CS Design Artisan RV

Version: **.4.1 - Date: 29 July 2026

Feature Enhancements

• Revit 2027 - Support added for Revit 2027.

Bug Fixes

• Worksharing - Fixed a performance issue that, in some scenarios, caused subsequent synchronisations and local saves after plant placement to take significantly longer than expected.

Version: **.4.0 - Date: 04 May 2026

Feature Enhancements

• Seed Mixes - Infrastructure changes made to support Seed Mix palettes and placement. Functionality will be exposed in the next release.
• Virtual Desktop Environments - License deactivation settings aligned with Buddy App release 1.0.44. Refer to online documentation for more details - https://palette.csdhub.com/help/index.htm?page=Artisan_Deployment_in_Virtual_Desktop_Environments.htm.

Version: **.3.99 - Date: 19 January 2026

Bug Fixes

• Add Area Plant - If an area plants hidden label instance type is forcibly changed (either intentionally or by mistake), the Add New Area Planting will return an error in some scenarios. Now corrected.

Version: **.3.98 - Date: 13 November 2025

Feature Enhancements

• Deactivate Licenses - License release routines added to user session logoff and machine shutdown events. This will result in licenses being released in virtual machine environments where a VM session is forcibly released (shutdown).

Bug Fixes

• RV 2026 - Revit 2026 introduced a new Sub-divisions category that was a child of Toposolid. This resulted in AR_Location shared parameter failing on Sub-division elements. Now corrected.
• Tree Pits - Missing template tree pit type fixed.
• Split planting on Sub-divisions - A number of bugs fixed and improvements made to split tool when source object is a Sub-Division.

Version: **.3.97 - Date: 02 September 2025

Bug Fixes

• Split Topo Sub Divide - Splitting area planting hosted on Toposolid Sub Divides would fail. Now corrected.
• Topo to Floor - Now more stable when converting Sub Divides.

Version: **.3.96 - Date: 25 August 2025

Feature Enhancements

• Revit 2026 - RV now supports Revit 2026.

Bug Fixes

• External Process - RV 2025 has had several external process calls corrected where they would previously have returned an error (external calls such as a windows explorer window being launched or a URL opened in a web control). Now corrected.
• Plant Browser - Launching the plant browser with no plants present in the model would return an error. Now corrected.
• Plant Browser - Delete area and split planting commands was not removing previous area mass planting associated with the area. Now corrected.

Version: **.3.95 - Date: 28 May 2025

Bug Fixes

• Topo to Floor - Site regions whose edges are coincidental with natural creases in the underlying terrain may fail to convert. Now corrected.

Version: **.3.94 - Date: 15 May 2025

Feature Enhancements

• Area Planting Massing - Enhanced area planting to create naturalistic massing visuals for single species groupings or mixes that adapts dynamically as planting is aged.

Bug Fixes

• Area Planting on TopoSolid - Area fills were being skipped if the source object being planted was a TopoSolid. Now corrected.

Version: **.3.93 - Date: 12 March 2025

Feature Enhancements

• Place Single Planting - Improved performance on placement of singular planting when placed in projects with large linked files.

Version: **.3.92 - Date: 30 December 2024

Feature Enhancements

• GlobalSign Certificate - Code signing certificates updated on all source object files.

Version: **.3.91 - Date: 12 July 2024

Bug Fixes

• Fencing - Following some tagging changes in previous releases, the place fence command would return an error. Now corrected.

Version: **.3.90 - Date: 03 April 2024

Bug Fixes

• Tree Pits - Following the support of topo solids the creation of tree pits on topo surfaces would fail. Now corrected.

Version: **.3.89 - Date: 15 February 2024

Bug Fixes

• Plant Browser, Substitute Plant - When substituting plants, the "quantity" properties like centres, etc are adopted from the original plant. Unfortunately, if the centres of the target plant was 0 then this would take precedences resulting in an invalid centre of zero. Now corrected.

Version: **.3.88 - Date: 13 February 2024

Feature Enhancements

• Swales and Mounds - Swales and Mounds have been added to Linear Features (previously named Linear Path) which can be cut into or placed on top of topographies.

Bug Fixes

• Single and linear plant placement - Placing plants is now restricted to finding hosts that are only within the view range of the view. Previously, topographies took precedence and if one existed above the target level then plants would be hosted to the topo rather than the active level. Now corrected.
• Single plant placement - Plants placed on Topos where being offset rather than being hosted on teh topo surface. Now corrected to be hosted.

Version: **.3.87 - Date: 24 October 2023

Bug Fixes

• Linear Path Placement - Some debug routines were left in the linear path routine resulting in additional log files attempting to be created in folders that may not exist. Now corrected.

Version: **.3.86 - Date: 17 October 2023

Feature Enhancements

• Spot Dimension - Options to add spot dimension to linear and singular planting added to Other Utilities ribbon panel.

Bug Fixes

• Linear Plant Placement, Hedge - When projecting onto a 3D surface, Artisan may fail to detect a floor. This was due to a view Id rather than the views Level Id being passed into a function. Now corrected.

Version: **.3.85 - Date: 15 September 2023

Feature Enhancements

• Shadow Analysis - This tool has been expanded to allow the optional creation of filled shadow regions. You will see the option (and guidance) towards the bottom of the Shadow Analysis form.

