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Port reordering + revamped port tables and hover cards

BETA APP

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This beta release brings significant updates to ports across the app, with numerous improvements to make working with ports easier and faster!

Port Sorting and Reordering

You now have full control over how ports are arranged on your gear. Ports are automatically organized into groups based on their shared properties (category, connector, signal, etc.), and sorted using a default algorithm that puts bidirectional ports first, then inputs, then outputs, grouped by connector and category.

While the defaults work for most gear, several of you have expressed wanting full control over port layout, and now you can customize it in several ways! You can now move port groups to specific sides of the gear, split them evenly across both sides, or leave them on auto. You can reorder port groups and set their position from the Port Table dialog, the Port Report, or directly on the drawing. For full details, see the Port Sorting & Reordering section in our docs.
Side overrides and custom ordering can also be set on library items in the Library Item Port Config, so your preferred layout is applied every time you add that gear to a project. To reset customizations, use the Reset Side Overrides or Reset Port Group Ordering buttons in the Port Table toolbar.

Redesigned Port Table Dialog

The Port Table has been redesigned to make working with ports faster and more intuitive. You can now search across all ports, filter by category, or show only connected ports to quickly find what you're looking for. Port group headers now use connector colours so you can instantly identify groups at a glance too.

A live gear preview is now built into the dialog, updating in real-time as you make changes, including showing which ports are connected or not. For Detail Mode gear, the preview appears as a panel on the left side. For Standard Mode gear, it appears as a strip across the top. As you toggle port visibility, reorder groups, or change side overrides, the preview reflects your changes immediately so you no longer need to jump back and forth between the dialog and the drawing.

Bulk Editing in Port Tables and Managers

Bulk editing is now available in the Port Table and all managers for even faster editing! Select rows using the checkbox column, and editing a field on one selected row applies the change to all selected rows. Most fields are bulk editable, and any that aren't applicable to a selected row will be skipped with a notification letting you know how many were skipped (for example trying set the same SKU to several cables at once, as SKUs are unique per cable).

Redesigned Hover Cards

The hover cards that appear when you hover over a port or connection have been completely redesigned with a new organized layout to make it much easier to read, while providing even more information. Each card features a coloured strip at the top matching the port's connector colour, and the connected section heading turns green when the port has an active connection, making it trivial to quickly check connection status.

Information is now organized into clearly labeled sections. For ports: General, Placement, Signal, Expansion Card, and Connected. For connections: General, Gear, Signal, and Cable.

New fields include:
  • Ports: Block, group order, side override, connected gear and port labels
  • Connections: Connector details, adapter info, signal warnings, and full cable details
Fields with no value appear greyed out so you can quickly focus on the information that matters.

Improvements

  • The Port Table dialog now opens at near full-screen size, giving you much more room to work with port tables and the new gear preview panel.
  • The toolbar at the top of the Port Table dialog now includes:
    • Search
    • Category filter
    • Connected Only filter
    • Side override controls to quickly move all ports left, right, top, bottom, or split
    • Reset buttons
    • Help button explaining port sorting and layout behaviour
  • The toggle all visibility buttons have been removed from the Port Table toolbar. You can now toggle visibility directly from the port table rows using the checkbox selection and bulk editing instead, which gives you further control over which ports to toggle visibility for.
  • Each port group header in the Port Table now includes a drag handle for reordering, a cycling button for change gear sides, and an ordering badge showing the current custom group order value.
  • Moved the View All Details button to the bottom of Gear Config so it is now always visible instead of hiding when you scroll down.
  • Improved performance when resizing gear, especially on gear with many ports.
  • Ports in the Library Editor are now sorted by the order ports appear in the preview and drawing.
    • Note this means that ports may re-order themselves if you change port options and you don't have a custom sort order set.
  • Renamed "ordering" to "start" in the Library Editor for clarity.
  • Search boxes are now more forgiving with special characters, such as in the Library Browser search.
  • New keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+S) for syncing Local Mode.
  • Removed the fiber note in the Cable Inventory Manager help menu.
  • Changelogs now support images (like this one!).

