Changelog

What changed in OwlCAD, week by week since the first version: new tools, generators and file formats, and the fixes that matter when you print.

What’s new in OwlCAD

A lot changes in a week. This is the short version: the features a maker would notice, and the fixes that matter when you print.

Updated weekly. A week is added once its changes are live on owlcad.com, so the newest entry can trail the calendar by a few days.

Pictures are turned off for student accounts: image import, reference images and photo reliefs are refused, and the controls say why.
A face you tilt keeps its outline: its side walls run straight up to the tilted face, in the viewport and in STL and STEP exports. A very steep tilt stops at the limit and says so.
Measure has Set gap: type a distance, and a picked part moves so the measured gap becomes exactly that.
Scaling a face down before you push it pushes only that smaller area, leaving a ledge around it.
Split into bodies now splits a mesh with holes in it into its parts, instead of telling you to repair it first.

A .glb file that really holds an STL opens as the STL it is, instead of failing as a broken file.
An upload the server refuses once is sent again after a moment, instead of failing the save, restore point or duplicate it belonged to.
A guest’s first save is tried again quietly before the editor says it may not have saved.
Opening a project through a public folder’s link no longer says the project is no longer shared.
Several files refused for the same reason now show that reason once.
The Privacy Policy and the school pages say exactly what is collected and where it is stored.
Moving the top face of a cylinder no longer warns that the move doesn’t match its part.
The sketch’s constraint chip no longer says “Shape defined” while the shape can still change, and it now says whether the whole sketch can still slide, turn or both.
A change from an agent connected over MCP is refused while you have that project open in the editor, instead of being lost at the tab’s next save.
In Chrome and Edge, an export that takes a few seconds now shows a Save button so you choose where the file goes, instead of downloading it on its own.
Send to print service offers a button to open the service’s page when the browser would otherwise block it as a popup.
A part hidden by a configuration or a toggle is now hidden inside components too, and the Variables panel lists those parts.
Bake to editable parts keeps the color a component copy is drawn in for a part fused into it.

Signing in to an existing account as a guest brings your guest projects with you, including the one on screen.
When another device saves over edits you made here, the editor pauses and offers to save your edits as a new project.
Regenerate sends a job’s reference image again, and says why when it is turned off.
Long dropdowns open with a search box.
Text sign: stacked outline layers, a keyring lug you can place and join, and text on the back.
Removing a collaborator or a member, or deleting a comment, now asks first.
The File menu links the Privacy policy and the Terms.
The class join page suggests a nickname instead of a real name.
A public link is now an address of its own, and Reset link in the Share dialog replaces it: the old link, its embed code and its Customize link stop working at once.

Signing out keeps work that is not saved yet, and File > New no longer waits on the network.
Deleting an account is no longer cut off after 60 seconds.
A crash in one panel or in the 3D view stays in that area instead of taking down the editor.
Pressing Enter in the timeline’s step editor applies the value you just typed.
Keyboard focus is visible everywhere, the first-run tour is a proper dialog, and error messages stay until you close them.
Error messages appear in your language instead of raw English, and comments show their author’s real name.
When a part with a long stack of fillets takes too long to build, the message saying so now stays on screen.

You can now pick edges and corners on dense parts of up to about a million triangles, and the part you are aiming at is offered first. A part too dense to pick says so, in Datums and Array too.
Importing a STEP file with several parts brings in the ones that read correctly and names the ones it left out.
A save that failed because of the network is sent again on a timer, and shows as a save under way until it lands.
New page: what a 3D print costs, estimated while you design, under Resources.
New page comparing OwlCAD with Shapr3D, and Shapr3D joins the comparison table.

Holding a key down no longer crashes the editor.
Typed, pasted and imported numbers can no longer put an infinite or invalid value into a model.
A save, upload or download the network never answers is given up instead of waiting forever, so it can no longer hold up every later save.
If part of the site fails to load just after an update, the page reloads itself once instead of showing an error.
A gallery item shows its title straight away, and stays on screen with a retry if loading it fails.
A .owlcad file saved by a newer version of OwlCAD says to update, in every language.

Print check sums up a model in one of three verdicts, and when parts overlap it offers to Union them.
Print check flags the narrowest layer, where a part necks down, and names any hidden parts it left out.
New Electronics tray generator: a tray that holds every board and part, with room for every cable.
The Board mount now holds boards that have no screw holes.
Emails from OwlCAD have a new layout, and a new password account gets one email, with the verification link inside the welcome.
When a fillet or round is too big for the part, Properties says the smaller radius it was built at.

Undo and redo of a configuration change return exactly to the state you had.
Select same colour picks the parts that print in that colour.
Colours written as rgb(), hsl() or a colour name look and export the same everywhere.
A dropped .zip can be cancelled while it is being read.
Your account uses the language on screen when you sign up, and choosing Continue in English is remembered.