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.
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.
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).
Inactive document tabs get a faint outline so neighbouring tabs stay apart, and the Home tab uses the same hover tint as the design tabs so its label stays readable in the light theme. Fixes#1115.
Adds local scalar appearance and material libraries: a catalog in the io crate with safe writes, engine commands to list and apply library entries, and a library dialog in the UI, with docs.
Thin Extrude builds walls of a set thickness along sketch curves, open chains and closed loops, with the wall centred, inside, outside or on both sides at two thicknesses. Saved under format 20 (thin on an Extrude); an extrude without thin saves as before. Closes#721.
Where SolidCraft can replace itself safely, the Update window gets Update now:
- AppImage: the new AppImage is downloaded next to the old one, verified and renamed over
it; Restart now starts it as SolidCraft exits.
- Windows MSI: the verified .msi starts (msiexec /i … /passive) once SolidCraft has closed,
after the usual questions about unsaved designs.
- Windows portable zip / standalone exe: the running solidcraft.exe is renamed to .old, the
new one takes its name (solidcraft-cli.exe too), Restart now; .old goes at the next start.
- macOS: the verified .dmg is opened (the app is ad-hoc signed and not notarized, so it isn't
replaced behind the user's back).
- Flatpak, Snap, deb, rpm, tar.gz: never replaced; the window shows the command.
Every package's SHA-256 must match the release's SHA256SUMS.txt (HTTPS, same release); a
mismatch deletes the download and changes nothing. With PUBLIC_KEY set in update/install.rs,
SHA256SUMS.txt.minisig must also verify (minisign-verify, MIT) with a trusted comment naming
the release. release.yml signs the list when the UPDATE_SIGNING_KEY secret exists and fails
when the app expects signatures but the secret is missing; docs/releasing.md has the steps.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* GPU tessellation: a pipeline the device cannot build falls back to CPU meshing instead of crashing (#1098)
Build the tessellation compute pipeline inside error scopes; TessGpu::new returns an error,
and the viewport logs it and meshes bodies on the CPU. A Windows CI job builds the pipeline
with D3D12's FXC on the WARP adapter.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Tessellation shader: basis functions in one-dimensional local arrays, so D3D12's FXC compiles it (#1098)
FXC has to unroll loops that write an array inside a struct (Basis.n0/n1) or a 2-D array
(ndu) by a counter, and cannot with run-time trip counts (X3511). A2.2 basis functions in a
local 1-D array returned whole; derivatives from the degree p-1 functions; the pole step
offsets computed rather than indexed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
At start, and at most once a day, a background thread asks GitHub for the latest stable
release (one HTTPS GET to releases/latest, nothing else sent; 15 s timeout; silent when
offline; GitHub's rate limit respected). When it is newer than this build, an Update button
appears next to Report a bug. It opens a window with the version, the release notes and
Download (the asset that fits this installation), Skip this version and Remind me later.
- Versions compare as semver; a nightly counts as the release it was built after, so it is
offered only a newer stable release.
- The installation is detected (AppImage, Flatpak, Snap from the store or a file, deb, rpm,
tar.gz, Windows MSI/portable/exe, macOS app); Download picks the fixed-name asset.
Development builds and the Flatpak (no network permission) never check.
- Preferences > General > Updates: Check for updates automatically (on) and Check now.
- HTTP via ureq + rustls with the operating system's certificates (desktop app only).
- docs: Updates and privacy page.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
With a Chinese UI on Windows and macOS, the first CJK fallback was a Japanese font without the simplified characters, so one word mixed glyphs from two faces with different line heights and they sat on different baselines. For zh the Chinese face now joins the fallback chain before the Japanese one, and the chain is rebuilt on the frame the UI language changes; other languages keep the previous order.
The live preview of a join, cut or intersect now sends the tool body's scene as soon as the tool is built, then runs the feature for its error while the dialog keeps its spinner. OK pressed while the preview is still computing the same commands waits for it instead of computing the feature a second time on the UI thread; the session shares its evaluation cache with the preview's scratch copy.
The command search asked its text field for focus on every frame. On Wayland that restarted the text edit's held key, so the key kept repeating in other windows after the palette closed. Focus is now requested once, when the box opens, with a test that the field doesn't take focus back while the box stays open.
Fixes#724.
On Windows the temporary folder often has an 8.3 short name, which the path scope refuses. vfs::long_names spells folders SolidCraft derives from the environment with long names, and the MCP scratch folder and the recovery folder use it, so screenshot without a path and the recovery commands work there again.
Since the model's mesh went back to the reference mesher (#940), the GPU viewport drew
opaque bodies from their display plans while hover and selection lit faces with the
reference mesh's triangles. Two triangulations of the same face at equal depth fought, so
a hovered face shimmered in wedges instead of lighting whole.
