Latest Program Features from Stardraw

Latest Program Features from Stardraw

As part of software provider Stardraws ongoing Feature-per-Month program, several new capabilities have been added across the suite of Stardraws design and documentation applications.

The Convert Environment tool automatically creates new layouts in other environments within Stardraw using the current design as the source document. This enables you to move easily between environments (Block Schematic, Pictorial Schematic and Rack Layout) without having to re-select the symbols from the Library List each time.

Enhanced Library Structure has been designed to offer some significant immediate advantages while paving the way for important strategic upgrades to be announced as future Features-per-Month. Essentially it offers customers a way to customize their library structures using both Local and Online libraries to optimize the way in which he or she likes to work. Users of dialup or slow internet connections will notice immediate performance improvements on program startup and when using the Library List because actions performed within the Local Libraries no longer need to check the Stardraw web server.

Precision Enhancement is exactly what it says it is. Every field that displays units of measurement is now more flexible, customizable, and reflects accuracy more, well, accurately. Having chosen your preferred measurement unit (Feet & Inches; Inches Only; Metres; Millimetres), the Precision sub-menu allows you to specify the number of decimal places that can be displayed and entered throughout Stardraw. You can choose from 0 to 5 decimal places, thus extending Stardraws display accuracy to 1/100,000mm.

Enhanced Ungroup. The Group/Ungroup tool can now be used to explode symbols. Prior to this enhancement you could edit the elements within a symbol by Unlocking the document, but you could not treat the elements of symbols as individual objects in a locked document. Now, if you select a symbol, the Group tool will appear checked: by unchecking it you will break down one level of grouping. Nested symbols, i.e. symbols that themselves contain symbols, can be fully exploded by repeating the Ungroup process.

Ungrouping of symbols is an important new feature since it allows you to create new symbols from the component parts of other symbols. Previously this could only be achieved by opening and editing symbol files themselves. This enhancement to the Group/Ungroup function is similar to using Purge/Explode in AutoCAD.

For further information on Stardraws Feature-per-Month program, please visit www.stardraw.com

Notes to Editor

Since 1995 Stardraw.com has been a leading provider of software solutions to the entertainment technology sector, offering a range of award-winning system design, documentation and control applications as well as providing OEM software solutions for corporate customers. With offices in London and New York, regional partners and an installed customer base of almost 40,000 users spanning 82 countries, Stardraw.com is focussed on serving the international marketplace, and delivers leading-edge solutions that exploit the very latest in software technologies.

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