This release introduces robust touch gesture support on Windows touch devices, enabling zoom, pan, orbit, and entity creation via intuitive gestures. Major enhancements were made to the Ribbon Hatch UI, with over 50 bugs fixed for improved stability, usability, and visual consistency. The Block Library saw significant fixes for insertion, parsing, and UI behavior, particularly in Enterprise builds. AppCast notifications, the A3 assistant, and Clone functionality were upgraded for better UX and reliability. Numerous regressions, electrical drawing issues, and storage integration bugs were resolved. UI styling, tooltips, and Help documentation were also improved for a more polished experience.ast, A3, etc.

📦 Kudo 1.200–1.201 Release Notes

🚀 New Features & Enhancements

✋ Touch Gesture Support

Enabled touch gestures on Windows touch devices for drawing interaction.
Zoom: Two-finger pinch zoom support across all modes (improved smoothness).
Pan: One-finger and Two-finger swipe gestures for panning.
Orbit: One-finger swipe gesture support (fixed erratic entity shifts).
Create Entities: Support for drawing entity creation via touch.
Grip Stretch: Grips now usable with touch gestures.
Preview on Touch: Entity creation now previews on touchmove.
Tapping on Grips: Improved touch response when interacting with grips.

📐 Drawing Support

Added support for Sheet Navigation commands required for opening Electrical drawings in ARES Kudo.

📁 Block Library

"Open Block Library" and "Help" buttons updated in Block Collection palette (Enterprise).
Block Library integrated into Trinity's “Collaborate” ribbon tab.

🧭 Ribbon UI Improvements

Added Trinity Features under the "Collaborate" tab.
Layer, Hatch, and Origin panels updated with better default behaviors, visual consistency, and icon alignment.
New UI icons introduced for several commands and panels (per dark style spec).

🔍 Clone & Search Enhancements

Clone: Users can now choose output folders for cloned files.
Improved search API with Box-specific filters.
Fixed folder/file cloning issues for Dropbox and "Shared with Me" files.

🧪 Automation & CLI

Addressed Drawings Automation failure during DGN to DWG conversion.
Improved CLI stability and output when running BIM conversions.

⚙️ Tasks & Backend Work

Improved session logging (start & end time) via Kinesis.
Implemented endpoint tests and file search test cases.
Added resilience strategies to DynamoDB.
Updated AppCast to use Fluorine backend.
Improved tooltips and UI consistency across Help menu and header.

🛠️ Improvements

🖥 UI & Style Enhancements

Fluorine header style updated for dark mode compatibility.
Updated SVG icons across Save, Share, Comments, Block Library, etc.
Ribbon Hatch and Sheet/Model Background dialogs visually polished.
Tooltips across AppCast and Ribbon corrected for consistency.

🔧 General Usability

Layer combo box buttons (Color, Lock, Frozen) fixed.
Adjustments made to contextual menu behaviors and tooltip timing.
Sheet Background text and colors now reflect properly in dialogs and thumbnails.

🐞 Bug Fixes

🧲 Touch Gesture

Fixed inconsistent entity behavior while orbiting or zooming.
Resolved issues with grip activation and entity selection via touch.
Fixed: delay in preview, stretch grips disappearing, touch gestures not completing.
Resolved: contextual menu appearing after panning, inability to zoom out, and unfinished entities staying selected.

🧱 Ribbon Hatch (Major Overhaul)

Over 50+ fixes across 1.200 and 1.201 including:
- Crashes when selecting custom/user patterns.
- Broken or blank combo boxes and dropdowns.
- Icons missing, buttons not enabling/disabling correctly.
- "Highlight," "Delete," "Undo," and "Match Properties" not functioning.
- Pattern mismatch, wrong command reflection, broken Hatch Editor tab behavior.
- Hatch boundaries not highlighted, created hatches being lost/deleted.
- Properties not applying correctly from Ribbon or Pattern panels.
- Tooltips missing or misplaced, UI rendering issues in Classic mode.

🧱 Block Library

Fixed:
- Block insertion errors (drag and drop, sub-blocks).
- UI misbehavior (missing icons, unnecessary nodes/arrows, F2 renaming).
- Parsing stuck for new uploads.
- Upload failures for DWS, DWF, FLX files.
- Spinner control bugs on settings.
- Scale factor errors and broken default parameters.

⚡ Electrical

Fixed missing buttons in electrical drawings (Enterprise).
Resolved issues with frozen layers and missing graphic area entities when switching pages.

🗂 AppCast (Notifications)

UI inconsistencies with modal sizing, tooltip absence, and modal duplications.
Fixed:
- Modals not draggable or not appearing on login.
- Broken hyperlinks and inconsistent designs.
- Fetching from wrong app (ARES Touch instead of Kudo).
- Modal opens twice, stays stuck, or doesn't respond correctly in unauthenticated sessions.

💬 A3 Panel

Command highlight glitches across tabs and devices fixed.
Fixed crash on file opening (Firefox).
Restored consistent behavior for bot interactions and highlight requests.
Tooltip and visual inconsistencies resolved.

🌐 Web & Storage Integrations

Fixed issues with:
- Google Drive sharing errors.
- Trimble Connect access.
- Dropbox folder cloning.
- Search API failures.
- Recent files panel and thumbnail visibility.
- Storage status bar tooltip blocking UI.