Hew v0.9.0

Hew 0.9.0 - The "Making the Scene" Release

Scenes as snapshots

Scenes are named snapshots of a specific view of a document — the camera, which objects and tags are hidden, the section plane, and the grid/axes/guides. They are very handy for quickly switching between extremely specific ways of viewing a model. Maybe one view is the full 3D model, but then the next scene is a broken out part list, and maybe the third scene is a section plane showing the internal construction

It's even better for Shop Mode (and the reason why Scenes are pre-1.0) because now you can pre-set all of the model views that you'll need out in the shop and just view them trivially out there. Very very handy.

They're usable from the API, too, so agents and all the rest can also benefit

Self-hosted to the max

Self-hosting now work all the way. The Open on Phone now uses <origin>/relay instead of a dedicated cloud instance (share.hew3d.com) so your local URL will work just fine. This works with a new static Linux binary called hew-relay that runs in the same box you're running the web app.

The Hew desktop now has an advanced setting for pointing Hew to your own local install and so that's where the QR code will point the Shop Mode scanner to. With that, you can have a full "Open on Phone" that's strictly over WiFi and never goes out to the cloud!

This release also ships a much more complete docs/SELF_HOSTING.md describing how everything works. It has a container image for hew-relay plus a much more complete Proxmox LXC installer

Random bits, too

Also, Tags received a minor glow-up - selecting a Tag will select everything it carries; you can rename the Tag in place; and multiple objects can be tagged all at once

Recent models are now reachable by the Shop Mode document menu so re-loading one doesn't require restarting the app

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.