Release Date: 2026-01-29
Updated on: 2026-01-29
Authors: Product and Documentation Teams
Contributors: R&D and Professional Services Teams
🚀 Major highlights
Design & Configuration
Article library redesign & enhancements 🧾 Technical documentation
A redesigned, powerful catalog browsing experience that makes finding the right products faster and more intuitive than ever. The modern interface combines advanced search, flexible tag filters, and clear category navigation so users can quickly narrow from a broad catalog to a relevant selection.
Smarter search: toggle between code/description or keyword search with instant results.
Dynamic filtering: apply multiple tag‑based filters to refine results logically.
Visual browsing: switch between list and card views for efficient scanning or rich previews.
This update accelerates article selection, boosts productivity, and enhances configuration workflows across projects.
Wall visibility management 🧾 Technical documentation
This release introduces a new, centralized way to manage wall visibility in the 3D scene. Designers can now control whether walls are shown in a raised or lowered state using intuitive, dedicated controls. This improves clarity during planning and provides a more direct and predictable interaction model, helping streamline the overall design workflow.
Dynamic elevation planning 🧾 Technical documentation
Elevation Mode introduces a focused, wall-by-wall planning experience. Designers can position items vertically and horizontally with greater precision, supported by integrated measurements and ghost items that help validate alignments. This mode enables accurate elevation planning without leaving the main design workflow.
Layer-based design measurements 🧾 Technical documentation
Measurements are now integrated more deeply into the design workflow. Dimensions for walls, openings, furniture, and MEP elements are clearly visualized and updated automatically as the design evolves. Measurements can be enabled or disabled by category, making it easier to verify layouts in both 2D and Elevation views.
Bundles compositions (Macro rules) 🧾 Technical documentation
This powerful feature enables catalog designers and end users to work smarter by managing predefined product configurations through reusable, centrally maintained macro rules.
Why it matters:
For producers: Create standardized bundles that combine product structure, pricing, and configuration rules, ensuring consistency and easy maintenance across catalogs and markets.
For designers: Start from ready-to-use, validated bundles for faster order creation. Customize with available options or fully break down compositions for total design flexibility.
Compositions accelerate workflow, reduce errors, and deliver both speed and precision—empowering teams to design confidently while maintaining full control.
✨ Key improvements
Design & Configuration
Object selection feedback 🧾 Technical documentation
Object selection feedback has been enhanced with a new bounding box–based visualization mode. Instead of outlining complex geometries, selected objects are highlighted using their bounding box, improving readability and consistency. This provides a uniform experience across native and imported 3D models and makes selected objects easier to identify in dense or complex scenes.
Auto-save 🧾 Technical documentation
A new centralized autosave mechanism has been introduced to protect projects automatically while users work. The feature runs in the background, is fully configurable, and helps prevent accidental data loss during long or complex design sessions. By saving work seamlessly, it enhances reliability without interrupting the design process.
Supervisor - Admin Tools
Upcharge library 🧾 Technical documentation
The new Upcharge Library provides a dedicated framework for managing markups, upcharges, and surcharges. Built alongside the existing Discount Library, it keeps pricing logic clearly separated while allowing supervisors to define centralized price increase rules linked to commercial price lists. Upcharges are calculated automatically and consistently during order design, ensuring transparent and predictable pricing behavior.
New Supervisor Experience
New Supervisor Experience: a refreshed and more intuitive interface
With version 5.1.9, we introduce a new Supervisor user interface, designed to deliver a more modern, consistent, and user-friendly experience. The new layout, based on the Cyncly Design System, improves visual consistency and readability, while UI/UX enhancements make navigation smoother and more intuitive.
What’s new:
- Fully refreshed visual layout
- Clearer and more accessible menus
- Quick Access Menu for faster access to key features
A step forward toward a more efficient and user-friendly Supervisor experience.
3CADnext Statistics Dashboard 🧾 Technical documentation
Designed to transform data into actionable insight, this centralized analytics hub gives you full visibility into platform usage and performance—at a glance.
Key benefits include:
Clear, interactive charts tracking projects, users, and activity
Flexible filters by date, shop, and user for deeper analysis
Instant insight into adoption trends and conversion performance
With the Statistics Dashboard, teams can monitor growth, optimize operations, and confidently steer strategy using real, measurable data from across 3CAD Next.
