Changelog
What each version brought, newest first. Smaller versions in between are summed up in the next larger one.
- In progress
Being worked on, not in a released version yet.
- Tables placed directly on sheets instead of through a viewport
- The Windows build
- 0.19.2
Building parts only, floor plans without cut marks
- A “Building parts only” switch in the 3D view: the model without the lines, texts and tables lying beside it. Sheets and plots keep them
- Floor plans on a sheet can leave out the sections’ cut marks, as escape plans need. Files that use this are not opened by older versions
- The town hall example reworked: the tea kitchen behind its own passage, radiators clear of the doors, room stamps where nothing else is drawn, the town festival without the escape plan’s signs
- 0.19.1
Sheet bar and several files at once
- The sheet bar scrolls when the window is narrow, and “…” lists every sheet
- Several files opened at once each get a tab
- Switching between sheets is immediate as long as the model does not change
- The interference check no longer gives up at blocks placed with uneven scale
- 0.19.0
Accounts, sharing with people, versions
- Accounts and sharing: sign in with a code, share with people and roles, “My online files” and “Shared with me”
- Versions: automatic and named, with an approved state and restoring
- Work on offline and upload later; on conflicts you choose “Mine” or “Theirs”
- Reserve objects in a live session
- Conversions and permits: PDF/A for permit portals, photo points in the plan, interior elevations per room, rooms and areas per phase, floor openings with a phase
- Check the building envelope, new openings in the demolition quantities, heat load under sloping roofs, quantities as GAEB X31
- Utilities: house connections for water and power in one step, the typical section with utility zones
- Four plan projects built from commands alone: a through-road with a bridge, the renovation of a block of flats, a town hall across every trade, the utilities of a development
- 0.18.0
Civil works, networks, electrical, plumbing and heating
- The app updates itself from this version on
- Earthworks: point import, terrain (also from the states’ elevation models and from PDF plans), quantities with a record and prism list, setting out, LandXML for the machine, design against as-built, Gauss-Krüger to UTM
- Roads: alignments with clothoids and a vertical profile, from OKSTRA and LandXML, editable afterwards; long sections and cross-sections
- Sewers: the network with ISYBAU in and out, house connections
- Networks: ports and connections that move along
- Electrical: boards, circuits, single-line diagram, layout drawing, checks and the documentation folder
- Plumbing and heating: pipework with tees, bill of materials with insulation and ducts, riser diagrams across storeys, isometric, underfloor heating, radiators and manifolds as parts, IFC out and in as a network
- GIS: GeoJSON and Shapefile. The shared view reads well on a phone
- 0.17.0
Shared files stay connected
- A shared file stays connected to its room: opened, it joins by itself; connected, it saves itself
- The viewing link shows a fixed state; Live is a switch
- Publishing for the browser sends only what changed, with progress and cancel, and large plans in a fraction of the size
- Large drawings open in the background with progress
- 0.16.0
Share with one click
- Share with one click: a link to view in the browser and one to take part in the app
- Lighting rigs as MVR in and out
- Recently opened drawings in the File menu and on an empty drawing
- 0.15.0
Working drawings, costs, DWGs from practice
- Working drawings from the same model: details with call-outs, build-ups, structural dimensions, labels per sheet and scale
- Costs by DIN 276 with classified IFC for tendering
- DWGs from practice: 3D solids, AEC plans, meshes and surfaces, damaged files; references including nested ones, read in the background
- Large plans stay fluid: blocks as instances, levels of detail, large files compressed
- Terrain smooth between survey points with breaklines, sub-areas for lawn, beds and paths
- Sections and elevations follow the model
- Automatic saving with recovery copies and the last three versions
- 0.14.0
From the project test “a building permit in Bavaria”
- Cropping for sections and elevations, north arrow, elevations named by compass direction
- Sections label themselves: clear heights, stairs, wall height, roof pitch, height above datum
- Planned terrain, with the existing one dashed
- Materials and colours in elevations
- IFC with surroundings in the site, types, materials, rooms, georeference and terrain in both directions
- Selection and snap in 3D take what you see, nothing through a wall
- 0.10.0
The building model, complete for houses
- From the plot to permit drawings and room book in one program
- Conversions with existing, demolished and new; IFC import; dimension chains; levels
- Columns and beams, curtain walls, terrain, setback areas
- Workspaces per discipline, your own parametric parts, windows and doors as parts, parts in libraries, glTF export
- 0.8.0
2D complete, a model from the 2D plan
- DWG layouts in both directions, rotated viewports, clipped references, jogged radius, merged table cells, feet and inches
- From the 2D plan to the building model: walls from parallel lines, doors and windows from symbols and labels, rooms from room stamps, storeys stacked
- Before it, in 0.6 and 0.7: timber framing with a timber list, and the building model for solid construction with walls, slabs, roofs and stairs
- 0.3.3
Draw order, live floor plans
- Draw order: fills and images cover what lies beneath them. Bring objects to the front, send them back, above or below others; text to front, hatches to back. DWG and DXF bring their order along
- Floor plans as live views of the 3D model: every viewport on a sheet can cut the model at a height, and the plans follow every change to the model
- New fills go beneath the existing lines by themselves, underlay images to the very bottom
- Cleaner sheets: no hairline seams in fills, no holes in PDF where mirrored fills overlap, SVG export with filled areas
- 0.3.2
Festival tools, libraries, styles
- Event planning: fillarea fills areas with blocks in rows, escapedistance measures the way to the nearest exit, arealabel writes square metres and capacity, legend and quantities count what is in the plan
- Block attributes: booth numbers and operators in the block, edited in the properties, to Excel and back with attout and attin, in DWG and DXF both ways
- Symbol libraries as packs: install a library or link a folder of DWG files; the Festival & Event pack ships beside the app
- Text styles with every system font and dimension styles, both to and from DWG
- Layer states for several sheets from one drawing, PDF plans as underlay, STEP open and save
- Polylines with arcs and widths, ellipses, splines, revision clouds, divide and measure, align, find and replace
- Complete object snaps including tracking, linetypes and lineweights, grips and a context menu
- Sheets with title block and several viewports, plotted to vector PDF
- German interface, renamed to FrameMind Linework, drawings saved as .frame
- 0.3.1
DWG
- Open and save DWG, from AutoCAD R12 to the 2018 format, converted in a separate process
- Blocks from DWG and DXF stay blocks, xrefs load from their files
- Several drawings in tabs, each with its own undo, selection and view
- Images as underlays, points with node snap, arcs, polygons, hatches, distance and area
- MCP server: Claude Code works in the open drawing
- Snapping on large plans about 80 times less work
- 0.3
Drafting aids, text and dimensions
- Ortho, polar tracking, grid snap and typed distances
- Offset, trim, extend and arrays
- Revolve, sweep and loft
- Text and dimensions, external references
- interference finds solids that overlap, for people and for Duck
- 0.2
The assistant arrives
- The assistant runs the app’s commands, every step visible, one undo for a whole run
- Rectangle, circle and polyline; copy, rotate, mirror and scale; window and crossing selection
- Blocks, layers with colours and transparency, DXF layers
- The interface with ribbon, browser, properties, command line and status bar
- 0.1
First prototype
- Core with transactions, undo and stable ids
- Open CASCADE solids and Boolean operations
- Command line with absolute, relative and polar points
- 3D view on Metal with endpoint snap
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The app is free, for professional work too, without an account or a licence key.
- Product
- FrameMind Linework
- Version
- 0.19.2
- Date
- 13 November 2026
- Platform
- macOS, Apple silicon
- Windows
- in preparation
- Price
- free