Connector Foundry v0.5.0

What's new

Parts

• SOLDR module base. A new part, soldr/base: the bottom of a module for the SOLDR
  soldering station, any number of units each way (30.5 mm apart), with the designer's tapered
  feet and two 6 mm magnet holes per unit, or one in the middle, or four on a regular grid. Fuse
  it under a part and the part stands on a SOLDR frame. On the Bench, every unit has a slot, and
  from 2 × 2 up so does the base's middle. Rebuilt from the designer's module files
  and checked against them; CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, like SOLDR's own files.

Bench

• Resize handles on attached parts. Select a part attached to the base (or to another
  attached part) and it gets the same handles as the base: drag, step with the arrow keys, or
  click one to type a size, and it renders once. The handles stand on the part's own faces
  however it sits — on a side face, turned to any angle, shifted, on a joint — and the face it is
  attached by stays on its slot, so height grows outward and width and depth about its centre.
  Parts attached to it keep their slots, as with the base, and its controls move to the foot of
  the viewer, out of the handles' way. Imported models still have none.
• Alt-drag to turn. Hold Alt (Option on a Mac) and drag an attached part's handle to turn it
  on its slot. A dial shows the angle: on the dial it snaps to 15° steps (the long ticks are the
  quarter turns), past it to whole degrees, and the part renders once when you let go. Esc
  cancels, and Undo turns it back.

Phones and tablets

• Safari renders what the Bench and the Holes tab make. In Safari (iPhone, iPad and Mac),
  combining parts on the Bench or adding a hole failed with "Maximum call stack size exceeded",
  and a part could fail the first time it rendered: Safari gives the render worker a twelfth of
  the stack Chrome does. A render that runs out of it is now redone on the page's own thread,
  which has room for as much as Chrome manages. The page pauses while that runs.
• The web app works on a phone or a tablet. The 3D view now comes first, with the part's
  settings under it and the part list last (Find a part goes there); before, the part list
  pushed the view below the fold on every phone. A tablet in portrait shows the settings beside
  the view instead of a 290 px sliver of it. Every button, field and checkbox a finger uses is at
  least 44 px, the header and the 3D view's toolbar fit one row, nothing sits under a notch or the
  home indicator, and the nav keeps the Settings gear on screen while a part renders.
• Touch where a mouse used to be needed. A tap near a slot marker or a Holes snap point takes
  it (a fingertip's reach, not the dot's few pixels); the "?" beside a setting opens on a tap; the
  Holes tab has a Measure toggle for what holding Option shows, and a long press on a hole in
  the list adds it to the selection. A new part is framed to fit a narrow view, so its handles are
  on screen. In the Holes tab the first tap on a face shows its guide lines and snap points and the
  second drills; they stay up after the hole renders (the re-render used to take them away), and
  tapping or dragging a hole shows its face's, to aim it by.
• Add to Home Screen opens the app like an app, and once it has rendered a part it opens again
  without a connection.

Printing

• Print with EasyPrint… on the Library, the Bench and the Holes tab (and in Cmd/Ctrl+K): the
  file goes to your device — through the share sheet on an iPhone, iPad or Mac (Save to Files),
  as a download in Chrome, whose share sheet refuses model files — then Open EasyPrint, sign in,
  and upload it there to slice and print on a Prusa Connect printer. EasyPrint has no way for a
  website to send it a model, so this is as direct as it gets. Each file also comes as a 3MF, a
  fifth of the size, and on the Bench every body in one 3MF.
• Send this bench to another device (Cmd/Ctrl+K) shares the bench's link, or copies it: set it
  up on the computer, print it from the phone. From the desktop app the link opens the bench in the
  web app.

