Release 0.7.0 (#508)

Bump the workspace to 0.7.0 and write the 0.7.0 release notes. Minor bump: the design format moved to 15 (sketches on cylinder caps and sheet metal panels), so 0.6 can't open 0.7 saves, and new features landed (Select Other, per-edge flanges, sketches on caps and sheet metal faces).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -5,58 +5,53 @@ parameter to watch the timeline rebuild. [Documentation](https://bherbruck.githu
[issues](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/issues). AI agents can model with it over MCP:
`solidcraft-cli mcp` ([how](https://bherbruck.github.io/solidcraft/guide/mcp.html)).
**Why 0.6:** this is a minor bump because two things change the files you work with: the
rename to SolidCraft and the new design file format. Files from earlier builds open fine, but
builds 0.5 and older can't open designs saved by 0.6.
**Why 0.7:** this is a minor bump because the design file format moved to version 15 (sketches
on cylinder caps and sheet metal panels need new references), and because it adds new features.
**What's new**
- **New design file format.** Saves are a zip container by default; plain JSON is still one
click away (details below).
- **Sheet metal:** flange corners close at any angle, and cut-outs fold across bends at any
angle, including curved bends.
- **Crash reports:** after a crash, Help ▸ Crash Reports… shows what happened with a ready-to-file
issue draft. Reports stay on your computer; nothing is sent. `solidcraft-cli crashes` lists and
replays them.
- **Snap package** for x86_64 and aarch64 on every release, alongside the AppImage, `.deb`, `.rpm`
and Flatpak.
- **Trackpad navigation** (two-finger pan, pinch zoom), a fillet option that shrinks a radius too
big for its edges, cleaner dialogs and toolbar panels, and the unfinished Generative Design
workspace is gone.
- Many modelling fixes: extrude/revolve in moved components, To Object picks, very flat arcs,
touching lines and arcs in booleans, and `solidcraft-cli run` now fails when a feature fails.
- **Sketching on stacked extrudes works again.** Creating a sketch on the top face of an extrude
stacked on another failed with "operation failed" since 0.3
([#489](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/issues/489)). It's fixed, and every flat face
of the test models is now checked for this on every change.
- **Select Other:** hold or right-click to pick something hidden under something else; click
again to cycle through what's underneath.
- **Tabs are named after their file** instead of "Untitled".
- **Modelling:** a flange angle and height per edge, Patch fills non-planar loops, sketches on
cylinder caps and on sheet metal faces, and a feature rename updates everything that refers to
it.
- **Fixes:** revolve with edges on the axis, shell and fillet with small rounds, Join keeps face
attachments, and STEP export writes each lump of a body as its own solid.
- **Navigation and UI:** orbiting from empty space turns around the visible geometry, Ctrl+drag
orbits in every preset, toolbar drops land across labels and gaps, Combine previews before OK,
and sketch constraints accept the sketch's own x / y axes.
- Opening a design reads its metadata and preview through a bounded, seekable reader; the docs
and web app have link preview cards.
**New file format.** Save and Save As now write `.solidcraft` designs as a zip container
that stores imported STEP, mesh and image data as binary, once each, at full precision, so
designs with imports save and open faster. What that means for you:
- Your existing `.solidcraft` and `.solvecraft` files (plain JSON) still open as before; the
format is detected from the contents.
- Want plain JSON (for diffs or scripts)? Use **File ▸ Save As JSON…**, or pick a
`.json` name in Save As; later saves keep JSON. **File ▸ Export Design as JSON…** writes a
separate JSON copy. From the CLI, `solidcraft-cli run … --save design.json`; from MCP or
scripts, pass `"format": "json"` to `save` / `file.save`.
- SolidCraft 0.5 and older can't open designs saved by 0.6, as a container or as JSON (the
JSON format tag is now `solidcraft/14`). Keep a copy of a file you may still open in 0.5.
**File format.** Designs are now format 15 (`solidcraft/15`). SolidCraft 0.6 and older can't
open designs saved by 0.7, as a container or as JSON; keep a copy of a file you may still open
in 0.6. Files from every earlier version still open in 0.7.
**Renamed to SolidCraft.** Everything now uses the new name: the `solidcraft` and
`solidcraft-cli` programs, `.solidcraft` designs, `SOLIDCRAFT_*` environment variables,
settings folders, package names and the `solidcraft` MCP server. Upgrading from SolveCraft:
- `.solvecraft` designs still open (double-click, Open, drag-drop, the CLI and MCP); new saves
are `.solidcraft`.
- Settings, preferences and recovery files are copied to the new folders on first launch; the
old folders are left in place. `SOLVECRAFT_*` environment variables are still read.
- `solvecraft-cli` remains as a deprecated alias for one release; it forwards to
`solidcraft-cli` and prints a note. Agents: `claude mcp add solidcraft -- solidcraft-cli mcp`;
an existing `claude mcp add solvecraft -- solvecraft-cli mcp` setup keeps working.
- Windows: the `.msi` upgrades the existing installation in place (now in
`Program Files\SolidCraft`). Linux: the `solidcraft` `.deb`/`.rpm` replaces the `solvecraft`
package. The Flatpak app ID stays `ai.storyteller.solvecraft`, so `flatpak update` just works,
and existing AppImages find the update.
