I’m with you Kalyna.
I find I am making more errors and repeated clicks/commands in 2025-26 compared with ealier versions.
There have been a lot of small changes made to the interfaces that I think were introduced around 2024-2025, along with the new graphics engine. (I cant recall dates since didnt immediately use the new engine). There have also been a number of helpful improvements to the interface - like the Rotate and Move commands having seperate shortcut keys.
To completely communicate the issues you raised might take someone quite a while to go through and accurately identify & document each of the changes and describe the effect of them. But I can raise a few - maybe these sound familiar to you?
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The cursor selection “padding” around each object is obscenely enormous. I have no idea why large objects require esuch huge padding around them. The cursor keeps wanting to do things like rotate a dimension…why?
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Snaps are too aggressive, and the snapping prioritization doesn’t give enough priority to the most important snapping points: active objects and end points.
For functions such as dimensioning it is more important to snap to model end points or edges (ie Closest Edge), rather than paper orientation (red or green axis).
A few functions , such as adding an anchor point to a line, should be much easier - the snaps are non existent for those important functions.
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SelectionTool doesn’t work if there’s something (like a colour overlay) on top of the item. The cursor can’t “see through” things. Since all objects have a large bounding box, this makes selection very difficult. (I already posted about wanting a "pure select’ tool).
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Interface icons and selections are broken or just badly designed.
-Font Color is much more difficult to see if it is selected.
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Stroke Style: the icons are difficult to read. These are not icons used all the time, every day, so we have to look closely to see them.
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Stroke arrowheads: Cant see them!!
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Fonts: cant type in the name of a font.
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Font sizes: Cant choose small sizes eg 4pt. We badly need these for “fine print” in titleblocks, and for small annotations.
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Color selectors: can hardly make out whether something is selected or not:
- Style tool uses the same Eyedropper icon for both Style picker, and for Color picker… Change the icon to avoid confusion!
- Font list - not sure why so many individual typefaces listed instead of Families (Arial Bold, Arial Narrow, Arial Regular… most software just has “Arial” as a family and then a drop down to select the typeface). With every single installed typeface selected, this makes scrolling annoying. (There’s no “recent fonts” or “template fonts” as an easy subset, we have to scroll 100s!)
Example: Bahnschrift Light Condensed then has a Type Face called Light Condensed.
For this random example (a windows system font), look at the myriad options!
…And we cant even read the typeface names without expanding the Menu tray to make it very very wide.
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Splitting and joining lines - this tool has recently added functionality recent releases, but its now obvious that we are lacking a “join” even if the two paths arent connected. Why can’t we join 2 paths together by adding an segment? or shifting a segment if its really close together. Some of the snapping of each line as we draw it gets a bit overwhelming. I would love to turn snaps off for a bit!
Draft mode. I can never seem to get this to work…I’ve managed it once or twice but maybe without the new graphics engine being enabled?
What this all points to is a need for more user control over snapping behavior - padding, prioritization and so forth. We don’t all have the same style of documentation, or the same monitor/graphic setups.
