What's new in Room Arranger 9.8.3
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 (Jan 30, 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 (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 (Sep 25, 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 (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 (Jan 23, 2023)
- 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 (Jan 23, 2023)
- Added: Possibility to save image preview in Rooms Tuning
- Fixed: Antialiasing in 3D viewer
- Fixed: Screenshots and video recording in 3D viewer
- 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 (Jan 23, 2023)
- Improved: Better user interface scaling on notebook screens
New in Room Arranger 9.6 (Dec 30, 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 9.5.6 (Feb 25, 2020)
- Added: Copy and paste wall or floor opening to another floor
- Added: 2 new types of window
- Added: Picking screen color in color picker
- Fixed: Selecting rooms inside another room
- Fixed: 3D scene when running program from network folder
- Fixed: Alignment commands don't move locked objects
- Fixed: Checking for new program version and object libraries
New in Room Arranger 9.5.5 (Sep 11, 2018)
- Improved: Basic objects support changing line thickness
- Improved: Special editors and annot. drawn out of project bounds too
- Fixed: Background floor plan image calibration on touch displays
- Fixed: Minor print dialog related bugs
New in Room Arranger 9.5.4 (Apr 13, 2018)
- Fixed: Possible crash when printing project with pictures
- Fixed: Project dimensions after merging two projects
- Fixed: Several possible crash bugs
New in Room Arranger 9.5.3 (Apr 13, 2018)
- Fixed: Crash when moving object forward/backward
- Added: Squat toilet object
New in Room Arranger 9.5.2 (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 (Jan 26, 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 9.3 (Jul 25, 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 (Apr 6, 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 (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 (Nov 25, 2016)
- Improved: Setting external VRML prototypes much easier
- Improved: Polyline can have curved segments
New in Room Arranger 9.1 (Oct 22, 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 (Oct 4, 2016)
- Fixed: Possible crash when scaling grouped object.
New in Room Arranger 9.0.2 (Sep 15, 2016)
- Improved: Right-to-left window layout for RTL languages
- Improved: Unit names localized
New in Room Arranger 9.0.1 (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 (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 (Apr 18, 2016)
- Fixed: Dialog windows initial positions.
New in Room Arranger 8.4 (Apr 14, 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
- Improved: Two program instances on OS X (Project - New Window)
- Fixed: Unicode support for filenames on Linux
New in Room Arranger 8.3.1 (Dec 1, 2015)
- Fixed: Keeping different 3D rotation when setting specular reflections
New in Room Arranger 8.3 (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 (Nov 1, 2015)
- Improved: Touch interface for Windows tablets
- Fixed: Minor bugfixes and improvements
New in Room Arranger 8.1 (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 8.0.2 (Aug 21, 2015)
- Added: Signed installer on OS X
New in Room Arranger 8.0 (Aug 21, 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 (Aug 21, 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 (Jan 28, 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 (Dec 4, 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 (Nov 21, 2014)
- Fixed: Rotated multi-line labels
- Fixed: Possible crash while printing
New in Room Arranger 7.5.6 (Nov 6, 2014)
- Fixed: Shift+Mouse wheel to scroll horizontally
- Fixed: Position of color picker window
New in Room Arranger 7.5.5 (Sep 18, 2014)
- Fixed: Print in scale
- Fixed: Printing of dashed lines
New in Room Arranger 7.5.4 (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 (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 (Jul 22, 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