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PartBuddy is a free desktop app for designing parts for FDM 3D printing together with an AI assistant, in real CAD.

What's new

  • Keep writing while the assistant works: your message waits until it is done, or goes right away with "Send now".
  • Several photos in one message: show the object from more than one side.
  • Polish across the whole app after a UI/UX review: errors in plain words, feedback as a card, settings that apply at once, a clearer selection, softer motion.

Also: PartBuddy no longer cuts Claude Code off while it renews your sign-in, which could sign you out overnight; the sharing package is ready in a third of the time; notes work on edges beside a fillet; switching projects no longer restarts SolidCraft.

Download and requirements

  1. PartBuddy: download PartBuddy-Setup-0.2.1.exe below and run it (Windows 10/11, installs for your user only). The installer is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen warns once: choose "More info", then "Run anyway". PartBuddy checks for updates through this page.
  2. SolidCraft 0.40.0-rc.3: PartBuddy designs with the free SolidCraft CAD kernel. Install the pre-release SolidCraft 0.40.0-rc.3 (on Windows SolidCraft-0.40.0-rc.3-windows-x64.exe).
  3. An assistant: your Claude subscription through Claude Code, your ChatGPT subscription, or a local model (Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, vLLM). The first start walks you through it.

0.2.1 (2026-11-10)

Features

  • desktop: send while the assistant works – the message waits, or goes now (#281) (8b3c9aa)
  • desktop: several photos per message; the window never scrolls (#280) (c5adea9)

Bug Fixes

  • desktop: 3D view and dock audit findings – errors in words, room, one editor (#263) (fbea25b)
  • desktop: a failed geometry check is not called a wall thickness problem (#283) (db7bd84)
  • desktop: a note on an edge beside a fillet is kept; several photos are counted (#293) (ca27d7c)
  • desktop: a renewed Claude sign-in is kept, its process leaves on its own (#294) (62da7c5)
  • desktop: a sharing package takes its four pictures side by side; rollback bar in its gap (#289) (bdc8d15)
  • desktop: a template tile says it is building, the others wait (#278) (80f1881)
  • desktop: a text cut into a face finds its face again; the release version is checked (#255) (688cdd2)
  • desktop: an inlaid colour logo joins each fill first, then cuts its pocket a fill at a time (#285) (4f5e6a8)
  • desktop: assistant audit findings – menus, cards, attachments, log (#264) (32003b0)
  • desktop: audit remainders – draggable structure panel, isolate, sort direction, restart hint (#271) (8627817)
  • desktop: audit remainders – refused parameter value, printer name, German feature names (#272) (2baad1c)
  • desktop: chat rounds 30 px apart, answer actions inside the answer (#279) (7a7e9a6)
  • desktop: cross-cutting audit findings – shortcuts, strings, numbers, contrast, toasts (#262) (cc27644)
  • desktop: curves of an SVG with a control point on their end get a tangent (#284) (ab8c6dd)
  • desktop: errors of the interface land in the log, a crash shows a message instead of white (#260) (89f6fb0)
  • desktop: hover and selection colours fade over 120 ms (#275) (bffb4cc)
  • desktop: motion audit findings – what appeared hard now fades in; phase 2 status (#270) (35fae37)
  • desktop: one card per web search, readable link titles; a real research picture (#288) (72955b6)
  • desktop: reset printers and materials to the starting profiles (#276) (1ea9e0b)
  • desktop: selection look – light face tint, outlined tree body, others step back in assembly (#274) (366faeb)
  • desktop: settings and print audit findings – words, search, segments, paths (#266) (f66d37f)
  • desktop: settings save model – print profiles apply at once, tolerance steps in place (#273) (18c082b)
  • desktop: start page and first start audit findings – offline way forward, order, search (#265) (23d3a7c)
  • desktop: structure, timeline and notes audit findings – meanings, menu, wish field (#267) (e25638c)
  • desktop: the depth arrow of a logo has its name again (#282) (4fc3f05)
  • desktop: title bar, menus and versions audit findings – rename check, versions, export icons (#268) (151ca3b)
  • site: take the website pictures with SolidCraft 0.40.0-rc.3 and keep the app's log (#258) (55f6e0d)

Performance

  • desktop: switch projects in the running SolidCraft instead of restarting it (#277) (909e8b0)
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