Materializr 1.7.2

Type-in Move and Rotate, measurements on selection, and a long list of fixes for freezes on traced outlines and heavy bodies.

Added

• Move type-in panel. The Translate gizmo now has a panel for typing an exact X / Y / Z offset in your display unit. Typed values bypass grid snapping, and the move goes through the same history path as a drag.
• Exact rotation for anything. The Rotate type-in panel now appears whenever the Rotate gizmo is active, so a single body, a sketch, or a sketch plus a body can be rotated by an exact angle. Fields stay until you leave the tool, Apply rotates by the change, and a new Undo button reverts the last Apply.
• Measurements on selection. Settings > Sketch gains "Show measurements with Select tool" (off by default). Selected lines show their length, circles diameter and radius, arcs radius, sweep and arc length, with a total when several lengths are selected.

Changed

• History and Lay Flat now report axes the way the ViewCube does (Z up), so a move toward the ground reads as Z. Lay Flat target planes are renamed to match: Ground XY, XZ, YZ.
• The interface translations grew from 1192 to 1436 strings in all five languages, covering toasts, Mates, the AI Assistant, Patch and Sew, Sketch Offset and more.

Fixed

• Long traced outlines no longer freeze the app. A single spline with hundreds of control points could stall Extrude for minutes, freeze the click that starts an orbit, and hang project load at high mesh quality. All three are fixed.
• A committed sketch survives a crash. Sketch-only projects are now snapshotted, and finishing a sketch snapshots before the draft is discarded.
• Much faster meshing of extruded and boolean-trimmed walls. STL export of a lettering-heavy part dropped from 82 s to 0.1 s, and reopening it from 8 s to well under a second.
• A valid union is no longer refused. On bodies with large B-spline faces, a bad volume estimate could reject a good union with "an operand was lost". It now falls back to a bounding-box check, and a real failure is reported in 2 s instead of 8.
• Error toasts stay on screen when raised right after a long operation.
• Sketch inference follows edges again past the first point of a chain, parallel and perpendicular guides no longer hold the cursor over a whole grid square, and snap ranges follow the visible grid (#127).
• The Move/Rotate gizmo appears when you pick a sketch before a body.
• ViewCube phantom click: on a view looking edge-on at a plane (a sketch's Front view), any click in the viewport snapped the camera to the Right face.
• A duplicate Lathe button under Transform no longer appears.
• Y and Z colours in the Rotate, Scale and Sketch Move panels now match the gizmo.
• Extrude cut shows a cancellable progress window on bodies with 40 or more faces.

Downloads

• Windows: Materializr-Setup.exe or the portable zip.
• macOS (Apple Silicon): the .dmg.
• Linux: the AppImage, x86_64 or aarch64.
• Android sideload: the arm64-v8a or x86_64 APK, signed with the project key.