{"id":15950,"date":"2025-04-08T09:52:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww2.softplan.com\/?page_id=15950"},"modified":"2026-06-08T13:02:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:02:35","slug":"whats-new-in-softplan-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ww2.softplan.com\/?page_id=15950","title":{"rendered":"What’s new in SoftPlan 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Release 2026.3.3<\/h2>\n
Feature: AI Rendering | Aspect Ratio<\/div>\n
Description: The AI Render aspect ratio selection has been improved with clearer options: Screen, 16:9, 9:16, and 1:1.<\/div>\n
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Feature: Vegetation Paint | Text<\/div>\n
Description: Vegetation paint grass was not painting through text including notes, speed notes, and dimensions. This has been corrected.<\/div>\n
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Feature: Roof | Roof Hole<\/div>\n
Description: Tracing a roof hole could produce incorrect roof edges. This has been corrected.<\/div>\n
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Feature: Roof | Add Roof Edges | Insert Polygon Edges<\/div>\n
Description: When using Add Roof Edges or Insert Polygon Edges on a roof, some existing roof edges were being incorrectly changed to intersect edges. This has been corrected.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Release 2026.3.2<\/h2>\n

Feature: AI Rendering
\nDescription: Added option to list the picture publicly in the SoftPlan AI Rendering gallery.<\/p>\n

Feature: SoftList | Export | Excel | Description | NAHB Cost Code
\nDescription: If you export a SoftList report to Excel, the NAHB Cost Code column in the Excel file generates with the same info as the Description column. This has been corrected<\/p>\n

Feature: 3D | Ai Render
\nDescription: AI Enhanced Render option is disabled for elevation, section, interior elevation, presentation, roof profile and ceiling profile views as it is not optimized for those views.<\/p>\n

Feature: 3D | Ai Render
\nDescription: Added the ability to send an image with your screen aspect ratio to the AI Render.\u00a0 This produces images closer to what you are viewing on screen in proportion.<\/p>\n

Feature: File | AI Renders Folder
\nDescription: When downloading renderings from the your render library the images would be placed in the current projects ‘AI Renders’ subfolder.\u00a0 It now places the image in the ‘AI Renders’ subfolder of the project it was generated from. If that project doesn’t exist on the computer, it downloads into the active project folder under ‘AI Renders’.<\/p>\n

Feature: DWG | Import | File
\nDescription: Importing a specific dwg file would lock the cursor out of the workspace.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Release 2026.3.1<\/h2>\n

Feature: Add Roof Edges
\nDescription: Under certain conditions adding a roof edge would corrupt the roof. This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Import DWG Wizard
\nDescription: Using the wizard to import a specific DWG could crash the program. This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Stair Repeat Edit
\nDescription: Under certain conditions using repeat edit on a stair could cause the program to crash.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Openings | Shutters | Wainscot Wall
\nDescription: Shutters, pediments and keystones are floating away from the opening when placed on a brick\/siding (wainscot) wall. This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Blocking | Garage Door Bucks
\nDescription: Blocking generates through garage doors that have ‘Garage Door Bucks’ enabled.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Roof Material Profile | Raked Fascia
\nDescription: Roof Material Profiles are generating incomplete when roof is set to have a Rake Fascia Style. This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Child Window | Alt + Tab | Model Mode | Elevation | Section
\nDescription: Using Alt+ Tab to switch between a main SoftPlan window and a child SoftPlan window could cause the wrong window to become active.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Release 2026.3.0<\/h2>\n

Feature: Note Dialog
\nDescription: 2025-09 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 11 Version 24H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5065789) caused a redraw issue with multiline text controls.\u00a0 SoftPlan changed the options used in order to fix the redraw issue.\u00a0 \u00a0Some backgrounds of dialogs may have artifacts as a result, however the note dialog redraw should be fixed.<\/p>\n

