Version 1.2.14

Version 1.2.14 (11/04/2025)

New Features

Residential Building Features

• Improved Visualisation of Non-Typical Units: Roof units now appear with distinct colours in Site Space, helping you quickly identify these areas and understand the overall unit distribution within your building designs.

• Enhanced Unit Mix Visualisation: The colour palette for unit mix, corridors, and lifts has been revised, improving clarity and visual distinction in your designs.

• Detailed Apartment Unit Breakdown: When viewing residential towers in Site Space, the metrics now include a precise count breakdown for each unit type, giving you a clearer picture of how your unit mix criteria are translated into design.

Industrial Building Features

• Customisable Mezzanine Spaces: When designing industrial units, you now have greater control over mezzanine spaces. You can specify the desired size (or percentage of unit area), minimum/maximum depth, and maximum distance to egress, ensuring mezzanines meet your design and regulatory needs.

• Integrated Unit Merging for Optimal Layouts: Developers and designers can now define unit mix and target unit mix criteria for industrial buildings in Site Space. The solver will then merge typical unit bays to generate optimal layouts and provide relevant metrics, streamlining the design process.

Structural Features

• Enhanced Staircase Landing Slab Solving: The platform now provides more accurate and detailed solving logic for staircase landing slabs, improving the precision of your structural designs.

• Comprehensive Staircase Solving: The solving logic for staircases has been enhanced to provide more accurate and reliable structural solutions.

• Detailed Post-Tensioned (PT) Beam Reporting: The Bill of Materials (BOM) and Schedule View now include comprehensive data for precast PT beam products, enabling thorough evaluation of key attributes and quantities in third-party platforms.

• Integrated Sanitary Ware Schedules: You can now view detailed schedules for sinks, urinals, and toilets within the Sanitary Ware and Fittings schedule in Building Space. This provides quick access to quantities and locations of these fittings on each floor.

• View Distribution Element Properties: You can now select distribution elements (like ducts) in the 3D view and instantly see their associated properties, helping you identify and confirm their location.

Supplier Features

• Comprehensive Switchboard Product Management: Supplier users can now download, populate, and import templates for "Switchboard (Incoming)" and "Switchboard (Outgoing)" products. This allows the product solver to effectively recommend and analyse your products based on user requirements.

• Enhanced Cooling Tower Equipment Schedule: A new schedule tab allows designers to view the cooling tower equipment schedule. This helps validate information and ensure the design aligns with project requirements.

Site Features

• Consistent Product Catalogue Filtering: Filtering behaviour in the Product Catalogue is now consistent, with filter selections accurately reflecting in the breadcrumbs. This makes it easier to navigate and understand your applied filters.

• Rendered Switchboard Geometry and Resized Rooms: Solved switchboard geometry is now fully rendered in Building Space, and the LV switchroom space automatically resizes to accommodate it. This provides a clear visualisation of placement and ensures adequate space allocation.

• Rendered Generator Geometry and Resized Rooms: Similar to switchboards, Generating Set Equipment is now fully rendered in Building Space, and the associated room space resizes accordingly. This helps you visualise placement, quantities, and reserve adequate space for seamless integration.

Platform Enhancements

• Improved Podium and Basement Colour Visualisation: The colours for Podium and Basement elements have been updated to align with the new unit colours, providing a more cohesive visual experience.

• Distinct Airwell Colour: The airwell element now has a unique colour (D5F6FD, 50% opacity), resolving previous confusion with corridors and improving visual clarity.

• Area Calculation Criteria in Engineering Configurations: You can now specify external wall thickness, external wall percentage, internal wall percentage, and balustrade percentage in your engineering configurations. This ensures consistent and predictable area calculations across your projects.

• Podium Admin Notification for User Limits: Podium Admins will now receive notifications when an organisation reaches its user limit, allowing for proactive management.

• Check-in/Check-out for Template Editor: A manual check-in/check-out system has been implemented for the Template Editor. This prevents multiple users from making simultaneous changes to the same template, safeguarding your work from accidental overrides.

• "Save As" for Templates: A new "Save As" function has been added to the Template Editor, allowing you to easily copy an existing template as a starting point for new designs.

Bug Fixes

Residential Building Features

• No Disappearance of Residential Towers: Resolved an issue where rotating a residential building could cause it to disappear from view.

• Accurate Residential Model Loading: Residential models now consistently load in the Cubs console for debugging.

• Correct Unit Placement in Multi-Loop Buildings: Units are now correctly placed within all loops of a building, even when there are multiple loops.

• Enabled Custom Calculations for Residential Beta Buildings: Custom calculations now correctly appear and function for residential (beta) buildings.

• Resolved Offset Value Visibility: Offset values are now consistently visible when editing residential building depth.

