AutoReview now shows a badge when results are available that you haven't seen yet.

When AutoReview completes a run — whether you triggered it or another user did — a badge appears on the AutoReview icon for anyone who hasn't opened the results. The badge clears once you open the AutoReview panel.

Previously, the only indication that a run had completed was a success toast at the moment it finished. If you weren't in the app, or if someone else triggered the run, there was no way to know results were waiting without manually clicking into each file to check.

Files with AutoReview runs that completed before this feature launched will show a badge on first view — this is expected and will clear once the panel is opened. The badge appears for both 2D and 3D AutoReview results.

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We’ve introduced the ability to create and save custom views of the feedback table at both the company and workspace levels, giving you greater control over how feedback is organized, filtered, and reviewed.

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What’s New

Global Views:
Company Admins can now create and manage global feedback views that are visible across all workspaces and portals.

• Global views can only be created and edited at the company level.
• Admins are notified before publishing a global view to all users.

Custom Feedback Views in Workspaces:

• Create custom views directly inside a workspace or portal to organize and filter feedback for that specific context.
• Workspace and Portal Admins can manage permissions for creating, editing, and deleting custom views.
• All previously shared company-level views have been converted to company views.

Column Order and Visibility:

• When saving or updating a custom view, CoLab stores your chosen layout.
• Any change to filters, columns, or visibility prompts a “Save Changes” option to keep the view up to date.

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Admins can now write persistent instructions that apply to every AutoReview run across the company — without requiring individual users to provide context each time.

Go to Company Settings → AutoReview → Instructions and enter plain-text guidance for AutoReview to follow. Instructions are applied automatically on all future runs. They're best used for context that applies consistently across all files — for example, background on your product line or manufacturing environment, feedback categories AutoReview should deprioritize, or preferred terminology.

This reduces noise from feedback that isn't applicable to your designs, and makes results more relevant from the first run without any extra steps from users. Instructions work alongside custom checklists and user input prompts — they don't replace either.

Also shipping today: you can now re-trigger a general analysis run from the + New menu in the AutoReview panel without re-uploading the file. Previously this required uploading a new revision.

You can now run draft analysis on 3D files in CoLab. This makes it easier to confirm whether molded or casted parts have the draft angles needed for manufacturing, without leaving your review in CoLab.

Here’s how it works:

• Open the model you'd like to perform a draft analysis on
• Select Draft Analysis from the right toolbar
• Set the pull direction and draft angle thresholds
• Click Run analysis
• Draft analysis iwill be run on  the entire model, regardless of which components are shown or hidden.
• Surfaces will be color-coded so areas with insufficient draft stand out
• Pin feedback to the analyzed model to save the analysis for later reference

This gives you a quick way to check draft during a review, capture the results in context, and decide if more detailed CAD analysis is required.

When AutoReview generates feedback that isn't accurate or relevant, you can now explain why — not just flag it as unhelpful.

Selecting the thumbs-down on any AutoReview result now opens an expanded panel where you can classify the issue:

• Not relevant — the feedback is valid but doesn't apply to this design or file
• Missed detail — a detail in the file was overlooked that would have changed or eliminated this feedback
• Incorrect — the feedback contains wrong reasoning or an inaccurate recommendation
• Other — for cases that don't fit the above

You can also add a short text explanation for additional context.

CoLab uses this data to identify quality trends and prioritize improvements to AutoReview. A classified signal is more useful than an unclassified thumbs-down — it tells the team not just that something was wrong, but what kind of wrong.

Note: reinforcement does not currently retrain AutoReview in real time. It informs the team's quality analysis and future model improvements.

AutoReview can now run on files that previously showed an AutoReview unavailable state. Files uploaded before CoLab's current CAD metadata system may be missing information AutoReview requires. Rather than failing permanently, AutoReview now re-processes the file's metadata when you re-trigger a run — so older files that were blocked are now accessible.

CAD conversion and metadata processing have also been streamlined, reducing processing time for all files. The experience for files with complete metadata is unchanged.

If you've seen AutoReview unavailable on a file, trigger a new run to see if it resolves. Further improvements to AutoReview run speed are in progress.

You can now receive CoLab notifications directly in Microsoft Teams or Slack, so you don’t miss review assignments, mentions, or workspace activity while you’re in your day-to-day chats.

What’s included

• Mentions and direct assignments
• Review requests and ownership changes
• Workspace or portal invites
• Join alerts for workspaces you admin

All messages follow your existing in-app notification preferences, and links open the exact file, feedback, review, workspace, or portal in CoLab.

How to set it up

Admin step (once per integration)

1. Go to Settings & Admin → Integrations.
2. Select MS Teams or Slack.
3. Toggle Allow users to connect to [MS Teams or Slack].

User steps

1. In CoLab, go to Account Settings → Apps.
2. Choose Microsoft Teams or Slack and click Connect.
3. Finish configuration in Microsoft Teams or Slack when prompted.

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Learn more: Check the Integrations section of our Knowledge Base to see how to connect Teams/Slack and learn about other available integrations.