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New in 0.14

30 September 2026

• The House tab. The floor plan as a building in 3D — walk through it, furnish it from a catalogue, paint it, light it by the sun at any hour, open it up floor by floor, and take it to an iPhone as a USDZ.
• The site around it. Draw the plot, the garden and the sidewalks; shape the ground with spot levels and read the contours and the cut and fill.
• Parking lots, laid out as built. Draw one with guides that snap to whole stalls and whole rows, and see the count before you click — accessible and van spaces to the ADA, islands, cross aisles, an entrance, and an accessible route to the door.
• Where the rain goes, and what grows. Drains and pipes sized from the site's runoff and checked against the plumbing code; a planting catalogue and a schedule that counts itself.
• A site that knows itself. Parking steers round what is in the way, every tool snaps to what is already drawn, downspouts pipe themselves, and a gap that is too tight is dimensioned on the plan.
• Room scans straight in. A room scanned with any RoomPlan app comes in as a floor plan from its USDZ.

Also since 0.11: 0.13 — the sheet reads like a draughtsman's, and a rounded part no longer takes Lathe down; 0.12 — will it print, will it hold, and dome and dish.

New in 0.11

22 September 2026

• Channel. A groove cut along a line you sketch on a face — a slot, a cable run, a ring groove for an O-ring — exactly the solid a cutter of that width would sweep. Tick Snap-in, for a cable and give the cable's diameter: a narrow opening over a wider cavity, so the cable presses past the lip and stays; face-down on a print it needs no support.
• Heat-set inserts. The hole a brass insert melts into is a hole style now — M2 to M8 at the common insert sizes, blind to the insert's length, with a lead-in chamfer — and the drawing's hole chart and parts list say the insert.
• A cable clip coupon. Three snap-in channels a fifth of a millimetre apart, labelled, to print and press the cable into before trusting the number on the real part.
• A second guide walks a part through Manufacture, and ⌘K knows every document.

New in 0.10

21 September 2026

• Electrical plans. Conduit: draw the room, place forty-six kinds of device, wire circuits with a click each, panels and sub-panels, the panel schedule and load calculation on the sheet, the fuse-box drawings, and twenty NEC checks with their citations — advisory, never a ruling.
• Printed circuit boards. Etch: sixty-eight footprints, nets and a ratsnest, click-click routing with vias, copper pours, a DRC, a KiCad netlist in, and a fab pack out — Gerber X2, Excellon, BOM and centroid. The board builds in 3D with every part modelled, and goes out as STEP, STL or a USDZ to stand in the room on an iPhone.
• A box for the board. An enclosure sized from the board — standoffs under its holes, a lid, a window for a connector — into a part that remembers the board and refreshes.
• ⌘K knows every document, a second guide walks a part through Manufacture, and What's New in the app is the full release notes.

New in 0.9

18 September 2026

• Documents are packages. Save writes a .lathedoc that saves itself every two seconds and keeps its history — drafts on Home, a checkpoint on every change, milestones on ⌘S, Revert To, Compare as a ghost, a last-good copy, and a Finder thumbnail.
• Parts from a few numbers. Generate makes a Gridfinity bin, a spur gear or an enclosure with its lid; every one of them lands as ordinary features you can edit.
• Lattice. Pick a face, choose a pitch: the Mac Pro pattern, dimples, round holes or honeycomb — hundreds of cuts in a fraction of a second, with a live preview on the face.
• Mirror Body, Split Body, Rib, Artwork and Print Check join the tools — an SVG's outlines engrave or emboss on a face, and Print Check colours overhangs and thin walls.
• The plan, driven. 0.9.1 fixes the floor plan: every click had been landing at its mirror image, doors and windows draw on the sheet again, and a picked wall shows its panel.
• A double-click in Finder opens the part — in the window, every time.