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Everything that's landed in Groundwork Takeoff, newest first. Subscribers and maintenance-plan owners get every one of these automatically.

July
2026

Cloud Library New

Your plan sets now follow you. Open a set at the office, pick it up on the laptop or iPad — same document, same takeoffs, synced automatically in the background. Documents are matched by their content, so the same PDF is recognized as the same document on every device, even after edits.

Steadier live collaboration on big sets Improved

Multi-sheet sessions got a rebuilt engine under the hood: each sheet now syncs independently, so two estimators working a 200-page set see each other's markups faster and more reliably.

PDF compression, PDF/A, and Office conversion New

Shrink bloated scan sets down to emailable sizes, export archival PDF/A for closeout, and drop Word/Excel/PowerPoint files straight into the app — they convert to PDF and join your set.

Markup rotation + editing polish Improved

Rotate any markup freely. Right-click menus, layering (bring-to-front / send-to-back), and the properties editor all got cleaned up, and the sidebar is now resizable.

Support center & seat management New

A proper support portal is live — submit questions or bug reports from the website and a human replies, usually same day. Companies on team plans can now have seats assigned and managed per person.

Set as default PDF app on macOS New

Double-click any PDF in Finder and it opens in Groundwork Takeoff.

June
2026

AI measure suggestions AI

The AI now proposes full measurements — not just counts. It suggests, you approve; nothing enters your takeoff without your click.

AI-assisted redaction AI

Flag sensitive content across a set and redact it in one pass before drawings leave the office.

Smart scale & dimension chains New

Sheet scales are detected automatically (verify once, override anytime), and dimension chains keep continuous strings of dimensions consistent as you adjust them.

Formula evaluator New

Type math anywhere a quantity goes — (24*3)+8 just works, unit-aware.

AI sheet auto-classify + natural-language search AI

Sheets sort themselves by discipline, and you can search a set the way you'd ask a person — "second floor electrical" finds it.

Customizable ribbon New

Rearrange the toolbar to match how you actually work (Settings → Customize Ribbon).

Precision & fraction display Improved

Measurement labels honor your precision settings — decimals or feet-and-inches fractions, your call.

May
2026

Touch: pinch-zoom & two-finger pan New

Full touch gestures for tablets and touchscreen laptops — the iPad experience got dramatically better.

Search overlay, minimap & recent files New

Jump anywhere in a big set with the minimap, find anything with the search overlay, and reopen recent plan sets in one click.

Undo/redo everywhere + copy/paste + themes Improved

Deep undo history across takeoffs and markups, copy/paste for markups, align/distribute tools, and a light/dark theme toggle.

April
2026

Multi-document tabs New

Work several plan sets side by side in tabs, Acrobat-style.

PDF power tools New

Combine PDFs, add headers/footers and text (full international font support), open password-protected files, manage bookmarks and forms, and crop pages without breaking takeoff geometry.

True redaction New

Mark-then-apply redaction that actually removes content — not a black box drawn over it.

Per-symbol properties & revision links Improved

Every placed symbol gets its own properties editor, and markups can link to revision-log entries for a clean audit trail.

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