Changelog
What's new in easy-pipe
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v0.1.524
- New Hover a rotate button and a circle with an arrow appears around the part: the plane and direction of the turn.
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v0.1.523
- Catalogue Copper line: 12–54 mm tube, solder and press fittings, reducers, caps and valves.
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v0.1.518
- Catalogue PVC solvent-weld ball valves: compact and true union on both sides, 1/2…2″.
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v0.1.517
- New Pick a color for room walls, floors and planes: the new Color button on the panel.
- New In flat view, parts off the plane no longer fade: everything stays sharp.
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v0.1.516
- New Delete the selection from the keyboard: Delete, Backspace or Ctrl+X. The trash button now shows the hint.
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v0.1.513
- Catalogue Schedule 40 PVC now goes up to 3 inch: pipe, couplings, elbows, tees, crosses, caps and reducers in 1-1/2, 2, 2-1/2 and 3″.
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v0.1.512
- Catalogue Indirect water heaters: floor-standing 150–300 L, top-connection models, twin-coil, wall-hung and combi units with an electric element.
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v0.1.510
- Catalogue Leak protection: motorized shut-off valves 1/2″–1″, wired and wireless, a leak sensor and a Wi-Fi controller.
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v0.1.509
- Catalogue New water heaters in the catalogue: round horizontal and flat ones, upright or lying, in 50, 80 and 100 litres.
- Fixed After sending a sign-in email you see which address it went to, plus a hint to check Spam.
- New Sign-in, email confirmation and password reset emails now arrive in your interface language, in easy-pipe style.
- Fixed Switching the builder mode works on phones again: menu «···» → «Builder mode».
- Fixed In DIY builds mode, «Replace part» offers only parts of that mode and your market.
- Fixed Downloads are now one «Download…» item: a PDF for buying, an image or the project file, each with a hint on what it is for.
- Fixed A fitting on the end of a diagonal pipe now lines up with its plane, and turning it around that joint goes in 45° steps.
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v0.1.486
- New Frame tool: drag a rectangle or a box of pipe from corner to corner — corners and joints go in by themselves.
- New A tee with a post slides along the pipe together with the post; the pipes on both sides adjust their length.
- New Tap the slide handle to type the exact distance to the next joint.
- New Dimensions now in plumbing mode too: the ruler button shows pipe lengths, then overall size, then off.
- New DIY mode shows sizes right on the build: overall dimensions and the cut length on every pipe — the same number as in the list.
- New Tap the width, depth or height and type the one you need — the whole frame stretches and every joint stays put.
- New Changing a pipe length inside a frame stretches the parallel pipes too, so the side grows instead of coming apart.
- New Make several selected pipes the same length with the «Same length» button.
- New DIY builds mode: just pipe and fittings for shelves, tables and greenhouses. Menu «···» → «Builder mode».
- New In DIY mode the list tells you how many pipes to buy and what length to cut each piece, fitting sockets included.
- New A 3-way corner brought up to the pipes turns to face them on its own and makes every joint.
- Catalogue Schedule 40 PVC for the US: solvent-weld pipe and fittings from 1/2 to 1-1/4″.
- Catalogue A 3-way PPR corner Ø20–32, and 3-, 4-, 5- and 6-way PVC fittings.
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v0.1.478
- Catalogue New in the catalogue: a 1″ pump pressure controller that sits right on the pump outlet.
- New Pressure tanks now connect with a flexible hose too: a 1″ female–female hose.
- New Female–male hoses: the male end screws into a female thread, such as a pump manifold or a wall outlet, with no nipple.
- New You can now duplicate several parts at once: the assembly is copied whole, joints included. On desktop, Ctrl+D works too.
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v0.1.476
- New The scheme check now catches pipes running through each other and through appliances — the flat view hides it.
- New Schema check is now a button in the header: press once to see the findings, press again to close.
- New The “+” menu at a pipe end now has catalog search: everything that fits that end, not just the five common fittings.
- New The inline-insert menu now shows part pictures and opens next to the pipe instead of at the bottom of the screen.
- New A keyboard cheat sheet on first launch; you can call it back from the “···” menu.
- Fixed The bend panel no longer slides away from under the cursor while you change the angle and direction.
