Qonic October Release Notes 2026

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Qonic October Release Notes 2026

You already know where BIM slows your team down: moving something a second time, correcting its height, applying the same tags again, or recreating the same drawing setup.

This month’s release addresses that everyday friction across the full workflow. You can now open projects directly from the Qonic app, load models more easily, copy elements between projects and sessions, edit component definitions, create grids, and save detailed drawing configurations as reusable presets.

Instead of treating geometry, data, and documentation as separate tasks, this release helps you keep them connected.

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New Capabilities

1. Dashboard in the Qonic App

The project dashboard is now integrated into the Qonic app for Windows and macOS.

You no longer need to open the browser first to find and launch a project. The dashboard and your open projects appear together as tabs in the app, creating a more continuous workflow between managing projects and working in the model.

2. Improved Model Picker

The model picker has been redesigned to make it easier to manage projects containing multiple models.

Models can now be loaded into or unloaded from the current view dynamically. You no longer need to close or reload the full session whenever you want to change which models are visible.

Search suggestions have also been improved. Words can match in a different order, making results less dependent on the exact way a model was named.

3. Unified Clipboard

Qonic now supports copying to and pasting from a unified clipboard.

Use the familiar Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V shortcuts or the right-click menu to copy products and paste them elsewhere.

The clipboard works across models, projects, sessions, and environments. You can copy something from one project, open another, and continue using it there.

This means an element or arrangement that already exists in another project no longer needs to be recreated or transferred through a separate export workflow.

4. Smart Snapping

Moved, copied, and pasted products can now snap into place using information from their surrounding context. Qonic evaluates how the original product relates to nearby geometry and uses that information to suggest a logical position in its new location.

A sofa placed in a corner can align with another corner. A window can maintain a specific distance from a slab or match the height of nearby windows. Products can also rotate or flip as the cursor moves to fit the available context.

Smart Snapping can be disabled when you prefer traditional snapping behaviour.

5. Paste & Replace

Paste & Replace lets you use a copied product to replace an existing one. The first version focuses on doors and windows. After selecting the target product, you can choose how the copied product should be positioned:

• Align it with a corner or edge of the original product.

• Align it at the top or bottom.

• Keep the copied product’s original dimensions.

• Resize it to match the dimensions of the product being replaced.

Qonic can also recognise repeated panels or other array structures in a window. When the source and target have different dimensions, the array can be extended to fit the replacement.

6. Component Editor

Component definitions can now be opened and edited in a dedicated Component Editor. The definition opens in a separate tab and model environment, where you can modify its geometry and information without editing a placed instance directly.

The editor also supports reference products. These provide the surrounding context needed to develop and position the component without becoming part of the final component itself.

For example, you can include a wall and slab as reference geometry to define:

• Which face of the component should touch the wall.

• How far the component should sit from the wall.

• Whether it should snap to the top or underside of a slab.

• How the component should orient itself when inserted.

Reference products remain valid IFC products, but they are marked as reference geometry and excluded from the published component.

Component definitions are versioned. When you publish a change, existing instances are marked as out of date rather than being updated automatically. You can review the affected instances and decide whether to update one, update several together, keep a local change, or create a new variant.

The variant workflow has also been extended:

• Choose a variant when inserting a component.

• Preview a variant before replacing an instance.

• Use Replace with Variant from the Inspect menu.

• Create a new variant from an existing instance.

• Add tags while creating a variant.

• Create a component from a read-only model.

7. Create Grid

Create rectangular grids directly inside Qonic.

In this first version, grids use regular spacing with a fixed cell size. Set the spacing, drag the grid to the required size, and then move, transform, hide, or delete it. Grid projections are also available while modelling on elevated geometry. For example, when drawing on top of a slab, the grid can be projected onto the slab’s surface and used as a snapping reference.

Future versions will add more support for irregular and individually configured grids.

8. Height Measure

The unified Measure tool now includes a Height option. Select one or more products to see their combined lowest point, highest point, and total vertical height.

When multiple objects are selected, Qonic evaluates the combined selection and reports its overall lowest and highest points. This is useful for checking openings, façades, installations, assemblies, or any group of products spanning several levels.

9. Project Units

Project Units can now be configured under Settings → Project Details.

Choose between metric and imperial systems and define the default units for length, area and volume. New projects prompt you to select the units during setup. Units can also be changed afterwards for existing projects.

The selected units are used consistently throughout modelling and measuring.

10. Drawing Generation Presets

Drawing configurations can now be saved as presets and reused when generating new drawings.

Presets provide detailed control over three areas:

Visibility

Choose which products should appear in a drawing. For example, you can exclude HVAC, plumbing, electrical, or other disciplines from a specific drawing type.

Appearance

Create styling rules based on IFC class or material. A rule can control:

• Fill colours.

• Hatch patterns.

• Boundary colours.

• Cut surfaces.

• Projected edges.

• Joining of objects with the same material.

• Joining of hatches with the same material.

