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March 3, 2026 📐 Notes and Leaders with Global Parameters

Higharc Release Notes

✏️ For Design & Drafting

Notes and Leaders using Global Parameters

  • We now have the ability to directly add global parameters in the text field for Notes and Leaders in Plans and Elevations.


🖼️ For Sales & Marketing

New Features in Config

  • Added move lot functionality, allowing users to relocate lots to different levels within the same location hierarchy.

  • Added a new "Closed" category for home plans, which can be used to filter out home plans a customer is no longer interested in. The “Closed” category is set manually by editing a home plan — it is not connected to lot status changes.

Fixes!!

  • Fixed an issue where renaming a System Option Set did not update the name in the Plan Library, causing inconsistent display across the platform.


🧾 For Estimating

New Category and Attributes Added

  • Added two new attributes to the existing Ceiling category

    • Pitch

      • Reports the slope of the ceiling in x/12 format

      • Flat ceilings are reported as “horizontal”

      • Vertical planes that appear in tray ceilings or the gable end of vaulted ceilins are reported as “vertical”

    • Type

      • Reports the ceiling’s type as defined in the Studio document: tray, vault, flat.

      • Void ceilings added within Studio are no longer reported as components to Estimate.

  • Added a new Building Area category that breaks out each type of area by Level via a new Level attribute.

    • The previous Building Area category has a deprecation notice, but will remain until otherwise communicated so that existing workbooks are not affected.

New Functionality

  • Added the ability to filter using a does not contain function when creating measure groups.

  • You can now see how many masterplans are associated with a measure when looking at a workbook without a plan loaded.

    • Click on the number to see which specific plans each measure is in.

    • Use the filters at the top of the page to examine one plan at a time or to hid measures not currently being used on any plan

    • To populate this view with the most current data, use the refresh measures button to update it.

Fixes!!

  • Corrected an issue that caused the Grids attribute of Windows to be reported incorrectly in certain circumstances when the Grid Orientation settings was overridden in Studio.

  • Fixed an issue where the rounding column on the Items page was not working on Safari browser.

  • Fixed an issue where the Bill of Materials export by Measure did not account for option conditioning.


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