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Inspectra BIM 0.7.0 \u2014 alignments with chainage, cross-sections along the axis, and a faster everything<\/h1>

Version 0.7.0 is the biggest free-tier release since the viewer launched. It teaches Inspectra the language of linear infrastructure \u2014 axes, chainage, cross-sections \u2014 and pairs it with a round of performance work that you will feel on every heavy federated model, whether you build bridges or buildings.<\/p>

Alignments become first-class<\/h2>

Road and rail models revolve around an axis, and Inspectra now treats it that way. IFC 4.3 files already showed their\u00a0IfcAlignment<\/code>\u00a0centrelines as cyan lines; 0.7.0 adds the other half of real projects:\u00a0vertical alignments imported from LandXML<\/strong>. Export the alignment from Civil 3D (or any tool that writes LandXML), open the file in Inspectra, and the horizontal geometry \u2014 lines, arcs and clothoids, evaluated properly, not approximated from chords \u2014 is combined with the vertical profile into a true 3D axis. On a 4.7 km test alignment the reconstructed length matches the declared one to the millimetre.<\/p>

A file with several alignments appears in the scene tree as a small tree of its own, one checkable row per axis. XML axes render\u00a0purple<\/strong>, IFC ones stay cyan, so you always know what you are looking at \u2014 and everything below works identically for both.<\/p>

Axes are also clickable now. A click highlights the line and fills the Properties panel with its identity card: name, source, start and end chainage, length, elevation range. Esc puts it back.<\/p>

Chainage on the model, not in your head<\/h2>

Right-click any axis in the scene tree and choose\u00a0Show Chainage Labels<\/strong>: kilometre markers in the familiar\u00a03+144<\/code>\u00a0format appear along the line, on as many axes as you like. The spacing picks itself from the axis length, and if your office standard says otherwise,\u00a0Settings \u2192 Chainage Label Spacing<\/strong>\u00a0pins it anywhere from every 10 m to every 1000 m.<\/p>

Two details make the labels livable rather than a gimmick. Zoom out and they thin themselves \u2014 instead of a wall of overlapping pills you get a sparse, readable subset that densifies as you approach. And while you orbit or pan, the labels step aside entirely and return the moment you let go, so a fully labelled 5 km alignment costs you nothing in smoothness. A floating\u00a0Hide chainage labels<\/strong>\u00a0button in the corner clears every axis at once.<\/p>

Read the chainage anywhere: Measure Alignment<\/h2>

The Measure tab gains an\u00a0Alignment<\/strong>\u00a0tool. Click any point on an axis and Inspectra answers the two questions engineers actually ask there:\u00a0what chainage is this, and what is the design elevation?<\/strong>\u00a0The reading stays on the model as a ringed marker with a pill \u2014\u00a0Tor 1 \u00b7 km 3+144.25 \u00b7 H = 16.20 m<\/code>\u00a0\u2014 and deletes like any other measurement. The chainage comes from the axis’ own station table (start chainage included), not from a guess.<\/p>

Cross-sections that follow the route<\/h2>

This is the feature the rest was built for. The Section tile has a new mode:\u00a0From Alignment<\/strong>. Click an axis and a cutting plane appears\u00a0perpendicular to it and perfectly vertical<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 a real engineering cross-section, at the exact station you picked.<\/p>

The violet ball sits where the axis pierces the plane. Drag it and the section slides\u00a0along the route<\/strong>, in both directions, re-orienting itself as the axis curves so it stays perpendicular at every station; Ctrl+scroll steps it precisely. Measuring inside the cut works exactly as it has since 0.6.0.<\/p>

While we were in there, every planar section \u2014 Surface, Global, and the new alignment one \u2014 gained a floating\u00a0Flip Section<\/strong>\u00a0button, so keeping the\u00a0other<\/em>\u00a0side of a cut no longer means rebuilding it.<\/p>

Alignments embed into standalone\u00a0.ins<\/code>\u00a0scenes like everything else: send the file, and your colleague gets the axes, the chainage and the sections with it.<\/p>

Finding issues faster<\/h2>

The Issues search now filters by\u00a0file name<\/strong>\u00a0and by any\u00a0saved Filter set<\/strong>, on top of text, status, tag and date. “Show me the open issues on the MEP model” is two clicks.<\/p>

The performance round<\/h2>

Every release should give something back to people with heavy models. This one gives a lot:<\/p>