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Pencil tool

Features


📄 Boards

  • Pencil tool → there’s a new button in the boards button bar. The pencil tool allows for freehand sketches - we implemented it in boards as a first step towards implementing it for markups


🏢 Model

  • Push/pull got a lot of love! Now you can push/pull the top surface of all shapes after extrusion (previously could only push/pull to create the initial extrusion), and the sides of extruded pen sketches can be push/pulled as well (note: you won’t be able to push/pull the sides of extruded rectangles yet)

  • You can now click and drag walls that are connected to other walls to adjust their position

  • Click and drag extrusions → definitely try this one out, it feels really nice combined with snaps and alignment!


📄 Sheet Sets

  • You can now create comments on sheet sets, and the created comments will also appear on the sheet in the Arcol board

  • Share links to specific pages in sheet sets (to do this just select a page in the sidebar and then share the link)


💬 Comments

  • Images in comments → you can either drag and drop images onto a comment or click the add image button in the bottom left of a comment to bring up the file browser (note: you can currently only add images when first creating a comment, adding images to threads will come later)


 Other things

  • The command menu now shows real-time previews while you’re editing function parameters. To open the command menu, type / or go to main menu → Command menu. A few easy functions to try are rectangle, circle, or rectangularPattern. (note: to create a rectangular pattern you must have a sketch selected)

  • You’ll notice a welcome modal the first time you create a new project - we now have a mini-tutorial for new users to show them around the app. Once you dismiss the tutorial it won’t reappear unless you go to main menu → Help and account → Reset onboarding.

  • project name now shows in the browser tab title

  • the Camera and Section box sections in the right sidebar have been combined into a single View section


🐛 Bug Fixes

  • comments and multiplayer cursors now remain the same size regardless of zoom on boards