Editing Measurements: You can now move, add and remove points of polylines and polygonal areas. This works while drawing, right after finishing, and at any time later. To edit a measurement later, click it with the Pan or Edit Tool (formerly the Pan Tool) or choose Edit shape in the item's menu. Changes can be undone step by step, and Esc discards all changes made while editing. You can also move the points of lines, rectangles and two-line areas. You can find a detailed description in Help.
Selecting Several Points: Select points with Ctrl/Cmd + click or by dragging a rectangle around them while holding Ctrl/Cmd. Ctrl/Cmd + A selects all points. You can then move the selected points together or remove them. More in Help.
Areas with Holes: When the outline of a polygonal area touches, crosses or overlaps itself, filled and empty parts alternate. To leave out a hole (e.g. a shaft), lead the outline around it. The measured area always matches the filled part. Areas in older projects keep their values until you edit their shape.
Angle Constraining with Shift: To constrain the angle of a line, hold Shift (previously Ctrl).
Exact Dimensions: While drawing a line, a polyline, a polygonal area or a two-line area, type the length of the segment and press Enter. The next point is placed at that distance. For a rectangle, type the width and height (e.g. 3.5x4). More in Help.
Sloped Surfaces: You can convert an area measured in the plan to the real area of a roof or another sloped surface. Use Sloped area... under the = button of an item. Similarly, Sloped length... converts a length to the real length of rafters. Enter the slope in degrees, percent, per mille, as a ratio or as a roof pitch (e.g. 4 : 12). The dialog shows the slope in a picture. More in Help.
Removing Counted Pieces: In the Pieces Counting Tool, select markers the same way as points and press Delete or Backspace to remove them. More in Help.
Functions in Formulas: Formulas in the Table of Quantities can now use functions such as SQRT, SIN, COS, ROUND, ROUNDUP, MIN and MAX, e.g. ROUNDUP(A/2.5) for the number of 2.5 m boards needed for a length A. Decimal numbers can also be written with a comma (2,5). If a formula has a problem, point at it to see what is wrong. Items with a formula error are marked in the table, and you are asked to confirm before exporting them. More in Help.
Quick Renaming: Press F2 to rename the item in the Table of Quantities that you added or checked last.
Finding Measurements: Point at the eye icon of an item in the Table of Quantities to outline its measurement in the drawing. Counted pieces get rings around them. Hold Ctrl/Cmd to also dim the rest of the drawing. Show in drawing in the row menu zooms to the measurement. When you click a measurement with the Pan or Edit Tool, the table scrolls to its item. More in Help.
Tool Hints: While you measure, a hint at the top of the drawing tells you what to do next, e.g. Click the second point or type the length. The button opens the help about the current step. To turn the hints off, click Hide. Settings ➔ Show Tool Hints turns them on again. After you apply the calibration, a green message confirms that the page is calibrated.
Pieces in Formulas: Multiplying pieces by a length now gives a length as the unit, e.g. 12 pcs × 2.4 m = 28.8 m. The same holds for an area, a volume or a custom unit. You can add such an item to other lengths without a warning. When you choose the unit of an item yourself, its formula has no warning about the unit.
Table of Quantities: The quantity, unit and price columns are now as wide as their values, so the description has more space. The columns can no longer be resized by dragging.
Saving and Opening Files: In Chrome and Edge, you now choose where to save the project and the PDF and CSV exports. Other browsers save them to the Downloads folder. On a Mac, Cmd+S and Cmd+O no longer also save the web page or open a file in the browser. In Safari, open a project with Cmd+Shift+O.
PDF Drawings: Thick lines in PDF drawings now have properly joined corners. Text, hatches and images can now stay sharp when you zoom in. To try it, turn on the experimental option Settings ➔ Sharp PDF Detail (off by default). More in Help.
| version 0.9.6
Advanced Color & Shape Customization: Introduced dedicated dialogs for selecting and defining custom colors, including saving and loading custom user palettes. The Pieces Counting Tool now supports custom geometric marker shapes (adjustable side count, inner radius, and rotation). Colors and shapes can also be edited directly from the Table of Quantities. You can find a detailed description of these features in Help.
Faster Snapping & PDF Loading: Snapping to vertices is now significantly smoother on complex drawings. Loading and processing PDF documents is now noticeably faster.
Table of Quantities Enhancements: The three-dots context menu now includes an option to instantly jump to the page where an item is located. Predefined formulas now feature descriptive icons.
