When you log in to the application today you will be greeted with a brand new user interface. Our development team has been working extremely hard over the past two weeks to simplify the application and your workflow within it.
Major updates include:
A more consistent, visually appealing design
Moving to a sidebar navigation menu
Issues are now created and viewed in a side panel rather than a pop-up
Added an automated tour/tutorial of the application for new users
Major bug fixes include:
Resolved issues with uploading of large Navisworks files
Uploading file with the same name will no longer display original file
Below is a more detailed summary of the updates included in this release.
Sidebar Design
The navigation menu has moved to a sidebar
We have implemented a new UI structure to improve aesthetics and consistency, making the application easier to understand and navigate, especially for new users
Figure 1: Sidebar Functionality
Figure 2: Design Review Portal
Issues
Creating an issue is now done in a side panel. If you create a markup, it will be captured in the side-panel and you will then be free to continue navigating the 3D viewer while creating the issue. Moving forward, this functionality will make it easy to grab multiple screenshots/markups for an issue
If you click on the screenshot in the side panel it will expand to give you a full screen view of the image
Figure 3: Creating an issue in a session
Figure 4: Expanded Markup Modal
The issue summary has been upgraded to now include five status types (To-Do, In Progress, For Review, Closed, and Informational)
Clicking on an issue in the dashboard will now show it in the side panel, enabling you to quickly navigate between issues. You can respond and edit the status from the dashboard.
Figure 5: Issue Viewing & Editing from dashboard
Adding Collaborators & Starting Projects
Similar to issues, the pop-ups for creating new sessions and inviting collaborators have moved to the sidebar for consistency
Figure 6 Creating a new session
Figure 7: Adding a collaborator in a session
Application Tutorial
New users will now be prompted to walk through a very brief tutorial on how to navigate the application on first login
You can click on the question mark in the sidebar at any time to take a tour of the current page
Figure 8: Gradient Tutorial
Next Release
For Release 0.6 we will be finalizing core features such as:
Revision control for files
New and improved markup tools
Desktop notifications
We would love to hear your feedback - please send us an email or a message in the help chat!
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