Industrial Updates
Optimize for Industrial Prototype Layouts
If you work with repeatable or prototypical industrial buildings, the new industrial building editor helps you move even faster in meeting your building standards.
Create a library of prototypes, and TestFit will automatically test every possible layout on your site, optimizing configurations in seconds instead of hours. You can focus on evaluating results instead of manually placing and adjusting buildings.
This lets you fit different prototypes on the same site to create more efficient layouts and make better decisions earlier in the process.
Maximize Density with Smarter Circulation
With TestFit’s new circulation logic, you can design industrial and data center sites that are both denser and more functional. Truck paths are now validated automatically, helping you fit more buildings while keeping circulation logical and accessible. You’ll achieve higher site utilization without sacrificing circulation flow or usability.
This same smarter circulation also extends to townhomes, garden apartments, and subdivisions, producing more accurate street and lot layouts across your residential projects.
Parking Updates
Validate Parking Details with Zoneomics Data
Parking is one of the most important aspects in early site planning. In addition to the zoning data you already see in TestFit Data Maps and Site Solver, you can now also access local parking standards from Zoneomics. This helps you confirm feasibility with real-world data before you even begin generating site layouts.
Housing Updates
Design Core-Based Multi-Family for Global Projects
Beyond generating corridor-based buildings in TestFit, you can now create core-based multifamily with a centralized core in the middle of your buildings. This is particularly useful for European-style and other global typologies.
You can compare multiple core strategies and find the most efficient layout for your building, all within the same automated workflow.
Fine-Tune Block-Based Buildings with Manual Mode
You can now work with block-based buildings in manual mode, giving you more control over how you adjust and refine your schemes.
- Combine multiple blocks into one continuous building with a new merge command.
- Divide a single block into multiple parts for easier iteration with a new split command.
This update gives you the flexibility to fine-tune block-based buildings or make targeted adjustments without regenerating the entire site.
Details:
- Added in-canvas labels to parking lots with stall counts.
- Added "invert justification" option to drive-thrus.
- Added the option to specify exact desired counts for custom parking stalls.
- Added the Max Voltage, Voltages, and Name properties to the Major Utilities data layer.
- Advanced setback controls from zoning data are now available when building setbacks are toggled off.
- Added the ability to specify fixed population counts for residential spaces.
- Added parking demand options for office regions.
Reported Issues & Bug Fixes:
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- Fixed rendering issues for models with thousands of parking stalls.
- Fixed manual mode merging dead ends improperly when close in buildings using blocks.
- Fixed manual mode manipulation in blocks when spines conflict.
- Reduced the minimum size for spines in manual mode.
- Reduced the number of cases where block-based buildings fail to solve.
- Fixed Generative Design not varying office massing by default.
- Fixed Generative Design, preferring the last massing option.
- Fixed facade tabulation being too high in some cases.
- Fixed road context menu sometimes failing to open near a road end or curve.
- Fixed missing background image names in the layer tree.
- Fixed a bug where easements could become corrupted and unable to be removed.
- Fixed a possible crash when using lots of layers.
- Fixed undo/redo shortcuts in the web editor.
- Fixed broken geometry on some sites containing drive-thrus.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when creating many sites from road loops.
- Fixed concatenated names in Major Utilities data properties.
- Fixed parameter search being case-sensitive.
- Fixed parameter search not showing up when running specific drivers.
- TestFit will open on the last used display when relaunched.
- Improved the styling consistency of labels for settings and setting sections.