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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 0.9: this is a minor bump because the design file format moved to version 17, and
because it adds many new features.

What's new

Face actions work on about 90% of flat faces. Sketches, offset planes and press-pull now
attach to sheet metal rims and holes, plastic features (Boss, Lip, Rest, Snap Fit), lofts,
revolved faces, pieces Offset Face moved and walls a Join merged
(#677, fixing
#681). Across the test models: sketch
75% → 90%, offset plane 75% → 90%, press-pull 64% → 85%.
Joins: a logo-style part with pieces extruded up and down from one sketch now joins
(#679), faces that only partly overlap
fuse correctly (#704, fixing
#674), and booleans build the same body
every time (#748), so a design rebuilds
identically on every run.
Sketch: type a dimension right after picking (D, click, type;
#695); redundant but consistent
constraints are accepted, such as a rectangle clover
(#699); tool windows for Scale, Offset,
Mirror, Move/Copy, Fillet and Chamfer and the rectangular pattern (thanks @wdunn001), shown
next to the Sketch Palette, which now lists the running tool's options; a typed Rho for the
conic; a Construction Geometries row in the Sketch Palette that hides construction geometry
(#804); sketch tool shortcuts open a sketch on the selected plane; Edit Sketch from the viewport
menu.
Features: feature history on the left side with folders (opt in under Preferences;
#449); Convert to Sheet Metal from a solid
or shelled body by its bend edges (#725);
a tear corner relief (#809); tapered and
variable fillet radii (#675,
#749) with a radius spline you drag on the
edge (#752); free-form cut-outs stay exact
in sheet-metal flat patterns (#692) and edge
flanges run along what cut-outs leave of an edge
(#702); and Surface Extrude, sheets from
open curves and profile walls (#815).
View: Home and Fit frame only what is shown, and a middle double-click goes Home
(#701); a cube navigator option
(thanks @Karl-VonRichter, #664); the window
stays responsive and draggable while a design opens, with a Cancel button that stays put
(#643,
#686).
Quality: cuts no longer split walls they don't touch
(#670); booleans are faster and use less
memory (#714); STL export welds shared
vertices (#816); complete Japanese
translation (#753).
Fixes: pasted features act on the pasted bodies (#613); a refused OK's error clears when
you change the inputs (#641); dialogs show the units of their sizes (#630); the wheel over a
dialog's list scrolls only the list (#678); a Single hole picked at a circle's centre lands on
the centre (#657); axis or tangent plane on a drill tip works (#567); sketch text edits from
letter interiors and moves as a whole; a projected edge stays the edge you picked; a size from
a bare diameter keeps its unit (#716); Convert Mesh says how big a mesh is and what converts;
the Save changes prompt takes arrow keys and Enter.
MCP: agent skills for modeling and editing over MCP
(#728).
A new README demo and the SELENE rover showcase.

File format 17. Designs are now format 17 (solidcraft/17). SolidCraft 0.8 and older can't
open designs saved by 0.9, as a container or as JSON; they ask you to update instead. Keep a
copy of a file you may still open in 0.8. Files from every earlier version still open in 0.9.

Upgrading from 0.8. Nothing to do: open your designs and save (they're saved as format 17
from then on). Feature-history folders on
the left are off by default; turn them on in Preferences.

Known limitations

Some through-all holes along a wall or beside curved faces still fail
(#559), as does a hole crossing an
equal-radius hole (#788).
Some fillets are still refused, such as along an outline of lines and arcs
(#431).
Some faces still can't take an attached sketch: a revolve's flat faces before a later feature
(#726) and faces after Split Body or
Combine Intersect (#565).
Fillet and chamfer accept an edge pick far from any edge and change the nearest one
(#783); Press Pull fails on faces beside
rounds (#562).
sheet.fold refuses a fixed point exactly on the sheet face
(#685), and some tabs on L-shaped or
collinear blanks can't be folded (#638,
#639); an edge flange with different
per-edge angles leaves gaps at the corners
(#501).
More in ROADMAP.md.

Upgrading from 0.7 or earlier. 0.8 changed the Linux app ID to ai.storyteller.solidcraft:
flatpak update offers to replace the old app, and the .deb, .rpm and AppImage remove the old
menu entry.

