Release planning

CadCraft 0.8 impact map

Every fix and feature lined up for 0.8, and what each one touches: which apps, and which layers of the stack.

ProjectCadCraft
Sheet0.8 impact
Items297
Date2026-11-01
1Fix
269Feature
2Spike
0Platform
2Site ops
2Sanity check
21Decision
≈ 0days in the written 0.8 plans
  • Planned 0 on the plan for the release it is filed under
  • Built 297 built and working in /lab (the dev builds). Whether the public has it is its reach: "in the lab", "Live" (the last gate) or "switched off"; see docs/REACH-LIVE.md
  • Partly built 0 part of it is built in /lab; the rest waits (see "Waits on")
  • Promised 0 the live site already says it is coming
  • Moved 0 moved here from an earlier release or wishlist
  • Found 0 bug found after a release shipped; fixed in a point release or the next one
  • Candidate 0 recommended in a spike or session log; owner to choose
  • Community please test 0 built and in /use; a Discord post gives the steps and the expected result and asks people to try it on their own devices, files or know-how
  • Decision Time 0 a decision, check, file, key, flag or go only you can give; folds into the list once answered

Built means built and working in the lab. Live means the public can use it, and is the last gate: 293 Built · Live, 4 Built · in the lab.

Sheet 1 · impact areas

Where 0.8 lands

How many items touch each app and each layer, by kind. One item can touch several areas, so the rows add up to more than the item count. Pick a row to filter the schedule below.

Impact areaFixFeatureSpikePlatformSite opsSanity checkDecisionAll
Apps
CadCraft – 104 1 – 1 1 6 113
BimCraft 1 138 – – 1 1 4 145
ModelCraft – 63 1 – 1 1 3 69
MarkupCraft – 40 – – – 1 2 43
TakeoffCraft – 40 – – – 1 3 44
CivilCraft – 87 – – – 1 3 91
DetailCraft – 45 – – – 1 3 49
PartCraft – 97 1 – 1 2 7 108
Studio – 13 – – – 2 6 21
SuperCad Studio – 120 – – – – – 120
Layers
Site and services – 9 – – 1 – 9 19
Desktop host – 6 – – – 1 1 8
App shell – 17 – – – – 1 18
App code – 183 1 – – – 5 189
Our engines – 31 – – – – 1 32
Vendor engines – 2 – – 1 – – 3
Drawing surface – 4 – – – – – 4
Help and words – 9 – – – – 1 10
Tests and tooling – 3 – – – – 1 4

Sheet 2 · schedule

Every fix and feature

Grouped by track. App chips carry each app’s layer colour; Studio is in ink. "Waits on" names what has to happen first; the small lines under it say who asked and where the item is written up.

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ItemWhatAppsLayersStatusDaysWaits onIssues
Computational engineering (Track CE) 12
FeatureCE.1 Link to CE.1 Field kernel: voxel signed-distance shapes

Our own field kernel (lib/field): parts as a fine voxel distance field, built from meshes or formulas (gyroids and other lattice surfaces), joined, cut, shelled and blended, then turned back into a closed, printable mesh. Same inputs give the same result every time. Discord request, owner put it on 0.8 on 2026-10-27. Plan docs/0.8-PART3.md.

PartCraft Our engines Built · Live 5 – From: Discord community (Discord) Discord 2026-10-27 (owner: add this to 0.8)
FeatureCE.8 Link to CE.8 Generators check their own design

A generator can run PartCraft's Simulation, Thermal and Flow on its result and adjust the design until it fits, for example resizing a heat exchanger until the pressure drop is in range. Discord request, owner put it on 0.8 on 2026-10-27. Plan docs/0.8-PART3.md.

PartCraft App codeOur engines Built · Live 3 – From: Discord community (Discord) Discord 2026-10-27 (owner: add this to 0.8)
FeatureCE.14 Link to CE.14 OpenVDB (.vdb) out from the field engine

The field kernel writes a part's field as an OpenVDB level set (.vdb), the sparse format renderers, simulation and 3D programs read. Every add-on built on the field engine can use it; in Engineer it is a Level set (.vdb) button in Data out. Checked with OpenVDB's own reader: every sampled value, the active voxels and the bounds read back exactly. Discord follow-up from the requester, owner's go on 2026-10-29. Plan docs/0.8-PART3.md.

PartCraftSuperCad Studio Our enginesApp code Built · Live 3 – From: Discord community (Discord) Discord 2026-10-29 (owner: go)
Engineering gaps (Track EG) 58
FeatureEG.29 Link to EG.29 Live analysis while you edit

Stress, deflection and heat flow colour the part while you edit it, and frames while you drag a beam: a coarse result at once, refined when you stop. No Run button; it can be paused. Owner's second list 2026-10-27 (duplicates removed). Plan docs/0.8-PART5.md § Second list.

BimCraftDetailCraftPartCraft App codeOur engines Built · Live 10 – From: owner (Owner) Owner, 2026-10-27 (engineering ideas list, add to 0.8)
FeatureEG.32 Link to EG.32 Environment: gravity, pressure, temperature for every solver

Pick Earth, Moon, Mars, orbit, deep water or arctic (or type values): gravity, outside pressure and temperature, and every solver runs again with them. Owner's second list 2026-10-27 (duplicates removed). Plan docs/0.8-PART5.md § Second list.

BimCraftPartCraft App codeOur engines Built · Live 3 – From: owner (Owner) Owner, 2026-10-27 (engineering ideas list, add to 0.8)
FeatureEG.33 Link to EG.33 Design studies: many variants, a trade-off chart, pick one

Make hundreds of variants from parameters, configurations or a script, run them on this computer (overnight if needed), see them on a cost / weight / carbon chart with the best trade-offs marked, and make the chosen one the design. Owner's second list 2026-10-27 (duplicates removed). Plan docs/0.8-PART5.md § Second list.

