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What's new in Room Arranger 9.8.3 Build 645

Mar 15, 2024
  • Fixed: 3D viewer keeps position after reload
  • Fixed: Viewpoint list updated after viewpoint renamed
  • Improved: Don't auto-save before 3D view on unmodified project
  • Known issue: Magenta mirrors in 3D viewer on Windows and Linux
  • Known issue: Soft shadows don't work after 3D viewer resize on Linux

New in Room Arranger 9.8.2 Build 644 (Jan 29, 2024)

  • Added: Fishbone textures, including 2 with editable color
  • Fixed: See ceiling in rooms with certain wall configuration in 3D
  • Fixed: 3D rotation enabled for rectangles in Additional 3D shapes
  • Improved: More detailed error logging
  • Fixed: Possible crash in Wall Editor
  • Improved: When 3D view crashed for some reason, it is started
  • Without soft shadows and antialiasing next time
  • Fixed: New room shape selection box on macOS
  • Note: Updated Qt framework from 6.5 to 6.6 (LGPL v3 license)
  • Known issue: Magenta mirrors in 3D viewer on Windows and Linux
  • Known issue: Soft shadows don't work after 3D viewer resize on Linux

New in Room Arranger 9.8.1 Build 641 (Oct 20, 2023)

  • Fixed: Possible crash when saving project file
  • Fixed: Custom separators in Export object listing dialog window
  • Improved: Updated screenshots in help files
  • Known issue: Magenta mirrors in 3D viewer on Windows and Linux
  • Known issue: Soft shadows don't work after 3D viewer resize on Linux

New in Room Arranger 9.8.0 Build 640 (Sep 26, 2023)

  • Added: Energy label object (Symbols library)
  • Added: 4 seat sofa and couch objects
  • Added: Missing texture files detection in corrupted project files
  • Added: Menu command to revert project to currently saved state
  • Added: (iPad app) Open/save projects and images from/to Files app
  • Added: (iPad app) Copy project image to clipboard
  • Improved: Rooms Tuning window preserves custom size and position
  • Improved: Project Browser window preserves custom size and position
  • Improved: Using native-looking message boxes on macOS
  • Improved: Project file name in window title displays user home path as ~
  • Improved: Start editing new print page layout right after New button clicked
  • Fixed: Resetting layers when starting a new single-room project
  • Note: Updated Qt framework from 6.4 to 6.5 (LGPL v3 license)
  • Min. supported OS: Windows 10 (1809), macOS 11, Ubuntu 20.04, (iOS 12)
  • previously: Windows 10 (1809), macOS 10.14, Ubuntu 20.04, (iOS 9)
  • Known issue: Magenta mirrors in 3D viewer on Windows and Linux
  • Known issue: Soft shadows don't work after 3D viewer resize on Linux

New in Room Arranger 9.7.3 Build 634 (Mar 20, 2023)

  • Added: Possibility to change 3D movie transition and pause durations
  • Improved: Rooms ordered by name in Rooms Tuning window
  • Fixed: Floating windows position preserved in multi-monitor setup
  • Fixed: Dimension lines in Wall editor when active layer invisible
  • Improved: Checking for opened project file modifications on disk
  • Fixed: File-open and file-save windows localization on macOS
  • Known issue: Magenta mirrors in 3D viewer on Windows and Linux
  • Known issue: Soft shadows don't work after 3D viewer resize on Linux

New in Room Arranger 9.7.2 Build 631 (Dec 29, 2022)

  • Improved: Several button icons and texts adapted to dark color theme
  • Fixed: 3D viewer window resize on Mac Retina screen

New in Room Arranger 9.7.1 Build 629 (Dec 6, 2022)

  • Added: Possibility to save image preview in Rooms Tuning
  • Fixed: Antialiasing in 3D viewer
  • Fixed: Screenshots and video recording in 3D viewer

New in Room Arranger 9.7 (Dec 6, 2022)

  • Improved: Better user interface scaling on notebook screens
  • Note: Updated Qt framework from 5.15 to 6.4 (LGPL v3 license)
  • Min. supported OS: Windows 10 (1809), macOS 10.14, Ubuntu 20.04
  • previously: Windows 7, macOS 10.13, Ubuntu 18.04

