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At the top of the screen, we have added a shortcut menu for the frequently used commands.
You cannot hide, add, or remove commands to or from it.
There is a new “pseudo” Ribbon style menu.
Previously, the menus were drop-down textual menus.
Now, each command in a menu has a large icon with the command-name. You can also choose to see the Hint, as always.
You can choose to show:
•Menus only
•Toolbars only (as in MD13, ... , MD16)
•Menus and Toolbars together
See Application-Settings > Accessibility tab.
The Part-Outlines of Parts with more than two joints will wrap around each Joint, to be more realistic of the Part's shape.
A major new development. You can analyze the dynamics of one and two degree of freedom kinematic-chains.
By dynamics, we mean the “vibrational” response of a kinematic-chain to an input motion, in which the Parts have Mass, Mass Moments of Inertia, Stiffness. Joints can have Friction and Damping.
You can compare the vibrational-response to the input motion as a scrolling graph or fixed time graph.