2020 Recap

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• Intro/TOC
• Tour of Our Development Process
• 2020 Accomplishments
• Notable New Features

0:00 – 2:14: Intro/TOC

2:15 – 6:34: Tour of Our Development Process

• Monthly development meetings
• Dev ideas
• Wishlist
• Top priority
• Code
• Test
• Document
• Friday release
• Power Tip

Our team (4:13)

6:35 – 18:58: 2020 Accomplishments

0 trade shows (6:50)

• No arbitrary deadlines for development items
• Contrasted with 2019, with everything put into our Lighting tools for the IA New Product Contest

60 newsletters (8:16)

47 Power Tip videos (8:50)

48 webinars (10:00)

5,000 new plants (10:30)

800 new blocks (11:55)

62 updates (plus 3 more pending as of presentation time) (12:32)

• 5,942 lines of code
• 33 lines of code per day

Lists of new features and hotfixes from 2020:

• General features (14:15)
• Details features (14:55)
• RefNotes & lighting features (15:22)
• Planting features (16:37)
• Irrigation features (16:55)
• Hotfixes (17:10)

Coming soon (18:35):

• Site Amenities color picker
• Plant database expansion
• Revised Grading Manager
• Revised Schematic Irrigation
• Revit plugin

18:59 – end: Notable New Features

FX Admin features (20:08)

Organization tab in the Projects screen (20:08)

Ability to restore a UCS from an Xref (20:45)

Work Area callouts are now framed MLeaders (21:22)

FX Site features (22:17)

New Plan Graphics blocks (such as motorcycles) (22:17)

New keyboard commands for generic blocks, including cycling through different views and flipping a block (22:45)

Docked-only RefNotes Manager (22:55)

Default Callout and Default Schedule buttons added to RefNotes Preferences (24:40)

Importing RefNotes from another project automatically moves any assigned details to the detail folder for the present project (big time saver!) (25:09)

Details Features (26:00)

New cloud-connected options for standard detail division lists, managed by us (26:00)

Ability to search detail titles in the Detail Explorer (27:37)

Ability to add photos or other images to details (28:29)

Detail Viewport feature (command-only as of presentation time), which adds the viewport and its contents automatically to the detail sheet and allows it to be placed immediately as a detail (29:15)

Detail Renumber button in Detail Manager (31:30)

Naked detail callouts are now editable MText fields (32:00)

Planting features (34:00)

Ability to convert circles in a drawing to blocks, such as trees or shrubs using Match Properties (34:00)

Improved functionality of the Stipple hatch pattern (35:55)

New Shrub Area boundary options (37:20)

Restyled plant symbol selection dialog box (38:00)

Decimal point precision in coverage for Concept Design Groups (40:00)

Irrigation features (40:40)

Circuiting zone callouts are now framed MLeaders (40:40)

Locate Valve tool added to the ribbon, and now includes clickable headers for sorting, as well as a clickable entry for the water source (41:00)

Colorize Zones allows colorization of valves, which is saved with the valve (41:35)

Multiple symbol families added for rotary head symbol selection (42:30)

Question: Is it possible to set a landing distance for the Work Area callout box? (44:00)

Answer: Yes, through the Properties panel and the Select Similar menu option.

Recap of the Detail Viewport tool (45:05)

Revamped LTSCALE documentation (51:35)