What’s new

What’s new in CadVex

New features, improvements and fixes in CadVex Desktop and CadVex Cloud, newest first.

5 November 2026 — CadVex Desktop 1.4.8 for Windows and Mac

  • Improved: Better pricing and detection of 3D surfaces.
  • Improved: Faster analysis.

4 November 2026 — CadVex Cloud: 3D surfaces and faster analysis

  • Improved: Better pricing and detection of 3D surfaces.
  • Improved: Faster analysis.

31 October 2026 — CadVex Cloud: stock and treatment improvements

  • Improved: More standard bar sizes in the default stock list.
  • Fixed: Editing an allowance no longer changes the selected stock.
  • Fixed: A treatment you do at no cost can be entered as 0.
  • Fixed: Saved analyses keep their material when a shop material is changed or deleted.
  • Fixed: Many more fixes, including messages in French, from extensive testing.

29 October 2026 — CadVex Desktop 1.4.6 for Windows and Mac

  • Improved: Improved cost engine for modern machines.
  • New: Choose one machine for the whole part at the top of the Machining Plan.
  • New: Re-apply your current machines to a saved analysis, after seeing the new price.
  • New: Set each machine’s tool change time in Settings → Machines.
  • Improved: Security updates for the Desktop app.
  • Fixed: Many more fixes, from extensive testing.

28 October 2026 — CadVex Cloud: machining times for modern machines

  • Improved: New analyses use machining times based on modern machines; saved analyses keep their price.
  • New: Choose one machine for the whole part at the top of the Machining Plan.
  • New: Re-apply your current machines to a saved analysis, after seeing the new price.
  • New: Set each machine’s tool change time in Settings → Machines.
  • Fixed: Editing a group total in the Machining Plan now spreads it correctly across its lines.

25 October 2026 — CadVex Desktop 1.4.5 for Windows and Mac, and CadVex Cloud

  • New: Add your shop’s machines, from a catalog or by hand. Your machines now decide the routes and the rates used to price each setup.
  • New: Export the Machining Plan, your quotes and your statistics as Excel (.xlsx) workbooks, next to the CSV and JSON files.
  • Removed: Shop Rates now has “Quantity Defaults”: setup time and first-article inspection are no longer shop settings, they are set in each analysis’ Machining Plan.
  • Fixed: An edited surface-finish line now changes the price.
  • New: A quote is now blocked, with a direct link to the field to fix, when something is missing from the price.
  • Fixed: Numbers typed with a decimal comma are now read correctly everywhere.
  • Fixed: Your edits are no longer lost when you leave a screen, save or quit CadVex.
  • Fixed: Many more fixes, from extensive testing.

23 October 2026 — CadVex Desktop 1.4.4 for Windows and Mac, and CadVex Cloud

  • New: Export the Machining Plan, your quotes and your statistics as CSV or JSON files.
  • Improved: Better drawing reading: thread depths, blind and through holes, G pipe threads, EN AW-6082 aluminium, and PDFs printed from a web browser.
  • Fixed: Round bar stock now always holds the whole part.
  • Fixed: DFM setup cards now match the Machining Plan.
  • Fixed: Pockets on the underside of a part get their own setup.
  • New: A warning when a route uses a machine your shop doesn’t have, and when a quote number is already used.
  • Improved: Clearer Drawing tab, metric values first for metric shops, and more French translations.

20 October 2026 — CadVex Desktop 1.4.3 for Windows and Mac

  • Fixed: Fixed stock sizing when a block is cut from the bar along its shorter side (no more false “stock too small” message).
  • Fixed: Fixed Cost Analysis edits being lost when switching tabs.
  • Fixed: Fixed Machining Plan highlights for holes that cross slots or are drilled from the other side.
  • Fixed: Programming and inspection times you enter are now included in the price.
  • Fixed: Fixed a false “tall thin walls” warning on round bosses.

19 October 2026 — CadVex Desktop 1.4.2 for Windows and Mac

  • New: Quotes with quantity breaks show the route used for each line.
  • Fixed: Fixed shoulders and end faces of turned parts being priced as extra milling.
  • Fixed: Fixed some Machining Plan lines being placed in the wrong setup.
  • Fixed: The installer download is always available from your account page.
  • Improved: Better French translations and Machining Plan layout.