Faces lit over a body drawn from its plan now use the plan's own triangles
(ModelBody::plan_mesh, evaluated once on the CPU), and the highlight pass gets a small
depth bias toward the eye so f32 rounding between the GPU and CPU evaluations of the same
triangles cannot speckle it either.
Test: every face of a box with a pocket and a round boss, hovered and rendered offscreen
through the viewport's real pipelines on the GPU path, lights the same pixels as on the
CPU path (skipped without a GPU adapter).
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The dialog_docked scenario check and the ui_layout width test looked up
the dialog window by the id "sc_dialog", but dialogs are now registered
under ("sc_dialog", <title>). Every lookup failed with "no command
dialog", so the test had to stay ignored and could no longer catch an
oversized dialog.
Read the rect the dialog publishes each frame instead (viewport
dialog_rect in the check, "dialog:outer" in the test), and re-enable
every_dialog_opens_docked_within_its_width_limits. The exploded view
dialog it was ignored for now opens 365 px wide, inside its limits.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VbBYY5zfMXgq939AF9Vren
Co-authored-by: PhilippBischoff0 <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: bherbruck <[email protected]>
Fixes#971. At the node limit the offset certificate splits the fitted curve where it meets the exact offset midpoint, so curves with different parameter speeds certify within the same 0.002 mm tolerance. Associated offset fit nodes are hidden from display, picking, box selection and snapping until Break Association.
Thanks @Karl-VonRichter.
Fillet gets a Curvature (G2) radius type (type: "curvature", alias "g2"): a quintic blend whose size is the equivalent circular setback, for convex and concave straight edges between planar faces with a perpendicular planar end face at each end. Unsupported cases are refused rather than falling back to a circular fillet, and a blend that would cross a loop in its end face is refused. Persisted as a fillet style under format 19; labels in en/de/ja/ko/zh.
Co-authored-by: midasdf <[email protected]>
* Holes on round faces from the app, one hole per pick, and Flip for holes at sketch points (#967)
The Hole dialog takes any face: a hole on a round face drills against the face's normal where it
was picked, and its arrow shows that. A round face split at its seam is picked whole, but makes
one hole where it was clicked. Holes at sketch points get Flip (saved as flip in the hole's points,
under format 18), in the command and in the dialog.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Holes at sketch points show their arrow: into the part, or away with Flip (#967)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Sketch Mirror, rectangular and circular Pattern, and Offset now show a green live preview that follows the selection and settings; OK commits, Cancel leaves the sketch unchanged. The shared dialogs show the current selection step and source counts, sources can be toggled with Ctrl/Cmd-click, cleared and reselected.
Offsets keep editable driving distance dimensions (One Side, Two Sides, Symmetric) that update the derived curves without moving the source, with undo/redo and save/reopen. Format 19: older files keep their fixed offsets.
New dialog labels in en, zh, ja, de and ko.
Fixes#696. Fixes#517.
* Rounded Rectangle sketch tool (#891)
A new SKETCH > CREATE command, sketch.rectangle.rounded, in the Rectangle
family: two opposite corners and a corner radius make a 2-point rectangle
whose four corners are filleted alike, as one undo step. The radius is one
parameter (one radius dimension, the other arcs equal to it), so changing it
changes all four corners. While drawing, Width, Height and Radius boxes take
typed values; typed width and height dimension the overall size between
opposite sides. Without a typed radius the corners get a fifth of the shorter
side.
Fixes#891
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Rounded Rectangle in the Simplified Chinese catalog
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Session::replace_design keeps auto_project when file.new, doc.open and doc.recover swap in another design, and the UI keeps it across tabs, adopt and the last-tab close. Regression tests in engine (sketch_project) and ui-egui (documents).
Adds a complete Simplified Chinese (zh) catalog covering every English message, a font fallback for Chinese text, and `cargo xtask i18n --check`, which checks that the complete catalogs (ja, zh) carry every English message and that every command label is translatable.
Co-authored-by: Noly1990 <[email protected]>
Packs the scene's planned bodies into one GPU upload and dispatch, and evaluates intersection edges by seeded Newton refinement from a fitted B-spline through exactly solved leader points, falling back to the previous evaluation near tangency. Intersection nodes carry their faces' parameters. This changes speed, not what the app draws.
Part 4 of 4 of #303.
Co-authored-by: jyviko <[email protected]>
Offsets picked faces along their normals into a new surface body: planes and cylinders move exactly, other faces get a fitted B-spline within tolerance, and offsets that would fold over are refused. Adds the SurfaceOffset feature (noted under format 18), the surface.offset engine command and an Offset Surface dialog.
Closes#758.
