With all the advances we've made internally, a few things went a little awry in the last updates, but they brought to light some excellent possibilities to improve fundamental features. And so we did!
The upcoming version will have highly improved:
• Slash&Spread and Slash&Pivot
will now work even under overhangs, allowing for far more elaborate patternpieces to be operated on. Their behavior is now even more solid.
• Mirror
(now melting even patternpieces, if the mirror is on an edge of it). In case of pure framework, it will leave only one center line, when mirrored along a line. It will expand groups, if a group got mirrored. It's a massive leap forward for mirror!
• Move Point
now has a proper picking radius. It handles Beziers beautifully and a secret function already will sneak in, using "Comma" and "Period" as hotkeys by default, which will contract and expand selected points by a computed center. This will later become a full-on feature!
• Extract
is again improved dramatically for things that were previously hard or even impossible. Speed is considerably improved for certain situations.
• Groups
now generates a common center as well as getting a much better integration all around. It will still have some more growing to do, but it already is a powerful asset which needs not hide.
• True Dart
now does a much better job in truing seems, if Bezier curves were directly connected to the dart.
• Trim/Extend speed increase for Bezier. In fact...all things Bezier are faster now and just as accurate, if not more.
But there's more! New features:
• Shapes will replace "Circle" and allow you to create N-gons (triangles, squares, pentagons, hexagons etc.....) and Rectangles as well as the trusty old circle.
• Rotate and Scale becomes and "Auto Center" function, automatically finding the center of your selection to set the pivot there. It's just an option, but it's powerful!
There's yet more coming, but all will be announced!