Version: **.3.84 - Date: 14 August 2023

Feature Enhancements

• Fill Floor Voids - Fills any floor voids with a separate floor of your choice with a plus, minus or no offset. The filled floors can then be planted. Look for Artisan - Utilities - Floor Tools - Fill Floors Voids

Bug Fixes

• Area Planting - Artisan would factor in "holes" within a floor when planting but only if that "hole" was part of the boundary. Types of "Floor Opening" were being ignored. Now corrected to also include geometry as a result of floor openings.

Version: **.3.83 - Date: 15 February 2023

Feature Enhancements

• IFC ReMapping - Remaps Family, Type and Parameter names in IFC Exports. Made available to some customers for testing.

Version: **.3.82 - Date: 17 January 2023

Bug Fixes

• Licensing fingerprint - In some scenarios, particularly laptops that dock, the fingerprint was not being generated consistently depending on the docked state of the laptop. This resulted in duplicate licenses being issued. Now corrected.

Version: **.3.81 - Date: 04 November 2022

Feature Enhancements

• Plant Browser - Significant performance improvements when loading the plant browser.
• Plant Browser, Swap Symbol - New swap symbol feature added that allows plan and elevation symbols (on linear and singular planting) to be swapped out.

Bug Fixes

• Plant Browser, Edit properties - Editing plant properties on large files (centres, etc) may have resulted in an overflow (lock up). Now resolved.

Version: **.3.80 - Date: 20 June 2022

Bug Fixes

• Area Tags - The placement of area planting tags might sometimes be out of view scope when tagging planting hosted on floors. Now corrected.
• Move Area Planting - Moving an area plant will trigger the area plant updater to rehost the planting and the hidden placeholder families to the new location. With mix plants only the first plant item in the mix was being relocated. Whilst this did not affect the plant numbers this bug has now been fixed which will keep the hidden instances in close proximity to the host object.
• Move Concept Area Planting - If concept planting was moved right after placement, the graphic fill would not move with the host object.

Version: **.3.79 - Date: 16 May 2022

Feature Enhancements

• Revit 2023 - ArtisanRV now supports Revit 2023. Install via the Buddy App (Licensing) or download via the csdhub.com web site.
• Singular Plants - Singular plants, if placed over a floor are now hosted on that floor. Prior to this the family instance was not hosted but instead had its offset properties set to bring it to the correct Z coordinate.
• Concept Plant Tagging - Concept plant tagging now targets the hidden placeholder family rather than the filled region objects that make up the visual aspect of the plant. This will allow the planting tags to move to "Planting Category" in future releases. Currently, the Artisan tags are Multi Category.

Bug Fixes

• Single Planting Updater - A number of bugs relating to the single planting updater have been fixed. These mainly revolved around the connecting lines.
• Foliage / Flower Colour - Foliage and flower colours had been defaulting to green. Now corrected to reflect there colours as per their palette settings.

Version: **.3.78 - Date: 29 March 2022

Bug Fixes

• Split Area Planting - If the selected area planting was hosted on a floor and that floor had 3D points (is not flat), then the split routine would flattening the resulting split floors. Now corrected to maintain the 3D points.
• Split Area Planting - If split line did not pass completely over the area being split then an error would occur resulting in corrupt planting. Now corrected.
• Split Area Planting - Planting on Site Regions (Topos) would not split. Now corrected.

Version: **.3.76 - Date: 04 February 2022

Feature Enhancements

• Code Signing Certificate - New certificate incorporated to replace expiring one.

Version: **.3.75 - Date: 10 January 2022

Feature Enhancements

• Installers - The installers have been updated to include files added via the update service. This enables the uninstaller to remove all files.

Bug Fixes

• ArtisanRV Ribbon - Following update 22.3.73, if the Artisan ribbon was selected while no projects / documents where open Revit would crash with a fatal error. Now corrected.

Version: **.3.74 - Date: 02 November 2021

Feature Enhancements

• In Dialog Web Requests - The in dialog web request control has been updated to use the latest web control that supports HTML5 standards.

Version: **.3.73 - Date: 25 October 2021

Feature Enhancements

• Family Editor Mode - All Artisan commands have now been disabled if the family editor is active.

Bug Fixes

• Citrix Mode - In some Citrix configurations registry key permissions were being reset resulting in a startup error on launching Revit. Now corrected.
• Excel Import - An unhandled exception has been dealt with if there are excel automation issues when importing existing tree surveys.

Version: **.3.72 - Date: 15 October 2021

Feature Enhancements

• Custom Elevation Symbols - It is now possible to add your own custom elevation symbols imported from AutoCAD. Load the custom symbols import dialog from Planting - Graphics - Custom Symbols.

Version: **.3.71 - Date: 11 October 2021

Bug Fixes

• Proxy Settings - Some customers would occasionally get a launch error regarding a Proxy settings registry key. Proxy settings are now automatic and the offending code has now been removed.

Version: **.3.70 - Date: 30 September 2021

Bug Fixes

• Existing Tree Placement - Selecting the option "The project is geographically align" before importing any trees would result in a vatal error. Now corrected.
• Concept Planting - Removing connecting lines from singular concept planting would result in a runtime error. Now corrected.

Version: **.3.69 - Date: 14 September 2021

Feature Enhancements

• Rebranding - All forms amended to reflect CS Design rebranding to CloudScapes.

Bug Fixes

• Plant Browser Substitute Planting - Following update **.3.63, substitute planting through the plant browser would return an error due to a tagging issue. Now resolved.
• Place Fencing - Since Linear planting coverage was introduced the place fence command would ignore the input post centres resulting in one panel per line. Now corrected.