🆕 Notable updates
Content management
3D labels management (Lato 9) 🧾 Technical documentation
Management of 3D labels has been extended with greater flexibility and control. Labels can now be defined through rules to determine which product information is displayed, their visibility can be toggled directly in the 3D environment, and labels can be included in printouts regardless of their on-screen visibility. This separation between visual clarity and documentation requirements improves both design and output quality.
Multilevel BOM management 🧾 Technical documentation
Bills of materials are now displayed in a structured, expandable hierarchy, making even complex assemblies easy to understand. Navigate components effortlessly, gain full visibility across all levels, and communicate product composition with greater confidence and impact.
Supervisor - Admin Tools
Improved Image Quality for Commercial Model Previews #652
Enhanced the quality of the images displayed in the commercial model previews within Supervisor and 3CAD Next. Previews now retain higher resolution, offering a clearer and more accurate representation of the original uploaded image.
What’s improved
Sharper and less compressed model preview images - Better visual consistency between the uploaded image and the displayed preview - No changes required to your workflow.
🔧 Minor changes
Content management
Style customization for Lato 9 🧾 Technical documentation
Text styling options for Lato 9 elements have been expanded. Designers can apply custom styles to labels and text elements, along with enhanced background configuration options, allowing clearer and more consistent visual presentation across projects.
Supervisor - Admin Tools
Direct Documentation Link Added to Supervisor
Added a direct link to the official 3CAD documentation within Supervisor, matching the behavior already available in Next. The link automatically switches between Italian and English based on the UI language.
Available starting from Supervisor version 5.0.1.
🛠️ Fixes & Maintenance
Supervisor - Admin Tools
Fix: Shop and user images not saving in Supervisor #652
Resolved an issue that prevented images uploaded for Shops and Users in Supervisor from being correctly saved. Because of this bug, uploaded images were not shown in Supervisor, 3CAD Next, or printed outputs.
What’s fixed
- Images uploaded in the Shop and User sections are now saved correctly.
- The corresponding visuals are properly displayed across Supervisor, 3CAD Next, and printouts.
- No action is required on your side—everything works as expected again.
Fix: Discount criteria not visible after editing existing discounts #544
Resolved an issue in the Pricing and Discounts module where discount criteria were not displayed correctly when reopening an existing discount for editing. The problem occurred specifically when the Family entity was used as the criterion.
What’s fixed
- The Entity section now remains visible and editable after saving and reopening a discount.
- Discounts that use Family as the criterion behave correctly, consistent with all other entity types.
- The fix is included starting from version 4.2.14.
Fix: Correct deletion of items in “Items per Model” (Supervisor) #484
Resolved an issue where deleting an item from the Items per Model list removed the wrong entry and did not persist after saving. Item deletion now works correctly and changes are properly saved.
Fix available starting from Supervisor version 4.2.24.
Design & Configuration
Fix: OBJ/AR Export now includes all items automatically #28
Resolved an issue where OBJ and AR exports included only manually selected items.
All items in the composition are now automatically included, ensuring complete and accurate AR/OBJ generation without requiring manual selection.
Fix: Unintended zoom-out in 2D view when panning #25
Resolved an issue where the 2D view would unexpectedly zoom out when panning using the mouse wheel click. The configuration can now be moved freely in 2D without unwanted zooming.
Updated frontend version: 16.7.2
Fix: Island cabinets deleted when switching between 2D wall view and 3D #91
Resolved an issue where cabinets placed as an island (not attached to a wall) were unintentionally removed after switching from the new 2D wall view back to the 3D room view.
Island elements now remain intact when navigating between views, ensuring no data loss during room planning.
Fix: Automatic capitalization removed in variant and rule editor descriptions #22
Resolved an issue where the system automatically capitalized the first letter of every word in variant descriptions and in the Rule Editor’s description column.
Text is now displayed exactly as entered by the user, with no forced formatting applied across the frontend.
Content Management
Enhancement: Variant dropdowns now follow custom “Order” field #62
Implemented consistent sorting for variant dropdown options: the Order field defined in Layedit is now respected instead of alphabetical sorting.
If no custom order is defined, the original Layedit entry order is used. Default options are correctly displayed as the first entry.
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