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At Zenerate, our goal has always been simple: help architects and developers design without delay.

This month's updates focus on giving you more precision, flexibility, and control right inside the workspace—from setting Project North to fine-tuning corridors, podiums, and floor ranges.

Whether you're adjusting site orientation, refining your residential layouts, or exploring new AI-generated forms, these updates make every step faster and more intuitive.

Here's what's new this month 👇

🧭 Project North Setting

Do you know about Project North?

In floor plans, architects usually prefer to view the plan upright rather than skewed. That's why Project North is used when a building isn't aligned with True North 🌍.

Now, you can easily set and control your project's orientation directly within the workspace:

• Click on the compass icon inside the workspace.

• Draw a line to set Project North — the screen view will rotate accordingly.

• Click Done to apply the setting to your workspace.
• Project North will remain consistent across all views and exports (PDF, CAD).

🏢 Residential Building — Floor Range Input

You can now freely define your building's starting height with the new Minimum Floor Setting for Residential, Tower, and Linear Tower types.

Be creative — shape your building configurations with more flexibly!

✏️ Corridor Editing

You now have full control over Corridor Editing — including Split, Merge, Delete, and Modify functions.

Simply click on a corridor and select "Make Editable" from the floating menu bar to start editing.

🚗 Podium Core Editing

You can now add, move, and delete cores directly within Podium buildings.

Easily adjust core positions to optimize your podium or parking floor layouts.

📍 Enhanced Site Address Search

We've integrated Google Maps to provide faster and more accurate site address lookup, finding your project site is much more easier.

🤖 Enhanced Generation Engine

Our AI Engine for Linear Tower, Walk-Up, Townhouse, and Single-Family projects has been upgraded to deliver more diverse and realistic design outcomes.

Here's what's improved:

• Better Building Alignment → Buildings are now placed with improved consistency and spacing.
• Buildings now align better with main roads, for better site planning and representation.
• Improved logic allows denser and more efficient site coverage, especially for irregular sites, achieving higher yield within the given separation distances.

• More Diverse, Better Orientations → Building directions are varied to create more efficient and natural layouts.
• Added logic to generate non-linear main roads for larger lots, leading to more organic layouts.
• Enhanced placement logic for Linear Tower, Garden, and Walk-Up types — buildings can now be oriented perpendicular to roads (not just parallel), offering more diverse and realistic design options.

🎁 Feedback

If you encounter any errors while using our product, or have any questions/feedback feel free to email us at product@zenerate.ai

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