Faster

• A third less to download, and once. The OpenSCAD engine is downloaded as WebAssembly instead
  of a 13.8 MB script and compiles while it downloads (3.2 MB instead of 4.5 on the wire), and the
  part sources come without their comments (0.7 MB instead of 1.2): about 6 s sooner to a first
  part on a slow phone connection. A returning visit loads what it has already seen from the
  browser's cache, also after an update to the site.
• Edits on the Bench show sooner. The preview renders before the edited part's own measuring
  render, rather than after it, and parts rendered earlier are no longer rendered again after five
  minutes.
• On touch screens the 3D view draws at most 2.2 million pixels a frame, so turning a part on a
  large tablet stays smooth; hovering is cheaper on big imported meshes.

Browsers

• iOS and Safari 15.4 to 16.3 no longer show a blank page. A pattern in the app's code needed
  Safari 16.4. Browsers older than Safari 15.4, Chrome 93, Firefox 114 or Samsung Internet 17 now
  say what to update instead of showing nothing, and a page whose code failed to download says to
  reload. Every build now checks its own output against that floor.
• A render that runs out of memory (a big bench on a phone) says so, a download on an iPhone no
  longer fails when its confirmation takes more than a second, and the 3D view redraws when a
  phone gives its graphics back after the tab was in the background.

Website

• On phones and tablets the landing page's buttons, chips, handles and footer links are
  finger-sized, keyboard-only hints (⌘ K, esc, ↑ ↓ ↵) give way to touch wording, the 3D hero draws
  fewer pixels and 30 frames a second while idle, and with Data Saver or a 2G connection it stays on
  the pictures; the page keeps clear of a notch in landscape, and older browsers no longer scroll
  it sideways.

Desktop

• The desktop app updates itself. It checks GitHub for a new release shortly after it starts
  and twice a day, downloads it in the background, checks it against the release's checksums and
  shows Restart to update in the header; the restart installs it and reopens the app on the tab
  and bench you had, and otherwise it installs when you quit. Settings → Updates shows the
  version, checks by hand and turns the automatic checks off; on a Mac it is also Check for
  Updates… in the app menu, and the command palette has all three. Releases now include the
  macOS ZIPs and a latest.json for the updater. Updating from 0.4.0 still takes a download by
  hand, since 0.4.0 has no updater.
• Interface updates without reinstalling. When a release leaves the app itself as it was and
  only changes its interface, the app downloads just that, about 8 MB instead of about 120, and
  Reload to update loads it in a moment, without a restart. An interface update that doesn't
  start is dropped for the app's own. Update the interface without reinstalling in Settings →
  Updates turns it off. A release that does change the app comes as the full update; where the
  app can't install that itself, the header's Update the app links the release page, since its
  interface stops updating until then. Settings shows the interface's version when it differs from
  the app's. Releases now include Connector-Foundry-web.zip for this.

Holes tab

• MagSafe pockets. A new MagSafe preset group: a pocket Apple's MagSafe charger sits in flush,
  with a channel for its cable that turns to run out to whichever edge you point it at, and grooves
  for the 56 × 46 mm and 55 × 45 mm metal rings that make a case MagSafe-compatible, the middle left
  standing. The sidebar's Insert menu switches a pocket between puck and ring; sizes, depth and
  the cable channel's width and length are all editable.
• Export, reordered. In the Holes tab and on the Bench, the downloads come first (Download STL;
  the Bench's STL per body and its config), Copy for Layerling and Print with EasyPrint follow as
  outlined buttons, and Download .scad is a link under them.
• Snapping moved to the viewer. A bar in its bottom right corner has the Snap toggle, the
  corner inset and the center circle's radius; the sidebar's Snapping section is gone, so the hole
  list starts higher. The Grid is in the viewer's toolbar, as before, and in Settings.
• M turns Measure on and off in the Holes tab, as the toolbar's Measure button does.
• System spacings in Measure. While measuring, the selected hole can show a system's next
  holes as snap points with their distances, so a click drills the next one on pitch and the points
  move on with it: Gridfinity's magnet and screw holes (26 mm), openGrid (28 mm), Skådis
  (40 × 20 mm, staggered), MOD-GRID (8 mm), BitBeam (8 mm) or MOLLE. A Spacing menu beside
  Measure picks one, and a hole from a system's preset (a MOD-GRID hole, a Skådis slot, a BitBeam
  pin hole, an openGrid connector, a 6 × 2 mm Gridfinity magnet, MOLLE) picks its own. Repeat's
  standard spacings are the same list, so Gridfinity, openGrid and BitBeam are there too.
• MOD-GRID holes. A MOD-GRID hole preset (the grid's 5 × 5 mm square, through) and a
  MOD-GRID standard spacing in Repeat's grid (8 mm both ways) turn any face 3 mm thick into a
  MOD-GRID grid that MOD-GRID accessories and the modgrid/connector pin snap into. A part cut
  this way carries MOD-GRID's CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 terms, as the MOD-GRID parts do.

