MTL Falcon 4+

New Features:
Existing Slope: Rise units
Traditionally, the "Rise" sub-field for Existing Slope in the Product Panel allows you to specify what the "Rise" is in inches. MTL will also accept the degree angle of the existing slope as a Rise value. The software now allows the user to pick which unit they want to use for existing slope (Inches or Degrees)

Talk-to-Tool:
The application now supports voice integration. This allows the user to use their voice to issue commands that used to be done by the D-Pad or touching the screen. There are 3 modes of T2T Voice operation: {Off, Passive, Active}:

Off: The Voice Recognition system is completely off (Helps save battery life)
Passive: The Voice Recognition system is listening, but will not process voice commands until the user says "Hey Falcon". After this trigger phrase, the user will hear a "chirp" and then the next voice the app hears will be processed as a command. This is useful when there are many people around you having conversations or you need to drop to this mode when someone walks up to have a conversation with you
Active: All voice that the app hears will be processed as a command. This is good when you are on the roof alone and gives you quick simple access to fully controlling the software with your voice.
Main Screen Voice Commands:
When you are at the main screen with the roadmap, you can tell the app to add new geometries/miters by simply saying "Add {geometry name}". Certain miters/geometries that have several names. The voice system will process all the different names. For example: "Add Outside Miter" and "Add Outside corner" will both bring up the OutsideMiter modal dialog.

Modal Screen Voice Commands:
All of the different fields for all the different miters/geometries can be set using your voice. You simply use the following phrase:
"set the {fieldName} to {value}"

The Field name is shown on the modal. For foot/inch fields, you simply specify this value. For dropdown fields, you say the name of the dropdown value you want. For example:

"set the width to 18 and three quarters inch"
"set the length to 100 foot 4.5 inches"
"set the angle to 87 degrees"
When you have a geometry/miter that has several widths that are designated "A-Wdith", "B-Width", etc, it can be hard for the voice recognition system to recognize when you call out the letter "A", "B", "C" since they all end in an "ee" sound. Because of this, the software also supports the use of the NATO alphabet to call out these field values. For example:

"set the alpha width to 12 and a half inches"
"set the bravo length to 13 inches"
"set the charlie width to 18.125 inches"
For fields that are dropdowns, you can set these values with your voice by saying the field name and then the dropdown field value. For example:

End Condition:
"set the handedness to left handed"
Or a shortcut: "set the handedness to left"
"set the termination type to end cap"
shortcut: "set the termination to end wall"
Straight Transition:
"set the notch side to outside leg"
Bug Fixes:
Data migration:
As more and more features become available, the data model has evolved. Some of these evolutions has caused issues with newer software working with older projects. There is now a data migration module built into the software that will automatically keep projects synchronized to the level of software that is installed on the iPad

shortcut: "set the notch side to inside"