Hew v0.10.0

Hew v0.10.0 - The "Put It On Paper" Release

Hew can finally print! Not 3D print but print print, on actual paper or into a PDF (if you're into that). Think: scaled floor plans or multi-page templates

Standard and Scaled

The "Standard" mode is a "normal" printing layout - whatever you see, it prints and it'll show you want will be printed. Simple.

"Scaled" is where the fun is. You can pick a drawing scale - 1:10, 1:1, 1" = 1' or whatever, and you'll get a printed output that's actually that. There are a lot of options for you to play around with. The "Marks" and "Overlap for gluing" options are particularly slick - this is when you want a 1:1 template that spans multiple pages and you intend to glue it to a board as a where-to-cut guide. Those marks make the alignment on the board trivial.

This is the Print that SketchUp Make never had!

Line art, for real

Hew doesn't yet have "Styles" but there are two pseudo-styles when printing - "As shown" (full color) and "Line art" (white faces, black edges). In Scaled mode, the Line art is made of true vectors, so it's super crisp and handles hidden lines and the like.

Save PDF… vs Print…

Hew just does Print Layout, technically, because it'd be silly to implement the actual printing mechanism. The operating system's own print dialog takes care of that - macOS's support is great; Linux support is surprisingly good; and Windows support is equally surprisingly bad. But if you print at "100% / Actual Size", then the scale will be accurate no matter where you are running Hew.

Hew handles the PDF writing itself, so vectors remain vectors and you get the same result anywhere Hew runs. You can use the OS's PDF output, too, but all bets are off.

What's the vector, victor!

It turns out that since very good printing required vectors, we end up getting SVG support as a side-effect. This was post-1.0 originally but now just try it in File -> Export and pass it on to your laser cutter or CNC.

And more!

• Scene support - you can print each view of a Scene, making this essentially a "drawing set"
• A Cut list page appends a table of every part with its quantity and L × W × H
• Shop Mode gets its own Print Layout sheet, too. Not sure how useful that is but it's there if you need it
• And we can't forget our helpful AI agents - they can print and generate PDFs, too

Also

A security bump for the h2 crate (RUSTSEC-2026-0258) and the usual pile of small fixes along the way

Downloads

The download page picks the right build
for your system, or grab a file directly:

Platform	x64 / Intel	ARM64 / Apple Silicon
macOS — disk image	universal .dmg	universal .dmg
Windows — installer	.exe	.exe
Linux — AppImage	.AppImage	.AppImage
Linux — Debian/Ubuntu	.deb	.deb
Linux — Fedora/openSUSE	.rpm	.rpm
Web — self-hosting tarball	.tar.gz	.tar.gz
Relay — self-hosted Open on Phone (Linux)	.tar.gz	.tar.gz

• The macOS disk image is signed and notarized; one universal app
  covers Apple Silicon and Intel.
• Windows installers are not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may
  warn on first run — choose More info, then Run anyway.
• On Linux, mark the AppImage executable (chmod +x) before
  first run, or install the .deb/.rpm.
• Desktop builds update themselves; latest.json and the
  .sig assets serve that built-in updater and are not meant
  for manual download.
• Or skip installing entirely: Hew runs in the browser at
  app.hew3d.com.
• Self-hosting the web app, and the optional relay that makes
  Open on Phone work against your own server, is documented in
  docs/SELF_HOSTING.md.