tangency-labs/solidcraft v0.13.1-nightly.20261016.47.1 on GitHub

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).

What's new in SolidCraft 0.13.1-nightly.20261016.47.1 is listed below, and the
ROADMAP lists
the known limitations. Designs from every earlier version open in this one.

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-0.13.1-nightly.20261016.47.1-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-0.13.1-nightly.20261016.47.1-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>, or sudo snap install solidcraft from the Snap Store), or the .tar.gz.
FreeBSD: tar -xzf solidcraft-0.13.1-nightly.20261016.47.1-freebsd-x86_64.tar.gz --strip-components 1 -C /usr/local.
Web: solidcraft-web-0.13.1-nightly.20261016.47.1.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

Sweep: orientation, twist and end scale (#771, part 1) by @jyviko in #1269
Edit Sketch no longer shows bodies a later feature deletes (#1167) by @lasselian in #1329
Flat-pattern DXF for a laser shop: layers by role, dashed bend lines, bend notes, text cut or etched, a file per body by @NOWN-DEV in #1324
Parameters: move user parameters up and down (#1187) by @DuBearte in #1323
Sketch: preview the whole midpoint line while drawing it (#1358) by @DuBearte in #1371
Navigation: a Blender preset (#1090) by @DuBearte in #1356
The offscreen GPU tests start one backend, as the app does (#1330) by @CamWight in #1342
Joint dialog: say why picks on one component make no joint, offer Create Components from Bodies by @SychPL in #1367
Fix face Extrude Join targets in assemblies by @Karl-VonRichter in #1375
Convert to Sheet Metal finishes corners and bend ends as edge flanges do by @NOWN-DEV in #1340
Sheet metal: a cut names the pieces it parts from the base by @NOWN-DEV in #1338
Sketch: dimension extension lines reach the nearest part of the lines (#1361) by @bherbruck in #1388
French: catch up with main (124 messages) by @rlartot in #1331
Modelled threads: 5-6x faster, and long threads no longer fail (#1250) by @bherbruck in #1395
Navigation: the default orbit turns about the world origin by @kuraneko1 in #1377
Fillet/chamfer: point the drag arrow into the corner on inside edges by @bherbruck in #1394
Release 0.12.0 by @bherbruck in #1414
Measure: centre-to-centre for holes, diameters for circles and arcs, slot sizes by @bherbruck in #1419
Windows: resize border from the first frame, DPI-correct window moves by @bherbruck in #1396
Extrude Cut of a whole face beside round corners: grow the arcs too (#1275) by @bherbruck in #1401
A cut from a component without bodies cuts the parts it meets (#1234) by @bherbruck in #1407
Insert Design on the ASSEMBLE panel and in the File menu (#1240) by @bherbruck in #1405
Web app: open and insert STEP files over frames, with progress and Cancel (#1376) by @bherbruck in #1424
Number fields take a decimal comma too (#1347) by @bherbruck in #1418
View-dependent display refinement: finer curved faces and edges as you zoom in (#1320) by @bherbruck in #1425
Imports become components; STEP assemblies as nested components (#1386) by @bherbruck in #1426
Mesh edges that do not evaluate without a panic; refuse such boolean results (#1252) by @lasselian in #1364
Fix chamfer chains ending at existing bevels by @Karl-VonRichter in #1372
Web: installable as an app, with an Install button while the browser offers it by @jasiek in #1233
Expressions: accept a decimal comma outside parentheses (#1347) by @DuBearte in #1382
feat: inspect.compare: where two versions of a part differ, without a boolean of the two by @NOWN-DEV in #1423
Joints: link offsets in b's units, new joints start inside their limits, loop dof at dead points by @SychPL in #1415
Scenario harness folder uses the long-name temp dir (#1385) by @lasselian in #1404
AppImage: no desktop entry when appimaged made one or integration is switched off (#1399) by @lasselian in #1406
Context menus stay in view near the window edge; planes offer Create Sketch by @SychPL in #1398
Keep New Body and Offset Face previews moving during distance drags by @cfaulkingham in #1238
test: read the live crash journal through its own handle (#1448) by @HiroKenEz in #1450
Dialogs: the Select chip keeps its size on hover (#1335) by @DuBearte in #1387
material: report exact missing condition fields by @0xlillith in #1334
Sketch: the first dimension scales a sketch drawn by eye (#1365) by @bherbruck in #1416
macOS: ship solidcraft-cli inside SolidCraft.app by @bherbruck in #1456
Boolean: a point at a boundary curve's end is that end, whatever its parameter (text cuts, #391) by @phanoob in #1195
Booleans: planar cuts beside rounds take the exact route before the retries (#1197) by @erkexzcx in #1445
