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]>
A renderer-independent OpaqueSurface (colour, metallic fraction, roughness, dielectric IOR) with bounded inputs, an original GGX/Smith/Schlick reference response with Lambert diffuse, and exact piecewise sRGB8 decoding. Numerical contract only: no document format, command or UI change.
A tapered extrude now offsets spline and conic curves as well as lines and arcs, so sketch text and any other profile can take a taper, and the join of tapered letters onto a face finds its boolean result.
sketch.text and sketch.edit_text took at, height, angle and text with a silent default when a value had the wrong kind, so a height of "H" made 5 mm text and at: ["H", 25] put it at the origin. An input that is given (not null) now has to be what it names, or the command is refused with the input's name, and a null at no longer passes as the origin.
timeline.export_script (and solidcraft-cli script) writes a design's history as a command script that solidcraft-cli eval replays into the same design, so a bug that only shows on one design becomes a one-file repro. timeline.add restores one stored feature with its id, names and references, through the same checks a design file gets when it opens.
Closes#886. SychPL's #1078 approached the same issue independently; thanks to both.
Co-authored-by: SychPL <[email protected]>
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.
* feat: validate physical material cards with sources and conditions
* feat: query directional elastic modulus from physical material cards
* fix: register physical material validation labels in complete locales
* fix: register directional elasticity labels in complete locales
* Add German and Korean labels for the material property commands
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Co-authored-by: bherbruck <[email protected]>
docs/mcp.md gains a "Camera and close-up recipe" section: the orbit camera's conventions (radians, eye direction for yaw and pitch, orthographic half-height, which side inspect.section keeps) and a seven-step recipe for a close-up of one region of a large STEP model. Documentation only.
Adds the read-only material.properties.validate command: schema_version 1 engineering material cards in SI units are checked for numerical consistency and elastic stability, with derived isotropic moduli, missing conditions and sources needing review. Nothing is assigned or saved.
Thanks @0xlillith.
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]>
* Boolean nudge tried both ways: no sliver where a cut's end touches a round side (#897, #827)
Robustness seed 14 cuts a cylinder whose end lies exactly on the apex of the
plate's arc side. Since the display tessellation plans (#805) the generator sees
the arc's true extent, so the cut's base lands on -10 instead of -10.000000000000002
and the end is tangent to the arc. The direct boolean fails there and the
last-resort tool nudge pushed the end into the arc, leaving a planar sliver a
tenth of a millimetre wide; shell then picked that sliver and refused it. The
13 October merges were not the cause (the bisect lands on #805).
The nudge is now tried both ways and the simpler result (fewer faces) is kept,
so the opposite nudge parts the touching faces instead. The same change joins
the hinge barrel in #827, whose top lies tangent to the lid's underside where
the mounting leaf ends. Each result still passes the same checks as before.
Goldens: seeds 14, 26 and 85 now build to the end, 31 and 78 come out with
fewer faces. Seeds 6, 43 and 73 still stop at shell: their joins now succeed and
shell reaches corners it can't offset (a cusp where a box face touches an arc,
coplanar faces facing opposite ways), which is unchanged.
Fixes#897Fixes#827
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Nudge the other way only when the first nudge fails or leaves a sliver
Trying both nudges and keeping the one with fewer faces could prefer a result
that keeps two pieces joined by a hair over one that separates them (the
centred coplanar revolve cut). The opposite nudge now runs only when the first
one failed or left a face narrower than 1/200 of the part, and it is taken
when it works with fewer of those.
Goldens re-recorded on current main: seeds 14, 26 and 85 build to the end,
31 and 78 with fewer faces. The other changed seeds are main's own since its
last full record, identical with and without this change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Nudge the other way only for slivers the nudge made
On the sensor enclosure's lid the first nudge left thin faces the operands
already had (thin walls, small rounds), so the opposite nudge ran a second
boolean for nothing and the press/pull took 79 s against main's 55 s. The
opposite nudge now runs only when the first one failed or left more slivers
than the operands brought; the press/pull test takes 36 s against 42 s on main
(same machine, one after the other).
Goldens re-recorded on top of #940.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Goldens on current main: seeds 31, 43 and 78 with the two-way nudge
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Keep the hinge and tangent-cut tests beside the #871 fillet test
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Goldens: seeds 33 and 91 as main's fillet changes build them
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Goldens: keep main's #950 record
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A hole drilled along a panel, into its rim, has no place in the flat pattern
as a cut-out, so every such hole was refused. It is now kept as a bore of that
panel, in flat coordinates, and cut only from that panel's material when the
folded part and its flat pattern are built, so the sheet still unfolds and
folds back with it. A hole that would run into a bend, or cross a panel at an
angle, is still refused. The flat pattern lists the bores.
