Check out the latest product updates, improvements and fixes
Improvements, Oct 08 2026
Improvements
Comments panel deselects a row when you deselect its pin, closes the more menu when the thread scrolls and keeps the filter button visible even when filters hide every comment.
Live canvas updates keep coming through after the canvas reloads or your connection drops and reconnects.
Canvas text selection selects all of the text when you double or quadruple click, and clicking inside a sticky note's text no longer closes the note.
Toolbar tooltips no longer block the control next to them.
3D zoom with the mouse wheel over empty space now scales from the model or the focused component, so zooming out after a close look no longer crawls.
Keyboard focus in onboarding stays visible while you tab through the steps.
Supported formats tooltip now lists Rhino.
Asset upload page no longer crashes when it opens on its own.
Projected shapes now sit on top of arrows instead of underneath them.
Improvements, Sep 24 2026
Improvements
One click unlock selects a locked shape when you click it and offers Unlock in the selection toolbar, while locked shapes stay protected from moves, edits and deletion.
Kept reply drafts mean a reply you are writing stays put when you click outside the thread.
Copy between canvases now works for PDFs, spreadsheets and CAD Explorers, just like it does for images and 3D stickers.
Avatars in comments and canvases show the author next to their name in comments and the owner on canvas cards.
Comments panel follows the tool and closes when you leave the comment tool.
Consistent Esc cancels every canvas tool the same way.
One consistent look gives every button a single style and keyboard focus the same ring across the app.
Matching icons make close, search, filter, zoom and other icons look the same everywhere, and Part Delta and DfM now share the app's hover and selected states.
Tidier users menu moves Logout to the bottom of the panel and adds a working close icon.
Improvements, Sep 10 2026
Improvements
Neutral black accent replaces purple across the interface, and checkboxes, radio buttons and hover states follow the same updated style.
Refreshed buttons, cards and toolbars bring a new look to every button, a clearer focus ring, a neutral tint for active canvas tools, softer corners on project cards and a tighter sidebar.
Canvas names on hover now appear larger over a dark veil on project card thumbnails, with the full name shown.
Stacked collaborator avatars overlap in one row and show a +N count when there is no more room.
Aligned CAD Explorer panels give the Assembly and 3D Comments panels the same headers, spacing and scrolling.
Orientation under Visibility moves CAD Explorer's orientation options into the Visibility menu and leaves the Camera menu for orthographic and perspective views.
Details instead of Preview is the new name for the asset menu option that opens an asset's details panel.
Smoother guest sign-in no longer flashes a red placeholder while the waiting room checks your session.
Improvements, Aug 27 2026
Improvements
Calmer dialogs and panels drop the header and footer dividers, and borders and dividers across the app now follow the design tokens for consistent contrast.
A branded page for unknown URLs means mistyped or dead links land on a proper Encube not-found page instead of a bare error.
Simpler Part Delta removes commenting from the Part Delta app. Commenting in canvas, Asset Explorer and DFM is unchanged.
Lighter canvas removes the deprecated CAD card, and thumbnails now use the shared 3D renderers.
Clearer 3D selection gives selected and hovered parts a flat tint plus an outline through the whole part, including hidden and ghosted geometry.
Lighter homepage gives the projects homepage a lighter background.
Smoother canvas chrome eases collaborator avatars and toolbar items in and out instead of popping.
Roomier comment replies drop your own avatar from the reply field, so the input uses the full width of the card.
Leaner pin menu removes "Hide all comments" from conversation pin actions.
Improvements, Aug 13 2026
Improvements
Faster images load asset thumbnails straight from the CDN at the size they are displayed, instead of routing through the app.
Smoother canvas zoom and pan reduces hitches when you pan and zoom around the canvas.
Comments feel quicker to write now that Enter posts a comment and Shift+Enter starts a new line. The comment panel animates open and closed instead of snapping, and the composer no longer stretches out of shape on long text.
Travel to asset for everyone recentres the canvas on the selected 3D asset for all users whenever that asset is off screen.
A nudge on an empty canvas now shows the initial upload message to everyone.
New support chat switches the in-app support tool from Crisp to Pylon.
Improvements, Jul 30 2026
Improvements
Cleaner comments panel simplifies the panel title and tidies up its empty state.
Softer secondary text gives secondary text a consistent neutral color across the app.
Refined nav and toolbar controls give top nav menus, toolbar buttons and toggles consistent hover, focus and pressed styles.
Cleaner comment controls replace the oversized comment illustration in the bottom toolbars with the standard comment icon, aligned across Canvas, DfM, Part Delta and Asset Explorer.
Faster, more reliable PDFs render PDF documents on the canvas with the PDFium engine.
Unified shape selection toolbar gives you one consistent toolbar whenever you select shapes.
Cleaner, more consistent UI refreshes tooltip styling, clarifies toolbar dropdown states and lightens avatar borders and initials.
Spotlight me is easier to find now sits as a prominent button in the user menu.
One toolbar for every selection uses the same toolbar whether you pick one shape or many, a built in shape or a fullscreen app.
Smoother multiplayer batches cursor and camera updates into a steady 30 updates per second instead of one per rendered frame, cutting collaboration traffic with no added lag.
Improvements, Jul 16 2026
Improvements
Full names on hover reveals an asset's full name when you hover over a truncated title in the canvas toolbar.
Cleaner menus gives the upload menu and other dropdown menus consistent styling, with stray dividers removed.
Outline panel polish refines the presentation interactions and brings the outline's colours in line with the rest of the product.
Light mode for uploads brings the multi-file upload dialog in line with the light theme.
Smoother camera makes panning and zooming feel more fluid.
Improvements, Jul 09 2026
Improvements
Refined invite dialog gives the invite dialog a cleaner look with a reliable copy link.
Polished outline panel updates the outline panel visuals to match the new design.
Faster canvas and collaboration cuts down on expensive re-renders across the canvas and live collaboration.
Keyboard-accessible chips makes chips fully operable from the keyboard.
Outline opens automatically when you add a frame.
Clearer explorer names renames "Asset Explorer" to "CAD Explorer" and "3D Sticker" to "Snapshot".
Explorer named after your subassembly names the asset explorer after the subassembly you dropped in.
Annotations follow search and filters so annotation blocks respect the active search and filters.
Environment-specific favicons show a browser tab icon that reflects the environment you are in.
Refreshed hover and focus states update UI components with new hover and focus styling.
Clearer version chips show a single version chip per asset version.
Smoother canvas dragging stops frame outlines from triggering a full canvas re-render on every drag.
Consistently sorted lists sort projects, assets and canvases at read time so ordering stays stable.
Consistent timestamps unifies relative time formatting across the app.
Improvements, Jun 25 2026
Improvements
Smoother upload flow opens the Asset Library automatically once an upload finishes.
Faster loading brings projects, assets and favorites in as you go so large libraries appear sooner.
More resilient canvas handles shape errors more gracefully so the canvas keeps working.
Improvements, Jun 11 2026
Improvements
Smarter favorites order sorts sidebar favorites by most recently favorited, keeping what you just saved at the top.
Graceful handling of unknown shapes renders a clear placeholder on the canvas instead of failing silently.
Readable filter pills let long values scroll into view instead of being clipped, so you can see the full filter at a glance.
