Release notes

Cleaner reads of busy boundary files. If your KMZ has stray lines on it — the Polyline and Untitled Path sketches Google Earth leaves behind, or survey / parcel lines — SolarLayout no longer mistakes them for transmission lines. Only lines you name as infrastructure get a setback now; everything else is treated as annotation and ignored.

What's changed

• Stray annotation lines no longer carve up your site. Previously, any line in your file was treated as a transmission-line corridor and kept clear of modules — which could quietly remove a large share of a busy parcel. Now a line only becomes a transmission line, canal, or road when its name says so. See Feature keywords.
• The upshot: sites with leftover sketch lines pack more modules, often substantially more. If a layout looks different from an earlier run on the same file, this is why — and the new result is the correct one.
• Name your real infrastructure. Because names now drive line setbacks, make sure genuine transmission lines and canals are named. See Boundary file requirements.

Team workspaces are here. Work on bids as a team — shared projects, a shared hardware library, and a per-workspace plan whose seats cover the whole team. See Team workspaces.

What's new

• Create a team workspace. Open the workspace switcher in the sidebar, create a workspace, and name it for your company or the bid. Your personal workspace stays yours, private and unchanged. See Invite your team.
• Invite colleagues by email. Existing SolarLayout users get the invitation right inside their app; new users get a sign-up email. Accepting drops you straight into the team workspace, ready to work.
• Everything in a team workspace is shared. Projects, generated layouts, and uploaded .PAN / .OND files are visible to every member — one source of truth for the bid. Work lives where it was created: joining a team never exposes your personal projects.
• Per-workspace subscription, shared projects. The workspace carries the plan, and its included seats cover the team — layout runs are unlimited, with no shared pool to draw down. What the team shares is the work: projects, layouts, and hardware files. See Teams and shared projects.
• Admin and Member roles. Admins manage invitations, roles, and the workspace itself; members focus on the engineering. Ownership can be handed over as the team evolves. See Roles & members.

Improvements

• Faster, crisper page loads on the documentation site you're reading now.

SolarLayout is now a web app. Everything runs in your browser at solarlayout.app — nothing to install, nothing to update, reachable from any machine. The native desktop app (Windows, macOS, and Linux) has been retired.

What's new

• The full product, in your browser. KMZ in, layout out — table placement, exclusion zones, cable routing, 25-year energy yield, and PDF / KMZ / DXF / CSV exports. Everything the desktop app did, now on the web. See Getting started.
• Nothing to install or maintain. Open the site and sign in — no installer, no operating-system prompts, no updates to accept. You're always on the latest version.
• Sign in from anywhere. Your account, projects, layouts, plan, uploaded .PAN / .OND files, and support tickets all live on your account. Sign in from any browser, on any machine, and they're there.

Moving from the desktop app

If you used the desktop app, your work carried over. Sign in at solarlayout.app with the same email and everything is already there — nothing to migrate by hand. See Getting started.

Faster

The app and its servers now run in the same region as our users, so everyday work — opening projects, generating layouts, loading results — feels noticeably quicker.