Version: **.3.68 - Date: 08 September 2021

Feature Enhancements

• AutoDesk App Store - Contextual help links added to all Ribbon commands as per Autodesk App Store requirements.

Version: **.3.67 - Date: 01 September 2021

Feature Enhancements

• AutoDesk App Store - Changes and improvements to support CS applications launching on the Autodesk App Store.

Version: **.3.65 - Date: 10 June 2021

Bug Fixes

• Placeholder Family - Following update **.3.63, for linear and area planting we now tag the hidden family. The hidden family mistakenly had a reference plane bound the the height of the plant. This resulted in the Tag being placed at the wrong Z location and would therefore sometimes be out of view. Now resolved.

Version: **.3.64 - Date: 04 June 2021

Bug Fixes

• Shared Parameters - Following update **.3.63, under certain scenarios with legacy files, planting may fail owing to an error with attaching shared parameters to planted objects. Now resolved.

Version: **.3.63 - Date: 26 May 2021

Feature Enhancements

• Isolate Plants - A new isolate plant feature has been added that will isolate all planting components that make a specific plant type making it easier to identify plants in a busy view.
• Plant Codes - Plant codes have been moved to a type parameter which was possible following some type name changes to planting mix types. This has aided the tagging revamp. Also, Plant Code Count is automatically maintained whether you are showing compact plant code tags or not, aiding a switch to compact tags at any time of the design process without the need to add unique plant counts.
• Tagging - More distinct and flexible tagging options added that cover detail tagging, compact tagging and type mark tagging.
• All features above are documented in the help file.

Bug Fixes

• Various minor bugs fixed.

Version: **.3.61 - Date: 26 February 2021

Bug Fixes

• Years to Ultimate Height - In rare conditions the server may return "No Data" for the "Years to Ultimate Height" attribute which would cause an un-handled error when placing linear or singular plants. This has now been corrected.

Version: **.3.60 - Date: 25 February 2021

Bug Fixes

• Linear and Singular placement - Plant placement uses raytracing to locate the top surface of the host object receiving the plant. With internal planting (or planting on buildings) this may result in the plant being placed on host objects on different levels to the active one. This has now been corrected.

Version: **.3.59 - Date: 11 November 2020

Feature Enhancements

• Root balls for Existing trees - Root ball feature added to existing trees. See help file for details.

Version: **.3.58 - Date: 24 August 2020

Bug Fixes

• Citrix Mode - Following update xx.3.57, a bug was introduced that would cause the Add-In to crash at Revit shutdown without relinquishing the licence. Now fixed.

Version: **.3.57 - Date: 09 August 2020

Bug Fixes

• Citrix Mode - Various bugs and improvements to licensing deactivation routines when working in Citrix Mode.

Version: **.3.56 - Date: 19 June 2020

Feature Enhancements

• Linear Planting - A percentage coverage option has been added for linear planting.

Version: **.3.55 - Date: 29 May 2020

Bug Fixes

• Create New and Edit Planting Dialog - The plant properties table would not show a scroll bar for those mixes whose number would push the table height beyond its limits. Now corrected.

Version: **.3.54 - Date: 26 May 2020

Feature Enhancements

• Linear Planting - Options added for Avenue Planting, Ornamental Hedge, Native Hedge. New edge graphic if placing any of the hedge options and colour fill now supported.

Bug Fixes

• Plant browser - changing properties (Root Ball for example) on a single mix item would change the value for all items in the mix. Now fixed.
• Plant browser - Changing the spec height in the plant browser for linear no longer crashes Revit.

Version: **.3.51 - Date: 21 April 2020

Bug Fixes

• Plan Symbols - Following update xx.3.50, the default plan symbols may not be set for the given plant class if that plant had a sub class name of anything other than "Palm", ie, Rose, etc. The error would occur on placing new planting and selecting a mix whose items may have a sub class set. Now fixed.

Version: **.3.50 - Date: 20 April 2020

Feature Enhancements

• Linear Plant Overlay - Linear planting now supports overlay planting in a similar way to how area planting does.

Version: **.3.49 - Date: 06 April 2020

Feature Enhancements

• Disabled Mode - If Artisan RV is disabled, the Add-In will now load the 'updaters'. These are responsible for maintaining data integrity if the area / linear / singular items are resized / moved / deleted.

Bug Fixes

• Work-sharing, Reload Latest - The event that tells Artisan RV when the user has run the command 'Reload Latest' was not firing which may result, under some circumstances, in some Artisan schema objects being dropped between syncs. This would result in the planted object not responding to the 'Edit Planting' command. This has now been resolved.
• Singular planting - The update triggers where not being assigned to singular plants that were added as a result of a sync or reload. Now fixed.

Version: **.3.48 - Date: 12 March 2020

Feature Enhancements

• Custom Plan Symbols - Custom plan symbol options have been added for linear and singular planting. To access the tool, load the "Create Plant" and click on the new "Custom Symbol" icon top right corner and follow any guidance notes.

Version: **.3.47 - Date: 12 February 2020

Bug Fixes

• Licensing - Customers using docked laptops would get an inconsistent hardware fingerprint resulting in persistent re-licensing of the Artisan products based on whether they were docked or not.

Version: **.3.46 - Date: 13 January 2020

Feature Enhancements

• Topo to Floor tool - New option added to ignore the effects of sub-regions when converting topos to floors.

