September 2026

September 29, 2026

WooCommerce: sell the configured product, at the configured price

New

• Link WooCommerce Product has three options per project: where shoppers land (cart or checkout), what goes into the cart (the configured product or the product as it is), and the price charged (the Simplio3D configured price or the WooCommerce price).
• Configured products show the configuration image and options in the cart, checkout, order e-mails and the order. Simplio3D adds them to your store as hidden products, reuses them for identical configurations, and removes unsold ones after 30 days.
• The configured price is recalculated on our server from the configuration — never taken from the shopper's browser — and projects whose pricing can't be recalculated there are clearly marked in the dialog.
• The AI Assistant and connected AI apps can set these options too (update_commerce_link); every change that affects what shoppers pay waits for your approval.

Improved

• The connection test checks that your API key can create products and finds your store's own cart and checkout pages, including translated page names.
• If a shopper can't check out, the link dialog shows the last failed attempt and what to fix.
• Embedded on your website, Add to Cart now takes the whole page to your cart or checkout instead of opening a new tab.

Fixed

• Choosing "Redirect to Checkout" or "Add to Basket" in Link WooCommerce Product is now saved and shown correctly when you reopen the dialog; before, the choice was not saved for an already linked product.
• "Redirect to Checkout" now always adds the linked product. Links saved without a product used to open an empty checkout.
• Changes to a WooCommerce link reach an open Share view on the next click, instead of after the page was reloaded minutes later.

September 28, 2026

Shopify: the Simplio3D app is installed from the Shopify App Store

New

• To use the Simplio3D app: install Simplio3D from the Shopify App Store, open Apps → Simplio3D in your Shopify admin and click "Connect Simplio3D account". It works for any store, including one your client owns.
• Stores already connected through the Simplio3D app keep working, including checkout.

Improved

• Install links generated from the dashboard are retired. Messages that used to point to them — including the "shop_not_permitted" explanation — now point to the Shopify App Store.
• Disconnecting or removing the Simplio3D app is done from Shopify: Apps → Simplio3D → Disconnect, or uninstall it.

September 28, 2026

Simplio3D is in Claude's connector directory

New

• In Claude (web, desktop, mobile and Cowork), open Customize → Connectors, search for "Simplio3D" and click Connect. The listing is at claude.ai/directory/connectors/simplio3d.
• Dashboard → Integrations → AI Connections has an "Open in Claude" button that takes you straight to the listing.
• The AI Connections (MCP) tutorial and the MCP Server documentation explain the new way to connect. Adding Simplio3D as a custom connector by URL still works.

September 28, 2026

Connect AI apps on the Starter plan

New

• Dashboard → Integrations → AI Connections is open on Starter: create a connection, or sign in from the AI app and approve it.
• The plan cards in Billing now show AI connections (MCP) as included on Starter, Pro and Enterprise.
• A connected AI app follows your plan: on Starter it cannot create Modular projects or duplicate a project, just as in the dashboard.

Security

• Nothing about how access is granted changed: you choose each connection's permissions, high-risk changes wait for your approval in Dashboard → AI Changes, and you can revoke a connection at any time. The developer SDK / API token remains a Pro and Enterprise feature.

September 28, 2026

AI apps start with read-only access and ask before changing your projects

New

• The approval screen pre-selects read-only access. Tick the write permissions only if you want the AI to make changes. Customer quote requests and your store catalog are also off unless you tick them.
• The approval screen shows which site you will return to after you choose, and warns you when that is an app on your own computer.
• AI apps such as Claude now ask before every action that changes or removes something in your projects, not only before high-risk ones. Pricing, SKU, deletion and store changes still wait for your approval in Dashboard → AI Changes.
• Claude Code can connect with sign-in and approval, without copying a token.
• Three new ready-made instructions for AI apps: find out why an option is hidden, check that every targeted 3D part exists in your model, and propose the fixes that are safe to make.
• New MCP Server documentation page, Privacy & Data Handling: what an AI connection can access, what is stored and for how long, and how to revoke it.

Security

• AI connections you already created keep the permissions you gave them. Only new connections start read-only.

September 28, 2026

Simplio3D is listed in the official MCP Registry

New

• Listed in the official MCP Registry as ai.simplio3d/platform, pointing at the Simplio3D MCP server (https://app.simplio3d.ai/mcp).
• MCP Server documentation → Connect a Client now shows the registry listing.

Fixed

• An AI app connecting for the first time, before signing in, received an internal error instead of the response that tells it where to sign in — so apps that rely on that response could not start the Simplio3D sign-in. They now reach the sign-in and approval screen as intended.
• Workspaces whose plan does not include AI connections, or whose subscription is inactive, now get that explanation instead of a generic error when an AI app tries to connect.

