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Olesia Lebedeva
Feature recognition in practice: solving real problems, not academic exercises
Roman Lygin
Oriented bounding cylinders, external CNC threading, enhanced PDF import, and Workbench & Web updates in Manufacturing Toolkit 2026.2
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Oriented bounding cylinders, external CNC threading, enhanced PDF import, and Workbench & Web updates in Manufacturing Toolkit 2026.2
Explore oriented bounding cylinders, CNC thread recognition, enhanced PDF import, drawing support in Workbench, and improved Web visualization in the new release.
- Releases
March 24, 2026
Boris Iuzhikov
Unified MTKCore naming, Workbench and projector improvements in Manufacturing Toolkit 2026.1
Review the unified MTKCore naming and explore Workbench and projection algorithm updates
- Releases
February 9, 2026
Boris Iuzhikov
Enhanced PDF and unfolding support, improved CNC hole and pocket recognition, and wall thickness visualization in Manufacturing Toolkit 2025.8
MTK 2025.8 improves PDF drawing import, CNC hole and pocket recognition, and unfolding for complex formed parts. It adds wall thickness and drawing visualization in MTK Workbench and MTK Web, plus better JSON report grouping.
- Releases
December 23, 2025
Boris Iuzhikov
CNC DFM: undercut recognition in MTK
Learn why undercuts make it difficult to manufacture a part via CNC milling, and how to detect them with MTK
- CNC
- DFM
- Product features
November 13, 2025
Roman Lygin
MTK Workbench initial release, PDF import, new DFM checks, and performance improvements in Manufacturing Toolkit 2025.7
Introducing MTK Workbench, a desktop application for analyzing MTK workflows. The release also brings new features and improvements, including PDF import for 2D curves, new DFM checks, an updated MTK Converter API, and visual enhancements in Web.
- Releases
November 11, 2025
Boris Iuzhikov