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What's new
Every version of the planner, newest first. The Windows and Mac programs offer updates themselves, the iPhone and iPad app updates from the App Store, and the browser version is always current.
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A fix for Undo in Places.
- While you edit a shape or path, Undo and Ctrl+Z now take back your last change, one step at a time. Before, they took a point off the shape instead, whatever you had just done.
- Backspace no longer takes a point off a place you are editing unless you picked that point first.
- In the browser and on Windows and Mac now. The iPhone and iPad app gets this in its next update.
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A new look, Google Earth-style maps, and directions to the field.
- New menu: an icon rail down the left. Press the open section to close the panel and give the map the whole window. On a phone it becomes bottom tabs under a pull-up sheet.
- Places: open KML, KMZ, GPX and GeoJSON files with their folders and colours intact. Make your own pins, paths and shapes, edit them, and save them back out.
- Directions: road directions to your launch points, GNSS bases and control points, with live turn-by-turn, voice, offline routes and printable PDFs. Press Directions and the day's stops and route are already there, and any change reroutes by itself.
- Walk-ins: a stop off the road ends the drive at the nearest road and adds the walk, with its distance, bearing and climb.
- Private roads: mark a path in Places as a way in, and Directions follows it to a stop no map knows how to reach.
- Measure: a line's length, bearing, ground profile and area, right on the map.
- Search: find a place and get directions to it in one press.
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One area at a time.
- Click any flight area on the map to pick it out: its outline turns white, the others fade, and a card shows its acres, time in the air, battery sets, route file names, lines and heading.
- Step through the areas with the card's arrows or the arrow keys.
- Export this route, on the card, writes that one area's route files on their own.
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Folders.
- File projects under folders on the start screen.
- Show a folder on one map: every project in it, each in its own colour, with its areas, flight routes and launch point.
- The desktop programs notice when the project on the map is changed outside the window, for example synced in from your other computer, and reload it in place.
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Ground control.
- A new section beside Flights plans control points and checkpoints, for a drone job or a Trimble MX60 drive. It places them by the published rules, exports them for Trimble Access, and checks the survey file you bring back, down to the accuracy the checkpoints prove.
- The printed flight plan is drawn over aerial photos in the United States, and a corridor in legs gets a map for each leg.
- Corridor routes import into DJI FlightHub 2.
- The corridor legs line says what set the leg length, and links to that setting.
- Matrice 400 + L3: the PPK base can be up to 15 km away, DJI's own figure.
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Pick a road.
- Click on a road where the corridor starts, then where it ends. The corridor follows the roads between the two points, turning at junctions, and is named after the road. United States only.
- Drag the round ends of a road corridor to lengthen or shorten it along the road, or click it to set an exact length.
- Split a corridor in two, remove a piece, or start a new pick at one of its ends to carry it on.
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GNSS base spacing.
- Set how often a GNSS base is placed along a corridor, or leave it empty and Swathwise uses the most your job allows.
- Swathwise says how far the aircraft can get from the base before vertical accuracy slips past your job's target, at the height you are flying.
- A corridor flown in one run shows its GNSS base too.
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One base, many legs.
- The GNSS base no longer moves with the crew: launch points (L1, L2) and bases (G1) are separate.
- A new way to fly a corridor: the pilot follows the aircraft in a vehicle, where Part 107 allows it.
- The sight-distance note gives the one published yardstick for your aircraft.
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Long corridors, and free for everyone.
- A route too long to fly from one spot is cut into legs, each exported as its own routes. What decides it is how you fly and what the job needs, and the notes above the numbers say why it split.
- Battery sets for a split corridor count what the day really draws: a short leg leaves charge for the next.
- Swathwise is free for everyone: no key, no account, no sign-in.
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A new camera, and starts and ends.
- The Sentera 65R on the Matrice 300 RTK, 350 RTK and 400, with the full estimate. You plan the route in DJI Pilot 2, and the app tells you exactly what to type in.
- Every route on the map shows where it starts and where it ends, numbered in fly order. The flight plan and the KML and GeoJSON exports show the same.
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Parcel lines.
- Parcel lines from Regrid in the Windows and Mac programs: property boundaries over the map, to pick and draw against.
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Pick parcels.
- Type an address and the search suggests it as you go.
- Pick parcels: click lots on the map and each becomes a flight area with the lot's own boundary. Merge areas joins the lots that touch.
- Parcel boundaries in Export: every lot the flight covers, with the assessor's fields.
- The steps fold, and a folded step says what is set.
- With a camera selected the headline shows the photo count.
- LiDAR routes for the Matrice 300 and 350 record on the scan lines only, pausing through each turn.