Version 1.2.17

Version 1.2.17 (06/06/2025)

New Features

• Adjustable Corridor Width Limits: You can now set corridor width limits between 1m and 4m, with support for two decimal places, offering greater precision in residential building layouts.

• Intelligent Space Aggregation: When defining a unit in the Spatial Editor, the system will now automatically aggregate drawn spaces to create the outerloop. This ensures the floorplate solver runs correctly without requiring manual user interaction.

• Enhanced Lift Core Customisation: Within the Building Layout Editor, you can now specify the number of lift cores to be placed within a lift cluster, allowing for more tailored distribution of lift cores along your floorplate.

• Detailed Slab Structural Checks: For precast solid planks, structural checks now include a new 'span over depth (L/d)' ratio, providing a more comprehensive assessment of slab performance.

• Direct Spine Editor Access: You can now access a dedicated spine editor directly from the Building Layout Editor to make edits to your building's spine without needing to re-solve the entire floorplate.

• Improved Floor Categorisation: The Left-Hand Panel now clearly displays different categories of floorplates assigned to storeys, helping you quickly understand their usage and interconnections for more effective design decisions.

• Comprehensive Floorplate Metrics: The floorplate editor now provides a detailed list of metrics, including Floorplate Type, Applied Floors, Total Floor Area, Gross Floor Area (GFA), Floor-To-Floor Height, Corridor Width, and various unit and lift counts, offering a clear understanding of your floorplate's characteristics.

• Direct Building Layout Editor Access: Architectural designers can now easily access the Building Layout Editor (formerly Floorplate Editor) from the building review screen, enabling straightforward customisation of designs.

• Configurable Chilled Water System Criteria: You can now input and modify chilled water riser and pipe requirements within the Engineering Configuration, allowing you to set and test various criteria for sizing your chilled water systems.

• Customisable Roof Back-of-House (BOH) Zone Area: You can now define the size of the Roof Back-of-House zones in Site Space, allowing you to limit their extent where needed.

• Customisable Ground Floor Front-of-House (FOH) Zone Area: You can now define the size of the ground floor Front-of-House zones in Site Space, allowing you to limit their extent and preserve valuable net lettable area.

• Flexible Ground Floor BOH Zone Placement: You can now define both the size and location of ground floor Back-of-House zones. This includes the option to allocate BOH zones under or within ramps, optimising space utilisation.

• Workflow Form Enhancements: Workflow form labels and message boxes now support embedded URLs and bullet points, improving the clarity and utility of information presented to users.

• Enhanced Workflow Interaction with Scenarios: A new automation node allows the capture of scenario IDs within workflows, enabling downstream nodes to interact with scenarios and their associated data.

• Organisation Usage Metrics: Key metrics such as the number of projects, scenarios, models, and model runs per organisation are now trackable, providing better insights into platform usage.

• Platform-Wide Notifications: Podium can now send platform-wide notifications, providing a clear way to communicate important information like bug warnings, critical fix releases, new version releases, or scheduled maintenance.

• Customisable User Avatars: You can now edit your user avatar in your profile, making it easier to identify your own work and distinguish other team members.

Bug Fixes

• Corrected Building Floor-to-Floor Height Updates: Updating the overall building Floor-to-Floor height no longer incorrectly updates the roof's Floor-to-Floor height, ensuring accurate vertical dimensions.

• Accurate Floor Type Population: Resolved an issue where floor types (Ground, Typical, Roof) were not populating correctly and floorplate details were incorrect in the Building Layout Editor for residential models.

• Unit Entrance for Mirrored Templates: Fixed a bug that prevented users from adding or viewing unit entrances for mirrored unit templates.

• Model Validation for Unit Templates: Models using Podium's 2R and 3R templates are no longer incorrectly marked as invalid.

• Consistent Podium Node Angle Updates: Fixed an issue where the angle for one of the nodes in a Podium object was not updating correctly via input or drag-and-move.

• Resolved Duplicate Room Entries: Duplicate room entries no longer appear in the Left-Hand Panel when editing templates.

• Accurate MEPF Room and Equipment Placement: Corrected the placement of MEPF rooms and equipment in modular industrial buildings, ensuring they adhere to criteria and are not in void spaces.

• Stable Ramp Updates: Changes to ramp types in industrial models now correctly reflect in the building, resolving an issue where updates were not applied.

• Resolved Solver Errors with Unit Width 9: Addressed multiple solver errors that occurred when attempting to solve industrial buildings with a unit width of 9m, ensuring successful model generation.

• Fixed MEPF L2 Routing Error: Resolved an MEPF L2 routing error that appeared for industrial buildings with structural system type 3, ensuring successful solving.

• Corrected Loads on Slabs: Fixed an issue where SDL (Superimposed Dead Load) and LL (Live Load) on slabs without joists were not being transferred to connected beams for specific structural system types.

• Accurate Ramp Chamfer Values: Corrected the chamfer values for all ramp types, ensuring they reflect the expected dimensions after solving.

• Precise Site Boundary Placement: Resolved an issue where the site boundary would jump to an incorrect location after being drawn and confirmed.

• Stable Site Space Solving: Fixed a solver error in Site Space that was blocking Building Space solving for industrial buildings with specific driveway and unit widths.

• Reliable Setback and Planning Envelope Generation: Addressed a critical bug where setback lines and planning envelopes failed to generate if the offset distance exceeded segment length, ensuring valid polygon creation consistent with CAD software.

• Corrected Surface Parking Zone Generation: Fixed an issue where crossed surface parking zones were generated when the site entry point was placed at a corner.

• Residential Metrics Display at Site Level: Residential metrics are now correctly displayed within the Site metrics tab.

• Accurate Tower and Podium Placement: Towers and Podiums will now only solve if they are completely sitting on top of the modular elements they are placed above, preventing incorrect partial placements.

• Reliable Model Deletion: Resolved an issue preventing the deletion of residential and industrial models from the site.

• Resolved Workflow Selection Errors: Fixed an issue causing a '500 error' when selecting certain workflows.

• Correct Floor Plate Details Display: The 'Type of Floor' tag and floorplate details in the Building Layout Editor now populate and display correctly for residential beta models.

• Improved User Management Endpoints: Addressed issues with user update and invite endpoints, resolving '500 errors' and ensuring correct user creation and status updates.

• Access to Basement, Podium, and Generic Building Floorplate Editors: Fixed a bug that displayed an empty site screen when navigating to the floorplate editor for Basement, Podium, or Generic buildings.

• Reliable Workflow Management: Fixed issues where editing or publishing workflows would break workflows in existing projects, ensuring that active projects remain stable regardless of changes to the workflow library.

• Consistent Wireframe Display: The wireframe view now correctly deactivates when switching between templates in the spatial editor, preventing unintended display.

• Secure Invited User Email Editing: Newly invited users are no longer allowed to edit their email address when setting up their password, enhancing user account security.

• Correct Invited User Updates: Editing an invited user now correctly updates the existing user instead of creating a new invitation.