STEP export: a half-turn arc end as a cylinder, and cut faces' sheets bounded by their faces (#1198) by @erkexzcx in #1438
Draft: only the faces round the drafted walls must be walls or caps by @luke-kearney in #1393
Text cuts: the 2D prism route takes a font's curves exactly by @phanoob in #1429
sketch.create: refuse a face (or origin/x_dir/y_dir) next to plane by @HiroKenEz in #1447
Class-A surfacing 1/3: the continuity core, a G3 free-form blend and patch crown by @midasdf in #1249
Render preview uses the shared camera navigation by @bherbruck in #1462
ui: review candidate physical material cards without assignment by @0xlillith in #1344
render: normalize high precision texture inputs by @0xlillith in #1267
Joints: a link ratio between an angle and a distance is per degree by @SychPL in #1433
In-app agent chat: your own coding agents over ACP, plus OpenAI-compatible endpoints by @bherbruck in #1102
Chamfer: refuse a result that grows a convex edge's part by @phanoob in #1428
Flat pattern pan and zoom through the shared navigation by @bherbruck in #1484
feat: a sketch text's height, place and angle can be expressions by @NOWN-DEV in #1453
Render preview: draw within the pixel budget on 4K/5K screens (#1464) by @bherbruck in #1477
Text cut through a part, or joined in relief, in one exact boolean by @phanoob in #1446
Extrude: a cut takes in a hole of its profile that lies over empty space (#1360) by @phanoob in #1472
Dialogs: steady Select chip, and dialogs move by their title (#1335) by @bherbruck in #1417
Start page: translate its buttons, links, headings and sample cards by @rlartot in #1479
Copy, cut and paste sketch geometry (Ctrl+C/X/V, context menu) by @bherbruck in #1500
Release 0.13.0 by @bherbruck in #1506
Import glTF 2.0 files (.glb, .gltf) as mesh bodies by @bherbruck in #1512
timeline.edit: refuse fields the feature's definition doesn't have (#1491) by @erkexzcx in #1507
render: add perspective UV interpolation and derivatives by @0xlillith in #1461
Measure circle and arc centers as fixed 3D points by @crono2250 in #1514
Agent chat on Windows: start npm agents through their .cmd shim by @bherbruck in #1530
Preferences: choose the interface font (#1290) by @DuBearte in #1408
Web app: 3D mouse navigation through the Gamepad API (#1336) by @CamWight in #1473
Joints: gears, rack and pinion, and screws by @SychPL in #1524
Add Turkish translation by @macrulz54 in #1520
render: add isotropic texture footprint LOD reference by @0xlillith in #1460
fix: a sketch on an extrude's cap keeps its face when the extrude is … by @PhilippBischoff0 in #1532
New tab: no stale fillet preview, and + always opens a tab by @pablopeza in #1533
Agent chat gate: curve and occurrence ids named path are not files; broken tool arguments are not run by @Rec0iL in #1499
Show optional X/Y/Z distances in measurement overlays by @crono2250 in #1422
sketch.cut: refuse non-object params instead of panicking by @bherbruck in #1542
Version 0.13.1 by @bherbruck in #1545
Import FreeCAD and Rhino files through cadmpeg (#1161) by @oursland in #1435
render: add opaque CPU sampling and bounded mip chains by @0xlillith in #1459
Export the current 3D view as 2D DXF with optional hidden lines by @crono2250 in #1449
Sheet metal: an Edge Flange can choose its own corner relief by @NOWN-DEV in #1481
CI: PRs build and test only the packages they touch by @bherbruck in #1561
Agent chat on Windows: no terminal window flashes when agents are detected by @bherbruck in #1567
Design format: a change is one new file, never an edit to FORMAT by @bherbruck in #1563
sketch(fix): preserve rectangle constraints through fillets by @Karl-VonRichter in #1543
Preserve circle and arc centre heights when measuring straight edges by @crono2250 in #1546
Join from a sketch on a body's face joins that body (#1349) by @SychPL in #1526
Add XAI Grok to the AI panel by @cfaulkingham in #1558
Keep the files many PRs add to conflict-free (sorted catalogs, generated files on main) by @bherbruck in #1564
Toolbar: a second click on a drop-down's button closes it (#1522) by @DuBearte in #1576
Agent discovery test: the fixture uses a name Windows runs (#1554) by @DuBearte in #1575
Contributing: claim an issue with a draft PR by @bherbruck in #1565
Fix/boolean cut voids by @Ian-cmd-ops in #1570
Shell: an open face next to a concave edge no longer cuts the wall past it by @Ian-cmd-ops in #1495
Fix: edges between two faces hard to pick by @MythicForge in #1568
STEP export: shelled revolved bodies export instead of panicking by @Ian-cmd-ops in #1496
Booleans: when the last-resort nudge fails both ways, try two more screw axes (#1490) by @erkexzcx in #1527
Fillet: refuse only crossed faces the round makes, not ones the body had (#1488) by @erkexzcx in #1517