New in Room Arranger 9.6.2 Build 625 (Nov 5, 2022)

  • Fixed: Checking for new another program instance running
  • critical bug, textures from other instance cound be deleted
  • Fixed: Movie from 3D viewpoints

New in Room Arranger 9.6.1 Build 624 (May 7, 2021)

  • Fixed: Checking for new program version and object libraries

New in Room Arranger 9.6.0 Build 621 (Dec 29, 2020)

  • Improved: Ctrl+Enter to confirm the label text properties
  • Improved: Ctrl+U to ungroup grouped objects
  • Improved: Correct dark mode support on MacOS
  • Added: Own dark theme implemented on Windows
  • Fixed: Print to PDF with A2 format and larger on Windows
  • Note: Updated Qt framework from 5.6 to 5.15 (LGPL v3 license)

New in Room Arranger 9.5.3 Build 610 (Feb 27, 2018)

  • Fixed: Crash when moving object forward/backward
  • Added: Squat toilet object

New in Room Arranger 9.5.2 Build 609 (Feb 5, 2018)

  • Improved: Optimized high-res texture usage (store 1024x1024 copies)
  • Improved: Drawing textured surfaces in 2D is up to 50% faster
  • Fixed: Ungrouping passwords on macOS, Linux and iOS
  • Fixed: Setting exterior walls color on new projects

New in Room Arranger 9.5.1 Build 606 (Jan 25, 2018)

  • Fixed: Dimension line length for walls protruding into the room
  • Fixed: Exterior walls color not lost when floor is simple rectangle

New in Room Arranger 9.5 (Nov 20, 2017)

  • Improved: Updated 3D viewer, sun shadows work on older Intel GPUs
  • Improved: 3D viewer uses less RAM and is faster
  • Fixed: Texture mapping on several objects
  • Fixed: Non-tiling texture mapping on walls
  • Fixed: Sorting by dimensions, position and price in Object Listing
  • Fixed: Default colors for TV, LCD and All-in-one computer
  • Fixed: Mouse cursor shape in Viewpoints, Terrain, Polygon editor

New in Room Arranger 9.4.0.599 (Oct 2, 2017)

  • Improved: 3D view uses up to 50% less RAM and is slightly faster
  • Improved: Several 3D models improved
  • Improved: Measurement lines rotates and resizes at the same time
  • Improved: Touch movement in Annotation and viewpoints editors

New in Room Arranger 9.3.0.595 (Jul 21, 2017)

  • Added: You can write comments for every object
  • Added: Description tab inside object properties window
  • Added: Line and polyline can measure length
  • Fixed: Format Painter copies line ends style for meas.lines
  • Fixed: Do not walk on top side of ceiling

New in Room Arranger 9.2.0.591 (Apr 18, 2017)

  • Added: Line thickness for line and polyline objects
  • Added: Slope value in Angle object caption (e.g. 20% or 1 : 5)
  • Added: Basic objects can be used to measure area
  • Added: List of available object caption variables in Obj. Properties
  • Improved: A0 and A1 paper size for PDF output
  • Improved: Locked objects not deleted while multi-selection
  • Fixed: Rotated polyline editing
  • Fixed: Angle and Compass drawn with line color
  • Fixed: Curvature of flues, pipes and curved triangles
  • Fixed: Printing annotations

New in Room Arranger 9.1.2.584 Beta (Feb 15, 2017)

  • Improved: Click-selection does not change when currently selected object still under cursor
  • Fixed: VRML prototype for group in group
  • Fixed: Room statistics numbers precision

New in Room Arranger 9.1.1.581 (Nov 24, 2016)

  • Improved: Setting external VRML prototypes much easier
  • Improved: Polyline can have curved segments

New in Room Arranger 9.1.0.575 (Oct 24, 2016)

  • Added: New type of basic object - Table (data)
  • Improved: More realistic print preview
  • Improved: Object thumbnails in Browse User Library window
  • Added: Editing object libraries
  • Fixed: Saving groups within groups in User Library
  • Fixed: Minor bugfixes and improvements

New in Room Arranger 9.0.3.572 (Oct 4, 2016)

