A design carries metadata (format 21): project, part number, revision, author, organization, description and license, plus other tools' data under reverse-DNS keys, kept as written. Edited in the Design Properties window (Document Settings), set by document.metadata.set, reported by inspect_design, and written into STEP, IGES and 3MF where the format has a place for them. Translated, with tests.
The AMD FirePro D300/D500/D700 Metal driver hangs on the tessellation compute shader and macOS resets the GPU, freezing the desktop. Bodies are built on the CPU on that device, and SOLIDCRAFT_CPU_TESS=1 forces the CPU path on any GPU. The check is a tested predicate, and the troubleshooting guide documents the variable.
A crash inside a graphics driver left only "an unclean exit between
commands": no backtrace, no module, no hint that it was at startup.
- The crash journal now keeps the startup step the app is in (window,
graphics instance, surface, adapter request, adapter chosen, device
creation, renderer and viewport shader compiles, surface configure,
first frame and its present, running) and the renderer as soon as the
adapter is picked. egui-wgpu tells the app about its steps through a
small hook. An unclean exit before the first frame names the step.
- Windows: an unhandled-exception filter (src/native_crash.rs, the one
Windows-only module allowed unsafe) writes the exception code, the
faulting module and offset, and a minidump next to the journal; the
next start puts them into the report.
- The Windows CI job runs a child that faults on purpose and checks the
report.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Colour vision modes (Protan, Deutan, Tritan) in Preferences > Graphics, with palettes, shader and icon colours adapted per mode, translations and tests.
render.settings.set saves validated named render setups (camera, output size, exposure, environment) as one undo step, and render.settings.get reads them back without applying a camera. When validated render settings are the only change, the engine keeps the evaluated model instead of rebuilding it. Setups are saved under design format 21; format-20 designs read as having none. Fixes#658; refs #620.
Contributed by @0xlillith.
Co-authored-by: lillith <[email protected]>
Publishing a non-prerelease release runs winget.yml, which opens the
winget-pkgs pull request for bherbruck.SolidCraft with Komac (pinned
2.16.0 binary, SHA-256 checked) from the three versioned MSIs. It skips
cleanly without the WINGET_TOKEN secret or before the package's first
version is in winget-pkgs. docs/releasing.md has the one-time token
setup; the README's Download section gains the winget install line.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Windows: start Direct3D 12 first, and Vulkan only without a D3D12 GPU
wgpu started Vulkan, D3D12 and OpenGL together and preferred Vulkan, so
every Windows start loaded all installed Vulkan drivers. An old Intel
Vulkan driver (igvk64.dll) crashed 0.10.1 at startup inside the driver.
The app now probes D3D12, then Vulkan, then OpenGL, one backend at a
time, and starts only the first with a hardware adapter (WARP when none
has one). WGPU_BACKEND still wins; graphics.json's "backend" sets the
order by hand; the software renderer (safe mode, the retry) uses D3D12
alone. A new Windows CI job starts the real app under several settings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* CI: a test filter YAML parses
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* CI: the startup smoke test writes graphics.json where the app reads it
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* CI: run the WARP shader tests one at a time
WARP's shader JIT (d3d10warp.dll) crashed twice in 124 runs of the gpu
tests with four test threads, with a null read inside its own optimizer
while several devices compiled compute pipelines at once. Serial runs
did not crash.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Bounded in-memory PNG/JPEG texture decoding with explicit base-colour/data-map roles; RGBA8 pixels are published only after a complete decode. Input only: no material assignment, GPU shading or persistence. Refs #900.
Contributed by @0xlillith.
Co-authored-by: lillith <[email protected]>
Trimmed faces are cut into four-sided patches (squares around holes, butterflies for round faces, motorcycle traces from concave corners) and each is meshed as a Coons grid, with a cut grid as the fallback; cells are at most 2:1 along straight directions. Folded blends are refused rather than overlapped. The README lists display meshes and the gpu crate.
When projecting a face's boundary loop onto its surface fails from an unhinted first point, the walk is retried once from the first point an unhinted search does find; a walk that succeeds is unchanged. A fillet strip on an extended surface now meshes, so the rim cut in the reported case builds in one boolean.
The screenshot controls, the submission steps and the Open GitHub draft button stay outside the scrolling review; the clipboard fallback is explained before a long draft opens; text fields leave a pixel of room so the window no longer widens while idle at 140% scale. Instructions in en/de/ja/ko/zh.
A large design showed nothing but a progress bar until it had rebuilt completely. While
it rebuilds, the evaluation now offers the model built so far (placed as the design
places it) every 1.5 s to a window that asks, and the open card draws it as a small
picture on a thread of its own, the way it shows a saved preview. The bodies' meshes
made for it are the ones the finished model shows, so little is done twice. A design
that opens within the first interval shows none.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A primitive's `targets` live in the feature's participants beside its kind; renaming a body now renames them too, so a box or cylinder cutting the renamed body no longer fails with unknown body.
