We’ve recently been receiving a lot of feedback describing essentially the same issue — users are occupying workplaces on the license server even when they’re not actually using ModPlus plugins. A workplace is occupied when AutoCAD/Revit/Renga starts and released only when the application closes (or manually via the settings window). Although there’s an option to disconnect in the settings window, many users don’t even know about it — in many organizations, these settings are defined by the Organization Settings.

While this situation might seem beneficial for us — since many organizations would simply choose to purchase additional workplaces — we always strive to help our clients and have come up with a solution to optimize this issue. Today, we released updates for the working libraries (and some plugins) that change the way ModPlus interacts with license servers (both the LAN License Server and the Web License Server):

1. When AutoCAD/Revit/Renga starts, it will no longer automatically connect to the license server — meaning a workplace will no longer be occupied at startup! The connection to the license server will now be established only when a plugin requiring a license is launched for the first time. At that moment, there will be a 1-second delay to allow the workplace to be acquired (assuming a good internet connection). There will be no delay when launching subsequent plugins.
2. When using license servers, a special timer will now start, counting 4 hours from the last full-version check of a plugin. If the timer expires — that is, if no paid plugin has been used within 4 hours — the connection to the license server will be automatically terminated!

These changes do not affect single-user licenses in any way.

We hope that using corporate licenses will now become even more convenient! If you have any feedback or suggestions, please write to us in our support chat.

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We are pleased to present a major update to the Web License Server, which includes new features that we will describe below.

We continue to delight engineers with our developments, and today we present a new command in the MEP alignment plugin – Align by elevation!

This command simplifies the alignment of two horizontal sloped MEP curves for connection:

But that’s not all! In today’s update of the MEP alignment plugin, there are great improvements to existing commands:

• The Set Distance command now has a history: a list of recent values for instant selection.
• The Align command is now cyclical — align multiple elements in a row without restarting the command.

Send us your suggestions and feedback via Telegram – we are always in touch!

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Today we released an update of the free Find and Replace plugin for Revit. And although the changes may look small at first glance, they are very significant and take the plugin to a new level of functionality. Now you can use a mask – a special mode that allows you to find and replace parts of text!

For example, you need to change the values of the "View name" parameter from "View-001a", "View-002a", "View-003a" to "View-001b", "View-002b", "View-003b". Just enable the "Mask" mode and use the special symbols! The result is shown in the screenshot.

But that’s not all! The plugin now also supports processing filter names, system names, system identifiers, and schedule filters. Multiple search has also been added!

With this new update, your work will become even more efficient. If you have ideas, suggestions, or feedback – write to us!

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From time to time, we receive requests like "Make it possible in such a plugin to select multiple items". And in that plugin, a tree view of items is used. We are glad to inform you that we have developed such a UI element, which has a tree display of items and at the same time allows you to select multiple items using the Shift or Ctrl keys!

The multiselect tree has been added to the following plugins, which are already available for update:

• Favorite views
• Copy elements
• Copy sheets to documents
• Copy crop extents
• Flipped families
• View filters
• Tagless elements

In the future, when developing new plugins, we will immediately use the multiselect tree if it is appropriate!

Enjoy working with ModPlus!