Version 26

The latest versions of the above toolkits have been adopted.

The actively displayed configuration of a drawing can now be changed from the Drawing Explorer.

Templates are now categorized by standard which is remembered. Only templates adhering the standards you typically use are shown by default.

An option now exists to remove the + or - symbols for tolerance values of 0.

Smart dimensions are now much better are determining whether a dimension will fit "Inside" without dimension line overlap. This results in dimension placement that requires much less potential rework after placement.

A Continue Ordinate Dimension button has been added to the popup menu on ordinate dimensions to make adding additional elements easy to find.

You can now move individual ordinate dimensions left and right while in the ordinate dimension tool, allowing you to reposition dimensions without having to exit the tool.

A new option under Dimension Styles allows you to show negative signs on dimensions to the left or to the right of the 0 dimension, e.g.   -34.2 mm. You can also flip which side of the zero dimension is considered negative. The Dimension Style applied to the base (0) dimension controls these features.

A new tool allows you to redefine the target geometry associated with a dimension while maintaining customizations to the dimension. No more "delete and remake". Also works to quickly reassociate disassociated dimensions should they occur, while keeping rework to a minimum.

You can now multi-select dimensions while the Dimension tool is active and apply properties to multiple dimensions at once, without having to first exit Sketch Mode and then use the Select tool. 

Previously the separator used in drawings was inherited from the regional settings of the machine. Most of the time this is ok, but a new option exists to choose whether a comma or period is used as a separator in the File Properties > Display of drawing files.

ISO Weld symbols now have an option to show a dashed line such that the standard can be adhered to. For technical reasons this can only be applied to new Weld symbols created in v26 or later.

Added several DIN drawing templates.

Restructured this menu and added in several tools.

Dragging Feature Control Frame annotation in 2D drawings multiple times can cause a crash.

Comma separator in a dimension would sometimes revert to decimal-separation when a saved drawing was reopened,

The cursor when in the Ordinate Dimension tool would show the wrong image after zooming in some cases.

Cannot drag existing dimensions while creating new ones if dimension command is launched with a view pre-selected.

In some cases, you could incorrectly continue ordinate dimensions by selecting figures on views other than the one that contain the base dimension.

During a Save All As operation on a drawing that contains projected Design Dimensions (not regular dimensions), if the file names are updated the projected design dimensions become corrupted.

If a drawing was empty, the Insert Custom Symbol tool was not available from the Custom Symbol Dropdown, which was itself grayed out.

In some cases, BOM Callout arrows were not filled solid.

In some orientations, ordinate dimensions with tolerances would overlap the dimension lines. Additional padding has been added.

Many dimensions had padding logic that resulted in incorrect extra space between the left-most character and the dimension line, causing the dimension text to be un-centered within the dimension space.

There was extra space between the number and the ° symbol causing dimensions to look like   45 °   instead of   45°   . This applies to drawings and modeling environments.

Several fixes have been made related to dimensions, centerlines, cosmetic threads, etc. in scaled views such that they show correct thicknesses.

Drawing Cosmetic Threads for Counter-Holes terminate Incorrectly If the Hole operation's Reverse option is checked.

Dimensioning to Center Marks could result in odd behavior or require multiple steps to expose the desired node. This behavior has been improved to "just work" much more often.

Chamfer Dimension tool incorrectly allowed selection of targets from inactive drawing views.

User created layers disappear from drawing after user edits Sheet Properties without changing drawing template.

Drawing Template figures sometimes incorrectly acquire layer properties of a newly added layer in 2D drawing.

Figures having a dash patterned line style show up as solid lines immediately after opening a drawing.

2D drawing point (cross) displays as large dot when opening saved drawing.

Drawing template line widths were not displaying or printing correctly in some cases with realtime line widths turned on.

Exploded view trails (in drawings) display with the incorrect line width when realtime line widths is turned on.

BOM Table grid lines display with the incorrect line width when realtime line widths is turned on.

Precise drawing views with parts of different model units get incorrect line widths with realtime line widths turned on.

Sketch figures in drawing sheet containing no views get incorrect line widths with realtime line widths turned on.

All icons have been redone to be vector-based meaning they are crisp at any resolution. This change does not affect most dialogs (yet). This change is the first of a series of large user interface changes that will occur over the next few releases.

New color schemes for Dark Mode and various Colorblind-friendly palettes have been added. Note that these changes currently only affect the Ribbon, Toolbars, Menus, and all of their icons. Eventually, these changes will affect the entire product including the various Explorers and all dialogs.

Ambient Occlusion is on by default for legacy parts saved before Ambient Occlusion was implemented. For those wishing to completely disable it, a new System Option exists to disable it for all parts and assemblies.

Ambient Occlusion is now temporarily disabled in Sketch Mode automatically. This prevents visual artifacts related to the grid and other distractions.

Feature Color's Edge Color setting is being deprecated. It is now grayed out and will be removed in a subsequent release.

The default circular pattern type is now Equal Angle, so items are spaced equally around a center point. The dialog will also remember what you used last.

Sketch inference lines are now larger and more clearly visible over the grid and/or 3D geometry behind the sketch.

Ordinate Dimension now has its own cursor.

Various string changes across the UI to increase clarity or conciseness.

Reorganized some menus and added missing tools in some cases.

Insert custom symbol button was missing in the Customize Toolbar dialog in 2D Drawing.

Previously Script's menu was not disabled on locked parts when it should have been.

Sometimes selecting a reference figure in sketch mode would not make the tool visibly active in the ribbon.

On some displays it was difficult to see which views were selected and which view type was selected.

Changed some verbiage to make the expected inputs clearer.

In some cases, constraining toroidal geometry would result in an error message.

In these cases, typically on imported parts with model units other than centimeters, the tangent offset would fail.

An issue was fixed that made sketches disappear temporarily from the Design Explorer in certain circumstances when dragged around the Dogbone.

When 3D Preview is enabled, invoking and then cancelling the Hole tool would incorrectly move the Dogbone up one feature, causing the suppression of the feature.

Any Design Points (i.e. Reference Points) created using the 2D sketch origin node lose their reference when the part is reopened.

When 3D Preview is enabled, invoking and then cancelling the Hole tool would incorrectly move the Dogbone up one feature, causing the suppression of the feature.

Within a sketch, the status bar at the bottom would say "Fully Defined" when it should say "Under-defined" in some workflows.

Tracing images that were coplanar with 3D geometry would "fight" for visibility priority with the 3D geometry. This sometimes meant the image would be occluded with geometry. Now Tracing Images have visibility priority with coplanar geometry.

Renaming a child flange of a multi-flange operation would not be maintained once regenerated.

Display of values in scientific notation with a mantissa of 1 can trigger a crash.

Holes with threads could not be used as inputs to the Measurement tool.

When Save Type was set to Notify, it would sometimes not notify the user if the only change was to part data / properties.

AddPolygon API places polygon at incorrect location.