Feature: Configure Opening | Stall\/Page Fault
\nDescription: SoftPlan could stall in certain circumstances when adding transoms to openings in the drawing library.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Roof On Bay | Edit | Pitch
\nDescription: When editing a Roof On Bay and attempting to change the Pitch in the Roof tab, the new value isn’t accepted.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: SoftList | Building Options | Walls | Framing | Openings | Jack Studs | Headers
\nDescription: In certain circumstances, switching building options would not update framing counts properly in SoftList until the project was closed and reopened.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Cabinet Offset Reference | Flooring | Subfloor
\nDescription: Cabinets will continue to reference the Flooring, even if the Offset Reference is set to ‘Subfloor’.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Release 2026.2.9<\/h2>\n

Feature: Ceiling Profiles
\nDescription: Smoothness of ceiling profiles was not as smooth as it was in 2024. This has been improved.<\/p>\n

Feature: Watermark | Shapes | Print
\nDescription: A watermark that contains shapes does not print. This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Draw Select Slow
\nDescription: In certain circumstances performing a draw select on a wall would place the wall more slowly than drawing walls directly. This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Roof Edit Crash
\nDescription: In certain circumstances, setting a vertical intersect roof style could cause a page fault. This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: SoftList | Archive
\nDescription: An archive of SoftList from v2024 will not restore to v2026. This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Release 2026.2.8<\/h2>\n

Feature: Paint | Shape | Circle | Ellipse
\nDescription: We are unable to add paint within a Circle or Ellipse Shape.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Paint | Zoom
\nDescription:\u00a0 At certain zoom scales paint will not generate in smaller room areas.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: 3D | Interior Trim | Openings
\nDescription: The Interior Trim extends out further than it should in a wainscot wall (ie: Brick\/Siding) for Bifold, Barn Door and Arch openings. This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Cabinets | Tiled Backsplash | Wall offset
\nDescription: When the wall has an offset, the tiled backsplash added to cabinets is double offset and sits above the countertop.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Combined Walls With Heights
\nDescription: When you combined two walls we should maintain the bottom offsets and the top heights of the wall. Two raked walls do not become flat after combining them.\u00a0 \u00a0This has been improved.<\/p>\n

Feature: Auto Dimension | Custom Building Options
\nDescription: You can no longer use Auto Dimension to create a separate set of dimensions and extensions in each custom Building Option.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Wall | Opening | Wrap
\nDescription: In certain circumstances wall materials would not wrap into the openings properly.\u00a0 This has been improved.<\/p>\n

Release 2026.2.7<\/h2>\n

Feature: 3D | Roof | Ridge Cap | Ridge Vent | Multiple Floor Roof | Sheathing Placement
\nDescription: When enabling Ridge Vent, it isn’t generating correctly in 3D in some cases. This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: 3D | Soffit | Roof
\nDescription: The soffit is missing under the hip returns in some projects. This has been improved.<\/p>\n

Feature: Add Roof Edges
\nDescription: In certain projects, adding roof edges can cause a page fault.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Beams | Duplicate
\nDescription: In certain situations a duplicate operation on beams can cause stray lines shown until the drawing is closed and opened again. This has been corrected<\/p>\n

Feature: Changing Drawings actions slow
\nDescription: Changing between the Make parallel drawing action and other actions can cause a long cursor lag.\u00a0 This has been improved.<\/p>\n

Feature: Configure Symbol Wizard
\nDescription: When you select the Link to 3D Symbol in the Configure Symbol Wizard dialog – if the 3D Symbol Folder only contains one 3D Symbol file, the 3D Symbol Folder and 3D Symbol fields do not fill in with the selected symbol and all the previews fail to generate as you select next through the dialog.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Deadlock | reset symbol
\nDescription: In the drawing library, reset an opening or symbol and the program can deadlock. This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Dimension Reverse
\nDescription: Reversing a plan is not always keeping moved dimension text in place relative to the dimension line. This has been improved.<\/p>\n