Bug Fixes

• Topo to Floor tool - Enhancements to the boundary detection routine resulting in better success rate on complex topos.

Version: **.3.45 - Date: 06 January 2020

Feature Enhancements

• New plant browser - New plant browser added that includes a basic graphical layout in the right hand panel. Use to quickly browse and amend planting properties on mass.

Bug Fixes

• Licensing Check - Systems with multiple fixed internal network cards may have difficulty in checking an existing licence if plugged into another network other than the one it was originally registered on. Now fixed.

Version: **.3.44 - Date: 08 November 2019

Feature Enhancements

• Improved Single Plant Placement - New method for placing singular planting results in immediate sizing feedback. Previously all singlular items in a group had to be placed followed by an Escape to trigger the sizing properties.

Bug Fixes

• Plan Symbols - Plan symbols were being reset to defaults on plant edit. Now Corrected.

Version: **.3.43 - Date: 05 November 2019

Feature Enhancements

• Log File Added - New option added in Artisan - About - Info - Settings for the creation of a log file. This will enable the retrieval of additional information by the development team in the event of operational issues.
• Parameter Updater - The plant specification height is held in the parameter AR_Height and is typically of the format 100cm-150cm. If this parameter value was changed outside of the Artisan interface the corresponding AR_PlantingHeight parameter (that influences the model height) would not have been changed. A new Updater feature has now been added that links AR_Height to AR_PlantingHeight no matter where it is updated from. So if you change AR_Height from 100cm-150cm to 150cm-200cm then the plant height will increase by 50cm. This was previously only achievable by editing the parameter through the Artisan Edit dialog.

Version: **.3.42 - Date: 28 October 2019

Feature Enhancements

• Coverage Percentage - Area planting now supports the concept of % Coverage. The new input can be found when creating / editing area plants within the planting properties table. This will allocate planting to the defined percentage of the selected area thus reducing calculated plant numbers proportionately.

Version: **.3.41 - Date: 22 October 2019

Feature Enhancements

• Substitute Concept to Detail Planting - Using the split button at "Planting - Create Detail - Substitute Planting" you can now substitute your concept planting to detail.
• Over / Under Planting - Area planting now supports the over and under planting. This affectively allows the planting of more than one palette item to each area element. Refer to help file for more details.
• Pattern Fill menus - All pattern fill drop down menus now include a colour fill icon revealing the colour of the pattern (if any).
• Concept Planting - Singular concept planting now support connector lines and tagging options have been enhanced.

Version: **.3.40 - Date: 03 July 2019

Bug Fixes

• Terrain Tools - Various bugs fixed relating to the placement of linear paths and area pads on topos resulting in either a continuous loop error, or wild terrain results.

Version: **.3.39 - Date: 28 June 2019

Bug Fixes

• Area Edge Graphic - If a model has an old legacy area edge graphic family loader it can prevent the placement of area planting if the edge graphic option is ticked. The system now allows the placement in this scenario and gives instructions on how to rectify the problem.

Version: **.3.38 - Date: 28 June 2019

Bug Fixes

• Language Support - A number of parameters where being referred to by their literal names ("Area", "Surface Area", etc) resulting in errors if running Revit in any language other than ENG. Now corrected to use Revits Built In parameter references.
• Root Ball - Corrected a minor bug that would prevent root balls being created in phased design options.

Version: **.3.37 - Date: 25 June 2019

Feature Enhancements

• Concept Planting - Concept planting modules have been added to the planting panel of the ribbon.
• Plant Delete - New delete planting option added to ribbon for more rapid deletion of planted objects.
• Revit 2020 - Support for Revit 2020 now built in.

Bug Fixes

• Area Update Triggers - Update triggers attached to planting areas of type FilledRegion would be triggered when changing the view scale resulting in all planting hosted on Filled Regions to be re-planted. Now corrected.

Version: **.3.36 - Date: 29 April 2019

Feature Enhancements

• Citrix Support - Artisan RV can now run in and be licenced in a Citrix environment. Requires Auto Update Service 1.0.17.

Bug Fixes

• Design Options - Planting / Fencing is projected onto the nearest supporting surface (Topo, Floor, etc). Previously, this would include elements on ANY design option which may not yield the intended results. Routines have now been updated to include only items that are part of the active design option.

Version: **.3.35 - Date: 27 March 2019

Feature Enhancements

• Root Ball - Root ball features enhanced including new root barrier and trim feature.
• Root Barrier Schedule - Basic root barrier schedule added to template.
• Auto De-Activate Support - The product can now de-activate automatically at the end of each Revit session. Required AutoUpdate Service and Buddy App version 1.0.16.

Version: **.3.34 - Date: 25 February 2019

Bug Fixes

• Edit Area Planting, Single Species (Non-Mix) - Following update **.3.33 a problem was introduced that would result in an error when trying to edit an area plant object (Single Species only). Now corrected.
• Floor Level Change - Improvements made to the update process of planting that is hosted on levels that subsequently have their levels changed.

Version: **.3.33 - Date: 04 February 2019

Bug Fixes

• Area Mix Numbers - A problem was identified whereby the planting numbers for area mixes might be incorrect. An issue with the substitute plant routine was identified and fixed to correct the issue. A retrospective fix tool is available from the General Add-In tab - External Tools - Artisan RV: Correct Area Plant Numbers. If you suspect the numbers are incorrect then run this tool to correct the issue.
• Ultimate Spread - If an ultimate spread is not provided in the palette then RV will assume one based on the class. If a class cannot be determined then a default of 1 foot is used. Unfortunately a bug was introduced that resulted in this default figure reverting to -1 resulting in a negative height error when placing planting. Now corrected.