Parts

• MagSafe mount. A new part: a round plate (60mm by default) with an optional pocket on its
  bottom for an aftermarket MagSafe magnet ring (recess ring, which leaves the middle standing)
  or steel disk (recess disk), so a phone snaps onto whatever the plate is fused to. Set the
  insert's outside and inside diameter and its thickness (the pocket de...

Connector Foundry v0.4.0

What's new

Website

• A landing page at https://dnnsmnstrr.github.io/connector-foundry/ that shows what Connector
  Foundry does: real catalogue parts from Gridfinity, openGrid, the Honeycomb Storage Wall,
  DeckMate, KLIPPT and GoPro joining in 3D (drag to turn them), the Library's resize handles, the
  Bench's five joints and the Holes tab's snapping to try out on the page — the resize and
  command palette demos run the app's own code, and Cmd/Ctrl+K opens that palette anywhere on
  the page — the whole parts gallery with a filter by system, and the downloads for your
  computer.
• The web app moved to /app/: https://dnnsmnstrr.github.io/connector-foundry/app/. Links
  from before — a shared bench, a bookmark of a tab — are forwarded there, bench and all. The
  desktop app is unchanged.
• Guides, on the website and in docs/:
  getting started,
  installing the desktop app and
  the command line are new; the Bench,
  Holes, Joints, user overrides and accuracy pages are on the website too. They are the Markdown
  files in docs/, so GitHub shows the same text.
• The guides and the website from the app: Open the guides in the command palette (type
  docs) and the Guides link at the top of Settings open them in a new tab — from the desktop
  app, in your browser. Each guide is in the palette too, by its name (type holes guide), and
  Open the website goes to the landing page.

AI agents

• WebMCP. In a browser with WebMCP — for now
  Chrome, with chrome://flags/#enable-webmcp-testing or its origin trial — the app offers the
  browser's AI agent seven tools: list and run the command palette's commands (whatever the
  palette offers on the tab you are on), search the parts catalogue with each part's parameters,
  open a part with parameters in the Library, the Bench or Holes, attach a part to an open slot on
  the Bench, read what each tab shows — how its preview render went included, so the agent sees a
  render fail — and load a bench config. Opening a part over a bench or placed holes asks you
  first, as the buttons do, and whatever the agent does to a bench is a step you can undo. In
  other browsers nothing changes.
• Coding agents in the desktop app. Settings → Coding agents lets a coding agent on your
  computer, like Claude Code, use the open window over MCP, with the same seven tools. Copy the
  Claude Code command or a JSON config from there. It is off until you turn it on, listens only
  on this computer (port 47811), needs the token Settings shows, and refuses web pages.

New systems and parts

• MOD-GRID (by 3dedc / TinyToolShop, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0): the grid, any number of holes each
  way; the pin its accessories snap in with — the designer's 2x1 pin, or a single peg for one
  hole — to fuse onto any part on the Bench so it plugs into a MOD-GRID grid; and a bit holder for
  4mm hex, 1/4" ("6mm") hex or Leatherman flat bits, one or more grid rows long. Rebuilt from the
  designer's own files and checked against them.

