Ver. 4.0.0 - Smart Alignment, Dye Simulator, leather colour adjustment, inline text editing and more (Aug 31, 2026) - Leathercraft CAD

✨ Highlights

• Smart Alignment — align selected shapes with a live preview before you commit

• Dye Simulator (bonus feature) — predicts dyed colours from mixes of Lized REN COLOR / CRAFTERS INK, and reverse-searches a recipe from a target colour

• Leather colour adjustment — tune the tint to match your actual leather without touching the photo

• Inline text editing — type and edit directly on the drawing; adjust letter spacing and arching with handles

• Print calibration — per-printer correction values with a guided flow

• Smarter Drawing Check — no more warnings about harmless micro deviations

🚀 New Features & Enhancements

Alignment & Transform

• Smart Alignment — align selected shapes from the transform palette, with a live preview

• Enhanced transform palette — the size dialog is folded in; running scale/rotation totals while a selection lasts, mouse handles for rotating and scaling, Alt to switch the pivot, and more

Dye Simulator (bonus feature)

• Predict the dyed colour of any mix of Lized REN COLOR / CRAFTERS INK dyes

• Reverse search: give it a target colour and it finds a recipe

• Export and import settings — fully interchangeable with the browser version

• Base colours are calibrated against real bottles

Leather Simulator & Catalogs

• Leather colour adjustment — tunes the tint without touching the photo itself; adjustments travel with catalog exports

• New catalog format — about one seventh the download size, with faster and more reliable delivery

• Improved catalog export (auto-incremented version with the current one shown, overwrite confirmation)

Text

• Inline text editing on the canvas, with line spacing and frame handles for letter spacing and arching

Drawing, Dimensions & Tracing

• Split circle and oval tools, plus an option to invert the Y-axis display (up is positive)

• Improved dimension lines — second-point snapping, auto-shrinking labels, arc leader lines, and more

• Improved tracing images — snapping pivot drag, right-click to set the pivot, Ctrl+wheel to rotate and scale, and more

Drawing Check

• Relaxed thresholds that focus on real problems — harmless micro tilts, tiny decoration marks, and pairs across different layers or line styles are no longer flagged

Print

• Print calibration — per-printer correction values with a guided flow

• Improved print preview — zoom and pan, page frame snapping to shape bounds, and more

• macOS printing — page setup and customizable margins (default margin 0)

Mac

• A real File menu, and menus now follow the app language

• Trackpad momentum scrolling keeps panning

IME

• Composition text now shows inline while typing Japanese and other languages (Mac/Windows), and shortcuts no longer stop working after text input

Miscellaneous

• Welcome screen and tutorial

• Hotkey and usability improvements (Ctrl+Alt+A for layers, Shift+E for oval, keyboard flow in the move-by-distance dialog, and more)

• Faster drawing — blitting while panning and zooming, culling off-screen stitches, fewer ruler and grid repaints, and more

• Revised the EULA (added what happens to the source code if development cannot continue)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• [Leather Catalog] Fixed replaced leather photos not being saved.

• [Drawing] Fixed smart offset slightly tilting horizontal and vertical lines.

• [Text] Fixed arched text drifting off its circle when running counter-clockwise.

• [Template Repository] Fixed the folder tree being lost in rare cases (multiple safeguards added).

• [Pricking] Fixed manually placed stitch holes being deleted as duplicates when opening a project.

• [Pricking] Fixed a stitch hole missing at the end of a run.

• [View] Fixed ruler numbers misaligning with the grid and overlapping each other.

• [Stitch Simulator] Fixed a thread change appearing to recolour every stitch.

• [Leather Simulator] Fixed clicks selecting the wrong leather among overlapping shapes.

• Other minor bug fixes.