What's New in Prinect Package Designer 21.10.44

Drafting

Special drawings for helper structures
When designing a project, you can now use a new type of drawing in which you can draw parts that only have an auxiliary role in the project and take no part in the produced structure. You can create a 3D model from this drawing and use it in the assembled 3D model, but this drawing does not go into drawings meant for production: layout, print. You also cannot create a counterplate, CAM and bridges drawings from this drawing and it does not appear in these types of drawings.
To create a helper drawing, in the graphical area right-click a 1up's tab, and then click New Helper Drawing.
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3D

Parts tab
A new tab has been added to the 3D tabular area. In the tab, you can:
  • Directly adjust parts' and external objects' x, y and z positions (offsets) and rotation without opening the part's properties.
  • Follow statistics about which and how many parts or external objects take part in a 3D model.
  • Follow statistics about the state of parts and external objects in the current 3D scene — for example, Construct to usage, Perpendicular Move, Visible, and Hidden.
Conditional presence of parts and external objects
You can now set conditions for whether a part or an external object takes part in a 3D model. You can set a parameter and/or an expression: You create an expression that evaluates to True or False. When the condition is met, the part is present in the 3D model; when it is not met, the part is does not take part in the model.
Directly switching to parts' 2D and 3D drawings from assembled models
When working on assembled 3D models that feature multiple parts, you often find that you need to modify some parts. But if the model is made up of a great many parts, locating the actual 2D or 3D drawing of the part may prove effortful and time-consuming. Now you can switch to 2D and 3D drawings within a second's time: right-click the part, and then click a command on the context menu. This way of locating the drawing of an individual part is especially helpful when working on 3D models that comprise many parts — for example, displays.
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Other new functionalities

Added realism in the rendering of surface materials
EngView has adjusted the default settings of the distributed surface materials to give them a greater degree of realism when it renders them.
Multilanguage support of special UI items
You can now add translations to text strings that load each time EngView detects the Regional Locale and differ from the ones that EngView distributes. Examples for such items are the descriptions of cost model parameters, the descriptions of styles, and the descriptions (tooltips) of parameters. These translations are especially helpful in adding operational flexibility to the work of international teams. For example, a project is created in Bulgaria and is supplied with translations in Bulgarian, Korean and French. When this project is opened in Bulgaria, Korea and France, EngView will automatically switch to the translations in these languages.
You can add your own translations for the items for which you see the translation icon on their right: Languages Icon.
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