Connector Foundry for macOS and Windows

macOS — download the DMG for your Mac:

• Apple Silicon (M1 and later): Connector-Foundry-mac-apple-silicon.dmg
• Intel: Connector-Foundry-mac-intel.dmg

Not sure which? Apple menu → About This Mac: "Chip" means Apple Silicon,
"Processor" means Intel.

These builds are not notarized by Apple. On first launch macOS will refuse
to open the app: open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down
and click Open Anyway next to the Connector Foundry message. This is
only needed once.

Windows (Windows 10 or later): Connector-Foundry-windows-x64-setup.exe
for the usual 64-bit Intel/AMD PCs; Connector-Foundry-windows-arm64-setup.exe
for Windows on ARM (Snapdragon laptops, Surface Pro X), when present.

The installer is not code-signed, so SmartScreen shows "Windows protected
your PC" the first time: click More info, then Run anyway. By
default it installs for the current user only, without an administrator
prompt (choosing "all users" asks for one), and can be removed from
Settings → Apps like any other program.

Verify downloads against SHA256SUMS.txt. Step by step, with updating
and removing the app: https://dnnsmnstrr.github.io/connector-foundry/docs/desktop/

The web version runs at https://dnnsmnstrr.github.io/connector-foundry/app/.

What's Changed

• Website: landing page, the app at /app/, and guides by @dnnsmnstrr in #13
• web: open the guides from the command palette and Settings by @dnnsmnstrr in #14
• web: the terminal demo keeps its height, so the page below stops shaking by @dnnsmnstrr in #15
• web: the hero's background grid fades out behind the model by @dnnsmnstrr in #16
• web: KLIPPT instead of Multiboard in the hero, as the last pair by @dnnsmnstrr in #17
• AI agents: WebMCP tools in the browser, an MCP server in the desktop app by @dnnsmnstrr in #18

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.4.0

Connector Foundry v0.3.0

What's new

Command palette

• Cmd/Ctrl+K (or the new Search button) opens a command palette, as in Raycast: type a
  few letters to switch tabs, open Settings, set the grid or the circle detail, find a part (and
  open it in the Library, the Bench or Holes), pick a hole type, attach a part, export, undo,
  change the view, or open the GitHub page — or Layerling, on its own, as a bookmark. The first
  letters of words work too — oib is Open in Bench — and what you ran lately comes first.
  Each row shows its key where it has one. Enter runs a command, Cmd/Ctrl+Enter and
  Alt/Option+Enter its second and third actions (a part: open it in the Bench, or drill holes
  in it; a link: copy it), → lists all of them, Esc clears, goes back, then closes.
• The part pickers float over the workspace: starting a bench, starting in Holes and
  attaching a part are the same searchable list, with each part's picture, over the scene
  instead of a page of their own. Esc puts one away and Cmd/Ctrl+K brings it back; typing in
  it finds the app's other commands too. Attaching keeps the slot you clicked in view, with the
  joint beside the search.
• Drop a model file to import it: an STL, STEP or 3MF dropped on a part picker is imported
  there — as the base part, onto the slot being attached to, or as the model to drill. The empty
  Bench and Holes tabs take a dropped file too, and so does Cmd/Ctrl+K over a running bench or
  a model in Holes, which starts again on the file (it asks first, and Undo goes back).
• Your own commands and hotkeys — a part with your parameters in a tab, a bench preset, a
  hole type, a link — can be added to an exported settings file by hand, with an alias to type
  and a Cmd/Ctrl+Shift hotkey; an editor for them will follow. See the web app's README.