Join a flange flush with a bent, tapered loft's end where the retry fails (#1391) by @gvocale in #1556
Headless pictures draw on the GPU, with the viewport's pipelines (CPU rasterizer as last tier) by @jyviko in #1555
Boolean: refuse a nudged result that meshes inconsistently (#1360) by @phanoob in #1455
Edge division: evaluate each point once by @rlartot in #1560
solid.mirror: a plane's {origin} takes length expressions and follows them (#1492) by @erkexzcx in #1501
Fix perpendicular fillets after connected rounds by @cfaulkingham in #1581
Fix agent runtime lookup when launched from the desktop by @cfaulkingham in #1551
Viewport frame-rate readout (Preferences ▸ Graphics) by @sthifen in #1580
Claim bot: /claim and /unclaim on issues by @bherbruck in #1584
Sketch: infinite construction lines (#1359) by @DuBearte in #1547
Patch: G1/G2 to the faces beside the loop, general and N-sided loops, points (#759) by @jyviko in #1521
Fix the main build: the edge-pick test used a removed field by @bherbruck in #1590
Contributing: kernel speed work goes to solidcore (#1597) by @bherbruck in #1598
Fix main: drop the removed viewport.no_pixels from the edge-pick test by @bherbruck in #1596
Fix main: drop a test's use of the removed viewport.no_pixels by @bherbruck in #1594
Desktop 3D mouse on Windows without a 3DxWare profile: object-mode axes, no emulated wheel (#1380) by @CamWight in #1528
Sketch cut and paste: refuse parameters that are not an object (no panic) by @Ian-cmd-ops in #1577
Claim bot: let me /unclaim my own issues by @bherbruck in #1595
Agent chat: queue messages while the agent works, Send now, Stop, New chat, and a model picker (#1566, #1571) by @bherbruck in #1566
Joints: joint.reach (inverse kinematics), and a jointed part follows a drag by @SychPL in #1540
Check for updates at every start; show "Update to X" as a title-bar pill by @bherbruck in #1538
Shell: put shell_by_opening's doc comment back on it by @bherbruck in #1588
ci: nightly property tests with more cases by @Ian-cmd-ops in #1498
View keys: arrows turn the view, Ctrl+arrows pan, Ctrl+8 looks at the selection (#1541) by @DuBearte in #1585
Viewport: the grid faces side views (#1470) by @DuBearte in #1583
Joint drive test: wait as long as the other preview tests (#1549) by @DuBearte in #1582
Renderer: skip a frame the GPU won't stage instead of crashing (#1469) by @DuBearte in #1579
Expressions: inch and foot marks (#1502) by @DuBearte in #1578
STEP export: a merged partial cylinder keeps its cylinder (silent volume loss) by @Ian-cmd-ops in #1497
Divide intersection edges from their neighbours' parameters (#1038) by @jijinbei in #1412
Feature fields: a type for each role (Expr, BodyName, FacePick…) by @jijinbei in #1273
Feat/Sketch: associative pattern tools with independent directions and Flip/Center controls by @Karl-VonRichter in #1601
Perf/mesh collision by @Ian-cmd-ops in #1307
Fix/shell saddle corners by @Ian-cmd-ops in #1316
Split Body: a sketch line as the splitting tool (#1552) by @DuBearte in #1592
Tessellation: point-in-trim tests skip runs of segments the ray canno… by @Ian-cmd-ops in #1309
Motion Trace: a point's path as a joint is driven or a study plays, kept as a 3D spline by @SychPL in #1529
Sketch on an origin plane faces the side you clicked (#1586) by @bherbruck in #1587
Sketch: a tangent arc starts from a trimmed end (#1485) by @DuBearte in #1604
Extrude: dragging the taper stops where the profile would close (#1602) by @DuBearte in #1614
Intersection edge nodes advance along the curve at fine display qualities by @jyviko in #1615
Feature mirrors and patterns: preserve replay and add Flip/Center placement by @Karl-VonRichter in #1619
AppImage: leave the menu entry to launchers that set DESKTOPINTEGRATION by @lasselian in #1635
Booleans: a prism cut beside the target's other faces takes the exact 2D route in a column by @phanoob in #1629
Control channel: a timed-out request says it is still running, and its result can be asked for (#1618) by @DuBearte in #1627
Class-A surfacing 2/3: surface match, boundary patch and CV fairing by @midasdf in #1487

New Contributors

@kuraneko1 made their first contribution in #1377
@cfaulkingham made their first contribution in #1238
@luke-kearney made their first contribution in #1393
@macrulz54 made their first contribution in #1520
@Rec0iL made their first contribution in #1499
@oursland made their first contribution in #1435
@Ian-cmd-ops made their first contribution in #1570
@MythicForge made their first contribution in #1568
@sthifen made their first contribution in #1580

Full Changelog: v0.11.0-nightly.20261015.42.1...v0.13.1-nightly.20261016.47.1

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