Version: **.3.32 - Date: 31 January 2019

Bug Fixes

• Edit Area Planting - Quick fix to rectify a problem with planting mixes that have zero centres (ie, a seeded grass mix). Previously this was causing Revit to crash. Now corrected. Future releases will include a filter within the current plant number schedules to exclude plants of form type "Seed" with a separate schedule dedicated to planting that is quantified on an area bases (ie, grass / lawns).

Version: **.3.31 - Date: 30 January 2019

Feature Enhancements

• Hedge - Hedge placement now supports Staggered planting.
• Tags / Labels - The position of existing Tags is maintained during a plant edit that requires "re-planting".

Version: **.3.30 - Date: 03 January 2019

Feature Enhancements

• Hedge - Hedge placement routine improved to include a new "Voxel" style graphic to bring the graphics in line with other linear / area planting. Hedges now also respond to the Voxel / Primitive toggle feature in using the "Graphics Visibility" form.
• Area Planting - Area plant massing family has been replaced reducing the file size and increasing performance.

Bug Fixes

• Edit Planting - If planting properties were edited using the standard Edit form then the corresponding parameters were not being updated. Now corrected.
• A number of minor linear placement bugs have been fixed.

Version: **.3.29 - Date: 14 December 2018

Bug Fixes

• Create Planting - In a fresh template, under certain conditions, the creation of the custom Artisan RV Filled Region Type would fail. The type is created the first time the user selects Create Planting. Issue now corrected.

Version: **.3.28 - Date: 10 December 2018

Feature Enhancements

• Edit Planting - For the most part, edit planting has moved to one button. The tool now determines whether you have selected Area, Linear or Singular planting and loads the appropriate dialog. The exception is if you want to edit multiple singular items for which there is a separate button in the pull down menu.
• Drop Connecting Lines - Singular plants have the option of including connecting lines. There is now a simple option to drop them from the Edit menu.
• Convert Linear to Singular - New tool added to convert linear planting items to singular with connecting lines.
• Singular planting - You now have the option of switching the connecting lines on or off during singular plant edits.
• New help file added.

Bug Fixes

• Grow Linear (Mixes) - growth routine was not capped at the plants ultimate growth resulting in oversized plants.
• Planting Upgrade - If a plant upgrade was required between build versions the Planting Height and Spread parameters were being missed resulting in a change of plant size following the upgrade.
• Edit Singular - Editing a single plant that was part of a group (connecting lines) would result in the plant number reverting to 1no.
• Edit Planting - The tagging option was hidden when selecting linear or singular planting. Now corrected

Version: **.3.27 - Date: 01 December 2018

Feature Enhancements

• Linear and Singular planting - Elevation and Plan Symbology options added to planting dialog.
• RPC - RPC Content added to linear and singular families.
• Visibility Options - Visibility options added for controlling the display of above symbology along with the new 3D forms (Primitive / Voxel / RPC modes).

Version: **.3.25 - Date: 04 July 2018

Feature Enhancements

• Shadow Analysis - Major performance enhancements made to the ray trace process.

Bug Fixes

• Shadow Analysis - On selecting multiple target objects (Floors) for shadow analysis, the calculated bounding box may have been incorrect leading to a reduced area being analysed.

Version: **.3.24 - Date: 11 June 2018

Bug Fixes

• Shadow Analysis - An option has been added to selected the target 3d view. The target view is used to process the rays and should have all required elements visible through visibility settings. Previously, the system would select the first 3D view found and if that view had elements switched off through visibility settings then those elements would not contribute to the shadow study.

Version: **.3.23 - Date: 06 June 2018

Bug Fixes

• Fix Fence Panel - Following update xx.3.20 the fixed fencing panel was not allowing a negative value that defined the height difference between neighbouring post resulting in a "Cannot make Type" error during the family upgrade process. Now corrected.
• Area Planting Updater - Under some scenarios, the area updater would fail when unpinning an area object. Now corrected.
• Area Planting Tags - If an area plant object (Topo, Floor, Region) was already tagged with a non Artisan tag, Artisan was not able to tag the element with its own family tag. Now corrected.

Version: **.3.22 - Date: 01 June 2018

Bug Fixes

• Planting Range Menus - Following update xx.3.20 a number of property fields changed to dropdown menus with predefined ranges. These where causing various issues when plant objects were loaded whose values did not map directly to a predefined range. Now corrected.

Version: **.3.21 - Date: 29 May 2018

Bug Fixes

• Place 3D Area Planting - Models greater than 100 feet would always place 3D area planting families at level zero. Now corrected.

Version: **.3.20 - Date: 24 May 2018

Feature Enhancements

• Imperial Unit Support - Imperial units are now supported both within the ArtisanRV Add-In are through the palette build interface at https://www.csdhub.com.
• Range Selections - Range selections have replaced free text inputs on the following planting fields: Girth, Clear Stem, Container, Root Condition, Specification Age.

Bug Fixes

• Shadow Analysis - The reported time shown on the shadow analysis form was incorrectly reporting UTC time. Now corrected to show local time.
• Shadow Analysis - Improvements made to ray trace accuracy resulting in more accurate percentage area calculations.

