Current release
Version: 1.1.0
Release date: Dec 15, 2025
We are wrapping up 2025 with a big release. This update focuses heavily on features that help you communicate your design intent, streamlining your workflow, and ensuring your sketches are properly defined.
It includes brand new features such as Symmetry, Chain Mirror, and HV Circles, as well as a significantly improved Dangling Points.
Your feedback is essential to helping us build the right tools. Our decision to work on these features, particularly Chain Mirror and improved Dangling Points, was in great part influenced by the feedback we have received from you. We’d love to continue hearing from you about your experience and your day-to-day challenges in CAD so that we can focus on building the features that can make your lives easier. Reach us anytime at support@hestus.co.
Symmetry
Symmetry constraint is a powerful tool that helps engineers clearly express their design intent. Sketch Helper is now more capable than ever of understanding your intent. We are very proud to introduce the Symmetry recommendation. It can propose creating a new symmetry axis and symmetrizing candidate geometries around that axis, or it can leverage an existing symmetry axis in the design to propose recommendations that maintain the symmetrical nature of the design.
Chain Mirror
Since we released the original Mirror feature, we have been hearing from you about how helpful it is, but also that it was limited to one curve at a time. The number one request related to this feature was to be able to mirror a chain of curves as opposed to just one.
Now you can do that in just one click. The new Chain Mirror recommendation automatically detects any existing line of symmetry and detects potential candidates for chain mirroring, saving you from doing multiple manual clicks.
HV Circles
Oftentimes, designers need to line up circular features in their design. These features may not all be the same size or be the same distance from one another, so using a patterning tool wouldn't work. Lining up circles horizontally and/or vertically takes lots of manual clicks.
The HV Circles recommendation does that for you in one click. Not only that, it also connects these circles with horizontal and vertical construction lines. With these lines in place, you can easily dimension the features relative to each other, using All Line Dimensions, as well as visually notice the relationship among the circles.
Improved Dangling Points
Sketch Helper now proposes to connect dangling points to curves or points that are part of a chain of curves. Connecting curves together is tedious, especially in a crowded design. Frequently, a curve end point which was meant to be connected to another curve is not properly connected; this results in a profile that is not fully enclosed, making it impossible to extrude or revolve. The new Dangling Point recommendation solves this problem.
Furthermore, Sketch Helper now supports connecting points and curves to the origin. Affixing a sketch to the origin allows the designer to properly define and constrain the sketch from the start.
