bherbruckandClaude Opus 5.5
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The Flatpak app id, desktop/metainfo/MIME file names, icon name and the window's Wayland app_id / X11 class are now ai.storyteller.solidcraft, the id the ArtCraft launcher expects. Existing Flatpak installs move over: the Pages repo marks app/ai.storyteller.solvecraft end-of-life with a rebase to the new id, so flatpak update offers the switch and Flatpak carries ~/.var/app along. A new install next to the old one copies settings and autosaves on first launch through a read-only grant on the old data folder. The metainfo declares <replaces>/<provides>, the desktop entry X-Flatpak-RenamedFrom, and AppImages drop the menu entry an older AppImage installed. deb/rpm upgrades remove the old-named files. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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SolidCraft is open-source parametric 3D CAD in Rust: sketch, constrain, extrude, and change a
parameter to watch the timeline rebuild. Documentation
· try it in the browser ·
contributing ·
issues. AI agents can model with it over MCP:
solidcraft-cli mcp (how).
Why 0.7: this is a minor bump because the design file format moved to version 15 (sketches on cylinder caps and sheet metal panels need new references), and because it adds new features.
What's new
- Sketching on stacked extrudes works again. Creating a sketch on the top face of an extrude stacked on another failed with "operation failed" since 0.3 (#489). It's fixed, and every flat face of the test models is now checked for this on every change.
- Select Other: hold or right-click to pick something hidden under something else; click again to cycle through what's underneath.
- Tabs are named after their file instead of "Untitled".
- Modelling: a flange angle and height per edge, Patch fills non-planar loops, sketches on cylinder caps and on sheet metal faces, and a feature rename updates everything that refers to it.
- Fixes: revolve with edges on the axis, shell and fillet with small rounds, Join keeps face attachments, and STEP export writes each lump of a body as its own solid.
- Navigation and UI: orbiting from empty space turns around the visible geometry, Ctrl+drag orbits in every preset, toolbar drops land across labels and gaps, Combine previews before OK, and sketch constraints accept the sketch's own x / y axes.
- Opening a design reads its metadata and preview through a bounded, seekable reader; the docs and web app have link preview cards.
File format. Designs are now format 15 (solidcraft/15). SolidCraft 0.6 and older can't
open designs saved by 0.7, as a container or as JSON; keep a copy of a file you may still open
in 0.6. Files from every earlier version still open in 0.7.
Known limitations
- Some faces still need the fixed-plane fallback for sketches: side faces Join merged from two extrudes (#491), faces split by a later feature (#492), Cut walls and chamfer faces (#493), faces after Revolve, Offset Face or Boss (#494) and sheet metal thickness faces (#495).
- Cutting a coaxial cylinder from a thin disc can lose a little volume (#500); an edge flange with different per-edge angles leaves gaps at the corners (#501).
- More in ROADMAP.md.
Upgrading from 0.5 or earlier. 0.6 renamed SolveCraft to SolidCraft and made the zip
container the default save format. .solvecraft designs, old settings folders and
SOLVECRAFT_* variables are still picked up, and solvecraft-cli still forwards to
solidcraft-cli. Want plain JSON? Use File ▸ Save As JSON… or --save design.json. On
macOS, replace SolveCraft.app with SolidCraft.app. Details:
compatibility notes.
Documentation, the browser app and the Flatpak feed use the SolidCraft project Pages URLs.
Which file?
- Windows:
SolidCraft-{version}-windows-x64.exeruns as is. Or install the.msi, or unzip the-portable.zip(x64, x86 and arm64). - macOS 11+ (Apple silicon and Intel): open the
.dmgand dragSolidCraft.apponto Applications. The CLI is insolidcraft-cli-{version}-macos-universal.zip. - Linux (x86_64 and aarch64, glibc 2.35+): the
.AppImage(chmod +x, then run it), the.debor.rpm, the.flatpak(flatpak install --user <file>), the.snap(sudo snap install --dangerous <file>, orsudo snap install solidcraftfrom the Snap Store), or the.tar.gz. - FreeBSD:
tar -xzf solidcraft-{version}-freebsd-x86_64.tar.gz --strip-components 1 -C /usr/local. - Web:
solidcraft-web-{version}.zipis a static site to host yourself. SHA256SUMS.txt:sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt --ignore-missing.- Files without a version in the name (
solidcraft-windows-x64.msi,solidcraft-linux-x86_64.AppImage, …) are the same packages under fixed names, for download links that always fetch the latest release.
For Flatpak feed installation and updates, add Flathub for the required runtime before installing SolidCraft; keep both remotes in the same user installation:
flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists solidcraft https://bherbruck.github.io/solidcraft/flatpak/solidcraft.flatpakrepo
flatpak install --user solidcraft ai.storyteller.solidcraft
flatpak run ai.storyteller.solidcraft
Flatpak installs from 0.7 or earlier use the old ID ai.storyteller.solvecraft: flatpak update --user
offers to replace it with ai.storyteller.solidcraft, and settings move along.
Single-file .flatpak bundles include the runtime repository address; missing runtimes
still need an internet connection. Linux installation details.
The builds aren't signed yet. On macOS, right-click SolidCraft.app in Applications and choose
Open the first time (or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/SolidCraft.app).
On Windows, SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC": More info, then Run anyway.
Licences are built in (Help ▸ About ▸ Licences, solidcraft-cli licences); the packages also
install THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.txt.