diff --git a/.github/release-notes.md b/.github/release-notes.md index 73495440..3a5920b6 100644 --- a/.github/release-notes.md +++ b/.github/release-notes.md @@ -5,91 +5,9 @@ parameter to watch the timeline rebuild. [Documentation](https://bherbruck.githu [issues](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/issues). AI agents can model with it over MCP: `solidcraft-cli mcp` ([how](https://bherbruck.github.io/solidcraft/guide/mcp.html)). -**Why 0.9:** this is a minor bump because the design file format moved to version 17, and -because it adds many new features. - -**What's new** -- **Face actions work on about 90% of flat faces.** Sketches, offset planes and press-pull now - attach to sheet metal rims and holes, plastic features (Boss, Lip, Rest, Snap Fit), lofts, - revolved faces, pieces Offset Face moved and walls a Join merged - ([#677](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/pull/677), fixing - [#681](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/issues/681)). Across the test models: sketch - 75% → 90%, offset plane 75% → 90%, press-pull 64% → 85%. -- **Joins:** a logo-style part with pieces extruded up and down from one sketch now joins - ([#679](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/issues/679)), faces that only partly overlap - fuse correctly ([#704](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/pull/704), fixing - [#674](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/issues/674)), and booleans build the same body - every time ([#748](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/pull/748)), so a design rebuilds - identically on every run. -- **Sketch:** type a dimension right after picking (D, click, type; - [#695](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/pull/695)); redundant but consistent - constraints are accepted, such as a rectangle clover - ([#699](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/pull/699)); tool windows for Scale, Offset, - Mirror, Move/Copy, Fillet and Chamfer and the rectangular pattern (thanks @wdunn001), shown - next to the Sketch Palette, which now lists the running tool's options; a typed Rho for the - conic; a Construction Geometries row in the Sketch Palette that hides construction geometry - ([#804](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/pull/804)); sketch tool shortcuts open a sketch on the selected plane; Edit Sketch from the viewport - menu. -- **Features:** feature history on the left side with folders (opt in under Preferences; - [#449](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/pull/449)); Convert to Sheet Metal from a solid - or shelled body by its bend edges ([#725](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/pull/725)); - a tear corner relief ([#809](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/pull/809)); tapered and - variable fillet radii ([#675](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/pull/675), - [#749](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/pull/749)) with a radius spline you drag on the - edge ([#752](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/pull/752)); free-form cut-outs stay exact - in sheet-metal flat patterns ([#692](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/pull/692)) and edge - flanges run along what cut-outs leave of an edge - ([#702](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/pull/702)); and Surface Extrude, sheets from - open curves and profile walls ([#815](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/pull/815)). -- **View:** Home and Fit frame only what is shown, and a middle double-click goes Home - ([#701](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/pull/701)); a cube navigator option - (thanks @Karl-VonRichter, [#664](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/pull/664)); the window - stays responsive and draggable while a design opens, with a Cancel button that stays put - ([#643](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/pull/643), - [#686](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/pull/686)). -- **Quality:** cuts no longer split walls they don't touch - ([#670](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/pull/670)); booleans are faster and use less - memory ([#714](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/pull/714)); STL export welds shared - vertices ([#816](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/pull/816)); complete Japanese - translation ([#753](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/pull/753)). -- **Fixes:** pasted features act on the pasted bodies (#613); a refused OK's error clears when - you change the inputs (#641); dialogs show the units of their sizes (#630); the wheel over a - dialog's list scrolls only the list (#678); a Single hole picked at a circle's centre lands on - the centre (#657); axis or tangent plane on a drill tip works (#567); sketch text edits from - letter interiors and moves as a whole; a projected edge stays the edge you picked; a size from - a bare diameter keeps its unit (#716); Convert Mesh says how big a mesh is and what converts; - the Save changes prompt takes arrow keys and Enter. -- **MCP:** agent skills for modeling and editing over MCP - ([#728](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/pull/728)). -- A new README demo and the SELENE rover showcase. - -**File format 17.** Designs are now format 17 (`solidcraft/17`). SolidCraft 0.8 and older can't -open designs saved by 0.9, as a container or as JSON; they ask you to update instead. Keep a -copy of a file you may still open in 0.8. Files from every earlier version still open in 0.9. - -**Upgrading from 0.8.** Nothing to do: open your designs and save (they're saved as format 17 -from then on). Feature-history folders on -the left are off by default; turn them on in Preferences. - -**Known limitations** -- Some through-all holes along a wall or beside curved faces still fail - ([#559](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/issues/559)), as does a hole crossing an - equal-radius hole ([#788](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/issues/788)). -- Some fillets are still refused, such as along an outline of lines and arcs - ([#431](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/issues/431)). -- Some faces still can't take an attached sketch: a revolve's flat faces before a later feature - ([#726](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/issues/726)) and faces after Split Body or - Combine Intersect ([#565](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/issues/565)). -- Fillet and chamfer accept an edge pick far from any edge and change the nearest one - ([#783](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/issues/783)); Press Pull fails on faces beside - rounds ([#562](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/issues/562)). -- `sheet.fold` refuses a fixed point exactly on the sheet face - ([#685](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/issues/685)), and some tabs on L-shaped or - collinear blanks can't be folded ([#638](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/issues/638), - [#639](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/issues/639)); an edge flange with different - per-edge angles leaves gaps at the corners - ([#501](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/issues/501)). -- More in [ROADMAP.md](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/blob/main/ROADMAP.md#known-limitations). +**What's new** in SolidCraft {version} is listed below, and the +[ROADMAP](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/blob/main/ROADMAP.md#known-limitations) lists +the known limitations. Designs from every earlier version open in this one. **Upgrading from 0.7 or earlier.** 0.8 changed the Linux app ID to `ai.storyteller.solidcraft`: `flatpak update` offers to replace the old app, and the `.deb`, `.rpm` and AppImage remove the old