  • Fixed: Possible crash when scaling grouped object

New in Room Arranger 9.0.2.571 (Sep 19, 2016)

  • Improved: Right-to-left window layout for RTL languages
  • Improved: Unit names localized

New in Room Arranger 9.0.1.568 (Sep 7, 2016)

  • Fixed: Ceiling will output only in rooms with all full-height walls
  • Fixed: Zero size moldings do not break 3D view
  • Fixed: Disable snapping to walls when moving object with more fingers
  • Fixed: Mouse clicking in 3D view at DPI >= 150% (and Retina Mac)
  • Fixed: Initial 3D viewport size at DPI >= 150% (and Retina Mac)
  • Fixed: Printing crosshatch fill style
  • Fixed: Textures in PDF output on Windows 10 and Mac (other OSs buggy)
  • Fixed: Object libraries display in right-to-left languages
  • Improved: Ask for number of decimal places when inserting room areas

New in Room Arranger 9.0.0.565 (Sep 1, 2016)

  • Added: Annotations
  • Added: Copy object properties (like Format Painter in Office)
  • Added: Snap objects to near walls while moving them with mouse
  • Added: Swinging doors, corner kitchen sink
  • Added: Doorframe has editable thickness and color
  • Improved: Window frames not scaled in 3D
  • Added: 9 new types of window, 4 new types of door (Appearance)
  • Added: Picture can have frame with editable thickness and color
  • Added: Ceiling color
  • Added: Baseboards and crown moldings
  • Added: New type of basic object - Polyline
  • Added: New car model
  • Added: Align objects relatively to the room they are in, or entire drawing
  • Added: Groups within groups, option to forbid ungrouping (with password)
  • Improved: Wall Editor shows walls of the floor below as dotted lines
  • Improved: All icons should look nicer at higher DPI
  • Improved: Better caching of generated tile textures
  • Improved: Wall contours switched on by default
  • Improved: Overall better high DPI support on Windows
  • Fixed: Cutting floor openings sharing edges with walls

New in Room Arranger 8.4.1.546 (Apr 20, 2016)

  • Fixed: Dialog windows initial positions

New in Room Arranger 8.4.0.545 (Apr 20, 2016)

  • Added: Enter number of steps of Stairs object and Banister for stairs
  • Improved: Tiling texture for Pyramid, Trilat. prisms objects (roofs)
  • Improved: Multi-selection in Terrain editor

New in Room Arranger 8.3.1.541 (Dec 1, 2015)

  • Fixed: Keeping different 3D rotation when setting specular reflections

New in Room Arranger 8.3.0.539 (Nov 18, 2015)

  • Added: Specular color and shininess in Advanced object properties (3D)
  • Added: Specular reflections defined on most standard objects
  • Added: More color swatches
  • Added: WebP support for textures
  • Improved: Reduced number of selection points for thin objects

New in Room Arranger 8.2.0.532 (Nov 2, 2015)

  • Improved: Touch interface for Windows tablets
  • Fixed: Minor bugfixes and improvements

New in Room Arranger 8.1.0.529 (Oct 15, 2015)

  • Added: Angle shown when drawing wall
  • Added: Angle switchable between [0-360) or [0-180]
  • Added: Window objects with Left / Right opening indication
  • Added: Left/Right variants of same object morph into its counterpart when rotated 90 degrees (e.g. Window L -> Window R)
  • Added: Exterior walls can have different colors
  • Added: RAL, British Standard, FED-STD-595 and Pantone color swatches
  • Added: NCS color approximation
  • Added: Set object's z-pos to terrain level (if defined)
  • Added: Any object can be represented as textured Billboard in 3D
  • Added: Rotate skybox images
  • Added: Sample projects in menu Project, not persist in Documents folder
  • Improved: Projects start with default skybox
  • Improved: Inserted area labels updated when room size or name changed
  • Improved: Walls support 45 and 135 deg rotated tiled texture
  • Improved: Non-orthogonal walls can be moved freely
  • Improved: Snapping to other control point coords when drawing new wall
  • Improved: Other improvements in Wall editor
  • Improved: 3D rotated objects drawn correctly in Side editor
  • Improved: Triangle object supports texture tiling
  • Improved: Start in Touch mode only when Tablet mode active on Windows 10
  • Improved: High DPI display support (scaled images on buttons)
  • Fixed: Ability to rotate Logo object
  • Fixed: Viewpoints with auto-z put on terrain level
  • Fixed: Minor bugfixes and improvements