Feature: Dimension | Reverse | Automatically Move Dimensions
\nDescription: If under Dimension\/Extension Options > Dimension Options you have “Automatically Move Dimensions” turned off, when you reverse a floor plan the dimensions on one side of the building will be misplaced overtop of their respective dimension lines.\u00a0 This has been improved.<\/p>\n

Feature: Double Hip | False Gable
\nDescription: A false gable added along a double hip roof edge no longer recognizes the 2nd pitch.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Elevation Openings | Exterior Trim
\nDescription: Exterior Trim on saved Elevation Drawings are masking items they should not. Exterior trim no longer hides objects in front of it.<\/p>\n

Feature: GPU Preferences | MISC | Video Card
\nDescription:\u00a0 By default SoftPlan should now use a discrete dx12 graphics card even if the onboard graphics has dx12 capability.<\/p>\n

Feature: Match Roof Planes | Roof
\nDescription: In certain circumstances the match roof planes command was failing to match properly.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Opening | Garage Door | Opening Layout Tool
\nDescription: Garage Doors that are created using Elevation Openings from the Door Layout Tool do not extract correctly in 3D.\u00a0 This has been improved.<\/p>\n

Feature: Openings | Door Layout | Barn Doors | Track and Trolley
\nDescription: When a barn door is made from an elevation opening created using the new Door Layout tool, the Track and Trolley are not locating the door surface properly. This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Options | Visible Items | Show\/Print Walls Solid
\nDescription: \u00a0‘Show\/Print Walls Solid’ now also prints the Beams as Solid.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Paint Spill
\nDescription: In certain circumstances, paint can spill outside of the boundaries.\u00a0 This has been improved.<\/p>\n

Feature: Paint | Arc
\nDescription:\u00a0 Arcs added to a Paint Pattern no longer generating as arcs. This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Project Information | Contractor Name Length | File
\nDescription: Under Project Information, the Contractor Name field only allows a name that is 21 characters long. This has been expanded.<\/p>\n

Feature: Raked Walls | Offset
\nDescription: In certain circumstances the rake of a wall was not accounting for the elevation offset of the wall. This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: reView Model File | PBR Textures
\nDescription: pbr textures were not exporting properly to review.\u00a0 The albedo texture of the PBR is now used in the review export.<\/p>\n

Feature: reView | Model
\nDescription: reView models exported in 2026 were not viewable in reView.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Ridge Cap | roof
\nDescription: When using a profile, on a small ridge we do not display the ridge cap properly.\u00a0 This has been corrected<\/p>\n

Feature: Ridge Cap | Vent | Roof
\nDescription: When a Ridge Cap that is using a profile, and you have a Ridge Vent that doesn’t go to the edge of the ridge, we do not generate the rest of the ridge cap past the end of the vent.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Roof | Beam Clip
\nDescription: Clipping a beam to a roof did not match the results of version 2024.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Roof | Gable End | Transition Board | Wall Profile
\nDescription: When Transition Board is used in a gable end, and the wall being referenced by the gable edge has a profile, the profile doesn’t display in the area between the top of the wall and the Transition Board.\u00a0 This has been improved.<\/p>\n

Feature: Roof | Hip Returns | Soffit
\nDescription: There are overlapping soffit surfaces when a gable roof is set to have Hip Returns, and the Hip Overhang is greater than the gable Overhang. This has been improved.<\/p>\n

Feature: Roof | Purlins | Covered | Sheathing Placement
\nDescription: When using one of the first three Sheathing Placements with Purlins enabled, the Purlins aren’t being covered along the perimeter of the roof. This has been improved.<\/p>\n

