Releases

Sidebar overhaul & Enhanced dimension support

We’re kicking off the new year with a major update packed with new features, improvements, and bug fixes.

New Features:

• Redesigned sidebar: A cleaner, more intuitive sidebar layout for easier navigation.

• Unverified dimensions filter: Quickly filter to show unverified dimensions, helping you focus on what needs attention.

• Excel formulae in inspection sheets: AI-generated inspection sheets now include Excel formulae.
• Add Note tool: New tool in the toolbar to annotate drawings with notes.

• Intuitive Template Editor: Edit your custom templates just how you want it.

• Characteristic Designators: Automatic and manual detection of Critical parameters.
• Hole dimension parsing: The system now recognizes and parses hole dimensions from drawings.
• Additional dimension notations: Support for more dimension notation formats.
• Views section: Views are auto-highlighted when the Views tab is selected.
• New tolerance standards: Added IS 4897 Class II and ISO 8062 CT-11 casting standards.

Improvements:

• AI templating accuracy: Improved accuracy for AI-powered template auto-fill.
• Dimension inspector UX: Smoother movement of the dimension inspector when zooming in/out.

Bug Fixes:

• Angular dimensions show up with proper formatting in excel sheets.
• Balloons are consistently positioned even on rotated PDFs.
• Improved OCR and parsing of direct limits dimensions with dual values (inch/mm).
• The toolbar no longer moves when the window is resized.

AI-powered templating & Enhanced accuracy

We’re excited to announce or latest release packed with features and enhancements.

New Features:

• Industry leading data extraction: Our recognition engine for dimensions and notes now matches human cognition on accuracy.
• AI auto-fill for inspection plans: Templates are now scanned and filled automatically, saving you tons of time on data entry

• Floating tools panel: Tools moved to a handy floating window so you have more screen space to work.

• Keyboard shortcuts: ‘H’ for hide-detections, ‘V’ for re-ordering by view, ‘A’ for adding a new dimension, etc.
• Precise decimal measurements: You can now enter measurements accurate to 4 decimal places

Improvements:

• Faster performance: Large drawings load and respond more smoothly, even on older computers.
• Hide detections enhancement: Hidden detections reveal themselves on hover, so you’re able to resize them.
• Better measurement reading: Fixed how the system direct-limits format from drawings.
• Bug fixes: Fixed several bugs that customers previously faced on the app .

Formatting options & Improved UI

• Custom balloon styling: Size and colors of balloons can now be customized from the settings panel in the top-right corner.
• Instrument suggestion: Automatic suggestions for measurement instruments, editable in the dimension editing panel.
• Enhanced feature representation: Auto-parsing of more complicated dimensions, such as arcs and chamfers, along with their counts.
• Support for more complex dimension types: Dimension types like ‘Dowel diameter’, ‘Threaded hole’, and others, are now also supported.
• Balloons no longer obscure dimensions: The algorithm to place balloons has been improved. Balloons will now avoid overlapping with nearby dimensions for greater clarity.

Customizable, higher quality exports

We’ve revamped our PDF export functionality to give you more control on appearance.

• Optional highlighting: Previously, dimensions were always highlighted upon download. Now, you can choose to disable this in the settings panel in the top-right corner.

• Connector lines: You can now choose to include connector lines that relate balloons with their corresponding features. This option is also available in the settings panel.

• Smaller file size: Downloaded PDFs are now much lighter.

• Vector drawings: Vector graphics are now preserved in downloaded PDFs, resulting in higher quality images.

Introducing the Lens changelog.

We’ve added this dedicated page to keep you posted on new features, updates, and bug-fixes with every release.

• bug fix: Tolerances now correctly applied to repeat dimensions (12PL, 4X, etc.).
• feature: An all new /releases page.

Improved OCR and TIFF support

With this release, we’ve made significant leaps in our OCR technology, while also improving the user experience for managing different views in an inspection report.

New features

• A new section in the sidebar to see, modify, and rename views.
• Auto-scanning an entire view instantly with the Add view button.
• Adding a new dimension now auto-OCRs it instantly.

Improvements

• Significantly faster and more accurate OCR, tuned for technical drawings.
• Downloaded PDFs have much lower file size.

Standard and custom tolerances

We’ve added support for tolerances in our latest release. You can now select a tolerance standard from our pre-defined collection, or define one on your own. By default, lens supports popular standards like ISO 2768 and ASME Y14.5.

Features

• Auto-scan tolerance specification from a table present in the drawing.
• Define custom tolerances for your drawing.
• Select standard tolerances, like DIN-ISO 2768.

Lens is out of closed beta!

Lens enters an open beta phase, and is generally available to the wider world.

Upload your first drawing and see how Pre6 Lens can speed up your QA process. No sign-up required for your first few tries.

For questions, check out our FAQ page or reach out to us.