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-0.9.0-windows-x64.exe runs as is. Or install the .msi, or unzip the
-portable.zip (x64, x86 and arm64).
macOS 11+ (Apple silicon and Intel): open the .dmg and drag SolidCraft.app onto Applications.
The CLI is in solidcraft-cli-0.9.0-macos-universal.zip.
Linux (x86_64 and aarch64, glibc 2.35+): the .AppImage (chmod +x, then run it), the
.deb or .rpm, the .flatpak (flatpak install --user <file>), the .snap
(sudo snap install --dangerous <file>; sudo snap install solidcraft from the Snap Store follows once the store's first review is done), or the .tar.gz.
FreeBSD: tar -xzf solidcraft-0.9.0-freebsd-x86_64.tar.gz --strip-components 1 -C /usr/local.
Web: solidcraft-web-0.9.0.zip is 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.

What's Changed

flatpak-site: publish a release from before the app id change as it is by @bherbruck in #668
README demo for 0.8: the Raspberry Pi 4 case with a rounded rim, engraved text and PETG by @bherbruck in #671
test: seed 16's partial face contact is refused, not built wrong by @bherbruck in #676
README: add the SELENE rover by @0xlillith as a showcase by @bherbruck in #690
Keep the loading card's Cancel button still; deterministic Cancel test by @bherbruck in #686
Sheet metal rims and holes, plastic features, lofts, raised pieces and merged walls take face attachments by @bherbruck in #677
Sketch Dimension: D, click, type by @bherbruck in #695
test: regression test for #623: blind bore into a joined boss fails to mesh (fails on v0.7.0, passes on main) by @jonaswre in #654
Save changes prompt: arrow keys pick the button, Enter gives it by @lucas-aguilar89 in #683
fix(ui): edit sketch text from letter interiors by @0xlillith in #694
fix(ui): a refused OK's error clears once the dialog's inputs change (#641) by @semmelrinde in #666
Pasted features act on the pasted bodies (#613) by @lucas-aguilar89 in #682
feat(ui): offer a cube navigator alongside signed axes by @Karl-VonRichter in #664
Home and Fit frame what is shown now; middle double-click goes Home by @bherbruck in #701
File format 17 for qualified piece names and sheet metal rim names by @bherbruck in #700
test: measure a scaling pair again when the load of other test binaries spikes by @semmelrinde in #649
fix: an edge flange runs along what cut-outs leave of its edge by @NOWN-DEV in #702
Action matrix: mark the ribbed lid's side-wall hole as failing while it varies between runs by @bherbruck in #708
fix: fuse bodies that touch back to back over part of a face (#679, #674) by @bherbruck in #704
Sketch: accept redundant but consistent constraints (clover of rectangles) by @bherbruck in #699
fix: cuts no longer split walls they don't touch by @bherbruck in #670
Render: add backend capability discovery and strict request resolution by @0xlillith in #650
fix: axis or tangent plane on a drill tip no longer fails with "no face at NaN" (#567) by @lasselian in #655
feat: variable fillet radius may run down to zero at one end by @jyviko in #675
feat: free-form cut-outs stay exact in sheet-metal flat patterns by @NOWN-DEV in #692
fix(ui): Extrude and Revolve leave Profiles empty when the last sketch is already used (#684) by @semmelrinde in #705
fix(sketch): move and copy editable text as a whole source by @0xlillith in #715
fix(ui): a Single hole picked at a sketch circle's centre goes to the centre (#657) by @semmelrinde in #718
fix(ui): Box, Cylinder, Sphere, Torus and Coil dialogs show the unit of their sizes (#630) by @semmelrinde in #709
fix(ui): the wheel over a dialog's list scrolls only the list (#678) by @semmelrinde in #713
fix(engine): pick the face of a named body where bodies meet flush (face_body) by @Mqrius in #710
feat: Convert to Sheet Metal takes a solid or a shelled body by its bend edges by @NOWN-DEV in #725
perf: prism pairs before the mesh, bodies measured once, and a STEP import that copies less by @sahenjp in #714
A Feature Options section in the Sketch Palette showing the running tool's modes by @wdunn001 in #750
Give the Move dialog the canvas value box every other dialog already has by @wdunn001 in #739
