What changed in ProtoJoint

ARevision block

Revision block

1. Robots, lasers and a template libraryOctober 21, 2026

   • Robot export: URDF, MJCF, SDF and a ROS 2 package straight from an assembly, checked before it is written.
   • Laser and CNC: a thickness parameter, finger joints, box and living hinge generators, and kerf added at export.
   • Twenty parametric templates, from a finger-joint box to an SO-101 gripper finger.
   • The AI chat looks at photos, screenshots and the marks you draw on the model.
   • Sketch patterns driven by parameters, thousands of copies at a time.
   • Accounts and AI plans, in an invite-only beta.

2. Curves, text and things to traceOctober 20, 2026

   • Control point splines, blend curves and a curvature comb.
   • Sketch text in any outline font, ready to extrude.
   • Insert DXF, SVG, meshes and pictures to trace over.
   • Ribs, webs, sweeps along a guide rail and lofts along a centreline.
   • Save any body as a mesh.
   • A cycloidal gearbox that builds itself, one step at a time.

3. Rounds of every kindOctober 18, 2026

   • Variable-radius fillets, with radius points along the edge.
   • Chord-length and curvature-continuous fillets, full rounds and rule fillets.
   • Setback corners for fillets; mitre and blend corners for chamfers.
   • Patterns along a path, and zebra stripes to check a surface.
   • A new name and a mark of its own: ProtoJoint.
   • Icons on every tool, and every message in English and Chinese.

4. Assemblies that moveOctober 8, 2026

   • Sub-assemblies, joint origins, and pin-slot and ball joints.
   • Rigid groups, motion axes, and positions you can capture and go back to.
   • Interference checks, section views and physical materials.
   • Coil, thread, pipe, draft and scale, and boxes, cylinders, spheres and tori.
   • Split a body with a sketch curve.

5. Familiar from the first clickSeptember 29, 2026

   • The keys, the marking menu and the S toolbox you already know.
   • Parameters and expressions in every number field.
   • Press Pull, Offset Face and Delete Face.
   • Joints that snap, drive and animate, and motion links between them.
   • Window and crossing selection, and a sketch saved as DXF.

6. Bring your partsSeptember 14, 2026

   • Open .sldprt and .sldasm files and Parasolid, with their materials.
   • Mass, volume and centre of mass from the exact solids.
   • Designs in millimetres, centimetres, metres or inches.
   • Slots, tangent arcs, and patterns in sketches and on solids.
   • A view cube with 26 views.

7. First sheetSeptember 12, 2026

   • Sketches with constraints and dimensions.
   • Extrude, revolve, sweep, loft, hole, fillet, chamfer and shell.
   • A timeline you can roll back and edit.
   • Components and assemblies.
   • Aluminium extrusion frames, with a beam check.
   • Measure.