Editing

• Resize handles, as in TinkerCAD: the part in the Library, and the base part on the Bench,
  get small square handles to drag. An outline shows the new size, with a label ("W 126 mm · gx 3
  (+21 each side)"), and the part renders once, when you let go. Width and depth grow on both
  sides, so the part stays centred, height grows upward, and a corner changes width and depth
  together. Esc cancels a drag. Every part with a size to drag has them: the Gridfinity parts,
  openGrid and Skådis boards, HSW walls, MOLLE spines and panels, BitBeam, the Basics plate,
  post and dovetails, the Arca plate, the 2020 rail.
• Type a size: click a handle (or Tab to it and press Enter) to enter an exact size in mm —
  any but a corner, which changes two sizes and only drags. With a handle focused, the arrow
  keys step it (Shift: ten steps of a length); resting the pointer on one shows its size.
• Grid: lengths snap to it as you drag or step them — Off, or 0.1 to 5 mm (0.5 mm by
  default) — set in the viewer's toolbar or under Settings → Editing.
• Undo and redo everywhere: Cmd/Ctrl+Z, Shift+Cmd/Ctrl+Z (or Ctrl+Y off the Mac), and
  Undo/Redo buttons in each viewer's toolbar that say what they would undo — a resize, a
  parameter typed (one step per field), a part switched, a part attached or removed, a hole
  drilled or moved. Each tab keeps its own history through tab switches, and the Bench's
  Start over and a loaded config, and Holes' Pick another model, can be undone too.
• Keyboard shortcuts: ? (or Keyboard shortcuts at the top of Settings, or the command
  palette) lists every key, what the handles do, and the mouse, trackpad and touch controls —
  searchable: type "redo", "alt" or "bench delete" to see just those.

Holes

• DeckMate Innie socket: cut Mechanism's Innie into any part, so a DeckMate Outie pushes in
  and slides along to seat. Its floor sits 0.3 mm deeper than an Innie's by default (an Extra
  depth field), so a printed Outie seats.
• Presets are grouped under headings that open and close, closed but for the group of the
  preset in use, with a search box over names and groups.
• MOLLE presets: a rigid panel's opening and a slit panel's slit, and the Repeat grid's
  standard spacings now include MOLLE rigid panel (50.8 mm both ways) and MOLLE slit panel
  (38.1 × 25.4 mm) next to Skådis.
• Resize cutouts by dragging: a selected round or rectangular cutout has handles on its
  edges (and a rectangle's corners). The opposite edge stays where it is; hold Option (Alt) to
  resize from the centre. Click an edge's handle to type the size.
• Drag a hole to move it, by the round handle in its middle, in Grid steps (Shift: freely),
  and nudge the selected holes along their face with the arrow keys (Shift: ten steps). A
  hole that would leave its face stays put, with a note saying why.
• A click away from the snap points lands on the Grid setting, 0.5 mm as before unless you
  change it, or exactly where you click with it Off; the Snapping section has the Grid too.

Bench

• Select the base part by clicking it in the scene, or with Select root in the sidebar:
  its name, Crop and Deselect sit in the viewer's toolbar. It has resize handles (attached parts
  are resized in the sidebar for now), and they never take a slot from an attached part: such a
  size is skipped (2 → 4 cells on an openGrid board with a part on it), and the label says why.
• Selecting a part in the scene opens its parameters in the sidebar, and F frames it.

Viewer

• A Helpers button (or H) hides the grid, markers, guides, labels and handles in every
  viewer, to see just the model.
• A toolbar in each viewer's corner: Fit (or F), a View menu (Home, Top, Front, Right),
  the Grid where it applies, and Helpers. The wheel zooms toward the pointer.
• Editing a part keeps the camera where you put it, backing out only when the part, or its
  handles, would leave the view.

Settings

• Export and import settings: every preference, bench preset and part default as one
  .settings.json file, to move them to another browser or machine. Import replaces what is
  there, after a confirm.