* Viewport: keep the model scene in blocks and upload only what changed
Every change rebuilt the whole model scene (every body's triangles and edges) and
uploaded all of it again, so a design an agent builds one body at a time paid for the
whole model on every command. The scene is now built in blocks of a few bodies, cut
where a body's own key says, and each block's bytes and GPU buffers are kept while the
block comes back unchanged. Body boxes (fit, picking, ground shadow) are kept per mesh.
Rendering is unchanged: the bicycle from bench-agent opens to a byte-identical
screenshot.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Browser: find an occurrence's placed bodies by name, not by search per row
Each body row of a placed component searched the placement's bodies for its own, every
frame: quadratic in the component's bodies (720 for the bench-agent bicycle's hardware).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The reader converts each item once, but every instance made its own display mesh
(tessellation, seam and tangent flags), the most expensive step of opening a large
assembly. A later instance of an item now shows its first instance's mesh, placed by
the difference of the two placements. Only rigid placements share; split lines and
any operation drop the link. Measurements and export read each instance's own
geometry, so eval output is unchanged.
Generated assemblies: mesh phase 2,215 -> 139 ms (901 bodies) and 1,028 -> 85 ms
(5,401 bodies), with the same triangle counts.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
sheet.export_dxf writes an AutoCAD 2000 drawing with ELLIPSE and SPLINE entities for ellipses, splines and text outlines instead of chords, with curves: arcs for machines that read only lines and arcs. Perforation circles go through the same writer. Closes#1089.
Rectangular and circular sketch patterns stay linked to their source: editing the pattern's count, spacing or the source geometry updates the copies, and the copies keep their point and radius relations. Patterns are saved under format 20; older designs keep their independent copies.
PathScope::check reports a missing folder inside the scope as NotFound with the nearest existing folder, instead of calling it outside the allowed folders. Paths outside the scope and dangling links are still refused. Fixes#1077.
Edges shorter than the model tolerance are dropped from the flat cells, and the refold sews touching corners, so a cut-out across a bend line no longer fails with a degenerate edge.
doc.open and the STEP/mesh imports run on the file loader's worker with the request's path scope, and a font named by file path in a design is checked against the scope before it is read.
A design built over MCP is many small commands, and each one did work over the
whole design, so building or showing a 1,300-body design took minutes:
- moved components were transformed and meshed again after every change; world_state
now reuses each placed body whose definition and placement are unchanged
- next_d_name searched the design once per candidate number
- Document::eval evaluated every parameter for every expression; now only when the
expression names one
- param_rows' used_by was quadratic; the desktop no longer gathers completions on every
change while no text box has focus
solidcraft-cli bench-agent builds a generated ~1,300-body bicycle command by command
and times it (241 s -> 16 s here). Eval output is unchanged apart from timings.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Open and Save use parented AsyncFileDialog sheets; their answers run on the UI thread in a later frame, so resizing the window while a picker is open no longer re-enters winit and aborts. Editors, tab changes, Close/Quit and model-changing control requests wait for the answer; the local library Open and Export in the Appearance dialog use the same flow. Fixes#1088.
Ruled B-spline sheets that are circular cylinders or cones are written as CYLINDRICAL_SURFACE and CONICAL_SURFACE, so other readers no longer bound the part by sheets that reach past its faces.
Startup no longer stops at a bad settings file or a missing GPU: a settings file that fails to load is set aside, a failed GPU start retries with the software renderer, and a safe mode starts with defaults. Adds a troubleshooting page to the guide.
The engine's headless scene takes a palette; ui.render and the CPU viewport build it from the window's theme tokens, so a dark window renders a dark picture. CLI snapshots, MCP screenshots and Home thumbnails keep the default colours.
Moves the per-feature geometry handling (transforms, face points, profile selections, point expressions) into one geometry walk in feature_geometry.rs, with a golden record of what each feature kind moves. sheet.perforate holds no world geometry and joins the no-op arm.
Where an Import's stored labels pair one for one with its numbered built bodies (X, X (2), X (3)), component.paste_new stores the copy under the bodies' names, so the copied features after it find their bodies. No format change.
sketch.text and sketch.edit_text make the curve a text follows construction in the same undo step, so it no longer cuts the letters into pieces; the reply names the curve as guide.
A line end snapped onto a curve within the horizontal/vertical snap slides along the curve to where the axis crosses it; the preview, value boxes and click share one placement (#1121).
The feature menu of the bottom timeline and the side history gets Copy (the selection, or the right-clicked feature) and Paste (at the marker). Ctrl+click in the bottom timeline toggles a feature in the selection (#1034).
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