Release notes 2.60

📢 What's new

New features

AutoCAD 2027 support

With this release, we are happy to announce compatibility with AutoCAD 2027 products. With our continued support for AutoCAD 2026 or older versions, we’re able to support your projects on the AutoCAD version you prefer*.

Electrical 3D devices

3D Devices: Inverters, DC combiners, and AC combiners are now represented as 3D blocks in Ground Mount electrical designs. Devices are mounted on frame piles and elevated above ground—finally, your layouts can stand up for themselves.

Device Configuration Modal: Set height, width, and depth for inverters and combiners, choose placement type, and adjust distance to frame or ground. Visual previews and tooltips included, so you don’t have to guess what “Option 3” means

3D-Aware Cable Routing: Cable lengths now include both horizontal and vertical segments, so your BOM, SLD, and cable sizing outputs are more accurate. No more pretending cables can tunnel through the earth.

• How it works:
  • Unified Settings: All device dimensions and placement options are now in a single window.
  • Consistent Cable Connection: Cables connect at the center of the device’s bottom face—just like in the field.
  • Frame-Type-Aware Placement: Devices are smart about their frame type: fixed-tilt devices move to the nearest pile, SAT and EW frames keep their logic, but now in 3D.
  • Only inverters and combiners are 3D and have editable dimensions; transformers and central inverters are still 2D (for now).
  • 3D devices don’t cast shadows yet—so if you’re looking for shade, you’ll have to wait for a future update.
  • Existing projects remain unchanged unless you regenerate the electrical design. New or regenerated projects get the 3D treatment by default.
     

Continuous stringing

Stringing can be tough. Especially if the string size doesn't match nicely with the frame, or if the field has a difficult shape, which makes finding a string path tricky. With 2.60, Ground Mount continuous stringing, it doesn't have to be!
 

• How it works:
  • Under Electrical Design, Stringing, choose Continuous Stringing in the String setup dropdown.
  • Set the minimum and maximum size of strings that you would like to place on your PV area.
  • Ground Mount will try to fill up each row with strings in these sizes. If a match can't be found, there might be some leftovers. What happens then?
  • You can choose to leave the modules unstrung. Or, you can let GM draw an S or U-shaped string to take up those pesky leftovers. Finally, you can choose to jump the strings over to the next row, which although not ideal for cabling, does at least find a connection.
  • The feature will prioritize larger string sizes, so rest assured, the cost of your design will be as low as possible.

And here is the result with just a few clicks:

Improvements

Export to PVsyst

We've revisited the user experience and how Export to PVsyst works. Instead of 2 separate buttons in the ribbon, we've moved it to the export window, which looks familiar, but with an additional 2 options:

• Area selection - by default, all areas will be exported, but if you wanna fine tune what to export, you can check the checkbox and select what areas you wanna to export
   
• Terrain selection - instead of manual selection, the software will automatically find the terrain mesh you want to export, which overlaps with the areas to be exported

QuickYield

We are continuously trying to improve your workflow to get your outputs faster, so we have a couple of improvements related to QuickYield:

• We are moving QuickYield settings from the Layout generation window to a dedicated window nearby. You will now find the "Run QuickYield" action in both Layout information and Capacity iteration. We’re hoping that this will simplify the usage of the feature, with less back and forth to change parameters.

• We’ve also added an additional feedback message after the calculation has been completed, to inform you once the magic is done, and you can now check the results.

Preliminary electrical design

• 3D cabling: Combining with 3D devices, cabling is now presented in 3D in preliminary design by default.
   
• Powerstation details: There is no longer a need to draw a block for power stations in the project. This update offers two options: 1) input desired dimensions in the table; 2) pick the desired block reference already in the project. The dimensions will be automatically used for power stations when generating a preliminary design.