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed ports not returning to their correct side when changing between inputs and outputs.
  • Fixed expansion card ports not ordering consistently within the drawing.
  • Fixed auto port re-labeling sometimes relabeling the wrong number for ports with names like "Port 1 Number 1".
  • Fixed ghost labels appearing around expansion cards in the drawing. Any existing gear that still has ghost labels will be fixed next time you make an edit to the gear's ports.
  • Fixed labels not truncating correctly when port option changes would cause gear to shrink or resize.
  • Fixed sorting not consistently being applied to the gear preview in the Library Editor after adding ports.
  • Fixed animation bugs in the Port Table dialog.
  • Fixed a rare edge case preventing port tables from auto-sorting by port number when ports first appear in the Port Table dialog.
  • Fixed the updating notification flashing too many times during rapid changes.
  • Fixed bulk changes not always applying when quickly switching between Draw and Report mode.
  • Fixed a rare edge case where Report Mode cells could get stuck being uneditable until the report was reloaded.
  • Fixed undo stack item labels not displaying correctly for port operations.
  • Fixed undo and redo not re-assigning marker connectors (input/outputs) correctly in all cases.
  • Fixed hover cards flashing in and out when hovering over a port or connection positioned under the card.
  • Fixed connections using stale routing when first opening a project, leading to connections occasionally taking different paths upon re-opening the project.
  • Fixed connection labels re-loading off centre (when this happens due to the system fonts still loading, the app will re-centre them on next save).
  • Fixed referring to connections as "links" in Pro messaging in the bulk connection warning.

Animated signal flows and port blocks!

1.37.1

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Animated Signal Flow on Connections

You can now see the direction of signal flow on your connections as an animated overlay! When enabled, small animated dashes travel along directional connections showing you exactly which way the signal is moving, matching the direction indicated by the connection markers (arrows and circles).

The animation only appears on directional connections where one end resolves to an input and the other to an output. Connections where both ends are bidirectional do not display the animation. You can enable this from Project Settings in the Drawing section, where you will find three quality modes: Off, Low, and High.

Low mode shows the animated dashes without a glow effect and is better for performance, while High mode adds a glow effect that looks great but may be more demanding on larger drawings. The animation also respects your system's Reduce Motion accessibility setting and automatically pauses during item selection to keep interactions snappy.

Port Blocks

Ports now support an optional Block identifier, giving you a way to group ports into distinct blocks on the same piece of gear. Each block can hold up to four alphanumeric characters, and ports with the same block value are sorted together in both the drawing and the Gear Config table.

This is especially useful for gear with repeating groups of identical port configurations. For example, a video switcher with three separate groups of HDMI outputs could use Block 1, 2, and 3 to keep each group visually organized, and get around the dreaded duplicate port warning in the Library Editor. You can set the Block field on ports in the Library Editor and in the Gear Config pane.

New Port Options

  • New Connectors
    • Phoenix 16-Pin
  • New Signal Types
    • DCP

Default Library Updates

Thank you to everyone who has submitted gear to the Default Library!
  • Blackmagic Design
    • 40x40 12G
  • LYNX-Technik
    • SPG 1708
  • Netgear
    • GS108LP
    • GS316
  • StarTech
    • DKT30CHSDPD1
  • Yamaha
    • DME7
    • TF-RACK

Improvements

  • Gear in Detail Mode now automatically adjusts its width based on port label sizes, preventing labels from being truncated. This means you no longer need to manually widen gear to see long port names.
  • Made the port category selectors wider when in Multi Mode to prevent truncation.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed invalid IP address fields accepting values with leading zeros (such as 192.168.001.010), which could cause issues during Local Mode sync. Leading zeros are now automatically stripped.
  • Fixed incompatible ports not graying out when moving existing connections, which previously made it harder to see which ports were valid targets.
  • Fixed duplicating gear with expansion cards grouped and fixed port spacing enabled not correctly clearing active port status after duplicating the gear in the drawing, until the next save.
  • Fixed Local Mode auto-sync endlessly re-syncing in certain conditions.
  • Fixed performance issues when resizing large gear with many ports, such as the Quantum 7.

