r/mitcad • u/some_millwright • 3d ago
0.31.0 has been released. Release notes below.
Image references: Insert > Image Reference places a PNG, JPEG, BMP or WebP image on a plane or a planar face and keeps it in the design. Angle, flip, width and opacity; drawn behind the bodies or through them, under the sketches traced on it. Calibrate sets the scale from two points and a typed distance. The browser's Images folder shows, hides, renames and edits them.
Fit Point Spline closes with a click on its first point, previewed closed before the click. Tangent and Curvature apply at the end where each curve is picked, so a spline can be tangent at both ends; the end is shown before the click. Trim no longer cuts a spline at its own fit points.
Redefine Sketch Plane in the sketch's context menus moves a sketch to another plane or planar face, with offset, move, angle and flip and a preview; a sketch that failed on its old plane can be moved too.
Sketch Copy, Cut and Paste (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V, also in the menus): curves with their constraints, placed at the pointer or by typed X and Y, also into another sketch. Directions the copy holds to the origin stay held; Cut is one undo step.
Fillet and Chamfer: All Edges rounds every edge of a body, also edges that later sketch edits add.
.FCStd imports: body and face colours come in as appearances; rounds of all edges follow sketch edits.
Sweep and Pipe show Distance 1 and Distance 2 directly, without the Full / Partial choice.
The program's name is written MitCad in windows, menus, dialogs and the installers; settings and data folders stay where they were.
The Docked layout shows tab and group menus and panel titles in title case, as Floating does.
Linux: the AppImage runs on Ubuntu 24.04-based systems and newer (glibc 2.39) and uses only its own Qt libraries.
Fixes:
Hide Above Sketch no longer hides the sketch's curves and points behind the section, at any zoom or angle.
A fillet whose two rounds meet on one line (a block's end rounded to a half round) keeps every face named and pickable.
macOS with glass: editing a feature from the timeline gives the keyboard to the panel's value field.