April focuses on polish and reliability: in-app help access, a cloud-based inverter and battery catalog, LAS 1.4 point cloud support, smarter layer management, and a refined installer experience. Under the hood, string mirroring and electrical query systems have been significantly improved.
New Features
- In-app help and bug reporting
- Access help articles and submit bug reports directly from within PVX.AI through the integrated support panel. No need to leave AutoCAD.
- Inverter and battery catalog
- Browse and select inverters and batteries from a cloud-based device catalog. Selections are cached locally for offline use.
- LAS 1.4 point cloud support
- Import LAS 1.4 point cloud files in addition to the existing 1.2 and 1.3 formats, covering a wider range of drone survey outputs.
- Planar Tilt visualization
- Improved 3D pile positioning with X-axis compression for more accurate terrain-following rack visualization and COLLADA export.
- Layer filter groups
- Quickly filter the AutoCAD Layer Properties Manager to show only PVX.AI layers, reducing clutter in complex drawings.
Improvements
- Smarter layer management
- Layers are now created on demand instead of all at once during startup, reducing initial layer list clutter and improving load times.
- Improved installer
- PVX.AI branded installer with safety checks (blocks installation when AutoCAD is running) and automated trusted path registration for seamless AutoCAD integration.
- String mirroring refinements
- Better polyline lead-out support and marker drawing in mirrored stringing operations, with proper handling of locked layers.
- Inverter and device configuration
- Enhanced inverter and stringing device selection workflow with catalog integration for more accurate electrical design.
- Licensing compliance
- Excel export and coordinate transform libraries upgraded to fully open-source alternatives for better compatibility and licensing clarity.
- Optional update control
- Optional updates now show on startup with a bypass option, so you can choose when to update without interrupting active projects.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed collision highlighting to render correctly during rack operations.
- Resolved dialog z-order issues where windows could appear behind AutoCAD.
- Fixed text label layer assignment to use parent feature layers.
- Corrected E-W export regression and label compression scope.
- Fixed tracker terrain tilt in PVsyst PVC export.
- Resolved infinite error loop when ribbon is not yet initialized.