Change your connector colours

1.36.0

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Change Your Connector Colours in the Port Manager!

You can now customize the colours used for different connectors in your drawings! The new Port Manager, accessible from the Manager Menu at the top right of the app, lets you override the default colour for any connector with a custom colour that better suits your workflow or project requirements.

With nearly 150 connectors available, the Port Manager includes search and category filtering to quickly find what you need. Colours update across your drawing immediately, and you can copy and paste colours between connectors, filter to show only customized connectors, or reset everything back to defaults.

Improved Colour Picker

The colour picker has received several updates to make it more useful too! It now has three modes: Spectrum for picking any colour from a gradient, Tune for fine-tuning via RGB sliders, and Palette for quickly selecting from a curated set of common colours. You can also double-click a colour to apply it immediately.

New Port Options

FireWire connectors have been split into specific variants to better represent real-world cabling. The single "FireWire" connector has been replaced with FireWire 400 4-Pin, FireWire 400 6-Pin, and FireWire 800.

New FireWire 400 and FireWire 800 signal types have also been added, and the app will automatically assign the correct signal type based on the connector you select in the Library Editor. All FireWire connectors are adapter compatible with each other, so you can still draw connections between different FireWire types.

Any existing drawings using the old FireWire connector will be updated to be FireWire 400 6-Pin.
  • New Connectors
    • RJ10
    • FireWire 400 4-Pin
    • FireWire 400 6-Pin
    • FireWire 800
  • New Signal Types
    • SPI
    • USB4
    • FireWire 400
    • FireWire 800
  • New Connector Category
    • FireWire

Default Library Updates

Thank you to everyone who has submitted gear to the Default Library!
  • Akai Professional
    • APC Mini mk2
  • Apple
    • AirPort Extreme (6th Gen)
  • Behringer
    • SD8
    • SD16
    • X32 COMPACT
    • X32 RACK
  • Chauvet DJ
    • Intimidator Spot 360
    • Intimidator Spot 360X
  • D-Link
    • DGS-108
  • Elation Lighting
    • ZW19
  • ENTTEC
    • DIN PIXIE
  • Extron
    • XTP II CrossPoint 3200
  • Obsidian Control Systems
    • NX K
  • RF Venue
    • CP Beam
  • Rosendahl
    • nanosyncs HD
  • Sennheiser
    • A 5000-CP
    • EM 100 G4
  • Shure
    • BLX4
  • Sony
    • ILME-FR7
    • PXW-FX9
  • Soundtrack
    • Soundtrack Player 3.0
  • Starlink
    • Performance (Gen 1)
  • Theatrixx
    • HDMI to Fiber
  • Ubiquiti
    • AC HD
    • CloudKey+
    • Dream Machine Special Edition
    • G4 Instant
    • G5 Bullet
    • Lite 8 PoE
    • U6 Lite
    • U7 Outdoor
    • UDB Pro
    • USW Ultra 60W
  • Ultratec Special Effects
    • Radiance Hazer
  • ViewSonic
    • TD2211

