Upcoming LDCad 1.7 Beta 1

[Citra Susanto]

Yes, the current version (1.7b1) allows rotation stepping down to 0.1 degree. Under Prefs->Editing->Grid stepping you can add additional rows to the set that comes up. For example, I've added both a 0.5 and a 0.1 rotation step, as well as a big 90-degree step for quick orthogonal turns.

Also, under Session->Grid (or just by clicking on the rotation step in the editing compass) you can disable rotation stepping altogether, allowing manual rotations to hundredths of a degree. (You'd have to zoom in pretty far to actually move the pin at a 0.01 resolution, of course…)

I just realize it. Thank you so much. I remember in version 1.6 only allow till 0.5 which make a perfect alignment quite challenging. Thank you so much. Appreciate the update. 
 

A native mac version is very unlikely as I currently don't own any apple hardware. But I do keep an eye on the workability of the windows version under wine. Which as far I know currently works without problems, even the font thing should be fixed with1.7Beta 1 as I adjusted the search path to include the macOS location.

One of the problem with workaround such as Crossover is lack of seamless continuity when switching between apps such as designing with LDCad and creating instruction with LPub3D. Any update in LPub3D are not be automatically detected. So we need to keep refresh the LDCad before doing any changes.

I have two questions and observations that I'm unsure about:
1. Is there a shortcut or setting that allows me to toggling top-bottom or right-left or front-back while in orthographic views?
2. In version 1.7, I noticed that when creating subfiles, some parts seem to get misplaced, and model names suddenly include numbers.
Here's an example of the code where this issue occurs. It doesn't happen consistently but has appeared a few times.

Code:

1 19 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 -1 3749.dat
0 Name: Model-6126-otherL.ldr
0 Author: Citra S {Citra S}
1 0 -20 0 0 0 1 0 -1 0 0 0 0 1 2780.dat
1 0 0 10 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 1 0 0 32348.dat