- in Preferences made sure that clicking the Restore Defaults will update the values in the Preferences Tab
- some changes in the Tools visibility in the Tools ToolBar
- Tool Copper Thieving - when creating pattern plating masks now the user can select to use only the pads and that's useful when the soldermsk Gerber is actually a copper Gerber
- Tool Copper Thieving - changed the units for plated area from mm2 in cm2 when the app units are Metric
- Calculator Tool - Electroplating Calculator - changing the area will update the current value
- GUI Elements FCDoubleSpinner and FCSpinner: modified the context menu to not allow cut/paste/delete/step_up/step_down when the GUI element is set as Read Only
- removed the "follow" functionality from the Isolation Tool
- created a new application Tool named Follow Tool
- added the "follow" functionality in the Follow Tool and added the new feature of allowing to perform "follow" on an area selection
- fixed issue in the Excellon Editor where the Space key did not toggle the direction of the array of drills
- combed the application strings all over the app and trimmed them up until those starting with letter 'O'
- updated the translation strings
- Copper Thieving Tool added a new parameter to select what extra geometry to include in the Pattern Plating Mask; added it to the Preferences
- made a wide change on the spinners GUI ranges: from 9999.9999 all values to 10000.0000
- fixed some late issues in Corner Markers Tool new feature (messages)
- upgraded Calculator Tool and added the new parameter is the Preferences
- updated translation strings
- in Corner Marker Tool, will no longer update the current object with the marker geometry but create a new Gerber object
- in Join Excellon functionality made sure that the new Combo Exellon object will have copied the data from source objects and not just references, therefore will survive the delete of its parents
- updated Turkish translation (by Mehmet Kaya)
- updated all the languages except Turkish
- fixed Paint, Isolation and NCC Tools such the translated comboboxes values are now stored as indexes instead of translated words as before
- in Geometry Object made sure that the widgets in the Tool Table gets populated regardless of encountering non-recognizable translated values
- in Paint Tool found a small bug and fixed it
- in Geometry UI finished a very basic way for the Polish feature (this will be upgraded in the future, for now is very rough)
- added some new GUI elements by subclassing some widgets for the dialog pop-ups
- in NCC Tool and Isolation Tool, pressing the shortcut key 'T' will bring the add new tool pop up in which now it is included the button to get the optimal diameter
- in Geometry UI and for Solderpaste Tool replaced the pop up window that is launched when using shortcut key with one that has the context menu translated
- some UI cleanup in the Geometry UI
- modified the shortcut strings and the way the shortcuts were listed in the Shortcut keys list such that it will allow a future Shortcuts Manager
- updated all the language strings according to the modifications done above
- modified some strings and updated the translation strings
- in NCC Tool added a check for the validity of the used tools; its only informative
- in NCC Tool done some refactoring
- changes in Tool Cutout: now on Cutout Tool start the app will look into Tools Database and search for a tool with same diameter (or within the set tolerance) as the one from Preferences and load it if found or load a default tool if not
- Tool Cutout - this Tool can now load tools from Tools Database through buttons in the Cutout Tool
- added multiple algorithms for path optimization when generating GCode from an Geometry object beside the original Rtree algorithm: TSA, OR-Tools Basic, OR-Tools metaheuristics
- added controls for Geometry object path optimization in Preferences