19 October 2026 — CadVex Desktop 1.4.1 for Windows and Mac

  • Fixed: Fixed machine rates changed inside an analysis going back to the Settings values after saving.

18 October 2026 — CadVex Desktop 1.4.0 for Windows and Mac, and CadVex Cloud

  • New: New Machining Plan: an editable operation tree for each setup.
  • New: Machine routes follow the machines you have in your shop.
  • Fixed: More accurate pricing of setups and turned parts.
  • Improved: Large parts now analyse fully in Desktop.
  • Improved: Threads read from a drawing are placed on their holes automatically.

15 October 2026 — CadVex Desktop 1.3.2 for Windows and Mac

  • Improved: Detail work is priced the way a machinist runs it: chamfers and edge rounds by toolpath length, 3D surfaces by area, drafted walls with a tapered cutter, small corners by tool reach. Corners too deep for standard tools are flagged for review on the estimate and the quote instead of being priced. Programming time follows the tool groups and setups.
  • New: Threads: a hole modelled at its tap-drill size now also offers the thread size it is drilled for (Ø4.2 → M5 × 0.8), and the cable-gland sizes M25, M32, M40, M50 and M63 × 1.5 are available.
  • Fixed: The drawing reader counts stacked hole callouts whose Ø, depth and countersink symbols are drawn as graphics (for example “2X Ø4.2 ↧12.5 / M5x0.8-6H ↧10”).
  • New: While a part is analysed, Desktop shows the current step and a running clock. Long file and part names stay inside their cards and tables.
  • Fixed: Box-shaped parts with a rounded post top are no longer quoted from round bar, and a corner fillet that the CAD split into two faces is checked as one fillet.

13 October 2026 — CadVex Desktop 1.3.1 for Windows

  • Fixed: Desktop now signs in on company networks with a proxy, firewall or security inspection: it connects through the computer’s proxy and certificate settings, the same way the web browser does.
  • Improved: When CadVex cannot be reached, Desktop says so clearly and shows a short reason code to share with support. A browser sign-in can be retried with the same code.

12 October 2026 — CadVex Desktop 1.3.0 for Windows and Mac

  • New: Attach the part’s PDF drawing and Desktop fills in material, finish, threads and tolerance for you, on your computer. Threads read from the drawing are placed on the 3D model, and you can review and change every value before quoting.
  • Improved: Tolerance pricing depends on the size of the feature: the same ±0.01 mm costs more on a large diameter than on a small one, following ISO 286 tolerance grades.
  • New: Desktop updates itself: when a new version is available, Settings → Updates downloads and installs it and shows what’s new. Install 1.3.0 once from the download page; later versions come through the app.
  • Fixed: Improved DFM feedback and resolved the bug where DFM cards were not highlighting all the parts.
  • Improved: Desktop no longer sends your computer’s name to CadVex: newly activated computers are called “This Mac” or “This Windows PC”.
  • Removed: Mac: macOS 13.0 to 13.3 are no longer supported; Desktop needs macOS 13.4 or later on Apple Silicon.

3 October 2026 — CadVex Desktop 0.2.0 for Windows and Mac

  • Improved: Desktop runs the same DFM engine as CadVex Cloud, so findings, highlights and estimates match between the two.
  • Improved: The 3D viewer uses no processor or graphics power while you are not interacting with the model.
  • Fixed: Desktop no longer signs you out unexpectedly, including when you quit the app.
  • Fixed: Mac: Desktop no longer leaves processes running in the background after it closes, even when started from the installer window, and it offers to move itself to your Applications folder.

2 October 2026 — A more accurate DFM engine

  • Improved: Pockets, slots and grooves are recognized from their walls and named for what they are (pocket, open or closed slot, through cutout, OD groove), and features that were missed or misread on real parts are now found.
  • Improved: Corner, hole and wall checks are more accurate: corner radius is judged against pocket depth, holes from their nearest open end, and walls that taper to a knife edge are flagged. A corner the cutter will leave with its own radius is shown as a note, not priced work.
  • New: New checks for tall thin walls, multiple separate bodies in one file, sharp feather edges and internal grooves. If DFM cannot run on a part you still get the cost estimate.
  • Improved: Every DFM finding highlights exactly what it is about, on the 3D model and in the quote’s DFM report. The machining-access finding shows the volume a straight cutter cannot reach.
  • Improved: Estimates account for tilted features: a hole or pocket at an angle to every part axis adds its own setup on the 3-axis route.

