ModelCraft Browser edition 0.7

ModelCraft — 3D modeling

Start modeling

  • R rectangle: click two corners on the ground, or click one and type 4m,3m and Enter.
  • P push/pull: click the face, move up, click — or type a height.
  • L line, C circle, M move (Ctrl copies), T tape measure for guides.
  • G makes the selection a component, Shift+G a group.
  • Middle-drag orbits, Shift+middle-drag or right-drag pans, the wheel zooms. Arrow keys lock red, green and blue.
  • Models open and save on this computer; nothing is uploaded.

ModelCraft settings

These settings are only for ModelCraft, and you can change them only here, in the app.

Menus, keys and mouse

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Controls

Scrolling

Trackpad: swipe with two fingers to orbit, hold Shift and swipe to pan, pinch to zoom — no camera buttons needed. Mouse wheel: the wheel zooms. "Work it out" treats sideways or fine-grained scrolling as a trackpad.

Touch screen

Two fingers also pinch to zoom; three fingers do the other one. Hold one finger still on empty space, then drag, to orbit with one finger. While you draw, a loupe above your finger shows the points it snaps to.

Snapping and solids

Both are also buttons at the bottom right of the view, so you can turn them off for one move and back on.

Corner indicator

The view cube sits at the top right of the view: click a face, edge or corner to look from there, drag it to orbit, drag the compass ring to turn the model. The axis icon is a small X, Y, Z marker at the bottom left.

3D printer bed

Check for 3D printing says when a model is larger than this. Pick the size closest to your printer's build volume.

First-model tour

Four short steps: a rectangle, a box, a group, and a check for 3D printing. It starts by itself only the first time.

Settings › Global › First-time tours turns this off for every app.

Rendering

Your machine
What this browser lets CadCraft use for rendering. Sharing these specs helps us build more efficient engines; what is shared is aggregated and not associated with your account.

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Layout

Workspace

Every app that has the workspace you pick opens in it; the others keep their toolbar and panels. Your toolbar style, menus and keys stay as they are.

Work environments. Save your whole setup under a name (the layout, menu style and keys, toolbar, panels and My tools, for every app) and switch between setups. The theme and the language stay as they are.

Lost a toolbar, a menu or a panel?

Puts the toolbar (order, lock and buttons), the panels, the screen mode and the menu style back to how ModelCraft starts. Your theme, language, sizes and ModelCraft's own settings stay as they are.

Theme

The theme applies to every CadCraft app and the site.

Language

The language applies to every CadCraft app. The app reloads to change it.

Units

Global settings: each app can have its own measurement settings and defaults too.

Switch a unit on to see it in the unit lists. The star marks the default for new drawings, measures and items. These choices are the same in every app in this browser.

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A file keeps its own unit (a drawing's units, a project's feet or meters), and that unit stays in its list even when it is turned off here.

Hardware specs

Sharing your hardware specs allows us to build more efficient engines. The information is aggregated and not associated with your account: the graphics card, processor cores, memory and screen size, the browser and system family, and the app — no files, no name, no address.

First-time tours

Off: no app starts its tour by itself. Each app's own settings can still turn its tour off, or take it again.

Screen

Browsers allow full screen only after a click or key press, so it starts on your first click in the drawing.

Toolbar

Arrange: drag tools within their group, and drag a group by its name.

Right-click the toolbar (or long-press it) for Arrange, Lock and Reset.

Sizes and panels

The bars, toolbars, panels and dialogs of ModelCraft, bigger or smaller; the drawing keeps its own zoom. Panel text size works on top of it.

Compact tightens the row heights, panel padding, toolbar buttons and panel text of ModelCraft, so more fits on the screen. A touch screen keeps its large targets either way.

You can also drag a panel's inner edge. Double-click the edge to put it back.

Panels

Drag a panel by its name to dock it left, right or at the bottom, or drop it over the drawing to float it. A new window can go on your other screen. Reset layout puts every panel back where it started.