Platform updates

A measurement's label now takes its own border, text colour and background, separate from the dimension and leader lines.

A proposal's timeline now carries a late start and a late finish beside the early ones, states whether the duration counts working or calendar days, and prints the constraints behind the dates. Float is computed on the internal view, never typed.

The proposal generator now reads an estimate, bid tab or rate sheet (.xlsx or .csv) attached beside the plan set — every sheet, every row — and a long plan read no longer ends in a network error.

When you build a pay item's submittal package, add more than one date range: work in August and work in October, with the September days left out. Each range is at most 90 days; the default title lists every range.

Select a polyline or closed shape and a small circle sits at the middle of each segment: drag it, with a finger or a mouse, and it becomes a new vertex. Alt+click a vertex to remove it, or press and hold it on a touch screen. The tool ribbon shows an arrow at either end when more tools are hidden that way.

In the annotation editor, holding the mouse wheel button and dragging moves the sheet under any tool, and P now switches to the hand like H does. A line no longer starts at zero width, and the calibration field shows what you type.

An annotated photo no longer keeps its file name for life. Rename it from the top of the editor, and find it by that name when you attach a drawing to an activity note or build a submittal package.

A marked-up plan sheet now goes into a pay item's submittal package as the plan sheet itself, pinned to the revision it was drawn on, with the package's own copy of the marks. It zooms as cleanly as the plan viewer. Regenerate an older package to get it.

The Add page menu now asks where the new page goes: after the page you are on, or at the end. Blank pages, pictures, plan and PDF pages, Excel and cross-section pages all follow it, on a phone or a tablet as well as a desktop.

The Daily Reports search now reaches past the report name: a pay item code or description, an activity note, a contractor, a piece of equipment, a material ticket, a delivery or a truck tap session finds the report, and each result says what matched.

A picture laid over a drawing selects by its whole box, so the lines under it could not be clicked. Select the picture for Lock picture, Send to back and Bring to front; a chip unlocks it again. A page that opens short of its record now says so and refuses to save until it reloads whole.

Drag or scale the frame of a photo callout and the picture comes with it; a Crop mode keeps the old behaviour, Fit picture fills the frame, and a circle frame stays a circle.

Paste or drop a picture, or drop a PDF from your computer onto a drawing, and fade it from the Style panel to see the sheet beneath; dropping a PDF on the page rail still imports it as pages.

Turn any page a quarter turn from the page bar — image, blank, plan or PDF; the marks turn with it and the document reopens in that orientation. Text boxes gained alignment and a background control, leaders an arrowhead size.

A calculation box on a plan sheet now lays out its text the same way on your screen and on the exported page, at any zoom, so a cloud drawn around a row prints around that row.

The markup editor from inside the platform, on a sample sheet we drew for it: measure, dimension, cloud, stamp, take a section off the sheet. Nothing is saved.

Box a part of a plan sheet and place it on your markup sheet as the drawing it already is: crisp at any size, with every line, arrow and label still its own object you can move or delete.

Two landscape pages in the real editor: a calc box that evaluates every line with units and a calc table on the same engine, both already started.

Pick your state. Illinois (IDOT and the Tollway) is built; every other state records your request. Superseded 2026-11-07 — Now: Try it on a real DOT spec book. First state built: Illinois. Tell us your DOT.

Three worksheets evaluated by the real engine, then a live worksheet with units you can edit — no account needed to read, an email to try.

CEI inspection, construction PM and bidding, side by side with the tools you know — features as checks and minuses, and what a seat costs per year.

How a ticket captured in the field lands on the daily report for its day and the pay item it pays, so the quantity, the ticket and the report stay one record.

Inspector, project manager and admin seats at the founding rate, locked while you stay subscribed; the Starter Team is $175 for four.

A company of one: your own project, tasks, notes, daily reports and the pay-item atlas. Superseded 2026-11-07: Personal is now a 30-day trial. No credit card. Every feature, with limits.

Every IDOT pay item opens its spec, supplemental spec and construction manual sections. Public, and the same inside a project. Superseded 2026-11-11: IDOT pay items carry specification references; 7,497 of 14,477 open the specification text (14 Oct 2026).

State DOT specifications, manuals and tools, and the platform guides, in one place.