Product Roadmap

Planned features & release history

A living list of what is planned, what changed recently, and what may shift as beta feedback comes in.

Upcoming Milestones & Features

Making and cutting

Part nesting

Planned

Pack the parts of a design onto a sheet of material automatically, so less of the sheet is wasted.

Single-line engraving fonts

Planned

Text drawn as a single stroke instead of an outline, so a laser or pen plotter traces each letter once - faster and cleaner for engraving and plotting.

More parametric generators

Planned

More ready-made designs you set up by numbers: enter the dimensions and the part is drawn for you, ready to adjust.

Drawing tools

Shape builder

Planned

Merge or remove overlapping areas by clicking or dragging across them.

Symbols

Planned

Reuse one design many times; edit the original and every copy updates.

Knife and eraser

Planned

Slice through shapes, or erase part of a path, directly on the canvas.

Text on a path

Planned

Set text along a curve or around a circle.

Workflow

Path operations and shape cleanup

Planned

More ways to combine, offset, simplify, and clean up paths after drawing or tracing.

Deeper constraint workflows

Planned

Continued improvements to relations, driving dimensions, construction geometry, and the discoverability of constraint tools.

Export presets

Planned

More repeatable export settings for clean SVG, high-resolution raster output, and production handoff workflows.

Cloud document history

Exploring

Better document history, recovery, and review tools once the core save workflow has more real-world mileage.

Bug Fix & Release History

New drawing tools

28 September 2026
  • Repeat makes a grid, a ring or a mirrored copy of your selection in one step, with the spacing, count and angle you set. How to use Repeat.
  • Divide (Pro) splits overlapping shapes into separate pieces everywhere they cross, each painted like the shape on top there.
  • Pattern fills: fill a shape with dots, stripes, crosshatch or a grid, and expand the pattern to real paths for a cutter or plotter. Pattern fills in the tutorial.
  • Clipping masks show artwork only inside another shape, without cutting anything away. Export warns that cutters ignore masks, and Apply Clipping Mask to Geometry cuts the shapes to what you see. How to use clipping masks.

September 2026

25-26 September 2026
  • Convert Text to Outlines turns live text into ordinary vector shapes, so a laser, plotter or vinyl cutter follows the letters exactly. How to use it for cut files.
  • Hidden layers stay out of exported SVG, and the download tells you how many were left out.
  • Exported dimensions now carry their arrowheads and angle extension lines, matching what you see on the canvas.
  • Re-importing an exported SVG brings its stroke alignment back as you set it.
  • Imports land in a visible, unlocked layer instead of disappearing into a hidden or locked one, and the Import button no longer drops SVG files.
  • A drag your constraints can't follow now stops at the furthest point it can reach and slides along from there.
  • Moving a strict circle or arc no longer lets it snap back to its old place later.
  • An edit made just before you leave the editor for another page is saved on the way out. One made just before you close the tab is kept on this device and saved the next time you open the document in the same browser.
  • Complex paths with stroke alignment no longer freeze the editor while thin spots are measured.
  • The command palette shows each tool's real keyboard shortcut.
  • A Report a problem link in the editor, and a feedback form that can include diagnostics and a screenshot - your artwork is only sent if you tick the box.
  • The older dialogs follow the light theme.
  • Bigger touch targets on phones for Home, zoom and several inspector controls.
  • New on the site: artwork made in Anchorsmith on the homepage and tutorial, a 5-minute quick start, and a step-by-step pin-up walkthrough.

August 2026

3-13 August 2026
  • SVG export is never watermarked, on any plan.
  • Exported SVG files state their real physical size (mm, cm, in or pt), so a part imports at the size you drew it.
  • Stroke alignment: choose whether a stroke sits centred on a shape's edge, inside it or outside it.
  • When a stroke alignment makes part of a shape too thin to cut, the canvas marks the spot and says so.
  • Offset a path inward or outward by an exact distance, with corrected, exact offset geometry.
  • Turning a stroke into a filled shape now works on closed shapes too (Pro).

v0.2.0 — Beta Release

July 2026
  • Beta launch with a 20% lifetime discount ($9.60/mo).
  • Interactive homepage constraint demo with real driving dimensions.
  • Save system phase 1: scratch document promotion, Save As, and checkpoints.
  • Construction geometry, constraint badges, tangent constraints, and click-to-pick constraint creation.
  • Auth, checkout, and beta pricing fixes for the first public launch.

v0.1.0 — Early Editor Foundation

July 2026
  • Core vector editor: Bezier pen, direct node selection, shape tools, and text tool.
  • Image auto-trace and SVG import support.
  • SVG, PNG, and PDF export paths.
  • Account, dashboard, and subscription checkout foundation.

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