3D Print Toolbox

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Translations

• Update Simplified Chinese.
  • Provided by Ye Gui

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New Translation: Portuguese (Brazil)

• Provided by Luiz Fernando Castro Quiterio Junior

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UI

• 3D Print Toolbox Object and Mesh menus: allows to Menu Search operators.
• Bisect: close unused panels when adding modifier.
• Sidebar Edit panel: tighter layout and disable when no active object.

Fixed

• Scale to Volume/Bounds: doesn't work with non-mesh objects.
• Export path warning in Blender 5.0

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Hollow

• Hollow tool as a modifier.
  • Implemented by Ubiratan Freitas.
  • Available in Blender 5.0 and newer.

Bisect

• New Bisect modifier tool: cut object along a plane.
  • Implemented by Ubiratan Freitas.
  • Available in Blender 4.5 and newer.

Analysis

• New Shells check: count object mesh islands.
  • Available in Blender 4.3 and newer.
• Report: use table layout for report, improves readability.

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Spanish Translation

• Provided by Óscar Hernández

Fixed

• Volume calculation changes when object is far away from scene center.
  • The issue is with the floating-point precision when mesh is away from scene center. It can be mitigated by using object origin instead of scene center, but that will produce similar issue if mesh is far away from object origin.

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New Translations

• French
  • Provided by Mathieu Moutarde
• Simplified Chinese
  • Provided by Zhang Chenming (张宸铭)

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Translations

• Support UI translation using po files.
• New Translation: Russian.
• How to contribute translation.

API

• New method: scene.print3d_toolbox.get_report()
  • Get current analysis report, can be used by 3rd party scripts.

Removed

• Clean Up Distorted.
  • Instead use Mesh > Clean Up > Split Non-Planar Faces
  • Rename Analysis check Distorted > Non-Planar
  • Analysis Non-Planar: update defaults and detection behavior to match Split Non-Planar Faces.

Fixed

• Analysis Non-Planar threshold property was missing a subtype (did not register as length using unit system).

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Compatibility

• Fix error using Hollow tool in Blender 4.4

Export

• Export no longer prompts file dialog if absolute path specified.

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Fixed

• Remove degenerate dissolve step from Make Manifold tool, it produces non-manifolds in certain cases.

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Fixed

• Sidebar doesn't show in edit mode.

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Fixed

• Export tool missing Assign Shortcut context menu item.
• UI: display Sidebar panels for all object types.

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Align XY

• Enable Weight by Face Area by default.
  • This gives better results with all tested models of different shapes and topology.

Fixed

• Error using export.
• Error trying to access removed property.

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UI

• Analyze
  • Add Clear Report button.
• Export
  • Add more export options, for more granular control.
• Tools
  • Clean Up Distorted: remove sidebar property, show popup dialog on use instead.
  • Align XY: remove sidebar property, tweak operator description.
  • Tweak precision, value step and min values attributes for all properties.

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Hollow

• New Hollow tool: create surface offset without self-intersections.

Fixed

• Scale to Volume/Bounds: error with no objects selected.

Cleanup

• Remove dead code.
• Export: remove X3D option.
  • X3D exporter add-on is no longer a part of Blender.