Product Updates

You can now rotate PDFs in the annotation bubbler, and it will save the rotation to the PDF directly. It will also rotate any annotations that have already been added.   This release also allows job operators to rotate annotated PDFs in the job tracker (though this will not directly update the PDF, just allow them to view it at a different rotation leaving the original PDF alone).

Quality of life updates:

• In bubble mode you can now immediately start clicking, holding and dragging the cursor to define the GDT snippet area. We will auto place the bubble in the top left corner of where you start.
• You can now cycle through bubbles on the document with TAB and SHIFT + TAB.
• You can delete selected bubbles by pressing the DEL key.
• Added a small UI element at the top of the Quality drawing viewer to make shortcuts more discoverable

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Chrome’s default PDF viewer occasionally shows an error like “Your browser does not support PDFs”. This was annoying, so we replaced it with our own PDF viewer! The new PDF viewer is used in all places where we show PDFs that you have uploaded (Sales Orders, Quotes, Items, etc). In particular:

• This will work on all devices, all browsers (instead of just Chrome)
• You will no longer see "This browser does not support PDFs"
• Rotating the PDF page actually rotates the page. It saves the PDF with the rotation the user sets it to.
• The left nav scrollable list is mimicked from the viewer they have today.

Fulcrum now has a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, a standard interface that lets MCP-compatible AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or Claude Code connect directly to your Fulcrum data. If you're using any AI tool that supports it, you can connect it to your Fulcrum site and start querying your data and taking actions through natural language.

Because MCP is an open standard, you're not limited to Fulcrum data alone. You can connect Fulcrum alongside other tools — through their own MCP servers or APIs — and work across all of them in a single AI conversation.

Your customers may require a document describing what your inspection plan is for a given part.  This release adds the ability to go to Job > Quality > Download > Plan to get a report of the In Process Tracking checkpoints for a job (without responses).  Note: the same dropdown also offers a download with responses (results).

Sometimes tools come in a kit and share a serial number.  This release removes the requirement for a serial number to be unique for a given tool.

Trailing Zeros - trailing zeros play a critical role in communicating the expected precision for a measurement. We’ve expanded in process tracking to track the precision across your targets and tolerances.

Tolerance Types - previously, Fulcrum primarily stored in process tracking targets as a target value with a min and max. Now, you’ll have the option to enter define an IPT checkpoint using a Limit (min, max, or range) or Tolerance (target with a +/-).

Archie is an AI assistant built into Fulcrum. It has access to your live data: jobs, sales orders, quotes, purchase orders, invoices, customers, vendors, inventory, work orders, NCRs, schedule, shipping, receiving. It can answer questions, surface problems, and help you get things done.

It’s not a separate product or an add-on. It’s inside Fulcrum, in the chat panel, ready when you need it.

Archie is now in beta.

If you submit FAIRs through Net-Inspect, you no longer need a separate tool to get them there. Fulcrum Control now exports your completed FAIR package in the format Net-Inspect expects, ready for sharing.

CMM reports already have the measurements your inspection plan needs. Now you can bring them into Fulcrum Control instead of re-entering them by hand.

There are a lot of times on drawings where the feature control frames or measurement information is oriented vertically because it flows better with the drawing.

However, our AI was not doing a great job at parsing out this information from the image because it was expecting the text to be readable from left to right.

We now take vertically oriented images and rotate them before parsing out measurement info so that we can get much more accurate results from image snippets taken vertically.

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With this release, you'll now be able to edit drawing annotations (along with their associated IPT checkpoints) from the pdf bubble editor on the job detail page, even once a job has been approved/scheduled/started.

Note: if operations are complete or cancelled, or the IPT checkpoint already has responses, then it cannot be edited. Additional operations can still be added to or removed from those annotations.

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Added to the default tolerances panel are two new defaults - First Article, and Sampling Rate.  These are per document, and apply the defaults to new bubble annotations as they’re entered.

It’s not uncommon to split the quantity of parts needed for a job across different nests.  This release allows better handling for split quantities and split operations. If you add a job operation to a nest, you can decide to assign only a portion of the parts to a given WO nest.  The remaining portion will be available as a new job operation to add to a future nest.It’s not uncommon to split the quantity of parts needed for a job across different nests.  This release allows better handling for split quantities and split operations. If you add a job operation to a nest, you can decide to assign only a portion of the parts to a given WO nest.  The remaining portion will be available as a new job operation to add to a future nest.

We’ve added 3,000 new sheet and plate materials to the Global Materials Database. These additions focus on stainless steel, carbon steel, and aluminum, expanding the range of materials available for estimating and inventory.

This release also introduces our first major batch of metric materials, which opens the door for supporting shops that work with metric standards. With the introduction of metric sheet and plate materials, the system now supports multiple new variant dimensions (including metric) for all materials.

To help streamline item creation, we’ve added a new configuration setting: System Data → Items & Inventory → Default Unit for Material Item Sizes. This setting allows you to define your default sizing unit, which will automatically populate the Item Sizing UoM dropdown when activating materials.