New in Room Arranger 8.0.0.512 (Apr 8, 2015)

  • Added: Terrain editor
  • Added: Sun shadow
  • Added: Browse project files while seeing thumbnails
  • Added: Black & White drawing (may be helpful for real estate agents)
  • Added: Zoom to selected objects (Ctrl + '+')
  • Added: Capture video in 3D viewer is back, w/ selectable codec
  • Added: New objects - Flower, Rounded Block, Billboard, Wardrobe
  • Added: Select field of view for 3D
  • Added: Define Skybox for 3D
  • Added: Alternative way to set object 3D rotation
  • Added: Set custom wall alignment (thickness on left and right)
  • Added: Touch mode for Windows touch screens
  • Improved: Additional object or texture libraries management
  • Improved: Dimension lines for doors and windows start at wall edge
  • Improved: Layers on/off enabled in side view
  • Improved: High DPI display support

New in Room Arranger 7.6.0.432 (Feb 2, 2015)

  • Fixed: Possible crash in 3D Viewer
  • Fixed: Frozen mouse wheel / key input in 3D Viewer after Alt+Tab
  • Added: OpenGL info in About box

New in Room Arranger 7.5.9.431 (Jan 12, 2015)

  • Fixed: Do not offer 3D thumbnails for 2D-only library objects
  • Fixed: Possible crash when texture image file not found or corrupted

New in Room Arranger 7.5.8.430 (Dec 2, 2014)

  • Improved: Increased drawing quality of images and textures in 2D
  • Improved: Export as image at 100% zoom option is back
  • Fixed: Several drawing-related bug fixes

New in Room Arranger 7.5.7.428 (Nov 21, 2014)

  • Fixed: Rotated multi-line labels
  • Fixed: Possible crash while printing

New in Room Arranger 7.5.6.427 (Oct 27, 2014)

  • Fixed: Shift+Mouse wheel to scroll horizontally
  • Fixed: Position of color picker window

New in Room Arranger 7.5.5.426 (Sep 17, 2014)

  • Fixed: Print in scale
  • Fixed: Printing of dashed lines

New in Room Arranger 7.5.4.425 (Aug 16, 2014)

  • Fixed: Export as webpage with 3D
  • Fixed: Esc in special editors ends current action, not entire editor

New in Room Arranger 7.5.3.424 (Aug 4, 2014)

  • Fixed: Label font size for projects in meters
  • Fixed: Group toolbar button should not appear in special editors

New in Room Arranger 7.5.2.423 (Jul 28, 2014)

  • Fixed: Displaying Price value in the Object listing

New in Room Arranger 7.5.1.422 (Jul 21, 2014)

  • Fixed: Some DLLs missing on some Windows XP computers
  • Improved: Nicer UI control for multiple choices

New in Room Arranger 7.5.0.421 (Jul 19, 2014)

  • Added: Subpages in the object library
  • Added: Dedicated Symbols library page
  • Added: Rounded walls
  • Added: Wall can be invisible (will only divide floor surfaces)
  • Added: Add your comments to project (TO DO list, ideas, etc.)
  • Added: Print to PDF
  • Improved: More flexibility when docking tool windows (layers, comments...)
  • Fixed: Mirroring walls

New in Room Arranger 7.5.0.407 Beta (Jun 16, 2014)

  • Comes with round walls and PDF printing

New in Room Arranger 7.4.3.405 (May 14, 2014)

  • Added: Pinch-to-zoom gesture on OS X
  • Improved: Objects orientation after mirroring the project
  • Improved: Selection markers a bit larger

New in Room Arranger 7.4.2.325 (Apr 26, 2014)

  • Added: 4 new types of window (Appearance)
  • Fixed: Opening old project files with textures saved with absolute path
  • Fixed: Bug fixes and small improvements

New in Room Arranger 7.4.2.325 (Apr 26, 2014)

  • Added: 4 new types of window (Appearance)
  • Fixed: Opening old project files with textures saved with absolute path
  • Fixed: Bug fixes and small improvements