Feature: Saved Drawing Options > Deleting a template.
\nDescription: If you delete a ‘Saved Drawing Option” file (template), that file will be restored next time you start SoftPlan. This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Vertical Scroll Bar
\nDescription: when you zoom in on a Drawing a bit to get the Vertical and Horizontal scrollbars, the Horizontal scrollbar moves the drawing as you move the scrollbar. The Vertical scrollbar doesn’t move the drawing until you release the scrollbar. Also, the vertical Arrows on either end of the scrollbar don’t work when clicking them. This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Wall Covering Capping Holes
\nDescription: The trim covering on wall covering holes does not work if the opening starts or stops at the same height as the wall covering. This has been improved.<\/p>\n

Feature: Wall Material Wrap
\nDescription: Wall materials are not wrapping around the edge of the openings in 2026 like they did in 2024. This has been improved.<\/p>\n

Release 2026.2.6<\/h2>\n

Feature: Archive | Restore | Drawing Templates | File
\nDescription: If your archive has Drawing Templates (configs) that are dated earlier than those on your cloud backup, after restoring them and restarting SoftPlan, the ones in the cloud backup are copied over the ones you just restored.\u00a0 \u00a0This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Clip Stair to Wall | Angle
\nDescription: In some cases, a stair won’t clip to the inside edge of a partition wall. This has been improved<\/p>\n

Feature: Copy | Multiple Placement | Count
\nDescription: When copying an item, clicking to place the item, and setting the Count as needed, using the Tab key to move through the fields will reset the Count to 1 until you reselect the number you already set it to. This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Cursor | Cross hairs | Drawing Screen
\nDescription:\u00a0 After submitting\u00a0 a ticket some users have described a problem where the cursor changes to an arrow and does not return to the crosshair when entering back into the drawing screen. They are forced to close SoftPlan and restart it to regain the crosshairs and to be able to modify drawings again.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Dimension | Temporary Dimension
\nDescription: With ‘Display Temporary Dimensions’ enabled, SoftPlan no longer displays faded Dimensions when hovering between dimensionable items.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: fraction vs decimal | MISC
\nDescription: In certain circumstances entering a fraction will give the wrong decimal value.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Missing Symbol Replace Cabinet
\nDescription: In certain circumstances, newly drawn symbols would not display in plan after using the Replace Cabinet with Symbol command.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Move>Align to Edge | Attach
\nDescription: Move>In certain circumstances Align to Edge with Attach enabled behaves differently from 2024.\u00a0 This has been improved.<\/p>\n

Feature: Opening Text | Move | R.O. Size | Product Code
\nDescription: When R.O. Size and Product Code opening text is enabled for an opening, you can’t select the Product Code text to move it.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Paint | Accuracy
\nDescription: In certain circumstances paint was not filling painted areas as accurately as 2024. This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Profile
\nDescription: When adding a crown mold to a cabinet, where the crown mold would intersect with the wall, it is mitering instead. Crown Mold, Baseboard, Chair Rail and Banding profiles no longer display a return on an end that butts up against a wall.<\/p>\n

Feature: Reverse | Dimension
\nDescription: If a dimension number is moved to a custom location it doesn’t reverse. Worked properly in 2024.\u00a0 This has been improved.<\/p>\n

Feature: Roof | Roof Hole
\nDescription: Tracing a roof and roof hole has been improved in certain circumstances.<\/p>\n

Release 2026.2.5<\/h2>\n

Feature: 360 Photo
\nDescription: Creating a 360 photo resulted in a “Page is only accessible through the SoftPlan application” message on the SoftPlan webpage This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: \u00a0Roof | Gable | Hip Returns
\nDescription: The soffit material is missing under Hip Returns on a Gable roof edge. This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Align Drawing | Plan set
\nDescription: A drawing on a Plan Set page will now align correctly with a drawing on a different page when that other page isn’t open in a tab.<\/p>\n

Feature: Roof Framing | 3D
\nDescription: A deadlock could occur with roof framing on when generating 3d, cross sections or elevations.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Dimension | Set Distance Between | Notes
\nDescription: Improvements have been made regarding the set distance between command and notes that wrap.<\/p>\n

