📢 3CAD Next Release Notes - April 2026

Viewmaker now offers improved control over how technical views are managed and exported. Users can explicitly choose which views are included in the Viewmaker output and exclude unnecessary or intermediate views that are not relevant for documentation or presentation.

In addition, views can be renamed using custom aliases directly from the Viewmaker panel. These aliases improve clarity and readability when working with multiple views and are preserved for export and downstream processes.
Together, these changes make it easier to organize complex projects, reduce confusion in generated documentation, and produce clearer, more consistent outputs.

• Item grouping for walls and islands 🧾 Technical documentation

Viewmaker now groups all elements that belong to the same composition into a single, coherent elevation and top view, even when elements are not physically connected to a wall or perfectly aligned.
This applies to both wall‑based and island‑based compositions, ensuring that detached but logically related elements are always shown together.
Island elements placed on the same side (front or back) are grouped into one virtual wall, including finishing components such as flanks and panels.
As a result, elevations and plan views are complete, consistent, and easier to read, improving reliability for design validation and documentation.

Object numbering in Viewmaker has been redesigned to improve readability and flexibility in complex layouts. Numbering markers now reposition dynamically to remain visible and legible, even when objects overlap or are partially hidden by other components.

In addition, users can customize the appearance of numbering markers through configuration settings, including shape, colors, font properties, and size.
The new system improves clarity in technical drawings and printouts while remaining fully compatible with existing catalogs and legacy projects.

Linear dimensions in Viewmaker now snap to predefined angular intervals when geometric snap points are not available. This prevents slightly angled or misaligned dimension lines and ensures straight, clean projections.

The snapping logic is consistent with the behavior used when drawing walls, resulting in more readable and professional technical drawings. If the feature is not configured, existing behavior remains unchanged, ensuring full backward compatibility.

Example configuration

{
"viewMaker": {
"linearQuoteAngle": 15
  }
}
``

Viewmaker localization has been improved to support fully translatable view names defined in viewmaker.json. View definitions now separate translatable and non‑translatable parts, allowing localized labels to be combined dynamically at runtime.

This enhancement ensures that technical drawings and exported documentation display consistent, correctly localized view names across supported languages. It improves clarity for international teams and reduces the need for manual adjustments in multilingual environments.

✨ Key improvements

Backup management for catalogs and layers 🧾  Technical documentation

This release introduces advanced component visibility controls that help designers inspect, analyze, and refine compositions more effectively. Individual components can now be temporarily hidden or displayed with transparency, allowing users to focus on specific layers of the design without permanently altering the configuration.

These controls are particularly useful when verifying internal layouts, alignments, or structural relationships, such as inspecting cabinet interiors, checking the positioning of appliances, or validating wall‑mounted elements.
By reducing visual clutter and improving focus, these enhancements streamline design validation and review workflows.

This enhancement enables the definition of reusable, extended Physically Based Rendering (PBR) materials that can be consistently applied to linear elements—such as worktops, backsplashes, plinths, cornices, and similar components—across multiple projects, ensuring visual consistency and reducing redundant material setup.

The extended definition supports colors, textures, transparency, normal and bump maps, roughness, metalness, and additional PBR parameters.
This enables more accurate visual representation, greater reuse of material definitions, and better alignment between catalog data, rendering, and configuration logic.

Syntax (fixed parameter order)

!WCOLOREEXTENDED <colorVarName>,<baseColorName>,
<r>,<g>,<b>,
<Tex>,<s1>,<s2>,<trasp>,
<BitmapBW>,<Effetto>,<xAng>,
<roughness>,<xBump>,<ampBump>,<metallica>,
<fps>,<dtx>,<dty>,
<bumpsx>,<bumpsy>,<bwsx>,<bwsy>,
<metsx>,<metsy>,<bwScale>,
<roughness_map>,<specular_power>,
<aoMap>,<aoMapIntensity>

A new CurrencyInfo table introduces a centralized and extensible currency registry for commercial pricing. This table is designed to support the multi‑pricelist system and future pricing scenarios, providing a structured way to manage available currencies across environments.

By centralizing currency definitions, this update improves consistency, reduces configuration errors, and lays the foundation for more advanced commercial and pricing workflows.

The handling of measure‑type variant values has been standardized to ensure consistent and predictable behavior across the system. Numeric values are now interpreted uniformly across metric and imperial measurement systems, with explicit support for negative values.

Normalization occurs only when minimum or maximum limits are explicitly defined, aligning frontend behavior with backend logic and removing implicit adjustments that previously caused inconsistencies.
This update improves reliability, transparency, and configurability when working with measurement‑based variants.

The interaction between wall and floor selection and variant catalogs has been refined. Selecting a wall or floor in the 3D environment no longer automatically opens the corresponding variant panel.

Variants are now opened only when explicitly requested, while normal selection, navigation, and multi‑wall planning behavior remain unchanged.
This reduces interruptions during design and significantly improves usability in complex or multi‑wall scenarios.

When copying a sales order that includes a 3CAD project, the system now automatically creates a clone of the original project instead of reusing it. Each copied order is linked to a new, independent project, while still starting from the existing design.

This prevents unintended changes to the original project, reduces the risk of data corruption, and allows sales teams to reuse designs safely and efficiently when duplicating orders.

3CAD Next now allows the browser tab title to be customized using project information such as Project Name and Project ID. When working with multiple open projects or orders, this makes it easier to identify the correct tab at a glance.

The updated behavior improves navigation efficiency, reduces the risk of working in the wrong project, and supports smoother multitasking—especially for users managing multiple designs simultaneously.