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What’s New in ArcSite - ArcSite

Written by Pei Zhan | November 19, 2015

Version 3.6 (April 25, 2016)

  • Offset
  • You can now change Shape properties:
    • Width and height
    • Color, line type and line weight
  • New units are available
    • Length unit: Decimal Feet
    • Angle unit: Degree/Minutes/Seconds, Surveyor’s Units
  • Stability improvements

Version 3.5 (April 8, 2016)

  • Measurement tool improvements – new polygon and angle measure tool.
  • Improved View Only mode – You can now toggle off the active tool to enter view only mode for easy panning & zooming
  • Snap text to objects
  • Added titles to all toolbar icons
  • Location based photo improvement – easier to select and delete
  • Option to hide the Calibration Prompt
  • Performance improvement for large drawings. move, delete and grip editing operations are significantly faster
  • Misc bug fixes
 
Version 3.4 (March 2, 2016)
  • Auto merge 2 versions of drawings
  • Bug fixes
 
Version 3.3 (Feb 14, 2016)
  • Snapping to vector PDFs which greatly improves the accuracy of measuring and drawing on existing plans
  • PDF management improvements
    • ArcSite now supports multiple paged PDFs. Simply upload PDFs at user.arcsite.com and they will appear automatically inside of the app.
    • Supports uploading revised versions of PDFs without effecting your existing work
  • Improved dimension editing ( Faster and more predictable)
  • Added Search and Sort options for projects and drawings/plans
  • Rectangle now supports snapping, fill and area calculations
  • In view mode, layers and and export are now available
  • Bug fixes
 
Version 3.2 (January 24, 2015)
  • Ability to define relative positioning between objects
  • Improved stability and bug fixes
 
 
Version 3.1 (January 13, 2016) 
  • New markup tools – Revision Cloud and Rectangle
  • Basic / Free users can now share drawings with up to 2 folks
  • Performance improvement – Moving and Duplicating objects is much faster
  • Bug Fixes
 
Version 3.0 (January 6, 2016) 
  • Collaboration – You can specify collaborators and viewers for each project. Collaborators will be able to edit the drawings, viewers just view
  • Cross device synchronization – after you upload to the cloud account, you can access them from any iPad
  • Projects will now support multiple items (Drawings and Photos)
  • Email notification – So once a drawing has been uploaded to the cloud account, others can be notified and they can download directly from the user site.
  • Paid users now have unlimited cloud storage and can export files (to PDF, PNG and DXF) without have to upload to cloud account first.
  • Increased angle precision. Now you will be able to define angles down to 3 decimals
  • Official iPad Pro support
  • Free version upload and export limit has been raised to 5 (from 1)
 
Version 2.7.1 (December 10, 2015) 
1. New export option. When exporting to PDF and PNG formats, you can choose whether to export grid as well.
2. Stability Improvements
 
Version 2.7 (November 11, 2015)

1. Improved shapes UI: ArcSite will remembering the last used tab and scroll position.
2. Supports rotating a single line or arc
3. PDF export enhancements:

  • Fixed the size issue for photo locations visual indicators
  • Added an option to control whether to export contextually located photos
  • After creating a drawing from PDF, the drawing name is set to PDF name.
 
Version 2.4 (September 28, 2015)
 
  1. Smart tracing PDFs and Photos ( see – Smart Tracing )
  2. A Fill option for closed objects (see – Options available from a selected object)
  3. Transparency for all objects
  4. Text tool enhancement: Fixed width text blocks (see – Text Tools)
  5. Change color for Text, Dimension and Text Callout
  6. New option to export only the visible part of drawing (support for PDF and PNG formats)
  7. New option to set white background when exporting to PNG format
  8. Bug fixes and stability improvements
 
Version 2.3 (Release September 16, 2015)
  • Automatic calculation of an object’s area (see – Calculations)
  • Retain size & unit when defining custom shapes
  • Enhanced DXF export:
    • Dimension now can be exported
    • Fixed text size and location problem
  • Misc bug fixes and improved stability.

Version 2.2 (Released September 4th, 2015)

  • Ability to calculate cumulative length from multiple selection (see – Calculations)
  • DXF export improvements
  • Memory improvements for large PDF exports

Version 2.1 (Released August 28th, 2015)

  • Layers (see – Using Layers)
  • The ability to edit properties of existing lines / objects including color, line type, line width and arrow heads ( see – Edit Line Properties)
  • A “Snap to Grid” option ( see – Grid Options)
  • A “Mirror” option (see – Mirroring Objects)
  • PDF output options – Choose both orientation and paper size
  • Text Callouts ( see – Text and Text Callouts)