Feature: Opening Schedule
\nDescription: Opening Schedules could cause internal issues that potentially could cause symbols to disappear when drawn.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Edit | Wall Height
\nDescription: Can no longer use the wall height command to give 0′ wall heights as a 0′ height could cause 3D not to generate.<\/p>\n

Feature: Saved Elevation and Section drawings
\nDescription: Saved Elevation and Section drawings now allow all items to be copied to the clipboard.<\/p>\n

Feature: Finishing Options | Order | Reset | System Options
\nDescription: When resetting the Flooring finishes in a project, the names of the finishes on the drawing are maintained, even though there were in a different order in the list prior to the reset.<\/p>\n

Feature: Floor System | Slab | Offset | Insulation
\nDescription: \u00a0When the slab offset equals slab insulation thickness, the insulation may not\u00a0 extract correctly. This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Help | What’s New in SoftPlan 2026
\nDescription: What’s New in SoftPlan 2026 and What’s New in this Release opens to appropriate web pages.<\/p>\n

Feature: Hip returns | Roof
\nDescription: Some hip returns are missing the board ends.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Nested Region | Extensions
\nDescription: Extension lines can now be added to a Nested Destination.<\/p>\n

Feature: Roof Hole Error
\nDescription: Roof holes added near or over intersection roof planes with a negative pitch (auto pitch) now properly cut the hole.<\/p>\n

Feature: Roof | Edit | Apply Gable Valley
\nDescription: Apply Gable Valley was not functioning properly.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Roof | Gable Hip Returns | Default Fascia Style
\nDescription: The Fascia Style for Hip Returns on a Gable edge now match the adjoining Hip edge. The fascia now displays when Fully Hipped is enabled.<\/p>\n

Feature: Rotate Block | Deadlock
\nDescription: Under certain circumstances the Rotate Block would not complete.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Segmented Pointer | Arrow | 2D Preview
\nDescription: A preview now displays for the first segment of a Segmented Pointer and Segmented Arrow.<\/p>\n

Feature: Sketchup 2025 Install | File
\nDescription: Sketchup 2025 export was not working correctly.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Soffit | 3D | Roof
\nDescription: Under some circumstances the roof soffit may not extract.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: SoftList | Roofing Materials
\nDescription: The formulas for Asphalt Singles and Cedar Shingles have no material selected, so they are listing every roofing material.\u00a0 This has been corrected in the install.<\/p>\n

Feature: Solid planes
\nDescription: Cubes, Polygon 3D and Spline 3D and now Cylinders can have height of zero and extract as a plane in 3D.<\/p>\n

Release 2026.2.4<\/h2>\n

Feature: Baseboard | Opening
\nDescription: Baseboard is not wrapping properly at openings. This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Beam | Style Flush
\nDescription: It was hard to predict where the beam would rotate to in 3D when the flush style was used.\u00a0 Beam position is now shown in red dotted lines in plan.<\/p>\n

Feature: Elevation | Sun Paint
\nDescription: After saving an elevation drawing with sun study paint.\u00a0 Changing the paint pattern could cause the paint to disappear.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature:\u00a0 False Gable | Fit to Roof
\nDescription:\u00a0 Fitting walls to a false gable roof was not working properly.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n

Feature: Log wall | join
\nDescription: Log walls with wall coverings could cause misplaced surfaces.\u00a0 This has been corrected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Release 2026.3.3 Feature: AI Rendering | Aspect Ratio Description: The AI Render aspect ratio selection has been improved with clearer options: Screen, 16:9, 9:16, and 1:1. Feature: Vegetation Paint | Text Description: Vegetation paint grass was not painting through text including notes, speed notes, and dimensions. This has been corrected. Feature: Roof | Roof Hole […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.softplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.softplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.softplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.softplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.softplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15950"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.softplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17171,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.softplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15950\/revisions\/17171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.softplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}