New

• Tutorials for every tool: 44 lessons in five groups (Selection, Drawing, Editing, Annotation, Appearance and Camera) under Help > Tutorials. Lessons you cannot use in your edition are hidden, each group shows how many lessons it holds, and a lesson closes the panels it opened when it ends
• One Paste panel: Paste now opens a single panel with a live preview in the drill, Paste to, Fit, continuity before and after, page tabs and sketches, plus Save as Default and Factory Settings. The separate Advanced Paste dialog is gone
• Paste carries visuals: they land on the matched performers with Overwrite or Merge, and Extra Performers (Repeat First or Cycle) copy one performer’s visuals onto a selection
• Visual Sequencer: ripple a visual across performers in shape order (step off, one after another, pairs, every other), and visuals can start between counts (down to 1/8 count)
• Collision Clinic: finds collisions that happen between counts, shows one marker for a run of counts, shades markers by how close the pair came, lets you tap a collision for the names, count and distance, and has a Moving performers only option (on by default)
• Continuity Clinic: breaks are judged against the performer’s own nearby moves, markers are shaded by how far over the limit, tap a marker for details, and Straighten and Reconnect fix only the selected flagged performers
• Stride Clinic: strides and limits follow your Path Size Format setting (steps to 5, step size, or length), and Stride Options has a filter section
• Count track: rows open above the ruler and page tabs, which no longer move; anchors show as red, yellow and gray diamonds; the direction arrow sits on a dark plate
• A drill opens with the default selection tool when no tool is active

Improved

• Every scroll list scrolls at the same speed and opens at the top
• Recording HUD fits any screen shape, with notes and logo kept at the edges
• Clinic detail bubbles close when you tap the field and follow their footprint or marker as you move it
• Edit handles no longer cast shadows and stay out of ISO camera windows
• Recent lists in the Sketch Book and Grid Layout browsers carry over when you change language
• Tutor lessons point only at controls you can see and bring panels back to the Main Window
• Drill files are saved and opened with a new built-in file compressor; please test your show files
• Default shortcuts now list the clinics, Print Cast List, Print Production Sheet, Drill Templates, Paste as Sketch, Camera Cinematic and Text Template Editor, and the tool palette adds Set Reference and Camera Cinematic
• Translations: hundreds more labels, messages and tooltips translated across all 12 languages, labels that showed English now translated, hint text on controls that showed their neighbour’s fixed, and Spanish uses “Contramarcha” throughout

Fixes

• Equipment moves (flag tosses, spins) animate with the performer instead of staying still
• Holds are kept when continuities and paths are rebuilt
• Crab walk stride ranges and direction corrected
• A drill with no surface no longer shows the previous drill’s surface; an indoor venue shows the black tarp
• The selection tool keeps working after any file open
• Redo is cleared correctly after Hide / Show All, Lock / Unlock All and Remove ISO
• The count track shows starting visuals at count 0 for selected performers with nothing assigned
• Count track auto-hide stays up over the on-stage marker, anchors and status bar, and during a drag
• Matching spots no longer show the collision icon
• Clinics: Close, Escape, the back button or closing a file now fully closes a clinic, so the menu item always reopens it; the Continuity Clinic no longer errors after its window closes; Show/Hide off hides performer triangles while you drag a marker
• A legacy (v10) sketch book reopened at start is saved in the current format, so the “save in 11.3.5” message stops repeating
• Edition access: the status bar shows in every edition, Traditional Essential gets everything Essential has, Parade Gate is Platinum and Traditional Essential, and the menu no longer re-shows items your edition does not include
• Glue, Block, Morph, Tool History and Traditional no longer stop with an error in rare cases
• Traditional Tool, Counter March and Parade Gate panel titles read correctly; the tool panel Okay / Cancel row no longer shows twice
• Translations: Japanese lesson titles no longer blank; Spanish and French Recording HUD title no longer cut off; the Shift drag hint wraps naturally; “Home” no longer translated as “home page” in French and German; Spanish clinic and ribbon labels shrink to fit

