v2.15

The 'PCB 3D Importer' Blender Extension is available via the Blender extensions platform!

• Set max KiCad version to 8.0 (Note: Nightly builds are not officially supported) (#75)
• Fix Blender error when re-registering the extension (#77) (Thanks @ideasman42 !)
• Fix (not) temporarily saving the kicad_pcb file when exporting (#68) (Thanks @hraftery !)

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v2.14

The 'PCB 3D Importer' Blender Extension is now available via the new extensions platform!

• Rename Blender Extension to 'PCB 3D Importer' (reason)
• Fix error when importing in edit mode (#74)

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v2.13

• Support Blender 4.2 LTS (#69, #70, #71, #72)
• Use the new Blender Extension format
• Fix exporter failing to parse layer thickness when layers are locked (#66)
• Fix exporter not overwriting temporary .svg files (#67)
• Use github action to automatically build release artifacts

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v2.12

• Force all encodings to utf-8 (Thanks @Rootthecause)
• Fix stackup detection in exporter (Thanks @Rootthecause)
• Fix PCB shader artifacts caused by smooth shading (#64)
• Add option to toggle auto smoothing in X3D importer

Warning: There was a bug in Blender 4.1.0 which made it unable to load .blend files that are using materials from this addon.
Make sure to use Blender 4.1.1+

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v2.11

• Fix various issues with board cutting
• Fix smooth shading when using board cutting
• Try to clear up some confusions with the export menu

Warning: There was a bug in Blender 4.1.0 which made it unable to load .blend files that are using materials from this addon.
Make sure to use Blender 4.1.1+

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v2.10

• Support Blender 4.1.1

Warning: There was a bug in Blender 4.1.0 which made it unable to load .blend files that are using materials from this addon.
Make sure to use Blender 4.1.1+

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v2.9

• Fix exporter tempdir creation again (#44)
• Format codebase

v2.8

• Support Blender 4.0
• Fix custom stackup soldermask colors (#36)
• Improve exporter tempdir creation (#35)

Note: This release is not compatible with Blender 3.6 LTS, because of extensive changes to shading nodes and the Principled BSDF shader.
Note2: Hi to all the people who came from the hackaday post! 👋

v2.7

• KiCad 7 stackup support (imported boards will have the right color, copper finish, etc. defined in KiCad!)
• Add mat4cad custom color support
• Fix malformed rounded board edges
• Fix error when creating board edge edges that already exists (#31)
• Support Blender 3.6

v2.6

• Support Blender 3.5.1
• Fix importlib import issue

Warning: There was a bug in Blender 3.5.0 which made Blender crash when loading files saved with this addon.
Make sure to use Blender 3.5.1+