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CADEXSOFT Launches Manufacturing Toolkit 2026.3

Release is a CAD software development kit for developers building quoting and model-as-a-service platforms.

CADEXSOFT Launches Manufacturing Toolkit 2026.3
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Software update is a CAD SDK for developers building quoting and model-as-a-service platforms, with design for manufacturability checks, native B-Rep, feature recognition, and web visualization. Image courtesy: CADEXSOFT

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By DE Editors  

May 18, 2026

CADEXSOFT has released Manufacturing Toolkit 2026.3 — a CAD SDK for developers building quoting and model-as-a-service platforms, with design for manufacturability 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

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.

Wall Thickness updates

Wall Thickness analysis has been extended with the introduction of the new Ray Marching algorithm and updated analyzer parameters. 

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 Workbench now includes a dedicated Nesting mode that allows running nesting computations for specified patterns directly from the UI.

MTK Web updates

The updated measurement application programming interface 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 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.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.

 
 

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