• Consistent Metrics Display for New Residential Buildings: Total Floor Area and Total Net Lettable Area metrics are now accurately displayed on the Project Overview for scenarios with residential beta buildings.

• Prevention of Intersecting Spines: Users are now prevented from creating residential buildings with intersecting spines, ensuring valid geometry.

• Fixed Toolbar Display After Re-solving: The toolbar to accept/decline changes no longer remains enabled after a residential building re-solves, ensuring correct user interaction.

Industrial Building Features

• Stable Solver Operation for Industrial Buildings: Resolved an intermittent issue causing "LfrsSolver" errors in Building View for industrial buildings.

• Correct Load Transfer in Modular Industrial Buildings: Load transfer from staircases to stair landings now correctly accounts for surrounding walls in modular industrial buildings.

• Accurate Lift Pit and Core Placement: Lift pits and lift pit cores are now correctly placed below the lift shaft in modular industrial buildings.

• Consistent Walls Around Lifts: Walls around lifts in modular industrial buildings are now consistently generated.

• Reliable Toilet Placement in Industrial Units: Dedicated toilets are now correctly rendered for smaller industrial unit depths.

• Resolved Slab Solver Errors for Ramps: Slab solver errors no longer occur for industrial buildings with "40 footer" ramps after updating floor count, ramp location, spine angle, and length.

• Accurate Green Coverage Display: Green coverage on the site area is now displayed as expected when updating entry and exit points for industrial buildings in Site View.

• Consistent Stair Well Door Width: Changing stair width in the Engineering Configuration now correctly updates the stair well door width.

• Resolved MEPF Routing Solver Errors: "SpatialMepfRoutingSolver" errors no longer occur when both common and accessible toilets are disabled in Site Space for industrial buildings.

• Correct Cluster Toilet Door Location Display: The location of cluster toilet doors is now correctly displayed in the Right-Hand Panel.

• Accurate Stair Flight Placement: Stair flights are now correctly placed in Building View for industrial buildings.

• Consistent Ramp Node Quadrants: Incorrect quadrants on nodes for ramps in the spatial wireframe have been corrected.

• Resolved Broken Building Generation: Intermittent issues causing broken building generation in Site View for industrial buildings have been resolved.

• Updated Stair Riser Configuration Reflection: Updates to the Stair Riser configuration in the Engineering Configuration are now correctly reflected in existing industrial building models.

• Stable Solver After Ramp Position Update: "LFRSSolver" errors no longer occur for double-loaded industrial buildings after updating the ramp position.

Structural Features

• Accurate Governing CombinationID: The governing combinationID now consistently displays correct and identical moment 22 and axial force values, ensuring accurate structural analysis.

• Resolved Structural Diagram Loading Issues: Structural diagrams for action and reaction components now load correctly without timeout errors.

• Complete BOM Material and Rebar Details: Material volume, panel weight, rebar mass, and rebar tonnage values are now correctly populated for walls in the Bill of Materials (BOM).

• Consistent Wind Action Diagrams: Wind action diagrams now correctly vary across storeys, providing accurate representation of wind loads.

• Correct Column Placement in Small Industrial Buildings: Missing columns at highlighted positions in the spatial wireframe for small industrial buildings are now correctly displayed.

• Appropriate Solver Selection Outcome: The "selectionOutcome" in product check metrics is no longer incorrectly set to "Suitablesolver" when the product check "pass" is false.

• Correct Ramp Beam Visualisation: Ramp beams no longer appear to "pop-out" above the slab and their visual size correctly reflects their calculated dimensions.

Site Features

• Enforced Minimum Distance for Site Access Points: The minimum distance enforcement for site access points is now correctly implemented, preventing placement too close together.

• Consistent Metrics Display for Mixed-Use Buildings: Metrics displayed in the Right-Hand Panel now remain consistent whether a mixed-use building is selected from the Left-Hand Panel outliner or directly in the 3D view.

• Reliable Planning Envelope Boundary Updates: The planning envelope boundary now correctly updates when the offset distance criteria is adjusted, both from the Right-Hand Panel and as individual edge values.

Platform Enhancements

• Prevention of Saving Views Without Names: Users are now prevented from saving views without a name, ensuring organised view management.

• Resolved Naming Conflicts for Views: Issues with "view already exists" errors when creating new views with default names have been resolved.

• Consistent Modification Date for New Configurations: The modification date for new configurations now displays the correct date.

• Resolved "Empty Array" in Circuit Breaker Properties: The "empty array" issue in circuit breaker properties for outgoing panels has been fixed, and the solver now picks the best optimal group.

• Resolved Chiller Cooler Plant Location Update: Updates to the chiller cooler plant location in the Engineering Configuration are now correctly reflected in Building View for existing models.