KeyCreator Enhancements

• Toolbar icon button images redesigned for consistency and with modern, shaded-3D look
• Toolbar button flyover highlighting uses shaded and embossed effects for improved clarity
• Keyboard shortcut assignments appear in toolbar icon button ToolTips
  
• Keyboard shortcut assignments for submenu icon palettes appear in pull-down menus
  
• Option for toolbar icon buttons in large size (32x32 pixels)
• Option for floating toolbars to appear under cursor when activated by Keyboard shortcut
• Option for floating toolbars to Close on Use
• Universal Face Selection Menu expanded to automate the selection of sets of faces which form regional features
  • Smooth – selects the face under cursor and all adjacent faces with tangent transitions
    
  • Bump – masks for sets of adjacent faces forming a protrusion or cavity which are cleanly bounded by a single capping face
    
  • Blend All– masks for sets of adjacent faces that are part of a single blend or part of a dependant blend
    
  • Blend Constant - masks for sets of adjacent faces that are part of a constant radius blend
  • Blend Branch – masks for minimum sets of adjacent blend faces that can be removed together
  • Side – masking on solids of uniform thickness, this option selects the face under cursor, and all adjacent faces with tangent transitions like the Smooth option, or all faces on the side wall of the solid
    
  • Rib – masks on sets of adjacent faces that form non-cylindrical/conical walls and top of a protrusion cleanly bounded by one or more faces
    
  • Pocket – masks on sets of adjacent faces that form the walls and bottom of a cavity cleanly bounded by one or more faces
    
  • Boss - masks on sets of adjacent faces that form the walls and top of a protrusion cleanly bounded by one or more faces
    
  • Pattern – Masks on sets of identical faces
• New Features tab added to Part Splitter pane which lists sets of faces discovered to be regional features, sorted by folders
  
• During entity selection, ToolTips show entity type of highlighted entity
• During Verify Entity selection, ToolTip shows length or radius of highlighted entities
  
• During position snapping the Center position is prioritized if cursor is inside of circle/arc
• Level Properties dialog expanded to include name, number, and display/selectable switches
  
• Offset option added to Move Levels function allowing sets of levels to be placed under another level or renumbered (i.e., levels 2 and 5 become 100.2 and 100.5 or 102 and 105)
• New Copy Levels function works like Move Levels but leaves all original data in place
• New Collapse Completely function for Levels list
• Control Bar Windows include their name in their title bar

• Unlimited* undo/redo for all functions that edit the CKD file
• Pull-down menus expanded to cover all functions
• Unlimited* number of levels
• Unlimited* sublevels
• Length of level name (descriptor) is Unlimited*
• Level list built into document window so that it does not obstruct the view of the drawing area
• Instant update of level status changes (on/off) in drawing area
• Level list has partially open and fully open states
• Configurable order of columns in level list
• Configurable size of columns in level list
• Save level list column layout configuration
• Level functions allow selection of geometry on a level to determine level to act on
• Drag and drop reordering of levels
• Block selection (mask) multiple levels at once
• Optionally set default entity attributes by active level
• Copy Level function
• Function to set entity attributes using level attributes
• Save and Load level list structure
• Text export of level list always exports levels in the order they were created
• Level list modify functions including All On/Off/Selectable and Toggle On/Off/Selectable
• Additional user configurable colors (48 more)
• Manage hidden entities using Blank and Unblank functions
• Position snap works in all Universal Position Menu modes except Key-in
• Configurable radius for position snap search area
• Selection enhanced with fly-over highlighting
• Selection enhanced with a standard “next selection” toggle keyboard key (Tab)
• Selection enhanced with modeless window select
• Holding Shift key enables reverse order toggling for selection/positioning
• During entity selection the prompt displays the number of currently selected entities
• Attribute masking allows inversion of the mask
• Temporary vectors used in direction selection prompts use different arrowhead styles to aid in head-on selection
• “Generic“ Edit function allows access to the attributes and properties of any entity
• “Generic” Move function allows dynamic dragging of any entity
• “Generic” Burst function allows complex entities to be converted to simpler entity types
• Delete entities function is Immediate Mode
• Masking (filter) includes 18 more entity types including NURB Spline, Solid, Surface, Plane, and Vector
• Composites (similar to Groups) provides stronger entity association easier selection
• Unlimited* number of named composites
• Unlimited* number of characters in composite and group names
• Full support for linking and embedding (OLE) Windows objects (spreadsheets, documents, pictures, etc.)
• Sizing of OLE entities accurately controlled during placement
• Xform Scale functions work on OLE entities
• Borders on OLE entities controlled with standard entity attributes
• Input defaults remembered from session to session (i.e. default circle radius)
• All session-specific settings are controlled from “Tools Options” configuration dialog
• All part-specific settings are controlled from the new “File Properties” dialog
• History Line is a toolbar separate from the Status Bar
• Icons of switch functions depress to indicate status of switch (2D/3D, Snap, etc.)
• ToolTips can be optionally disabled
• Layout mode drawing instance tree maintains explore settings (state) during switching to/from layout
• Position and single selection events occur upon mouse down-button to reduce misses due to mouse movement
• Breaking a solid respects Tools Options Entities settings for attributes and level
• Store and recall sets of level, window and active level configurations (Picture Manager)

*Unlimited means limited only by the capacity of the computer itself