Version 10 Improvements

PDS

User interface

1. Reorganize all menu / toolbar
2. New panes (include new piece bar, and all other dialogs)
   1. Docking mode (auto hide,floating, visible at all time, closed)
   2. Drag and position (blue marks)

Toolbox

Toolbox

Preferences

1. Redesigned the Preferences window.

Alternative Start Points

1. Alternative Start Points

Properties

1. Properties
2. Target selection
3. Reduce the Piece Properties size, and change the Marker Attributes in the Style Set.

View And Selection

1. View And Selection.
2. General Plotter Attributes relocated.

Toolbars And Menu

1. Toolbar chevrons
2. Tear off tabs and menus,
3. Intelligent menus
4. Drag and drop menus
5. last used tools memory
6. Visual styles and Themes.
7. Anti aliasing
8. Menu, Toolbars and Keyboard shortcuts customization .
9. Undo/Redo History
10. Rewritten all Status Bar messages.
11. Grading point shape, (big circle)
12. Guiding arrows in the F2 dialog

Zoning

1. Build zone tools
2. Zone Properties
3. Zone preferences

Style Set

Style Set allows handling multiple style sets in one PDS file.

Tools

1. New unified tool work flow, always first select tool than action
2. Dart
   1. Reopen Darts
   2. Create /Edit /Close dart by pivot
   3. Arch And Cut Dart Tool
3. Measure tool , new ruler while measuring --Amti 06:18, 23 August 2007 (MDT)I think move to Preferences section
4. Seam allowance
   1. Keyboard shortcuts to invoke the different seam types.
   2. Replicate Seam Tool
   3. Match Seam Tool
   4. Copy/ Paste Seam
5. Guide line
   1. Guide line properties->set parallel
   2. Delete all (menu function)
6. Create new piece
   1. New create rectangle dialog
7. Arc Tool
   1. New dimension displayed while dragging
   2. New option in dialog
8. Internal Contour To Lines
9. Base Line/grain line
   1. Set length
   2. Create grain line
   3. Grain line to base line
   4. Set base line perpendicular
10. Walk Tool
    1. Walk internal lines (internal to internal or, internal to external)
11. Walk Dialog
    1. Skip pleats
    2. Set walking distance + keyboard arrow
    3. Now the select tool does not reset the walking, but ESC only.
12. Invert Selection
13. Circle By Three Points Tool
14. Circles tangent
15. Align Horizontal/ Vertical/ By Line Tools
16. Move piece on piece
17. Multi Vertical Cutting
18. Create By Offsets
19. Piece From Segment
20. Move/rotate sub segment
21. Text Direction Tool(hidden in 9)
22. Snap and drag from internal line, that are outside of the piece contour.

Import

new merge option. Improved DXF, AAMA and ASTM import

Grading

1. Table of sizes.
   1. Insert/ Append few sizes together.
2. Stack By Baseline
3. Base line grading - grading on the baseline is visible
4. Regrade By Break Size (not new but added in late 9) --Amti 06:39, 23 August 2007 (MDT)I think need to remove this "new but added..." comment.
5. Remove Rules Reference
6. Grade Notch Tool (allows to give a specific grade rule to a notch)

Digitize

1. Return To Digitizer
2. DigiPen compatability.

Merge

New merge dialog

Marker

1. Style Set
2. User interface
   1. Piece properties
   2. task field
   3. Preferences - new preferences added to gui
   4. Open style files
3. new display
4. Cut down feature
5. Bundle code numbering
6. New Splicing
7. Alternative start point
8. M31- text order

Utilities

1. OptiTex Viewer - Open and view a PDS file without having the need of an OptiTex Plug.
2. Batch Creator - Easily create and edit batch operation, that can be used for nesting markers, cost calculations, etc'.
3. MTM Utility - Create and grade patterns according to spec sheets.
4. New batch command
   1. block fusing
5. Fabric Converter/ Editor
6. PDS Exporter - export PDS file into Lectra's MDL or Gerber ZIP-TMP
7. XML Export

Modulate

1. User interface
   1. Reorganization of all menu / toolbar
   2. New panes (include new piece bar, and all other dialogs)
   3. Docking mode (auto hide,floating, visible at all time, closed)
   4. Drag and position (blue marks)
2. File Management:
   1. Only using .pds extension - reverse compatibility to V9 .cus
   2. TEST mode without holding CTRL key - default
3. New Functions and Tools:
   1. SQL Database option for SDM- (details to follow)
   2. Printing with Print Preview of all Pages
   3. Sizes Grid - Automatic Size selection based on Critical Variable with or without grading geometry retained
   4. Reference Geometry - revert to original geometry or refresh
   5. Dimensions - Pivot Tool
   6. Points - Group Points / Ungroup - replaces use of multiple control dimensions
   7. Expressions Editor manages list of unused Named Dimensions