Parts

• GoPro: leg_dia sets the leg-end diameter (14 to 20 mm, standard 15) on both the male and
  female halves.
• MOLLE: the insert's boss is now boss_w × boss_h (38 × 25.3 mm by default, a tenth
  under the nominal 1.5" × 1"), and the rigid panel's openings are 0.5 mm over nominal so a
  printed insert fits.
• New minimums, the floors the modules already assert: Gridfinity bin gz 1, HSW wall and Skådis
  board cols and rows 1, Arca plate length 20. The sidebar field and the CLI now stop there
  instead of failing the render.

Fixes

• A part option picked from a dropdown keeps its type: Skådis peg's Pegs: 2 used to reach
  OpenSCAD as the text "2" and fail the render (and could be saved that way as a default).
• Keyboard shortcuts no longer act on the page behind an open dialog (Backspace with Settings
  open deleted the selected bench part) or with Cmd/Ctrl/Alt held.
• Holes: a slow Use the current bench no longer replaces a model picked in the meantime; a
  click while the base is re-rendering no longer drills at the old geometry; a revised mesh with
  the same file name no longer shows the previous render from the cache; a very large Skådis
  fill radius no longer freezes the tab; big flat faces (finely meshed imports) snap again; a
  click on the floor of a rectangular or round pocket drills into it instead of selecting the
  pocket; a Shift-click on a selected hole takes it out of the selection even where a snap point
  sits on it.
• Bench: Start over clears the old model; a .scad export error is shown instead of
  failing silently; stack markers and click targets are right for parts on side and bottom
  slots; a second STEP import is not overwritten by a slower first one; ←/→ on the focused
  sidebar edge no longer also step the selected part to another slot.
• Bench configs and shared links can no longer put arbitrary code into the generated .scad
  through part, slot or parameter names, and are checked for non-finite numbers and duplicate
  ids.
• A failing tab shows an error with Try again instead of a blank page; the 3D viewer
  releases its WebGL context when it closes.
• CLI: foundry render works from any directory; foundry defaults no longer overwrites a
  config file it cannot parse, and saved defaults for two parts can no longer share a file.

Under the hood

• The OpenSCAD bundle the browser loads is a third smaller (only the files the parts actually
  include), the catalogue ships as JSON, and the console no longer logs a spurious error after
  every render.
• CI runs the desktop tests on Windows on every push, and the Pages deploy retries once.
• Faster: the render engine loads while the app is idle, and again after a render is
  abandoned, so the next render skips that (up to about half a second); hovering over a model in
  Holes no longer recompiles a shader each time the snap point changes; dragging the sidebar's
  edge, and a render starting or finishing, no longer re-render the whole tab; the 3D view's
  pixel ratio is capped at 2; an undo back to something already rendered, and typing the bench's
  name, show at once instead of rendering again.
• The catalogue's resize field says which parameter each of a part's handles drives and
  how much it grows the part (read by the web app only); tests/test_resize.py renders each entry
  one step on and holds the mesh to the outline the handle showed.
• Contributor and agent guide (AGENTS.md); Python is linted with ruff, the web app is
  type-checked (libraries, workers, components with JSDoc-typed props, hooks), make check runs
  every check that needs neither OpenSCAD nor a browser, and a schema test guards
  catalogue.yaml.

Connector Foundry for macOS and Windows

macOS — download the DMG for your Mac:

• Apple Silicon (M1 and later): `Connector-Foundry-mac-apple-si...

Connector Foundry v0.2.1

What's new

Holes

• USB ports: openings for USB-C, USB-A, Micro-USB, Mini-USB and USB-B, sized for a port that
  sits at the opening, and USB-C and USB-A with room for the plug, for a port set back behind a
  wall.
• Memory cards: through slots for SD and microSD in a case, and holder slots that stand an SD,
  miniSD, microSD, CompactFlash or CFexpress Type A / Type B (XQD) card half in, for printing a
  card holder.

Library and number fields

• Number fields have their arrow buttons back: a step a click, half a step with Shift, and
  holding one repeats. The scroll wheel steps a focused field too, a tenth of a step with
  Shift.
• Add Holes next to Open in Bench takes the selected part, with its parameters, to the Holes
  tab.
• / jumps to the Library's part search from any tab.

