OpenConstructionERP Files

Added

• The DWG and DXF quantity takeoff is now a full vector takeoff. Because a drawing is exact vector geometry rather than pixels, every wall, slab and pipe already carries its true length and area, so one click produces a per-layer quantity table with the right unit for each layer, whether that is area, length or a simple count, and it measures arcs, ellipses and hatched fills as well. A count tool adds a count-by-block rollup for repeated symbols, and the whole table exports to Excel in one click. You can also search the drawing text: TEXT and MTEXT labels are found, highlighted and framed with zoom-to-match.
• The PDF takeoff viewer now works much more like a real drawing tool. A page-thumbnail sidebar lets you move between sheets at a glance, find-on-sheet searches the text layer and jumps to each hit, and the viewer gained fit-to-page and fit-to-width, zoom-to-selection, panning, an orthogonal lock for straight measurements, a live measurement readout and a hover tooltip. Large sheets now fit correctly the first time they open.
• PDF takeoff can detect the drawing scale. It reads the scale printed in the drawing's text layer, for example 1:100, and offers it for one-click confirmation, so measurements are calibrated without first tracing a known dimension. The detected value is always shown for you to confirm and is never applied on its own.
• Structural steel can be priced by mass. A cost item can carry a mass per unit and a structural category, and a member priced by length is converted to mass on its way into a bill of quantities, so steel that is sold by weight is estimated correctly.
• Custom cost items now group under a "My categories" heading in the costs sidebar, so a category you created, such as "Structural Steel", is browsable directly instead of being reachable only through search.
• The point cloud reader is now an installable extra, and scans can be deleted from the workspace.
• A short video introducing the platform is linked from the left sidebar. The first close collapses it to a single line, a second close hides it for the rest of the session, and it returns on the next page load.
• The new and reworded interface text in this release is translated into all 26 other languages.

Fixed

• Local AI providers that do not need an API key, such as Ollama, no longer ask for one. The API key field is hidden for these providers, a short hint points to the server address instead, and both Test connection and Save work without a key. Reported in #244.
• The 3D model viewer now degrades gracefully instead of failing when the browser cannot create a full-quality WebGL context. On marginal GPUs, virtual machines or remote-desktop sessions it retries with a simpler context, dropping antialiasing and the logarithmic depth buffer, before showing the "3D view unavailable" notice, so the model renders in more environments.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/datadrivenconstruction/OpenConstructionERP/compare/v8.4.0...v8.5.0