fix: imprint each surface once when fusing partial face contacts by @bherbruck in #751
fix: MCP instructions name body_topology, not a list_edges tool by @SychPL in #729
Make SolveApp::start honour a command's enabled flag, and disable solid.move inside a sketch by @wdunn001 in #740
feat(ui): sketch tool shortcuts open a sketch on the selected plane by @quantmind-br in #737
feat: fillet radius tapers along an edge to the room there by @jyviko in #749
A Sketch Scale window, replacing a toolbar button that only raised an engine error by @wdunn001 in #733
Let the conic tool take a typed Rho, and preview the curve it is about to draw by @wdunn001 in #736
Three readable line type icons in the Sketch Palette, with construction orange moved to a caller contract by @wdunn001 in #747
fix: a projected edge stays the edge that was picked when its body changes by @NOWN-DEV in #730
Booleans build the same body every time: face order no longer follows heap addresses by @bherbruck in #748
docs(roadmap): list the proposed surface toolset under M8 by @jyviko in #773
perf(kernel): a refused edge is not rolled again after blends far from it by @Mqrius in #777
test: reference cases for variable, chord-length and tapered fillets by @jyviko in #776
fix: a size worked out from a bare diameter keeps its unit when the design's units change (#716) by @semmelrinde in #779
fix(sketch): a side put onto a projected line keeps its closed profile (#635) by @semmelrinde in #780
feat: drag a fillet's radius spline by its handles on the edge by @jyviko in #752
test: record the action-matrix outcomes that changed on main by @bherbruck in #781
A tool window for sketch Offset, with a typed Distance, Flip and Chain by @wdunn001 in #731
fix(kernel): preserve intentional Split Face lines in contact joins by @0xlillith in #782
docs: agent skills for modeling and editing through MCP by @SychPL in #728
Feature: left-side onshape-like feature history by @alex-s168 in #449
feat(i18n): complete Japanese localization and eliminate UI hardcoded strings by @Mithril-3d in #753
A Mirror window for sketch entities, holding both picks until OK by @wdunn001 in #734
Edit Sketch in the viewport menu over a sketch curve by @wdunn001 in #795
A sketch dialog and the Sketch Palette on screen at the same time by @wdunn001 in #791
Put Move/Copy Sketch Entities on the toolbar, behind a window with distances, an angle and a copy flag by @wdunn001 in #735
Display tessellation plans (1/4): planner with shared edge nodes by @jyviko in #802
feat: tear as a fourth corner relief shape of the sheet rule by @NOWN-DEV in #809
Surface toolset: icons and planned commands (#772) by @jyviko in #808
test: reference case for a fillet with a B-spline radius by @jyviko in #810
fix(ui): Single-hole snapping takes only shown points and checks the face once per pick (#718 follow-up) by @semmelrinde in #798
One tool window for sketch Fillet and the three sketch Chamfers by @wdunn001 in #789
fix: STL export welds shared vertices like 3MF (#784) by @SychPL in #816
Convert Mesh: say how big a mesh is, the limit, and what converts (#346) by @HiroKenEz in #797
Display tessellation plans (2/4): size rules and the facet angle by @jyviko in #803
Surface Extrude: sheets from open curves and profile walls (#757) by @jyviko in #815
A tool window for the rectangular sketch pattern by @wdunn001 in #799
test: give an action-matrix design 300 s to load by @bherbruck in #812
perf: imprint partial face contacts only near the contact by @bherbruck in #825
fix: coincident faces are pushed apart only where that changes nothing by @NOWN-DEV in #817
Construction Geometries, a Sketch Palette row that hides construction geometry by @wdunn001 in #804
Release 0.9.0 by @bherbruck in #832

New Contributors

@semmelrinde made their first contribution in #666
@sahenjp made their first contribution in #714
@SychPL made their first contribution in #729
@quantmind-br made their first contribution in #737
@alex-s168 made their first contribution in #449
@HiroKenEz made their first contribution in #797

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