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Changelog

Every change that ships to Vismo, big and small.

Presentation PDF export, tidier slide editing, and CAD drawings on slides

  • Presentations

Presentations can now leave the platform. A new Download as PDF option — in the presentation's row menu and in the builder toolbar — turns the whole presentation into a single PDF you can email, print, or archive.

  • Every slide, faithfully. Slides export at their on-screen size with backgrounds, text styling, and links intact.
  • Attached files come along. A slide button linking to a PDF brings that file's real pages into the export, and a button linking to an image adds it as a full page. The buttons themselves become in-document jumps, so someone reading the PDF lands on the right page — no Vismo account needed.
  • Files that can't be fetched or read are skipped individually rather than failing the whole export.

Arranging a slide used to mean nudging elements into place one at a time. Now you can select several at once and edit them as a group.

  • Align in one click. With multiple elements selected, align them left, right, or to a shared horizontal centre.
  • Style the whole selection. Colour changes apply to everything you've selected, not just the last element you clicked.
  • Drag from anywhere. A multi-selection moves by dragging anywhere inside its box — no more hunting for the right grab point.
  • Snapping now works while resizing. Edges snap to nearby elements and the canvas, with the same pink guide lines you see when dragging — and corner handles snap each axis independently.
  • Paragraph alignment for text. Text elements gain left, centre, right, and justify alignment, applied per paragraph from the floating toolbar.
  • Eyedropper where you'd expect it. The colour eyedropper now lives inside the colour picker, alongside the swatches.

Viewing a presentation is a little smoother too: closing a linked file takes you back to the slide you were on, and clicking the current slide closes whatever file is open.

Linking a CAD drawing (DWG or DXF) to a slide used to end in a "we can't preview this file type" message. Those links now open the full CAD viewer, just as they do from the project's files.

  • Still processing? We'll say so. A drawing whose rendering hasn't finished shows a clear "still being processed" notice — and swaps in the viewer automatically once it's ready, no refresh needed.
  • Works for shared presentations too, so guests see the drawing rather than an error.

Boards that keep up with your project map

  • Boards
  • Map

Adding your project's map elements to a board used to take a copy of them. The moment someone moved a pin, renamed one, or drew a new boundary, the board quietly fell out of date — and the only way to catch up was to build the board again.

Boards now read those elements straight from the project map, every time you open one. Add a pin to the map and it's on the board. Rename it, move it, delete it, and the board agrees. There is nothing to refresh and nothing to re-create.

  • They look like they do on the map. Pins carry the same colour and icon for their type, at a size that stays readable however far you zoom out.
  • They tidy themselves up. Pins sitting on top of each other collapse into a single count. Click it to zoom in, or pick from a list when they're stacked in one spot.
  • Click for the details. Selecting a pin opens the same details card you get on the map, with its photo, its file, and a link to open that file.
  • Hide what you don't need. Individual pins, lines and boundaries can be hidden on a board without touching the project map or any other board. Hide the whole layer, or bring it back, from the layers panel.

Existing boards pick this up on their own — open one and its map elements refresh to match the map, with anything you'd previously hidden still hidden.

The Vismo mobile app, and editing projects right where you see them

  • Mobile
  • Projects
  • Files
  • CAD

Vismo now has a mobile app built for the field, launching first as a closed beta with a select group of testers. Once the beta phase wraps up, it will roll out to everyone — if you'd like early access, get in touch.

For those in the beta: open Vismo on your phone, sign in with your usual account, and add it to your home screen — it installs like a native app, no app store required.

The mobile app is focused on what you need on site:

  • Your projects, front and centre. The app opens on your projects list, with search and a switch between your projects and everything in your organisation.
  • The project map in your pocket. See the project location, boundaries, and every map pin — with street and satellite views, a locate-me button, and pins that cluster neatly when they share a spot.
  • Photos that become pins. Take a photo from the map and, if it carries a location, it drops straight onto the map as an editable pin. Pins can be viewed, edited, moved, and deleted from a single sheet.
  • Files from the field. Browse the project's files, create folders, rename and delete, and upload photos or files directly — with clear messages if a file is too large, and the option to cancel an upload mid-flight.
  • Set the project location on the go. Search for an address or drop a pin to set where a project lives.

If you lose signal, the app shows a proper Vismo screen rather than a browser error, and it will tell you when a new version is available.

