SMALL UPDATE

• Send Bug Report is on the menu bar, next to Help.
• Dragging a divider shows a clean guide line with no ghosting.
• The thank-you window fits its text.
• What's New now opens after every update.

UPDATE  ·  INTERFACE AND UPDATES

New

• Resize the left panel, the toolbar and the command line by dragging the dividers between them. A guide line follows the mouse, the layout changes once when you let go, and every divider stops at its panel's smallest and largest size. View → Reset Panel Sizes puts everything back.
• Resize each toolbar column (Draw, Modify, Measure) on its own. It snaps to whole icon columns, and dragging the toolbar's lower edge sets how many rows of icons there are.
• Toolbar icons scale from 12 to 48 pixels: hold Ctrl and scroll over the toolbar, or use Settings → Preferences. By default they match your screen, so they're larger on high-resolution displays.
• The left panel rearranges itself to fit, and the layer list sizes itself to your layers.
• Update Now installs updates for you: it downloads the new version, checks it, replaces the old one and reopens PyDraft.
• Help → What's New lists every change by version, and opens by itself after an update.
• A thank-you message the first time PyDraft is opened, with your tester ID ready to copy and a button to register it.

Changed

• A drawing can have up to 20 layers. Opening or importing a file with more moves the objects on the extra layers to layer 0 and tells you.
• The layer Color button steps the selected layer through 10 colors, one per click, and each layer's name is shown in its color.
• The "History lines shown" preference is gone; drag the top of the command line instead.

Fixed

• Clicking the Paper tab works again.
• Only four of the eight draw colors fit in the left panel; all eight are shown now.
• Applying Preferences no longer snaps the window back to its starting size.
• Clicking a layer button no longer loses the highlighted layer.

UPDATE

Changed

• G-code export has been removed. PyDraft draws the part; export DXF and create toolpaths in the CAM program you already use.

Fixed

• The properties panel showed lengths and radii in millimeters even in inch drawings. It now uses the drawing's units, and shows a circle's diameter as well as its radius.
• The cursor coordinates in the status bar now use the drawing's units instead of raw millimeters.
• Architectural units showed 4'-0 5/8" as 4'-5/8", and values just under a foot could show as 0'-12". Both now display correctly.

FIRST PUBLIC RELEASE

The first build handed to anyone other than me. Everything below already works; the version number is low because it has not been tested by enough people yet, not because it is missing features.

Drawing

• Line, polyline, rectangle, circle, arc, ellipse, ray, point, and text tools.
• Object snapping to endpoints, midpoints, centers, quadrants, and intersections.
• Grid snap, ortho mode, and a command line that accepts coordinates, distances, and angles.

Modifying

• Move, copy, rotate, scale, mirror, offset, trim, extend, fillet, chamfer, explode, and erase.
• Trim works on lines, arcs, circles, and polylines, including closed ones.
• Weld joins connected geometry into a single polyline. Warp reshapes a polyline by moving vertices or inserting new ones.
• Drag any object directly with the mouse without starting a command first.

Dimensions and units

• Linear, aligned, radius, diameter, circumference, and angular dimensions, plus a measure tool.
• Millimeters, centimeters, meters, decimal inches, fractional inches, and architectural feet-inches.
• Units are chosen when the program opens and when you start a new drawing.

Files

• Native .pdc format, readable JSON.
• DXF import and export (AutoCAD R14 ASCII).
• SVG, vector PDF, and basic G-code export.
• Print to PDF with Letter, Legal, A4, or A3 page sizes and orientation.

Workspace

• Model and paper space, each with independent geometry. Paper space uses a lighter background.
• Named layers with color, visibility, and lock. Deleting a populated layer asks what to do with the objects instead of refusing.
• Every registered tool appears on the toolbar automatically. Dimension tools are grouped in a dropdown.
• Settings apply immediately without restarting.

Known issues

• Offset works on lines, circles, and arcs but not yet on polylines.
• Extend works on lines only.
• Paper space holds its own geometry but is not yet a scaled viewport into model space.
• Printing goes through your system PDF viewer rather than spooling directly to a printer.
• Windows will warn about an unknown publisher until the executable is code-signed.

Found something not on this list? Click Send Bug Report on the menu bar, next to Help. It takes about ten seconds and it is the most useful thing a tester can do.