27 September 2026 — CadVex Desktop 0.1.0 for Windows and Mac

  • New: CadVex Desktop for Windows (64-bit) and Mac (Apple Silicon): the same analysis, DFM, estimating and quoting as CadVex Cloud, on your own computer, so CAD files stay in your shop during analysis.
  • New: One CadVex account and shop for both Cloud and Desktop. The 30-day Desktop evaluation starts when you first activate the app, not when you sign up or download.
  • Fixed: Cloud: the cost-change summary shows material and scrap prices in the right unit, and if saving fails you can keep editing or discard your changes.
  • Fixed: Mac: an updated installer fixes first activation getting stuck on the account loading screen on some Macs.

25 September 2026 — Quote statistics and multi-quantity quotes

  • New: Statistics for any period, including custom dates: total quotes, win rate, value won, open pipeline and parts quoted, with a sortable customer table and breakdowns by material and process.
  • Improved: When a quote has several quantities, each quantity is its own line and the total adds them all, on screen and in the PDF.
  • Improved: Quote templates: place line-item fields by dragging them onto the first row, and the DFM report starts on a new page after the commercial pages.
  • Fixed: CadVex Cloud no longer signs you out during a brief service interruption.

21 September 2026 — Accurate totals and DFM in quotes

  • Improved: Each extra quantity on a quote is priced on its own, with repeat-part savings worked out for that quantity.
  • Improved: Costs, quote lines, tax, totals and awarded values add up to the cent everywhere, including the quote PDF.
  • Improved: When you add DFM feedback to a quote you can pick individual findings, and each keeps its picture in the PDF, also when regenerated from Quote History.
  • Fixed: Thread selection on large or complex parts offers every eligible face.

3 September 2026 — CadVex Cloud opens to every shop

  • New: CadVex Cloud is open to every machine shop, with five free part analyses and no card needed.
  • New: After the free analyses you pay only for parts that are analyzed successfully; failed or cancelled analyses are never charged.
  • New: A Home page shows your free analyses or current usage, and Settings has a Billing page for your payment method and current period.

3 September 2026 — Threads, tolerances and finishes in the estimate

  • New: Pick threaded holes on the 3D model, confirm each thread specification, and the threads are priced in the estimate.
  • New: Tight tolerances add machining and inspection time based on how tight they are and how many locations they apply to.
  • Improved: Surface-finish costing scales with the finished area at the right machine rate; very fine finishes ask you to enter the time.
  • New: Choose metric or imperial units for your shop, with inch stock sizes in the stock catalog.
  • New: Mark which quote lines a customer awarded you and track the value you won.
  • Improved: Larger quantities get a batch-efficiency reduction on repeatable machining time, set to automatic, custom or none.
  • Improved: Stock selection suggests tube for parts with a centered through-bore, and through-cutouts in plate parts are priced as profile cuts.
  • Fixed: DFM no longer reports special-tool features such as dovetails, T-slots and internal grooves as unreachable.

20 July 2026 — Unit prices for added quantities

  • Improved: When you add another quantity to a quote line, its unit price is calculated from the estimate.

16 July 2026 — Materials, quantities and faster analysis

  • New: 55 starter materials, plus Other with your own price per kilogram.
  • New: Add several quantities of the same part to a quote, and pick saved customers as you type.
  • New: Quotes can include a shipping line and your own comment on each DFM item.
  • Improved: Large parts analyze faster.
  • Fixed: Cosmetic threads no longer cause false thin-wall warnings, and switching material after analysis gives the same estimate as choosing it before.
  • Fixed: CadVex works on company networks that blocked it before.

14 July 2026 — CadVex Cloud private beta

  • New: CadVex Cloud opens as an invite-only private beta: upload STEP parts and drawings into an RFQ, get feature detection, DFM feedback and an editable cost estimate, and produce a quote PDF.
  • New: Analysis History, Quote History with statistics, stock inventory, a quote template wizard and team invitations.
  • New: Material, threads, tolerances, finish and part number are read from PDF drawings, and quotes can include a DFM report with 3D pictures.