What is New?

STUDIO NEXT PLUG-IN

• New category of Mesh plant fill - Curly Plant fills with flowers, leaves, symmetry and mirror options. It can be used as fill or as generator of ornaments and monograms.
  
  
  
  
• Tutorial Curly Plant Mesh - Essential Guide
• Tutorial Curly Plant Mesh - Advanced Techniques
• Single-layer option added to many existing mesh fills. Unlike current mesh fills which use two or more layers of stitching, the new single-layer fills use just one run of thread and connecting stitches are placed on edges of the object. Single-layer mesh fill can be used as is (single stitching), or it can be converted to outlines and then any outline style can be applied, for example satin stitch, tripple bean stitch, etc.
• Added new type of mesh fill called FSL Grid (Free Standing Lace Grid) . It allows both single-layer and multi-layer stitching. It is located in Net category of Mesh tool.
• Single-layer option added to existing Fractal mesh fills (Net category of Mesh tool).
  
• Single-layer option added to existing Shapes mesh fills (Net category of Mesh tool).
• Single-layer option added to some of existing Blackwork mesh fills (Tiles category of Mesh tool). About 40 % of current Blackwork samples allow single layer stitching
  
• Single-layer option added to existing Maze mesh fills (Stippling category of Mesh tool).
• Single-layer option added to existing Necklace mesh fills (Stippling category of Mesh tool). This options is not available for Font and Glyph necklace fills.
• Enhancement to stitching of all mesh categories
• New mode of Outline tool - Overlock . Allows to create overlock-like borders, even with corners. Adjustable overlock parameters provide many visual combinations. Overlock can be split into individual segments (main menu > Convert) if needed.
  
  
  
  
  
• New flower samples added to Mesh tool, Plant fills
• New samples added to Mesh tool, Tiles > Blackwork
• New feature introduced to mesh fills - origin point . Origin point is now used as a starting point for some mesh fills like plant and radial maze. Before introducing the origin point, the effect focus point was used both as a fill starting point and as center for effects. This functionality is now divided between origin point and effect focus point.
• New individual underlay controls for solid objects like Fill (plain and autocolumn mode), Column, Column with Pattern, Applique, Outline (satin, border, applique mode). These new controls allow individual overriding of overall (global) underlay settings like min. stitch, max. stitch and offset for given object.
• New command for conversion of mesh objects into outlines: main menu > Convert > Fill, Mesh & Sfumato > Create Separate Outline Elements from Mesh . This command converts mesh into outline elements that have no backward paths and are not arranged into continous sequence. This command is intended for those who need to do deeper editing of generated mesh fill.
• New command for conversion of outline objects into carvings: main menu > Convert > Outline > Outline to Carving
• Sfumato Stitch: Pick Color mode and Shade Preview mode now available also from Parameters window (not just while editing nodes).
• Faster GUI (graphic user interface)
• Thread catalog window - threads can be sorted by clicking the columns header
• New shortcut Ctrl+Shift+K for picking color for selected object(s) from thread catalog
• Help window - option to merge all pages from index into a single file for conversion into the PDF file . Select Index page from tab at the left side of Help window (if it is displayed) and tap Merge All button at the bottom of this tab. Merge All option is not available if there is only a single page in the index, i.e. index is not even displayed. When merged file is created, use Print command of Windows File Explorer to print/convert file into PDF.
• Mesh tool - separate options to include outer contours and inner contours (for holes) into stitching. These settings have no effect for new single-layer fills.
• Enhancement to selection of outline objects in the work area with mouse click
• Pop-up windows can be closed with key on keyboard now. Esc is for Cancel, Enter is for Ok, Done or Apply
• Fix to splitting applique objects into layers
• Fix to creating holes in mesh objects
• Fix to Alphabets lettering, plain fill of small letters
• Fix to installation of color catalogs

STUDIO (REGULAR)

• Maintenance build. Multiple new features are available in Studio NEXT

MANAGER, EDITOR & CROSS STITCH

• New command Help > Configurable Tool Panel added to "Help" menus of Manager, Editor and Cross Stitch plug-ins. In each of these modules, configurable tool panel allows to build your own, custom tool panel with quick access to your favourite tools.

