MatterControl 2.22.05 (May, 16, 2022)
Support For Holes
MatterControl now supports Holes. Holes are an intuitive and powerful way to think about designing parts. They create the ability to mark any object in the scene as a negative space. When a hole is combined with another object it will automatically be subtracted.
The hole object can be dragged to the scene and combined with other objects to make holes
Any object can be converted to a hole and it will be subtracted when grouped
Transparent Rendering
You can now set any part to have transparent rendering to help with modeling and placement.
Fuzzy Surfaces
Select any part in the scene, right click it and and 'Convert to Fuzzy Region' in the Modify -> Printing menu. With this tool you can now create a fuzzy effect on any surfaces you want.
Any object can be converted to a region that defines where fuzzy will be applied
Part Settings Object (PRO Tool)
Now with MatterControl PRO you can create settings for a specific part and save them with it. This is tremendously useful when doing commercial printing or adjusting settings that are specific to a single part. Settings are only saved when using MCX files (MatterControls native format).
Settings added to the scene are saved with the design
Additional Improvements
- Boolean operations (combining and subtracting shapes) are dramatically more robust and handle many more conditions
- We now show the output state of Supports, Wipe Towers and Fuzzy objects in property panel
Bug Fixes
- G-Code generation of long line segments was not applying leveling correctly
- When switching or adding materials the display did not always update
- Fixed crash when invalid geometry was added to the scene
- Repair tools was not honoring 'weld tolerance' correctly
MatterControl 2.22.04 (April, 4, 2022)
Orthographic Projection
Orthographic Projection is an important part of many CAD workflows and we are very excited to announce that MatterControl now supports this critical mode. Thanks to fortsnek9348 who earned the $1,736 bounty for contributing this work. There are more bounties offered and they do not all require programming.
Materials Library
With the inclusion of a new materials library you can always find the right material and its settings. Dozens of materials have been tested and added and there are more on the way.
Color Picker
Now it is easier than ever to set the colors of your design to be just the way you want. We have added a new eye dropper tool to the Color Picker. You can now set the color of one part by selecting another part to copy from.
Additional Improvements
- Added equations and cell references to component objects. This allows for creating component objects that can then be a part of a larger component.
- Accelerated the processing of Monotonic infill (as much as 10x faster)
- Improved Z-Calibration Wizard to have better instructions based on user testing
- Show progress bars on export to gcode
- Added 'Max Printing Speed' setting. Limits all printing speeds
- Improved error and warning messages
Bug Fixes
- Improved Monotonic infill pathing
- Fixed extra segments appearing in air gap bottom layer
- Make sure initial printing move is at the correct height
- Validate that all parts are within the printing bounds considering raft, skirt and brim before starting a print
- Fixed warning and error icons
MatterControl 2.22.02 (February, 21, 2022)
Changes
Features
- Portable MCX file support. MatterControl now has a portable file format so you can easily create, iterate and share all the incredible designs you make. MCX files can even be uploaded so users can get to the source to make changes.
- Improving first time experience and initial setup. MatterControl printer setup just keeps getting butter, but this new version also includes improved workflows for all you designers out there. Now you can easily create and share designs.
- Added multi-line support to Text Tool. One line of text just wasn't enough. Now you can easily switch to multi-line editing to have complete control.
- Added Support for loading 3MF files. 3MF is a great format and becoming more popular. MatterControl can now easily open existing 3MF files.
- Added Right-Click options to toolbar (turn on and off tools). This helps you focus on what you want out of MatterControl. Turn off all the design tools if all you want to do is print, or turn them all on for maximum flexibility.
- Added support for human generated translation. Our fantastic users sometimes submit improvements to our translations and this update helps bring these improvements to everyone.
- Portable MCX file support. MatterControl now has a portable file format so you can easily create, iterate and share all the incredible designs you make. MCX files can even be uploaded so users can get to the source to make changes.
