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BalloonX v1.6 - 10/13/2026
1) Advanced Automatic Revision Comparison Tool is now complete!
2) BalloonX now remembers settings that have been set across sessions.
3) Fixed issue with GDT font BalloonX uses not automatically installing into users fonts correctly. This caused Excel not to detect the GDT font after a user restarts their computer.
4) Backend for Gemini AI API calls has been updated from the legacy method to Gemini's latest.
5) A number of UI changes and improvements have been made
6) In-app help center for tutorials has been added.
Previous Versions Changes
BalloonX v1.561 - 9/06/2026
1) Ballooning workflow greatly increased
2) Auto-completer added
3) Re-use zone grid added
4) Added rotating pages
5) Balloon Shapes, Triangle, Square, Pentagon added
6) Page tolerances can now be AI extracted
7) Global hotkeys added for moving between balloons
8) Project title/save state added to titlebar
9) Inject page tolerance into requirement on extraction added
10) Additional options added in settings
11) White image safeguard check added
12) Additional backend and UI changes made and fixes as well
BalloonX v1.53 - 7/16/2026
1) Tif/Tiff files now directly support
2) Added Insert Balloon option
3) Up/Down on keyboard in balloon table now also centers balloons in view
4) Now supports automatic update installation instead of having to manually start the installer
5) 2 new export labels added - see Tutorial page
6) Preliminary work has begun for revision comparison tool and in app page rotation
1) Added option in Edit Settings to bake in balloons to the PDF instead of as annotations that can be moved
2) Reworked zone settings to make it more slightly more intuitive. Pages must be changed via side bar window now when in zone settings.
3) Fixed decimal point dropping on GDT extraction
4) Multiple other minor bug fixes as well
BalloonX v1.51 - 6/25/2026
BalloonX v1.5 - 5/02/2026
1) Auto-Ballooning is finally here! Speed up your work flow even more! See the tutorial page.
2) Added ability to add comments, added a basic dimension toggle
3) Fixed a performance issue when balloon numbers increased into the 100's
4) Fixed some additional bugs
BalloonX v1.4 - 2/26/2026
1) Grouped balloon # format changed from (1, 1.2, 1.3) to the more commonplace format of (1.1, 1.2, 1.3).
2) Project Information settings added with corresponding labels for exporting to AS9102
3) Grid zone option added for automatic reference locations
4) Plus a number of smaller additions, improvements and fixes. Such as tolerance sign labeling, additional settings, AI improvements and etc...
BalloonX v1.3 - 12/17/2025
1) Group balloons to feature(s) added
2) Drag rows on table to change balloon numbers
3) Help Menu, Recent projects menu
4) Notifications for new versions and download through app
5) Global error checking with error log
6) Revamped Balloon properties window & balloon recentering if zoomed
7) xlsm/formulas supported for export
8) Gemini processing updated to keep working on model deprecations and other backend improvements, such as improvement to GD&T symbol detection.
9) Plus additional fixes and improvements
BalloonX v1.11.5 - 8/12/2025
Made Page Tolerance Slide out more robust, fixed error when manually setting nominal for balloon
BalloonX v1.11.4 - 8/08/2025
Fixed issue with GDT font getting stuck on the requirements box, fixed OCR processing adding erroneous empty dict
BalloonX v1.11.3 - 8/06/2025
Removed setting cell range format in Excel Exports due to regional issues
BalloonX v1.11.2 - 8/05/2025
bug fixes, including when exporting when not using Microsoft Excel
BalloonX v1.11 - 7/26/2025
Added Visual balloon picker when importing balloons from a PDF file
BalloonX v1.07 - 6/14/2025
Updated app style and colors to provide consistent look across different OS versions and different OS themes
BalloonX v1.06 - 5/30/2025
1.0 Release! Dimensional Extraction, Balloon table, Exporting, and more...
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