Enhanced Drag & Drop: When dragging and dropping a file into the application window, you can now choose to append it directly as a new page to the current project.
Project Management & Controls: Added a Close Project option to the File menu. Background dimming can now also be conveniently adjusted by scrolling the mouse wheel over its top bar icon.
Visual Improvements: Brightly colored quantities automatically receive a darker outline to ensure contrast against light backgrounds. The "Not Calibrated" indicator has been updated to a yellow warning status.
| version 0.9.5
Drag & Drop Document Opening: You can now open project files and documents simply by dragging and dropping them directly into the application window.
Stability Improvements: Enhanced the application's reliability when handling browser GPU context loss.
Main Menu Bar Quick Access: Added dedicated Undo and Redo buttons directly to the main menu bar, along with a quick-access button for quantity highlighting.
Enhanced Quantity Highlighting: The highlighting system has been improved. We added a new Background Dimming slider in the Edit top bar menu to help you navigate during the measuring process.
Integrated Unit Switcher: Now you can switch the unit system directly in the title screen (alongside the language switcher).
Duplication in Table of Quantities: Added a new option to the three-dots context menu allowing you to quickly duplicate a row.
Native iOS Sharing: On iOS devices, the app now utilizes the native sharing interface for downloading PDF, CSV, and MCD files, making file sharing and saving much smoother.
| version 0.9.4
Upcoming Pro Features Preview: Introduced a new preview dialog featuring video demonstrations of upcoming Pro tools, along with an option to join the Pro waitlist.
Calibration Enhancements: The application now visualizes calibration lines for each page. Additionally, a clear visual indicator (an icon accompanied by a green/red status label) has been added to instantly show whether a page is calibrated.
File Import Progress: Added a loading spinner that appears when importing and processing files, providing clearer feedback during project loading.
Tool and Snapping Fixes: Refined vertex snapping precision and disabled snapping while using the Pan Tool. Fixed a bug where the automatic analysis recomputation was not triggered during quantity editing, and ensured that the active tool correctly finalizes when switching between pages.
Unit Display Fix: Corrected an issue where metric volume quantities incorrectly displayed m² instead of the proper cubic measurement unit.
Documentation and UI Updates: Expanded the Help section with detailed information about calibration workflows and potential calibration errors.
| version 0.9.3
Acknowledgements: We would like to thank our users for reporting bugs and thereby helping us improve the software.
Autosave and Recovery: Your project data is periodically backed up in your computer's temporary memory. In the event of an unexpected crash, a new dialog allows you to recover and save your work in progress. The autosave functionality can be toggled in the main menu.
Faster Loading: We reduced the application's transfer size by over 60% for significantly faster startup times.
Memory Management: Fixed a critical issue that may caused out-of-memory errors when loading a multi-page .mcd project.
Tool and UI Improvements: Fixed snapping in the Pieces Counting Tool and corrected a display issue in the Calibration Tool. The behavior of the group/ungroup buttons in the Table of Quantities has also been refined.
Stability Fixes: Resolved several critical bugs causing crashes during Undo/Redo actions and when performing Ungroup operations.
| version 0.9.2
New Performance Modes: The application now automatically optimizes rendering smoothness based on project complexity and your device's performance. For manual adjustment, three modes have been added to the settings to optimize the app's display fluidity.
Updated Help: The documentation has been expanded to include descriptions of new features and performance modes for easier navigation within the application.
Table of Quantities Fixes: The behavior of the Table of Quantities has been unified to match the Help description and function consistently across all operations.
Stability Improvements and UI Fixes: Fixed bugs that could cause the application to crash and addressed inconsistent states of measurement tools.
Other minor bug fixes.
| version 0.9.1
Intelligent Unit Analysis: Added basic automatic unit deduction from formulas.
Formulas Improvements: Added support for power operations and improved handling of directly entered numbers in formulas.
Imperial Units Improvements: When changing the unit system, new quantities use the new system while all existing quantities retain their original system. Introduced 3 format types: decimal feet only, feet with decimal inches, and feet with fractional inches.
Backward Compatibility: The application now offers a redirection to an older version if the project was created in a version other than the current one.
Precise Drawing and Manipulation: Added snapping to quantity vertices.
Project Organization: Added the option to move items between pages and introduced hierarchical numbering for sections and quantities.
Visual Indicators: Added a "Not Calibrated" warning message if a page does not have a scale set.