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April 30, 2025 📐 Level Hosted Annotations

Higharc Release Notes

✏️ For Design & Drafting

Introducing Level Hosted Annotations!

  • Users can now host annotations to levels instead of only rooms. In order to quickly add a level hosted annotations, users can preselect the level and enter an annotation command, or add annotations via the Level Inspector.

  • In order to see the annotation, users must have that level enabled in the editor canvas.

  • Users can also now quickly change existing room-hosted annotations to level hosted annotations, and change the host level once level hosting is enabled.

Copy/Paste for Annotations & Settings

  • With new copy & paste clipboard functionality for Global settings & annotations, you’ll be able to seamlessly move supported content within & between Studio files.

  • Copy, Cut & Paste clipboard operations are available via the standard ⌘/CTRL + C, X & V keyboard shortcuts, respectively.

  • The following entity types support clipboard operations. Refer to the temporary notifications at the top of your screen & the command log for additional information about the outcomes of clipboard operations.

    • All Global Settings, Settings Sets, and Groups of Settings Sets, except those which are catalogs. Catalog Global Settings should be transferred between files using existing Doc Ref workflows

    • Annotations & Groups of Annotations of all types between hosts of the same type. For example, users can copy room-hosted annotation to another room

DXF Export of Drawing Sets

  • In addition to the existing ability to export DXFs of the model views for plans & elevations associated with Built-in Plans, you can also now export DXFs of your drawing sets.

  • Available for Built-in Plans & Live Plans, this new export tool provides a zipped folder with a DXF file for each sheet in the set.

    • Linework is organized into layers per the visibility controls in Studio & is provided at paper space scale.

    • The following entity types are not currently supported & will not be included in exports

      • Images

      • DXFs which were imported into Studio

  • To export DXFs of Built-in Plans, navigate to Studio Menu → File → Export DXF → Built-in Lot Specific Sheets.

  • Early access Live Plans users can also export DXFs of Plan Sets. Select a Plan Set Instance from the Export tab of the Live Plans Explorer & click Export to DXF in the Plan Set Instance Inspector.

Note & Leader Annotation Inspector update

  • Updated the note & leader annotation Inspectors to have sections so that can more easily navigated. Separated Format and Content into new sections

Fixes!

  • Dimension Text was not appearing above the dimension line when plans were rotated

    • We have updated dimension standards to ensure that dimensions & labels are placed in the correct location relative to the dimension string, regardless of plan rotation. Dimensions will always appear above horizontal lines & to the left of vertical lines.

  • We had lost the ability to apply facades to multiple edges at once.

    • We can now apply facades to one or multiple edges at once with the Facade Command (Hot Key - Shift + F)

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