CADEXSOFT announces the release of Manufacturing Toolkit 2026.3 — a CAD SDK for developers building quoting and MaaS platforms, with DFM checks, native B-Rep, feature recognition, and web visualization.

CADEXSOFT announces the release of Manufacturing Toolkit 2026.3 — a CAD SDK for developers building quoting and MaaS platforms, with DFM checks, native B-Rep, feature recognition, and web visualization.

Manufacturing Toolkit 2026.3 highlights:

• Improvements in CNC and sheet metal recognition.
• Wall Thickness and Nesting updates.
• MTK Workbench & Web updates.

Feature recognition updates
Sheet metal bead recognition has been improved to better match real-world manufacturing techniques. The updated recognition logic now identifies shallow and narrow forming features as beads more consistently, improving classification accuracy for typical sheet metal reinforcement geometry.

CNC machining feature recognition has been improved to prevent cylindrical or conical geometry containing internal elements from being incorrectly recognized as holes or countersinks. The updated logic now verifies that recognized hole and countersink features are actually hollow. This improves recognition accuracy for machining features and reduces false-positive feature detection in machining workflows.

Wall Thickness updates
Wall Thickness analysis has been extended with the introduction of the new Ray Marching algorithm and updated analyzer parameters. The new algorithm provides high-performance wall thickness computation with low memory usage and improved accuracy for finely tessellated models containing large numbers of triangles.

Wall Thickness functionality has also been extended across the MTK ecosystem. MTK Web examples have been reworked with improved thickness-based coloring, configurable thickness ranges for custom color mapping, and interactive display of thickness values on mouse hover at any point on the model surface.

MTK Workbench now allows users to set the Ray Marching method directly in the UI, supports vertex selection in triangle inspection mode, and displays thickness values in tooltips at triangle vertices.

Nesting updates
Nesting support has been extended across the Manufacturing Toolkit ecosystem. MTK Converter wrappers for C#, Java, and Python now support nesting workflows, as reflected in the updated examples and documentation.

MTK Workbench now includes a dedicated Nesting mode that allows running nesting computations for specified patterns directly from the UI. It also supports running nesting directly on unfoldings produced by the Sheet Metal process. Visualization of nesting results has also been added, making it easier to inspect placement layouts and analyze computed nesting arrangements interactively.

MTK Web updates
The updated measurement API includes:
? Angles between faces, edges, vertices, and points.
? Length measurements for Edge, Wire, PolylineSet, and Polyline2dSet entities.
? Surface area, volume, and other validation properties for Model, ModelElement, Body, Shape, and MeshShape objects.

MTK Web examples now support repositioning measurements after creation and include a reworked Measurement Creating Viewer example, as well as a new ObjectManipulator class for interactive object translation and rotation within the scene.

MTK Workbench updates
Structure View usability has been improved with keyboard navigation, "expand all" and "collapse all" actions for large branches, and support for displaying the Model object as the root item together with its properties.

The Measurements module now supports axis-aligned bounding box (AABB), oriented bounding box (OBB), and bounding cylinder measurements. AABB visualization and related information are now also available directly in the Properties panel.

Machining mode has been improved with explicit hole grouping by diameter, while feature display now shows diameters instead of radii for clearer manufacturing-oriented interpretation. DFM Analysis now validates parameters against allowed ranges, helping prevent invalid configuration values during analysis setup.