- Fixed Several selected parts are highlighted far more brightly — you can see what is in the selection.
- Fixed The parts market switch moved into the “···” menu: it was duplicated in the editor header.
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v0.1.471
- New Scheme check in the “···” menu: we go through what you assembled against plumbing rules and say what is worth fixing.
- New The app now spots an appliance lying on its side, a tank hanging above the floor and appliances running into each other.
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v0.1.466
- New New demo scheme: a boiler room with a solid-fuel boiler, buffer tank and underfloor heating manifold — in a room.
- New Plus buttons on free ends now show on a lone part too: place a pipe and carry on with a fitting right away.
- Fixed On phones the parts market switch moved into the “···” menu, leaving more room for the project name in the editor header.
- Fixed Live schemes on catalogue pages and in the embedded widget show water flow again when it is turned on for the scheme.
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v0.1.457
- New Market switch in the header: USA, Europe or all. American parts move to the top of the catalogue, the rest dim and sink.
- New Imperial units: on the US market lengths show in feet and inches, and can be typed either way.
- Catalogue American PEX-A and PEX-B pipe in the inch sizes 1/2", 3/4" and 1".
- Catalogue Three ways to join American PEX: crimp, push-fit and expansion — the whole shelf, coupling to drop-ear elbow.
- New The parts list now counts joint consumables: crimp and expansion rings, sleeves.
- Fixed Insert fittings now assemble as in real life: barb inside the pipe, ring outside.
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v0.1.443
- New Editorial write-up: richer markup for search engines and AI agents — the full parts list in HTML and as an ItemList, assembly steps as a HowTo with photos, and a main search query carried in the heading and breadcrumbs. A page address can be changed; the old one redirects to the new.
- New Editorial write-up: a «Scheme specifications» block as label — value rows instead of tiles; the parts list is split into «Equipment» and «Consumables» the way the builder’s estimate is, and every catalogue item shows its own picture.
- New Editorial write-up: a carousel of views at the top of the page — the editors shoot the scheme from any side, in perspective and zoomed in on the part that matters; views flip with arrows and thumbnails, each opens full screen and downloads. The like sits next to «Open in the builder», and the live scheme under «Interactive» opens the way the editors set it up: view, water, labels, walls.
- Fixed The editorial write-up page now carries the site’s regular header and footer — menu, language switch and section links, the same as every other page; its own narrow «back · easy-pipe · languages» strip is gone. Breadcrumb markup for search is fixed: Google rejected intermediate crumbs without an address.
- New Catalogue schemes got a second kind of page — an editorial write-up. For selected schemes the easy-pipe editors write a full article: what the scheme does and what house it fits, the key figures, the parts list with a note on every item, assembly step by step with photos, a video and an animation of it working, answers to common questions. Such a page opens with a picture of the scheme (expand it to full screen or download it), and the live scheme is one click away under «Interactive». Comments, the like and «Open in the builder» stay where they were.
- New Viewing a scheme now looks the same everywhere — in the window on the site, through a share link, and on a catalogue scheme page. The view buttons sit in the corner of the scheme itself: 2D/3D and a «···» menu holding water, labels and — this one is new — walls. Walls can be taken away: on a scheme with rooms the front view ran into a wall and the pipework behind it was impossible to see.
- New Catalogue schemes now read in your language. A title and description the author wrote in Russian, Ukrainian or English are translated into the other two languages automatically, right after publishing. The Ukrainian site and app show the Ukrainian title, the English one the English title, and the catalogue search finds a scheme by its translated title as well. The scheme itself and the parts list were already in the interface language.
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v0.1.423
- Fixed An assembled unit can be moved up and down. Holding Shift while dragging a component or several selected parts now raises and lowers them just as it does a single part: in a group the key simply did nothing, even though the on-screen hint promised it.
- New The flexible hose is now a tool of its own, next to "Connect". It used to reach only the inlet of a washing machine, toilet or basin; now it goes between any two free ends with a male thread — from a water heater outlet to a nipple on a mounting plate, from an appliance valve to a mixer. While the tool is on, the ends a union nut can screw onto are highlighted and the rest are dimmed, so you see at a glance where the hose fits and where a nipple is needed.