BimCraftModelCraftPartCraft App codeOur engines Built · Live 10 – From: owner (Owner) Owner, 2026-10-27 (engineering ideas list, add to 0.8)
Chemical and process engineering (Track CH) 18
FeatureCH.13 Link to CH.13 Reactor and mixing CFD (our own, Apache-2.0)

Stirred tanks and pipes on PartCraft's LBM flow (mixing time, residence-time distribution), plus our own finite-volume solver in `lib/cfd` (incompressible RANS k-ε on unstructured meshes, species transport) in place of OpenFOAM; VTK/CGNS out; checked against published benchmark cases Owner put it on 0.8 on 2026-10-28. Plan docs/0.8-PART3.md § Track CH. 2026-10-28: owner's GPL rule — our own Apache-2.0 engine, nothing GPL in any form.

PartCraftSuperCad Studio Our enginesDesktop host Built · Live 10 – Owner 2026-10-28 ("ensure this is in PART 3 0.8")
Shared engines across fields (Track XE) 12
FeatureXE.4 Link to XE.4 Shared engine: motion (kinematics and multibody) (lib/motion)

Rigid-body chains, DH, inverse kinematics, contact-free multibody dynamics, joints and drives, URDF in/out. One engine (rule 39) used by field packs FL.24, 49, 52, 53, 73. Built our own, Apache-2.0 (rule 43). Plan docs/0.8-PART6-INDUSTRY.md § 1.

ModelCraftPartCraftSuperCad Studio Our engines Built · Live 8 – Owner 2026-10-28 (field packs → pull features into the stack)
FeatureXE.4b Link to XE.4b Closed-loop mechanisms (four-bar, parallel robots, suspensions)

A constraint solver for closed kinematic loops, as an extension of lib/motion (XE.4). Size it first; it starts after XE.4 is mounted in a host (rule 41).

ModelCraftPartCraftSuperCad Studio Our engines Built · Live – – Owner 2026-10-29 (xe-motion-sim_PART_3 decision, approved as recommended)
FeatureXE.7 Link to XE.7 Shared engine: requirements and traceability (lib/trace)

Requirements linked to model elements, tests and documents; ReqIF in/out; verification matrices; design history files. One engine (rule 39) used by field packs FL.47, 48, 60, 70, 71, and every regulated field. Built our own, Apache-2.0 (rule 43). Plan docs/0.8-PART6-INDUSTRY.md § 1.

CadCraftBimCraftModelCraftMarkupCraftTakeoffCraftCivilCraftDetailCraftPartCraftSuperCad Studio Our engines Built · Live 6 – Owner 2026-10-28 (field packs → pull features into the stack)
FeatureXE.8 Link to XE.8 Shared engine: risk and reliability (lib/risk)

FMEA/FMECA, fault trees, reliability block diagrams, Weibull, Markov, medical risk files. One engine (rule 39) used by field packs FL.34, 37, 47, 48, 60, 71, 72. Built our own, Apache-2.0 (rule 43). Plan docs/0.8-PART6-INDUSTRY.md § 1.

CadCraftBimCraftPartCraftSuperCad Studio Our engines Built · Live 6 – Owner 2026-10-28 (field packs → pull features into the stack)
FeatureXE.10 Link to XE.10 Shared engine: electromagnetics and circuits (lib/em)

Circuit simulation (our own SPICE-class solver), magnetostatics, wire-antenna method of moments (NEC-2's published method), simple field solvers. One engine (rule 39) used by field packs FL.35, 42–44, 49, 56, 57, 59. Built our own, Apache-2.0 (rule 43). Plan docs/0.8-PART6-INDUSTRY.md § 1.

CadCraftPartCraftSuperCad Studio Our engines Built · Live 12 – Owner 2026-10-28 (field packs → pull features into the stack)
FeatureXE.11 Link to XE.11 Shared engine: boards and chips (lib/pcb)

Schematic-to-board, placement, routing, DRC, Gerber X2 / IPC-2581 out, GDSII view with layer maps and basic DRC. One engine (rule 39) used by field packs FL.42, 43, 57. Built our own, Apache-2.0 (rule 43). Plan docs/0.8-PART6-INDUSTRY.md § 1.

CadCraftPartCraftSuperCad Studio Our engines Built · Live 20 – Owner 2026-10-28 (field packs → pull features into the stack)
FeatureXE.12 Link to XE.12 Shared engine: systems (1d lumped models) (lib/sys)

Acausal component models (hydraulic, thermal, electrical, mechanical) for vehicles, HVAC plants, batteries, power plants; Modelica-subset reader (the language spec is open). One engine (rule 39) used by field packs FL.4, 35, 36, 39, 49, 52, 56. Built our own, Apache-2.0 (rule 43). Plan docs/0.8-PART6-INDUSTRY.md § 1.

BimCraftPartCraftSuperCad Studio Our engines Built · Live 12 – Owner 2026-10-28 (field packs → pull features into the stack)
FeatureXE.13 Link to XE.13 Shared engine: controls and plc (lib/plc)

IEC 61131-3 ladder and structured text, PLCopen XML in/out, a soft-PLC simulator tied to E9 and the 3D model (virtual commissioning). One engine (rule 39) used by field packs FL.24, 41, 46, 52. Built our own, Apache-2.0 (rule 43). Plan docs/0.8-PART6-INDUSTRY.md § 1.

CadCraftModelCraftPartCraftSuperCad Studio Our engines Built · Live 10 The 3D-scene binding (scenePlant) has no 3D host mounted; the flow-model binding is mounted in the Engines panel Owner 2026-10-28 (field packs → pull features into the stack)
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