New in Room Arranger 7.4.1.324 (Feb 25, 2014)

  • Improved: Rotate doors by dragging green corner with mouse
  • Fixed: Bug fixes

New in Room Arranger 7.4.0.322 (Feb 14, 2014)

  • Added: Object rotation done by dragging green corner
  • Added: Control point properties dialog window in Polygon editor
  • Improved: Setting up 3D viewpoints done in a special editor mode
  • Improved: Switching to Explore mode in 3D moves to Front top view
  • Improved: Line color shown in Object listing when fill is transparent
  • Fixed: Grouped labels visible even if group caption set invisible
  • Fixed: Bug fixes

New in Room Arranger 7.3.1.319 (Nov 26, 2013)

  • Fixed: Grouped doors in 3D
  • Fixed: 3D viewer crash on old graphics cards with OpenGL 1.4

New in Room Arranger 7.3.0.308 (Nov 18, 2013)

  • Improved: Objects with 3D rotation shown correctly in Side editor
  • Improved: Soft Shadows + Anti-Aliasing enabled for Intel GPUs in the 3D viewer
  • Improved: Game-like navigation in the 3D viewer (WASD + mouse)
  • Improved: 3D viewer consumes less memory
  • Improved: Doors can be grouped (interactive furniture)
  • Improved: Detect file changes on disk and offer its reload (e.g. in Dropbox)
  • Fixed: Import objects invoked from Browse User Library window
  • Fixed: Possible bug when saving very large projects

New in Room Arranger 7.2.7.314 (Aug 15, 2013)

  • Fixed: Crash when adding a dimension line to a wall
  • Fixed: Bug when generating 3D

New in Room Arranger 7.2.5.312 (May 29, 2013)

  • Fixed: Two possible crash-bugs

New in Room Arranger 7.2.4.310 (Apr 24, 2013)

  • Improved: Registration details stored in a more robust way

New in Room Arranger 7.2.3.308 (Apr 16, 2013)

  • Fixed: Caption for imported objects will not include the file path
  • Fixed: Object lightness (3D) same when covered with tiling or non-tiling texture

New in Room Arranger 7.2.2.307 (Mar 12, 2013)

  • Fixed: Wall thickness in new projects when having default unit other than cm

New in Room Arranger 7.2.1.305 (Feb 21, 2013)

  • Fixed: Storing font size, when using comma as the decimal separator

New in Room Arranger 7.2.0.304 (Jan 30, 2013)

  • Improved: Left panel design
  • Improved: Texture window
  • Added: "Edit" section in Left panel w/ selected object, floor color (texture)
  • Added: Tile brick design
  • Added: Tiles: switch tile joints on/off, select their color
  • Added: Tiles: Checkered tile design supports two textures
  • Added: Certain tile textures may be modified with custom colors (stencils)
  • Added: Hold Shift to resize objects while keeping the aspect ratio
  • Improved: Toolbar color on Windows 8
  • Improved: Export to Image supports JPEG image format
  • Fixed: Bug fixes

New in Room Arranger 7.1.2.292 (Nov 1, 2012)

  • Fixed: Save project was crashing on some computers after a few months
  • Fixed: 3D Viewer shows strange geometry on some systems, restoring version 7.1.0

New in Room Arranger 7.1.1.291 (Oct 4, 2012)

  • Fixed: Bug fixes in Layers window and 3D viewer

New in Room Arranger 7.1.0.290 (Sep 13, 2012)

  • Improved: Window size not changed when snapped to left/right screen border
  • Enables to have 2D editor AeroSnapped to left, 3D view to right
  • Added: Tiling texture for rectangle and tilted surface objects
  • Improved: Unified F5 shortcut to open/refresh 3D view
  • Fixed: Edit from side: Selecting print area and Page layout disabled
  • Fixed: Mouse cursor when selecting print area
  • Fixed: Align objects left/right with respect to project

New in Room Arranger 7.0.5.289 (Sep 3, 2012)

  • Fixed: Texture mapping on tilted surface object
  • Fixed: Hiding a layer refreshes the object listing window
  • Fixed: Handling of textures when new project was not saved yet

