Lands the Render workspace (R3), bounded preview-image jobs with cancellation and atomic PNG export (R4a), and opaque PBR looks as one change.
- Render workspace: an overlay-free product preview on the installed GPU device. Returning to Design restores its camera. render.scene and render.settings.apply are added.
- Image jobs: render.preflight/start/status/cancel/export run bounded CPU preview jobs. Export captures the job, overwrite choice and document, and checks the caller's file scope before writing.
- Opaque PBR: looks can carry metal fraction, roughness and dielectric IOR. The product viewport and preview PNG use them; geometry and mass are unchanged. The v1 catalog export refuses PBR rather than dropping it.
- Render setups and PBR looks are saved under design format 21. Labels are in en/de/ja/ko/zh/ru.
Supersedes #706 and #800. Refs #620, #673, #756, #1004.
Contributed by @0xlillith.
Co-authored-by: lillith <[email protected]>
Adds a French catalog as a partial locale (missing strings fall back to English, like Russian), registered in the language list, with tests and attribution.
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]>
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.
* 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.
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.
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.
Adds sheet.perforate: round holes on a staggered or square grid over the flat sheet, kept clear of edges, cut-outs and bend zones. The holes go to the flat pattern, the DXF and the measured volume rather than the B-rep, so a panel can carry many thousands of them.
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]>
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.
Igor Bronovskyi