Hew v0.8.0

Hew v0.8.0 - The "Hew on your Phone" Release

Introducing "Shop Mode" - create a model at your desk and use the model on your phone out in the workshop!

Shop Mode — Hew in a workshop

This is a read-only and touch-first viewer laser focused on smaller screens. You can tap a part for its dimensions, browse a live parts sheet (cutlist), measure parts with a Tape Measure (with a mangifier loupe for precision), isolate a part to view it alone, snap to standard camera views and perspectives, even keep recently opened models offline. Super cool!

There are two primary ways to get a model onto your phone:

• Add the .hew file to iCloud Drive or Nextcloud or any other way that syncs to your phone and Hew can read it from the phone's files
• Transfer it from your desktop to your phone over share.hew3d.com

That "cloud transfer" works like this: You open the model in your Hew Desktop app (not web app) and choose "File -> Open on Phone.." This will show QR code that you scan with Hew Shop Mode's in-app camera.. and voila, it loads right up on your phone! The handoff is strictly end-to-end encrypted - the key is in the local-only QR code, so the remote server sees only the encrypted bits (and only for the few seconds between upload and download)

View in AR (iOS)

You can export any model to USDZ and view it in any software or hardware that supports it... one such is any modern iPhone. In that case, just tell Hew Shop Mode to "View in AR..." and you can see your model floating around in the real world with you. It's fun and maybe in some cases can be actually practical.

Self-hosting

This release also has a new self-hosting guide plus a bare Proxmox LXC script for running the Hew web app in your homelab. Definitely for geeks. There's more coming on this front, too.

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

• 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.