Keeping project details up to date no longer means a trip into Settings. Everything now lives on the project dashboard itself:

  • Name, number, status, and date are edited directly from the dashboard title and facts strip. Collaborating organisations keep their own project aliases, and read-only members simply see the details without edit controls.
  • Project location is set on the map. Click the map or search for an address, confirm the address card, and save — moving or removing a location is just as direct. The old Location tab in Settings is gone.
  • A refreshed project dashboard. A cleaner image-and-details header, a quieter facts strip, a dedicated Team row, and a workspace grid that adapts properly to smaller screens.
  • Simpler project creation. Creating a project asks only for the essentials — name, number, template, and group — with everything else tucked under More options. New projects greet their editors with a short, dismissible setup checklist for adding an image, a location, and a description.
  • Settings points the way. Project Settings keeps its Features, Access, Transfer, and Danger tabs, with short signposts guiding editors to the new homes for details, images, and location.

Uploading a CAD file no longer commits you to a fixed set of outputs. A new Process for viewing step lets you pick which views to generate, described in plain English rather than technical format names. Opening a file that still needs a choice raises the same picker, and once a file has more than one output you can switch between them from inside the viewer.

The CAD viewer itself also improved: files with multiple layouts show a layout picker, drawings appear faster with a fitted first view instead of a blank canvas, and a bug that could leave black tiles in large drawings is fixed.

  • Many more CAD drawings now render correctly, including paper-space sheet layouts and several dialect quirks that previously failed conversion.
  • Manhole report PDFs carry your organisation's logo, and manhole PDFs with photos generate reliably — photos can now be deleted as well as replaced.
  • Map pins that share a location now cluster on the project map, with a pick list to choose between them.
  • Clicking inside the file preview panel no longer closes it.
  • Continued security hardening across the platform.

Sharper large CAD drawings, presentation comments, and live rendering progress

  • CAD
  • Presentations
  • Projects
  • Files

Large DWG and DXF drawings now render through a new hybrid pipeline: raster overview tiles when you are zoomed out, and exact vector detail as you zoom in. Line work stays crisp at every zoom level instead of softening into a fixed-resolution image, and very large drawings become usable rather than just viewable.

Where the hybrid rendering cannot be produced, we now fall back automatically to a single-image render. The file's outputs panel names each rendering method, keeps the history of both, and shows a short notice explaining that a fallback happened — so a drawing that took the second route no longer looks like an unexplained failure.

Adding a drawing to a board also reuses a rendering that already exists instead of queueing a fresh one, so the wizard opens ready to place.

Rendering jobs now report real progress from the backend rather than an estimate. Queued work shows as waiting, active work reports a percentage, and each layout in a multi-layout CAD file reports its own progress separately — so you can tell the difference between "nothing has started yet" and "this is halfway through".

Presentations join boards, files and projects as somewhere you can hold a conversation. Comment threads work the same way, respect who has access to the presentation, and mention emails link straight back to the comment.

The project create page now sets which tools a project has from the start, rather than creating the project and then configuring it. Timesheets and manhole cards also became opt-in per project: turning them on for your organisation no longer makes them appear in every project you own.

  • Setting up an organisation is now optional. A Skip for now action lets you straight into the app, and the choice is remembered.
  • Manhole card photos can be removed, not just replaced.
  • The file preview pane closes when the file it is showing is deleted.
  • Point-cloud and tileset archives that wrap their contents in a folder now import correctly, and a failed conversion no longer leaves the job stuck.
  • Continued security hardening across the web app and its dependencies.

Photo pins on drawings and easier presentation viewing

  • Photos
  • Boards
  • Presentations

Survey photos can now be pinned to exact coordinates on PDF and CAD drawings — evidence of site conditions sits right where it was found. This extends the photo pins that already work on images and 3D scenes to the drawings themselves.

Placed an image with slightly-off alignment? You can now re-run the two-point alignment from the inspector without deleting and re-placing it.

  • Opening a presentation now lands in a clean viewing mode — reduced chrome, fullscreen, arrow-key navigation. Editing is a deliberate switch rather than the default.
  • Presentation text supports any font size via a free-entry field in the toolbar.

  • The what's-new menu in the portal now links to this changelog.
  • Changelog section headings gained a share link that copies the section's address.
  • Continued security hardening around sign-in and session handling.

Board transfers, file search, and survey reports

  • Boards
  • Files
  • CAD

You can now move or copy a board into another project. The transfer dialog shows which files will be copied across, so nothing is left behind by accident.

The file explorer searches as you type. Start a term with # to match tags only, so you can jump straight to tagged files.