Improvements

  • Video switchers now support IP addresses, just like switches, computers, and other networking gear.
  • The Port Report now includes a Connection Label column, giving you a way to see the label assigned to each connection without having to check a Connection Report.
  • Connections are no longer removed when changing port options if the new settings are still compatible, making it much easier to update ports without otherwise compatible connections being lost.
  • Bulk port option changes no longer flood the screen with repeated compatibility warnings, and you can approve them all with a new do not ask again checkbox.
  • Port sorting on gear no longer uses connector colour as a factor in the sort order. This gives more consistent and predictable ordering, especially now that connector colours can be customized through the Port Manager.
  • Shift-click range selection now works in manager tables, including the Port Manager, Cable Inventory Manager, and VLAN Manager. Hold Shift and click the row checkbox to select a range.
  • Gear with default Expansion Cards now automatically enables Group Expansion Ports. Most users already use this mode, and now it's on by default for ease of access.
  • Detail Mode now accounts for Expansion Card and default card ports when calculating the total port count, so it correctly kicks in for gear that act like frames - having no ports of their own as they only house Expansion Cards.
  • The Library Editor now shows a message when a gear item includes default Expansion Cards, to avoid confusion why ports appear in the preview that are not defined in the Library Item Port Config.
  • Sizing has been tightened up around several inputs, and spacing has been made more consistent across various tables and input boxes throughout the app.
  • Expansion Card cards in the selected section has been updated to better fit all content for each Expansion Card.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the drawing not unlocking itself when returning from the Library Editor.
  • Fixed gear border colours not updating when changing its layer and the layer was a different colour.
  • Fixed Expansion Card dropdown extending beyond the window for gear items with long lists of compatible cards, such as on PIXERA servers.
  • Fixed multi-selection selecting items on hidden layers.
  • Various stability and reliability improvements across the app.

New Draw Mode features and easier port selections

1.35.0

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Beta Features Now Released!

All the features from our recent Beta release are now available to everyone! This release packs a ton of improvements to significantly speed up your workflows in Draw mode. We've completely re-designed how selection works in GearConnect, giving you powerful new ways to select, organize, and edit multiple items at once.

With over two dozen improvements, this is the most features we have shipped in a single release yet! Now you'll be able to work faster than ever - whether you're aligning gear across your drawing, bulk-editing labels, or creating multiple connections in a single action.

Please refer to the Beta changelogs for full details, but the highlights include:
  • Select any item - gear, text boxes, gear groups, and connections
  • Multi-selection with strict/crossing modes and type filtering
  • All new Selection Toolbar for quick access to common tools
  • Alignment and distribution tools
  • Bulk actions for labels, colours, opacity, lock/unlock, and more
  • Create multiple connections at once between gear (Pro feature)
  • Ports automatically highlight their compatible connections while drawing
  • Auto-numbering for bulk label editing (Pro feature)
  • New Node Edit Mode for customizing connection paths
  • Export and print just a selection of your drawing (Pro feature)
  • Improved performance with virtual rendering for large drawings

Easier Way to Select Port Options

Selecting the right connector or signal type for your ports just got a whole lot easier! With over 140 connector types now available, the old flat list was getting hard to navigate. The new categorized selector menu organizes all available options into logical categories, so you can quickly find what you need.

The selector features a two-panel layout with categories on the left and options on the right. Click a category like Audio, Video, Networking, or Power to filter the available options, or select All to see everything. Each connector type displays its colour swatch for easy visual identification, and you can search or use keyboard navigation to quickly find what you need.

As part of this update, fiber types have been merged into the connector list and can now be selected directly alongside all other connector types. All existing library items have been updated to this new format, and your projects will be automatically upgraded the next time you open them.

Improvements

  • The account verification email is now automatically resent when needed such as trying to sign up for Pro
  • The email sent after being removed from a team no longer suggests Guests or Library Managers may have Pro access
  • Fiber types of the same connector but different modes can now connect via an adapter

Default Library Updates

  • New Connectors
    • Phoenix 24-Pin
  • New Port Categories
    • GPS
    • Joystick
  • New Signal Types
    • XLINK
    • TDM
    • HControl

Default Library Updates

Thank you to everyone who has been submitting gear to the default library!
  • Barnfind
    • 3G-SDI-B
  • Ensemble Designs
    • Brighteye 71
  • Generic
    • 32x32 HDMI Router
  • JBL
    • SRX906LA
    • SRX910LA
    • SRX912M
    • SRX915M
    • SRX915SF
    • SRX918S
    • SRX918SF
    • SRX922
    • SRX928S
  • Lightware
    • MX2-32x32-HDMI20
    • MX2-48x48-HDMI20
  • Neutrik
    • NA2-IO-DPRO
  • Sennheiser
    • AC3200-II
    • EM6000
  • Soundcraft
    • Si Expression 1
  • Studio Technologies
    • Model 203
    • Model 370A
    • Model 374A

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed: Deleting a user now properly handles team ownership instead of orphaning teams
  • Fixed: Fixed rapid flickering behaviour on specific tablet screen sizes on the project page

Draw even faster with major new Draw Mode features!

