TestFit Release - 4.5

Additions

  • User can now define and export using Project North
  • Views can also be rotated dynamically.
  • Hovering over a preset for a site or region now displays a live preview of the resulting solution.
  • A preview of a new and streamlined user interface for TestFit is now available and can be accessed via the button in the top left of the app.
  • Reduced the minimum length for a boundary edge of a site, region or space to 5 feet.
  • Added a warning when sites are placed too far from the file origin.
  • Parking entrances can now be toggled for all types of parking.

Details

Project North

Each file now has an optional Project North setting to rotate the 2D view in line with a site plan orientation.

project north

Check out this article for more on Project North.

Solve Preview

Once a site has been defined, you can hover over the various presets and get a preview of how that site would be solved.

Hover preview - High Density

New User Interface

Meet the new TestFit user interface! 

new UI

Click the toggle at the top (Windows only), or in TestFit > Preferences (both Mac and Windows) to activate the new UI. Check out this article for more detailed information.


Reported issues and bug fixes

  • Fixed a crash when manipulating high density building levels and generally improved handling for building levels near limits.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when interacting with multi-family buildings in canvas.
  • Fixed not being able to modify manual mode when gurban has no road loops.
  • Fixed background images covering contour lines.
  • Fixed manual mode spine hover incorrectly displaying on levels not occupied by the spines.
  • Fixed manual mode widgets incorrectly displaying on levels outside their parent layer.
  • Fixed a rare crash that could occur when deleting background images.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when viewing higher levels of sites.
  • Fixed inability to right-click to mirror units & verticals if they were not yet pinned.
  • Fixed inability to right-click to add stair and/or elevator to existing verticals.
  • Fixed "Unparked" multifamily solves sometimes failing to solve as a dependent fill region.
  • Fixed grass overlapping inline spaces in drive network based sites.
  • Fixed inline garden and parcel housing layers applying the inline space front setback.
  • Fixed the "Comprehensive history" button being unclickable when the recent local projects list is long.
  • Fixed offices inside industrial warehouses being double-counted in some statistics.
  • Reduced the number of cases where high density sites fail to solve.