July 31, 2025
New Process Flow Diagram Shapes, Smarter Template Controls, Kanban Improvements and More
Power Up Your Process Designs with Our Expanded Process Flow Shapes!
We’re thrilled to bring you a game-changing update for engineering professionals: a complete set of Process Flow Diagram shapes that covers everything you need to design, visualize, and communicate complex processes effortlessly. From Heating Equipment and Industrial Machinery to Pumps, Valves, Vessels, and precise Process Annotations, each shape is crafted to industry standards and ready to snap into your diagrams with ease.
Imagine building detailed, accurate plant layouts or process workflows without hunting for the right symbols, because they’re all right here, fully customizable and designed to speed up your workflow. Whether you’re an engineer, project manager, or designer, these new PFD shapes empower you to tell the story of your process like never before—clearer, faster, and with a professional polish that stands out. Dive in and experience how effortlessly you can bring your technical ideas to life with visuals that truly speak your language!
Elevate Your Cultural Genograms with New Premium Shapes
Cultural genogram mapping just got an upgrade! We’ve introduced two brand-new premium shapes—Cultural Male and Cultural Female—to help you capture cultural nuances with greater clarity. Designed to work just like the standard genogram shapes, these additions make it easier to visually distinguish cultural elements from the rest. When you use these shapes, the colors of the parent shapes will automatically flow into their children. For example, if the father’s shape is ‘blue’ and the mother’s shape is ‘green’, their children will inherit both colors, visually representing the cultural influences from both parents. This makes it easy to see how cultural traits are passed down through generations. Now, your genograms can tell an even richer story, visually and contextually.
Seamless Kanban Board Expansion with Perfectly Applied Margins
Kanban lovers, this one’s for you! Adding new columns to your Kanban board just got a whole lot smoother—margins now apply automatically to match your existing layout flawlessly. No more fiddling with spacing or manual tweaks; every new column fits right in, keeping your board clean, organized, and visually balanced. Managing workflows has never been this effortless or satisfying!
Improved Shape Placement with Plus Create
We’ve enhanced the Plus Create experience to ensure smoother and more accurate shape placement. Now, newly created shapes appear exactly where you click and are added to the canvas instantly, no extra clicks or dragging required. This makes building diagrams quicker and more intuitive than ever.
Precision Controls Now Available in the Sidebar
Take full control of your diagram layout with the new shape transformation panel in the sidebar! You can now adjust a shape’s position (X, Y) and size (width and height) with pinpoint accuracy. It’s a faster, more precise way to fine-tune your diagrams and keep everything perfectly aligned.
Smarter, Smoother Template Editing Experience
We’ve overhauled the template editing experience to make working with templates more intuitive, responsive, and visually polished. Now, when you add a template, only the template itself is selected, help tools are grouped for easy moving or deleting, and once grouped, only the group can be selected to prevent accidental individual shape edits. The template boundaries are now flexible and intelligently expand when adding shapes via Plus Create or drag-and-drop, keeping everything neatly contained. Plus, new context menu options let you quickly add shapes to frames, with improved icons for easier navigation.
Smarter Naming for AI-Generated Diagrams
We’ve refined how workspace names are handled when using AI templates. Now, automatic renaming only happens if your diagram is still titled “Untitled Workspace”. This ensures your custom names stay intact, giving you more control and consistency as you build with AI.
Improved Swimlane Lane Text for Smoother Editing
We’ve updated how lane text behaves when adding new lanes to a swimlane diagram. With this fix, each new lane now includes properly formatted and visible placeholder text, making it easier to understand and update lane titles as you structure your workflow.
Plus Create Now Fully Supported for Advanced Database Table Shapes
You can now use Plus Create to quickly add and link Database Table (Advanced) shapes to your diagrams. This enhancement ensures a smoother database modeling experience by allowing consistent, one-click shape expansion, just like with other shape types. No more interruptions or manual workarounds to build your schema.
Accurate Margin Application for Table Cells
We’ve resolved inconsistencies with how margins are applied to table cells, especially when dealing with merged and de-merged cells. Now, margins are properly applied and retained regardless of whether cells are merged or separated, and cell sizes remain stable, helping you maintain a clean, grid-like structure with full visual control.