Ginger — Updates https://gingerbim.com/updates Product updates from Ginger: what shipped, what it does for your project, and what is still rough. en Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0800 Mac connectors, GPU rendering, faster drawings https://gingerbim.com/updates/mac-connectors-gpu-rendering https://gingerbim.com/updates/mac-connectors-gpu-rendering Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0800 Ginger now runs natively on macOS, large models render on the GPU, and drawing generation and the sheet builder are both faster. connectors platform performance drawings sheets The Ginger mark beside the Apple logo, above the words: Now on Mac.

If your practice works on Macs, you no longer need a Windows machine to use Ginger. The Mac connectors shipped last week, and everything else in this update is about the same thing from a different angle: models that used to feel heavy now move, and the two slowest steps in getting a set out — generating drawings and assembling sheets — take less time than they did.

Ginger runs on macOS

The connectors now run natively on macOS. Publishing and loading models works the same way it does on Windows, so a mixed studio can stop routing Mac users through a virtual machine or a spare workstation just to get their geometry into the model.

Large models render on the GPU

Rendering now uses the GPU. The practical effect is on the models that were worst affected before — big, heavy, multi-discipline federated models — which now stay responsive to pan, orbit and zoom instead of degrading as more gets loaded into them.

Faster drawings and sheets

Drawing generation and the sheet builder have both had a performance pass. Same drawings, same sheets, produced faster.

]]> 2D drawings and Canvas https://gingerbim.com/updates/2d-drawings-and-canvas https://gingerbim.com/updates/2d-drawings-and-canvas Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800 Drawings now live alongside the model and stay in sync with it, and Canvas gives you an infinite whiteboard for putting a drawing set together. drawings sheets Ginger's drawings view: a list of floor plans on the left, the 3D model with a section plane cutting through it in the middle, and the floor plan drawing that section produces on the right.

Two things arrive together in this update, and they are meant to be used together: 2D drawings that stay tied to the model they came from, and Canvas, a space to assemble those drawings into the set you actually have to hand over.

Drawings stay in sync with the model

Your drawings are live views of the 3D model rather than exports of it. Change the model and the drawings follow. That includes the things that usually get missed in a manual round-trip — change a material, for instance, and the hatch in the drawing updates to match, straight away.

The practical effect is that the drawing set stops being a separate deliverable you have to re-issue by hand every time the model moves.

The model and the drawing are the same data — select a column in one and it lights up in the other, material and all.

Canvas

Canvas is an infinite whiteboard for preparing drawing sets. Pull in the drawings you need, lay them out, and arrange the set the way it has to be delivered — a submission document, a tender set — with the whole thing in front of you at once rather than one sheet at a time.

The rest of what a set needs happens on the same canvas: insert a titleblock, add annotations, and mark up the drawings, without exporting to another tool and back again.

Six titled sheets laid out side by side on the Canvas grid — floor plans, elevations, sections and a door and window schedule — each in its titleblock, with the insert toolbar along the bottom.
A submission set laid out on the canvas.
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