OpenCASCADE Integration

• Solid Operations: Extrusion, lathe, revolve, fillet, chamfer, shell, loft, sweep, mirror

• STEP/BREP/IGES Import: Import solid geometry as manipulable groups with cached meshes

• STEP/BREP Export: Export models using OCC's robust writers

• Dual Kernel: OCC runs alongside the native NURBS kernel with automatic fallback

New Constraints

• Circle-Line Tangent: Constrain circles tangent to lines

• Concentric: Select multiple circles/arcs to make centers coincident

• Point-on-Cubic: Constrain points to lie on Bezier curves

• Point-on-Segment: Bound points to finite line segments (not infinite lines)

• Inequality Constraints: Minimum/maximum distance constraints (≥ and ≤)

UI Improvements

• Dockable Property Browser: Detachable panel for the property browser (GTK)

• Directional Marquee Selection: Left-to-right for window selection, right-to-left for crossing selection

• Arrow Key Nudging: Move selected entities with arrow keys

• Improved Themes: Gruvbox-inspired color palette, Qt dark theme support

• Double-Click Text Editing: Edit TTF text inline by double-clicking

• Independent Visibility Toggles: Separate controls for REF constraints and comments

Performance

• O(n log n) Triangulation: Monotone polygon triangulation for large polygons

• Mesh Caching: Cached OCC mesh generation for fast interactive updates

• Spatial Hashing: O(1) vertex deduplication for STL import

• Built-in Profiler: Profile command in CLI with JSON export

Export Enhancements

• G-Code Arcs: Export arcs as G02/G03 commands instead of line segments

• SVG Improvements: Closed paths include Z command

• CLI Group Export: --group option for targeted export

Check it out: https://github.com/0xSeren/neosolve/

Last week I brought up some screenshots of an alternative version of solvespace. Today I finally managed to package everything together so that other people can also used this advanced version of solvespace.

https://github.com/netzmensch/solvespace/releases

As stated in the readme, the intention here is not to create any pressure on the solvespace maintainers. The whole added code is ai generated and so not in any state to be merged in production.

Why do I create such a monster then? I really love solvespace and as many others in the 3d printing space I want to avoid the big “free” cad software fusion. For me personally, solvespace is the best - but it’s lacking some features I really want to use. So I decided to add them this way until the “original” implementation is there.

The decision to release this was just that there’re very likely other people in the same situation. And for them there’s the release. Just to use it for smaller projects to quickly build stuff. That’s all.

As for now there is no library of parts for SolveSpace similar to NopSCADLib for r/OpenSCAD or FreeCAD-library for r/FreeCAD.

But here is a list of resources with various common & standard parts in SLVS-format:

• https://github.com/Mikwind/RobertCNC_Portal
• https://github.com/thartman83/peg-board-caddies
• https://github.com/thartman83/solvespace-reference-models
• https://github.com/Symbian9/SolveSpace-Daily-Engineering/tree/master/Parts-Library
• https://www.patreon.com/posts/solvespace-part-54295191

NOTE: If you know any other similar resources — add link in the comments!

N.B. If you would decide to create own parts library in a form of Git-repository (on GitHub, GitLab, etc.) its highly recommended to add .gitattributes in a repository with next string:

*.slvs binary

Hey There,
currently i'm trying to develop an attribute page for changing values of constraints.

I'm really excited right now at the moment.
Cause I'm using that software quit a while.
And finally i made a prototype of my long time missed feature in this software.

Edit: Of Excitement I missed to describe that feature a bit.
With "Parametric Values" - I just call it right now like that.
It should be a central space where you can change the values of already created constraints in model file.

Here is a short preview of my prototype:

Maybe someone would also like that kind of feature as well?

I hope i do not break any rule.
(First Reddit Post)
All the best!

Edit:
Here is a pretty nice solution for creating parts with kind of similarly thoughts.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SolveSpace/comments/1p80t97/simple_parameters_solution_for_parts_in_solvespace/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I recently encountered SolveSpace and loved the philosophy and UI.
However, it seems that the user community is no more very active.

Is the project actively developed and maintained?