- Fixed A wall no longer holds the camera. Moving in towards the scheme used to stop dead at a wall and the view got stuck: both the wheel and dragging moved the picture by millimetres. Now the camera passes through the wall, and a wall standing between you and the pipework fades out — the way room walls have done for a while.
- Fixed Wheel zoom now moves in a step you can see: on an ordinary mouse it was five times smaller than it should be, and on a trackpad barely noticeable at all.
- New Fittings, valves and inline gear now snap to walls and floors too — by their body, at the same clearance as pipes. A tee between two pipes no longer hangs at its own depth: the whole run lies in one plane along the wall. Alt still turns snapping off.
- Catalogue Appliance valves with a knob handle — the chrome-plated angle taps that shut off a toilet cistern, washing machine or mixer. Angle and straight, 1/2" to the wall and 3/8", 1/2" or 3/4" to the appliance. Until now the shelf held only ball valves with a butterfly handle.
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v0.1.419
- Refactoring Housekeeping under the hood: dead code and unused dependencies removed, library versions aligned. No change to how the builder works.
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v0.1.417
- New Walls and rooms, reworked in depth. A room appears with one click and lands next to the neighbouring one, you resize it by dragging a wall, and a wall can be removed and put back right in the scene. Parts land on the floor and snap to walls by themselves, pipes run along walls; under a part you see its distance from the floor and the wall and can adjust it.
- New On desktop a key hint shows while you drag: Shift for height, Alt to move without snapping. Close it or turn it off for good.
- Fixed A scheme with a heating boiler or a radiator opens again after a page reload.
- New Run a line one click at a time: select a part that is already connected and a “+” appears at its free ends. On a fitting it puts a pipe piece of the right type and diameter into the socket; on a pipe it opens a picture menu of everyday fittings: elbow, tee, valve, 45° elbow, coupling. The new piece is joined and selected at once, and you set the pipe length with the handle. No more finding every part in the catalogue and moving it to the port.
- Catalogue Heating expansion tanks — the whole everyday range: 8, 12, 18, 24, 35, 50, 80 and 100 L, floor-standing on supports from 50 L up. A horizontal version is now there too, at 24, 50, 80 and 100 L: you fit it where an upright tank has no headroom. Diameters and heights across the range are checked against manufacturer data — for 50, 80 and 100 L the height had been taken from water-supply tanks and was too tall.
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v0.1.410
- New The Water lens now understands heating: supply and return from the boiler get their own colours, arrows follow the loop. Radiators and floor manifolds turn the medium around, the thermal store carries supply on top and return at the bottom, a three-way valve works through any port. Hints: return into a supply port, supply into the return line, a bypass with no load, heating shorted to the water line. Schemes without a boiler get supply or return by tapping a pipe end. A colour legend shows while the lens is on.
- Catalogue Thermal store accessories: the 1/2" thermometer sleeve and the 1 1/2" immersion-heater coupling on the front are now ports — a thermometer from the catalog, a heater or a plug screws right in. Added an immersion heater with thermostat at 2, 3 and 6 kW, 1 1/2" thread.
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v0.1.406
- Fixed The "Update available" card no longer pops up while viewing a scheme via a share link or in the catalog — only in the editor.
- Fixed The "connect" tool now closes a tee branch onto a pipe that sits slightly off the tee's line: the tee slides along its run, one neighbouring pipe grows, the other shrinks, and the pipe stretches to the branch. Previously such a joint was rejected as "ends are not on one axis".
- Fixed Scheme preview — in the site widget, via a share link and in the catalog — opens in "2D front" again instead of whichever view you last picked in the editor.
- Catalogue Thermal stores modelled on a real product range: 300, 500, 800, 1000, 1500 and 2000 L, each insulated and uninsulated. Six female couplings — supply and return on both sides, a top port for an air vent or safety group, and a drain; a thermometer sleeve and an immersion-heater coupling on the front. The former 500 and 1000 L buffer tanks are off the shelf; saved schemes keep them.
- New The “⋯” menu now has “Download PDF”: one file for a client or a store — the view as on screen, four standard views (3D, front, top, right) and the parts list as a table.
- Fixed The PNG image is captured with exactly the angle and scale you see on screen. In 3D — the way you rotated the scene, not always the “Centre” isometric view; in 2D — the view you picked (top, side, back), not always the front.