Co-authored-by: jyviko <[email protected]>
A section stayed on with nothing in the browser to switch it off; only the
viewport's context menu had Remove Section. While there is one, the browser
now has an Analysis folder listing it. Its eye (and the folder's) hides the
section and shows it again on the same plane; a double-click or Edit Section
Analysis opens the dialog, and Delete removes it. Browser rows with an eye
publish an `eye:<label>` handle for automation.
Fixes#822
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A design with components and joints exports as a URDF robot description (file.export to .urdf, the MCP export tool, solidcraft-cli run --out, File > Export URDF...). It writes one binary STL per component in metres, links with mass, centre of mass and inertia from material density, and maps rigid, revolute, slider, cylindrical, pin-slot, planar and ball joints to URDF joints or short chains. Loops, broken joints and loose parts are reported as warnings. Options: mesh_prefix, effort, velocity. Docs in docs/urdf.md.
The browser build fetched its Japanese fallback font only for a Japanese UI,
so a Japanese design name, file name or typed text showed as tofu with the UI
in English. After drawing each frame the web shell now looks through the
painted text for kana, CJK ideographs and full-width forms while no CJK font
is loaded, and fetches the same font once on the first hit. A failed fetch
with an English UI leaves the language alone and is not retried in a loop.
Sessions that never show such text download nothing extra.
Fixes#720
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Toolbar drop-downs show all their rows after a shorter list (#874)
A panel's drop-down kept its size by an id made from the panel name alone,
so PLASTIC's MODIFY reused the one-row size of MESH's MODIFY and showed two
rows with a scroll bar. The id now includes the tab, and the rows' scroll area
may grow past the size the area remembered (up to the room below it), which
also covers the same panel collapsed and expanded.
Fixes#874
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Keep the Sketch Create menu's own sizing
Its rows sit in egui menus (also inside the overflow menu), where a minimum
height moved the rows between frames. Only the panel drop-downs need it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Moving a window between monitors of different scale can briefly ask for a
surface larger than the device's largest texture (11512 x 6808 against 8192 in
the report), and Surface::configure failed validation, which wgpu turns into a
panic. The surface is now clamped to the device limit with its aspect ratio
kept, and egui draws the whole window at the matching smaller scale, so the
frame is only softer until the size settles. The device also asks for the
adapter's own texture limit (16384 on most desktop GPUs) instead of 8192, and
the resize path and an unsupported surface log instead of unwrapping.
Fixes#869
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Surface Loft lofts open or closed curve chains, one section per sketch in pick order, into surface bodies. Adds the SurfaceLoft feature (format 18 note), the surface.loft command, a dialog with Edit Feature support, and kernel and engine tests.
Part of #757.
Surface Sweep carries open curves and closed profile boundaries along a sketch path into surface bodies, with smooth walls along curved point paths. Adds the SurfaceSweep feature (format 18 note), the surface.sweep command, a dialog with Edit Feature support, and kernel and engine tests.
Part of #757.
Surface Revolve turns open curves and closed profile boundaries about a sketch axis into surface bodies, with cone apexes and sphere poles where a chain ends on the axis, and a closed shell made solid. Adds the SurfaceRevolve feature (format 18 note), the surface.revolve command, a dialog with Edit Feature support and analytic kernel and engine tests.
Part of #757.
The app's control protocol gets engine.batch: the steps run in one request (so one frame), each as engine.execute runs it, stopping at the first failure and rolling back to the checkpoint by default. The MCP batch tool sends it to a running app (with the control token), is never resent after a lost reply, and falls back to step-by-step when the app refuses (agent cursor shown, or a step loads a file). A batch may take up to an hour to answer.
Display meshes after opening, the face names read when a feature finds a face by name, and inspect.measure over all bodies are now worked out per body on plain scoped threads (solidcraft_kernel::for_each_on_threads / map_on_threads), in body order and with the same results; the browser build stays serial.
A sketch text gets an optional style: bold and italic faces (a slanted fallback for italic), left/center/right alignment, letter and line spacing, and a path curve of the same sketch for the baseline to follow (reverse takes the other side). Edit Text gets B/I toggles, alignment, spacing fields and a Path chip, all live. The style is saved only when not plain and is noted under format 18.
Agent tool calls (MCP, and bridged control requests carrying allow_paths) reach files only in the open design's folder (strictly inside home or the temporary folder, not in a hidden folder, and never its hidden files), the app's recovery folder, the server's private scratch folder and each --allow-path; --allow-any-path lifts the limit. Paths are resolved first, so .. and symlinks that lead out (including a save through a link, #845) are refused. On Windows, UNC, device, NT, verbatim non-drive, drive-relative, alternate-stream, reserved-device and 8.3 short-name paths are refused before any file system call, and the resolved path must be on a local drive. doc.recovery_discard and doc.recover {discard} delete only real recovery entries. Docs: mcp.md, control-protocol.md, README.
Mateusz Sych