2024 Update: Enhance Your Productivity with the Latest Tools

In advance of the 2024 Update coming later this year, we are excited to release some timesaving new tools ahead of schedule.

Developed to enhance your design experience, these new tools serve to increase both efficiency and productivity.

The update offers new scale controls, pool floor design mode, hardscape auto coping grid, a new plant and material tint system, and over 400 new plants now available for you to explore!

Tools

The quick, easy, timesaving new options in today's update are designed to help you complete projects faster and more accurately than ever before.

Edit more in 3D

Speed up your design process by editing new options instantly in 3D. Now, you can select, modify, and make quick adjustments to scoring, custom coping, pool floor designs, and pool slopes—right in 3D.

Non-uniform scale

We’re delighted to share with you a new way to make garage doors wider, tables longer, or shrubs taller: non-uniform scale.

While the Scale tool uses a single scale factor to uniformly scale an object in all dimensions, this new non-uniform scale option gives you the ability to make adjustments to plants and items in just one direction. It’s a quick and easy way to scale objects to exactly the size you need.

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To use the new non-uniform scale, look for the new Lock icon on the Object Menu. Simply press it (or use the shortcut Alt + E) to adjust plants and items in one direction.

Scale Position

The non-uniform scale is not the only new scale option we’re introducing! Now, you also have the ability to scale each object from its origin point.

When you enable the new Origin option, you can easily resize multiple items at once without altering their positions. This is a great way to scale a row of bushes, for example. When scaling a group (like a slide with rockwork), the Relative option is a quick way to resize and reposition multiple objects in relation to one another.

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Under Scale Position on the Object Menu, you’ll now be able to choose between Relative or Origin when you need to resize objects. You can also use the shortcut Shift + E to scale plants and items from their origin point.

Isolate Selected

When you’re working on an important area and want to focus closely on it, give the new Isolate Selected toggle a try.

Located on the Hide/Unhide menu (Shortcut: Ctrl + I), this new feature allows you to focus on your current selection and temporarily hide everything else in your project.

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Under Scale Position on the Object Menu, you’ll now be able to choose between Relative or Origin when you need to resize objects. You can also use the shortcut Shift + E to scale plants and items from their origin point.

Design Stages

The new timesaving features in the design stages make it quick and easy to perfect even the smallest of details.

Scale Position

When you’re working on an important area and want to focus closely on it, give the new Isolate Selected toggle a try.

Located on the Hide/Unhide menu (Shortcut: Ctrl + I), this new feature allows you to focus on your current selection and temporarily hide everything else in your project.

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Walls, Fences & Railings

By default, pillars and posts are placed next to the house. Now, just a click of this new option gives you the ability to automatically remove any pillars or posts that intersect with the house walls.

Pools

Unleash your creativity with the new Floor Design Mode.

Add swim lanes. Create a beautiful tile design on the pool floor. With the drawing tools, you can now bring to life any design you envision.

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Items & Library

Explore the exciting new options in the Library, including expanded search functionality that makes it quick and easy to find exactly what you need.

Search

The new Autocomplete search option is a great new way to explore the Library, discover new options, and find exactly what you need.

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New Items
  • Pool Equipment: 2-Way & 3-Way Diverter Plumbing Valves
  • Doors: 38 Modern options in 96" Height
  • Water Features & Spillovers: New Foam checkbox to remove foam from water
  • Water Descents & Waterfalls: New Travel Angle setting for placing the feature on a waterslide, slope, or hillside    
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Ready for more?

Each update, we share exciting tools and features designed to help you do your best, most creative work.

We are looking forward to seeing the beautiful designs that you create—we’re always impressed and inspired by your creativity and ingenuity!

About The Author

Noah Nehlich

Noah Nehlich is the founder of Structure Studios. As an entrepreneur, investor, and tech company enthusiast, he’s into everything 3D. With two decades of experience building the design software that pool and landscape designers use, Noah’s goal is to improve lives through 3D experiences.

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