A plan read that stops now tells you it stopped

Four fixes to reading a builder's package, all of them the same shape: something that used to go quietly wrong now either can't, or says so.

The card stops spinning

A big set reads in a few minutes, then one more pass lines the schedule up against the plans and builds your rooms. If that last pass stopped — a bad moment on a big set, it happens — the card just went on saying Biddy is lining the schedule up with the plans. Forever. Every file finished, nothing to press, no way to tell a slow job from a dead one.

Now it says Matching stopped partway, with Read again right underneath. Press it and the package goes through again from what's already been read, which takes seconds rather than minutes. Your answers and edits are kept, same as always.

Two buildings on one site stay two buildings

Plenty of jobs have a main house and a casita, or a pool house, or a guest house over the garage. Both buildings number their rooms from 101, and both call their ground floor the first floor — so 101 Bath in the main house and 101 Bath in the casita looked like the same room, and landed on one card. One room's tile, the other room's measurements, one bid.

Now, when a sheet's title block names the building it draws, that goes on the room. Two 101 Baths in two buildings are two rooms, they stay two through a re-read, and the room's line says which building it's in so you can tell them apart at a glance.

If your drawings don't name a building — most don't — nothing changes at all.

Rooms the plan never numbered keep their place

Some rooms on a drawing have no number: two closets side by side, both just CLOSET. We number those ourselves so we can keep track of them, and if you told us which one was which, that answer was pinned to our number.

The trouble was our number could change. Read the sheet again and if the two closets sat at almost the same height on the page, they could swap places — and your answer went with the wrong closet. Quietly.

Now a room that's still in the same spot on the sheet keeps the number it had. New rooms get new numbers; nothing gets handed somebody else's.

Answered once is answered

You could tap Looks right on a wall-height check, ask Biddy what was still open, and be told about the check you'd just answered. Annoying, and worse than annoying — you start wondering what else it's lost track of.

The card and Biddy now read the same list. Answer a check by tapping it, by typing the number straight onto the room, or by telling Biddy out loud, and it's done everywhere.

And one small one

Not sure — skip on the outside-corners question is a real answer now. Nothing goes on the bid and the question stops coming back — it used to reappear on every reload, which was a strange way to treat "I'll look at it on site."