ModPlus does not have many plugins for architects and designers, and this needs to be corrected. And we'll start with a small plugin that allows you to nicely design architectural documentation - Room volume.

The plugin allows you to create a non-editable geometry like DirectShape in the model and set its coloring. You can group volume views by room parameters, set the color for the entire group or for each view separately, and generate a random color.

You can see how easy it is to work with this plugin in the short demo video:

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Introducing an update to the Sheet numerator plugin with a new feature - adding leading zeros!

Leading zeros can be set for both simple numbering and extended numbering. In extended numbering, leading zeros are set for each part of a composite number.

This update, as well as many others, was made based on users' suggestions. So, head over to our Telegram support chat and submit your ideas!

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Introducing an update to the Totals plugin with a new feature - write back the sheet number and name, specification name

Now, once you've collected the general data and made changes, you'll see an orange icon notifying you that you can write the changes back into your drawings. To do this, simply click the Write back button. This functionality is only available for data that was received in the current plugin session. That is, the data loaded from the xml file can no longer be written back.

Also want to draw your attention to the fact that we refactored most of the code, which means that there may be bugs that we did not find during testing. If there are any errors, don't hesitate to contact us!

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We are pleased to inform our users that we have revised the system of linking user licenses to workplaces!

As it was: when logging in to Personal Account, a workplace was remembered. The maximum allowed number of workplaces was 5. The user himself could not lower the number of workplaces used. When logging into the account on the 6th workplace, the account was blocked and could only be unblocked by writing to our support.

How it became: when logging into Personal Account, a workplace is remembered. The maximum allowed number of workplaces has become 3. Now when you log out of your personal account and when you log out of all devices, the number of workplaces used is reduced.

These changes are available after upgrading the Configurator to version 11.9.0.0.

We are sure that this change will be appreciated by many!

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A little over a week ago we've released an update to the Revit working libraries, adding an autosave service based on the R AutoSave plugin from Bim2B. After the release, after talking to users, we realized that it was a lot of unnecessary features and simply removed them all, leaving only the time-based saving.

But we did it for a reason! After this update in our Telegram and other groups, we finally got feedback from users, understanding what they really expect from the service. There were not too many problems we solved and will describe below:

Firstly - we returned the backup folder to the settings. But with an obvious difference - the folder can be set or not. This difference affects the operation of the following functions.

Second - since the service saves the file at every interval, a situation may arise when the user has opened the file but didn't need to save it. For example, when he didn't want to save the changes and decided to close the file without saving. But since the autosave service was enabled, the file managed to be saved. Therefore, we have added the creation of a file storing the state of the project at the moment of opening (with the extension os$ - open state). Accordingly, if you want to roll back to this state, just change the extension of this file to the extension of the project file (.rvt, .rfa or .rte). If the backup folder is specified, the file will be created there, if not - next to the source file.

Third - a feature that shouldn't really apply to the service, but users have asked for - moving backups. When saving, Revit creates backups (like project_name.nnnn.rvt) next to the file. The number of backups cannot be less than zero. That is a minimum of one backup. Now, if you specify a folder to store backups in the service settings and enable the "Move backups" option, backups will be moved to the specified folder. At that the number of backups you specify in the service settings will be saved, not the number specified in the project settings.

Fourth, we added some extra error-catching features for auto-save, so you won't get an error window popping up in Revit. We could not reproduce such cases, though, so we are waiting for feedback from users.

If you have any other suggestions, write to us!

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