New Functionality
- User Interface Enhancements
- The user interface has been modernized. In particular, you can now
dock/undock, move, resize and auto hide panes. For more information, see
Interface Concepts.
- Ability to Control the Display of Hidden Edges for Selected, or Highlighted,
Actors
- You can now control whether hidden edges are visible when elements are
selected, or highlighted. You can define the color and intensity used to
display hidden edges.
- In the page, a new check box, Show hidden
edges, and a new slider, Color
Intensity, are now added in both the
Selection and Highlight
sections. For more information, see Selection.
- In the page, four corresponding properties are available in the
Selection category. For more information, see
Advanced Properties.
- Ability to Highlight in the Viewport Invisible Actors that Are Selected
- You can now specify whether invisible actors (that is, actors whose
visibility is switched off) should be highlighted in the viewport, when they
are selected (in the Assembly tree or using another method). For more
information, see Selection.
- Viewing Configurations in Composer Files
- You can view the configurations in Composer files in the Configurations pane. You can also
control the visibility of the Configurations pane from . For more information, see Configurations Pane.

Enhanced Functionality
- Performance Improvements when Loading and Saving Composer Documents
- Performance is improved when loading and saving Composer documents (*.smg, *.smgXml,
*.smgProj, *.smgSce).
- Selection Opacity Property Renamed
Selection Intensity
- In the page,PMI Cross-Highlight section, the
Selection Opacity property has been renamed
Selection Intensity. The behavior of this
property remains unchanged.
- For more information, see Selection.

Removed Functionality
- Removal of Show hidden edges and
Intensity Application Preferences
- The Show hidden edges check box, and the
Intensity slider that were previously present in
the page have been removed. These preferences are replaced by
document properties to control the display of hidden edges for selected, or
highlighted, actors.
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