New in Room Arranger 7.0.4.287 (Aug 16, 2012)

  • Added: Set ground z-pos, enabling cellars and swimming pools
  • Added: Sound clips in OGG file format
  • Improved: Select texture for grouped objects
  • Fixed: Saving to files with non-english characters in 3D view
  • Fixed: Printing of the grid
  • Fixed: Ctrl+A skips all door types, windows and wall openings

New in Room Arranger 7.0.3.283 (Jul 9, 2012)

  • Added: Texture on the ground of the 3D world
  • Fixed: No flicker when refreshing the 3D Viewer
  • Fixed: Picking viewpoint coordinates in Setup window
  • Fixed: Texture tiling on grouped polygon

New in Room Arranger 7.0.2.282 (Jun 29, 2012)

  • Fixed: Saving of single-room projects made in wizard
  • Fixed: 3D scenes with objects smaller then 1 mm
  • Fixed: Printing of rotated captions
  • Fixed: 3D rendering improvements on Intel graphics
  • Improved: Less flickering when refreshing the 3D Viewer
  • Fixed: Wireframe effect on ATI Radeon 6xxx

New in Room Arranger 7.0.1 (Jun 29, 2012)

  • Fixed: Use only one 3D viewer window (failed on some computers)
  • Fixed: Line artifacts in shadows in 3D on Intel graphics
  • Improved: F5 shortcut refreshes 3D view

New in Room Arranger 7 (Jun 29, 2012)

  • Added: Tiling textures on floors and walls
  • Added: Built-in 3D Viewer
  • Added: Texture library, customizable with built-in textures
  • Added: New file format that includes also all textures used in the project in one file. Backward compatibility (versions 1 - 6) kept.
  • Added: 3D Viewer has instant 3D refresh which keeps camera position
  • Added: Viewpoints can be added directly from 3D Viewer
  • Added: Viewpoints drawn onto the project, it's possible to edit them there
  • Added: 3D Viewer can save viewpoint walkthrough to movie file
  • Added: 3D Viewer supports 3Dconnextion devices (3D mice)
  • Added: New object - Mirror, showing the real reflection in 3D Viewer
  • Added: New object - QR Code
  • Added: Sound clips can be assigned to object, played in 3D
  • Added: Polygon object supports 3D rotation
  • Added: Tiling texture available on polygon object
  • Improved: Reliable colors of textured objects in 3D
  • Improved: TV, LCD and All-in-one computer can display any custom image
  • Improved: Doorframe available for wall openings
  • Improved: Sliding door and pocket door support selection of handle types
  • Improved: Garage door opening into inside
  • Improved: Drawing of windows in 2D
  • Improved: Objects w/out 3D thumbnail show front side view in Library window
  • Improved: Grid has selectable line style and is drawn below floor texture
  • Improved: Objects with Link attribute are clickable in 3D
  • Improved: Export grouped object listing into clipboard
  • Improved: High DPI monitor support in the entire application

New in Room Arranger 6.0.3 (Jun 29, 2012)

  • Improved: 3D viewpoint tilting is now an option
  • Fixed: Lock-size state preserved for objects added to User library
  • Fixed: Several minor bug fixes

New in Room Arranger 6.0.2 (Apr 2, 2012)

  • Fixed: Storing object textures in User library
  • Fixed: Collect for Output skipped textures in Grouped objects
  • Added: Loaded image with floor plan is available in basic view too
  • Improved: Walls are transparent when showing image with floor plan

New in Room Arranger 6.0.1 (Apr 2, 2012)

  • Added: Triangle and Ellipse objects support 3D rotation
  • Improved: 3D rotation range not limited (was 0-90 deg)
  • Improved: 3D rotation visualization
  • Fixed: Possible crash when entering wall editor
  • Fixed: Mouse cursor over triangular objects

New in Room Arranger 6.0.0 (Apr 2, 2012)

