America’s most popular for-rent housing style by volume is by far Garden Apartments. Today we release a fully functional garden building editor, site plan configurator, manual edit tools, and exclusion zones. This is TestFit’s fourteenth configurator!

Garden Building Editor

• For the first time, we’ve taken a Kit-Of-Parts approach to building-level data with garden apartments. With the building editor approach, you can effectively nest units into buildings, and then replicate the buildings with units included.

• Intelligent parametric editor. Can reuse units, mitigate circulation space automatically, have stairways automatically move based on changes such as corridor width & more.

• We’ve added to our existing co-creation tools and have improved our site entry tools.

Garden Site Solver

• Input building + site + parking = automatic allocation of buildings & parking across the site

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• Automatic surface parking ratio solving

Garden Site Manual Mode

• Adjust your automatically-generated geometry on the fly.

• More about Manual Mode.

Discover how to use all the new garden apartments features in our Knowledge Base article:

Knowledge Base article

Introducing Exclusion Zones & Ponds

• Introduction of exclusion zones to cut garden and office sites, with custom color and labelling.

• Introduction of ponds for all site types

Surface Parking Improvements

• Added snaps to simplify drawing adjacent parallel parking rows for manual mode, site boundaries, and roads.

Other Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Added a preference to save to older SketchUp versions.
• Added a log out option to the menu bar.
• Improved map tile loading for high dpi screens.
• Fixed missing text showing setback distances in the plan view.
• Fixed outdated manual mode geometry when moving or rotating a site.
• Fixed undo/redo behavior for several manual mode operations.
• Fixed manual surface parking layouts when surrounded by massing.
• Fixed manual mode remove parking option deleting the wrong segments.
• Fixed GUI drag handle size for high-dpi screens.
• Fixed “apply to all edges” operation for site setbacks.
• Fixed over-counted street parking stalls in master plan parking tabulation.
• Fixed cent values in the deal editor for abbreviated inputs.
• Fixed some amenities being un-interactive after duplication.
• Fixed the color swatch button sometimes closing the amenity context menu.
• Fixed some duplicate walls in the Dynamo Parts node.
• Fixed townhouse driveway placement for units without a garage.
• Fixed missing stairs on short dead ends in high density sites.
• Fixed corner and dead end units being placed despite their mix set to 0.
• Fixed invalid gitf export data when certain road features were present.
• Fixed which fields are shown in the PDF tabulation for office sites.
• Fixed unit attachments disappearing when working with multiple sites.