Connector Foundry for macOS and Windows

macOS — download the DMG for your Mac:

• Apple Silicon (M1 and later): Connector-Foundry-mac-apple-silicon.dmg
• Intel: Connector-Foundry-mac-intel.dmg

Not sure which? Apple menu → About This Mac: "Chip" means Apple Silicon,
"Processor" means Intel.

These builds are not notarized by Apple. On first launch macOS will refuse
to open the app: open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down
and click Open Anyway next to the Connector Foundry message. This is
only needed once.

Windows (Windows 10 or later): Connector-Foundry-windows-x64-setup.exe
for the usual 64-bit Intel/AMD PCs; Connector-Foundry-windows-arm64-setup.exe
for Windows on ARM (Snapdragon laptops, Surface Pro X), when present.

The installer is not code-signed, so SmartScreen shows "Windows protected
your PC" the first time: click More info, then Run anyway. By
default it installs for the current user only, without an administrator
prompt (choosing "all users" asks for one), and can be removed from
Settings → Apps like any other program.

Verify downloads against SHA256SUMS.txt.

The web version runs at https://dnnsmnstrr.github.io/connector-foundry/.

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.2.1

Connector Foundry v0.2.0

What's new

New systems and parts

• MOLLE / PALS: a spine that slides behind backpack or vest webbing and clicks in under
  the bottom row, so any part can ride on MOLLE gear; a printed slit panel that takes MOLLE
  pouches, like a laser-cut panel; a rigid panel with open windows in a grid you set (count,
  size, corner radius, pitch), like the steel panels in trucks; and a panel insert that plugs
  into one window of a rigid panel and gives a face to bolt or fuse things onto. All parametric:
  measure your gear.
• Skådis: a board with IKEA Skådis's slot pattern, and a peg with one or two hook tabs to
  hang any part on a real board.
• Honeycomb Storage Wall: a wall panel and a clip-in insert, on geru's OpenSCAD libraries.
• KLIPPT: the base, plain and with screw holes, and a clip mount to fuse onto a part.
• Camera: an Arca-style quick-release plate and a 1/4"-20 or 3/8"-16 tripod socket.
• openGrid connectors: openConnect and MultiConnect snaps, each also with a screw body.
• Gridfinity bin, with compartments, lip, magnets and screws, and a filled option to cut your
  own cavities into.
• DeckMate Outie: a slim variant, from Mechanism's own Adhesive Puck.

Holes — a new tab

A third tab, next to Library and Bench, drills into a catalogue part, an imported mesh or the whole
bench:

• Click a face to place a hole; clicks snap to the face's centre, its quarters, set-in corners and
  holes already there, with guide lines, a bolt circle and measurements on the face.
• 34 fastener presets drawn as cross-sections (ISO cap, countersunk and button-head screws,
  heat-set inserts, thread-forming holes, nut traps, wood screws and pilots), or type your own.
• Connector slots so any part mounts on something else: openConnect and MultiConnect slots, the
  openGrid thread, a 2020 extrusion socket keyed into the rail (with an optional M5 bolt hole), a
  BitBeam / Technic pin hole, a KLIPPT channel, a Skådis slot and tripod nut traps.
• Generic round and rectangle / pill cutouts; magnet and bearing pockets (including a 25 × 4.5 mm
  pot magnet); teardrop holes on walls; chamfered openings.
• Repeat a hole as a row, a grid (optionally staggered, with a Skådis spacing button) or a
  circle.
• Select several holes with Shift to edit what they share, turn slots in quarter turns, or delete
  them together.

