# What's New in Version 8?

Version 8 offers a number of features that enhance your ability to build, communicate, and learn.

## Build

Precise Navigation Control
Precisely navigate to background graphics by setting a navigation button to align the top left corner of the screen with the top left corner of a graphics object. When setting navigation from a message poster (or any other camera navigation), depress the control (command on Macintosh) key and click within a graphics object.

Undo
Replace that object or model building block you accidentally deleted.

Graphical Input Devices Control Array Elements
Graphical Input Devices can now control graphical functions in the elements of an array.

Compatibility Update for Windows XP
Version 8 supports Windows XP.

Nudge
Position objects more easily. Use the arrow keys to move a highlighted object or building block any direction in one pixel increments. Hold the shift key down to nudge in 10 pixel increments.

## Communicate

Highlight Story Break
Draw attention to important feedback loops, structural relationships, and model elements by creating a storytelling presentation that highlights selected building blocks in a timed sequence.

Graph Pad Enhancements

• To facilitate more effective presentations, graph fonts automatically scale to the graph size.

• Format the X-axis scale by double-clicking the x-axis label.

• Hide the Y-axis scale with the graph pad dialog

Y Scale on Tool Tip Mini-graphs
See more information in analyze mode. Tool-tip graphs for model building blocks now show the Y-axis scale.

Hide Detail Option for Tables
Reduce clutter on the table pad by hiding icons such as the lock and printer.

## Experience & Learn

Access to Building Blocks in the Commercial Runtime Version
Test (and therefore improve) users’ understanding by allowing them to modify a map in the Commercial Runtime software.

Turn Sectors On/ Off with a Button
You now have more control over applications that rely on various scenarios, exercises, or assumptions. Turn sectors on and off with a navigation button to determine when model sectors representing assumptions will affect the simulation.

Type into Textboxes During a Simulation Pause
Test and enhance understanding by allowing users to log their analyses during a simulation pause, when dynamics are fresh in their minds.

Print Export
Create a button that prints tables, graphs, textboxes, and model sectors.

Security Enhancements
Allow users to customize graphs, tables, and loop pads in the Commercial Runtime software.

Annotate Graph Curves
Highlight events, shifts in feedback loop dominance, or other important dynamics by marking, labeling, and annotating points on a graph curve.