Every precast plant has one. The piece that is not in anybody's catalog. A wing wall for the county DOT, a notched sill for a restoration job, a vault some engineer sketched in the margin of a plan sheet and said "like this, but four inches wider at the base." The software you pay for shrugs at that piece, and the piece ends up living in a spreadsheet and somebody's memory.
We shipped twenty-four releases since the end of July, and most of them add up to one answer for that piece: draw it, and the software takes it the rest of the way.
Draw it once, and it flows
The custom shape editor now works the way a drafter thinks. Edge lengths and corner angles sit right on the drawing. Tap a dimension and type the exact number; it takes fractions like 23 7/8, and corners snap to the nearest 1/8 inch. Choose Plan Detail for a footprint that stacks vertically, like a vault or a culvert barrel, or Profile Section for a piece that runs by length, like a sill or a run of coping. Trapezoids are a first-class shape now too.
And here is the part that matters: the drawing is not a picture. The same geometry prices the piece by true volume, schedules its pour, and generates the shop drawing. Every sheet now carries four views, Plan, Front Elevation, End Elevation, and a hatched Section A-A, rendered live from the configured piece. You can flip through those same views in the calculator before the quote ever leaves the desk.
Knockouts got smarter along the way. Attach a pipe boot or a cast-in gasket to any penetration and the accessory follows the piece onto the quote, priced per knockout and multiplied through the line quantity.
Metric, in one click
Some shops think in pounds and cubic yards. Some think in kilograms and cubic meters. One setting now flips the whole app: pricing fields, weight displays, dashboard KPIs, batch plans, piece labels, shop drawings, all of it. Metric shops see millimeters where the tape measure lives and kg/m³ where the density lives. Your stored data never moves, so switching is instant and reversible. Pound shops see no change at all.
The Print Bridge is an app now
Label printing on a shop floor should be boring, and now it is. The Hardware tab manages your Zebra printers, label sizes from 3 by 1 up to 4 by 6, and per-station assignments so the packing line always prints on the packing printer. The Print Bridge itself is an Android app: download it from the Hardware tab, scan the pairing QR with any phone or tablet on the shop WiFi, and it relays every label to the right printer. There is a cloud queue behind it, so a missing label is a status you can look at instead of a mystery you chase.
One package, your name on it
Approval emails used to carry a stack of links. Now your customer gets one Shop Drawing Package, every drawing merged into a single PDF behind a cover sheet, and opens it on a page with your plant's name at the top. A proper viewer, a download button, any device. Those links got stricter security this release too; a document link is one document, for one customer, for a limited time.
Add-ons that count themselves
Ladders, boots, anchors, hatches. The little parts sink quotes when they are not on the shelf. Every product add-on now tracks On Hand, Reserved, and Available, with reorder points and low-stock badges. Quoting reserves stock and approval deducts it. Mark an item backordered with an expected date, and the calendar carries a follow-up reminder so the promise you made in July does not surprise you in September.
The little things
An Undo button on the floor, because fat fingers happen; every floor role gets a fifteen-minute window to walk back a mistake. The production calendar reads from the same schedule engine as the Gantt now, so they finally agree. Measure more takeoff after a quote exists and the quote editor offers to bring the new lines in without touching your pricing. Element types and custom shapes can be deleted, even the built-in ones, behind the manager PIN, and never while anything still uses them.
All of it is live today. That is the deal with turn-key software; nobody schedules an upgrade weekend, the tools are just there when you sign in. The full tour, with screenshots and short workflow videos this time, is on the What's New page, and the app is at erp.dhyanatech.app.
I built the shape editor because I have been the guy trying to describe an odd piece over the phone. Draw it instead. And if your plant has a piece no catalog covers, come show me.