Bench and Library

• Import STEP files (and 3MF) on the Bench and in Holes, with a body picker for multi-body
  files.
• Copy for Layerling: paste a part or a whole bench into Layerling without an STL round trip.
• A sideways shift for attached parts, and benches are named before export, so files say what
  they are.
• An openConnect head attached to a side face starts with its slide direction up.
• The Library re-renders its preview as you change parameters, and neither Library nor Bench
  shifts its layout while a render runs.
• A global circle detail setting (draft, normal, fine); Gridfinity holes now come out round.
• Number fields take a comma or a period as the decimal separator and no longer jump to 0 while
  you type.
• The sidebar can be resized by dragging its edge.

Part changes

• GoPro female: a symmetric option, "mount" over the middle prong, and outer_w sets the far
  prong's width, down to equal prongs.
• openGrid board: connector holes centred, and the lite and screw-mounting options now render in
  the browser.
• Flat plate: 42 × 42 mm with 4 mm corners by default (one Gridfinity unit), and every size now
  renders in the browser.

Desktop

• Windows: an installer for 64-bit Windows, and one for Windows on ARM (Snapdragon laptops,
  Surface Pro), next to the macOS DMGs. Per-user install without an administrator prompt, removable
  from Settings → Apps.
• The header sheds its labels at narrow window widths.

Connector Foundry for macOS and Windows

macOS — download the DMG for your Mac:

• Apple Silicon (M1 and later): Connector-Foundry-mac-apple-silicon.dmg
• Intel: Connector-Foundry-mac-intel.dmg

Not sure which? Apple menu → About This Mac: "Chip" means Apple Silicon,
"Processor" means Intel.

These builds are not notarized by Apple. On first launch macOS will refuse
to open the app: open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down
and click Open Anyway next to the Connector Foundry message. This is
only needed once.

Windows (Windows 10 or later): Connector-Foundry-windows-x64-setup.exe
for the usual 64-bit Intel/AMD PCs; Connector-Foundry-windows-arm64-setup.exe
for Windows on ARM (Snapdragon laptops, Surface Pro X), when present.

The installer is not code-signed, so SmartScreen shows "Windows protected
your PC" the first time: click More info, then Run anyway. By
default it installs for the current user only, without an administrator
prompt (choosing "all users" asks for one), and can be removed from
Settings → Apps like any other program.

Verify downloads against SHA256SUMS.txt.

The web version runs at https://dnnsmnstrr.github.io/connector-foundry/.

What's Changed

• Desktop test: allow for a slow first render on startup by @dnnsmnstrr in #6
• Desktop: Windows build (x64 installer, experimental ARM64) by @dnnsmnstrr in #7
• Holes: a third tab that drills screw holes into a part, a mesh or the bench by @dnnsmnstrr in #8
• openGrid connectors: openConnect and MultiConnect snaps, slots in the Holes tab by @dnnsmnstrr in #9

Full Changelog: v0.1.1...v0.2.0

Connector Foundry v0.1.1

Connector Foundry for macOS

Download the DMG for your Mac:

• Apple Silicon (M1 and later): Connector-Foundry-mac-apple-silicon.dmg
• Intel: Connector-Foundry-mac-intel.dmg

Not sure which? Apple menu → About This Mac: "Chip" means Apple Silicon,
"Processor" means Intel.

These builds are not notarized by Apple. On first launch macOS will refuse
to open the app: open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down
and click Open Anyway next to the Connector Foundry message. This is
only needed once. Verify downloads against SHA256SUMS.txt.

The web version runs at https://dnnsmnstrr.github.io/connector-foundry/.

What's Changed

• Release 0.1.1: fix Intel desktop test, clearer release downloads by @dnnsmnstrr in #5

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.1.1

v0.1.0

What's Changed

• Check parts against reference models, and fix what that found by @dnnsmnstrr in #1
• Cache web renders for five minutes by @dnnsmnstrr in #3
• macOS desktop app with GitHub release downloads by @dnnsmnstrr in #4

New Contributors

• @dnnsmnstrr made their first contribution in #1

Full Changelog: https://github.com/dnnsmnstrr/connector-foundry/commits/v0.1.0