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What's new in DraftCraft 2.1.0
Fixed: picking near text
Turned text used to be picked anywhere inside its axis-aligned bounding box. For text at an angle,
that box is much larger than the words, so the text took clicks and hover meant for a line next to
it, at any pickbox size. Text is now hit inside its own box: around the letters, turned with the
text, as in AutoCAD. This applies to clicks, hover highlighting, crossing windows, TRIM/EXTEND edges
and selection cycling.
PDFs keep their curves
PLOT and EXPORTPDF now write arcs, circles, ellipses, splines and polylines with arc segments as
true Bézier curves, not hundreds of short line segments. The files are smaller, print smoother, and
can be edited properly in other programs. Dashed linetypes are still drawn dash by dash.
PDFIMPORT recognises geometry
PDFIMPORT (Insert › PDF Import) turns a PDF page's vectors into editable DraftCraft objects, and you
can save the result as DWG or DXF. It now recognises:
- straight segments as lines;
- circular curves as arcs and circles;
- lines and arcs joined together as polylines with arc segments;
- other curves as splines, fills as solid hatches, and text as text.
A PDF written by DraftCraft (or by any CAD program that writes arcs as Bézier curves) comes back as
the arcs, circles and polylines it was drawn with.
Downloads
| Platform | File |
|---|---|
| macOS (Apple silicon) | draftcraft-macos-arm64.dmg |
| Windows x64 | draftcraft-windows-x64.zip |
| Windows ARM64 | draftcraft-windows-arm64.zip |
| Linux x64 | draftcraft-linux-x86_64.AppImage |
| Command-line tool (macOS) | draftcraft-cli-macos-arm64.zip |
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