Recently there was news under the name New principles of storing settings, in which I reported that some of the settings were moved to the registry and only the settings of the Functions remained in the configuration file. Unfortunately, this did not solve all the problems. To be more precise, I did not solve one basic problem - the problem of access to the configuration file. So far this is the most common problem.

However, in Windows, a special directory is provided for storing such data, for which you do not need administrator rights to write. It is located on the path C:/Users/{user name}/AppData/Roaming and is usually hidden from the user's eyes. Which is logical - it's better not to rule anything there. It is in this folder that all user settings will now be stored. Today I released an extensive update that performs one basic task - moving the /ModPlus/UserData directory with all the contents to the C:/Users/{user name}/AppData/Roaming/ModPlus/UserData directory.

As I said - the update is extensive and affected many components of the plugin: Configurator, Auto Update Module, AutoCAD work libraries, as well as several Functions: for AutoCAD it is - Standards, Notes, Specifications and ESKD. For Revit – External dimensions on the plan and Dimensions by line. Also, some minor (and not very) errors were fixed. As always, you can read about all the changes in the Change story.

And again the new function for Revit in the plugin ModPlus - «Associate nested family parameters».

For anyone who works with families using nested families. And to not write a lot of text, we have prepared a video for you:

The biggest problem with the ModPlus plug-in was the problem of storing settings. Many users were faced with the fact that the plug-in at some point simply stopped working and errors began to appear indicating that the configuration file could not be read. And it saved only one thing - it was required to delete the configuration file and run the Configurator. This created a new configuration file and had to re-configure everything.

New function in the ModPlus plugin - internal dimensions on the floor plan.

I did not make a new video, as there is nothing to shoot - the function works very quickly and requires only a couple of mouse clicks. So I put the video, which was made as a demo video a couple of months ago:

That it would be desirable to note - it is important to understand that the function does not perform for you a complete measurement of the plan. This is practically impossible task. But the function will allow you to do this many times faster!

The new blockbuster in the series of functions of the plug-in ModPlus – Importing Sheets from Excel.

There is almost no analog of this function! And those that exist - are very expensive.
I would like to tell a lot about this function, as its development was like an exciting journey, but I will limit myself to a video clip where you will see all the possibilities and advantages of this function

I await your feedback! Enjoy your work with the plugin ModPlus