Bug Fixes
- Improved Monotonic infill pathing
- Better CCW outer loops, helps with Quantum Filament printing
MatterControl 2.21.12 (December, 1, 2021)
Changes
Features
- New boolean functions that can handle degenerate geometry
- Improved monotonic path planning
- Ensure perimeter winding always outputs in same direction
- New Resources tab that shows filament buying options
- Added [index] support to radial and advanced arrays
- New boolean functions that can handle degenerate geometry
Bug Fixes
- Handle bad icon load
- Scroll bars on wrong side
- Crash when Autopilot added to design tab and bed edited
MatterControl 2.21.10 (October, 7, 2021)
Changes
Features
- Montonic Infill
- Image Editor Improvements
- Auto detection of best image mode
- Improved histogram slider
- Added Sliders
- Added the ability to expand and collapse toolbar groups
- New seam modes
- Library, Save and Bed menus improved
- Added Round to the Cube Object
- Experimental support for auto printing with MatterControl Pro 'Autopilot'
- Montonic Infill
UI improvements
- Added F2 rename to objects and folders
- Added back button support to library
- Improved Sheet Editor
Bug Fixes
- Web image cache misses
- Fixed bug with culling back faces
- Crash on invalid bounding box
- Bug with wrapping on right side
- Bug with image comparisons
MatterControl 2.21.6 (June, 15, 2021)
Changes
Features
- Added Experimental [Beta] support for variables
- A Sheet can be added to the scene and referenced by designs (think Google Sheets or Excel)
- Designs properties can reference cell data
- Add '=' to the start of the line and type in a table cell
- Designs can include equations as well as references
- Add '=' to the start of the line and type in an equation
- Support for Zoom to selection
- Support for Turntable mode (up always stays up)
- Improved Scale controls
- Firmware Sounds can be disable in printer settings
- Added Experimental [Beta] support for variables
UI improvements
- Added new Scene controls
- Icons match the theme more closely
- Added hints to mouse actions
- F2 to rename items
- Added new Scene controls
Bug Fixes
- Slicing regression with thin features
- Better pathing while outputting support
- Design Apps rebuilds more consistent
MatterControl 2.21.5 (May, 10, 2021)
Changes
Features
- Zoom to mouse cursor (thanks to visdauas for his work)
- Curve Tool now has angle and improve help
- Measure tool shows size
- New Description Tool
- New Edge Controls
- Improved merge overlapping lines in slicer
- More warning messages for bad settings
- Measure lines always in front
- Zoom to mouse cursor (thanks to visdauas for his work)
Bug Fixes
- Parts sheets working again
- Fixed bad moves when path planning supports
- Fixed bad transparency when looking up from the bed
MatterControl 2.21.4 (March, 23, 2021)
Changes
Features
- Improved dual extrusion wipe tower (mad hollow, primes in center, random edge starts)
- Added plane cut operator
- Allow setting extruder for brim
- Adding support for conductive probing
UI improvements
- Added export options to main export button
- Can move printer tabs (right click menu)
- Added export options to main export button
Bug Fixes
- Made leveling validate cancelable
- Fixd crash with Convex Hull (locking when ungrouping)
- Fixed error with leveling plane on Extruder 2 with dual
MatterControl 2.21.2 (February, 5, 2021)
Changes
- Features
- Made it possible to change material colors
- UI improvements
- Added ctrl-a in library views
- New color control
- Bug Fixes
- Added try re-connectting to connection error message
- Changing settings details (simple, intermediate, advanced) does not close settings when floating
- Fixed rendering error on recent items
MatterControl 2.20.12 (December, 21, 2020)
Changes
- Features
- Mac build working again
- Custom printer setup wizard
- Set baud rate in manual printer connect window
- UI improvements
- Improved print completion dialog
- Implemented GLFW backend
- Improved base editing
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed export bug with G92 E0
- Circular bed texture
- Thin walls fix for single perimeter
MatterControl 2.20.10 (October, 5, 2020)
Mac Download - Coming Soon
Changes
- Features
- Improved design icons
- Accelerated Slicing
- Icons for Printer Parts libraries
- Added a simple measure tool
- UI improvements
- Better support of high res devices
- Added all supported operations to part right click menu
- Add warning for connected to emulator
- Add warning for bad leveling data
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed slicing issue with fill thin gaps
