Construction Team v1.12 — Site Drawings on the 3D Model and Element Progress
With Construction Team v1.12 we connect two things that used to live in separate windows — the flat drawing and the three-dimensional model. The drawing now sits precisely over the model, and what you mark on paper points to a specific element in the scene. Around that link we add progress by elements, an act suggestion from what's been built, and a handful of improvements that make day-to-day site work more orderly.
Why this version matters
On site, the drawing and the model answer the same question — "what gets built here" — but in different languages. The drawing is familiar, printed, with dimensions and notes. The model is precise, volumetric, with linked quantities. When the two never meet, the engineer keeps shifting between a sheet of paper and a screen, making the connection in their head.
Version 1.12 makes that connection for them.
Calibrate a drawing onto the IFC model
The first step is getting the drawing into the right place over the model. In the new calibration tool you point at a few matching points on the 2D drawing and on the 3D model, and the system aligns them — scale, offset and orientation are computed automatically.
- Pick reference points you recognise on both (a building corner, an axis, a column)
- Calibration isolates the selected floor so levels don't get mixed up
- Once calibrated, the drawing stays tied to the model — no need to repeat it
The result is a drawing that sits on the model at its real coordinates, not "roughly over the picture".
Overlaid 2D↔3D scene
After calibration comes the overlaid scene — the drawing and the model are seen together, in one view. You switch between the two without losing your bearings: what you're looking at on the drawing is the same thing rotating in the model.
The scene takes the full height of the screen and runs smoothly, because it overlays only the selected floor rather than the whole model at once.
Pins linked to an element
On the overlaid scene you place pins — a note, an issue or a question right where it belongs. The difference from a plain dot on an image is that a pin points to a specific element of the model. So the note carries context: not "somewhere here", but "on this beam".
- A pin from 3D with a reference to the element beneath it
- Pins appear both in the overlay and in the model
- The element link carries the note onward — to the act, to execution
"For review" versions and a bridge to an act
Drawings change. In v1.12 you mark revisions as "for review" — you track which versions are awaiting approval before they become the current ones being worked from.
And the most practical part: from a marked part of the scene you create a bridge to an act — you make an act straight from what you've marked, without opening another screen and filling it in from scratch.
Progress by model elements
Alongside the drawings we add progress by elements. You mark completed elements in the model and they get coloured in — at a glance you see how far construction has progressed, not from a table but on the building itself.
To keep the numbers accurate, each element is linked to a nomenclature item. That way progress on the model is translated into the language of quantities and values you already work with in acts and quantity surveys.
Act suggestion from the model
Once the model knows what's been built and which element matches what, the next step is obvious — the system suggests what to certify. Based on the elements marked as complete you get a ready act proposal to review and adjust, instead of compiling it from nothing.
In this version the suggestion is read-only — you decide what goes into the act.
A more reliable accounting journal
We continue what started in 1.11. The journal now reconciles and backfills itself — if a document is missing an entry, the system finds it and creates it, so the journal stays complete and balanced without manual work. Fewer surprises at month-end.
A tidier "Site"
The detail pages of the field modules — requests, daily logs, inspections, submittals and others — moved to a summary bar at the top like the rest of the system. Status, key dates and the responsible person are in one place, so you see a record's state at a glance, without scrolling.
We also fixed a crash in the Gantt chart on projects with a complex critical path, and minor visual flicker while pages load.
For other countries
The features in 1.12 don't depend on the country — drawings, model, progress, acts and journal work the same way everywhere the system is used.
Where this is heading
The drawing ↔ model ↔ quantities ↔ act chain is the direction we're taking the field in. Version 1.12 closes the first important link — what's marked on the drawing reaches the act without being entered twice. In coming versions we'll deepen progress by elements and automatic act creation.
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