Features
- The ribbon, tabs and status bar adapt to narrow windows — the ribbon top bar, document tabs and status bar now flex-wrap onto extra rows instead of clipping, and the ribbon's tool panels degrade from the right as space runs out: large buttons shrink to compact icon columns, then a panel collapses to a title button that opens the full panel as a flyout.
- Dropdowns and popups open where you expect — every ribbon dropdown and status-bar popup now opens directly at its button and flips to the other side when it would run off the window edge.
- Redesigned Start page — Recent Files, Welcome and Supporters sit side by side while they fit, and fall back to a tab bar (Welcome open by default) when the window is too narrow.
- Collapsible properties panel — on a narrow window the properties panel collapses to a slim vertical bar, freeing width for the drawing; click the bar to expand it.
- Parallel object snap — snap the next point along a direction parallel to an existing line, with the reference line highlighted.
- Tangent line to two circles — the LINE tool can draw a line tangent to two circles.
- Select meshes by their faces — click a mesh's shaded face to pick it, not just its edges.
- Plugin commands in autocomplete — commands from loaded plugins now show up in command-line autocomplete.
- Tidier layer list — layers are listed alphabetically and the list scrolls to a newly created layer.
Fixes
- Object snap tangents and guides — tangent snaps land on the true tangent point, endpoint snaps no longer fire on closed curves, extension guides no longer stream from circles, and extension tracking points stay put while in use.
- User-defined hatches render — hatches defined by an angle and spacing now draw instead of coming up empty.
- Concave mesh faces — non-convex mesh faces are triangulated correctly (ear clipping) instead of spilling stray triangles.
- Picking in tilted 3-D views — partly off-screen entities stay selectable when the view is tilted.
- Steadier orbit — orbiting a large drawing no longer jitters at extreme extents.
- Dynamic input second point — a comma-separated second value is read as a coordinate rather than width/height.
- OSNAP settings popup — opens anchored to its status-bar button instead of the window corner.
Performance
- Faster idle and navigation — the rendered scene is cached and skipped on unchanged frames, and the hatch pass is skipped while panning/orbiting.
- Faster picking and snapping — model-space pick/snap reuses the static wire set instead of re-tessellating each gesture.
- Faster xref-heavy files — referenced drawings parse in parallel, an O(n²) data-store parse is fixed, and ACIS record lookup is O(1).
Full Changelog: v0.7.5...v0.7.6