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3.1 Release, 3.2-RC or master? (by Tomasz)
Hi

There was no release for really long time, while there is lot of new commits.

Would you recommend to use old stable 3.1, maybe 3.2-RC tag, or latest master should be ok?

I would like to design a car suspension model for one wheel in various ways (multilink, MacPherson, double-wishbone) and generate an .csv data for axis alignment (position and rotation) for whole travel range with small step.

So I guess I would need to modify source code anyway to generate such output data. (or maybe it is possible to script something like this in a tool?)

So what version would you recommend to start?

Thanks,
Tomasz
Thu Feb 19 2026, 19:00:51
(no subject) (by Tom)
Can you do it with "Step Dimension" and "Trace Point"? I guess you'd have to trace twice to get two points and then calculate angle yourself though.
Thu Feb 19 2026, 20:23:27
(no subject) (by ruevs)
Master is very stable most of the time. So I always use the latest edge build.
Sat Feb 21 2026, 14:44:59
(no subject) (by Paul)
I would recommend 3.2 RC. Almost all new functionality is present in the RC and there are no signs of issues.

There is currently a problem using master with assemblies. It may only be with files from previous versions, or it may only be with certain size sketches, or both. It's a tricky issue we're trying to work out and it involves what is or isn't written to files.
Mon Feb 23 2026, 10:00:29
(no subject) (by Tomasz)
In a meantime I prepared extension to Trace Point feature.

Now it supports multiple Points trace and/or Normals (traced as origin + quaternion).

Do you think it could be useful for more users and committed to main repo?

I think I could add also an configuration option to save Normal orientation as quaternion (this is already done) or set of N,U,V vectors.

My branch is here:
https://github.com/topyra/solvespace/tree/multi_trace

Code is not tested very well so far.
Wed Feb 25 2026, 20:22:49
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