- macOS: quit the app, move the old `SolveCraft.app` to the Trash (your designs and settings
stay), then drag `SolidCraft.app` from the DMG onto Applications and pin it in the Dock.
- Details: [compatibility notes](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/blob/main/docs/compatibility.md).
**Known limitations**
- Some faces still need the fixed-plane fallback for sketches: side faces Join merged from two
extrudes ([#491](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/issues/491)), faces split by a later
feature ([#492](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/issues/492)), Cut walls and chamfer
faces ([#493](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/issues/493)), faces after Revolve,
Offset Face or Boss ([#494](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/issues/494)) and sheet
metal thickness faces ([#495](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/issues/495)).
- Cutting a coaxial cylinder from a thin disc can lose a little volume
([#500](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/issues/500)); an edge flange with different
per-edge angles leaves gaps at the corners
([#501](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/issues/501)).
- More in [ROADMAP.md](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/blob/main/ROADMAP.md#known-limitations).
Documentation, the browser app and the Flatpak feed use the SolidCraft project Pages URLs;
old-name Pages addresses are not permanent aliases.
**Upgrading from 0.5 or earlier.** 0.6 renamed SolveCraft to SolidCraft and made the zip
container the default save format. `.solvecraft` designs, old settings folders and
`SOLVECRAFT_*` variables are still picked up, and `solvecraft-cli` still forwards to
`solidcraft-cli`. Want plain JSON? Use **File ▸ Save As JSON…** or `--save design.json`. On
macOS, replace `SolveCraft.app` with `SolidCraft.app`. Details:
[compatibility notes](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/blob/main/docs/compatibility.md).
Documentation, the browser app and the Flatpak feed use the SolidCraft project Pages URLs.
**Which file?**
- **Windows:** `SolidCraft-{version}-windows-x64.exe` runs as is. Or install the `.msi`, or unzip the
@@ -89,6 +84,5 @@ The builds aren't signed yet. On macOS, right-click `SolidCraft.app` in Applicat
**Open** the first time (or run `xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/SolidCraft.app`).
On Windows, SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC": **More info**, then **Run anyway**.
Licences are built in (Help ▸ About ▸ Licences, `solidcraft-cli licences`); the packages also
install `THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.txt`. Known limitations:
[ROADMAP.md](https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft/blob/main/ROADMAP.md#known-limitations).
install `THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.txt`.
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@@ -3290,7 +3290,7 @@ dependencies = [
[[package]]
name = "solidcraft"
version = "0.6.0"
version = "0.7.0"
dependencies = [
"eframe",
"egui",
@@ -3307,7 +3307,7 @@ dependencies = [
[[package]]
name = "solidcraft-cli"
version = "0.6.0"
version = "0.7.0"
dependencies = [
"serde_json",
"solidcraft-engine",
@@ -3316,7 +3316,7 @@ dependencies = [
[[package]]
name = "solidcraft-doc"
version = "0.6.0"
version = "0.7.0"
dependencies = [
"log",
"serde",
@@ -3331,7 +3331,7 @@ dependencies = [
[[package]]
name = "solidcraft-engine"
version = "0.6.0"
version = "0.7.0"
dependencies = [
"log",
"serde",
@@ -3347,7 +3347,7 @@ dependencies = [
[[package]]
name = "solidcraft-geom"
version = "0.6.0"
version = "0.7.0"
dependencies = [
"serde",
"serde_json",
@@ -3356,7 +3356,7 @@ dependencies = [
[[package]]
name = "solidcraft-io"
version = "0.6.0"
version = "0.7.0"
dependencies = [
"quick-xml 0.38.4",
"serde",
@@ -3371,7 +3371,7 @@ dependencies = [
[[package]]
name = "solidcraft-kernel"
version = "0.6.0"
version = "0.7.0"
dependencies = [
"log",
"serde",
@@ -3386,7 +3386,7 @@ dependencies = [
[[package]]
name = "solidcraft-mcp"
version = "0.6.0"
version = "0.7.0"
dependencies = [
"serde_json",
"solidcraft-engine",
@@ -3394,7 +3394,7 @@ dependencies = [
[[package]]
name = "solidcraft-render"
version = "0.6.0"
version = "0.7.0"
dependencies = [
"image",
"serde",
@@ -3404,7 +3404,7 @@ dependencies = [
[[package]]
name = "solidcraft-sketch"
version = "0.6.0"
version = "0.7.0"
dependencies = [
"serde",
"serde_json",
@@ -3415,7 +3415,7 @@ dependencies = [
[[package]]
name = "solidcraft-ui-egui"
version = "0.6.0"
version = "0.7.0"
dependencies = [
"egui",
"egui-wgpu",
@@ -3430,7 +3430,7 @@ dependencies = [
[[package]]
name = "solidcraft-web"
version = "0.6.0"
version = "0.7.0"
dependencies = [
"eframe",
"egui",
@@ -4853,7 +4853,7 @@ checksum = "e450f9b2ed1dff33c94c12589a87338689467b9c4f5d8a5710bd09a847d2c8a7"
[[package]]
name = "xtask"
version = "0.6.0"
version = "0.7.0"
dependencies = [
"serde_json",
]
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exclude = ["vendor"]
[workspace.package]
version = "0.6.0"
version = "0.7.0"
edition = "2024"
license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
rust-version = "1.95"