• Drawing tool lessons: 11 hands-on lessons (Line, Matching, Custom Matching, Curve, Pencil, Arc, Spiral, Bezier, Points, Block, Add a Shape) under Help > Tutorials > Drawing Tools, in all 12 languages; lesson steps advance as you work
• ISO camera windows: mark up to 4 performers with Camera in the Set Reference tool to follow them in picture-in-picture windows
• Stride Clinic: optional smaller maximum stride for backward marching, set as a percent of forward in Stride Options
• Stride Clinic: graph bars shaded by how far over the limit; tap a footprint to see the performer, counts, stride and limit
• Stride Clinic: warns when performers have no cast height and offers the Cast List Editor
• Crossing counts: the performer coordinate sheet and Drill Book table show the count in each move where a performer crosses a grid line; long lists shrink to fit
• Count track: drag visual and camera items to move them, drag the bar end to resize
• Print Coordinates: Save Defaults keeps settings such as Print Crossing Counts
• Props: drum corps props grouped under Drum Corps Inspired; Mini Stage and eight 2026 props (Troopers, Phantom Regiment, Bluecoats planks) load again; Blue Devils Prop 6 shows its own model; Bowler Hat thumbnail fixed
• Saving: Set Reference and ISO camera marks, Undo and Redo are kept by Auto Save and when you open another drill; closing an ISO window outside Set Reference is saved
• Open File: one damaged drill file no longer hides the rest of its folder; New Drill leaves no partial file behind; answering No to a portal download leaves the list usable; long paths stay on one line
• Save As and Save a Copy As open on the drill’s own folder
• Startup asks before downloading required content and waits at Try Again if it cannot load
• Enter and Escape close only the topmost window: a dialog or message over a panel closes first
• Select All works right after opening a drill
• Zoom to Action fits the whole selection in 2D and 3D, clear of the bars, panels and tool palette
• Pick Equipment and Pick Uniform previews load in about 3 seconds instead of 10-17
• Equipment: a new model no longer shows the previous model’s fabric, and Reset restores the model’s own texture
• Cut Options, Paste Options and Visual Reset: Save as Defaults remembers your choices; Visual Reset’s Walk Style checkbox works
• Paste Resize To Fit stretches by the right amount
• Opening a drill no longer leaves the previous drill’s ISO camera windows and reference rings on screen
• Opening a second sketch book while thumbnails build no longer hangs on “Loading page X of Y”
• Clinics: Next / Prev work with nothing selected; Stride Options Factory Reset restores Min/Max; the Stride marker past the last page tab no longer errors; a clinic’s menu item no longer opens a second copy; label, icon and review fixes
• Edit > Splice shows its own ribbon again; Flex tool removes its options panel and markers when you leave it
• Traditional Move: a route added with + can be edited with the Route Editor pencil
• Follow the Leader: the leader triangle takes a tap
• Appearance button closes the panel while it shows a prop
• Grid Designer: the Step Grid value box applies typed values
• Select > Tool Selection History opens and closes the Tool History panel
• Record Video HUD text is readable on every surface until a colour is picked
• UDB: drills with a page tab past the last count no longer crash the UDB app on performer tap
• Ending a tutor lesson no longer switches the field to the football surface
• Opening an inspector no longer stalls
• Translations: newly added messages no longer show as raw keys; Japanese hints show title and description; the Line tool panel title follows a language switch; Shift dialog “Count Range:” label; menu, dialog and six untranslated labels fixed

• Copy and paste: Paste keeps the visual count spacing, Merge keeps later changes, and Insert copies the whole range with correct end continuity
• Paste Options: no longer shows the opposite Overwrite/Merge choice from the one selected
• Production Sheet: edits are no longer lost after a tool step-back
• Stride Clinic: compares strides using your Units setting, uses cast heights, shows centimeters in Meters mode, and defaults to a 5’8″ performer
• Multi-display: dialogs on a View no longer draw twice or upside down
• Multi-display (Mac): View windows no longer stay above other applications
• Count track: auto-hide stays open while the pointer is over the track’s side buttons
• Visual Reset: Reset is now available when only the Walk Style has changed

• Multi-display: inspectors, the tool palette and movable dialogs can be dragged onto any monitor, and the Production Sheet can open on each monitor
• Multi-display: the tool ribbon now appears on every View
• Multi-display: handles and labels keep their contrast against each display’s own background
• Multi-display: labels, annotations, presets, measurements and the grid fade follow each display’s own visibility settings
• Multi-display: per-display UI scale, with a prompt to fit the UI when a View’s screen is too small, and the HUD inset from the screen edges
• Multi-display: fixes for Views stacked on the same monitor
• Memory leaks fixed in the tool ribbon and in handle materials, which caused the app to slow down after some minutes of editing
• Mac: the app now asks for access to Desktop and Documents, and no longer crashes when that access is blocked
• Count track: Ctrl+click restores the default zoom, and the direction indicator updates after zooming
• Sequencer widget: no longer errors when used before it has finished starting
• New animations: HBCU high-step strides (10, 12, 14 and 16 to 5, left and right) and baritone horn circles (clockwise and counter-clockwise)
• Japanese Stadium venue: podiums removed

• New Continuity Clinic – finds continuity breaks, and now tells a true break apart from a merely large stride
• New Stride Clinic – finds over-strides, and updates live while animating
• New Collision Clinic – finds performers who collide or pass too close
• New problem-marker handles and icons on the field for the clinics
• Multi-display: the app now opens on the monitor you launched it from
• Multi-display: each display has its own menu bar and ribbon routing
• Multi-display: every look and visibility toggle is now per display instead of global
• Multi-display: per-display UI scaling, plus a per-monitor resolution row in the Displays settings
• Saving is much faster – the file write and zip now run on a worker thread
• Selection and step-back no longer deep-copy an unchanged drill, which removes the stall on large drills
• Opening a drill no longer marks it dirty or schedules an autosave
• Numbers in drill and settings files are now written culture-invariantly – if you use a comma as your decimal separator, please re-test saving and reopening files