  • Import raw DWG and DXF drawings straight into a board from the file browser.

  • Add multiple links to a single presentation button and choose how each one opens.
  • New board controls: folders to organise layers, an updated toolbar, and keyboard shortcuts.
  • Share links now work consistently across boards, files, projects, and presentations.

  • Clearer feedback when a request would exceed your plan's limit, so you know why it stopped and what to do next.
  • Clearer messaging on the password-reset screen.
  • Continued security hardening around sign-in and session handling.

Ideas and Announcements return

  • Navigation
  • The Ideas and Announcements panels are available again in the portal.

Lead capture, point-cloud measurement, and video previews

  • Files

For eligible organisations, admins have a new leads dashboard: enquiries raised on your projects are collected in one place, with notifications routed to an email address you configure.

  • Convert E57 scans to LAZ point clouds, and measure directly on the converted clouds.
  • Fixes to CAD line styling so drawings reload correctly.
  • 2D CAD outputs open in the flat viewer and show honest processing state.

  • MOV video files play inline, with a download fallback where a browser can't play them.
  • Continued security hardening across the platform.

A 3D viewer overhaul and per-output file downloads

  • Viewer
  • CAD
  • Files
  • Presentations
  • Security

A large batch of viewer improvements landed together:

  • Select individual child objects in an IFC model and see their details in the info panel, with space entities hidden by default.
  • Lighting presets, sensible near/far clipping planes, and a fix for flickering surfaces on overlapping geometry.
  • An orbit-point indicator that scales with zoom and stays visible on very large models.
  • Configure how point clouds display, including point size and colour mode.

  • Viewers now unlock only when a file's outputs genuinely exist, with clear per-file processing status.
  • Every output a file produces (2D previews and 3D models) is listed individually, each with its own view and download, and a label showing the conversion type.
  • Thumbnails appear across file listings.
  • Add hashtag tags to files and folders, with organisation-wide suggestions.
  • Pin close-up images onto a parent image.
  • Separate "Upload Files" and "Upload Folders" buttons.
  • Grant or revoke folder access in bulk for a limited-access user, with a clear per-user summary.

  • An aerial batch placement wizard, with board enhancements.

  • New line-drawing and highlighter tools for organisations with Presentations enabled.

  • Organisations can prove they own a domain, and members can request to join.
  • Organisation-listed team-based projects appear as locked, requestable cards.

  • Sort projects by date, grouped by month and year.
  • Fixed a sign-in refresh loop affecting Firefox.

We carried out a broad programme of security hardening across the platform.

IFC viewer upgrade, keyboard navigation, and organisation entry

  • Viewer
  • Organisations
  • Presentations

  • The IFC engine was upgraded to a new version, with model selection fixes on top.
  • Fly around models with arrow-key and WASD navigation, including in-place rotation and adjustable sensitivity.
  • Selection-box padding, occlusion and axis-alignment fixes, and the transform gizmo now re-syncs correctly after undo/redo.

A new organisation entry flow helps you join the right organisation through existing invitations and matching organisation email domains. Shared and team-based projects are easier to discover and request access to.

For organisations with Presentations enabled:

  • Reusable, organisation-scoped presentation templates.
  • IFC overlays on slides.
  • An eyedropper colour picker.
  • Navigation thumbnails for files and boards.

  • All in-app maps now default to satellite view.
  • Bug reports can include image attachments, and you can paste images straight into comments; attachments pin as a permanent footer.

Per-project features, richer presentations, and email previews

  • Projects
  • Files
  • Presentations

Invited collaborators now land directly in the project they were invited to. Where available, you can also ask for a survey of a site through a "Request a survey" button and form, complete with a map location and boundary.

A new Features tab in Project Settings lets you control which available tools appear for each project.

  • Seed a new board with a snapshot of the project map's pins, centrelines, boundaries and labels, or tie a board to a known location.

For organisations with Presentations enabled:

  • New shape drawing tools.
  • Copy and paste elements between slides.
  • SVG images are now supported.
  • Link a slide to a specific PDF page.
  • More reliable inline text links, plus search and pagination in the file picker.

A new "Report a bug" option in the Help menu captures your description and technical context and sends it straight to our team. The Help menu was also streamlined into a clearer hub.

Uploaded .eml and .msg email files now render as formatted previews, with headers, body and attachment list, instead of raw text.

  • Project viewers can be upgraded to full membership in one click.
  • Group "My Projects" by organisation.
  • Renaming or creating a file or folder now saves when you click away, instead of discarding your change.
  • Member search now matches anywhere in a name, not just the start.
  • A project location link opens the in-app map, and a fix restored double-click-to-open in the file explorer.

