No software is complete without errors. And the main problem of errors is that they often appear in some specific conditions, which we simply cannot foresee at the testing stage.

To solve such problems, it is important that you write us the details, describe the problems. And also to write wishes and suggestions, or just nice words. But we also understand that you don't want to waste your time looking for contacts, going to your email program, and writing a letter. Therefore, we added to ModPlus what was missing for a long time - a feedback form!

You can open it directly from AutoCAD, Revit, Renga or the Configurator, and quickly write to us whatever you think of us. And even get an answer from us!

Let's talk!

Quite often, we are faced with the fact that users are simply not aware of the availability of this or that functionality. And since we talk about all sorts of news, releases and important events in the News, we decided to make some changes:

Firstly, on the plugin pages we have added links to plugin-related news.

Secondly, we decided to write news more often this year.

In connection with the second point, we decided to add the ability for users to customize which news to show and which not. Recall that news is shown by the auto-update module in a special pop-up window in the lower right corner of the screen.

Now in the Configurator, the auto-update module and the settings windows in AutoCAD/Revit/Renga, you can configure the display of news:

Naturally, important news will be displayed regardless of the settings!

Today's update also has one more important feature - the Logout all devices function has been added to the Personal Account:

Users have already written to us several times and asked to add such functionality. And most often the reason was that they changed their place of work, and did not leave their personal account, thereby simply donating their licenses. It is important to understand that the functionality of logging out from all devices will be available only where ModPlus is updated!

If you have ideas and suggestions, be sure to write to us! We listen to all opinions!

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This year we would like to devote more time to the ModPlus ISO plugin, which we consider one of the most promising for AutoCAD. And today we are pleased to present you a new smart object - Nodal leader.

A Nodal leader is a relatively simple smart object in terms of the number of entities and the complexity of the interaction of properties, so we made it relatively quickly. But, unlike analogs, we added their own feature - the frame can be round or rectangular:

Today's update also includes fixes for some user-reported Level mark bugs. We also added the "Show asterisk" property to the Level mark:

Some users reported to us that while working, it happens that the graphics of smart objects disappear. We are not yet able to catch and reproduce such a problem, but we added the Refresh Graphics item to the “Find” function:

True, we cannot check this function either, so we are waiting for feedback from you!

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We present you an update to the Model cleaning plugin, which has been replenished with three new cleaning functions at once: view filters, schedules and unused shared parameters!

All new cleaning functions are created at the request of our users.

With the functions for removing filters and schedules, everything is obvious - the plugin displays a list of them with additional information (where they are used or where they are inserted), and you simply select the necessary positions and start the removal. But with unused shared parameters it is a little more difficult - in order to correctly collect the list of unused parameters, plugin need to read data from all families loaded into the project. This process may take some time, depending on the number and size of families.

Also, the plugin has undergone a small window redesign and all cleaning functions are now displayed on the left.

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When creating the Title blocks plugin, there was a choice - use blocks or use tables. After weighing all the pros and cons, it was decided to use tables, as they are more flexible and convenient for programmatic filling. But, unfortunately, they impose some restrictions. One such limitation is the insertion of signatures.

AutoCAD allows us to insert blocks into table cells, but we have not yet met a single signature that would fit exactly into a 15x5 mm rectangle. And we must somehow get out of this situation.

We decided to resort to the most obvious solution - insert signatures directly over the title block. Of course, there are many downsides to this - signatures have no connection with title blocks, they cannot be quickly and conveniently replaced, unlike fields. But all the same it is better than nothing at all! In addition, AutoCAD out of the box has functionality sufficient for batch replacement of signatures in all title blocks.

Well, for the release of the new functionality, we have prepared a video, which is both a demonstration and a guide for use:

Enjoy your work with ModPlus!