  

  Configurable Tool Panel is usefull in situations when you need to

  1. Quickly invoke proper command
  2. Search for concrete word in all available menus and buttons
  3. Build a list of recently chosen commands to find them quickly next time

MANAGER

• New type of printed and exported documentation added:
  • Print Stitch Analysis
  • Export Stitch Analysis

EDITOR

• Various shapes added to "Insert > Fabric Flattening Stitches" menu:

  • Rectangle
  • Round Rectangle
  • Circle
  • Ellipse
  • Plate
  • Blob
  • Polygon (Triangle, Square, Pentagon, Hexagon, Heptagon, Octagon, Nonagon, Decagon)
  • Round polygon (Triangle, Square, Pentagon, Hexagon, Heptagon, Octagon, Nonagon, Decagon)
  • Star (Triangle, Square, Pentagon, Hexagon, Heptagon, Octagon, Nonagon, Decagon)
  • Round Star (Triangle, Square, Pentagon, Hexagon, Heptagon, Octagon, Nonagon, Decagon)

• Various shapes added to "Fill space" dialog which appears after double-click on empty area (for solid Fill, Quilt fill, Fractal fill, Mesh fill, Celtic Knots fill):

  • Rectangle
  • Round Rectangle
  • Circle
  • Ellipse
  • Plate
  • Blob
  • Polygon (Triangle, Square, Pentagon, Hexagon, Heptagon, Octagon, Nonagon, Decagon)
  • Round polygon (Triangle, Square, Pentagon, Hexagon, Heptagon, Octagon, Nonagon, Decagon)
  • Star (Triangle, Square, Pentagon, Hexagon, Heptagon, Octagon, Nonagon, Decagon)
  • Round Star (Triangle, Square, Pentagon, Hexagon, Heptagon, Octagon, Nonagon, Decagon)
  
• New option "View > Hoop in Center" added. It allows to switch ON/OFF the displaying of hoop in the center of work area.
• 1000+ new Mesh fill patterns added
• 12 new Fractals and Fractal fills added
• 42 new Celtic Knots fill patterns added
• Inscribe feature for Mesh fill enhanced
• It is now possible to create zig-zag columns or hollow columns for Mesh fill, Fractal fill and Celtic Knots fill
  
• It is now possible to specify Width for Fractal fill
  
• New command "Insert > Decoration" added, allowing to generate number of unique "Fractal", "Flower" or "Snowflake" stitch objects with use of several adjustable parameters.
  
  
  
• New options "Spectrum" and "Zebra" added to "Image > Surprise Me!" menu. Use it to insert randomly generated image and then convert this image to stitches using "Image > Convert to Stitches" commmand to quickly create unique new design.
• New options "Spectrum" and "Zebra" added to "Insert > Surprise Me!" menu. Use it to quickly create randomly generated unique design and insert it into Editor. Design consists of solid filled areas of different colors. Default palette is multicolor, but respective areas can be manually set to any other color very easily.
  
• New command "Image > Colors > Grayscale" allows to convert color image to grayscale.
• New command "Image > Colors > Sepia" allows to convert color image to sepia tone.
• New command "Image > Mask With Shape" added. Use it to mask the background image with chosen shape.

FONT ENGINE PLUG-IN, ALPHABET PLUG-INS

• New button allows to insert "Number Puzzle".

CROSS STITCH PLUG-IN

• New command "Insert > Decoration" added, allowing to insert "Snowflake".
  
• New command "Insert > Number Puzzle" added.
• New option "Spectrum" added to "Insert > Surprise Me!" menu. Use it to insert randomly generated image which might be converted to crosses using "Image > Autodigitize Crosses from Image" menu.

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