mslicer

Changelog

v0.5.0 — February 21st, 2026

• Detect and show warnings for
  • Non-manifold meshes
  • Meshes that extend outside the printable volume
• Support generation progress
  • Visualize overhanging faces and vertices
  • Basic (unfinished) manually placed support routing
• Use async tasks for more operations
  • Loading meshes
  • Saving and loading projects
  • Building acceleration structures
  • File pick/save dialogs
  • Exporting sliced files (mostly needed for compressing .nanodlp)
• Color backfaces grey in rendered view
• Don't show multiple copies of layer in slice preview when panning far to the right
• Printer presets (print volume, resolution)
• Reduce memory usage of loaded models
• Reuse GPU buffers when possible (instead of reallocating)
• Don't duplicate mesh data in project save file
• Custom project and mesh (de)serialization with progress monitoring
• Added task panel to view the progress of running async tasks
• Run post processing operations asynchronously with their own progress bars
• Added support for the NanoDLP format (.nanodlp)
• Allow setting/updating default slice config (#5)
• Remember the file that was opened for future save operations
• Track changes to settings for undo and redo (under edit in the top bar)
• Use metric prefixes for slice config draggers
• Allow using any supported output format with the CLI slicer
• More robust slicing (include scanline boundary hits)
• Show resin volume usage and estimated print time under slice preview
• Island detection task
• Fix invalid unit and color space transformations with type safe systems
• Use the 'windows' subsystem on Windows
• Remove unfinished support for translucent models
• Remove inconsistent slice preview pixel outlines (for now)

v0.4.0 — November 25th, 2025

• Added support for the encrypted Chitu format (.ctb)

v0.3.0 — November 15th, 2025

• Added support for SVGs as an output format
• Don't show normals for hidden models
• Always open Viewport window on startup
• Show outlines around the pixels when zoomed into the slice preview
• Recompute mesh normals by default (also removed the normal operations button)
• Generated meshes (supports) now have correct normals and face winding order

v0.2.2 — June 14th, 2025

• Clamp grid size
• Fix intermittent crash due to mismatched texture formats between egui and renderer pipelines

v0.2.1 — April 13, 2025

• Don't produce invalid results when models extend beyond build volume
• Made the slicer system usable as a standalone CLI application

v0.2.0 — Feb 19, 2025

• Convert slice operation window to a dockable panel
• Render parts of models that go beyond the print volume red
• Remove the Stats panel and merge it into the Workspace panel
• Add documentation into the About panel
• Add random triangle color mesh render mode
• Persist panel layout between sessions. I also added a button to reset the UI layout in the Workspace panel.

v0.1.0 — Feb 12, 2025

First release!

I haven't really changed much in the past like six months, but now mslicer is on Flathub.