Take one thing out of a pack, and see the tool you are measuring
The presets area lists the library two ways now: the trades, and every individual schema, service, design module and wizard inside them, each switchable on its own. And a dimension label on a 3D model no longer sits on the part it is measuring.
22 September 2026.
One item, without the pack around it
- A preset is a pack: a trade's schemas, services, modules and wizards together. That is the right unit for the question "what do you sell" and the wrong unit for every question after it. Until now the only way to get one thing out of a pack was to install the pack and archive the rest, which left a workspace saying it was in a trade it is not in.
- The area now carries two filters ahead of everything else. Packs is the screen as it was. Everything in them lists each individual thing the packs carry, one row apiece, filtered by Design Engineer, Machinist, Wizard, Catalogue, Services or customer fields.
- Every row says what it is, which packs carry it and whether it is on in this workspace, and can be turned on or off on its own. A service model is deliberately not in that list: a route, a rule set and a set of standard times only mean anything beside the service they price, so it stays a pack decision.
- Turning a pack off never takes away something you turned on by hand, and turning one item off keeps anything an installed pack still asks for. Nothing is deleted either way: a schema with products in it is kept, a service is paused with its history, a customer field is archived with its values still on the records.
- One function creates the rows for both, so a schema turned on by itself is the same row, stamped and reported the same way, as the same schema arriving inside a trade.
The dimensions on a model
- A dimension label was drawn at the midpoint of its own leader line, which on a thin part is the one place guaranteed to be ON the part. On a carbide endmill that put four labels across the flutes, the tip and the shank of the thing the reader came to look at.
- Labels now stand off the geometry, pushed out from the middle of the model with a hairline leader back to the dimension they belong to, and they are drawn smaller: annotation on a picture rather than body copy laid over it.
- A Hide dimensions button sits at the top left of the viewport. With them off the part reframes to fill the panel, which is what you want when you are showing somebody the tool rather than reading it.