Version: **.3.18 - Date: 29 March 2018

Feature Enhancements

• Work Sharing - Changes were made to the data schemas that are used to store planting information within the project file. These changes were required in order to support work sharing and will help to maintain data integrity during file synchronisation.

Version: **.3.17 - Date: 07 February 2018

Feature Enhancements

• Area Planting - Tool added under Planting - Graphics - Add 3D planting to Areas. Adds the 3D area planting component to all area plant objects if it doesn't already exist. Also has the option to remove all 3D area planting.

Bug Fixes

• Work Sharing - The system currently has some work sharing vulnerabilities. Some of these have been patched in this update but there will be more to follow. A tool has been added at Planting - Re-Load - Re-associate orphaned planting, that Re-associates area planting that has become detached from its host object. Recommendation until work sharing is fully patched is to only have one user concurrently working in any Artisan RV enabled Model.

Version: **.3.16 - Date: 01 February 2018

Feature Enhancements

• Area Planting - Creating area planting on filled regions that are placed over Topos or floors will now result in the planting being projected onto those surfaces. Previous behaviour would simply create the 3D planting at the level hosting the 2D filled region object resulting in a flat bed.

Bug Fixes

• Topo Tools, Create Linear Path - If the "Create Floor" option was selected you would receive an "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error when the routine comes to creating the floor from the resulting path. Bug was introduced in version **.3.12. Now patched.
• Topo Tools, Create Linear Path - If the "Create Cut / Fill Regions" option was selected you would receive a message saying "Unable to create the filled regions...". This was due to the target view for the filled region not being properly set. Now patched.

Version: **.3.15 - Date: 11 January 2018

Bug Fixes

• Auto Update - Some minor bugs were fixed relating to the auto update service where the wrong build number was sometimes passed in.

Version: **.3.14 - Date: 09 January 2018

Feature Enhancements

• Root Ball - Tool added for the creation of root balls for proposed trees.
• Licensing - All Artisan products are now licensed through the Buddy App service icon.

Version: **.3.13 - Date: 11 December 2017

Feature Enhancements

• Duplicate view with detailing - Previously, if you duplicated a view with detailing that had area planting attached to Filled Regions, then that planting would get copied into the new view and double the planting numbers for those regions. The system now does a check and is able to both warn the user and automatically delete the duplication. The best option however, is to always use duplicate view with dependency.

Bug Fixes

• Linear Planting - If a mix was selected then only the first item was being placed on the line resulting in low plant counts. Now corrected.
• Area Updaters - New area plant items were not having their "Updater" property set at placement, meaning any subsequent modification to the boundary would not result in the plant numbers being re-counted. Opening and closing the file would correct the problem but the updater creation at time of placement has now been fixed.
• Area Planting - A hidden family instance that gets placed with area planting had the potential to get unintentionally selected and deleted. Particularly when using a fence select. This would remove the plant counts from the schedules. The hidden families are now pinned at placement thus protecting against unintentional deletion. The system does however manage the pinned property to allow for intentional deletion.

Version: **.3.12 - Date: 28 November 2017

Feature Enhancements

• Area Planting - Significant enhancements to performance when placing area planting in 2D mode given that the edge graphic is now a line based Detail Item. Because we now have a line based detail future updates will include support for other edge graphic types.
• Area Planting, Edge Graphic - Option to specify the segment length of the edge graphic added.

Bug Fixes

• Area Planting - Check box for specifying 2D only graphics had no affect. Now corrected.
• Terrain Tool, Area Pad - Various minor bugs corrected following initial launch.

Version: **.3.11 - Date: 20 November 2017

Feature Enhancements

• Terrain Tools - Area Pad tool added to terrain tools panel. Area Pad will cut or fill a flat area into an existing terrain with controls for specifying level, slopes, etc.

Version: **.3.10 - Date: 17 November 2017

Feature Enhancements

• Ribbon Changes - Some tools moved to a stack to allow room for additional terrain tools.

Bug Fixes

• Area Planting - Under some circumstances where the boundary contained Arcs and multiple loops there was an error in extracting the boundaries resulting in a non-responsive infinite loop. Now corrected.

Version: **.3.9 - Date: 09 November 2017

Feature Enhancements

• Terrain Tools - Option added to create filled regions that represent the Cut and Fill areas in plan view.
• Overlay Region tool added - Will overlay a filled region over a floor in plan view resulting in a uniform pattern. Relevant if the floor surface in question has triangulation.

Version: XX.3.8 - Date: 27 October 2017

Feature Enhancements

• Terrain Tools - Create linear path tool now has the option to create a floor at time of path placement.

Version: XX.3.7 - Date: 20 October 2017

Bug Fixes

• Terrain Tools, Topo to Floor - Under some circumstances, Revit was not able to complete the conversion of the topo to floor due to very small edge segments being created. Segments less than 30mm are now combined with their neighbour which results in a much higher success rate.

Version: XX.3.6 - Date: 11 October 2017

Bug Fixes

• Terrain Tools, Linear Path Placement - Corrected a number of Z depth issues that resulted in the path being cut several meters above the terrain if line (path) selected in 3D view.

Version: XX.3.3 - Date: 03 October 2017

Feature Enhancements

• Terrain Tools added. First tool includes Linear Path that creates a linear path along any given line(s). Slope and embankment angle can be specified.

Version: XX.3.0 - Date: 24 July 2017

Feature Enhancements

• Auto Update modules separated from main RV Add-In.

