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July 16, 2026 🏠 Map Colors, Plan Cut Height, Master BOM export

Higharc Release Notes

✏️ For Design & Drafting

Studio

  • Plan Cut Height gives users finer control over how floor plan drawings are cut and rendered for walls, stairs, and exterior finishes.
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  • Customize the Cut Height for Walls and Exterior Finishes

    • New view-template controls for projected (non-cut) wall layers let teams style facade and finish linework independently of the main cut geometry.

  • Display and Customize Stair break lines

    • A new view template toggle displays a symbolic stair break line in plan views, with refined break-line/dash styling for projected and stair-above conditions

Fixes!

  • Fixed level locking behavior in Studio and the Guided Flow so users can snap to entities on locked levels without unintended interactions, and resolved related unlock-all and miscellaneous lock/hide issues.


🖼️ For Sales & Marketing

Config

  • Updated lot map badge colors and the legend to use a colorblind-safe palette (Okabe-Ito) with WCAG AA contrast ratios across all seven lot statuses. This update also replaces the donut lot status indicator on the Home Plans tab with a filled circle for improved visibility.
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    Before

After

  • Added a column visibility control to the Customer Plans table to show or hide columns, including custom fields. The saved columns persist after navigating to a different page.
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  • Additionally, The Customer and Home Plans column visibility menu now uses stable column IDs to store user preferences. Previously, adding, removing, or renaming a custom field would silently reset all saved column visibility settings.
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Fixes!

  • Fixed an issue where map lots displayed inconsistent colors (grey or white) before lot information was attached, ensuring consistent lot coloring on the public map.

  • Fixed an intermittent incorrect zoom level when navigating to a community map for the first time.

  • Fixed an issue where spaces could not be used in custom spec or model home names.


🧾 For Estimating

Estimate

  • Measures with 0 mappings are now highlighted in yellow for easier discovery

Fixes!

  • Fixed an issue where the Master BOM export via API returned final quantities instead of deltas from the base home in both CSV and JSON formats.

  • Updated the Linear Foot Without Openings output of the Wall Structure category to include windows & openings that don’t touch the bottom of the wall, so bottom-plate and sill-plate takeoffs report correct quantities.

  • Fixed issue where Exterior Finish components did not correctly extend up to the underside of roofs on Studio files that contain half story blocks and multiple sub-roofs.

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