Feature requests

All common threads metric US threads and British threads plus fine threads. A tool to freely design threads. I need to switch to Fusion or NX to do this: Freely definable thread ISO metric thread Metric fine thread UNC = Unified National Coarose (rough thread). UNF = Unified National Fine (fine thread). UNS = Unified National Special (special climbs) BSW = British Standard Whitworth (Coarse, “standard thread”). BSF = British Standard Fine (fine thread variant, inch)

I would like full access to my installed fonts and processing like in Orca Slicer. Once placed, the fonts are no longer really editable, they are just guidelines and are no longer defined as fonts or characters, which makes subsequent editing almost impossible, which is why I don't work with fonts in Plastycity. There is an urgent need for a change.

add deformers like in Rhino , such as bend objects, twist objects, or deform with boundary Box

Smart snaps that can detect the extension of two geometries and stick to the center. Also allow the hooks to work when you follow a guide (example follow the guide to make a square AND stick to the grid...

I use Plasticity to create thin, organically shaped parts. Currently, verifying wall thickness is a friction point. I either have to: Export the model to 3rd party software to check heatmaps. Perform a tedious loop of Section Analysis > Measure > Repeat manually. I am requesting a heat-mapping tool/color option to visualize the parts variable thickness. Function: A visual overlay that uses a color gradient to show part thickness. Controls: Users should be able to input "Min/Max" values (e.g., set red for anything under 0.8mm). Use Cases: Essential for 3D printing (finding weak spots) and Injection Molding (ensuring uniform wall thickness for DfM). Here is a link that explains the topic a little more thoroughly https://www.shapeways.com/blog/visualizing-wall-thickness-in-a-3d-model

Option to create a toolbar and asign favourite tools without the "F Menu " or Hotkeys

This is simply to add options when creating a helix that allow one to specify the distance between full 360 degrees turns (equivalent to thread pitch in metric thread specification) or number of 360 degree turns over a certain length along the central spine (equivalent to threads per inch in imperial thread specification). Clearly, the measurement systems are interchangeable. Currently, the only option is to specify the number of 360 degree turns over the entire length of the spine. The most obvious example of where these additional options should be of benefit is by making it easier to create threads in plasticity with whatever profile one might want without having to add new tools for creating screw threads. Further to the primary suggestion of this request, it would be helpful if there was consistency between the Helix command and the Sweep command regarding how one specifies twists. For the Helix command one specifies the number of 360 degree twists for the overall length of the spine, and for the Sweep command one specifies the total number of degrees turned over the overall length of the spine. Of course, these two are equivalent, but I would suggest that for consistency, both use the same way of specifying the twist or both ways of specifying the twist are made available of each command, with number of twists being useful for quick adjustments in most cases, and number of degrees being useful for fine adjustments. Clearly, my original suggestion regarding adding additional options to the Helix command apply to the Sweep command.

When working on an isolated object(s) it can be useful to add another object to that isolation or remove an object from it. I picture this as selecting an object(s) from the list and use Shift-period for adding. Or selecting one or more objects and Ctrl-period for removing it from the isolation. Now we have to undo an isolation (or more isolations in a row) and reselect for isolation.

Currently, Plasticity only exports meshes as OBJ files. This format lacks two key features for modern 3D work: - It flattens all parent-child hierarchies into one list of meshes. - It bakes all transforms and hence resets every object's origin to the world center. This creates extra work for pipelines in game development, animation, and real-time visualization, where keeping object structure and pivot points is essential. The GLTF format is a modern, open standard that supports full scene description but more importantly for a tool like plasticity it allows for preserving object hierarchies and exporting per object transforms individual origins for objects. It's natively supported in all major game engines (Unreal, Unity, Godot) and 3D tools (Blender, Maya, Substance). Having this as an export option would make moving assets from Plasticity into a game engine or scene assembly tool a direct, one-step process. It would eliminate the tedious manual step of rebuilding hierarchies and repositioning pivots in another program. Implementation could be less costly than other standards as GLTF's open standard has very complete documentation and has many established open-source libraries. An implementation exporting geometry, transforms, and hierarchy would be a huge workflow improvement over the current OBJ export for structured scenes.