Version: XX.2.78 - Date: 14 July 2017

Feature Enhancements

• Place as 2D option in the create planting and edit planting (Area).
• Modifications to Web Licensing - fingerprinting.

Version: XX.2.77 - Date: 13 July 2017

Feature Enhancements

• Fixes issue moving / modifying planted regions.
• Correctly displays filled pattern for filled region in Edit form.

Version: XX.2.76 - Date: 29 June 2017

Feature Enhancements

• Reinforces triangulation code when placing planting.
• Resolves issue with updaters being wiped out for edge planting (Area) when opening sample schedules.
• Multi Tag support for area, linear and single specimens.

Version: XX.2.75 - Date: 29 June 2017

Feature Enhancements

• New Edge Density tool for Area planting enabling finer sizing scale of small areas.
• New Separate Floors control when creating floors from the Topo to Floor utility.
• New tool to recreate distinct Floors from multiple floor groupings if these have been created outside of the ArtisanRV toolset.
• Resolves issue with updaters being wiped out for edge planting (Area) when opening sample schedules.
• New Help file.

Version: XX.2.72 - Date: 29 June 2017

Feature Enhancements

• Tagging option for Existing Trees.

Version: XX.2.71 - Date: 19 June 2017

Feature Enhancements

• Show Fill and Hide Fill options for Existing Trees.

Version: XX.2.69 - Date: 18 May 2017

Feature Enhancements

• Option to place Existing Trees by datum and north rotation.
• Existing Trees - unit mapping.
• Import 2D Only option to improve speed.

Version: XX.2.67 - Date: 01 May 2017

Feature Enhancements

• New Existing Tree tool.
• Import from Survey tool including field mapping utility to create placeholders.
• Place Existing Trees.

Version: XX.2.61 - Date: 23 January 2017

Feature Enhancements

• New Compact Label (Plant Code) for Area Planting Mixes.
• Tag is created by Plant Code and incremented instance count.
• Plant Code display in Edit dialogs and Schedules.

Version: XX.2.58 - Date: 06 December 2016

Feature Enhancements

• New Palm family - Tree sub-category.

Version: XX.2.56 - Date: 08 November 2016

Feature Enhancements

• New Tree Pit tool.
• Automatic display of ultimate spread in plan view, controlled by Planting - Artisan Ultimate Spread (VG).
• Placement options for Green Site and where there are restrictions for root growth.
• Tree Pit options based on Floor profiles.
• Tree Pit Material Take-off schedule.

Version: XX.2.49 - Date: 04 July 2016

Feature Enhancements

• Now imports the families when first loading of the create form.
• Shrub family parameters fixed (leaf density and flower colour parameters).
• Herbaceous family parameters fixed (leaf density and flower colour parameters).

Version: XX.2.48 - Date: 28 June 2016

Feature Enhancements

• Includes family fix for herbaceous plants to default to a minimum size of roughly 100mm.

Version: XX.2.47 - Date: 26 June 2016

Feature Enhancements

• Family upgrade routine that fires up when a file is opened with older families installed.
• New Herbaceous family.
• Flower colour automatically applied from downloaded palette content.

Version: XX.2.39 - Date: 09 May 2016

Feature Enhancements

• Three standard planting bed floor types are created the first time you select the tool.
• New schedule added to quantify planting bed materials (Only shows planting bed floors – not structural type floors.
• New schedule references a parameter called AR_IsArtisan. Select Import Planting Schedules from the dropdown in the ribbon.
• Import schedule buttons have moved to the General Utils panel.

Version: XX.2.38 - Date: 03 May 2016

Feature Enhancements

• New Artisan Object Enabler.

Version: XX.2.36 - Date: 30 March 2016

Feature Enhancements

• Gravel board option added to Fencing.

Version: XX.2.35 - Date: 29 March 2016

Feature Enhancements

• Fixed Panel type added to Fencing.

Version: XX.2.34 - Date: 20 March 2016

Feature Enhancements

• Top Rail option added to Fencing.

Version: XX.2.33 - Date: 15 March 2016

Feature Enhancements

• Edit Fencing added.
• Schedule by Location added.

Version: XX.2.31 - Date: 22 February 2016

Feature Enhancements

• New Fencing utility.
• Flip option in plan view.
• Minor fixes with planting utilities.

Version: XX.2.30 - Date: 14 February 2016

Feature Enhancements

• Transfers all planting information from the topo to the new floor on conversion.

Version: XX.2.29 - Date: 13 February 2016

Feature Enhancements

• New Topo to Floor tool introduced.
• Edit / delete linear line (ie, Drag and drop end points, delete line, etc) caused an error.
• Resolved issue with planting floor types that have just been converted from Topos where the planting would not always be placed at the right Z coordinate and would appear buried.
• Fixes a slight area when chaining boundaries on area planting.

Version: XX.2.28 - Date: 01 February 2016

Feature Enhancements

• Fixed issue causing error message when running Edit Planting - Linear and modifying Centres values.
• General performance enhancements.

Version: XX.2.27 - Date: 01 February 2016

Feature Enhancements

• Converged all three plant types into one edit form to make the package more consistent and minimizes potential bugs.
• Consistent Substitute Plant control introduced defined by orange arrow icon.
• Consistency when deleting plants across all three plant types by removing / deleting a plant from the view grid (click the red cross) and then click Save Changes.
• A progress bar has been added to the yearly grow routine.
• Introduction of the custom ray tracer into linear planting. This is now significantly faster and better when placing hedges with small centres.
• Display issues with Area Planting Edge family.