- Fixed settings update bug with probe offset
MatterControl 2.20.9 (September, 4, 2020)
Changes
- Features
- Added export as AMF
- Added baby stepping for extruder 2 (Dual Extrusion)
- Printer settings are scanned for for updates to defaults
- UI improvements
- Improve discovery of entering share codes
- Default options for history data notes
- Right click settings menu has more options
- Bug Fixes
- Settings override display always shows correct colors
- Load / Unload ignore extrusion multiplier
- fixed icon color problems
- restore small icon rendering
MatterControl 2.20.8 (August, 4, 2020)
Changes
Z Offset can be adjusted from progress display
Improved Arrange All
Added Gyroid infill
Print History shows printer used and can collect quality data
- Pro feature added to export to .csv file
UI improvements
- Easier to find and create Share Codes
- Easier to enter Share Codes
- Cut / Copy / Past available on all text controls
- Tabs can shrink when too big for tool bar
Bug Fixes
- First perimeter on 2nd extruder when only material 2 used
- Export X3G does not fail on warning
- Settings name not saved on close
MatterControl 2.20.6 (June, 10, 2020)
Changes
- Added MatterControl Pro Edition upgrade option
- Get MatterHackers Professional Support
- Help support the MatterControl community
- Access to pro only tools
- Unlimited cloud storage
- Added Threads feature
- Added Chinese and Japanese translations
- Better handling of self intersecting and bad winding in parts
- Improved bridging detection and handling
- UI improvements
- Toolbar icon contrast and design
- Design tab sizing
- Layout of properties panel
- TreeView keyboard navigation
- Image Converter weighted centering
- Bug Fixes
- Don’t move to origin at start of print
- Disable Print button while printing
- Heating T1 when only printing support
MatterControl 2.20.4 (April, 4, 2020)
Changes
- Added Hollow Feature
- Added Polygon Reduce
- Added Mesh Repair
- Put in fully automatic support (legacy support) as an option in addition to new manual support option
- Added Support for gsSlicer (Experimental new slicing engine)
- Bug Fixes
MatterControl 2.19.10 (September, 27, 2019)
Changes
- Dual Extrusion Improvements
- Made the default wipe tower round
- Made un-retract after tool change able to be negative
- Made custom wipe towers follow the geometry defined by the user
- Improved ungrouping of mesh (splitting into multiple meshes)
- Discard degenerate faces
- Discard microscopic discrete features
- Bug Fixes
- Export STL when no printer has been created
- Export STL on Mac
- Arrange all when no printer has been created and the bed is empty
MatterControl 2.19.7 (July, 15, 2019)
Changes
- Added search bar for application
- Improved design tool bar
- Added grouping to some items
- Added dual align button
- Added Arrange All button
- Nudge items on the bed with arrow keys
- Downloads folder is sorted by date
- Sped up dual extrusion calibration prints
MatterControl 2.19.6 (June, 10, 2019)
Changes
- Printer setup dramatically improved with new unified experience
- Show outstanding tasks and progress
- Leveling visualization
- Dual extrusion improvements
- New Nozzle Calibration Wizard (for calibrating dual extrusion printers)
- Support for custom wipe tower shapes
- Improved support material detection
- UI improvements
- Faster updates in Cloud Library folders
- Restore UI on re-open
- Better Keyboard navigation support
- New error detection and warning system
- More hardware errors handled
- Design tools improvements and optimizations
- New Twist tools
- Improved Curve tool
- Improved Align
MatterControl 2.19.2 (February, 6, 2019)
Changes
- Fixed bugs with exporting G-Code
- Improved flatten
- Improved Undo support
- Improved design history
MatterControl 2.19.1 (January, 2, 2019)
Changes
- Versioning: Moving to a (version).(year).(month) version number. Easier to read and more informative.
- Multi-printer control
- A single instance of MatterControl can now run multiple printers simultaneously
- New State-of-the-art Subtract, Combine and Intersection (Window only)
- We now start up with a 'Feature Tour' to help new users find their way
MatterControl 2.0.0 (November, 19, 2018)
Changes
- Design Tools - The ability to 3D model with a complete set of modeling primitives
- Use a primitive to create your own customized supports
- Design Apps - Design Apps: sophisticated customizable designs
- 64-bit Processing
MatterControl 1.7.5 (August, 14, 2017)
If you are looking for the older interface to MatterControl, this is the last stable version without design tools.