- New The PNG image is noticeably sharper: the long side is now around 3200 pixels, enough for printing. Working marks (port dots, highlight rings) are left out of the shot.
- Fixed Edits made offline are no longer lost on sync. If the scheme was changed on another device meanwhile, that version is kept as a separate project marked “conflict” and yours stays put. Undo (Ctrl+Z) now reliably reaches the cloud too, and signing into another account on the same device brings all of its projects.
- Fixed A frozen part no longer travels with the pipe: changing a length, bending or closing a gap that would move it is refused with a hint to unlock it.
- Fixed The builder opens right away with the saved catalogue instead of waiting for the network: on a poor connection it could hang on “loading catalogue” for a long time.
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v0.1.389
- Fixed The 3D camera no longer flies off when you rotate up close: the orbit now goes around what you are looking at — the part under the cursor or the centre of the assembly. The same fix applies to the scheme viewer, where close-up rotation was at its worst.
- Fixed Updates no longer swap the builder out from under you: when a new version ships, a small “An update is ready” bar appears at the bottom with a “Reload” button, so the tab switches when it suits you. An open tab could previously stay on the old version and run into a loading error.
- Fixed The builder opens faster for returning visitors: it is now split into parts, so a new release only makes the browser fetch what actually changed instead of the whole app.
- Fixed Fixtures no longer drift over to the pipe. A toilet, water heater or basin stays where you put it: closing the gap to a pipe now adjusts the pipe lengths instead of the fixture’s position. The fixture only moves when nothing else can close the gap and nothing is holding it.
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v0.1.357
- New Two pieces of the same pipe grow back into one: after deleting an inserted part, tap “Connect” on both cut ends — or drag an end with the handle up to the other cut. You get one pipe and one line in the parts list, bends on both halves survive, and a loose piece drives up on its own.
- New A tee can be inserted into any pipe: a new entry in “Insert…” puts it in line with its through run, and the branch stays free for a new line.
- New A bend in a bent pipe can be replaced with a part right in place: on a bent pipe “Insert…” offers “Elbow” (for 45° and 90°) and “Tee” (for 90°) — they land exactly at the corner, pipe lengths are recalculated honestly and the ends of the line stay put.
- New Also there — “Cut”: the pipe splits at the bend into two, with the ends meeting at the corner. From there you can put any part between them.
- New The builder may ask you for a review: after you share or download a project, a small bar with a Trustpilot link shows up at the bottom. It appears rarely and only once you have built a real scheme — praise and criticism are equally welcome, and “Not now” hides it for a long while.
- New The public scheme catalog is open: hit “Publish” and your scheme gets its own page in the shared catalog. Anyone can view a scheme in 3D with its parts list, give it a 👍, discuss it in the comments and open an editable copy — no sign-up needed.
- New A scheme page in the catalog now shows the live scheme instead of a snapshot: rotate and zoom it, switch between 2D and 3D and open the parts list — the same viewer as on the home page.
- New The scheme viewer grew up — everywhere it appears: on the home page, in the guide, in the catalog and on share pages. It gained the “Water” lens with a flow mode, hovering a parts-list line highlights those parts in the scene, and an “Open your copy” button opens an editable copy right in the builder. Labels on the scheme are now hidden by default — the eye button brings them back.
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v0.1.347
- Fixed In flat mode a part sitting at a different depth now connects: bring it over a port — it snaps on and lines up in depth by itself.
- New While dragging a part you can zoom with the wheel, and near the screen edge the camera pans by itself — carry a part beyond the visible area without letting go.
- Fixed A bent pipe can be shortened by a lot at once — a big step used to hit “the bend does not fit”, even though small steps reached the same length.
- Fixed The bend-slide preview now shows exactly the shape you get on release — the pipe no longer drifts at its fixed end during the gesture.
- Fixed The selection box catches a pipe by any part of its body: a long pipe whose end is outside the box no longer falls out of the selection and groups into a component just fine.
- Fixed The floor can now be lowered or raised by dragging in any view; in 3D hold Shift for height mode, same as with parts.
- Fixed The quick-actions menu opens at the click point: on a long pipe it no longer pops up somewhere near the far end.
- Fixed With the camera at a shallow angle, a new part no longer lands off-screen — it appears at the centre of the assembly.