BETA APP

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This release packs a ton of improvements to significantly speed up your workflows in Draw mode! We've completely re-designed how selection works in GearConnect, giving you powerful new ways to select, organize, and edit multiple items at once.

With over two dozen improvements, this is the most features we have shipped in a single release yet! Now you'll be able to work faster than ever - whether you're aligning gear across your drawing, bulk-editing labels, or creating multiple connections in a single action. This update is all about improving your drawing workflows.

We've also made performance improvements under the hood, so large drawings feel smoother when you're zoomed in and working.

There is a lot to dive into, so check out this video covering all these changes or read on below!

Highlights:

  • Select any item - gear, text boxes, gear groups, and connections
  • Multi-selection with strict/crossing modes and type filtering
  • All new Selection Toolbar for quick access to common tools
  • Alignment and distribution tools
  • Bulk actions for labels, colours, opacity, lock/unlock, and more
  • Create multiple connections at once between gear (Pro feature)
  • Ports automatically highlight their compatible connections while drawing
  • Auto-numbering for bulk label editing (Pro feature)
  • New Node Edit Mode for customizing connection paths
  • Export and print just a selection of your drawing (Pro feature)
  • Improved performance with virtual rendering for large drawings
Please note that multi selection, bulk actions, and some other features require Local Mode - you will be prompted to switch over to Local Mode the first time you use one of these features, if you are not already.

Selection Re-Designed from the Ground Up

Any item on your drawing can now be selected - gear, text boxes, gear groups, and connections. Selected items now have a more prominent blue border making them easy to spot, and the border turns red when the item is locked so you can quickly tell the difference, no longer wondering why you can't move something.

Once an item is selected, you'll see the Selection Toolbar with common actions like editing labels, colours, and duplicating. Keyboard shortcuts have been updated to work with all selectable items too, so you can quickly duplicate or delete anything on your drawing!

Multi-Selection with Selection Modes

Click and drag to select multiple items at once. The selection behavior changes based on your drag direction:
  • Left-to-right drag selects only items fully enclosed by the selection box (strict selection) - shown with a solid blue box
  • Right-to-left drag selects any items that touch the selection box (crossing selection) - shown with a dashed orange box
When you have multiple items selected, the Selection Toolbar adapts to show actions relevant to your selection, and a summary bar appears at the bottom of the drawing showing counts by item type. You can filter your selection to specific types using either the dropdown in the toolbar or by clicking on a type in the summary bar. This allows you to perform bulk actions on only a subset of your total selection.

Alignment and Distribution

Arrange items in your drawings with precision using the new alignment and distribution tools. Select multiple items and use the Align Items button in either the Draw Toolbar or Selection Toolbar to access:

Alignment Options

Align left, center, or right (horizontal)
Align top, middle, or bottom (vertical)

Distribution Options

Distribute Horizontally - arrange items in a single row
Distribute Vertically - arrange items in a single column
Auto Grid - automatically arrange items in a roughly square grid (e.g. 9 items become 3×3)
Custom Grid - specify exact column counts for precise control

All distribution options use a configurable spacing value to help you align consistent gaps between items.

Bulk Actions

Work faster with bulk operations on your selections. When you have multiple items selected, you can:
  • Edit Labels - Change labels on all selected items at once
  • Duplicate - Copy all selected items in one action - including connections!
  • Reset Auto Size - Restore default sizing for gear groups
  • Remove All Nodes - Clear all nodes from selected connections to reset their paths
  • Change Layers - Change layers not only for the selected gear, but also selected connections
  • Edit Colours - Apply primary and secondary colours across your selection
  • Edit Opacity - Adjust transparency using a percentage slider to several text boxes
  • Lock/Unlock - Toggle lock state for all selected items
  • Remove - Delete multiple items with a single confirmation

Bulk Connection Creation

You can now create multiple connections between gear in one go! Access the bulk connection dialog from several places including the Selection Toolbar, right-click menu, or by holding Ctrl while releasing a new connection.