A Free plan, and hide the projects you don't need

  • Accounts
  • Files

A Free plan is now available to anyone without a paid subscription, with clear project and storage limits and a friendlier billing page.

Hide projects you don't need from your listing, and reveal them again whenever you want.

  • Manage project groups and reusable folder templates from Organisation settings, with a redesigned template picker.
  • Upload a project cover image with a crop-and-zoom dialog to frame it just right.
  • Open map pin images as a full-screen overlay, with a smoother pin image viewer.
  • A more compact Project Files header with a collapsible folder tree.
  • Removed a duplicated "Hide" entry from the project card menu, plus dark-mode fixes for template chips and settings padding.

A reimagined file explorer, redesigned settings, and floor plans from point clouds

  • Files
  • Settings
  • Presentations

  • A Google Drive-style preview panel shows images, PDFs, videos and CAD outputs inline, and PDFs auto-open their preview when selected.
  • Switch between table, list and thumbnail layouts, with a configurable page size.
  • Uploads preserve folder structure across browsers, with separate file and folder uploads and automatic extraction of zipped folders.
  • A post-upload report confirms what succeeded, "Select all" spans every page, TIF/TIFF images now preview, and map pins can show an inline file preview.

Project, Organisation and Account settings were rebuilt as clean, tabbed layouts, with independent save actions and an unsaved-changes guard. Organisation people (members, invitations and join requests) were consolidated into a single tabbed view.

Generate a 2D floor plan directly from point-cloud scans and place it on the project map.

  • A guided wizard for creating boards.

For organisations with Presentations enabled:

  • A colour-match tool for button and title colours.
  • Configurable borders on image elements, plus link and viewer behaviour fixes.

  • Per-file processing status indicators.
  • A richer map preview drawer.
  • A fix for email autocomplete on the invite page.

Project access controls, IFC floor plans, and new file viewers

  • Organisations
  • Files
  • Presentations

Every project now has a visibility setting: Private, Auto-Join, Request to Join, or Team-Based. Organisations can share projects without hand-managing every permission. Members see the projects they can reach, can request access to restricted ones, and admins are notified of requests in the bell icon. Teams can be created and bound to projects with per-team roles, and admins can restrict downloads on shared projects.

IFC building models now render as 2D floor plans, one per storey, that you can measure directly. This landed with reliable handling of real-world files, automatic calibration, and support for larger files.

  • Spreadsheets (.csv, .xlsx, .xls) open as interactive tables with rich cell formatting, search, three-state sorting and resizable columns.
  • Word documents (.docx) render as formatted previews.
  • Export monitoring, session, job and inspection data tables to CSV.

For organisations with Presentations enabled:

  • Slides can carry hotspot links to files in your project, turning a presentation into a clickable dashboard.
  • New button styling controls: opacity, borders, width, colour and style.

A new in-app tutorials and onboarding hints system to help you find your way around.

  • Double-click a file to open it straight into the right viewer, with a 2D Preview button added to the 3D viewer.
  • Group projects into named categories and create reusable folder templates.
  • Assign chainage along a centreline, sorted with snap-to-line.
  • See your own live location on the project map, with a more accurate location dot.
  • Faster, flicker-free grouped project lists.
  • A batch of fixes: map address fields, reverse-geocoding a dropped pin, folder-tree refresh after deletion, always-visible file checkboxes, and a friendlier message when you request access to a project twice.

Resilient uploads, centrelines, and project archiving

  • Files
  • Maps
  • Presentations

Large uploads now keep going through laptop sleep and tab switches, and can be resumed after a page refresh, re-sending only the pieces that didn't make it.

Draw a centreline (road, pipe or rail) and assign chainage to pins along it, with distance from the start and left/right offset worked out automatically.

For organisations with Presentations enabled:

  • Add files to a presentation directly from within Vismo.
  • Font and image sizes are constrained for a consistent, tidy layout.
  • Slide links continue to gain thumbnail previews.

  • Archive a project to tidy your active list while keeping all of its data.
  • Search existing organisation members by name or email when sharing a project.
  • Folders show file counts, and files and folders can be sorted by name, date or size.
  • Enhanced zoom on the image viewer.
  • The Activity panel was removed from the File Manager to declutter the view.
  • People are emailed when they auto-join a project.
  • Improved boundary colours, and a fix for blank map tiles at extreme zoom.

