What's New in EngView Package & Display Designer 7.3

Drafting 3D Integration with Adobe® Illustrator® Diemaking CAM Cost Estimator Design frames and print presentations Other new functionalities

Drafting

Hiding drafting errors by selecting the objects that contain them
When you use the Fix Assistant tool to fix drafting errors in imported drawings, EngView marks structural irregularities that would normally be considered errors. But sometimes you want to use these detected errors for the future because of technological reasons — for example, unconnected ends that you want to use. You can now tell EngView not to highlight these detected errors.
Using a single click to dimension consecutive distances along vertical or horizontal lines
You can use a single click to place the dimensions for all distances that run consecutively along a vertical or a horizontal line. All you need is pick the direction and click. As a result, EngView dimensions all the distances along the horizontal or vertical line. You then use the mouse to move the newly created dimensions line to where you want it.
Creating predefined texts to insert into drawings
You can create and save texts that you want to use frequently in drawings. When you need a text, you select it in a list, and then drag it into where in the drawing you need it.
Export of braille matrices (PDF, EPS, AI)
When exporting braille inscriptions, you can now export also the braille matrix along with the braille text. You can choose to export the matrix in a separate layer or in a separate style. The export places the matrix in an automatically generated: Braille Matrix. This functionality is available for the .eps, .pdf and .ai file formats.
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3D

Rotating 3D models along a single axis
You can now rotate 3D models along a single axis at a time. You drag the mouse to set a direction of rotation, and then the 3D model starts rotating strictly along the set axis.
Export of 3D measurement lines to the WEB3D and COLLADA file formats
When exporting to the WEB3D and Collada file formats, EngView now exports also the measurement lines placed in the 3D model.
Export of background images into the WEB3D file format
When exporting to the WEB3D file format, EngView now exports also the background image placed in the 3D model.
Customizing the field of view for 3D models
You can set the angle that defines the viewing field in which you look at the 3D model. The effect changes the model's scene perspective giving you the viewing environment you are most comfortable with.
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Integration with Adobe® Illustrator®

Directly changing the color in color-carrying layers in Illustrator
You no longer need to switch to EngView to change the color of objects processed with the finishing processes Partial Foil Stamping and Monochrome Print. You can now change the color directly in Illustrator.
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Diemaking

Selecting bridges and nicks by attributes
When working in bridges drawings, you can now specify widths by which you want EngView to select bridges and nicks. Also, if your work involves regular selections of bridges and nicks, you can automate these selections by setting up selection presets. Using presets, each time you use the mouse to make a zonal selection in a bridges drawing, you just apply the preset, use the mouse to form a selection zone, and EngView selects the objects that match the attributes set in the presets. You can use the functionality also reversely — to cancel existing selections by setting attributes: Load the preset, and then make a zonal selection across already selected objects. As a result, EngView removes the selection from the objects that do not match the preset attributes.
Using Repeat Changes to manually place bridges to identically rotated layout parts
When placing bridges manually, you can use the Repeat Changes functionality to distinguish between rotated and nonrotated parts. In the layout drawing, you set a default mode for how the Repeat Changes functionality will apply manually placed bridges to rotated parts. Then, in the bridges drawing, Repeat Changes populates the bridges you place to all identically rotated parts.
Use a single click to apply nicks to all parts in bridges drawings regardless of their rotation
When placing nicks in bridges drawings containing rotated and nonrotated parts, you can now apply the single-click Repeat Changes functionality to all the parts, regardless of whether or not they are rotated.
Export dieboard data in the SVG file format
You can now export data for a defined dieboard in the SVG file format.
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CAM

Reusing CAM drawings to avoid drawings clutter
When you have created a CAM drawing from a 1up, layout or counterplate drawing and proceed with creating another CAM drawing from the same source drawing, you can (1) choose to use an existing CAM drawing, or (2) create a new CAM drawing from the same source drawing. In the latter case, you also can change the associated template.
Setting object processing priority in layout-generated CAM files
When you are working with CAM files generated from layout drawings, you can choose how you want tools to process their associated objects: (1) before or (2) after all other objects, or (3) as they move from one part to the next. NOTE: You can use this functionality only when you have chosen to process the individual layout parts one by one. with creating another CAM drawing.
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Cost Estimator

Setting viewing order of parameters
You can now set the order for how you want to view cost model parameters in the tabular area. Also, you can group parameters and collapse grouped parameters to free up space. This reordering and grouping does not affect the cost model parameter order that the program uses to calculate job costs.
Digit grouping symbols in displayed formula results
When displaying formula results, EngView now uses your system's digit grouping format. Adding a t to the formula's formatting tells EngView to use the digit grouping symbol set in your system.
Expanded scope of the layout parts-counting function
The function that counts layout parts — PartsCount() — has been expanded and you can now specify the drawing in which you want the function to count layout parts: the active drawing or a specified one.
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Design frames and print presentations

Using digit grouping symbols in displaying formula results
When displaying formula results, EngView now uses your system's digit grouping format. Adding the letter t to the formula's formatting tells EngView to use the digit grouping symbol set in your system.
Formulas extracting dieboard-related data
New formulas let you extract new information about dieboards. These formulas give you:
Flute direction-aware formulas for extracting sheet size
New formulas let you extract the sheet size, taking into account the flute direction.
Real-size export of print drawings as PDF
When exporting print drawings as PDFs, you can export the drawings in their actual size. When exported, drawings retain their original dimensions and are not scaled to fit the predefined size of the media.
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Other new functionalities

Red-eye icon notification for activated Hidden Objects mode
When you set EngView to display hidden objects, a red-eye icon appears next to the drawing side icon in the graphical area's top left corner as a visual indication that the Hidden Objects mode is turned on — if there are any hidden objects in the graphical area, EngView will mark them with outlining shadows.
Import of G code files
You can now import drawings in G code and associate their data to EngView styles.
Expanded linetype association for the SVG file format
You can now use a richer set of linetype associations when exporting drawings to the SVG file format.
Identical MAIN and SUB names in exports in the CFF file format
You can now execute exports in the CFF file format using identical names for the MAIN and the SUB.
Special templates for printing and export jobs
You can set separate templates for printing out or exporting drawings, in which you can modify the properties of objects by editing the styles applied to them. After setting the templates, you apply them to the export or printing jobs.
Widening the default style shortcut icons
You can now increase the widths of the style shortcut icons.
Defining custom colors
You can define your own colors to add to the list of available colors and use them wherever you need to apply a color. An example of this is for backgrounds of 3D scenes, when you export 3D models in graphical file formats.
DD3 line types matching EngView styles are associated even if style names mismatch
When DD3 files are being imported, EngView inspects the properties of the DD3 file objects' line types and if it finds styles that match those properties, associates the incoming tine types to those styles under their names.
Default font for text in imported files
You can set the default font in which you want EngView to display the text in imported files
Translation of selection type entries strings
The descriptions of selection type entries in cost model and parameter template parameters do not translate when you switch to a different user interface language. Now you can add a set of your own translations to these strings.
Projects originating from existing .evr files are named after the underlying design
Projects that originate from existing resizable designs (.evr files) are automatically named after the underlying design and stay so until you rename them explicitly. This includes projects created (1) by double-clicking an existing .evr file or (2) by double-clicking the .evr icon in the Library of Standards. Projects created (3) by using the project-making wizard also use the name of the selected resizable design unless you specify a name for them in the File name field.
Setting a work language for the Library of Standards
When you are browsing the Library of Components, you can now set the language in which you want to see the names of the components. You can choose between the language of the user interface that you use to work with EngView or a translated version of the Library.
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