11/09/2026 - v13.61.0: Swap resources in Smart Templates

1. New features

1.1 Swap resources in Smart Templates 🧪 Experimental

This feature is in Experimental Features. Turn on Experimental Features to try it.

You can now swap the resource used by a Smart Template object straight from its edit side panel, for both point and line templates. Before, resource swap wasn't available while you were editing a Smart Template. Learn more in 12.0 Using Smart Templates.

Animated demo: open a crane Smart Template object, click Swap resource, pick Liebherr 550, and the crane gets a longer jib.

Animated demo: open a fence Smart Template object, click Swap resource, pick Chain Link Fence, and the fence line updates.

1.2 Temporary overlay in front

Turn on Temporary overlay in front for a BIM model or a placed resource so it's drawn in front of everything else in the scene, making utilities such as pipes and conduits easy to see. This first version offers the show-in-front option only, and it's off until you turn it on. Learn more in 0.13 Temporary Overlay in Front.

Animated demo: right-click a BIM model in the Tree, choose Temporary overlay in front, and it draws in front of the scene.

1.3 Clearer milestone mapping in Advanced Duplicate

When you map milestones to another scenario with Advanced Duplicate, you can now pick an unavailable milestone with "Select anyway", and its tooltip explains more clearly why it's unavailable. If you then select other milestones, that option becomes unavailable again. Learn more in 0.11 Advanced Duplicate.

Animated demo: in Advanced Duplicate milestone mapping, hover an unavailable milestone, then click Select This Anyway to pick it.

1.4 Know when a collaborator deletes what you're editing

If another collaborator deletes an object while you have it open, its side panel closes and a message shows their initials and the object's name. You no longer have to guess why the object disappeared. Learn more in 0.7 SitePlan Multiplayer.

Animated demo: while you edit a Shipping Container, a teammate deletes it, your panel closes and a notice names who deleted it.


2. Improvements

2.1 Lower memory use with BIM models and zone textures

On desktop, cmBuilder now uses less of your computer's memory in scenarios with BIM models or zone textures. Selecting, hiding and showing, coloring and sequencing BIM work just as before.


3. Bug fixes

3.1 Site conditions and earthworks load again

Fixed an issue where some scenarios with large site conditions stopped loading with an "error in your initial conditions or excavation" message. Earthworks could not finish building in those scenarios. Learn more in 2.1.1 Site Conditions (Google 3D Map Tile).

When you import a second schedule, milestones are no longer pre-linked to unrelated tasks just because they share an activity ID. Only matching milestones are linked. Learn more in 3.2.1 Update Schedule.

3.3 Names shortened with a middle ellipsis now show their tooltip at the right height

Names shortened with a middle ellipsis now show their tooltip at the right height, without leaving a gap.

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