Presentation tools, a 2D CAD viewer, and What3Words

  • Presentations
  • CAD
  • Maps

For organisations with Presentations enabled, a new builder lets you assemble visual summaries from your project's assets. Presentations are tied to a project and appear as cards on the project dashboard, and slide links show a thumbnail preview of what they point to. Speak to us if you would like access.

Open DWG and DXF drawings in a fast new 2D viewer: browse layouts, pan and zoom, and calibrate (including by a known scale ratio), all in the browser, with a link through to the 3D viewer. Measurement tools also work directly on DWG drawings in top-down view.

Project locations now show What3Words addresses across the map, files page, settings and headers, giving field teams a simple way to pinpoint a spot. The location picker shows the live address as you choose it, with an expandable full-viewport map.

  • Projects can now have multiple named, colour-coded boundaries instead of just one.
  • Each organisation can give a shared project its own alias name and project number.
  • Project transfer now lets you keep a copy, archive the original or hand it over cleanly, with clear provenance shown afterwards.
  • Project lists show content indicator chips and can be filtered by content, role and status, and folders show a file-count chip.

The project dashboard gained a full-width hero banner using your project image, with the description, comments, share and member avatars grouped into it.

  • A new plain-text and code file viewer covering dozens of formats.
  • Drag and drop files and folders straight into the explorer, with a folder-tree sidebar.

  • Vismo refreshes itself cleanly after a release and no longer shows a blank screen on mobile.
  • New organisations see a 30-day trial countdown with clear guidance when it ends.
  • A batch of What3Words display, map search, positioning and project-list loading fixes.

Trials for new organisations

  • Accounts
  • New organisations now start with a 30-day trial.

Richer measurements and project boundaries on the map

  • Measurement
  • Maps

  • Take angle, arc and multi-point measurements on PDF plans, alongside straight lines, with clearer labels and a summary card.
  • Calibrate using a known ratio or survey station.
  • Only a cursor hint shows while you're measuring, keeping the drawing clear.
  • Download the current page or the whole PDF from the viewer.
  • PDF links now open in the dedicated PDF viewer.

Draw a polygon boundary on a project's map to show its site extent.

  • The map view now loads only projects that have a location set.
  • Project dashboards can show summary counts of projects, files and users.
  • File lists now show how many comments each file has.
  • A fix for a blank screen that could appear on mobile after an update, plus faster loading and a tidier collapsible sidebar.

Measure on PDF plans

  • Measurement
  • Files

Calibrate a PDF plan and take straight-line measurements directly on the page, without leaving your browser.

  • A cleaner project dashboard sidebar, with centred forms and tidier collapsed labels.
  • Location and address search combined into one smoother experience.
  • File explorer and image carousel usability and dark-mode fixes.
  • A more streamlined new-user onboarding flow.

A smoother sign-in

  • Accounts
  • Confirmation emails no longer expire before you get the chance to use them.
  • Signing in with an unconfirmed email now shows a clear message instead of a confusing "wrong password" error.

Pin PDF pages to the map

  • Maps
  • Files
  • Pin a PDF page to a location on the map, connecting plan documents to their real-world position.

Put your projects on the map

  • Maps

Projects now have a location on an interactive map. Drop typed map pins, give them labels and descriptions, and browse them from a collapsible tray. Pins can carry a description and link to more than one board. Switch between street and satellite views, and see all of an organisation's located projects together in a single map view.

  • Viewers now show real names for people and organisations instead of internal identifiers.
  • A further fix to password reset so the email is sent correctly.

A mini-map for 360° walkthroughs

  • Viewer
  • The 360° walkthrough viewer now has a mini-map, so you can always tell where you are while exploring a capture.

Password reset emails fixed

  • Accounts
  • Password reset now sends the email it should, so you can get back into your account.

Smoother 360° navigation

  • Viewer
  • Smoother navigation around 360° panorama captures.
  • Fixed a bug where the app kept checking on a file conversion that had already failed, instead of stopping and reporting it.

Separate panels for announcements and ideas

  • Navigation
  • Announcements and ideas now each have their own icon and side panel, so they're easier to find and tell apart.
  • Revit-to-IFC conversion, available on request, is now more reliable.

More reliable updates

  • Vismo updates now roll out more reliably.

More reliable Revit-to-IFC conversions

  • Files

Revit-to-IFC conversion is available on request. For organisations with it enabled, conversions now time out cleanly if they get stuck instead of hanging indefinitely. Speak to us if you would like access.

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