September 23, 2026

Connect WordPress sites and sell configured products with verified prices

New

• New approval screen for WordPress sites: sign in, choose the workspace and allow the site — no passwords or API keys are copied into WordPress.
• Dashboard → Integrations → WordPress lists your connected sites and lets you disconnect one instantly.
• WooCommerce carts built with the plugin carry the configuration, a picture of it and a price Simplio3D verifies — shoppers cannot change it.
• Your existing WooCommerce connection (Dashboard → Integrations → WooCommerce) is unchanged: its Add to Cart and checkout buttons keep working with or without the plugin, even for a product the plugin also sells.

Security

• WordPress sites get their own narrowly scoped, revocable connection: it can list your projects and price configurations, nothing else.

September 22, 2026

Faster, easier-to-read documentation — and no more light-to-dark flash

Improved

• Documentation pages appear immediately and stay on screen while the page finishes loading, instead of briefly swapping to a loading spinner.
• Opening /docs goes straight to the Tutorials home page instead of redirecting first.
• Fonts, the Simplio3D logo and the browser-tab icon are now served from Simplio3D itself and sized for how they are shown, so every page downloads far less.
• Each documentation page keeps its own title in the browser tab and in search results, for example “Conditional Logic – Tutorials | Simplio3D Docs”.
• The documentation header now fits on phones; the links to the other documentation sections (Tutorials, API, SDK, MCP and Changelog) are in the menu.
• Easier to read: higher-contrast labels and diagrams, links inside paragraphs are underlined, and headings follow a consistent outline for screen readers.

Fixed

• The dashboard and documentation no longer flash light before switching to the dark theme as they open. The public Share view is unchanged.

September 22, 2026

Larger and more complex SVG graphics upload reliably — with a clear reason when one can’t

Improved

• Each file in the Upload Graphic dialog shows its own status — checking, uploading, uploaded, or the reason it failed (“This SVG is too large”, “SVG could not be parsed: … on line 3”, “no <svg> root element was found”).
• Files that can’t be uploaded are flagged as soon as you add them, and retrying after a partial failure only re-sends the files that failed.
• Unsupported formats dropped onto the dialog are now reported instead of silently ignored.

Fixed

• SVGs between 2 MB and 10 MB — such as detailed CorelDRAW or Illustrator jersey templates with thousands of shapes — now upload instead of failing.
• SVGs exported with an internal stylesheet (CorelDRAW’s and Inkscape’s default) keep their colours; before, every styled shape could turn black after upload.
• SVGs saved by older versions of Adobe Illustrator now display correctly after upload instead of becoming unreadable.
• SVGs saved in UTF-16 or with a Western European encoding keep their accented text.
• Raster graphics between 16 MB and 50 MB now upload, matching the limit shown in the dialog.
• The SVG colour editor on the Assets page opens for files whose names or text contain accented or non-Latin characters.

Security

• Scripts, event handlers, links to external files or websites and external stylesheets are still removed from every uploaded SVG — and you are now told what was removed.
• SVG cleaning now also catches a few disguised forms of scripts and links that could slip past it before.

September 21, 2026

Menus and buttons always show their text, never placeholder codes

Improved

• Pages load a little faster in English: the app no longer downloads all 15 languages on every page, only the one you are using.

Fixed

• The dashboard, the editor, Preview and your Share views can no longer show placeholder codes instead of text.
• If you use another language and it cannot be downloaded right away, the app shows English instead and tries again when you come back to the tab or your connection returns, without reloading the page.

September 16, 2026

Modular default modules stay visible on phones and in embeds

Fixed

• Embedded Share views (inside an iframe on your website) now place the Global default module on load — before, they opened without it.
• Narrowing the browser window, rotating a phone, or a website resizing the embed no longer pushes the 3D model out of view in Preview, the Share view or the editor.
• On portrait screens the automatic camera framing now fits the product’s width as well as its height, so wide products are no longer cut off at the sides. Landscape framing is unchanged.

September 16, 2026

Embedded configurators load faster on other websites

Improved

• Project data and the 3D model start downloading immediately, in parallel with the viewer, instead of waiting for it — the biggest gain is on phones and slower connections.
• Removed an extra network round-trip that every embedded load used to make before fetching your project.
• Model download links stay the same between visits, so returning visitors’ browsers can confirm nothing changed instead of downloading again.
• The Sharing & Embedding tutorial now explains what makes an embedded configurator slow and how to fix it — in most projects the biggest win is resizing and compressing the textures inside your 3D model.