- Fixed Dragging a pipe by its end no longer closes the bend panel: extend the pipe, then adjust the angle right away.
- Fixed Flow now shows on bent pipes and no longer disagrees at tees: the direction comes from the source to the pipe’s own ends, and the running marks are lighter than the highlight, so they stand out on the line.
- New You can see which pipes carry cold water and which carry hot: the “Show water” button colours them by what flows inside. The builder recognises appliances on its own — a water heater lights up its hot line straight away — and for risers you just tap a free pipe end and pick cold or hot.
- New A second press of the same button sends the flow along the pipes: you can see which way the water travels from the inlet to the fixtures.
- New The builder now warns you when hot water is routed into the cold inlet of a washing machine or a cistern, when a mixer’s connections are swapped, or when both waters reach the same pipe.
- New Water heaters and two-inlet fixtures got a “Mirror the outlets” action — for models where the cold and hot connections are the other way round.
- Fixed A wall-outlet plate no longer mixes the water: two outlets on one plate are two separate lines, so hot water on one of them no longer colours its neighbour.
- Fixed Toilets, washbasins, showers and the rest of the fixtures now sit under “Equipment” in the shopping list instead of among the consumables. They also show up under the “equipment” filter in the catalogue, and you can swap one for another model.
- Fixed Water meters, pressure reducers and flushable filters are found under the “valves and fittings” filter — until now they fell outside every catalogue filter.
- Catalogue The catalogue gained water storage tanks of 200, 500, 750 and 1000 litres — an atmospheric plastic vessel with a 1" inlet on top and a 1" outlet at the bottom. The water lens understands them right away: fill from the top, draw from the bottom.
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v0.1.315
- Catalogue PEX pipe is now warm grey, like real cross-linked polyethylene pipe. Red no longer clashes with copper or hot-water markings.
- New Smart closing now works from both sides: when the run's own lengths can't cover an axis, the builder moves a hanging assembly as a whole or adjusts the pipes on the target side — the tee comes to meet you, branch and all.
- Fixed 3D camera: zoom heads for the point under the cursor and paces itself by what you're looking at. No more stalled zoom and wild rotation after moving in close.
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v0.1.312
- New PEX and multilayer pipes bend: the Bend tool lays an arc right at the point you tap.
- New The connection-reject hint: a bar shows how long it has left, a close button appeared, and it stays longer.
- Catalogue Sanitary ware: bidet shower in three designs, a bidet, a kitchen sink and a bathtub with the tap mid-rim or at an end — 8 items.
- New Smart closing: bring a pipe end near a port and the builder adjusts the pipe lengths along the run so the joint meets — no aiming needed. Works with bent pipes too.
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v0.1.302
- New PEX cold-expansion joints: a pipe end now takes both press and expansion fittings, and the sleeves show up in the parts list.
- New An assembly plane can be dragged by its edges — the same way a pipe is dragged by its end.
- Fixed On a phone the panels in the bottom corner no longer overlap each other.
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v0.1.297
- New An "unsnapped" indicator: near-misses are visible straight away, without digging through the parts list.
- Catalogue Solid-fuel boilers — 11 items with four connection layouts.
- Catalogue Combined check and safety valve for water heaters — 2 items.
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v0.1.287
- New A pipe stretches by its end, and one stretched up to a port closes the joint by itself.
- New The diagram exports as a PNG, the project saves as a file on disk.
- Catalogue Underfloor heating manifold in parts, plus a thermometer — 48 items.
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v0.1.276
- New A "Message us" button inside the builder — no need to hunt for an email address.
- New The logo in the header links back to the site.
- Fixed In 2D a new part appeared off the assembly plane and would not connect.
- Fixed The analytics consent is no longer asked a second time when you open the builder.
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v0.1.259
- New Flexible hose — a tool inside Connect: two fixtures link with a hose instead of a chain of fittings.
- Catalogue Appliance valves, sanitary fixtures and a mounting bar with wall outlets — 20 items.
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v0.1.247
- Catalogue Multilayer pipe — a whole new connection system, 56 items.
- Catalogue Small brass parts: extensions and lock nuts — 29 items.
- Catalogue Ball valves with a union nut — 11 items.
