Version 12 has made it Easier to change the size of a note with review notes.

1. Add a note to a drawing, if it is a Speed Note, you will need to explode it.
2. At the top of the screen, click on Notes, Review.
3. Deselect the box under ‘Default’.
4. Double click in the field or on the arrow for the field of the option you would like to change. Left click on the new option.

Note, in order to change the Height of the Note, you will first need to change the Size of the note to Custom.

The default sizes in the Character setup have been increased. The text is now larger than before which is helpful for Lite Version users. Since the sizes have now changed units from a point size to drawing units the images will show the difference in sizing between the versions.

Version 12 has improved the behavior of notes within symbols if the symbol size is changed, the notes will increase or decrease in size accordingly. There are several ways to change the size of a symbol.

SoftPlan Version 12 has improved the way Notes and Dimension Numbers are displayed on the screen by ensuring that they are always visible when they are drawn over top of other items. This makes the notes easier to read on the screen when working on the drawing. Previous versions would often display notes and dimensions “behind” other items, making them diffucult to read on the screen. This improvement to version 12 ensures that no matter how your notes are positioned in your drawings, the notes will be readable.

SoftPlan Version 12 has improved the importing of notes with custom sizes and fonts styles. Older drawings created in DOS versions of the program will now more closely match the size and location of the note when imported into version 12. The program had previously imported the commonly used SPHAND font set to the Default size accurately, but other font styles set to Custom font sizes often imported at a different size compared to the original version the drawing was created in. This is because the same scaling factor was used for all font styles when converting the font sizes from their DOS format to the Windows format. Version 12 now uses a different scale factor for each of the standard SoftPlan font styles resulting in a drawing that imports with more accuracy for all font styles.

SoftPlan Version 12 has added the ability to now place both Detail & Overview notes in the various Drawing Modes, and have them visible only in that particular mode. If configured as such, these notes will only then be visible within the mode they were placed in. This allows you to place notes in the various drawing modes, which may only pertain to that specific mode, without necessarily having to save or create a new drawing.

By default, a detail note will have its Visibility in All Modes option unchecked. This allows you to place and position these types of notes throughout the various drawing modes. An Overview note on the other hand will have its default Visibility In All Modes option checked. In turn, notes such as room names will be visible in all modes unless otherwise specified when creating them.

In Version 12 SoftPlan has changed the way character sizes are measured. Instead of using a point size, an actual unit of measure, inches for Imperial and millimeters for metric, are now being used.

SoftPlan version 12 has improved the appearance of a note which is enclosed using the box option that is found on the notes dialogue. SoftPlan will now more accurately center the note inside the box.