Annotations

Choose which annotations should be included and control how they appear.

Once configured, the preset can be saved, applied to another drawing, and reused for later drawing generation. Generated drawings also open as tabs in the integrated Qonic app.

Drawing production has many layers, and there is still more depth to add. We’ll keep improving it with every release. The direction is clear: keep drawings connected to the model and make drawing standards reusable.

Feature Additions

Model Tags

Model tags can now be managed more flexibly from the dashboard.

• Add and remove tags after a model has been uploaded.

• Create custom tags.

• Apply a tag to one model or several models together.

• Use tags to organise and find models.

The Create Variant dialog also includes a dedicated tags field for classifying component variants as they are created.

Pinned Panel and Saved Selections

Saved Views is now the Pinned panel.

Alongside pinning views, you can save product selections and reuse them in other tools. This makes it easier to return to a specific scope without rebuilding the same selection every time.

Selection and Scoping

• Press Tab to cycle through selection candidates underneath the pointer.

• Select complete product groups.

• Ctrl+A now includes survey points and grids.

• Unhiding a model automatically adds it to the active scope.

• Models outside the working set are visualised more reliably.

• Grid scope and projection controls have been redesigned.

Planning

• Import and export Planning information through IFC.

• Split tasks directly in the Planning panel.

• Deleting a task closes the resulting gap between surrounding tasks.

• Calculated durations now expose static-days properties.

Public API

• Create products with properties in bulk.

• Retrieve geometry for several products in one batch.

• Access the exact source model associated with a product.

These additions improve performance and reduce the number of individual requests needed by integrations working with large model datasets.

Toolbar and Navigation

Following September’s toolbar redesign, we have continued refining how tools are organised and accessed.

• Further regrouping of tools in the bottom toolbar.

• Clearer chevron tooltips.

• A dedicated Navigate mode.

• Faster access to related modelling and inspection tools.

Properties and Reports

• URL is now supported as a custom property type.

• Report columns include a Sum action for quickly adding their values.

• Tag editing has been made more accessible within the model and dashboard workflows.

Geometry is only one part of a useful BIM model. Consistent tags and properties allow the same model to support quantities, checking, planning, facility management, and connected systems without a separate data-cleaning exercise at the end.

Revit Interoperability

Door-swing handling has been improved across the Revit workflow.

• Door swings are stored as door-local master data.

• Door-swing information is included during Revit export.

• Qonic can fall back to the door’s own geometry when dedicated swing information is unavailable.

Geo-Referencing

Qonic now rejects non-projected coordinate reference systems during geo-referencing.

This prevents unsupported coordinate systems from being applied and producing an incorrect model location.

German Interface

Qonic is now available in German.

Select Deutsch from the language options in your profile settings. English remains the default language, with additional languages planned for future releases.

Tutorial Playlist

A new tutorial section is available at help.qonic.com or on the Qonic YouTube channel.

The first version contains thirteen videos, beginning with a general Qonic overview and continuing with practical tutorials covering the first steps in the platform.

The playlist will continue to grow with more tools, workflows, and use cases. It already provides new users with a structured way to start and gives existing users a quick reference for individual features.

Pricing, Subscriptions, and Add-On Modules

We are introducing a more modular pricing structure.

Different teams need different parts of Qonic. An architecture practice, contractor, and building owner may all use the platform differently. The new structure combines the core Qonic product with add-on modules, allowing teams to choose the functionality relevant to their work.

Monthly options provide additional flexibility when projects, requirements, or team sizes change. You can start with what you need today and adapt your subscription as the work develops.

Core Stability

A focused round of improvements across grids, planning, selection, and interoperability.

Grids and Visualisation

• Improved snapping to grids.

• Redesigned grid projections.

• Refined grid styling and visual behaviour.

• Corrected visualisation for models outside the working set.

• Added a transparent rendering pass for grids and Chalk curves.

Planning

• Deleting a task now correctly heals gaps in the schedule.

• Static-day values are handled more consistently in calculated durations.

Selection and Scope

• Unhidden models are reliably returned to the active scope.

• Survey points and grids are included in full-model selections.

• Selection candidates underneath the pointer can be cycled more predictably.

Revit and Geo-Referencing

• Improved storage and export of Revit door-swing information.

• Added a geometry fallback when door-local swing data is unavailable.

• Unsupported non-projected coordinate systems are rejected before they can create incorrect geo-referencing results.

Those are the changes you can start using this month.

The updates cover different parts of Qonic, but they address the same kind of everyday friction: moving something again, recreating a setting, looking for the right model, rebuilding something that already exists, or checking several places to understand what changed.

We want to keep the useful parts of the process connected. We’re not trying to place every specialised workflow inside one enormous application. We want to make it easier to receive a model, understand it, adapt it, and keep using it as the project changes.

If you’re not sure where to start, begin with the part of your workflow where you currently repeat the most work.

Try the October release on a real project at app.qonic.com and let us know what works, what still gets in your way, and what you would like us to improve next.

See you next month!