New: scan a plan. From inside a project, or straight from a design form, the scanner reads the scale and the columns off your drawing and hands you a grid to check on the plan itself. You edit it with the same tools you use on a grid you placed yourself, and nothing is designed until you approve it — the engine still designs from what you confirm, never from what the scanner thought. Drawings follow a Nigerian working drawing more closely. Sheets are colour-coded, annotation is sized to read at arm's length on site, and bars are detailed the way a checker expects them. Bar bending schedules now carry a SHAPE column, and beam main bars are bobbed and scheduled to the anchorage BS 8110 credits — so a bent bar is never listed as a length with nothing beside it saying it is bent. Also in this release: - Designs are checked against the conditions BS 8110 puts on its own coefficients. A beam line whose spans differ by more than 15 per cent, or a span shorter than twice its depth, reports FAIL with the reason rather than a confident answer. - The plan editor puts a column on its nearest setting-out line rather than a bay the engine cannot design, and says why. - The storey count you set on a design form now travels with you onto the plan, so a setback is drawn on the level you meant.

New: buildings that step in - a column can stop below the top storey, and each one is designed for the floors it actually carries. The drawings get a column plan per storey. Also new: - Press and hold to drag a column onto its line, with snapping that follows the zoom. - Type bay dimensions straight off the drawing; repeat a bay, or mirror the grid. - The layout checks itself as you edit, and names any column the engine would refuse. - Redo, alongside undo.