What's New in RackCity v1.2

If v1.1 was about making RackCity smarter, v1.2 is about getting work out of it. The whole export path was rebuilt around a single button, a proper Excel bill of materials joined the lineup, and your files now land where you'd expect them to — in your downloads folder. Alongside that, the workspace got a cleaner frame and the app stopped leaving you guessing while things load.

Improved Exports, Starting With Excel

Three changes here, and together they cover most of what people actually do at the end of a design session.

A styled Excel bill of materials

RackCity has always given you a BOM as a CSV. CSV is fine for importing into another system, but it's a poor thing to hand a client or a purchasing manager — no formatting, no column widths, no visual separation between materials and fees.

v1.2 adds a proper Excel (.xlsx) export alongside it. It's a formatted workbook: your material list with quantities and unit costs, your fee line items, and the grand total, all laid out and ready to send. The CSV isn't going anywhere — pick whichever fits what you're doing.

One Export button

Exports used to be scattered across the toolbar as separate buttons. They're now consolidated into a single green Export dropdown — Layout PDF, BOM CSV, BOM Excel, and the Pricing Summary all in one place. One less thing to hunt for, and it makes it obvious at a glance what RackCity can produce for you.

Files download to your computer

This is the change most people will notice first. Previously an export was saved to your cloud project, and you went to the My Projects viewer to retrieve it. Now every export downloads straight to your browser the moment you generate it — the way a download is supposed to work.

You don't lose the cloud copy. If you have a project open, RackCity still attaches the file to that project version, so your full export history stays intact and you can re-download any of it later. You just don't have to make a round trip to get the file you generated ten seconds ago.

A Refreshed Workspace

The app's frame got tidied up. The sidebar now leads with the RackCity.ai wordmark and a project pill — so the project you're working in is always visible instead of something you have to remember. The rail logo was rotated to line up with the vertical wordmark, and the persistent footer strip along the bottom of the canvas is gone.

Losing the footer gives the canvas a little more room, which matters on a laptop. The version number that lived there moved into the expandable CONTROLS bar, next to the hotkey list — still there when you want it, out of the way when you don't.

Loading You Can Actually See

Opening a project, previewing a flyer, or booting the app all involve a moment of waiting. Until now that moment was blank, which makes a second feel like five and leaves you unsure whether anything is happening.

v1.2 adds skeleton placeholders to those surfaces — My Projects, the flyer preview, and the app's boot screen. Instead of empty space you see the shape of what's arriving, so it's clear the app is working and roughly what's about to appear. Small change, but it's the kind you feel every session.

What's Next

The two most-requested items are unchanged from last release and still on the way. Native metric units — today Forky converts metric dimensions to imperial for you and tells you it's doing so; full metric support is in progress. And more rack types: RackCity models selective racking today (single-deep, back-to-back, and double-deep), with cantilever, drive-in, and push-back on the roadmap. Ask Forky for one of those now and it will tell you honestly that it can't build it yet.

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