The action matrix worker takes ACTION_MATRIX_ONLY (just these actions) and
ACTION_MATRIX_UNFOLD (unfold and refold every sheet after each action) for
rechecking one group by hand.
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.
The plate check compared the face outline's area (from the tessellation, so each hole was a polygon of chords) with the exact volume, and refused plates with a few small holes. Where the outline runs along a cylinder about the plate's normal it is now an arc of that circle; coaxial pieces of one radius are one wall, so a hole split into two, three or four faces is one circle. The check passes with its tolerance unchanged, and the flat pattern and its DXF carry one CIRCLE per hole (ARC for rounded corners and slot ends).
A round blank now converts too, so unfold_cut_refold_and_convert checks the refusal with a block thicker at one end instead of a rod.
* Name a side drawn on several sketch curves by all of them
An extrude named each side wall after the one sketch curve its profile
segment lies on. A wall along two coincident lines (squares drawn edge to
edge) or along collinear lines merged into one profile segment had no
single curve, so it was named from geometry and could not carry a sketch
attachment. One sketch extruded up and down and joined (the logo) refused
a sketch on every one of its side walls.
Such a side is now named by every curve it lies on, in sketch order: the
first is its name, the others aliases. The set is fixed by the sketch, so
the name is exact. The refusal message no longer blames merged faces.
Adds the reported logo design and a synthetic up-and-down join to the
action-matrix designs, and a regression test that sketches and extrudes on
every flat face, fresh and after save and reopen.
Fixes#954
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Action matrix: record the up-and-down join designs
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Fillets and chamfers ending on a boss's pieced wall or beside it, on a face that runs along its seam twice, and loops the loop blend refuses
- A straight edge whose end meets one curved surface in several faces (a cylinder a join left
in pieces) ends on that surface: the section is cut where it crosses each seam, which is
shortened there; where no seam is crossed (the wall missing inside the other body) the
section lies on the bared surface and the rest of the side edge becomes a seam.
- Two end faces that aren't both planes meeting in lines: each face takes the section's points
on it, cut where it crosses the edge between them. Not where an end face runs on smoothly
from a side (an earlier round): the corner build takes those.
- Face boundaries close over several connector edges.
- A face on a periodic surface running along its seam twice (as a STEP file gives it) is
rebuilt the same way (#691).
- A curved chain ending square on a face that runs on past its side extends that face's seam.
- A smooth chain stops before an edge between faces that meet smoothly.
- A loop the loop blend refuses for its shape is blended edge by edge; refusals about its size
stand.
- Action matrix: ACTION_MATRIX_ACTIONS and ACTION_MATRIX_VALIDITY for quick local runs; the
fillets and chamfers that pass now recorded.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* 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]>
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]>
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]>
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.
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.
solidcraft --control PORT writes a random per-launch token to a user-only file (<data>/control/PORT.token; 0700/0600 on Unix, icacls on Windows; SOLIDCRAFT_CONTROL_TOKEN overrides) and refuses any connection whose first request lacks it. mcp --connect, the demo and packaging smoke clients send it. MCP execute/batch/open/save/export/screenshot are annotated destructive and open-world, new_design destructive. Docs: control-protocol.md, mcp.md, AGENTS.md, pending release note in releasing.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A hole drilled square to a flange's panel, not only the base's, is now a flat cut-out of the sheet: it unfolds with its panel to where the bend allowance puts it, shows in the flat pattern and DXF as a circle, and survives unfold and refold. A pocket tool spans the cut-outs already inside it (a counterbore's hole), so the order they are made in no longer matters. Fixes#560.
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.
tests/robustness/goldens.json records what each of seeds 0-95 builds: its steps, how it ended (ok, or the kind and the start of the error it was refused with) and, for the design it left, the bodies' total volume and area (within a relative 1e-6) and their face, edge and shell counts. tests::robustness_goldens fails on any change; ROBUSTNESS_GOLDENS_BLESS="why" records one, with the reason and the seeds it moved. Pull requests that touch crates/kernel run every 8th seed; pushes to main and the nightly run every seed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A Sketch Palette toggle (sketch.options show_construction) that hides construction geometry from drawing and picking; saved with the sketch's view options under format 17.
Co-authored-by: William Dunn <[email protected]>
A coincident face is pushed apart only when the space it moves through holds nothing that changes the result; otherwise the boolean falls through to the exact strategies.
Co-authored-by: NOWN-DEV <[email protected]>
Loading a design (from a worker's start or restart to its first output) gets 300 s; each action keeps 90 s. oracle/41-tube-radial-holes (about 23 s here) timed out loading on a loaded CI runner, and reloads after a hung action were charged to the next action.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
surface.extrude sweeps open curve chains and profile boundaries along the sketch normal into a surface body (walls only, no caps). Saved under format 17.
Refs #757
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Follow-up to #718: a face place snaps only to sketch points that are shown, and the face under the cursor is looked up once per pick.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
