v0.0.46

Release Notes — v0.0.46

Covers changes from v0.0.45 to v0.0.46.

Hole

• New Hole feature: clearance, tapped and drilled holes from the fastener tables, with counterbore, countersink and blind depths.
• Place holes on connectors or sketch vertices.
• Fasten to the solid below (.fasten()) taps the matching hole in the next solid along each hole's axis.

Section views

• section() saves a cut of the model, listed in the viewport's section menu.
• Each body gets a hatched cap in its own colour, and overlapping bodies show in red.
• Drag the arrow to move the cut.

Materials and mass

• part(...).material(id) with 17 built-in materials, plus your own in Settings › Materials.
• Set material… on a part row's menu.
• Shape Properties gets a Part tab with the part's mass and centre of mass.

Parts and assemblies

• property() publishes computed values that assemblies read as instance.properties.<name>.
• Assemblies get their own Parameters panel, and the insert dialogs accept expressions.
• Renaming a parameter, property, part or instance renames its variable and every use across files.

Connector copies

• copy() copies connectors: bolt.instance(1), bolt.instance(2), … mate like any connector.
• copy(holes, bolt) puts a connector on every instance of a repeat.
• Assemblies can copy their own connectors.

Start screen in the browser

• npx fluidcad opens the start screen in the browser, each project in its own tab.
• --projects, --host and --public-url serve it to other machines. (#75)
• Desktop: projects open in the start screen's window, with Close Project to go back.
• New projects start with an empty part instead of the box sample.

Sketching

• The Offset tool writes constrained geometry held by a new offsetFrom() constraint.
• The 2D Fillet tool keeps the shape's size and position.
• 2D copy and mirror accept guide geometry.

Modeling

• A repeat can repeat another repeat: repeat('mirror', 'front', row).
• Round lofts are one face with exact circular rims, and can be shelled.
• Helical sweeps keep the profile orientation and no longer fail on long cuts.
• Breaking: lofts and helical sweeps may rebuild with different faces and edges.
• Breaking: a target-less repeat() right after another repeat now repeats the whole pattern, not its last instance.

UI

• Draggable timeline breakpoint, with later features kept visible while paused.
• Close other tabs and Remove file in the tab menu.
• Maximum workers count in Settings › Advanced, and lower engine memory.

Bug Fixes

• Desktop: projects no longer need the network after an app update. (#80)
• Cuts and holes in multi-body parts change only the bodies they cut.
• Repeated scoped features keep cutting the same solid.
• Workspaces under a path with a space keep their source locations.