Feature requests

Plasticity already has excellent surfacing tools (Loft, Patch, XNurbs with G0/G1/G2 continuity) — the one missing piece for reverse engineering is native point cloud handling. Current workaround and its pain points: Going from a 3D scan to a clean CAD surface currently means exporting the scan as a mesh, sectioning it in a separate free tool (e.g. CloudCompare), exporting each cross-section as DXF, then importing into Plasticity to retrace and build rails before lofting. It works, but it's a disconnected multi-app round trip: no live feedback when repositioning a cutting plane, manual DXF export/import per slice, and risk of scale/position drift between programs. Requested feature: A native point cloud module that would let you: Import raw point cloud data (PLY, E57, XYZ, etc.) directly into a Plasticity scene Section the cloud with a movable cutting plane, either single cuts or an evenly-spaced repeated series along an axis Auto-derive a simplified, smooth spline from each section, with a tolerance/max-edge-length-style control so you're not stuck retracing hundreds of raw scan-noise segments Add rail/guide curves directly against the point cloud Feed those sections and rails straight into the existing Loft, Patch, and XNurbs tools Why this fits Plasticity: The "back half" of this pipeline already exists and is genuinely strong. The gap is entirely the "front half" — getting from raw scan data to a clean, position-accurate curve inside the same scene. This would close a real gap with reverse-engineering suites like Geomagic Design X or PolyWorks, which cost tens of thousands, for anyone doing scan-to-CAD work on real mechanical parts rather than freeform/concept modeling. Happy to share more detail from an active production use case if useful.

Current selection tools are limited to click select and square drag over . . . a lasso style selection tool would be insanely useful in complex projects, also a select by colour function, it's almost there already as when you select a colour in the assets panel all the objects using that colour are highlighted, imagine if you could hold down a modifier (like Shift) and this action actually selects those objects, or failing that a menu driven "select all objects using this colour".

Would be nice to have more control on the variable fillets such as adding and sliding or edit the value similar to alias but hopefully better and more intuitive. Thanks in advance.

Easier to view and present when you assemble parts together when you have many pieces. So we can view and show how it really works. Fusion360 proved this a great CAD must-have. Hope we can have it too

When I import an object, often a JPG file, I select it from the Images folder. When I save the file, Plasticity wants to save it in the Images folder. It would be nice if I could choose the default save folder so that the location of the imported objects wouldn't affect it.

In SolidWorks, you can rotate the view in increments (user-defined) using the arrow keys. This would be handy in Plasticity. For example, you can look at a face using the view cube, then rotate your view a set number of degrees to create a PLANE FROM CAMERA. This way you can accurately create planes at angles. Thank you.

It seems possible to snap to an intersection of curve and surface, but only when a straight curve is perpendicular to a surface. In all other cases it seems it is not possible to snap to the intersection of curve and surface. See attached example situation of a curve that intersects a solid sphere.

Allowing 3rd parties to write plugins for plasti would be awesome for two reasons : the most used/successful plugins could serve as a base for future plasticity features the base software would stay clean and uncluttered, which I think is one of plasti's main selling points Ideally, there would be a way for anyone to test plugins locally on their machines. This would also allow for personalised workflow to be automated. example : I often design products with threads. I could write a script to automate internal and external threads, and then share this script with others so they can use it, and more importantly improve it! Later, that script can be considered by plasticity dev team and integrated into the base software if they consider it useful enough. Please share your thoughts in comments!!

Currently when using the unwrap function , all objects are distorted to the new surface. This can cause massive issue when trying to boolean afterwards, A rigid mode, would mean to preserve the original shape of the wrapped objects while placing them on to any surface. I think I have seen this feature in Rhino somewhere.

Expose at least the top-level visible scene groups in Plasticity Share and allow viewers to show/hide groups, hide unselected objects, and restore all objects. This would make shared models substantially more useful for client and collaborative review without having to publish multiple copies of the same model to achieve different view states.