v1.3.0

Complex edge finishing and clearer 3D views

Everything in this release

  • Breaking a sketch reference keeps the last valid solid visible while you repair the feature, including models rebuilt in the background
  • Round bosses and curved walls keep continuous outlines where they meet other surfaces, without small gaps near their bases
  • Rounded extrusions and bosses keep a clear side outline in edge views, including finely meshed cylinders with large flat caps
  • Demo files include an upright spline flow housing with a rounded passage, later service drilling, rear reinforcement and a turret bored through to the passage
  • Demo files include an editable spline port carrier: a through-cut and fillet/chamfer finishes followed by a cross-cut, added bridge and bored bosses
  • The 3D view menu now includes Shaded with edges, Hidden edges and Wireframe; Show tangent edges reveals smooth fillet boundaries, while Shaded and Glossy show clean surfaces
  • Demo files include a spline pump housing, a stepped valve body and a ribbed spline bridge, with editable pockets, bores, fillets and chamfers
  • Curved edges remain selectable as whole rims after repeated cuts, so saved fillets and chamfers keep their selection when display detail changes
  • Chamfers no longer leave tiny triangular spurs at straight spline junctions, including where a short segment disappears into a corner
  • Outer circular rims can be chamfered after a distant notch splits their walls, while preserving bores and remote cuts
  • Silhouette outlines no longer paint dark speckles across faces with spline openings; smooth fillets keep their shading and sharp chamfers keep their edge lines
  • Fillets continue through straight sections of spline curves without dropping neighboring edges or shrinking a radius that fits
  • Chamfers on oblique ends of spline sweeps close at the requested distance when the cut fits within the end walls
  • Fillet and Chamfer feedback gives a short next step instead of internal mesh errors, in both previews and feature history; size adjustments show the actual dimensions in your drawing units
  • Chamfering only part of an opening keeps the adjacent walls intact, including one-edge, adjacent-edge, and opposite-edge selections
  • Confirming an unchanged fillet or chamfer preserves its exact stored dimension, including after switching drawing units
  • A second fillet can meet an existing round without shrinking to the width of its display facets
  • A single chamfer meeting an existing finish on a convex solid keeps its requested setback on both faces, instead of shrinking one side to a tiny facet
  • Fillets and chamfers check nearby openings and opposing cuts before building, reducing an oversized finish before it crosses a thin wall or another hole
  • A fillet limited by a nearby opening reduces the affected rim while preserving the requested radius on distant edges
  • Fillet and Chamfer previews show the applied size when geometry requires a reduction; blank or invalid dimensions cannot confirm an older value
  • Fillet and Chamfer now work on the rim of a revolved part — the kettle's lip, a turned cup's brim: the fillet used to refuse with "two faces walk the same edge" and the chamfer with "a corner its own cut cannot close", because a flat ring swept by a revolve was built as a hundred and twenty-eight coplanar facets with seams between them, and every rim vertex read as a corner it was not. A flat ring is one face now
  • A round along a chorded rim whose wall slants — a tapered pot, a brim on a cone — keeps the radius you asked for instead of quietly shrinking to a quarter of a millimetre: two chords running tangent into each other are cut by one plane and share one ring, so the radius is limited by the faces beside it, and a radius the lip cannot hold steps down to a size that fits and says so
  • A chamfer along that same kind of rim closes: a wall built from triangles had a triangle at every rim vertex that touched the cut only at its corner, and nothing ever trimmed it
  • Changing the radius or distance on the Fillet and Chamfer cards combines rapid input changes into one preview update per tenth of a second. The number in the box moves immediately; Confirm checks that number, including when the preview is still catching up
  • The fillet preview no longer paints a flat disc across a bore when the round cannot be built — the disc was a half-built corner washed in the preview colour