What's new in sPlan 7.0
Jan 21, 2011
- Parent-Child relations:
- Components can have a Parent-Child relation. A "parent" knows all his "child's", and a "child" knows his "parent". This allows a child to get the identifier and the value of his parent. If the parent is changed, the child will change his identifier automatically. This is a big advantage, especially if you are using contactors and contacts or IC's with several gates.
- Dimension function:
- The new dimension function let's you add dimensions for technical drawings. You can place dimensions for distances, radii, diameters or angles.
- Banner printing:
- This new function lets you print your drawing spread over several pages. So you can e.g. create a A2 printout with a normal A4-printer.
- Mouse wheel support:
- sPlan is now using the mouse wheel best possible to zoom and navigate your drawing. You won't use the "zoom-mode" or the scrollbars anymore.
- Virtual nodes:
- These nodes are located in the middle of each line. Just drag them to a new position to create new nodes. This simplifies the editing of polylines.
- Linestyles for all elements:
- There are several linestyles available for all elements, also for bezier curves, rectangles, circles, arcs and polygons.
- Change properties of several elements:
- You can now change the properties of several elements at one go. Just select the desired elements and you can assign all changes to all selected elements.
- Centered text:
- A text can now get a centered alignment. Thus the text will always keep centered, even if the textlength is changing.
- Measure mode:
- This new mode is to measure out your drawing exactly and comfortable.
- Scale function:
- You can define a new scale (e.g. 1:10) and sPlan will consider this scale for all coordinates, dimension, rulers, etc.
- New Active-links functions:
- Active links can be followed for- and also backwards within your project. Even external links e.g. to PDF-documents or websites are possible.
- Dot grid:
- The optional dot grid of sPlan increases the clearness of your drawing.
- Sorting function for pages:
- This new function is very helpful, especially for projects with a lot of pages.
- New sPlan-Viewer:
- The new free viewer-application for opening, viewing and printing sPlan files now supports also the active links within a project. Even a internet-update function is implemented. The viewer supports all files from version 4.0. Of course, this new viewer is also free available.