamic labels on your Block Schematic symbols (#1 requested new feature).
  • Report Designer: hugely powerful report authoring interface that means you can edit or create you own report templates, accessing all datasources for the application, project, user, products, cables and drawings.
  • Flexgrid: grid interfaces - the Products View, Available Symbols Palette etc. - employ the new, advanced Flexgrid allowing sorting, filtering, searching and multi-cell copy/paste/fill, with or without auto-incrementing values.
  • Cables View: a new, configurable grid interface exposing all Cable attribute values, and those of connected products, in one place for simplified Cable management and the production of custom Cable Schedules.
  • Add Products Interface: a new way to add Products to your Project with the time-saving ability to set multiple Attribute values simultaneously.
  • Cable Fillets: rounded corners on Cables.
  • Purge Attributes: delete any and all Attribute values and their placeholders from existing projects.
  • Clone drawing: create a new drawing from an old one but with new Product Instances e.g. to design Room 2 based on Room 1.
  • Unlock Cursor: improved transformation capabilities e.g. Mirror to flip ports within a symbol.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements to existing features

  • Setting print area with Windows Scaling >100%.
  • Cut, Copy, Paste availability.
  • Text position in Symbol Browser thumbnails.
  • Pre-population of Categories in UDP Wizard when creating UDP from Product.
  • UI to delete User Template.
  • Improved pasting from clipboard when copying images from external sources e.g. websites.
  • Improved pasting from Excel, respecting text alignment, border styles, fills, images, charts and more.
  • Improved Export DWG UI.
  • Improved Product Attributes UI.
  • Rationalised units in UDP Wizard.