Version: XX.2.26 - Date: 28 January 2016

Feature Enhancements

• Group edit warning fix when aging planting.
• Various fixes to planting families.
• Selection fixes when picking objects to explore properties.
• Fixes issue when modifying linear planting centres values.
• New help file.

Version: XX.2.25 - Date: 27 January 2016

Feature Enhancements

• Fixed issue with donut bed - area with island.
• Fixed issue if 3D view is not present in model.

Version: XX.2.24 - Date: 27 January 2016

Feature Enhancements

• New 'egg box' form for Area planting.
• Added properties menu.
• Region planting fixed.
• Added standardised titles to all dialogs.

Version: XX.2.19 - Date: 17 January 2016

Feature Enhancements

• New Custom Labels utility for planting objects.

Version: XX.2.18 - Date: 15 January 2016

Feature Enhancements

• New View Object Properties tool for planting.
• Includes support for Density (D) for specified plants.

Version: XX.2.17 - Date: 13 January 2016

Feature Enhancements

• Auto Age control for planting that calculates a starting age based on specification age (3x, 0/1/2, 3u etc.).
• Area tags added.

Version: XX.2.15 - Date: 11 January 2016

Feature Enhancements

• All Create and Edit forms now use the same grid.

Version: XX.2.13 - Date: 20 December 2015

Feature Enhancements

• New Shadow Analysis tool.

Version: XX.2.07 - Date: 18 November 2015

Feature Enhancements

• Added option for no pattern support when placing planting on Areas and Floors.

Version: XX.2.06 - Date: 15 November 2015

Feature Enhancements

• Fixed issues with floor placement.

Version: XX.2.05 - Date: 14 November 2015

Feature Enhancements

• Added Floor support (Edge graphic etc).
• Colour fill scheme support for Area fill.
• Option to create Group of resulting edge items.

Version: XX.2.03 - Date: 14 November 2015

Feature Enhancements

• Includes support for the Revit Areas object.

Version: XX.2.02 - Date: 06 November 2015

Feature Enhancements

• Enhancement of hedge planting in 3D view to remove overlapping lines.

Version: XX.2.00 - Date: 01 November 2015

Feature Enhancements

• Includes support for pattern fills for area planting.
• New planting tags.

Version: XX.1.12 - Date: 29 October 2015

Feature Enhancements

• Hedge maintenence dimensioning.
• Various fixes.

Version: XX.1.10 - Date: 26 October 2015

Feature Enhancements

• Lines are now linked to singular plants.
• Area Plant edges are now linked to the host element (will delete, rebuild on modifications, etc).
• Location issue fixed.
• Shrubs now displayed as spheres.

Version: XX.1.07 - Date: 21 October 2015

Feature Enhancements

• Linking lines added to single plants.
• Mix Linear hedge now works.
• Initial new boundary graphic to area planting.
• About tab added to the Settings application.

Version: XX.1.06 - Date: 18 October 2015

Feature Enhancements

• Area planting editing and singular planting editing added.
• Grow by year and improved stability.
• New separate desktop app for settings and licensing.
• Planting Families have also changed to allow for annual growth.
• Growth override checkbox displayed if you click on a placed family and look at the parameters and the Dimensions section.

Version: 1.0.5 - Date: 12 October 2015

Feature Enhancements

• Age Planting by Area – working on material definitions.
• Area planting now has 3 supported types, Toposurface, Detail Region (Filled Region), and Floor.
• Labelling (or Tagging) of Topo surface is now supported.
• Copying, mirroring, rotating Area planting now maintains the planting data behind the scenes.
• Various productivity enhancements.

Version: 1.0.4 - Date: 10 October 2015

Feature Enhancements

• Major data structure changes.
• Enhanced support for mixes.
• Improved breakdown and input for the various “input” parameters when placing planting.

Version: 1.0.3 - Date: 07 October 2015

Feature Enhancements

• New Linear Mix planting.

Version: 1.0.2 - Date: 07 October 2015

Feature Enhancements

• All class types now have their own family and plan graphic.
• Option when placing singular to only tag the first instance.

Version: 1.0.1 - Date: 04 October 2015

Feature Enhancements

• Added Edit Planting button(s) to add new and delete. Singular and Linear are now both fully editable.
• Clicking on the image or plant name, displays the full characteristics from the web service.
• Implementation of Metres as the standard measurement unit. The units need to move to a setting so the user can decide in the future.
• License tool now saves and uses the Proxy Server setting if selected.

Version: 0.0.10 - Date: 26 September 2015

Feature Enhancements

• Includes hedge placement option.
• Area planting now places a “Grow” object at initial placement.
• Various other tweaks.

Version: 0.0.09 - Date: 20 September 2015

Feature Enhancements

• Includes a delete Artisan objects option (Add-In tab – External Tools – Delete Artisan Schema).
• This version supports the basic functionality to place planting by area, linear, singular, Age planting, schedule planting.

Version: 0.0.05 - Date: 16 September 2015

Feature Enhancements

• Includes Age Planting by Area – working on material definitions.
• Area planting now has 3 supported types, Toposurface, Detail Region (Filled Region), and Floor.
• Labelling (or Tagging) of Topo surface is now supported.
• Copying, mirroring, rotating Area planting now maintains the planting data behind the scenes.

Version: 0.0.1 - Date: 07 August 2015

Feature Enhancements

• Initial release of CS ArtisanRV for Revit 2015 and 2016.