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Studio UI Update: A More Powerful, Intuitive Experience
We're excited to announce a major update to Studio's user interface, bringing significant improvements to navigation, efficiency, and visual consistency. This update maintains all existing functionality while introducing powerful new features and refinements based directly on your feedback.
Refer to the Higharc Knowledge Center for a more in-depth explanation of these changes with supporting graphics.
Key Improvements:
Enhanced Navigation & Workspace Control
Collapsible Panels: Both Explorer and Inspector panels can now be collapsed using intuitive controls or keyboard shortcuts, giving you more control over your workspace layout
Dynamic Command Bar: A full-width bottom bar now provides contextual commands and better visibility of available actions
Drag-and-Drop Tab Management: Viewport tabs now support drag-and-drop organization, scrolling, and responsive layouts for better workspace management
Refined Visual Experience
Dark Mode Support: A new dark mode option provides comfortable viewing in low-light environments, including smart handling of editor content
Increased Visual Clarity:
Redesigned Active/Inherit badge system using intuitive glyphs to reduce visual clutter
Improved contrast and consistent spacing throughout the interface
Cleaner, more consistent component styling across all tools
Better visual hierarchy in the Inspector and Explorer panels
Quality of Life Improvements
Clearer Delete Operations: Improved clarity and accuracy of deletion workflows
Better Keyboard Shortcuts: Enhanced editing state for keyboard shortcuts
Improved Split Mode: Easy access to canvas split direction controls on hover
Smarter Inspector Tables: Redesigned for better consistency and control
Powerful New Features
Contextual Right-Click Menus: Access common operations quickly with context-aware right-click menus throughout Studio — Limited Release
Multi-Inspector Support: Open multiple inspector windows simultaneously to view and edit different entities without losing context. — Limited Release
Streamlined Version Review: New modal-based version history allows you to review changes while maintaining access to inspectors — Limited Release
Enhanced Roof Slope Controls: Improved visual consistency and usability, including drag-and-drop support and smart defaults for slope sections
Coming Soon:
This update lays the groundwork for several exciting features currently in development:
Advanced copy/paste operations
Property search and bulk editing
Additional contextual menu operations
We look forward to your feedback on these improvements as we continue to enhance Studio based on your needs.
Finish Thickness Wrapping Settings Upgrade
When Finished Thickness was introduced, there were specific Finish Wrapping settings that were added to window and door entities. These Settings have now been add as Global and Targeted Settings so allow control from the Central Data Model.
Other Fixes!
Window Targeted Setting group fixed
You can now adjust the head height of an opening using targeted settings. Previously this did not work.
Void Walls were being incorrectly labeled as Disabled even when they were active.
Option Locking conditions in the model are now visible and can be edited again inside of the Option Template.