  • Added: Display inches as feet+inches, e.g. 54.5" -> 4' 6 1/2"
  • Added: Select number of decimal places/inches fraction for values
  • Improved: New color picker includes textures and hatch styles
  • Added: Option to print only a smaller area from the project
  • Added: New type of basic object - Angle - for measures
  • Added: New object - Carpet, with default texture applied to any color
  • Added: Carpet and Picture on the Floor show texture in 2D as well
  • Added: Hatch style for each wall, default style in Options
  • Added: 4 new types of door (Appearance)
  • Added: Doorframes and selection of door handle models
  • Improved: Drawing of doors and wall openings, more precise
  • Improved: Doors and windows copied when adding new floor
  • Added: Layer opacity setting
  • Added: Dimension Object command in object's context menu
  • Added: You can lock object size against accidental resizing
  • Added: Rotating measuremnt captions is now an option
  • Added: Export project file including all textures into one folder
  • Improved: UI changes
  • Improved: Increased field of view in 3D to 103° (from 90°)
  • Improved: View is rotated 10° down in 3D
  • Improved: Logo image supports transparency (PNG, GIF)
  • Improved: Columns resizing in Part Listing
  • Improved: Slightly changed measurement line drawing
  • Fixed: Background images for wall editing loaded in full resolution
  • Fixed: Several minor bugfixes and improvements
  • Note: Support for Windows 95/98/Me discontinued

New in Room Arranger 5.6.9 (Mar 8, 2011)

  • Note: This version just improves installer, not functionality
  • Improved: Locations of Sample projects and User library. They are stored in Documents\Room Arranger, not in Program Files
  • Improved: Installer and Uninstaller handle Windows user rights better

New in Room Arranger 5.6.8 (Feb 25, 2011)

  • Improved: Object listing window dockable
  • Improved: Home screen/library window is resizable
  • Added: Floor navigation on Home screen
  • Added: 3 new types of Compass object - in Appearance
  • Improved: Slightly modified Window drawing, new default colors
  • Improved: Object listing starts with Size column only as default
  • Fixed: Main window background redrawing
  • Fixed: Curved polygons could have wrong curvature in 3D
  • Fixed: Send mail fixed to work with more email clients

New in Room Arranger 5.6.7 (Jan 24, 2011)

  • Fixed: Startup error message on Windows XP

New in Room Arranger 5.6.6 (Jan 24, 2011)

  • Added: "Rooms in the Project" window and Numerical wall editor are resizable
  • Added: Save wall image in Rooms in the Project to file
  • Added: Save screenshot of embedded 3D view
  • Added: Reorder objects in User library by dragging
  • Improved: 3D viewpoints always animated when possible
  • Improved: Drawer object can have front color assigned
  • Added: Rotation available in object listing export
  • Fixed: Support for running on secondary monitor
  • Fixed: Support for large fonts in Windows (120 dpi)

New in Room Arranger 5.6.5 (Aug 24, 2010)

  • Fixed: Possible crash in wall editor

New in Room Arranger 5.6.3 (Apr 19, 2010)

  • Improved: Toolbar icons
  • Fixed: Not drawing start page when invisible at startup
  • Fixed: Text size in Page Layout editor
  • Fixed: Minor bugfixes

New in Room Arranger 5.6.2 (Apr 19, 2010)

  • Improved: Several objects redesigned in 2D and 3D to be more realistic
  • Improved: color-correcttion of 3D lighting on objects with texture
  • Improved: Added floor texture to sample projects
  • Fixed: Floor texture saved as relative path

New in Room Arranger 5.6.1 (Apr 19, 2010)

  • Improved: 3D lighting visible on objects with texture
  • Improved: Slightly adjusted 3D lighting
  • Improved: Semitransparent objects are semitransparent in 2D as well;
  • (requires antialiasing switched on in Options)
  • Fixed: Compatibility with BS Contact 7.2
  • Fixed: Captions are not lost after group & ungroup
  • Added: Polygonal floor opening
  • Fixed: Calculating geometry of floor openings
  • Fixed: Several minor bugfixes and improvements

New in Room Arranger 5.6 (Apr 19, 2010)

  • Added: Start Page (F2) with shortcuts to libraries and most common tasks
  • Added: Start Page enables search (F3) for objects within libraries
  • Improved: User interface colors
  • Added: Load background image with floor plan and draw walls on top of it
  • Added: Select print font for object captions
  • Added: Support for 3D mice by 3Dconnexion (Space Pilot, ...) in 2D mode
  • Added: Add dimension line to a single wall using R-Click command
  • Added: Dimension lines in side editing (but deleted upon exit)
  • Added: 2 new objects in Additional 3D Shapes library
  • Added: Import and export User library objects in the main window

