v2.9.2Latest
9 August 2026
The Excel Takeoff Link, ready on install
The Excel Takeoff Link registers itself as part of the install, so the ribbon is there the first time you open Excel.
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HERON · ADLM Heron
What's New in HERON
Takeoff-to-budget estimating for PlanSwift. Here's everything we've shipped — newest first.
Installer Hub & ADLM Heron user guide48 pages · PDF
The combined book: the Hub end to end, then Heron — scaling drawings, measuring with the ADLM templates, pricing and export.
v2.9.1
31 July 2026
Sign-in that follows the service
HERON now resolves the ADLM service through your machine's settings, so sign-in stays reliable and future infrastructure changes never require a new download.
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v2.5
25 July 2026
The Specifications Release
Write your own bill descriptions. Every measured item carries a free-text Specification that prints through the cloud review, the Excel BoQ export and the Excel Takeoff Link.
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v2.4.1
21 July 2026
Sharper concrete quantities
Concrete volumes in beam sections now measure to full accuracy across every template.
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v2.4
13 July 2026
The Excel Link & Steel Release
A live two-way Excel Takeoff Link, a new Steel Tonnage tool that turns measured lengths into weights, and a batch of reliability fixes.
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v2.3
8 June 2026
The Budget Release
Turn any takeoff into a costed budget automatically — a full Material & Labour schedule for every BoQ item, priced from your RateGen library and exported as a linked Excel workbook.
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v2.2
15 May 2026
Units & Templates
A complete units overhaul plus two new trade templates and far more accurate sub-item quantities.
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v2.1
18 April 2026
Cloud, Rates & Security
The foundation release: a cloud dashboard, automatic price matching against your RateGen rates, new steel and MEP templates, multi-folder export, and a hardened licensing system.
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v1.0
2022
HERON for PlanSwift
HERON brings ADLM's takeoff workflow to PlanSwift, turning 2D drawings into structured, standards-aligned quantities.
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