Release Notes

Release Date: November 2025

Imagery

• Timeline direct creation and management in Quick View and Collection Manager.
• New WMS imagery provider, providing orthophotography in Germany.
• Improved imagery alignment and region highlighting logic for clearer map presentation.
• Support Imagery GeoTIFFs import via the Import WorldFile command 

Terrain

• Contour smoothing with adjustable options for cleaner, more realistic surface representation.
• Object-type selection for terrain import — choose Terrain Model, Contours, Points, TIN Mesh, or Civil 3D Surface.
• Direct Civil 3D surface creation from GeoTIFFs and improved handling of very large datasets (up to 100 M points).
• Improved mesh simplification, contour extraction, and triangulation algorithms for better performance and lower memory usage.
• Fixed GeoTIFF export and restoration errors and improved terrain compatibility from older versions.

Timeviews

• New Timelines tab for timeline-based imagery workflows.

KML / Export

• Fixed double-scaling of Z in imported KML vectors.
• Improved coordinate scaling and export stability for KML vectors.

General

• Improved startup stability and offline reliability, ensuring smoother session initialization.
• Enhanced diagnostics and logging to simplify troubleshooting and improve performance analysis.
• Fixed session refresh and quota-related issues after inactivity.

• Optimized codebase for faster, more robust performance
• New interface with streamlined workflows
• Site Areas: central access to imagery, terrain, and history
• Points of Interest: mark and manage key locations
• GeoTIFF support for importing terrain models
• Google Earth imagery import, including historical
• Advanced mosaic tools: Copy and Split
• Single Images: insert as raster images in AutoCAD
• Enhanced Quick View for fast project data access
• Compatible with AutoCAD 2026 Civil 3D and verticals

• Site Areas: Enhanced with high-quality and historical images, plus elevation data.
• Points of Interest: Easily mark and manage important locations.
• GeoTIFF: A brand new feature that allows you to import terrain models from GeoTIFF files.
• Collection Manager: Updated interface for easier use.
• Performance: Major improvements in speed and performance.
• Compatibility: Full support for AutoCAD, Civil 3D, and other verticals for 2020-2025

Support for AutoCAD 2024 and verticals

• Introduces Google Elevations as the new default terrain provider
• Improved Quick View image handling to facilitate imagery comparison
• Enhanced clipboard management when using copied elements from Google Earth to specify georeference or
  the project area in various commands
• Fixed a problem with the rasterization of clipped imagery, which was causing magenta pixels to appear in
  some places.

• Improvements regarding the speed of Timeviews functionality.
• Automatic saving of accompanying geo files has been stopped.
• Fixed the issue about Drone product details that in some cases was not be displayed correctly.
• Fixed a problem With the rasterization of clipped imagery, which was causing magenta pixels to appear in some places

• Improvements regarding the speed of Timeviews functionality.
• Automatic saving of accompanying geo files has been stopped.
• Fixed the issue about Drone product details that in some cases was not be displayed correctly.
• Fixed a problem With the rasterization of clipped imagery, which was causing magenta pixels to appear in some places

• Google Earth registry fixes in setup
• Fixed an error when trying to create a surface from Mesh or File
• Fixed an error that allowed a command to continue without selecting a coordinate system

• Support for AutoCAD 2023
• Cesium as a new terrain provider
• Google Earth available as a terrain provider
• Introduced Google Maps imagery mosaic creation at maximum zoom level 21
• Improvements in terrain volume analysis
• Volume labels that show the number of cubic units that need to be cut/filled per sampled grid cell are now available

Added compatibility for AutoCAD 2023

• Imagery: Support of .TIF/.TFW in raster image creation from mosaics
• Imagery: A pop-up wait window is now displayed during the "Convert to Raster" procedure
• Export KML/KMZ/3D: Improved handling of BlockReferences that belong in Frozen or Hidden/Off layers
• Printing: Fixed a situation where imagery in rotated viewports on Layouts could not be printed
• Fixed an eRegappIdNotFound error that occurred in some drawings

• First release of Plex-Earth 5D
• Improved mosaic capabilities

New Features

• Timeline feature that allows users to view the most recent or historical imagery from Airbus and Maxar
• Ability to create raster images directly from mosaic imagery
• Improved mosaic capabilities

New Features

• Introduced advanced image adjustment capabilities
• Ability to view and plot multiple mosaics at the same time
• Users can now choose which image cutout areas to remove graphically, from within the drawing.
• Users can now select mosaic tiles from within the drawing
• Support for AutoCAD 2022

Fixes

• Issue with tile boundary (grid lines) visibility in mosaic plotting
• Issue with imagery transparency in Realistic and Conceptual visual styles
• Removed the "By Objects" option from imagery creation

Initial release of Plex-Earth 5

Support for AutoCAD 2021 and verticals.

• Now with Timeviews™, for newest-possible images (and look back in time!)
• Enhanced for multi-monitor setups
• Squashes 2 minor bugs

• Added support for AutoCAD 2020
• Enhanced KML importing and exporting
• Enhanced fully-textured terrain importing from Google Earth
• New Feature: Copy objects from Google Earth into AutoCAD
• Significant improvements in Map Explorer
• Fixes 2 minor bugs

• Major improvements in KML importing and exporting
• Major improvements in Map Explorer
• Fixes minor bugs

• Support for AutoCAD 2019 and verticals
• Major improvements in KML importing and exporting
• New release of Map Explorer

Release of Plex.Earth 4 plugin for AutoCAD 2015-2018