designwinds
CHANGELOG

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APRIL 9, 2026
IMPROVED

Addenda comparison now highlights equipment schedule changes

The comparison view previously flagged drawing deltas but treated the equipment schedule as a flat document. It now reads the schedule as a table and calls out changed tags, model numbers, and performance data row by row.

APRIL 2, 2026
FIXED

Spiral duct takeoff no longer rounds up to the nearest 10 LF

A rounding bug on spiral duct runs below 40 LF was rounding up to the next 10 LF. It now rounds to the next foot, matching rectangular and flat-oval behavior. Affected estimates older than April 1 can be recalculated from the project settings menu.

MARCH 26, 2026
ADDED

Trade Service October 2025 pricing update

Trade Service's October pricing catalog is live. Projects locked before today's update stay locked; new projects pull the updated pricing by default.

MARCH 19, 2026
ADDED

Bid day mode keyboard shortcut

Press ⌘⇧L to enter bid day mode from anywhere in the estimate. Requested by a customer who was burning 30 seconds walking through three menus with four minutes on the clock.

MARCH 12, 2026
IMPROVED

Recap sheet print layout no longer splits assemblies across pages

Print layout now respects assembly grouping. If an assembly won't fit on the current page, it starts the next page as a block instead of breaking across the page fold. - KV

FEBRUARY 26, 2026
ADDED

Post-bid hit rate breakdown by GC

The hit rate dashboard now lets you filter by general contractor. Useful when you're trying to answer 'are we just not competitive with this GC, or is it something about the project mix they send us?'

FEBRUARY 12, 2026
FIXED

BuildingConnected invitations with multiple bid packages no longer duplicate

An edge case where one RFP with multiple bid packages created duplicate calendar entries. Now grouped as one project with multiple packages. Existing duplicates can be merged from the calendar view.

JANUARY 29, 2026
IMPROVED

Crew composition accepts fractional productivity factors

Previously crew productivity was integer percent. Now accepts one decimal place (e.g. 87.5%). Sheet metal shops running prefab-heavy schedules asked for this one.

JANUARY 15, 2026
ADDED

One-way QuickBooks export for awarded jobs

Awarded estimate exports to QuickBooks as a job with labor categories and schedule of values. One-way only - we don't read anything back from QB.

DECEMBER 18, 2025
IMPROVED

Vendor quote leveling now tracks freight separately

Freight used to live in the 'miscellaneous' line. It's now a first-class column in the leveling view, so freight-inclusive and freight-excluded quotes can be normalized.

NOVEMBER 20, 2025
ADDED

Role-based access control

Four built-in roles (Estimator, Precon Manager, Admin, Read-only). Custom roles coming later. Requested by two customers with separated estimating and service divisions.

OCTOBER 23, 2025
ADDED

Equipment schedule import (beta)

Drop a mechanical equipment schedule PDF; we read the tag, model, and performance columns and create equipment line items in the estimate. Beta - works on most standard schedule formats. Tell us where it fails. - KV

The product is older than this changelog. We started publishing it in October 2025 when we decided to be more public.