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v0.1.228
- Catalogue Radiator valve set and a bypass — 20 items.
- Fixed Search understands inch sizes spelled out in words.
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v0.1.208
- New A public link to a diagram and an embeddable view: you can show a scheme to someone without an account.
- New Inline insert: break a pipe and drop a valve into the gap, then slide it along.
- New Demo scenes: water heater piping, a one-bedroom water layout, a PPR frame.
- Catalogue Boilers — 17 items taken from manufacturer datasheets.
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v0.1.187
- New Mobile layout: a bottom dock, a context panel, and controls right next to the part.
- New A part rolls around the axis of its joint, not around the world axes.
- New A redesigned projects screen; catalogue filters are remembered per project.
- Catalogue Pump assembly: pressure tank and booster set piping — 22 items.
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v0.1.172
- New Desktop layout: a left sidebar, a project bar, and floating tool and view islands.
- New Six flat views, and separate cursor modes for Connect and multi-select.
- New Pipe length as a badge on the pipe itself, and leader-line labels instead of text bubbles.
- Catalogue Underfloor and brass manifolds, backwash filters, water inlet parts — 68 items.
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v0.1.130
- New The parts list became a working sheet: highlight in the scene, groups, and crossing off what you have bought.
- New Closing a loop — two pinned ends are brought together.
- Catalogue PEX fittings — 19 items.
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v0.1.112
- New An embeddable diagram viewer: a scheme lives on someone else's page and can still be turned.
- New Grids are gone — the axis triad in the corner is the reference now.
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v0.1.100
- New Wall with a photo backdrop: your own photo becomes a reference plane at real scale.
- New Choosing which port to mate, with a confirmation step.
- Catalogue Garden tap, eurocone fitting and PEX pipe.
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v0.1.95
- New Group several parts into a component, freeze a part, rotate in 45° steps.
- New Catalogue search that understands you, kind chips and three-state filters.
- New The project thumbnail is a real mini-render of the scene, not a schematic drawing.
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v0.1.81
- New Sign in by email link or with Google; projects live in the cloud and open on another device.
- New A sync indicator on the projects screen.
- New A new logo — water inside the letters.
- Catalogue Fitting dimensions calibrated against FV-Plast and DIN datasheets.
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v0.1.63
- Fixed The part panel opens as an overlay, and the configurator works for any part.
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v0.1.56
- New Smart part replacement right on the canvas: the neighbouring joints adjust themselves.
- New Markers on the diagram: a pin, a caption, and hide-all.
- Catalogue HDPE and water supply pumps — 75 items.
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v0.1.46
- Catalogue Boiler safety group — 8 items.
- Fixed A project with equipment would not open, and the catalogue stalled for a couple of seconds.
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v0.1.44
- Catalogue Brass fittings: adapters, elbows, tees, plugs, unions, ball valves — 185 items.
- Catalogue First equipment: boilers, radiators, water heaters, expansion tanks, pumps and filters — 44 items.
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v0.1.28
- Catalogue PPR threaded adapters, unions, wall elbows, valves and manifolds — over 80 items.
- Fixed A pipe no longer welds into a pipe: a socket mates only with a cut end.
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v0.1.20
- New The catalogue moved to a generative model: instead of a list of part numbers, a part configurator and a check of whether such a part exists in real life.
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v0.1.19
- Catalogue Pipes rebuilt from scratch: PPR, PEX and HDPE, each with its own material colour.
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v0.1.19
- New The interface in three languages: English, Ukrainian, Russian.
- New A configurator without dead ends: a click adjusts the neighbouring ends, and names carry no brands or part numbers.
- New Demo scenes on the start screen, including a whole house.
- New A new name and palette — easy-pipe.
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v0.1.6
- New 45° elbows, and rolling a part around its own axis.
- New Reworked top panels and project menu.
- Fixed Multi-select and group dragging started working on touch screens.
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v0.1.0
- New The first version of the builder: drag-and-drop assembly, end snapping, undo and redo.
- New A 3D editor in real millimetres and an honest 2D mode.
- New A shopping list generated from the diagram, and an assembly check.
- New Projects stored in the browser with autosave, plus file export and import.
- Catalogue The first catalogue: PPR and brass — fittings, valves, manifolds, filter housings.
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