Release notes · Version 1.1.6
What's new in Project Blueprint 1.1.6
1.1.6 gets your quantities right in feet and inches, makes snapping work on ArchiCAD drawings and links work in large sets, lets you edit callouts with several leaders, and gives Blueprint its own icons in your theme colour. It's a free update for every 1.x licence, on Mac and Windows.
Project Blueprint 1.1.6 is a free update for every 1.x licence. It fixes Depth and Wall Area in the Markups List for feet, inches and millimetres, keeps depths at their real size when you change units, makes snapping work on ArchiCAD drawings, and makes the links already in your PDFs work. It also adds new toolbar icons in your theme colour, remembered tool styles, tidier tool sets and an option to zoom with two fingers.
How to update
1.1.6 is free for every 1.x licence, Founder or regular, on Mac and on Windows.
- Mac, on 1.1.4 or later: choose Help ▸ Check for Updates. When the download finishes, quit Blueprint, open the disk image, drag Project Blueprint onto Applications and choose Replace.
- Mac, on 1.1.3 or earlier: download the latest version from the release notes page and replace the old app in Applications.
- Windows: download and run the new installer from the Windows page. It upgrades the installed app.
Quantities you can trust
- Markups List Depth and Wall Area now show the right figures in feet, inches and millimetres. They were showing the metre value as if it were feet, so 10'-0" read as 3'-0.58". The figures in Properties, on the drawing and in exports were always right.
- Changing a scale's unit (say from metres to millimetres, on a page or a viewport) keeps depth, rise and drop at their real size, in one undo step.
- Verify Scale corrects the viewport or measurement the line belongs to, not the whole page.
- Numbers like 1,200 and 2,5 now read correctly in form calculations, custom columns and number boxes, whichever way your region writes them.
- Measurement totals show as many decimals as the scale does, and X-only or Y-only calibration measures along that axis.
Snapping on ArchiCAD drawings
- Snap to drawing content now works on drawings exported from ArchiCAD. Earlier versions read how those pages are set up the wrong way round, so nothing on them snapped.
- On architectural dimension ticks, Blueprint snaps to the dimension point itself, so you can measure straight from the ticks.
Callouts
- Callouts with several leaders, including ones made in Bluebeam Revu, can now be edited. Each leader's tip and bend has its own handle, and the leaders stay attached to the box when you move it, resize it or change its text.
- One text box for several clouds: select two or more clouds or shapes, then right-click ▸ Add Shared Text Box (or Edit ▸ Add Shared Text Box). You get one callout with a leader to each, grouped with them. Revu reads it as a multi-leader callout.
Links in large drawing sets
- Links already in the PDF now show and work: to another page, to another PDF and to web addresses. These are the links Preview and Acrobat show, for example from batch-linked sets.
- Blueprint's own sheet-number links no longer skip sheets with hundreds of references or stop at 300 pages.
- Running Batch Link again no longer adds duplicate links.
Your workspace
- New toolbar and panel icons, drawn for Blueprint, in your theme colour in light and dark mode. Measuring tools stay orange and special tools purple when colour-coding is on.
- Tools remember their style: a colour or line width you set while a tool is selected is kept after you close and reopen the app. Save as Default and Reset Default work as before.
- Properties panel: sections you leave open stay open between launches, and you can drag a section's title to reorder them (or right-click for Move Up, Move Down and Reset Section Order).
- Tool Chest: sets you hide stay hidden when you switch panels. Right-click a set's name ▸ Delete Set… to remove it, with its tools or moving them to My Tools; Manage Tool Sets has a delete button on each row.
- Trackpad zoom: Settings ▸ General ▸ Trackpad scrolling ▸ Zooms at the pointer makes two-finger scrolling (and smooth-scrolling mice) zoom without ⌘.
Files and imports
- Blueprint's own files (profiles, tool sets, scripts, settings backups and assembly libraries) have their own icons in Finder, and double-clicking one opens it in Blueprint.
- File ▸ Import from Bluebeam Revu… now accepts custom column files saved as .xml, including the free column packs on this site.
Sharper large sheets
- A0 and other large drawings stay sharp after scrolling, after switching tabs and when you move the window to another screen.
Updating
- After the update downloads, Blueprint tells you to quit first, then drag the new app onto Applications. The disk image now includes the Applications shortcut to drag onto.
Windows 1.1.6
- New toolbar and panel icons in your theme colour, the same as on the Mac.
- PDFs opened from File Explorer open as tabs in the window that's already running.
- A loading screen while Blueprint starts.
- Letters that are tool shortcuts now type normally in Search and in text boxes.
- Menus three levels deep (Accent Colour, Toolbar Groups) stay open.
- The window drags from any empty part of the title bar.
Frequently asked questions
Is Project Blueprint 1.1.6 a free update?
Yes. Every Project Blueprint licence, Founder or regular, includes all 1.x updates, on Mac and on Windows.
How do I update Project Blueprint to 1.1.6?
On a Mac with 1.1.4 or later, choose Help ▸ Check for Updates, quit Blueprint, then drag the new app onto Applications and choose Replace. On 1.1.3 or earlier, download the latest version from the release notes page. On Windows, download and run the new installer; it upgrades the installed app.
Why didn't snapping work on my ArchiCAD drawing?
ArchiCAD sets up each page with several stacked transforms, and earlier versions combined them in the wrong order, so the snap points ended up off the page. 1.1.6 fixes this. On architectural dimension ticks, Blueprint snaps to the dimension point itself.
Can I zoom with two fingers on the trackpad without holding ⌘?
Yes, from 1.1.6. Choose Settings ▸ General ▸ Trackpad scrolling ▸ Zooms at the pointer. It also covers Magic Mouse and smooth-scrolling mice. Hold ⌘ to scroll instead; pinch always zooms. A normal mouse wheel already zooms without ⌘ by default.