September 15, 2026

Hide font, size and part-name tags from shoppers in Text Input blocks

New

• Editor → Options → Text Input block → Shopper Display: switches for Font details, the “Applied to” line, the character counter, the live canvas preview and the block title.
• One tap on “Hide technical details” turns off the font tags and the part name together.
• Each switch shows a sample of what it controls, using your own text area’s font and 3D part, so you can see what you’re hiding before you hide it.

Improved

• With the character counter hidden, it still appears the moment a shopper reaches the limit, so they understand why they can’t type more.
• While a font is loading, the message no longer names the font when font details are hidden.
• The AI Assistant and connected AI agents can turn these switches on and off, and start new Text Input blocks with the technical details hidden.

September 11, 2026

Uploaded images keep their proportions on the 3D model

New

• Editor → Options → File Upload block → upload target → Texture Mapping → Image Fit: Keep proportions, Fill area, or Stretch (the previous behaviour).
• The editor now shows the target part’s detected print area — its shape (for example 3.2 : 1, landscape) and how much of its texture sheet it uses — so you can see exactly what the image will be fitted to, and share it with your 3D artist.
• Clear warnings when a setup will not look right: Stretch on a part that uses only part of its sheet, a print area so small that uploads lose sharpness, UVs outside the 0–1 range, or a part with no UV map at all.

Improved

• Scaling and rotating an uploaded image keeps its proportions too — a rotated image stays a rectangle instead of skewing.
• With a proportional fit, Move is measured across the print area: the sliders reach its edges, horizontal moves right as you drag right, and the range no longer shrinks as the image gets smaller.
• Images fitted into a small print area are rendered at a much higher resolution than before.
• The AI Assistant and connected AI agents can set the fit when they create or edit upload targets, and use Keep proportions by default for new ones.

September 9, 2026

Open Simplio3D in a visitor’s own language, based on their country

New

• Admin → Settings → System → Country-Based Language: turn it on, then map countries to any of the 15 languages Simplio3D supports.
• “Add suggested mappings” fills in a conservative starting set in one click — and never overwrites a mapping you set by hand. Countries where the right language is genuinely ambiguous are left out on purpose so they stay on English.
• A “Your connection” panel shows the country your own visit resolves to and what it would open in, so you can confirm the setting works before relying on it.
• Visitors are told, not just switched: the notice appears once per visit with “Keep <language>” and “Switch to English”, and the revert always names English in English so it is readable in any language.

Improved

• Existing users are untouched — anyone who has ever picked a language keeps it, including people who deliberately chose English.
• The language a country supplies is never saved to the visitor’s profile, so it doesn’t follow them onto their other devices. Only a language they pick themselves does.

Security

• Country comes from the two-letter code the CDN already resolves for every request — no IP address is stored, logged, or sent anywhere, and no third-party geolocation service is involved.

September 1, 2026

Connect a Shopify store you don’t own — one-click install, no credentials to copy

New

• Dashboard → Integrations → Shopify now asks how you want to connect, and defaults to the install — the option that works for every store.
• Send an install link to a client: generate it, forward it, and once they approve the store is connected to your Simplio3D account. They never share a Shopify password or add you to their organization.
• If a connection attempt fails with "shop_not_permitted", the result now explains that there is nothing to fix in your Shopify app and offers a one-click switch to the install.
• A store that uninstalls the app now shows a clear "Reconnect required" banner with a Reconnect button, instead of silently failing at checkout.
• Both connection methods behave identically afterwards — same checkout modes, product linking, SKU validation and SKU-matched carts.

Improved

• The install asks for only two permissions — write_draft_orders and read_products — and the Integrations page lists exactly what was granted.
• Install links are single use and expire after about an hour, and are refused if opened on a different store than the one they were made for.
• Disconnecting now says plainly that the Simplio3D app stays installed in Shopify until the store owner removes it.
• Changing the store on a connected integration no longer leaves the old store’s access in place.

September 1, 2026

Shrinking an uploaded image no longer tiles it across the model

Improved

• Dragging the Scale, Move or Rotate sliders is much lighter: the image is decoded once per upload and redrawn at most once per frame, instead of re-decoding the texture on every tick.

Fixed

• Reducing an uploaded image’s Scale now shrinks a single image instead of tiling it. The consumer Scale control no longer overrides the target’s "Tile image across the UV surface" switch — which is what that switch always promised.
• A shrunken image now sits on genuinely empty surface. JPEGs (and edge-to-edge PNGs) no longer smear their border colour, and PNG transparency is preserved at every scale.
• Shrinking now keeps the image where it was instead of drifting it toward a corner.
• Removing an uploaded image restores the original surface instead of leaving a solid white patch behind.
• Turning "Tile image across the UV surface" on still tiles, exactly as before — and Move, Rotate and aspect ratio all behave unchanged.