Release 5.4

Hi there,

The latest product release is full of improvements and new features.

Property Panel Overhaul

The all-new property editor includes shortcuts to make your projects more beautiful with appearance and label widgets for everything.

• Appearance Widget - select color and line styles in a click
• Label Widget - add dynamic annotations
• Refreshed Usages editor
• New basic + advanced property views
• New raw and evaluated JSON views

Data Table

Portfolio layer:

• Edit workspace property values in0line
• Bulk update properties
• Bulk delete projects

Toggle-able feature selection mode in addition to shortcuts.

Draw tools

• isolate/focus mode -> hit h key to isolate a section and nearby sections with same base height

right click context menu:

• choose layer
• choose usage
• join
• explode bake flow

Stacking and importing improvements

• automatically stack new sections onto existing sections
• when pasting/importing features they are selected
• when pasting/importing features their stack order is modified so that they stack on top of existing features

And more:

• Automatically apply the last selected usage to new geometries
• disable doubleClick zoom on the map
• frame selected - accounts for the height of features (so if they are tall you can see them)
• allow snapping to self while drawing new shapes
• New lightning bolt / flow defaults

Generative

Apartment Algorithm v2.0:

• Assign usages in the UI
• Better balcony solves
• More stability for edge cases

Parking Algorithm v2.0:

• Outputs for edge islands and center islands
• Max run
• Better solves on irregular geometries
• More performant

New pattern book algorithm

• Automatically solve a site with pre-defined designs

Flow

• number optional input precision, min, max
• right click context menu: bake into flow (“embed data”) right click node
• render handles in line with empty fields
• in evaluated mode wires are coloured depending on the data flowing through the wires
• feature input (pick feature or features)
• optionally publish dendro parameters
• boolean operations improved

Plus, tons of new nodes:

• reduce
• delete property
• write feature color
• filter null
• color primitive node
• data primitive node
• find and replace string
• string contains
• create set
• add to set
• remove from set
• set has
• intersect sets
• union sets
• difference sets
• xor sets
• set to array
• polygon from bounding box
• tangents included in divide distance and divide length
• boolean intersection
• fillet corners
• meta ball
• Perlin noise 2D
• vector from line
• raycast
• points in polygon
• align
• distribute
• mirror
• get point location
• clamp
• vector angle from north
• get project grid
• weave
• get usage data
• new list (new empty list)

SDK

• Allow SDK to set UI overlay using updateUiLayout (can open design library from SDK app)
• getProjectBundle new method
• createProject size limits
• CRUD for flows from SDK

Bugfixes

• Show apps in Space
• don’t show clear button if drawing not finished in Project Boundary Editor
• audit corner case - make sure that guests of workspaces can’t have /audit/ in their url
• highlighting sections in the right bar the outlines are fixed (respect base height)
• various view bugfixes (froze when data layers were unresponsive)
• Hide Content Library when onboarding
• Fix stale buildingIds for stacked sections
• Fix Date filters in lens
• marquee select works in 3d (previously it selected only 2d sections)
• drawing in 3d improved (projects onto the stack where the cursor first clicks)

Misc

• make templates accessible to all enterprise users
• Get rid of theme color in main menus
• removed support for legacy scenario planning app
• mobile/responsive version of auth screens
• Add Payment/Subscription portal in admin panel
• improved Globe orbit
• play/pause button for engine when there is an error
• explicit windows/Mac specific shortcuts documented within the app
• ability to colour instanced meshes
• cut and fill UI tweaked
• topology (facade areas) disabled by default
• Design library grouped by layer parent/group
• layer controls / layerTree remove support for legacy app layers
• consolidate code