New in Room Arranger 5.5.4 (Apr 19, 2010)

  • Added: Switching between floors directly in wall editor
  • Added: Calculate size and areas of all walls - as Export statistics
  • at Rooms in the Project window (F7)
  • Added: Wall sizes shown also as Hints under cursor there
  • Fixed: Disappearing old dimension lines when adding doors, windows
  • Fixed: Precise moving with walls in projects with decimal numbers disabled
  • Fixed: Loading of certain PNG types into Logo object
  • Fixed: Minor bugfixes

New in Room Arranger 5.5.3 (Apr 19, 2010)

  • Fixed: Crash when moving walls - due to bug in 5.5.2

New in Room Arranger 5.5.2 (Apr 19, 2010)

  • Added: You can add and edit your dimension lines in wall editor
  • Added: Dim.lines are shown before starting new wall in wall editor
  • Improved: Better alignment of automatic dimension lines in wall editor
  • Improved: Limited automatic main window resizing in wall editor
  • Fixed: Crash when 16 bit colors were set in Windows display setting
  • Added: Started a Twitter feed

New in Room Arranger 5.5.1 (Apr 19, 2010)

  • Fixed: Editing Wall properties could destroy all neighboring walls
  • Fixed: Numerical wall editor
  • Fixed: Disappearing doors or windows after ending Side editor
  • Improved: Version numbering more clear (new style: 5.5.1, old: 5.51)

New in Room Arranger 5.5 (Apr 19, 2010)

  • Improved: 3D viewing possible in own window, not in web browser
  • Added: New type of basic object - Logo - image in 2D drawing
  • Added: New type of basic object - Polygon - draw your own 2D shape
  • Added: Define custom page header or footer when printing (page layout)
  • Added: Label can contain variables: �TE%, %TIME%, %USER%
  • Added: Select sky color for 3D
  • Added: Editable floor thickness in multi-floor projects
  • Added: 12 new objects in Additional 3D Shapes library
  • Added: Objects can be visible in Wall editor
  • Added: Pictures visible while editing from side
  • Improved: Alignment and Layers windows can be docked in main window
  • Improved: Dimension lines aligned to inner wall dimension
  • Improved: Labels and lines can be added to groups
  • Improved: Better detail in 3D for several round objects
  • Added: Function for direct export of the whole User library
  • Improved: Export multiple objects from User library at once
  • Improved: Window position and zoom is restored after editing from side
  • Improved: Horizontal scrolling with tilting mouse wheel
  • Improved: Moving with objects snapped to walls
  • Fixed: Some controls were misplaced in 120 dpi Windows resolution
  • Fixed: Repainting of some controls in Vista
  • Fixed: Program sometimes stopped responding when checking for updates
  • Improved: Multilingual installer

New in Room Arranger 5.04.0.122 (Dec 22, 2008)

  • Lots of small nifty improvements and bugfixes

New in Room Arranger 5.00.0.108 (Apr 27, 2007)

  • Multi-floor projects
  • Added: Full Unicode support
  • Added: Better color reproduction in 3D
  • Added: Select color for each wall
  • Added: Sort part listing by any column
  • Added: Snap objects horizontally/vertically (align&distr menu)
  • Added: Line ends for measurement lines
  • Added: Automatic dimension lines when moving doors and windows
  • Added: 9 new door and window shapes (appearance)
  • Added: Select exterior wall color and ground color
  • Added: Scrolling the project by clicking the mouse wheel
  • Added: Ctrl Drag selects objects fully inside sel. rectangle
  • Added: Modify User library items directly from the main window
  • Added: Select 3D preview image for user library tems
  • Added: Limited support for imported VRML models
  • Added: Import Object listing from TXT file
  • Added: Integrated calculator with feet/inches input
  • Added: Automatic project backuping
  • Added: Automatic checks for new program version
  • Added: New program icon, splash screen and About window
  • Added: List of keyboard shortcuts in the help file
  • Improved: Vista compatible
  • Fixed: Dozens of minor bugfixes and improvements