The dialog shows the total number of compatible port pairs between your source and target gear, and you can choose to create all of them or just a few. If you want connections to follow the same flow as your original - for example, all going from right-side ports to left-side ports - enable Same side only to limit bulk creation to matching sides.

Because GearConnect automatically validates connections for you, it uses this same validation to only suggest ports that are the same as your first connection - ensuring you don't accidentally wire up incorrect gear!

Port Highlighting

When creating connections, compatible ports are now highlighted to show you exactly where you can connect. Incompatible ports are dimmed, making it easier to see your options at a glance instead of waiting to make the connection just to be notified it's incompatible.

Auto-Numbering

When bulk editing labels, you can now automatically add sequential numbers to each item. Enable the auto-number checkbox, set a starting number, and choose an order direction (left to right, right to left, top to bottom, bottom to top, or selection order) to control which item gets which number. Enter a label like "Speaker" and your items become "Speaker 1", "Speaker 2", etc. - or leave it blank for just numbers.

Connection Node Edit Mode

You now have more control over when you are editing your connection paths. Editing connection nodes is a new dedicated cursor mode to prevent accidental changes while navigating your drawing. Toggle Node Edit Mode from the Draw Toolbar to edit nodes on any connection, or select a single connection and use Edit Nodes from the Selection Toolbar to edit just that connection's path.

We've also removed the drag bars on connections to avoid routing issues - you can simply just use nodes now to position your connections instead, making it much simpler! The floating delete button on connections has also been removed to prevent accidental deletions - use the right-click menu or Selection Toolbar instead.

Selection Export

Need to share just a part of your drawing? When you have items selected and export or print, you'll now be asked whether to export just the selection or the entire drawing. This is great for sharing specific sections of complex drawings with colleagues without having to export everything.

Virtual Rendering

Large drawings now load and perform significantly better thanks to virtual rendering. Only the items visible at any given time are rendered, dramatically improving scrolling and zooming performance on complex projects when zoomed in.

Additional Updates

But that's not all! We have several other improvements and fixes below:

Improvements

  • Improved smart connection routing performance - the feature now tries harder to find valid paths before falling back to straight lines
  • You can now change a selected connection's layer from the Draw Toolbar
  • When you have multiple items selected on different layers the drop-down will now say "Mixed"
  • Duplicating items now only adjusts the zoom if the new item would be off-screen
  • Opacity dialog now uses a slider with percentage display instead of decimal input
  • Shift+Backspace now triggers "Delete Unused Gear" for faster cleanup
  • Undo now works on the first press - no more "waiting" messages or needing to press it multiple times if the drawing is busy saving or updating
  • Version History now saves when enabling or disabling Local Mode to prevent losing recent changes
  • Added confirmation dialogs for more delete operations to prevent accidental deletions
  • Updated tooltip styling for better visibility in both dark and light modes
  • Added a warning with a link to the docs when Safari usage is detected

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed being able to interact with the Library Editor preview
  • Fixed zoom to fit cutting off drawings that are far from the origin
  • Fixed PNG and JPG exporting crashing on Chrome with large drawings
  • Fixed the app flickering during export
  • Fixed gear borders not updating immediately when moved to a layer with a different colour
  • Fixed text boxes being editable when the project is locked
  • Fixed the drawing getting stuck in a locked state when you middle mouse panned over a text box
  • Fixed locking gear groups and text boxes not triggering a project save
  • Fixed undoing gear group colour changes not applying correctly
  • Fixed gear group and text box undo actions being mislabeled as "gear"
  • Fixed undoing not resetting gear inside gear groups correctly - they now recalculate correctly after undo/redo
  • Fixed several layout issues on smaller screens - toolbars now have proper scroll bars without items overlapping each other
  • Fixed actions in My Gear pane being cut off on smaller screens